Justices Thomas and Alito want to prohibit States from restricting "counselors" attempts to talk trans kids out of being trans , and want to prohibit social media from banning Robert Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vax messaging:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/2 ... 1_d1oe.pdf
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/2 ... 2_kh6o.pdf
TrumpReich in action
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Headline from the NYT today; more Tubervilles than we thought:
Senators Hold Up 43 Biden Diplomatic Nominees as Crises Roil World
The State Department says the monthslong blockade has damaged U.S. national security. Several Republican senators have objected to advancing the slate of nominees.
Senators Hold Up 43 Biden Diplomatic Nominees as Crises Roil World
The State Department says the monthslong blockade has damaged U.S. national security. Several Republican senators have objected to advancing the slate of nominees.
Re: TrumpReich in action
Immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” per Fuhrer Trump, a direct quote from “Mein Kampf”:
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-recirculat ... 53799.html
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-recirculat ... 53799.html
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Your local GOP may be coming for you.Huffington Post today:
Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat said there’s a “very precise purpose” for Donald Trump’s ramping up of his divisive and “fascist rhetoric,” which came under scrutiny once again at the weekend after the former president at a New Hampshire rally said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
The Trump campaign “has made it very clear what they want to do to immigrants,” Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University and the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” told CNN’s Jim Acosta.
She cited reported planned “mass deportations, mass detentions, likely abuses and violence in those operations” if Trump wins back the White House in 2024.
Trump’s language dehumanizes immigrants and “is a way to get Americans prepared now to accept these repressions later on,” she said. “That’s what’s so terrible and that’s also another thing that’s so fascist about this.”
Ben-Ghiat also suggested immigrants won’t be the only ones targeted.
“Anyone who thinks this isn’t going to bother them because they’re not an immigrant, they’re not going to stop with immigrants,” she said. “I’m quite concerned that he is mentioning what he calls mental institutions and prisons so often. In another speech he actually talked about the need to expand psychiatric institutions to confine people and he mentioned special prosecutor Jack Smith as someone who should end up in a ‘mental institution.’”
“This is what fascists and especially communists used to do to critics,” Ben-Ghiat added. “They used to put people who didn’t believe in the propaganda of the state or who were troublemakers into psychiatric institutions. So the swathe of people who are going to be targeted certainly doesn’t stop with immigrants.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/authoritaria ... 06157.html
Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat said there’s a “very precise purpose” for Donald Trump’s ramping up of his divisive and “fascist rhetoric,” which came under scrutiny once again at the weekend after the former president at a New Hampshire rally said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
The Trump campaign “has made it very clear what they want to do to immigrants,” Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University and the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” told CNN’s Jim Acosta.
She cited reported planned “mass deportations, mass detentions, likely abuses and violence in those operations” if Trump wins back the White House in 2024.
Trump’s language dehumanizes immigrants and “is a way to get Americans prepared now to accept these repressions later on,” she said. “That’s what’s so terrible and that’s also another thing that’s so fascist about this.”
Ben-Ghiat also suggested immigrants won’t be the only ones targeted.
“Anyone who thinks this isn’t going to bother them because they’re not an immigrant, they’re not going to stop with immigrants,” she said. “I’m quite concerned that he is mentioning what he calls mental institutions and prisons so often. In another speech he actually talked about the need to expand psychiatric institutions to confine people and he mentioned special prosecutor Jack Smith as someone who should end up in a ‘mental institution.’”
“This is what fascists and especially communists used to do to critics,” Ben-Ghiat added. “They used to put people who didn’t believe in the propaganda of the state or who were troublemakers into psychiatric institutions. So the swathe of people who are going to be targeted certainly doesn’t stop with immigrants.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/authoritaria ... 06157.html
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Bloomberg News yesterday:
Former President Donald Trump said he'd end tax exemptions for universities deemed to be left-leaning if voters return him to the White House, pointing to the uproar over campus antisemitism that engulfed three college presidents in recent weeks.
Trump told a campaign rally in Durham, New Hampshire, he'd remove tax advantages for universities that discriminate against conservatives, Christians, Jews and for schools that "attack free speech."
"They will pay us billions and billions of dollars for the terror they have unleashed into our once-great country," Trump said in speech on Saturday, citing schools including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania.
While criticizing America's academic elite has been a Republican talking point for years, Trump seized on the congressional testimony by the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT this month in the wake of campus conflict inflamed by the Israel-Hamas war.
Penn's president, Liz Magill, handed in her resignation on Dec. 9 and prominent donors have turned away from the schools in a backlash against the testimony, where Magill, Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT leader Sally Kornbluth failed to issue clear condemnations when asked if calling for the genocide of Jews violated school policy.
Trump, who polls suggest is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, previously called in a video released in July for reshaping the accreditation process for universities to "reclaim" educational institutions from "the radical left."
Former President Donald Trump said he'd end tax exemptions for universities deemed to be left-leaning if voters return him to the White House, pointing to the uproar over campus antisemitism that engulfed three college presidents in recent weeks.
Trump told a campaign rally in Durham, New Hampshire, he'd remove tax advantages for universities that discriminate against conservatives, Christians, Jews and for schools that "attack free speech."
"They will pay us billions and billions of dollars for the terror they have unleashed into our once-great country," Trump said in speech on Saturday, citing schools including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Pennsylvania.
While criticizing America's academic elite has been a Republican talking point for years, Trump seized on the congressional testimony by the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT this month in the wake of campus conflict inflamed by the Israel-Hamas war.
Penn's president, Liz Magill, handed in her resignation on Dec. 9 and prominent donors have turned away from the schools in a backlash against the testimony, where Magill, Harvard President Claudine Gay and MIT leader Sally Kornbluth failed to issue clear condemnations when asked if calling for the genocide of Jews violated school policy.
Trump, who polls suggest is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, previously called in a video released in July for reshaping the accreditation process for universities to "reclaim" educational institutions from "the radical left."
Re: TrumpReich in action
Texas cities want to ban use of highways to travel out of state for abortions:
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-city-lates ... 13512.html
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-city-lates ... 13512.html
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Not to govern, but to rule.Rach3 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2023 5:04 pmTexas cities want to ban use of highways to travel out of state for abortions:
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-city-lates ... 13512.html
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Can't fix stupid.WAPO today:
Republican loyalty to Trump, rioters climbs in 3 years after Jan. 6 attack
By Rachel Weiner, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin
January 2, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST
Over a third of Americans believe Biden’s election was illegitimate
Most Americans, but few Republicans, think Jan. 6 threatened democracy
Fewer Republicans blame Trump for Jan. 6 attack
Most Americans think Trump is guilty of a crime over Jan. 6
About 7 in 10 Americans believe Trump will not concede if he loses in 2024
Three years after the Jan. 6 attack, Republicans are more sympathetic to those who stormed the U.S. Capitol and more likely to absolve Donald Trump of responsibility for the attack than they were in 2021, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
Republicans are showing increased loyalty to the former president as he campaigns for reelection and fights criminal charges over his attempt to stay in power after losing in 2020. They are now less likely to believe that Jan. 6 participants were “mostly violent,” less likely to believe Trump bears responsibility for the attack and are slightly less likely to view Joe Biden’s election as legitimate than they were in a December 2021 Post-UMD survey.
In follow-up interviews, some said their views have changed because they now believe the riot was instigated by law enforcement to suppress political dissent — a baseless conspiracy theory that has been promoted heavily in right-wing media and by Trump in his speeches and in his legal fight against the four-count federal indictment he faces in D.C.
“From a historical perspective, these results would be chilling to many analysts,” said Michael J. Hanmer, director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement at the University of Maryland.
But Republican views are more fractured than those of Democrats, who remain largely in agreement that the riot was a violent threat to democracy for which Trump bears responsibility. “In the current context of hyper-partisanship, there seem to be some divisions among Republicans,” Hanmer said. Independents, according to the poll, mostly side with Democrats.
As Trump leads the Republican field for president by a wide margin, the poll reveals several key takeaways.
Despite audits in multiple states and nationally televised congressional hearings in which state officials and aides to Trump confirmed there was no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election, more Americans question Biden’s victory than they did two years ago.
When The Post and UMD asked in December 2021 whether Biden was legitimately elected, 69 percent of Americans said he was. Now, that’s down to 62 percent. Slightly fewer Republicans today (31 percent) say Biden’s election was legitimate compared with 2021 (39 percent). More than one-third of Americans, or 36 percent, do not accept Biden’s victory as legitimate.
Older Americans are slightly more likely than younger ones to say Biden was legitimately elected, as are voters with college degrees. About 3 in 10 people who get most of their information from Fox News think Biden won legitimately in 2020.
Several voters interviewed by The Post cited what they said was evidence of voter fraud, in particular the long-debunked claim that Georgia election workers were caught on video putting fake ballots into tallies. The two women in that video recently won a $148 million judgment against former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani for spreading those defamatory claims.
Most Americans, 55 percent, believe the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was “an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten,” with majorities of Democrats and independents holding this view. But most Republicans and Trump voters reject this view.
More than 7 in 10 Republicans say too much is being made of the attack and that it is “time to move on.” Fewer than 2 in 10 (18 percent) of Republicans say that Jan. 6 protesters were “mostly violent,” dipping from 26 percent in 2021. Currently, 77 percent of Democrats and 54 percent of independents say the protesters were mostly violent, little changed from 2021.
“There were so many people that felt the election was rigged. It was not right for them to break in like that, but they were fed up and frustrated, and they were whipped into a frenzy by the FBI and others,” said Colleen Michaels, 59, of Woodsfield, Ohio.
A Republican voter, she said she would have attended herself had she not had a stroke. Her sister went, but did not go in the building after seeing people retreat with chemical spray in their eyes. What Michaels heard from the people who went, combined with security footage released to and selectively edited by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, leads her to believe in the conspiracy theory that undercover FBI agents instigated the riot.
Other Trump supporters place more blame on the rioters. Peggy Orr, 67, of North Platte, Neb., is a Republican who thinks the rioters did threaten democracy, even though she did not believe the 2020 election was legitimate.
“I’ve never joined a protest or tried to break windows because I didn’t like the way the election went, and I don’t think people should,” Orr said. “You have to accept the results.”
The Post-UMD poll finds that 55 percent of Republicans think legal punishments for the people who broke into the Capitol have been “fair” or “not harsh enough,” though that is down from 64 percent in 2021. Seven in 10 independents and about 9 in 10 Democrats say punishments have been fair or insufficient.
Republicans today also feel more defensive of Trump than they did in 2021. Two years ago, 60 percent of Americans overall said Trump bears “a great deal” or “a good amount” of responsibility for the attack; now, 53 percent do. Again, Republicans are driving that change — 14 percent assign him a great or good amount of culpability, about half as many as did in 2021 (27 percent).
