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nivek

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Cheney has severe TDS and should seek help, she is unfit to hold office...

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Liz Cheney unveils PAC to try to stop MAGA candidates reaching office and names Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley as targets because 2020 election claims 'made them unfit for future office'

  • Liz Cheney on Tuesday lost her House seat to a staunchly pro-Trump rival, and has since filed with the Federal Election Commission to launch a new PAC
  • The political-action committee will use the estimated $7 million remaining from her campaign to take on Republicans she feels are bad for democracy
  • Cheney on Sunday singled out Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri as possible early targets
  • She also said Ron DeSantis deserved censure for backing election fraud claims, and said Kevin McCarthy was not fit to be House speaker
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Standingstones

Celestial
Cheney has severe TDS and should seek help, she is unfit to hold office...

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Liz Cheney unveils PAC to try to stop MAGA candidates reaching office and names Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley as targets because 2020 election claims 'made them unfit for future office'

  • Liz Cheney on Tuesday lost her House seat to a staunchly pro-Trump rival, and has since filed with the Federal Election Commission to launch a new PAC
  • The political-action committee will use the estimated $7 million remaining from her campaign to take on Republicans she feels are bad for democracy
  • Cheney on Sunday singled out Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri as possible early targets
  • She also said Ron DeSantis deserved censure for backing election fraud claims, and said Kevin McCarthy was not fit to be House speaker
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She’s got her work cut out.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
For the past few years all a politician has had to do is bash trump and they call it a job well done. Pandering to the media, the instant news cycle and accomplishing nothing. I'd like to hear from someone who has a real plan for border security and energy production. Right now abortion and Woke rights and pronouns are not what has my underwear in a knot. Basically, how about somebody that'll actually DO something useful.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
She’s got her work cut out.
Agreed

'unfit for office' is a phrase I associated with William Barr - heard him say that about DT several times. Not normally my taste but I may pick this up
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AlienView

Noble

‘Mr. Trump Went Through The Boxes Himself’​

239,175 views Aug 22, 2022 MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell reports on the breaking news from The New York Times that former President Donald Trump had over 300 documents at Mar-a-Lago and that he personally went through the boxes himself in 2021.


View: https://youtu.be/lPM4RvEmKlE
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable

‘Mr. Trump Went Through The Boxes Himself’​

239,175 views Aug 22, 2022 MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell reports on the breaking news from The New York Times that former President Donald Trump had over 300 documents at Mar-a-Lago and that he personally went through the boxes himself in 2021.


View: https://youtu.be/lPM4RvEmKlE

only made it through he first minute. what was the NY Times' source for this ?
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I thought so. unnamed sources. Typical. Now they're going through security video to see if they can catch Trump gloating evilly over these documents. I have no idea whether he committed a crime or not - if he did then name it and spit it out. I do know that there is such a visceral hatred for the man that virtually anything that bashes this man will be accepted as fact without any critical thinking whatsoever.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/trump-mar-a-lago-documents.html
 

Standingstones

Celestial
Agreed

'unfit for office' is a phrase I associated with William Barr - heard him say that about DT several times. Not normally my taste but I may pick this up
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Have you ever noticed that sometimes you can just look at a politician and know that he or she is a liar and a fraud. Barr falls into that category for me as well as Lindsey Graham. He has waffled so many times over Trump. Which ever way the wind blows at the moment, that is how he stands.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Have you ever noticed that sometimes you can just look at a politician and know that he or she is a liar and a fraud. Barr falls into that category for me as well as Lindsey Graham. He has waffled so many times over Trump. Which ever way the wind blows at the moment, that is how he stands.
I hear you but can’t judge a book by it’s cover. Politicians are mostly all windsocks that’ll say anything without shame. As for Barr, he speaks cogently in the few interviews I’ve heard and am mildly interested in his book but dunno if I want to crap up my leisure time with politics.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
If politicians worried more about their constituents and less about staying in power we would be so far ahead. Unfortunately the voters and politicians worry about things that matter so little. We the voters have allowed such nonsense to happen. End of rant.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
How does everyone feel about eliminating physical cash and going strictly to credit and debit cards? This scares me to a certain degree. If those card don’t work for some reason, you are SOL. My nephew the doctor carries zero cash. He lives and dies with his plastic cards.

Perhaps even worse, having a chip implanted in your body. I should be in the ground before that happens.
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
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Mandela Barnes at pride fest yesterday.
Kate got to meet him and shook hands with him. She told him "hi ho hi ho Ron Johnson got to go!" Strange I raised my kids in conservative values and she will vote for a liberal Democrat..
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
How does everyone feel about eliminating physical cash and going strictly to credit and debit cards? This scares me to a certain degree. If those card don’t work for some reason, you are SOL. My nephew the doctor carries zero cash. He lives and dies with his plastic cards.

Perhaps even worse, having a chip implanted in your body. I should be in the ground before that happens.

I pulled a dollar bill out of my wallet yesterday to use in a vending machine and realized that I have no idea how much cash I actually have or how long it's been rotting in there. I rarely carry more that fifty bucks anyway, instead have been using one credit card exclusively to garner reward points, which are useful. I already made the leap a few years ago and hadn't really noticed it.

If you let money deteriorate in your pocket does that constitute spindling ?

Coins are even worse, the few we collect goes in a jug labelled 'corvette fund'. Only place I can think of you need a quarter anymore is one of the local supermarkets that requires one to unlock a shopping basket. You get it back when you put the basket back. No more pay phones, right ? Go find one and if you do, see if it works. They fell by the wayside some time ago.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
It’s crazy how things have changed over the past 30 years or so. My parents never had a credit card until the bitter end. My sister-in-law has a card for every store she’s ever visited. My wife has quarters because she shops at Aldis. As far as a pay phone goes, the only pay phone I could think of in Harrisburg PA was in front of the Verizon building downtown. I don’t know if that is even functioning these days.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
It’s crazy how things have changed over the past 30 years or so. My parents never had a credit card until the bitter end. My sister-in-law has a card for every store she’s ever visited. My wife has quarters because she shops at Aldis. As far as a pay phone goes, the only pay phone I could think of in Harrisburg PA was in front of the Verizon building downtown. I don’t know if that is even functioning these days.
 

nivek

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Student loan handout: Even liberal CNN, MSNBC, NBC point out critical flaws in Biden’s plan

Even left-leaning media outlets are pointing out critical flaws of President Biden’s student loan handout plan, with MSNBC, CNN, ABC and NBC noting that the massive payout will likely increase taxes, primarily benefit the wealthy, and ramp up inflation.

On Wednesday, Biden announced he will cancel $10,000 in federal student loans for certain borrowers making under $125,000 a year. That number gets bumped up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. Furthermore, the plan will also extend the student loan moratorium until the end of the year.

After a string of policy wins for the Biden administration that saw the liberal media celebrating, the administration’s latest move to pay off nearly $300 billion in debt received far less enthusiasm. Progressive and liberal Democrats, as well as Republicans, all scrutinized the move for a variety of different reasons, with networks echoing those concerns.


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nivek

As Above So Below

Ex-Obama adviser Jason Furman rips Biden's student loan handout as ‘inflationary,’ ‘reckless’ overreach

Former Barack Obama economic adviser Jason Furman went on a lengthy Twitter rant on Wednesday afternoon ripping President Biden’s student loan handout as "inflationary," "reckless," and government overreach.

"Pouring roughly half trillion dollars of gasoline on the inflationary fire that is already burning is reckless," tweeted Furman, who served as chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Obama-Biden administration. "Doing it while going well beyond one campaign promise ($10K of student loan relief) and breaking another (all proposals paid for) is even worse."


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