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[MTK]

So this stuff with Rudy is surprising eh, yeah not at all surprising.

Woman sues Rudy Giuliani, saying he coerced her into sex, owes her $2 million in unpaid wages

Giuliani Accused of Offering to Sell Trump Pardons for $2 Million Each in New Lawsuit

[Chico23231]

Blood on Obama hands letting pieces of shit back on streets for zero reason.

Soft on crime never never works.

[sdskinsfan2001]

I'd like to petition the following 3 sayings to be banned from U.S. lexicon:

1. Gaslighting
2. Wrong side of history
3. Blood on his/her/they/them/your hands

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

I'd like to petition the following 3 sayings to be banned from U.S. lexicon:

1. Gaslighting
2. Wrong side of history
3. Blood on his/her/they/them/your hands

Lol,,,yeah fair enough. First though:

1.nazi
2.fascist

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Soft on crime never never works.

He Was Convicted in a Police Officer’s Murder. Trump Gave Him Clemency.
Jaime A. Davidson was in prison for nearly 30 years for one of upstate New York’s most notorious crimes. Political connections appear to have set him free.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/n...-syracuse.html


By Troy Closson
Jan. 26, 2021
Among the dozens of pardons and commutations former President Donald J. Trump issued before leaving office, one name has left some law enforcement officials reeling: Jaime A. Davidson, notorious in upstate New York for planning a 1990 robbery that ended in the murder of a police officer.

The commutation bypassed the typical federal process for seeking clemency, and was championed by an advocate who was herself granted a pardon in 2018. Experts said Mr. Trump’s decision to cut Mr. Davidson’s life sentence short was evidence of the problems that arise when presidential allies exert strong influence.

And after a re-election campaign that emphasized law and order, with rallies that sometimes featured the pro-police Blue Lives Matter flag, Mr. Trump’s decision was a baffling anomaly that upstate politicians, prosecutors and police union officials received with dismay.

[Giantone]

POLITICS
Shock And Dismay After Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Who Killed 14 Iraqi Civilians
December 23, 20205:44 PM ET
Laurel Wamsley at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., November 7, 2018. (photo by Allison Shelley)
Laurel Wamsley


https://www.npr.org/2020/12/23/94967...14-iraqi-civil


Among the pardons made by President Trump this week, the pardon of four former guards for Blackwater has been regarded by some as particularly galling.

Trump Grants Slew Of Pardons, Including To George Papadopoulos And Duncan Hunter
POLITICS


Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted six years ago in the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 17 others. Witnesses described how the American men ambushed the civilians unprovoked, firing on Baghdad's Nisour Square with heavy gunfire and grenade launchers.

The massacre took place in 2007, when the four were working as guards for Blackwater, a private military contractor, on an assignment in Baghdad. They claimed they were fired on, but prosecutors said the Blackwater guards opened fire first. Slatten, whom prosecutors said started the shooting, was sentenced to life in prison.

[sdskinsfan2001]

G1 uses bold font like Elaine uses !!!.

Definitely an inordinate usage of bold font.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

G1 uses bold font like Elaine uses !!!.

At this time of night when you're on bottle #2 you need help.

[Chico23231]

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/stat...DT_Zafj4MuAAAA

Always the same people. The school to prison pipeline is a myth period, it all starts in the home they are raised in. Raised to act like a criminal

[Giantone]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opini...b04df054f860a1

Old but good reading, not much has changed.

Why Do Republicans Hate America?

Why do Republicans hate America? No, really. It’s not a rhetorical question. Since consolidating its power in January 2017, the GOP has systematically set out to dismantle the economic strength of this nation, coddle predators, shield traitors, attack those who are working, and strip protections from the most vulnerable. Are these the actions of a party that loves the nation it has sworn to serve?

Consider the GOP’s attempts over the last year to blow up the U.S. economy and make life harder for its constituents. The Republicans’ first try at demolishing the economy as if it were nothing but an old abandoned building was their reckless attempt to destroy the Affordable Care Act, which housed and protected millions of American citizens. The GOP’s congressional leaders held no hearings, refused to even listen to expert testimony and were utterly unconcerned about the impact that dismantling a key component of the nation’s health care system would have on one-sixth of the American economy.

When the button jammed on that detonator, Republicans tried another, more powerful type of explosive, and this one threatens to be much more successful. In December, they passed a tax bill that adds an estimated $1.5 trillion to the deficit — with no significant investment in infrastructure, education or health care to show for it. And now, as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made clear, when the GOP-fueled deficit balloons, they’re coming after the retirement and medical social programs that he has demeaned and mislabeled as “entitlements.” Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, however, are hard-earned benefits funded, in large part, out of our paychecks. They provide much needed support to the elderly, the infirmed and those with disabilities.