“In the beginning when I heard about it, I was very upset that Trump didn’t come out and say, ‘Stop,’” said Gloria Bowden of Jacksonville, Fla., a 68-year-old independent voter who leans Republican. But now, having seen video clips of police using tear gas and rubber bullets on rioters, she thinks the attack was instigated by law enforcement.
“I still wish he would have [told people to leave the Capitol earlier], but I don’t know that it would have mattered,” Bowden said. “It was planned.” She found the House hearings “totally one-sided,” and criticism of Trump over the past three years has led her to empathize more with his reluctance to intervene during the riot. “The man had been through so much in four years that at one point you finally say, ‘Let them do it,’” she said.
A 56 percent majority of Americans say Trump is probably guilty of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results through false claims of voter fraud, including 40 percent who believe he is “definitely guilty.” Republicans are less united than Democrats. Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats believe Trump is guilty, while nearly 7 in 10 Republicans think he is innocent. Among independents, nearly twice as many think Trump is guilty as think he is innocent.
A similar majority of Americans, 57 percent, say the Justice Department is “holding Trump accountable under the law like anyone else” by prosecuting him. A fifth of Republicans agree; the vast majority (77 percent) believe Trump is being targeted for political reasons, as he has repeatedly claimed without evidence.
Two of four criminal prosecutions that Trump is facing are related to attempts to stay in power after the 2020 election. In D.C., he faces a four-count federal criminal indictment of conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing a congressional proceeding and conspiracy against rights — in this case, “the right to vote, and to have one’s vote counted.” He has been charged in state court in Georgia with allegedly trying to block the election results there.
“I think he should be held accountable,” said Ed Quigley, a 65-year-old retiree from outside Myrtle Beach. He is a registered Republican, but he voted against Trump in both 2016 and 2020, and he sees Trump as a would-be autocrat responsible for the events of Jan. 6. “Nobody should be above the law,” he said.
Even though most Americans believe Trump is guilty, the poll finds that fewer than half, 46 percent, say his actions related to Jan. 6 should disqualify him from the presidency — a question that is likely to head to the U.S. Supreme Court now that multiple states have determined that he engaged in insurrection and should be barred from appearing on primary ballots. An additional 17 percent say Trump’s actions cast doubt on his fitness to serve, while 33 percent say they are not relevant.
Just over a quarter of Americans are confident that Trump would accept the results of the election if he loses the next presidential race, while 65 percent think President Biden would. A 71 percent majority are not confident Trump will accept losing in 2024, which is more than twice the share who say this of Biden. Nearly half of Republicans doubt Trump will accept the election if he loses, rising to 73 percent among independents and 93 percent of Democrats.
For many Republicans, refusal to adhere to that democratic norm is not a dealbreaker.
“He’s a fighter — he loves to get in that courtroom and would appeal anything that’s up against him, and I think that’s what people really like about him,” said Michael Bettger, 49, of Austin, Ark. Biden “would accept defeat” because “he’s a political person, and he does basically everything everybody tells him to do,” Bettger said. “He doesn’t think outside the box.”
He doesn’t see a post-election battle over the legitimacy of the results as a threat to democracy, because after 2020 he no longer believes that voting matters, saying, “We chose Donald Trump, but we didn’t get him.”
The Post and the University of Maryland’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement conducted this poll Dec. 14-18 among a random national sample of 1,024 U.S. adults through NORC at the University of Chicago’s AmeriSpeak Panel. It has an error margin of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points for the full sample. Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu contributed to this report.
Republican loyalty to Trump, rioters climbs in 3 years after Jan. 6 attack
By Rachel Weiner, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin
January 2, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST
Over a third of Americans believe Biden’s election was illegitimate
Most Americans, but few Republicans, think Jan. 6 threatened democracy
Fewer Republicans blame Trump for Jan. 6 attack
Most Americans think Trump is guilty of a crime over Jan. 6
About 7 in 10 Americans believe Trump will not concede if he loses in 2024
Three years after the Jan. 6 attack, Republicans are more sympathetic to those who stormed the U.S. Capitol and more likely to absolve Donald Trump of responsibility for the attack than they were in 2021, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.
Republicans are showing increased loyalty to the former president as he campaigns for reelection and fights criminal charges over his attempt to stay in power after losing in 2020. They are now less likely to believe that Jan. 6 participants were “mostly violent,” less likely to believe Trump bears responsibility for the attack and are slightly less likely to view Joe Biden’s election as legitimate than they were in a December 2021 Post-UMD survey.
In follow-up interviews, some said their views have changed because they now believe the riot was instigated by law enforcement to suppress political dissent — a baseless conspiracy theory that has been promoted heavily in right-wing media and by Trump in his speeches and in his legal fight against the four-count federal indictment he faces in D.C.
“From a historical perspective, these results would be chilling to many analysts,” said Michael J. Hanmer, director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement at the University of Maryland.
But Republican views are more fractured than those of Democrats, who remain largely in agreement that the riot was a violent threat to democracy for which Trump bears responsibility. “In the current context of hyper-partisanship, there seem to be some divisions among Republicans,” Hanmer said. Independents, according to the poll, mostly side with Democrats.
As Trump leads the Republican field for president by a wide margin, the poll reveals several key takeaways.
Despite audits in multiple states and nationally televised congressional hearings in which state officials and aides to Trump confirmed there was no evidence of fraud in the 2020 election, more Americans question Biden’s victory than they did two years ago.
When The Post and UMD asked in December 2021 whether Biden was legitimately elected, 69 percent of Americans said he was. Now, that’s down to 62 percent. Slightly fewer Republicans today (31 percent) say Biden’s election was legitimate compared with 2021 (39 percent). More than one-third of Americans, or 36 percent, do not accept Biden’s victory as legitimate.
Older Americans are slightly more likely than younger ones to say Biden was legitimately elected, as are voters with college degrees. About 3 in 10 people who get most of their information from Fox News think Biden won legitimately in 2020.
Several voters interviewed by The Post cited what they said was evidence of voter fraud, in particular the long-debunked claim that Georgia election workers were caught on video putting fake ballots into tallies. The two women in that video recently won a $148 million judgment against former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani for spreading those defamatory claims.
Most Americans, 55 percent, believe the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was “an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten,” with majorities of Democrats and independents holding this view. But most Republicans and Trump voters reject this view.
More than 7 in 10 Republicans say too much is being made of the attack and that it is “time to move on.” Fewer than 2 in 10 (18 percent) of Republicans say that Jan. 6 protesters were “mostly violent,” dipping from 26 percent in 2021. Currently, 77 percent of Democrats and 54 percent of independents say the protesters were mostly violent, little changed from 2021.
“There were so many people that felt the election was rigged. It was not right for them to break in like that, but they were fed up and frustrated, and they were whipped into a frenzy by the FBI and others,” said Colleen Michaels, 59, of Woodsfield, Ohio.
A Republican voter, she said she would have attended herself had she not had a stroke. Her sister went, but did not go in the building after seeing people retreat with chemical spray in their eyes. What Michaels heard from the people who went, combined with security footage released to and selectively edited by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, leads her to believe in the conspiracy theory that undercover FBI agents instigated the riot.
Other Trump supporters place more blame on the rioters. Peggy Orr, 67, of North Platte, Neb., is a Republican who thinks the rioters did threaten democracy, even though she did not believe the 2020 election was legitimate.
“I’ve never joined a protest or tried to break windows because I didn’t like the way the election went, and I don’t think people should,” Orr said. “You have to accept the results.”
The Post-UMD poll finds that 55 percent of Republicans think legal punishments for the people who broke into the Capitol have been “fair” or “not harsh enough,” though that is down from 64 percent in 2021. Seven in 10 independents and about 9 in 10 Democrats say punishments have been fair or insufficient.
Republicans today also feel more defensive of Trump than they did in 2021. Two years ago, 60 percent of Americans overall said Trump bears “a great deal” or “a good amount” of responsibility for the attack; now, 53 percent do. Again, Republicans are driving that change — 14 percent assign him a great or good amount of culpability, about half as many as did in 2021 (27 percent).
“In the beginning when I heard about it, I was very upset that Trump didn’t come out and say, ‘Stop,’” said Gloria Bowden of Jacksonville, Fla., a 68-year-old independent voter who leans Republican. But now, having seen video clips of police using tear gas and rubber bullets on rioters, she thinks the attack was instigated by law enforcement.
“I still wish he would have [told people to leave the Capitol earlier], but I don’t know that it would have mattered,” Bowden said. “It was planned.” She found the House hearings “totally one-sided,” and criticism of Trump over the past three years has led her to empathize more with his reluctance to intervene during the riot. “The man had been through so much in four years that at one point you finally say, ‘Let them do it,’” she said.
A 56 percent majority of Americans say Trump is probably guilty of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results through false claims of voter fraud, including 40 percent who believe he is “definitely guilty.” Republicans are less united than Democrats. Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats believe Trump is guilty, while nearly 7 in 10 Republicans think he is innocent. Among independents, nearly twice as many think Trump is guilty as think he is innocent.
A similar majority of Americans, 57 percent, say the Justice Department is “holding Trump accountable under the law like anyone else” by prosecuting him. A fifth of Republicans agree; the vast majority (77 percent) believe Trump is being targeted for political reasons, as he has repeatedly claimed without evidence.
Two of four criminal prosecutions that Trump is facing are related to attempts to stay in power after the 2020 election. In D.C., he faces a four-count federal criminal indictment of conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing a congressional proceeding and conspiracy against rights — in this case, “the right to vote, and to have one’s vote counted.” He has been charged in state court in Georgia with allegedly trying to block the election results there.
“I think he should be held accountable,” said Ed Quigley, a 65-year-old retiree from outside Myrtle Beach. He is a registered Republican, but he voted against Trump in both 2016 and 2020, and he sees Trump as a would-be autocrat responsible for the events of Jan. 6. “Nobody should be above the law,” he said.
Even though most Americans believe Trump is guilty, the poll finds that fewer than half, 46 percent, say his actions related to Jan. 6 should disqualify him from the presidency — a question that is likely to head to the U.S. Supreme Court now that multiple states have determined that he engaged in insurrection and should be barred from appearing on primary ballots. An additional 17 percent say Trump’s actions cast doubt on his fitness to serve, while 33 percent say they are not relevant.
Just over a quarter of Americans are confident that Trump would accept the results of the election if he loses the next presidential race, while 65 percent think President Biden would. A 71 percent majority are not confident Trump will accept losing in 2024, which is more than twice the share who say this of Biden. Nearly half of Republicans doubt Trump will accept the election if he loses, rising to 73 percent among independents and 93 percent of Democrats.
For many Republicans, refusal to adhere to that democratic norm is not a dealbreaker.
