“BlackRock Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink, whose firm has attempted to foist environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) standards on the global business community, has stopped using the term, whining it has become too politicized.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is reportedly “ashamed” by the environment, social and governance (ESG) investment criteria debate and argued the term was being “misused by the far left and far right.”
“I’m ashamed of being part of this conversation,” Fink said, according to Axios.
Fink admitted during a conversation with the outlet at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Sunday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to pull $2 billion in assets from Blackrock in 2022 hurt his firm.
“When I write these [investment] letters, it was never meant to be a political statement. … They were written to identify longterm issues to our longterm investors,” he said on Sunday.
In fact, the press is laying the blame thick on Republicans, in general, for the Bud-Lite level of popularity ESG is now experiencing.
Republican politicians have attacked ESG as a way for the corporate world to implement what they argue is a politically liberal agenda, triggering a backlash from Democrats who are seeking to defend it.
The controversy has led to some Wall Street firms backing down on ESG commitments, with insurers abandoning a United Nations-backed climate alliance becoming the latest example last month. BlackRock has itself been the target of investigations by some Republican-controlled states, and even an investment boycott in Texas.
However, as we reported, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been an important leader in the pushback in a movement that attempts to force companies to adopt fiscally draining and time-wasting policies based on climate pseudoscience and social engineering. As we reported in March o this year, he led a coalition with 18 other governors against ESG.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., joined forces with 18 GOP governors to reject President Joe Biden’s environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) “agenda,” claiming the push is a “direct threat” to the economic freedom of American retirees.
Governors in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming formed the alliance Thursday in what they described as an effort to ensure American retirement funds are not used for “woke” investments.
In fact, a significant part of Desantis’ newsbook is focused on his plans to “cripple” ESG.
“Both the legislative and executive branches should use their respective authorities to defend individuals against large corporations that are wielding what is effectively public power,” DeSantis wrote in “The Courage to Be Free,” which published Tuesday.
“Reining in Big Tech, enforcing antitrust laws, prohibiting discriminatory job training, and crippling the ESG movement are all ways in which the political branches can protect individual freedom from stridently ideological private actor,” he wrote.
However, Florida and the other 18 states are not the only ones disenchanted with ESG. I reported at the end of last year the Europeans were also cooling toward ESG.”
This corroborates the confirmation bias John Durham reported. And demonstrates the motivation behind the cancellation of several legitimate whistleblowers at the hands of top FBI brass. @KerryPickethttps://t.co/PTHQoDcWco
Pence sides with the groomers. It’s time he shuts up and goes away.
NEW: Mike Pence takes a shot at Ron DeSantis
"…when the governor of Florida decided to launch a full-scale campaign of governmental retribution against Disney, he wasn't taking a page out of the conservative playbook—he was following in the footsteps of the radical left." pic.twitter.com/u4vNAbaa5c
“hen the Justice Department discovered from journalists a storage locker containing evidence against ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a search was executed immediately.
But when IRS agents found a similar storage area containing evidence in the Hunter Biden criminal tax probe, they were denied the right to search despite meeting the probable cause standard, then Biden’s lawyers were tipped off, according to new congressional testimony.
Likewise, when federal prosecutors believed there was evidence of crimes at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, they launched an unprecedented and full scale-raid on the former president. But when agents wanted to execute a search warrant at Joe Biden’s Delaware home because they had probable cause to believe evidence of Hunter Biden tax crimes, they were turned down for a warrant to raid the guest house in which the first son was living.
And when FBI agents believed former Trump adviser Michael Flynn had committed no crime in the Russia collusion case, they nonetheless conducted an interview with him in what a supervisor concluded smacked of an effort to lure him into a lying charge. But when IRS and FBI agents wanted to interview witnesses in the Biden case, they were told most were off limits, including the Biden grandchildren whom agents believed may have unwittingly been entangled in a tax scheme.
