Displaying 331 To 360 Of 1,008 Comments I don’t find anything about the House Ethics Committee even addressing the issue. » Posted By TOCB On August 4, 2020 @ 7:40 am I have often said that quite a few white people in the USA have always fought to bring about equality for all people. Most of them were never famous. They just went about their lives doing the right things. My Irish great-great grandfather was such a person. I was raised in the Christian faith. However, I have always questioned, especially the Old Testament, and I have never understood how white Christians could treat humans the way they treated non-white humans. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-theological-roots-of-white-supremacy/ar-BB17tATK?ocid=msedgntp » Posted By TOCB On August 2, 2020 @ 12:07 pm Hopefully, we can fix the things trump and his merry band of idiots have sabotaged, after we take the government back, and Lt. Col. Vindman, among others, will benefit for the FIXING. » Posted By TOCB On August 2, 2020 @ 12:00 pm I WISH some House Democrat would tell Jordan to shut his dumb arse up. He says things with such force, conviction and IGNORANCE. » Posted By TOCB On August 2, 2020 @ 11:58 am We cannot prevent foreigners or Americans from spreading disinformation or misinformation about candidates. It is up to voters to “know” the people they choose to represent them in our government. The four major threats to our election process are traditionally ignorance, apathy (which is akin to ignorance), tampering with ballots and voter suppression. Add to that list this cycle, COVID-19. It doesn’t matter what trump says in this cycle, because no one but his core supporters believe him, and most of his core supporters probably don’t even believe him. As for Biden, probably most of those who will cast a vote for him are not voting for him, but rather they are voting against trump. This is one of those elections I call a “Donald Duck” election, meaning that if Donald Duck were on the ballot as the opponent to a candidate, Donald Duck would win. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, a key Trump ally and chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, denied having accepted any damaging materials on Biden from foreign nationals even after at least one Ukranian national, Oleksandr Onyshchenko, told The Washington Post he had shared tapes and transcripts with Johnson’s committee and Trump ally Rudy Giuliani. House Democrats announced Friday they have subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for documents he turned over to Johnson’s panel. “It does a disservice to our election security efforts when Democrats use the threat of Russian disinformation as a weapon to cast doubt on investigations they don’t like,” Johnson spokesperson Austin Altenburg said. The 2020 campaigns and party committees have been receiving regular briefings from the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, whose director, Bill Evanina, released a rare public statement last week confirming Russia’s continued work to meddle in the U.S. election. Evanina said that Russia, as part of an effort to weaken the U.S. and its global standing, has been spreading disinformation to undermine confidence in American democracy and “to denigrate what it sees as an anti-Russia ‘establishment’ in America.” The threat is not limited to Russia. China, a target of escalating condemnation across the Trump administration in recent weeks, has been looking for ways to affect American policy, counter criticism of Beijing and pressure political figures it views as opposed to Chinese interests, Evanina said, while Iran has been involved in circulating disinformation and anti-American content online. » Posted By TOCB On August 1, 2020 @ 5:18 am Right on, Brother!!! » Posted By TOCB On July 31, 2020 @ 4:24 pm This is what President Obama’s eulogy of John Lewis reminded of.
The only that was missing was Bernie Mac to back him up.
» Posted By TOCB On July 31, 2020 @ 4:09 pm John Lewis was one of the best. The good news is that he was ONE of the best, but not the ONLY ONE. There were at least hundreds of thousands of others. Those who marched with MLK and even all over the country when MLK was not present. Some did so peaceably and some did it violently. I heard President Clinton say yesterday that the movement almost went with Stokely Carmichael, but luckily most went with MLK. But it has been said that it took both MLK AND Malcom X to get us even from Brown v. Board to 1964 and through the 1970s. From the 1980s until the murder of Michael Brown and the Black Lives Matter Movement the nation was lulled into a state of passivity on racial injustice. However, Michael Brown’s death resulted in a new awakening, and now George Floyd has expanded it to include ALL ethnicities. John was one of the best, and now it is up to the rest. » Posted By TOCB On July 31, 2020 @ 3:53 pm Of course, everything you are anticipating trump and republicans will do to disrupt the voting process, is illegal. Not that it matters to them. They know the only way they cam give the appearance of winning is to cheat. I agree that completing an absentee ballot or a mail-in ballot and personally delivering it to the appropriate place is probably both the safest way to vote, as well as the best way to ensure your vote is counted as you voted. I heard a discussion on The Morning Joe Show today that trump MIGHT resign as a strategy to protect his “brand” after he leaves the White House. The idea is that if he resigns rather than have a huge defeat in the election, it would not be as damaging to his brand, and that is what he is more concerned about. Personally, I think that is far from what trump is thinking, because he knows that when he is no longer president there is a good chance he will end up in jail. Therefore, he will pull no stops in doing whatever it takes to stay in power. » Posted By TOCB On July 31, 2020 @ 3:32 pm I have to admit it really saddens me that people actually think like trump supporters do. I try to allow everyone their freewill distortions, not that it is up to me to allow anything, but I am of the orientation to love everyone regardless of what their orientation is. It VERY difficult to do that with people who think like that. I am still able to love them anyway though. My understanding is that when you love them, it actually reduces the effects of their negative orientation. » Posted By TOCB On July 31, 2020 @ 3:18 pm Remember when the United States government had real leaders? » Posted By TOCB On July 31, 2020 @ 6:10 am AMENDMENT I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The Fourteenth Amendment extended the right of peaceful assembly to the states. Trump says that the federal government has the power to arrest and apparently attack people who are attempting to destroy federal property.