“He’s a fighter — he loves to get in that courtroom and would appeal anything that’s up against him, and I think that’s what people really like about him,” said Michael Bettger, 49, of Austin, Ark. Biden “would accept defeat” because “he’s a political person, and he does basically everything everybody tells him to do,” Bettger said. “He doesn’t think outside the box.”
He doesn’t see a post-election battle over the legitimacy of the results as a threat to democracy, because after 2020 he no longer believes that voting matters, saying, “We chose Donald Trump, but we didn’t get him.”
The Post and the University of Maryland’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement conducted this poll Dec. 14-18 among a random national sample of 1,024 U.S. adults through NORC at the University of Chicago’s AmeriSpeak Panel. It has an error margin of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points for the full sample. Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu contributed to this report.
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The crazed MAGA Wehrmacht on the march.Dana Millbank in WAPO today, in part
"...But this Republican electorate wants something different.
They want a guy who talks about being a “dictator” on day one, echoes Hitler in his rhetoric about ethnic minorities, demands absolute immunity from legal liability and threatens “bedlam” if he’s prosecuted.
They want a guy who, after all these years, still derides “Barack Hussein Obama” and “Pocahontas” Elizabeth Warren, as he did in Indianola on Sunday.
They want a guy who threatens, as president, to “direct a completely overhauled DOJ to investigate every radical, out-of-control prosecutor because of their illegal, racist … enforcement of the law.”
And they want a man who promises: “We will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmonger … We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that truly hates our country. We will rout the fake news media. And we will evict Crooked Joe Biden from the White House.”
The crowd, in their MAGA caps and Trump 47 jerseys, cheered their candidate and broke into spontaneous chants of “Trump!” and “USA!”
Let there be no more excuses made that Republican voters haven’t been given an alternative. They had a choice — and they chose Trump."
"...But this Republican electorate wants something different.
They want a guy who talks about being a “dictator” on day one, echoes Hitler in his rhetoric about ethnic minorities, demands absolute immunity from legal liability and threatens “bedlam” if he’s prosecuted.
They want a guy who, after all these years, still derides “Barack Hussein Obama” and “Pocahontas” Elizabeth Warren, as he did in Indianola on Sunday.
They want a guy who threatens, as president, to “direct a completely overhauled DOJ to investigate every radical, out-of-control prosecutor because of their illegal, racist … enforcement of the law.”
And they want a man who promises: “We will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmonger … We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the communists, Marxists and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that truly hates our country. We will rout the fake news media. And we will evict Crooked Joe Biden from the White House.”
The crowd, in their MAGA caps and Trump 47 jerseys, cheered their candidate and broke into spontaneous chants of “Trump!” and “USA!”
Let there be no more excuses made that Republican voters haven’t been given an alternative. They had a choice — and they chose Trump."
Re: TrumpReich in action
Attempt to have Hispanics defined by Oklahoma law as "terrorists " :
https://www.yahoo.com/news/outrage-okla ... 723522.htm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/outrage-okla ... 723522.htm
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So far, the incompetent Dems are not getting this ( and other) messages out effectively despite what WAPO reports.Plain,simple Trumpism- MAGA racism and birtherism aimed at "Obama"care plus the usual dose of GOP elite mean-spirited, " let them eat cake" ( or rather " let them be sick" ) assaults on less fortunate just like in abortion policy.No replacement health insurance plan of course.
From WAPO today:
Obamacare enrollment hits record level as Trump vows repeal
More than 21 million people have selected a health plan on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces for 2024, marking the third straight year of record enrollment, our colleague Dan Diamond reports.
The jump in sign-ups – nearly 5 million more since last year – was partly driven by states “unwinding” pandemic-era protections in Medicaid, with millions of people cut from the safety net program so far, according to the Biden administration and outside researchers.
The enrollment figures also reflect a roughly 80 percent surge in sign-ups for the ACA since President Biden took office in 2021 and expanded the subsidies available to consumers.
The bigger picture: The record enrollment comes as Donald Trump, seeking the GOP nomination, is again vowing to repeal and replace the ACA if elected. The former president has yet to reveal a health plan that would provide comparable coverage at the same or less cost.
The Biden campaign and its allies have embraced the issue, running ads that highlight Trump’s recent attacks and point to the ACA’s health benefits. In Congress, Republicans have been wary about renewing their overhaul attempts, with polling on the issue strongly favoring Democrats.
From WAPO today:
Obamacare enrollment hits record level as Trump vows repeal
More than 21 million people have selected a health plan on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces for 2024, marking the third straight year of record enrollment, our colleague Dan Diamond reports.
The jump in sign-ups – nearly 5 million more since last year – was partly driven by states “unwinding” pandemic-era protections in Medicaid, with millions of people cut from the safety net program so far, according to the Biden administration and outside researchers.
The enrollment figures also reflect a roughly 80 percent surge in sign-ups for the ACA since President Biden took office in 2021 and expanded the subsidies available to consumers.
The bigger picture: The record enrollment comes as Donald Trump, seeking the GOP nomination, is again vowing to repeal and replace the ACA if elected. The former president has yet to reveal a health plan that would provide comparable coverage at the same or less cost.
The Biden campaign and its allies have embraced the issue, running ads that highlight Trump’s recent attacks and point to the ACA’s health benefits. In Congress, Republicans have been wary about renewing their overhaul attempts, with polling on the issue strongly favoring Democrats.
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Our Dear Leader GOP.
From Iowa Capital Dispatch today:
"Iowa lawmakers consider requiring students, teachers to sing national anthem at school each day
Iowa students would be required to sing part of the national anthem at school each day under a bill advanced Wednesday by a House Education subcommittee.”
Where did they get that idea ? North Korea ? China ? Putin? The WW II Axis Powers ? A Banana Republic ?
From Iowa Capital Dispatch today:
"Iowa lawmakers consider requiring students, teachers to sing national anthem at school each day
Iowa students would be required to sing part of the national anthem at school each day under a bill advanced Wednesday by a House Education subcommittee.”
Where did they get that idea ? North Korea ? China ? Putin? The WW II Axis Powers ? A Banana Republic ?
Re: TrumpReich in action
Mandatory anti-abortion education for all students starting in kindergarten proposed by Iowa GOP:
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/01 ... ceid=86352
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/01 ... ceid=86352
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One person's 'anti-abortion education' is another person's morality training or pharmacological information about the efficacy of contraception. And some good advice : "if it's not on it's not on".
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According to longstanding Catholic Church doctrine first explicitly spelled out in 1930 and reaffirmed by every Pope since, any form of artificial contraception (be it via condom, diaphragm, IUD, vasectomy, sterilization or hormonal pill) is contra naturam and objectively and gravely evil. Ask Justices Alito and Coney Barrett, ask Governors Abbott and DeSantis, all of them practicing Roman Catholics.
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Mislead the Courts on abortion meds.
Iowa Capital Dispatch today:
Sofia Resnick is a national reproductive rights reporter for States Newsroom, based in Washington, D.C. She has reported on reproductive-health politics and justice issues for more than a decade.
Two of the key studies cited by plaintiffs and judges as evidence that medication abortion should be pulled from the market or heavily restricted have been retracted because of undeclared conflicts of interest and unreliable findings, academic publisher Sage announced Monday.
States Newsroom was the first to report last year that Sage had opened an investigation into some of the research featured prominently in the initial Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration case, whose appeal goes before the U.S. Supreme Court next month. The case is centered on mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen used to terminate pregnancies and to manage miscarriages.
Sage retracted three studies published in its journal “Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology,” which were funded and produced by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the influential Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which works to elect federal and state anti-abortion lawmakers.
“Following Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, we made this decision with the journal’s editor because of undeclared conflicts of interest and after expert reviewers found that the studies demonstrate a lack of scientific rigor that invalidates or renders unreliable the authors’ conclusions,” reads a statement issued by Sage.
The studies are:
“A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergency Room Utilization Following Mifepristone Chemical and Surgical Abortions, 1999–2015” (2021)
“A Post Hoc Exploratory Analysis: Induced Abortion Complications Mistaken for Miscarriage in the Emergency Room are a Risk Factor for Hospitalization” (2022)
“Doctors Who Perform Abortions: Their Characteristics and Patterns of Holding and Using Hospital Privileges” (2019)
The lead author for each study was James Studnicki, Charlotte Lozier’s vice president and director of data analytics, who was on the editorial board of “Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology” at the time the studies were published.
“Upon submission, the lead author declared no conflicts of interest and all authors declared the same within each article; however, all but one of the article’s authors had an affiliation with one or more of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Elliot Institute, and American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists – all pro-life advocacy organizations that explicitly support judicial action to restrict access to mifepristone,” the Sage statement reads. One of those groups, AAPLOG, is a plaintiff in the Alliance v. FDA lawsuit.
In a statement, Studnicki and Tessa Longbons, senior research associate, called the Sage retraction a “baseless ideological attack on our scientific research and experts. To date, Sage hasn’t identified a single substantive objection to the studies to the research team. However, Sage has launched a political assault against an organization whose research has been cited in major pro-life legal victories, such as the Dobbs decision and the AHM v. FDA case. Even after reviewing and publishing this study and standing by it for years, Sage has now caved to outside partisan pressures that dominate elite circles,’’ Studnicki and Longbons said.
“Sadly, this incident points to a larger, newer phenomenon, which is, many of our scientific institutions no longer stand in defense of open inquiry. Rather, what we’re seeing is a biased faction in the medical community (that) holds all the power and attempts to suppress any research that cuts against their approved, pro-abortion narrative,’’ Studnicki and Longbons said.
Last year, pharmaceutical sciences professor Chris Adkins contacted Sage with his concerns about the 2021 “Longitudinal Cohort Study,” which was cited by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk as evidence that the anti-abortion doctor-plaintiffs had standing to sue because “they allege adverse events from chemical abortion drugs can overwhelm the medical system and place ‘enormous pressure and stress’ on doctors during emergencies and complications.”
That paper looked at Medicaid patients’ visits to the emergency room within 30 days of having an abortion and concluded that medication abortion is excessively risky.
“I can’t prove that there was intent to deceive, but I struggled to find an alternative reason to present your data in such a way that exaggerates the magnitude,” Adkins told States Newsroom at the time. “They’re misrepresenting its conclusions to begin with.”
The epidemiology and public health experts who conducted an independent post-publication peer review of the three studies ultimately agreed with Adkins. Regarding the 2021 and a follow-up 2022 paper using the same dataset, the experts found “fundamental problems with the study design and methodology,” “unjustified or incorrect factual assumptions,” “material errors in the authors’ analysis of the data,” and “misleading presentations of the data.”
The 2019 article, using a different dataset, contained “unsupported assumptions,” “misleading presentations of the findings,” and “demonstrate a lack of scientific rigor and render the authors’ conclusion unreliable,” the experts found.