A federal prosecutor “told us it will get us into hot water if we interview the president’s grandchildren,” IRS supervisory criminal investigative agent Gary Shapley told Congress in blockbuster testimony released last week that furthers an unmistakable portrait being painted by congressional investigators of a whole-of-government effort to preserve Joe Biden’s viability as a presidential candidate while attempting to destroy Trump’s re-election effort in 2020.
The pattern and evidence about the behavior of federal bodies – ranging from the IRS, FBI and spy agencies to the Justice Department, U.S. attorney’s office and National Archives – is enough to even convince one unabashed Joe Biden supporter there has been a scheme to administer unequal justice.
“I don’t agree that this is necessarily Republicans versus Democrats. A lot of FBI agents are Republicans. This is a separate system of justice for Donald Trump and anybody who defended him, or who was close to him and everybody else, Republicans and Democrats alike,” said Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard law professor emeritus who voted for Biden but also represented Trump at an impeachment trial.
Dershowitz wrote a whole book about the disparate system for Trump world called “Get Trump.” But it was completed before bombshell evidence began emerging that showed:
The FBI long held evidence from a confidential source that Joe Biden was involved in a possible bribery scheme that was allegedly captured on 17 tape recordings;
Biden’s son Hunter was engaged in a $2.2 million tax evasion-and-avoidance scheme that IRS agents were thwarted from fully investigating;
The infamous Hunter Biden laptop had been validated by the FBI in 2019, a full year before it was falsely portrayed as Russian disinformation by intelligence professionals, Joe Biden and the news media – in a blitz that misled voters ahead of the 2020 election.
Dershowitz said the plea deal Hunter Biden reached last week on two misdemeanor charges related to tax evasion isn’t the biggest reason for concern.
“Where he may have gotten not only a sweetheart deal, but an incredibly unjust deal, is for [the government’s] failure to investigate and perhaps prosecute the laptop, Burisma, those 17 tapes,” he said
The latter two in that list refer to the Burisma Holdings Limited in Ukraine in which Hunter Biden had a questionable business dealing and audio tapes a foreign national who allegedly bribed then-Vice President Joe Biden and son Hunter allegedly has in connection to the alleged bribe.
Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, a House Judiciary Committee member, said the FBI is the tip of the spear of a judicial and intelligence system that has been corrupted by political bias.
“There were investigations open that should not have been opened,” he said. “There were Americans being spied on, officials of a political campaign for president were being spied on, just based on political preferences of those in charge. And we cannot have a system where political bias gets in the way of what what the head of the FBI or with the leaders of the FBI, are directing or deciding.””
“The hottest club in GOP politics right now is the party’s presidential primary. The calculus of every longshot is that anything could happen. And the likely, worst-case scenario? It isn’t that bad at all.
A failed presidential run is often the ladder to a better gig: a spot on the ticket, an elevated platform to run for a different office, landing an administration job— a Slovenian ambassadorship, perhaps—or to notch a plum media contract.
Truth is, the shoot-for-the-moon-and-you’ll-land-among-the-stars strategy is all upside. And in the presidential attention-grabbing industrial complex, 2024 is looking like one for the record books.
More than a dozen people have declared in the Republican field. All but two of them are polling below 10 percent. Even candidates who would typically appear viable have other motivations to run.
“Every single candidate other than Donald Trump on the Republican side has no chance of being president or getting the Republican nomination,” said Jeff Timmer, a senior adviser to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and the former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party. “The motivations are bolstering their statures, satisfying their ego, pure delusion and fantasy.”
In a sign of how lucrative presidential campaigns can be, Mike Pence announced pre-orders of his new book, Go Home for Dinner, a tome about faith and family. (A month earlier, his wife Karen got in on the action, too, launching her own book).”
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Has Pence’s reason for running become apparent to ya’ll now?
“Law schools matter. They serve, after all, as the gatekeeping institution of the legal profession—a key occupation in a democratic republic. Such a republic depends on the core notion of being a “government not of men, but of laws.” A government of men controls by arbitrariness; a government of laws controls through transparent rules that allow citizens to make choices over time. It’s essential that law be protected from political caprice.