It doesn’t appear to me that this Navy veteran is attempting to destroy federal property. So trump and his stormtroopers are violating the Constitution by denying people to peacefully protest EVEN ON FEDERAL PROPERTY. When those stormtroopers leave federal property to pursue peaceful protesters, or even nonpeaceful protesters on state property without the state requesting assistance from the federal government, that is another violation of the law. The aggressive incursion of federal officers into Portland has been stretching the legal limits of federal law enforcement, as agents with batons and riot gear range deep into the streets of a city whose leadership has made it clear they are not welcome. Robert Tsai, a professor at the Washington College of Law at American University, said the nation’s founders explicitly left local policing within the jurisdiction of local authorities. He questioned whether the federal agents had the right to extend their operations blocks away from the buildings they are protecting. “If the federal troops are starting to wander the streets, they appear to be crossing the line into general policing, which is outside their powers,” Professor Tsai said. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/25/us/portland-federal-legal-jurisdiction-courts.html » Posted By TOCB On July 31, 2020 @ 6:05 am Nope, it did not make me smile. The only people who will “get it” are those who already know about trump’s utter failures. His supporters will say it is based on fake news. » Posted By TOCB On July 31, 2020 @ 5:38 am This can’t end well for trump. A presidential candidate says, “…but nobody likes me. It could only be my personality”. So, is trump saying that his supporters, people who like him, are nobody? I wonder how does that make his supporters feel, to be called “nobody”.
» Posted By TOCB On July 29, 2020 @ 9:21 am Trump’s supporters call this, “superb leadership”. » Posted By TOCB On July 28, 2020 @ 11:36 am Tom Cotton says slavery was a necessary evil and that the 1619 Project, that seeks to tell the true history of America, slavery and black people, is propaganda. I wonder if Senator Cotton also thinks that Jim Crow and systemic racism were/are necessary evils? Perhaps what the good senator reflects is that willful ignorance is an unnecessary evil. I grew up with Jim Crow and knew him well. After Jim Crow was killed in 1964 with the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, Jim Crow, Esq. took his place, and remains in place even today. Yes, in spite of a president who openly acknowledged he is black. Is this a necessary evil, Senator Cotton? https://www.americanradicalmovements.com/ch-two-african-americans.html Justifying these laws and customs and the assiduous terrorism which enforced them, whites vilified African Americans much as Nazis demonized Jews, constantly using the imagery of vermin, disease, infection, viruses, toxicity, and filth. One white woman told a Northern visitor: “If anything would make me kill my children, it would be the possibility that niggers might sometime eat at the same table and associate with them as equals. That’s the way we feel about it, and you might as well root up that big tree in front of the house and stand it the other way up and expect it to grow as to think we can feel any different.” Vardaman, in his usual inimitable way, said that he would gladly countenance the extermination of “every Ethiop of the earth to preserve unsullied the honor of one Caucasian home.” Admitting that this would kill the good as well as the bad, Vardaman admonished his listeners that “the good are few, the bad are many, and it is impossible to tell what ones are… dangerous to the honor of the dominant race until the damage is done…. We do not stop when we see a wolf to find it if will kill sheep before disposing of it.”[33] The result was continual insult, humiliation, and degradation for blacks, who could never forget their inferior status. As activist and writer Pauli Murray remembered, “We came to know that whatever we had was always inferior. We came to understand that no matter how neat and clean, how law abiding, submissive and polite, how studious in school, how churchgoing and moral, how scrupulous in paying our bills and taxes we were, it made no essential difference in our place.”[34] Many streetcar conductors, ticket agents, elevator operators, clerks, and other (themselves lowly) personnel took sadistic delight in humiliating blacks who inadvertently stepped over the line–a line that was differently drawn depending on time, place, and the mood of the officiating white. In 1904 in Alabama, a black woman sat in the wrong section of a streetcar; the conductor rudely exclaimed that “niggers don’t sit with white folks down here.” White passengers sneered at the hapless woman and applauded the conductor. The woman later wrote: Not one of them thought that I was embarrassed, wounded and outraged by the loud, brutal talk of the conductor and the sneering, contemptuous expressions on their own faces…. I have been humiliated often, but I never get used to it; it is new each time, and stings and hurts more and more…. I dread to see my children grow. I know not their fate…. It does not matter how good or wise my children may be, they are colored.[35] Blacks were also segregated in separate neighborhoods, especially in newly built cities or the expanding sections of older urban areas. As a North Carolina white said, “In this white man’s town when an African proposed to ‘move into’ a white section, he was given to understand that it wouldn’t do. And if he had moved in he would have moved out a great deal quicker–and a pile of ashes would have marked the house. That is what the White Man will do, law or no law, and that is understood.” Black neighborhoods were often in death-trap lowland areas, and were denied the elementary city services provided for whites; this contributed to the extraordinary death rate among blacks.