Experts have cited mifepristone’s safety and efficacy with more than 5.6 million uses over the past two decades. The FDA has recorded 28 deaths but has stated that the drug cannot be identified as the cause of those deaths.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch today:
Sofia Resnick is a national reproductive rights reporter for States Newsroom, based in Washington, D.C. She has reported on reproductive-health politics and justice issues for more than a decade.
Two of the key studies cited by plaintiffs and judges as evidence that medication abortion should be pulled from the market or heavily restricted have been retracted because of undeclared conflicts of interest and unreliable findings, academic publisher Sage announced Monday.
States Newsroom was the first to report last year that Sage had opened an investigation into some of the research featured prominently in the initial Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration case, whose appeal goes before the U.S. Supreme Court next month. The case is centered on mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen used to terminate pregnancies and to manage miscarriages.
Sage retracted three studies published in its journal “Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology,” which were funded and produced by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the influential Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, which works to elect federal and state anti-abortion lawmakers.
“Following Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, we made this decision with the journal’s editor because of undeclared conflicts of interest and after expert reviewers found that the studies demonstrate a lack of scientific rigor that invalidates or renders unreliable the authors’ conclusions,” reads a statement issued by Sage.
The studies are:
“A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergency Room Utilization Following Mifepristone Chemical and Surgical Abortions, 1999–2015” (2021)
“A Post Hoc Exploratory Analysis: Induced Abortion Complications Mistaken for Miscarriage in the Emergency Room are a Risk Factor for Hospitalization” (2022)
“Doctors Who Perform Abortions: Their Characteristics and Patterns of Holding and Using Hospital Privileges” (2019)
The lead author for each study was James Studnicki, Charlotte Lozier’s vice president and director of data analytics, who was on the editorial board of “Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology” at the time the studies were published.
“Upon submission, the lead author declared no conflicts of interest and all authors declared the same within each article; however, all but one of the article’s authors had an affiliation with one or more of Charlotte Lozier Institute, Elliot Institute, and American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists – all pro-life advocacy organizations that explicitly support judicial action to restrict access to mifepristone,” the Sage statement reads. One of those groups, AAPLOG, is a plaintiff in the Alliance v. FDA lawsuit.
In a statement, Studnicki and Tessa Longbons, senior research associate, called the Sage retraction a “baseless ideological attack on our scientific research and experts. To date, Sage hasn’t identified a single substantive objection to the studies to the research team. However, Sage has launched a political assault against an organization whose research has been cited in major pro-life legal victories, such as the Dobbs decision and the AHM v. FDA case. Even after reviewing and publishing this study and standing by it for years, Sage has now caved to outside partisan pressures that dominate elite circles,’’ Studnicki and Longbons said.
“Sadly, this incident points to a larger, newer phenomenon, which is, many of our scientific institutions no longer stand in defense of open inquiry. Rather, what we’re seeing is a biased faction in the medical community (that) holds all the power and attempts to suppress any research that cuts against their approved, pro-abortion narrative,’’ Studnicki and Longbons said.
Last year, pharmaceutical sciences professor Chris Adkins contacted Sage with his concerns about the 2021 “Longitudinal Cohort Study,” which was cited by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk as evidence that the anti-abortion doctor-plaintiffs had standing to sue because “they allege adverse events from chemical abortion drugs can overwhelm the medical system and place ‘enormous pressure and stress’ on doctors during emergencies and complications.”
That paper looked at Medicaid patients’ visits to the emergency room within 30 days of having an abortion and concluded that medication abortion is excessively risky.
“I can’t prove that there was intent to deceive, but I struggled to find an alternative reason to present your data in such a way that exaggerates the magnitude,” Adkins told States Newsroom at the time. “They’re misrepresenting its conclusions to begin with.”
The epidemiology and public health experts who conducted an independent post-publication peer review of the three studies ultimately agreed with Adkins. Regarding the 2021 and a follow-up 2022 paper using the same dataset, the experts found “fundamental problems with the study design and methodology,” “unjustified or incorrect factual assumptions,” “material errors in the authors’ analysis of the data,” and “misleading presentations of the data.”
The 2019 article, using a different dataset, contained “unsupported assumptions,” “misleading presentations of the findings,” and “demonstrate a lack of scientific rigor and render the authors’ conclusion unreliable,” the experts found.
Experts have cited mifepristone’s safety and efficacy with more than 5.6 million uses over the past two decades. The FDA has recorded 28 deaths but has stated that the drug cannot be identified as the cause of those deaths.
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More misleading of Courts in Trump's NY civil fraud case :
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... l-20240206
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... l-20240206
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Trump thugs threaten US Senator, no doubt soldiers acting on orders from their Don:
https://news.yahoo.com/sen-lankford-say ... 53824.html
https://news.yahoo.com/sen-lankford-say ... 53824.html
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Per NYT today ( I'm not a subscriber so this all I can post ):
" Trump Says He Gave NATO Allies Warning: Pay In or He’d Urge Russian Aggression
By Michael Gold
Speaking in Conway, S.C., Donald J. Trump said as president he’d told NATO allies that he would urge Russian aggression against countries that owed the military alliance money."
If elected in 2024, no doubt the Don would want some money for himself on the side, ie blackmail Europe.
Trump supporters are a deadly cancer infecting the World , perhaps incurable.
" Trump Says He Gave NATO Allies Warning: Pay In or He’d Urge Russian Aggression
By Michael Gold
Speaking in Conway, S.C., Donald J. Trump said as president he’d told NATO allies that he would urge Russian aggression against countries that owed the military alliance money."
If elected in 2024, no doubt the Don would want some money for himself on the side, ie blackmail Europe.
Trump supporters are a deadly cancer infecting the World , perhaps incurable.
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From AxiosAM today ( ANZUS payments up to date ? ):
"Speculation has turned to preparation among world leaders bracing for the surprises and disruption that would accompany a second Trump presidency, Axios' Dave Lawler reports.
Why it matters: U.S. allies had never seen a president like Donald Trump, who threatened to rip up treaties and often made bilateral disagreements personal.
Just yesterday, Trump said at a rally in Conway, S.C., that he told the president of an unidentified NATO member he would "encourage" Russia "to do whatever the hell they want" if the NATO member were behind on its obligations to the alliance.
"One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said: 'Well, sir, uh, if we don't pay and we're attacked by Russia, will you protect us?" Trump recounted.
"You didn't pay? You're delinquent?" Trump said he replied. "No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.' You gotta pay! You gotta pay your bills."
White House spokesman Andrew Bates responded: "Encouraging invasions of our closest allies by murderous regimes is appalling and unhinged."
The big picture: Many of America's European NATO allies are worried that with or without Trump, the U.S. is becoming less reliable. Some have started to talk openly about the need for members to ramp up military spending, and plan for an alliance without the U.S. (AP)
Zoom in: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government is preparing for the "uncertainty" Trump's return would bring.German Chancellor Olaf Scholz risked Trump's wrath by openly endorsing President Biden last year over the "division" he said Trump represents.
European Central Bank Chief Christine Lagarde cited Trump's penchant for imposing tariffs on allies, his shaky commitment to NATO and his opposition to climate action when she labeled his political resurgence a "threat" to Europe.
Perhaps no leader has more to fear from Trump's return than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Trump's allies in Congress have held up additional military aid to Ukraine, and the former president has said he'd end the nation's war with Russia "within 24 hours" of taking office — an unsubstantiated claim Zelensky called "very dangerous."
Re: TrumpReich in action
Many millions of people have a very different view of what's happening in your country. I agree with this one, but I still say Trump won't become President. And it won't have been for the want of you trying to get that outcome!!!
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/1 ... -to-trump/
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/1 ... -to-trump/
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I'm going to post something serious now on a new thread which has a direct bearing on why you got Trump.
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" A pro-Trump trucker and right-wing influencer who goes by the handle Chicago Ray posted a video to X, formerly Twitter, on Friday night claiming that he has spoken to “at least” 10 truckers who will “start refusing loads” headed for New York City. Ray wants truckers to stop deliveries to the city in the wake of a New York court ruling ordering the former president to pay $355 million in damages after he and the Trump Organization were found liable for committing financial fraud. And Trump supports their efforts.
“Such an honor to have so many Great Patriots on the side of FREEDOM!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, celebrating the trucker campaign on Saturday night. “Joe Biden’s Unfair and Dangerous Weaponization of Law Enforcement is a serious threat to Democracy. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“Trump just posted my video and picture on his Truth Social account, pretty fucken cool,” Ray posted Sunday alongside a screenshot of Trump’s post.
In Ray’s original video, which Trump also posted, Ray says, “I’ve been on the radio talking to drivers for about the last hour… and I’ve talked to at least ten drivers… And they’re going to start refusing loads to New York City starting on Monday.”
“I don’t know how far across the country this is, or how many truckers are gonna start denying loads going to New York City,” Ray added, “but I’ll tell you what, you frig around and find out, OK? We’re tired of you motherfucking leftists fucking with Trump.”
Ray went on to claim without evidence that 95 to 96 percent of truckers are for Trump and that the prosecution of Trump is “election interference.”
In addition to imposing a hefty fine against Trump, Judge Arthur Engoron on Thursday banned the former president “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years.” And he ordered Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric, to pay $4 million each in fines. Trump is anticipated to appeal. Weeks earlier, Trump suffered another defeat in a New York court when a jury ordered him to pay $83 million in defamation-related damages to E. Jean Carroll, whom Trump sexually assaulted in the ’90s.
Whether the truckers’ campaign will grow large enough to result in any disruption of the flow of goods into New York remains to be seen. At the moment, we only have Ray’s claims, although his video received more than six million views as of early Sunday afternoon. Ray promised to give followers an update on Monday.
In 2022, following mass protests by truckers in Canada against vaccine mandates, American truckers drove into to Washington, D.C., in a “People’s Convoy,” to voice their opposition to Covid-19 mandates — though their efforts largely fell flat."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-endors ... 50372.html
“Such an honor to have so many Great Patriots on the side of FREEDOM!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, celebrating the trucker campaign on Saturday night. “Joe Biden’s Unfair and Dangerous Weaponization of Law Enforcement is a serious threat to Democracy. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“Trump just posted my video and picture on his Truth Social account, pretty fucken cool,” Ray posted Sunday alongside a screenshot of Trump’s post.
In Ray’s original video, which Trump also posted, Ray says, “I’ve been on the radio talking to drivers for about the last hour… and I’ve talked to at least ten drivers… And they’re going to start refusing loads to New York City starting on Monday.”
“I don’t know how far across the country this is, or how many truckers are gonna start denying loads going to New York City,” Ray added, “but I’ll tell you what, you frig around and find out, OK? We’re tired of you motherfucking leftists fucking with Trump.”
Ray went on to claim without evidence that 95 to 96 percent of truckers are for Trump and that the prosecution of Trump is “election interference.”