But laws are often not entirely clear, and men and women legitimately dispute their content and meaning. A central purpose of the legal system is to clarify these rules through adversarial presentations, leading to authoritative decisions by neutral tribunals. Just as the adversary system perfects the rule of law, so a robust culture of free speech and inquiry perfects the adversary system. What the best arguments are, or even what makes an argument best, is often itself unclear and disputed. A culture of exploring arguments vigorously before they reach court, without fear of retaliation, complements the adversary system and improves our governance.
Any free society needs the rule of law, the adversary system, and a culture of free speech and inquiry in law, but this is particularly true of the United States. Nearly two centuries ago, Alexis de Tocqueville observed of the American republic that almost all political issues there became legal issues, and that remains the case today. It’s the law that preserves the U.S. Constitution’s balance of powers, preventing tyranny.
When English departments, say, are consumed by the politics of identity, they marginalize mostly themselves. The classes they teach no longer provide students with analytic skills, and the books they assign no longer stir student souls. By contrast, law schools remain important to society, whatever their quality, because lawyers remain essential to a modern market democracy. At their best, law schools facilitate responsible advocacy and inculcate a respect in future lawyers that law isn’t simply politics by another name, but instead the basis of a rule-based order needed for human flourishing. If law schools lose sight of this, society suffers.
Today, many, if not most, law schools, like English departments, have become ideologically and structurally committed to the Left, especially on issues of race and gender. Since the new ideology of race and gender claims to affect almost everything, almost everything that law schools do is now distorted; the freedom of speech and inquiry that makes the adversary system work for society’s benefit is threatened. A focus on identity rather than argument leads directly to cancel culture—even at law schools, where debate should be central, because ideas that some believe threaten identity are rendered off-limits. And the circle of cancellation is ever widening: Stanford students shouted down Judge Kyle Duncan and prevented him from speaking at a recent Federalist Society event, not even because of what he was to talk about there but because of his past writings on other subjects.
Liberal professors have predominated in law schools for a long time, but their dominion did not conflict with the adversary system. These professors remained committed to hearing ideas with which many liberals disagreed, and they appreciated the importance of separating rules from politics. These older-style liberals may have pursued “social justice” in their legal work, but they did not impose a definition of it on their schools. Further, the social justice that they sought—more power for labor unions, say, or higher taxes on the rich—was compatible with freedom of speech and inquiry about such things. Nowadays, by contrast, the rise of political commitments focused on identity in law schools condemns many statements of fact and value as part of the subordination of women and minorities. Freedom of speech and inquiry gets rejected as oppression.
Many forces are making law schools more monolithically left-wing.
First, the relentless emphasis on race and gender concentrates law-faculty hiring disproportionately on increasing the representation of women and minorities. As a major recent study from Stanford’s Adam Bonica and several coauthors, “The Legal Academy’s Ideological Uniformity,” shows, this imperative pushes law schools leftward because the minority and female hires tend to be even more progressive than the median law professor, who is already a liberal by ideology. This effect is likely especially pronounced in the politically salient area of public law. (In private law, minority and female candidates remain relatively scarce.) Diversity therefore helps entrench ideological uniformity on public matters vital to the nation.
Because of the greater ideological uniformity in the schools, some professors—younger ones, particularly—feel no pressure to present (other than to ridicule) ideas important to today’s legal adversarial system, such as the theory of originalism, which maintains that constitutional provisions should be interpreted in the way they were publicly understood. Yet originalism is a dominant, if not the dominant, theory of the majority of current Supreme Court justices.”
“Just when Joe Biden thought the Hunter business was behind him, new evidence is pulling him back in. This time it won’t be as easy suppress as in 2020.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has forced into public the existence of a Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-1023 form detailing an informant’s claim that a Burisma executive paid $5 million each in bribes to then-Vice President Biden and his son. After the bureau begrudgingly let a few members of Congress look at the document, Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed the FBI had redacted the part about the executive saying he had 17 audio recordings of conversations with Joe and Hunter Biden.
