SaintsInDome2006

I’m curious how someone with a supposed business degree doesn’t know how math works.

Here we go again. EDVA USA (acting) Halligan is presenting evidence to a grand jury despite her own office declining charges…. Per MSNBC.

Lol this is great, can we get this back? Also anything with Erika Kirk is fine with me.

This is why you don't give the iPhone to Grandpa. This is going to be very useful in Comey’s motion to dismiss & if that’s successful his future lawsuit for damages for malicious prosecution.

I’m a lot more pissed about this than antifa.

+++++++ >>Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands. Their plans to centralize more power in the Oval Office stretch far beyond the former president’s recent remarks that he would order a criminal investigation into his political rival, President Biden, signaling his intent to end the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence from White House political control. Mr. Trump and his associates have a broader goal: to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House, according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews with people close to him. Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control. He wants to revive the practice of “impounding” funds, refusing to spend money Congress has appropriated for programs a president doesn’t like — a tactic that lawmakers banned under President Richard Nixon. He intends to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to his agenda. And he plans to scour the intelligence agencies, the State Department and the defense bureaucracies to remove officials he has vilified as “the sick political class that hates our country.”<< ++++++* 7/17/23 - This was quite spot on.

>> Building on the antifa executive order, which already targets a broad range of political speech, NSPM-7 directs federal agencies to prioritize investigations of a swath of identities and ideologies that it depicts as falling under “the umbrella of self-described ‘anti-fascism.’” These include “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.” This breathtakingly broad list easily encompasses everyone from labor organizers, socialists, many libertarians, those who criticize Christianity, pro-immigration groups, anti-ICE protestors, and racial justice and transgender activists, to anyone who holds views that the administration considers to be “anti-American.” Under NSPM-7, the antifascist label can be attached to any of these types of people and groups and many more besides, giving the government maximum flexibility to pick and choose its targets.<< Brennan Center

A Democrat has won in Republican stronghold Fairbanks Alaska.

Trump: “We took the freedom of speech away…”

Posobiec is pretty well followed among maga & he raised the claim that antifa goes back to the Weimar Republic where they opposed Nazis. Which, yaknow, to him, is bad. - I don’t agree with the premise they’re the same thing but if like Posobiec says (if) they were then that certainly wouldn’t make them “bad”. Posobiec comparing antifa to Weimar era opposition to the actual Nazis.

Police are responsible for thugs. Words have meanings. So yes I can distinguish 40 year old terrorist organizations with global reach & religious & ideological underpinnings responsible for murdering thousands, torturing & maiming thousands more, & who have struck down our skyscrapers, against whom our country has expended souls, blood and trillions in treasure fighting actual wars, and disparate shitposters & cosplayers who bang drums & on their absolute worst days throw molatov cocktails & set cars & couches on fire because they’re protesting god knows whatever they’re outraged about that day.

You mean on TV? Sure. Just not in my town.

Antifa is the same as Al Qaeds & ISIS, y’all.

This all happened after Netanyahu/ Israel attacked Qatar. Netanyahu personally apologized while Trump watched. This has all happened quickly after that. Qatar is calling all the shots.

I’m just stating a fact, I’ve never seen an antifa sign, I’ve never met an antifa person, I’ve never seen an antifa protest. My town doesn’t do protests. We had a similar situation to what happened with Charlottesville where opposing groups marched to the Robert E. Lee statue. It was fine, also there was a good deal of alcohol served on both sides. Antifa exists, but practically anyone can be described as they for any reason so long as the administration decides to do so.

100 proof but ok.

>>Today the White House tried harder than ever to push the idea that the country is consumed by violence from the “Radical Left.” This afternoon a press release from the White House claimed that “[f]or years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property—yet the Fake News remains in shameful denial about the Radical Left’s reign of terror.” In fact, before Trump ordered troops into the city, federal agents described the small protests at the ICE facility as “low energy,” consisting of people standing in front of vehicles, raising a middle finger, and playing loud music. To push the administration’s narrative, Trump held an “Antifa Roundtable” at the White House this afternoon. There, far-right influencers tried to make the case that “antifa” is real and has harassed them, although as The Guardian noted, many of those influencers feed their media channels by confronting protesters and filming the responses they’ve provoked. The press release claimed that “terrorists” have “laid siege” to the ICE office in Portland, Oregon, and at the meeting, Trump claimed that “paid anarchists” want to “destroy our country.” Bizarrely, he claimed that “I don’t know what could be worse than Portland. You don’t even have stores anymore. They don’t even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows.” Antifa is a term used by the far right to define anyone who does not support MAGA: it means “antifascist.” During the meeting, influencer Jack Posobiec—a proponent of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory—warned that “Antifa” went back all the way to Germany’s Weimar Republic. As Holly Baxter of The Independent pointed out, “it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis.”<< Heather Cox Richardson.

It’s in this public court filing.

THE VIRAL MAGA ACCOUNTS RUN BY A MAN WHO HAS NEVER BEEN TO AMERICA The right loves the accounts, which often rail against supposed voter fraud. They’re run by a Macedonian who illegally donated to a U.S. House candidate It’s been used as a reference here before (example). >> A pair of pro-MAGA social media accounts promoted by prominent Republican politicians and that push election fraud conspiracy theories in the United States has been exposed as being run by an Eastern European man who has never visited the United States, and was accused of violating campaign finance laws. According to Rolling Stone, the X accounts Defiant L's and Resist the Mainstream "both [offer] takes on American politics, often alleging corruption and election fraud by Democrats, to a combined over 2 million followers. Republican lawmakers like Mike Lee, Nancy Mace, Andy Biggs, Eli Crane, and Dan Crenshaw, along with major political figures like Elon Musk, share the accounts’ posts on X, some claiming that 'illegals' or undocumented immigrants are fraudulently voting in American elections." Musk went so far as to call Defiant L's "one of the best accounts on X." But it turns out both of those accounts are run by a North Macedonian national named Rumen Naumovski, through a media company registered in Florida.<<

>>Trump needs a reason to escalate his takeover of blue states and cities. If he can provoke confrontation between civilians and the military — perhaps one where there is open gunfire or anything that he can use to claim that our military is under attack or in harm’s way — he can then justify arbitrarily designating Americans as military targets. We are already seeing this with his executive order declaring Antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” (this is not a real thing). Now take another look at the Hegseth tweet I screenshotted above. Notice how he states that they struck people of a “Designated Terrorist Organization” (again, not a real thing)…but he doesn’t say which organization. This is a move to begin conflating ordinary crime, and even ideological beliefs, with “terrorism,” and then using the “terrorist” label as an excuse to use military force.<< Rangappa.

Hamas survives, Israel leaves Gaza, hostages to be released 9 months after first cease fire deal. Trump going to Egypt to report to the Qataris. Congratulations, everybody.

A mere attempt at friendly humor there. Carry on.

Yes, it was rough. We lost a lot of good bottles that year.

Is Auntie Tifa in the room with you right now? I’m having a Sazerac in the Quarter & I’m happy to report I’ve never seen Antifa anything.

Jesus, I hope the beer survived.