In addition to imposing a hefty fine against Trump, Judge Arthur Engoron on Thursday banned the former president “from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or other legal entity in New York for a period of three years.” And he ordered Trump’s sons, Don Jr. and Eric, to pay $4 million each in fines. Trump is anticipated to appeal. Weeks earlier, Trump suffered another defeat in a New York court when a jury ordered him to pay $83 million in defamation-related damages to E. Jean Carroll, whom Trump sexually assaulted in the ’90s.
Whether the truckers’ campaign will grow large enough to result in any disruption of the flow of goods into New York remains to be seen. At the moment, we only have Ray’s claims, although his video received more than six million views as of early Sunday afternoon. Ray promised to give followers an update on Monday.
In 2022, following mass protests by truckers in Canada against vaccine mandates, American truckers drove into to Washington, D.C., in a “People’s Convoy,” to voice their opposition to Covid-19 mandates — though their efforts largely fell flat."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-endors ... 50372.html
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Fox,at least for now,actually pays these ilk real money :
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox ... 25756.html
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fox ... 25756.html
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Trump at CPAC 2/24/24, Hitler at Nurmeberg rally all over again:
The Guardian, 2/25
Donald Trump styled himself as a “proud political dissident” and promised “judgment day” for political opponents in an address that offered a chilling vision of a democracy in imminent peril.
In classic carnival barker form, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination accused Joe Biden of weaponising the government against him with “Stalinist show trials”. He pledged to crack down on border security and deliver the biggest deportation in US history if he wins the 5 November election.
Related: CPAC: Noem and Stefanik lead charge of the wannabe Trump VPs
“For hard-working Americans, November 5th will be our new liberation day,” Trump told a packed ballroom at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor in Maryland. “But for the liars and cheaters and fraudsters and censors and imposters who have commandeered our government, it will be their judgment day!”
He added: “Your victory will be our ultimate vindication, your liberty will be our ultimate reward and the unprecedented success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute revenge.”
The overwhelmingly white crowd, many wearing Make America Great Again regalia, rose to their feet and roared their approval.
The former US president was speaking hours before an expected victory over Republican rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary, making him all but certain to be the party nominee.
Meanwhile, organizers held a straw poll at the convention for Trump’s running mate: South Dakota governor Kristi Noem tied with tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy at 15%, followed by former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, current New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik and South Carolina senator Tim Scott. In last place was Nikki Haley at 2%. About 1,500 people voted.
Trump’s visit marked his 14th appearance at CPAC, breaking the record previously held by former president Ronald Reagan, according to his campaign. He appeared unbound and at times unhinged. The 77-year-old was bilious and bleak but also energetic and at times even humorous, less commander-in-chief than stand-up comedian. He told self-deprecating jokes about his wife Melania’s reviews of his speeches (“I ask our first lady, I say. So, baby, how good was that? She goes you were OK”).
His puerile parody of the speaking style, finger pointing and gait of 81-year-old Biden earned roars of laughter. And in a nod to his days as host of the reality TV show the Apprentice, Trump delighted the audience by shouting: “Crooked Joe Biden, you are fired! Get out of here. You’re destroying our country. You’re fired. Get the hell out of here!”
But, like demagogues of the past, the comedy and showmanship smuggled in a sinister undertow. Trump’s ability to play the crowd, turning its emotions from euphoria to fury as easily as flicking a switch, carry echoes that are hard to ignore.
The tone was set before he appeared on stage. A series of popular hits – Abba’s Dancing Queen, Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire, Sinéad O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U, Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds – was followed by the tinny sound of Justice for All, a rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner sung by defendants jailed over their alleged roles in the January 6, 2021, insurrection. The CPAC audience rose solemnly for the dirge that was recorded over a prison phone line.
As usual, Trump entered to Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA, hugged an American flag and painted an impossibly grim picture of an America overrun by bloodshed, chaos and violent crime. “If Crooked Joe Biden and his thugs win in 2024, the worst is yet to come,” he said. “A country that will go and sink to levels that are unimaginable.
“These are the stakes of this election. Our country is being destroyed, and the only thing standing between you and it’s obliteration is me.”
Facing 91 criminal charges in four cases, Trump projected himself as both martyr and potential saviour of the nation. “A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom, it’s your passport out of tyranny and it’s your only escape from Joe Biden and his gang’s fast track to hell,” he continued.
“And in many ways, we’re living in hell right now because the fact is, Joe Biden is a threat to democracy – really is a threat to democracy.”
Speaking days after the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Trump hinted at a self-comparison by adding: “I stand before you today not only as your past and hopefully future president but as a proud political dissident. I am a dissident.”
The crowd whooped and applauded. Trump noted that he had been indicted more often than the gangster Al Capone on charges that he described as “bull crap”. The audience again leaped to their feet, some shaking their fists and chanting: “We love Trump! We love Trump!”
Trump argued without evidence: “The Stalinist show trials being carried out at Joe Biden’s orders set fire not only to our system of government but to hundreds of years of western legal tradition.
“They’ve replaced law, precedent and due process with a rabid mob of radical left Democrat partisans masquerading as judges and juries and prosecutors.”
Trump also spent time on his signature issue: he said his “first and most urgent action” as president would be the “sealing of the border, stopping the invasion ... send Joe Biden’s illegal aliens back home”.
The ex-president, who has spent years demonising immigrants, said: “They’re coming from Asia, they’re coming from the Middle East, coming from all over the world, coming from Africa, and we’re not going to stand for it ... They’re destroying our country.”
He promised to carry out the biggest deportation in American history. “It’s not a nice thing to say and I hate to say it and those clowns in the media will say: ‘Oh, he’s so mean.’ No, they’re killing our people. They’re killing our country. We have no choice.”
He added: “We have languages coming into our country … they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a horrible thing.”
But Trump broke from the teleprompter into a series of bizarre riffs. One was a convoluted story about flying into Iraq in darkness: “I sat with the pilots ... the best-looking human beings I’ve ever seen. Not my thing ... But they are handsome. Central casting. Better looking than Tom Cruise. And taller.”
Once again he had the faithful eating out of the palm of his hand – a scene that may set off alarm bells for defenders of democracy. “By the way, isn’t this better than reading off a fricking teleprompter?” he asked. The crowd cheered.
“Nobody can ramble like this,” he said, adding: “They’ll say: ‘He rambled, he’s cognitively impaired.’ Well, it’s really the opposite. It’s total genius – you know that.” The crowd cheered some more.
The Guardian, 2/25
Donald Trump styled himself as a “proud political dissident” and promised “judgment day” for political opponents in an address that offered a chilling vision of a democracy in imminent peril.
In classic carnival barker form, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination accused Joe Biden of weaponising the government against him with “Stalinist show trials”. He pledged to crack down on border security and deliver the biggest deportation in US history if he wins the 5 November election.
Related: CPAC: Noem and Stefanik lead charge of the wannabe Trump VPs
“For hard-working Americans, November 5th will be our new liberation day,” Trump told a packed ballroom at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor in Maryland. “But for the liars and cheaters and fraudsters and censors and imposters who have commandeered our government, it will be their judgment day!”
He added: “Your victory will be our ultimate vindication, your liberty will be our ultimate reward and the unprecedented success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute revenge.”
The overwhelmingly white crowd, many wearing Make America Great Again regalia, rose to their feet and roared their approval.
The former US president was speaking hours before an expected victory over Republican rival Nikki Haley in the South Carolina primary, making him all but certain to be the party nominee.
Meanwhile, organizers held a straw poll at the convention for Trump’s running mate: South Dakota governor Kristi Noem tied with tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy at 15%, followed by former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, current New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik and South Carolina senator Tim Scott. In last place was Nikki Haley at 2%. About 1,500 people voted.
Trump’s visit marked his 14th appearance at CPAC, breaking the record previously held by former president Ronald Reagan, according to his campaign. He appeared unbound and at times unhinged. The 77-year-old was bilious and bleak but also energetic and at times even humorous, less commander-in-chief than stand-up comedian. He told self-deprecating jokes about his wife Melania’s reviews of his speeches (“I ask our first lady, I say. So, baby, how good was that? She goes you were OK”).
His puerile parody of the speaking style, finger pointing and gait of 81-year-old Biden earned roars of laughter. And in a nod to his days as host of the reality TV show the Apprentice, Trump delighted the audience by shouting: “Crooked Joe Biden, you are fired! Get out of here. You’re destroying our country. You’re fired. Get the hell out of here!”
But, like demagogues of the past, the comedy and showmanship smuggled in a sinister undertow. Trump’s ability to play the crowd, turning its emotions from euphoria to fury as easily as flicking a switch, carry echoes that are hard to ignore.
The tone was set before he appeared on stage. A series of popular hits – Abba’s Dancing Queen, Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire, Sinéad O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 U, Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds – was followed by the tinny sound of Justice for All, a rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner sung by defendants jailed over their alleged roles in the January 6, 2021, insurrection. The CPAC audience rose solemnly for the dirge that was recorded over a prison phone line.
As usual, Trump entered to Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA, hugged an American flag and painted an impossibly grim picture of an America overrun by bloodshed, chaos and violent crime. “If Crooked Joe Biden and his thugs win in 2024, the worst is yet to come,” he said. “A country that will go and sink to levels that are unimaginable.
“These are the stakes of this election. Our country is being destroyed, and the only thing standing between you and it’s obliteration is me.”
Facing 91 criminal charges in four cases, Trump projected himself as both martyr and potential saviour of the nation. “A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom, it’s your passport out of tyranny and it’s your only escape from Joe Biden and his gang’s fast track to hell,” he continued.
“And in many ways, we’re living in hell right now because the fact is, Joe Biden is a threat to democracy – really is a threat to democracy.”
Speaking days after the death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Trump hinted at a self-comparison by adding: “I stand before you today not only as your past and hopefully future president but as a proud political dissident. I am a dissident.”
The crowd whooped and applauded. Trump noted that he had been indicted more often than the gangster Al Capone on charges that he described as “bull crap”. The audience again leaped to their feet, some shaking their fists and chanting: “We love Trump! We love Trump!”
Trump argued without evidence: “The Stalinist show trials being carried out at Joe Biden’s orders set fire not only to our system of government but to hundreds of years of western legal tradition.
“They’ve replaced law, precedent and due process with a rabid mob of radical left Democrat partisans masquerading as judges and juries and prosecutors.”
Trump also spent time on his signature issue: he said his “first and most urgent action” as president would be the “sealing of the border, stopping the invasion ... send Joe Biden’s illegal aliens back home”.
The ex-president, who has spent years demonising immigrants, said: “They’re coming from Asia, they’re coming from the Middle East, coming from all over the world, coming from Africa, and we’re not going to stand for it ... They’re destroying our country.”