The latest development came Thursday, courtesy of the House Ways and Means Committee. Republicans on the committee released testimony from two Internal Revenue Service “whistleblowers” accusing the Justice Department of interfering in their investigation with the aim of protecting Hunter Biden. The testimony included a July 30, 2017, WhatsApp text allegedly showing Hunter Biden threatening a Chinese business partner who hadn’t fulfilled some unnamed “commitment.” “I am sitting here with my father,” the note says. All this news comes on the heels of a plea agreement with the Justice Department that deals only with Hunter’s taxes and a gun charge.
Team Biden has responded by going back to the script that worked so well in 2020, talking about how the president loves his son and attributing anything embarrassing to Hunter’s crack-cocaine addiction. “It’s a bunch of malarkey,” the president said earlier this month to a question about bribery. On Monday he tersely answered “no” when asked if the new evidence proves he hadn’t been truthful about his knowledge of Hunter’s business deals.
Democrats say these are unsubstantiated accusations from Republicans. That’s rich, given that what Mr. Comer wants to know is whether the FBI and Justice made an honest effort to substantiate the information about the Bidens. Attorney General Merrick Garland has been careful not to address specifics. On Friday he painted criticisms of his department as a threat to democracy.
At the White House, meanwhile, it was déjà vu all over again. John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, refused to answer whether the WhatsApp message undermined the president’s repeated claims of ignorance about Hunter’s foreign business dealings. Mr. Kirby declared, “I am not going to address this issue from this podium”—and walked off.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre picked up the ball, making clear that if reporters asked “anything related to—to Hunter, I’m just not going to respond to it from here.”
Whatever this is, it isn’t a winning strategy for 2024. Especially with Republican subpoenas still coming. On Sunday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised the possibility of impeaching Mr. Garland over this.
Remember, the whistleblowers are all testifying under pain of a perjury charge if they lie, and their allegations are relatively easy to prove or disprove. IRS career investigator Gary Shapley Jr. testified about a 2022 meeting of prosecutors and FBI and IRS agents he found shocking…….”
It’s even worse than you think in American education. They indoctrinate the kids with leftist crap and groomer sex ed. They do not teach them the useful stuff they need to prosper. They want victims, not citizens. Throw in a pandemic, and it’s one heck of a storm.
“By now you have to have lived on a deserted island to not have heard about the disastrous learning loss experienced by students during and after the pandemic.
Americans are almost numb to reality, partly because the problem seems abstract, and partly because the sheer repetition makes the problem seem like the new normal.
Schools themselves are treating the problem as something to be ignored or swept under the rug. New York, for instance, has increased graduation rates by…relaxing the standards. Gotta keep those numbers looking good, even if the reality really sucks.
But the problem is much worse than you think because few people talk about a huge chunk of the problem: many students are barely attending school, and others have opted out and are just missing from the system.”
“The basic numbers are hideous–wiping out decades of progress in student performance. And there is no sign of progress having been made now that students have been back in school for two years. In fact, in many cases, the decline continues.
Much worse, though, is the lesser-known fact that at least hundreds of thousands and perhaps many more, since not all states have reported–simply dropped off the map and don’t appear to be getting any education at all since the beginning of the pandemic.”
“I have no opinion about the literary merit of Christian literature with positive messages. I am not the demographic it is intended for, and the marketplace will determine whether it succeeds or not.
I do, however, have an opinion about public libraries scheming to keep such literature out of the hands of kids and parents, and apparently, that is what the government-funded American Library Association is doing, explicitly objecting to it because it is “right-wing” and thus incompatible with the mission that libraries have adopted.