[36] Although Jim Crow ostensibly separated the races and preserved whites from the contamination of blacks, whites and blacks actually mingled with the greatest possible intimacy throughout the South. White children suckled at the breasts of black women, who often raised white children as well as nursing them. Blacks also performed much of the cooking and serving of food, and washing of clothes, for white families throughout the South. Jim Crow enforced subordination, not separation. As a black South Carolina newspaper said (1889), “the blackest hands can cook the food for prejudiced throats; the blackest, dirtiest arms can hold the whitest, cleanest baby; the blackest, most illiterate man can sit on the same seat, even with a lady, as driver; but the angry passions rise when a well-dressed, educated, refined negro pays his own fare and seats himself quietly in a public conveyance.” A house servant in Georgia agreed: “everything was all right, so long as I was in the white man’s part of the street car or in the white man’s coach as a servant–a slave–but as soon as I did not present myself as a menial, and the relationship of master and servant was abolished by my not having the white children with me, I would be forthwith assigned to the ‘nigger’ seats of the ‘colored people’s coach.'” Parks which otherwise banned blacks did allow Negro servants. A white Episcopal minister in Louisiana aptly summed up the intent and impact of Jim Crow: “The black nurse with a white baby in her arms, the black valet looking after the comfort of the white invalid have the label of their inferiority conspicuously upon them; they understand themselves, everybody understands them, to be servants, enjoying certain privileges for the sake of the person served. Almost anything the Negro may do in the South, and anywhere he may go, provided the manner of his doing and going is that of an inferior. Such is the premium put upon his inferiority; such his inducement to maintain it.” » Posted By TOCB On July 27, 2020 @ 9:44 am It is also very difficult to find anything about The Brookings Institute on Google, except the claims republicans make about them. Again, you have to go to Bing to find what The Brookings Institute actually does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution The Brookings Institution, often referred to simply as Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916 on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C.[2] It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.[3][4] Its stated mission is to “provide innovative and practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans; and secure a more open, safe, prosperous, and cooperative international system.”[2] Brookings has five research programs at its Washington, D.C. campus (Economic Studies,[5] Foreign Policy,[6] Governance Studies,[7] Global Economy and Development,[8] and Metropolitan Policy)[9] and three international centers based in Doha, Qatar (Brookings Doha Center);[10] Beijing, China (Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy);[11] and New Delhi, India (Brookings India).[12] The University of Pennsylvania’s Global Go To Think Tank Index Report has named Brookings “Think Tank of the Year” and “Top Think Tank in the World” every year since 2008.[13] The Economist describes Brookings as “perhaps America’s most prestigious think-tank.”[14] Brookings states that its staff “represent diverse points of view” and describes itself as non-partisan,[15] and various media outlets have alternately described Brookings as “conservative”,[16] “centrist”,[17] or “liberal”.[18] An academic analysis of Congressional records from 1993 to 2002 found that Brookings was referred to by conservative politicians almost as frequently as liberal politicians, earning a score of 53 on a 1–100 scale with 100 representing the most liberal score.[19] The same study found Brookings to be the most frequently cited think tank by the U.S. media and politicians.[19] » Posted By TOCB On July 27, 2020 @ 6:27 am At a time when Democrats are asking Congress to pass voting rights legislation to honor the legacy of Congressman John Lewis, republicans in Congress introduced a resolution to ban the Democratic Party for supporting slavery and the KKK. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) introduced a House resolution Thursday calling on lawmakers to ban organizations or political groups that have historically supported the Confederacy or slavery in the U.S., a list he said includes the Democratic Party. “A great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred. Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party’s loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn’t so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the Ku Klux Klan,” Gohmert said in a statement. The resolution is co-sponsored by GOP Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Jody Hice (Ga.), Randy Weber (Texas) and Andy Harris (Md.) The republican resolution does not mention the FACT that the party that NOW supports white supremacy is the republican party; the party that is resisting taking down statues of Confederate soldiers is the republican party. Btw, Gohmert represents my home state of Texas, but Randy Weber represents my U.S. congressional district, so you might imagine how offensive this is to me.