He promised to carry out the biggest deportation in American history. “It’s not a nice thing to say and I hate to say it and those clowns in the media will say: ‘Oh, he’s so mean.’ No, they’re killing our people. They’re killing our country. We have no choice.”
He added: “We have languages coming into our country … they have languages that nobody in this country has ever heard of. It’s a horrible thing.”
But Trump broke from the teleprompter into a series of bizarre riffs. One was a convoluted story about flying into Iraq in darkness: “I sat with the pilots ... the best-looking human beings I’ve ever seen. Not my thing ... But they are handsome. Central casting. Better looking than Tom Cruise. And taller.”
Once again he had the faithful eating out of the palm of his hand – a scene that may set off alarm bells for defenders of democracy. “By the way, isn’t this better than reading off a fricking teleprompter?” he asked. The crowd cheered.
“Nobody can ramble like this,” he said, adding: “They’ll say: ‘He rambled, he’s cognitively impaired.’ Well, it’s really the opposite. It’s total genius – you know that.” The crowd cheered some more.
Re: TrumpReich in action
Continues its assault on women, even pregnant ones:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judg ... 57056.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-judg ... 57056.html
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The GOP nominee for Governor of North Carolina, per Yahoo News today:
"Mark Robinson, who easily won North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, has the misfortune of having spent years on Facebook without thinking about his future political career. The current lieutenant governor of the state—and the first Black man to hold the position—was a furniture manufacturer who was launched into politics in 2018 when he gave a viral pro-gun speech at a city council meeting in the wake of the Parkland school shooting. Two years later he was elected to his current office. He will face Democrat Josh Stein, the state’s attorney general, in the general election in November. The race is expected to be extremely close.
He has not, in the time since his profile rose, worked to purge his social media of controversial content. Nor has he played things safe when speaking at churches and other public events in recorded sermons and speeches. So it doesn’t take a lot of probing to find how Robinson really feels about certain hot-button issues.
Robinson, who is also into conspiracy theories, has voiced enough offensive comments for a full accounting to be too unwieldy. But even a sampling of his views like the one below—not a comprehensive list—showcases just what kind of candidate North Carolina Republicans just selected to be their standard-bearer this November.
Abortion
“I don’t care if you’re 24 hours pregnant. I don’t care if you’re 24 weeks pregnant. I don’t care. If you kill that young’un, it is murder.” (Robinson has said he paid for an abortion in 1989 and maintained that that decision was “wrong.”)
Climate Science
“… pseudoscience, junk science that has not proven a single solitary thing.”
The Media
“See through their lies and look at the big picture of their TRUE intent, which is to push US towards their new world order.”
Jewish People
He voiced agreement with a pastor who claimed the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” are the CIA, China, Islam, and the Rothschild family of “international bankers that rule every single … central bank.”
Also, regarding Black Panther: “It is absolutely AMAZING to me that people… can get so excited about a fictional ‘hero’ created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic marxist. How can this trash, that was only created to pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pockets, invoke any pride?”
The Holocaust
“There is a REASON the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about the NAZI and the ‘6 million Jews’ they murdered. There is also a REASON those same liberals DO NOT FILL the airwaves with programs about the Communist and the 100+ million PEOPLE they murdered throughout the 20th century.”
(He also, in a 2014 post, quoted Hitler without context.)
Women
“We are called to be led by men. God sent women out … when they had to do their thing, but when it was time to face down Goliath, [He] sent David. Not Davita, David.”
The #MeToo Movement
“They’re starting a new movement called ‘dressing in see thru, ultra-tight, breast bearing whore dresses to protest sexual harassment.’ ”
Barack Obama
He “entered the White House with a fake birth certificate.”
Michelle Obama
“I’ll be glad when he takes his boyfriend and leaves the White House”
The Parkland Students
“Spoiled, angry, know it all CHILDREN are trying to tell law abiding ADULTS that we must give up our Constitutional RIGHT to own certain weapons… David Hogg and the rest of these silly little immature “media prosti-tots” need to grab a passy, have seat in time out, and shut up.”
Islam
“Sad Fact: “Religious freedom” in this country now means Muslims are free to do as they please and anyone who says anything about it is a bigot.”
LGBTQ people
“There is no reason anybody, anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality or any of that filth. And yes, I called it filth. And if you don’t like it that I called it filth, come see me about it.” (Later, facing backlash: “We will not be intimidated.… The language I used, I am not ashamed of it.)
“We have pushed homosexuality over the top. Mark my words PEDOPHILLA is next, which will be closely followed by the END of civilization as we know it.”
Transgender People
“[If] all of a sudden Saturday you feel like a woman and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the hall, you will be arrested, or whatever we got to do to you.”
Nonbinary people, meanwhile, should use the restroom “outside with the dog.”
The Civil Rights Movement
2017 Facebook post: “That crap in the 1960s was the ‘communist rise movement’ ”
(He also called Martin Luther King, Jr. a “communist.” Trump, endorsing Robinson, had this to say: “I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.”
White Privilege
“A foolish concept” perpetrated by the left. Also, the Confederate flag is good.
Black People
Per Talking Points Memo, he had a few posts on the topic:
“February is Black History Month. I guess the shortest month of the year is all we need to learn about the separate but equal history of a people who have achieved so little.”
“Someone asked me if I considered myself part of the ‘African-American’ community.
“I told them NO!…‘Why would I want to be part of a ‘community’ that devalues it’s fathers, overburdens it’s mothers, and murders its children by the millions? Why would I want to be part of a ‘community’ that sucks from the putrid tit of the government and then complains about getting sour milk?”
“Look here people, white folks came here with N-O-T-H-I-N-G and and built the most powerful nation on Earth…. I’m not saying that Mexicans and Blacks should not be proud, but who do you think has the most to brag about, the folks who built Mexico, the folks who bulit the Nations in Africa, or the folks who built The United States?”
"Mark Robinson, who easily won North Carolina’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, has the misfortune of having spent years on Facebook without thinking about his future political career. The current lieutenant governor of the state—and the first Black man to hold the position—was a furniture manufacturer who was launched into politics in 2018 when he gave a viral pro-gun speech at a city council meeting in the wake of the Parkland school shooting. Two years later he was elected to his current office. He will face Democrat Josh Stein, the state’s attorney general, in the general election in November. The race is expected to be extremely close.
He has not, in the time since his profile rose, worked to purge his social media of controversial content. Nor has he played things safe when speaking at churches and other public events in recorded sermons and speeches. So it doesn’t take a lot of probing to find how Robinson really feels about certain hot-button issues.
Robinson, who is also into conspiracy theories, has voiced enough offensive comments for a full accounting to be too unwieldy. But even a sampling of his views like the one below—not a comprehensive list—showcases just what kind of candidate North Carolina Republicans just selected to be their standard-bearer this November.
Abortion
“I don’t care if you’re 24 hours pregnant. I don’t care if you’re 24 weeks pregnant. I don’t care. If you kill that young’un, it is murder.” (Robinson has said he paid for an abortion in 1989 and maintained that that decision was “wrong.”)
Climate Science
“… pseudoscience, junk science that has not proven a single solitary thing.”
The Media
“See through their lies and look at the big picture of their TRUE intent, which is to push US towards their new world order.”
Jewish People
He voiced agreement with a pastor who claimed the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” are the CIA, China, Islam, and the Rothschild family of “international bankers that rule every single … central bank.”
Also, regarding Black Panther: “It is absolutely AMAZING to me that people… can get so excited about a fictional ‘hero’ created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic marxist. How can this trash, that was only created to pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pockets, invoke any pride?”
The Holocaust
“There is a REASON the liberal media fills the airwaves with programs about the NAZI and the ‘6 million Jews’ they murdered. There is also a REASON those same liberals DO NOT FILL the airwaves with programs about the Communist and the 100+ million PEOPLE they murdered throughout the 20th century.”
(He also, in a 2014 post, quoted Hitler without context.)
Women
“We are called to be led by men. God sent women out … when they had to do their thing, but when it was time to face down Goliath, [He] sent David. Not Davita, David.”
The #MeToo Movement
“They’re starting a new movement called ‘dressing in see thru, ultra-tight, breast bearing whore dresses to protest sexual harassment.’ ”
Barack Obama
He “entered the White House with a fake birth certificate.”
Michelle Obama
“I’ll be glad when he takes his boyfriend and leaves the White House”
The Parkland Students
“Spoiled, angry, know it all CHILDREN are trying to tell law abiding ADULTS that we must give up our Constitutional RIGHT to own certain weapons… David Hogg and the rest of these silly little immature “media prosti-tots” need to grab a passy, have seat in time out, and shut up.”
Islam
“Sad Fact: “Religious freedom” in this country now means Muslims are free to do as they please and anyone who says anything about it is a bigot.”
LGBTQ people
“There is no reason anybody, anywhere in America should be telling any child about transgenderism, homosexuality or any of that filth. And yes, I called it filth. And if you don’t like it that I called it filth, come see me about it.” (Later, facing backlash: “We will not be intimidated.… The language I used, I am not ashamed of it.)
“We have pushed homosexuality over the top. Mark my words PEDOPHILLA is next, which will be closely followed by the END of civilization as we know it.”
Transgender People
“[If] all of a sudden Saturday you feel like a woman and you want to go in the women’s bathroom in the hall, you will be arrested, or whatever we got to do to you.”
Nonbinary people, meanwhile, should use the restroom “outside with the dog.”
The Civil Rights Movement
2017 Facebook post: “That crap in the 1960s was the ‘communist rise movement’ ”
(He also called Martin Luther King, Jr. a “communist.” Trump, endorsing Robinson, had this to say: “I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.”
White Privilege
“A foolish concept” perpetrated by the left. Also, the Confederate flag is good.
Black People
Per Talking Points Memo, he had a few posts on the topic:
“February is Black History Month. I guess the shortest month of the year is all we need to learn about the separate but equal history of a people who have achieved so little.”
“Someone asked me if I considered myself part of the ‘African-American’ community.
“I told them NO!…‘Why would I want to be part of a ‘community’ that devalues it’s fathers, overburdens it’s mothers, and murders its children by the millions? Why would I want to be part of a ‘community’ that sucks from the putrid tit of the government and then complains about getting sour milk?”
“Look here people, white folks came here with N-O-T-H-I-N-G and and built the most powerful nation on Earth…. I’m not saying that Mexicans and Blacks should not be proud, but who do you think has the most to brag about, the folks who built Mexico, the folks who bulit the Nations in Africa, or the folks who built The United States?”
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STAT News today. Dont travel to Florida.
"Florida health officials provide scant details on measles cases, worrying health experts.
The information vacuum leaves in the dark anyone in the public who might be concerned about whether they may have had an exposure."
"Florida health officials provide scant details on measles cases, worrying health experts.