For America’s senior population alone, the Republicans’ assault on the safety net is going to be destabilizing and, in many cases, lethal. Currently, 9 out of 10 Americans over 65 receive Social Security. Forty-nine million are on Medicare, estimated to increase to 64 million by 2020. Nearly one-third will require nursing home care, which costs three times the annual income of those over 65. Imagine what an aging America will look like just a few years into the future with no Social Security, no Medicare and no Medicaid.

[nonniey]

Originally Posted by Giantone

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opini...b04df054f860a1

.........

For America’s senior population alone, the Republicans’ assault on the safety net is going to be destabilizing and, in many cases, lethal. Currently, 9 out of 10 Americans over 65 receive Social Security. Forty-nine million are on Medicare, estimated to increase to 64 million by 2020. Nearly one-third will require nursing home care, which costs three times the annual income of those over 65. Imagine what an aging America will look like just a few years into the future with no Social Security, no Medicare and no Medicaid.

And yet it was only the Republicans that proposed a plan to fix/ensure long term financial solvency for Social Security (SS). SS will become financially insolvent in about 10 years, this has been known for decades and Paul Ryan and his GOP allies were the only members of Congress to put a proposal on the table to extend that solvency long term (76 years). The Dems have been adamant opponents to plans that would extend SS long term. Since those failures MAGA has captured the GOP and have adapted the Dem plan to oppose any changes or adjustments to SS.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by nonniey

And yet it was only the Republicans that proposed a plan to fix/ensure long term financial solvency for Social Security (SS). SS will become financially insolvent in about 10 years, this has been known for decades and Paul Ryan and his GOP allies were the only members of Congress to put a proposal on the table to extend that solvency long term (76 years). The Dems have been adamant opponents to plans that would extend SS long term. Since those failures MAGA has captured the GOP and have adapted the Dem plan to oppose any changes or adjustments to SS.

LOL, ensure and fix, now tell the truth , they wanted it cut by 50% . Sorry not a fix. Dems have tried but shot down by guess who?

[nonniey]

Originally Posted by Giantone

LOL, ensure and fix, now tell the truth , they wanted it cut by 50% . Sorry not a fix. Dems have tried but shot down by guess who?

Ryan wanted to raise the age of getting the max benefit from 67 to 70 for those under 30 at the time (2011). Wouldn't have effected anyone over 30 (in 2011), and the age for getting the minimum benefit would have still been 62. Not a cut at all for those getting or nearing Social Security and it would have preserved it for those that were younger. Is that the 50% you are talking about?

So in about 10 years we actually will get massive cuts for those already getting it and everyone else.

[nonniey]

Originally Posted by Giantone

LOL, ensure and fix, now tell the truth , they wanted it cut by 50% . Sorry not a fix. Dems have tried but shot down by guess who?

Dems haven't even suggested one proposal that would fix SS long term. Not one (unless you consider 5 years long term). Their only suggestion/proposal is to eliminate the cap taken out for SS. And the CBC said that would have only have kept SS solvent for an additional 5 years. Those figures are 12 years old now, pretty sure because of those wasted years it is less than 5 years for the Dem plan by this point. The GOP would have to add 12 years to the grandfathered age which effects the planning of those effected and makes opposition greater.

[nonniey]

Long but interesting article by Andrew Sullivan

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/...omosexuals-cfd

".....But when you examine the other issues at stake — public schools teaching the concepts of queer and gender theory to kindergartners on up, sex changes for children before puberty, the housing of biological males with women in prisons and rape shelters, and biological males competing with women in sports — you realize we are far beyond what the gay rights movement once stood for. It’s these initiatives from the far left that are new; and the backlash is quite obviously a reaction to the capture of the gay rights movement by queer social justice activists.

These activists, marinated in critical gender and queer theory, have picked several unnecessary fights and, especially since the convulsions of 2020, have pushed and pushed a woke revolution until a dangerous backlash was inevitable......Then the queers upped the ante and did something we gays never did: they targeted children. If they could get into kids’ minds, bodies and souls from the very beginning of their lives, they could abolish the sex binary from the ground up. And so they got a pliant, woke educational establishment to re-program children from the very start, telling toddlers that any single one of them could be living in the wrong body, before they could even spell.....

....Of course, since queers deny the natural basis of homosexuality, in their view, no real harm can come from transing gay children....."If a Christianist hospital was busy changing the sexes of overwhelmingly gay kids, so that they became straight, what do you think the gay rights establishment would say? But when a queer facility does exactly that, all the worriers are bigots......"