Btw, the Steele Dossier was initially funded by the conservative organization, The Free Beacon, which was a supporter of Marco Rubio’s presidential bid. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, first hired the research firm that months later produced for Democrats the salacious dossier describing ties between Donald J. Trump and the Russian government, the website said on Friday. The Free Beacon, funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination. Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee had begun paying Fusion GPS in April for research that eventually became the basis for the dossier. The Free Beacon informed the House Intelligence Committee on Friday that it had retained the firm. That committee is one of a number of congressional committees investigating Russian attempts to disrupt the 2016 election and whether there was any collusion with Mr. Trump’s associates. Also I will note that for some reason, it is very difficult to find information about The Free Beacon’s connection to the dossier on the Google machine. You actually have to go to Bing to find this information. » Posted By TOCB On July 27, 2020 @ 6:19 am Someone who is amazed that he can remember, “person, woman, man, camera, tv” doesn’t have the capacity to understand that schools, be they grade schools or colleges and universities, can be open whether the teach/learn process takes place in-person or remotely. Although the optimal environment in most cases is probably in-person, remote teach/learn is probably the safest environment in the mist of a pandemic. Although we can applaud a 74 year old man who can remember, “person, woman, man, camera, tv” and give them extra points if they remember those words in that order, it is not the optimal environment to have that person making decisions for our country.
» Posted By TOCB On July 25, 2020 @ 6:16 am We are witnessing the near-destruction of our democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law, those who have tried to complete this coup must be held criminally responsible. EXACTLY!!! » Posted By TOCB On July 24, 2020 @ 6:59 pm She has disappeared. She dropped the case two weeks before the 2016 election, supposedly because she was threatened. » Posted By TOCB On July 24, 2020 @ 6:53 pm The ruling, which comes in a case brought by the [ACLU of Oregon], temporarily blocks federal agents from attacking or arresting journalists and legal observers at Portland protests,” the ACLU explained. On the surface, it seems to be a very limited order. It only mentions journalists and legal observers at Portland protests. It doesn’t mention actual protestors and it seems specific to Portland. My reading of the actual order gleans that it does not specifically mention Portland, so it may include journalists and legal observers nationwide, but it does not include actual protestors. https://aclu-or.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/aclu_tro_against_federal_defendants.pdf » Posted By TOCB On July 24, 2020 @ 5:29 am This should be investigated by the FBI at the very least. She was THIRTEEN for God’s safe!!!
» Posted By TOCB On July 23, 2020 @ 12:56 pm He must realize that after he loses the election, he will spend the rest of his miserable life in jail. » Posted By TOCB On July 23, 2020 @ 11:35 am All I can say is better late than never. » Posted By TOCB On July 23, 2020 @ 11:30 am Yoho apologized for something he said he didn’t do, but in case his colleague received it as the press (I suppose fake news) reported it, it was his love for his God and his country that made him do it.
» Posted By TOCB On July 22, 2020 @ 10:10 am Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. Although Mr. Trump, as president, is exempt from a federal conflict of interest law that makes it a criminal offense to take part in “government matters that will affect your own personal financial interest,” 18 U.S. Code Section 8 DOES NOT exempt the President of The United States from Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of The United States Constitution, and even if it did, such an exemption would be in violation of the Constitution. Because of the way the press nuances these kinds of things that are often done by trump, many Americans don’t consider them as a violation of the Constitution, which is a high crime and misdemeanor. If trump is allowed to get away with this behavior, every future president can do the same things. We are setting the precedent right now. Future congresses controlled by republicans can’t stop a Democratic president from doing it, because the precedent is being set now, just as future congresses controlled by Democrats can’t stop it, because the precedent is being set now. » Posted By TOCB On July 22, 2020 @ 7:32 am Trump wishes Ghislaine Maxwell, well. I’m not saying; I’m just saying.
https://filmdaily.co/news/trump-and-epstein/ » Posted By TOCB On July 22, 2020 @ 4:30 am I was just curious as to why trump’s doctor would suggest that he take an Alzheimer’s test. Doctors don’t normally make such a suggestion out of the blue. They suggest such a test because there are symptoms of the disease. https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/diagnosis/why-get-checked If you notice any of the 10 warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease in yourself or someone you know, schedule an appointment with your doctor. An early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s provides a range of benefits for the individuals who are diagnosed. Here are the warning signs of Alzhemimer’s disease: https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/10_signs Memory loss that disrupts daily life. It appears that trump has had a lot of these symptoms for a very long time. » Posted By TOCB On July 20, 2020 @ 3:40 pm President Trump, how much money have you stolen from the American people, just since you have been president?
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