The information vacuum leaves in the dark anyone in the public who might be concerned about whether they may have had an exposure."
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The latest news from the clown shows that have never been funny:
Per Kansas City Star today:
"Guests at Johnson County (Kansas) GOP event punch, kick effigy of President Joe Biden.
A former chair of the Kansas Republican Party is calling for party leaders involved in the event to resign."
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NYT Morning today:
"To this day, more than 30 percent of self-identified Republicans have not received a Covid vaccine shot, compared with less than 10 percent of Democrats. You can see the tragic effects of vaccine skepticism in this chart, by my colleague Ashley Wu, which compares the death rates in red and blue counties." ( Rach3: As of Jan.6,2024, red approx 450 deaths per 100K population vs. blue 200. )
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AxiosAm today, " with God on our side " :
"Conservative states are pushing to allow chaplains in public schools as a way to address the persistent shortage of counselors.
Why it matters: The youth mental health crisis and an uptick in school shootings have plagued the education system. But the idea of putting religious figures on school grounds has drawn criticism from civil rights groups and some faith groups, Axios' Natalie Daher reports.
Catch up quick: Since Texas introduced its blueprint last year, allowing schools to use safety funds to hire chaplains who do not have the same licensing as counselors, similar bills have popped up in more than a dozen states including Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, Utah and Kansas.
In some states' bills, parental consent isn't required, nor is the level of training, expertise and licensing typically required of school counselors.
State of play: Florida's legislature on Thursday passed a bill that would allow unlicensed chaplains to volunteer at public schools. It will become law in July unless Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) vetoes it, which isn't expected."
(Rach3:Some of these States allow or are considering allowing teachers to go armed in classrooms.)
Per Kansas City Star today:
"Guests at Johnson County (Kansas) GOP event punch, kick effigy of President Joe Biden.
A former chair of the Kansas Republican Party is calling for party leaders involved in the event to resign."
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NYT Morning today:
"To this day, more than 30 percent of self-identified Republicans have not received a Covid vaccine shot, compared with less than 10 percent of Democrats. You can see the tragic effects of vaccine skepticism in this chart, by my colleague Ashley Wu, which compares the death rates in red and blue counties." ( Rach3: As of Jan.6,2024, red approx 450 deaths per 100K population vs. blue 200. )
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AxiosAm today, " with God on our side " :
"Conservative states are pushing to allow chaplains in public schools as a way to address the persistent shortage of counselors.
Why it matters: The youth mental health crisis and an uptick in school shootings have plagued the education system. But the idea of putting religious figures on school grounds has drawn criticism from civil rights groups and some faith groups, Axios' Natalie Daher reports.
Catch up quick: Since Texas introduced its blueprint last year, allowing schools to use safety funds to hire chaplains who do not have the same licensing as counselors, similar bills have popped up in more than a dozen states including Florida, Georgia, Nebraska, Utah and Kansas.In some states' bills, parental consent isn't required, nor is the level of training, expertise and licensing typically required of school counselors.
State of play: Florida's legislature on Thursday passed a bill that would allow unlicensed chaplains to volunteer at public schools. It will become law in July unless Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) vetoes it, which isn't expected."(Rach3:Some of these States allow or are considering allowing teachers to go armed in classrooms.)
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Anti-vax even if not a Kennedy:
4. America's big split
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios ... are#story3
4. America's big splithttps://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios ... are#story3
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From WAPO health newsletter today:
"The Republican Study Committee unveiled its fiscal 2025 budget proposal yesterday.
In a sweeping road map, the bloc of about 180 conservative lawmakers called for a restructuring of Medicare, along with the revocation of its new authority to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs. Notably, unlike previous iterations, the budget doesn’t include a proposal to raise the eligibility age for the safety net program. Other asks include:
Eliminating beefed-up tax credits for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) shoppers set to expire at the end of 2025.
Scrapping most ACA protections for preexisting conditions. (Rach3: !!! )
Converting Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program into five block grants for states.
Abolishing the Title X family planning program, which provides free and subsidized contraception and other services to low-income people.
Yes, but: The budget is mostly a wish list. Even still, the proposals offer insight into Republicans’ health policy priorities should the GOP see success in the November elections."
"The Republican Study Committee unveiled its fiscal 2025 budget proposal yesterday.
In a sweeping road map, the bloc of about 180 conservative lawmakers called for a restructuring of Medicare, along with the revocation of its new authority to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs. Notably, unlike previous iterations, the budget doesn’t include a proposal to raise the eligibility age for the safety net program. Other asks include:
Eliminating beefed-up tax credits for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) shoppers set to expire at the end of 2025.
Scrapping most ACA protections for preexisting conditions. (Rach3: !!! )
Converting Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program into five block grants for states.
Abolishing the Title X family planning program, which provides free and subsidized contraception and other services to low-income people.
Yes, but: The budget is mostly a wish list. Even still, the proposals offer insight into Republicans’ health policy priorities should the GOP see success in the November elections."
Re: TrumpReich in action
Corrupt legacy media is a major part of this paradigm. Here's a former insider belling the cat. Bari has just matured and realized how rubbish most of the Left's ideas are!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sflU_OY5CvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sflU_OY5CvQ
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It's where all the rich folks are moving, though. I've been poor and I've been rich; rich is better!!
It doesn't bend you out of shape with hatred for people who've succeeded, or needing to keep everybody flat-lined at the same socio-economic level (nowhere). It doesn't punish the people who succeed - calling them names and threatening if they don't 'share' their wealth, watch out - and raise up those who haven't.
Try and apply your discerning appreciation of music and your understanding of artistic hierarchies to your people and economy. It's called 'sociological imagination', but it requires right brain hemisphere activation, Rach!!
It doesn't bend you out of shape with hatred for people who've succeeded, or needing to keep everybody flat-lined at the same socio-economic level (nowhere). It doesn't punish the people who succeed - calling them names and threatening if they don't 'share' their wealth, watch out - and raise up those who haven't.
Try and apply your discerning appreciation of music and your understanding of artistic hierarchies to your people and economy. It's called 'sociological imagination', but it requires right brain hemisphere activation, Rach!!
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. '“ - Isaac Asimov
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I would agree with Asimov if some of the very worst ideas didn't come from intellectuals! Dr. Tom Sowell says some ideas are so bad and preposterous that only an academic could have thought of them. It's hard to disagree with this proposition.
And would that "ignorance" be anything like the bigotry of somebody here who ridiculed people who voted for Brexit as (paraphrasing) un-educated losers who simply hadn't been able to keep pace with technology in the globalized world? That's the milk of human kindness right there. And it's why we continue to celebrate and respect the Left!! They continue to spew that kind of bile about their own "deplorables" - everyday people who want to raise their children according to their own beliefs and who want the state out of their faces. They are not the same people as those who populated the KKK, despite the Left badly needing them to be.
Do watch the discussion with Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein, which I posted, because they discuss the out-of-control migration to your country and Bret went down to see it for himself. It's very disturbing, but the conversation itself is absolutely magic. These two ultra-bright intellectuals unpack deep level abstract ideas and give them life. I love this stuff and nothing gives me more pleasure than listening to these long-form discussions, great music and reading wonderful books. Bret and Eric Weinstein are two of my American heroes. They're both from the centre Left and I can identify with much of what they say and believe.
And would that "ignorance" be anything like the bigotry of somebody here who ridiculed people who voted for Brexit as (paraphrasing) un-educated losers who simply hadn't been able to keep pace with technology in the globalized world? That's the milk of human kindness right there. And it's why we continue to celebrate and respect the Left!! They continue to spew that kind of bile about their own "deplorables" - everyday people who want to raise their children according to their own beliefs and who want the state out of their faces. They are not the same people as those who populated the KKK, despite the Left badly needing them to be.
Do watch the discussion with Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein, which I posted, because they discuss the out-of-control migration to your country and Bret went down to see it for himself. It's very disturbing, but the conversation itself is absolutely magic. These two ultra-bright intellectuals unpack deep level abstract ideas and give them life. I love this stuff and nothing gives me more pleasure than listening to these long-form discussions, great music and reading wonderful books. Bret and Eric Weinstein are two of my American heroes. They're both from the centre Left and I can identify with much of what they say and believe.
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Per Axios today:
Shares of Donald Trump’s media company continues to surge. His stock is worth billions.
If Trump wins the election, his social media site Truth Social could provide a route for foreign leaders or special interests to buy his favor.
The Republican National Committee has asked job candidates whether they believe the 2020 election was stolen, a sign of Donald Trump’s grip on the party.
Shares of Donald Trump’s media company continues to surge. His stock is worth billions.
If Trump wins the election, his social media site Truth Social could provide a route for foreign leaders or special interests to buy his favor.
The Republican National Committee has asked job candidates whether they believe the 2020 election was stolen, a sign of Donald Trump’s grip on the party.
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Amazing, but to be expected I guess.From STAT News today:
People in Republican-voting states were more likely to report adverse events after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination than people living in Democratic-leaning states, a new analysis finds, suggesting that how people view their post-vaccine side effects or decide whether to report them may be shaped by their political views.
The cross-sectional study, published Friday in JAMA Network Open, looked at more than 620,000 entries in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System from 2020 through 2022 and found that a 10% increase in ballots cast for a Republican in the last presidential election was associated with a 5% increase in the odds that an adverse event after Covid vaccination would be reported, a 25% increase in odds that a severe adverse event would be reported, and a 21% increase in the odds that any reported adverse event would be severe.
“It’s all part of this incredible polarization that’s politically charged,” Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, told STAT. He was not involved in the study. “The fact that they’re reporting a significant increase in states that are Republican is just consistent with everything we’ve seen in the pandemic.”
In the grim calculus of Covid-19 deaths, there is already a well known red-blue state divide among Americans. More people died in states where more voters registered as Republicans, voted that way, and elected members of the Republican party. Counties in Donald Trump’s column in 2020 were much less likely to get Covid vaccinations than counties that voted for President Biden.
VAERS is a surveillance system created by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that allows patients, doctors, and vaccine manufacturers to voluntarily report symptoms that occur after vaccination. That’s a weakness for establishing cause and effect, but it’s a strength for gauging people’s attitudes about their experience, David Asch, lead author of the new paper, told STAT.
“It’s probably a better measure of how motivated people are to report. And that was really what we were trying to study,” he said. “The anti-vaccine movement might have started out along libertarian lines like, ‘Let’s not have compulsory vaccination,’ but it gradually moved into thinking that either the vaccines weren’t effective or that they were unsafe. And so we wanted to look at whether people were reporting safety concerns.”
In the study, the authors also looked at flu vaccination reports to see if certain states had greater tendencies to report related to political affiliations. They found no link there, which fits with greater acceptance of flu shots than Covid vaccinations, Topol said.
“That’s telling because we’ve never seen the flu engender political divides like this,” Topol said. “Partisan use of the flu shots has not really been part of all the anti-vaccine efforts.”
Asked what can be learned from his research, Asch replied with what he called less of a lesson and more of a lament.
“I wish we could find some way to just take this out of the dark side of political polarization, because it’s not serving anybody,” he said. “To the extent that some groups may be aligning themselves with, let’s say, an anti-vaccine approach, [that] puts those individuals at risk and actually puts the people who live around them at risk.”
Elizabeth Cooney
Reporter, Morning Rounds Writer
Elizabeth Cooney is a health and science reporter and author of the Morning Rounds newsletter. She also writes about cancer care and research, the enduring mystery of long Covid, and the scientific connection between physical activity and health.
elizabeth.cooney@statnews.com
People in Republican-voting states were more likely to report adverse events after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination than people living in Democratic-leaning states, a new analysis finds, suggesting that how people view their post-vaccine side effects or decide whether to report them may be shaped by their political views.
The cross-sectional study, published Friday in JAMA Network Open, looked at more than 620,000 entries in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System from 2020 through 2022 and found that a 10% increase in ballots cast for a Republican in the last presidential election was associated with a 5% increase in the odds that an adverse event after Covid vaccination would be reported, a 25% increase in odds that a severe adverse event would be reported, and a 21% increase in the odds that any reported adverse event would be severe.
“It’s all part of this incredible polarization that’s politically charged,” Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, told STAT. He was not involved in the study. “The fact that they’re reporting a significant increase in states that are Republican is just consistent with everything we’ve seen in the pandemic.”
In the grim calculus of Covid-19 deaths, there is already a well known red-blue state divide among Americans. More people died in states where more voters registered as Republicans, voted that way, and elected members of the Republican party. Counties in Donald Trump’s column in 2020 were much less likely to get Covid vaccinations than counties that voted for President Biden.
VAERS is a surveillance system created by the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that allows patients, doctors, and vaccine manufacturers to voluntarily report symptoms that occur after vaccination. That’s a weakness for establishing cause and effect, but it’s a strength for gauging people’s attitudes about their experience, David Asch, lead author of the new paper, told STAT.
“It’s probably a better measure of how motivated people are to report. And that was really what we were trying to study,” he said. “The anti-vaccine movement might have started out along libertarian lines like, ‘Let’s not have compulsory vaccination,’ but it gradually moved into thinking that either the vaccines weren’t effective or that they were unsafe. And so we wanted to look at whether people were reporting safety concerns.”
In the study, the authors also looked at flu vaccination reports to see if certain states had greater tendencies to report related to political affiliations. They found no link there, which fits with greater acceptance of flu shots than Covid vaccinations, Topol said.
“That’s telling because we’ve never seen the flu engender political divides like this,” Topol said. “Partisan use of the flu shots has not really been part of all the anti-vaccine efforts.”
Asked what can be learned from his research, Asch replied with what he called less of a lesson and more of a lament.
“I wish we could find some way to just take this out of the dark side of political polarization, because it’s not serving anybody,” he said. “To the extent that some groups may be aligning themselves with, let’s say, an anti-vaccine approach, [that] puts those individuals at risk and actually puts the people who live around them at risk.”
Elizabeth Cooney
Reporter, Morning Rounds Writer
Elizabeth Cooney is a health and science reporter and author of the Morning Rounds newsletter. She also writes about cancer care and research, the enduring mystery of long Covid, and the scientific connection between physical activity and health.
elizabeth.cooney@statnews.com
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From AxiosAm today:
" Anti-racism protections — for white people
If Donald Trump returns to the White House, close allies want to dramatically change the government's interpretation of Civil Rights-era laws to focus on "anti-white racism" rather than discrimination against people of color.
Why it matters: Trump's Justice Department would push to eliminate or upend programs in government and corporate America that are designed to counter racism that has favored whites, Axios' Alex Thompson reports.
Targets would range from decades-old policies aimed at giving minorities economic opportunities, to more recent programs that began in response to the pandemic and the killing of George Floyd.
The Trump campaign's Steven Cheung told Axios: "Joe Biden has continued to push unlawful civil rights abuses ... As President Trump has said, all staff, offices, and initiatives connected to Biden's un-American policy will be immediately terminated."
Longtime aides and allies preparing for a potential second Trump administration have been laying legal groundwork with a flurry of lawsuits and legal complaints — some of which have been successful.
A central vehicle for the effort has been America First Legal, founded by former Trump aide Stephen Miller, who has called the group conservatives' "long-awaited answer to the ACLU."
America First cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a lawsuit against CBS for what it argued was discrimination against a white, straight man who was a writer for the show "Seal Team" in 2017.
In February, the group filed a civil rights complaint against the NFL over its "Rooney Rule," which requires teams to interview at least two minority candidates for vacant general manager, head coach and coordinator positions.
In 2021, Miller's group successfully sued to block implementation of a $29 billion pandemic-era program for women- and minority-owned restaurants.
Zoom in: Other Trump-aligned groups are preparing for a future Trump Justice Department to implement, or challenge, policies on a broader scale.
The Heritage Foundation's well-funded "Project 2025" envisions a second Trump administration ending what it calls "affirmative discrimination."
Such groups have gained momentum with the Supreme Court's turn to the right — most notably its recent rejection of affirmative action in college admissions."
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Rach3:
As President Lyndon Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, ‘You are free to compete with all the others.’” Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said, “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him.”
" Anti-racism protections — for white people
If Donald Trump returns to the White House, close allies want to dramatically change the government's interpretation of Civil Rights-era laws to focus on "anti-white racism" rather than discrimination against people of color.
Why it matters: Trump's Justice Department would push to eliminate or upend programs in government and corporate America that are designed to counter racism that has favored whites, Axios' Alex Thompson reports.
Targets would range from decades-old policies aimed at giving minorities economic opportunities, to more recent programs that began in response to the pandemic and the killing of George Floyd.
The Trump campaign's Steven Cheung told Axios: "Joe Biden has continued to push unlawful civil rights abuses ... As President Trump has said, all staff, offices, and initiatives connected to Biden's un-American policy will be immediately terminated."
Longtime aides and allies preparing for a potential second Trump administration have been laying legal groundwork with a flurry of lawsuits and legal complaints — some of which have been successful.
A central vehicle for the effort has been America First Legal, founded by former Trump aide Stephen Miller, who has called the group conservatives' "long-awaited answer to the ACLU."
America First cited the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in a lawsuit against CBS for what it argued was discrimination against a white, straight man who was a writer for the show "Seal Team" in 2017.
In February, the group filed a civil rights complaint against the NFL over its "Rooney Rule," which requires teams to interview at least two minority candidates for vacant general manager, head coach and coordinator positions.
In 2021, Miller's group successfully sued to block implementation of a $29 billion pandemic-era program for women- and minority-owned restaurants.
Zoom in: Other Trump-aligned groups are preparing for a future Trump Justice Department to implement, or challenge, policies on a broader scale.The Heritage Foundation's well-funded "Project 2025" envisions a second Trump administration ending what it calls "affirmative discrimination."
Such groups have gained momentum with the Supreme Court's turn to the right — most notably its recent rejection of affirmative action in college admissions."
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Rach3:
As President Lyndon Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains, liberate him, bring him to the starting line of a race, saying, ‘You are free to compete with all the others.’” Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said, “A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him.”
Re: TrumpReich in action
From AxiosAm today, in part:
"Diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, was the hot thing in corporate America a few years ago. Now: not so much, Emily writes.
Why it matters: The business community, long averse to political risks or controversies, backed away from DEI programs over the past two years in the wake of widespread attacks from lawmakers, high-profile rich guys, and conservative activists like former Trump adviser Stephen Miller....
What they're saying: "We know what these folks really want to say when they say 'DEI mayor,' " Mayor Scott told The Baltimore Banner in response to the comments. "Whether it is DEI or clown. They really want to say the N-word."...
"[L]et's not lie to ourselves. The vicious attacks against DEI are not being made in good faith," writes Bloomberg Opinion's Sarah Green Carmichael. "They're based in racism."
"Diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, was the hot thing in corporate America a few years ago. Now: not so much, Emily writes.
Why it matters: The business community, long averse to political risks or controversies, backed away from DEI programs over the past two years in the wake of widespread attacks from lawmakers, high-profile rich guys, and conservative activists like former Trump adviser Stephen Miller....
What they're saying: "We know what these folks really want to say when they say 'DEI mayor,' " Mayor Scott told The Baltimore Banner in response to the comments. "Whether it is DEI or clown. They really want to say the N-word."...
"[L]et's not lie to ourselves. The vicious attacks against DEI are not being made in good faith," writes Bloomberg Opinion's Sarah Green Carmichael. "They're based in racism."
Re: TrumpReich in action
Two from Iowa Capital Dispatch today:
Let them eat cake,I guess:
"Congress passed legislation to get food to children from low-income homes over the summer break. Nearly half of Republican-led states are yet to join the program."
RNC hires wack-jobs to intimidate voters:
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/04 ... tch-polls/
Let them eat cake,I guess:
"Congress passed legislation to get food to children from low-income homes over the summer break. Nearly half of Republican-led states are yet to join the program."
RNC hires wack-jobs to intimidate voters:
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/04 ... tch-polls/
Re: TrumpReich in action
From Axios today, the Confederates rise again:
"The UAW on Thursday secured a federally sanctioned unionization vote for workers at the 6,100-person Mercedes-Benz factory in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
Pharmacists at multiple CVS stores are moving to join a new union as part of a growing backlash to what they say are unsafe work conditions, Axios' Maya Goldman reports.
The Actors' Equity Association is seeking a vote to organize the 1,700 live performers at Disneyland after more than two-thirds signed union authorization cards.
The big picture: The new unionization efforts follow similar campaigns at a slew of other major employers that had previously not been unionized, including Starbucks and Amazon.
Reality check: Opponents are lining up.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey — along with the governors of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — issued a statement on Tuesday bashing the UAW campaign to organize plants in their states."
(Rach3: And the workers in those plants vote for Trump.)
"The UAW on Thursday secured a federally sanctioned unionization vote for workers at the 6,100-person Mercedes-Benz factory in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
Pharmacists at multiple CVS stores are moving to join a new union as part of a growing backlash to what they say are unsafe work conditions, Axios' Maya Goldman reports.
The Actors' Equity Association is seeking a vote to organize the 1,700 live performers at Disneyland after more than two-thirds signed union authorization cards.
The big picture: The new unionization efforts follow similar campaigns at a slew of other major employers that had previously not been unionized, including Starbucks and Amazon.
Reality check: Opponents are lining up.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey — along with the governors of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas — issued a statement on Tuesday bashing the UAW campaign to organize plants in their states."
(Rach3: And the workers in those plants vote for Trump.)
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