We are constantly lectured that attempts to age-restrict books promoting alphabet ideology are “censorship” and must be resisted; but when it comes to Brave Books, a Christian-themed publisher, the ALA is promoting strategies to its members on how to deny permission for events where parents and celebrities gather to read books published by Brave being held in public spaces that libraries provide for meetings.”
2/ BRAVE Books’ "See You at the Library" event, led by @KirkCameron, was organized to give conservative Christian families an opportunity to meet at public libraries around the country on August 5th as an alternative to controversial children’s drag queen events.
“None of this is surprising, of course. It is blindingly obvious that libraries, like public schools, have absolutely no interest in actually ensuring that people have access to a wide range of literature and information from various religious and ideological perspectives.
Instead, they have become playgrounds for the Left to promote its own ideological views, sponsoring programs, pushing books through displays and other methods, and discouraging the consumption and discussion of books and ideas that are not approved of by librarians.”
Librarians–at least the people who dominate librarians’ circles–explicitly see themselves as part of a larger social movement whose goal is shaping how society evolves into a socialist and cultural Marxist utopia.
This is, needless to say, not how they are sold to the public.
The methods discussed for how to exclude Kirk Cameron and Brave Books from meeting in libraries are notable for a lot of reasons, but the one that stands out above all others is the suggestion that adults reading anodyne books to children presents a security risk. This, in light of the fact that libraries across the country work very hard to ensure that Drag Queen Story hours are common in libraries, and often sponsored and paid for by the libraries themselves.”
“A couple years ago I noticed a trend in meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. The meeting was no longer ending with the Lord’s Prayer.
For more than 30 years every meeting I attended ended the same way — with the “Our Father,” then the Serenity Prayer, then the chant of “Keep Coming Back, It Works if You Work It!”
Suddenly, meetings were going straight to the Serenity Prayer and then the final pep chant. The “Our Father” was gone. This seems to be part of a larger trend. As reported in the Daily Mail, one group was censured for saying the prayer:
An Alcoholics Anonymous group is under threat after being censured for reciting the Lord’s Prayer at the start of meetings.
The group in Somerset was told by leaders it had become too Christian-focused and has been removed from the organization’s online directory.
But John Palmer, treasurer of the group in Yeovil, pointed out that the AA was started in the 1930s by Christians and that it adopted and popularized the Serenity Prayer, which is recited at the end of meetings across the world. ‘It’s a ridiculous decision,’ said Mr. Palmer. ‘They’ve removed us from the “Find a meeting” section of the AA website which will prevent new members from finding us. In other words, we’re being shut down.’
A Thirst for Union With God
It has taken me a while to admit this, mostly because I am so reluctant to criticize a fellowship that saved my life when I stopped drinking over three decades ago. But the elimination of the “Our Father” does in fact bother me. Not only because I believe Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, but because Christianity played a crucial role in the formation of AA. Had Judaism or Islam played such a foundational role in the Twelve Steps I would also want that tradition honored. The truth is, however, that Alcoholics Anonymous was founded, and was effective, because of Christians.
AA has its origins in the evangelical Christian Oxford Group. In fact, AA co-founder Bill Wilson credits the Oxford Group for the methodology of AA: “their large emphasis upon the principles of self-survey, confession, restitution, and the giving of oneself in service to others.” Even before the Oxford Group was the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. Wilson wrote to Jung in 1961 to express his “great appreciation” for his efforts. “A certain conversation you once had with one of your patients, a Mr. Rowland H. back in the early 1930’s,” Wilson wrote, “did play a critical role in the founding of our Fellowship.”
Rowland Hazard, an investment banker and former state senator from Rhode Island came to Jung desperate to stop drinking, He kept failing. Finally Jung, in an incredible act of humility and wisdom, told Hazard that only a religious conversion could save him. “His craving for alcohol was the equivalent,” Jung wrote to Wilson, “on a low level, of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness, expressed in medieval language: the union with God.” As Wilson puts it in a letter to Jung: “[Y]ou frankly told him of his hopelessness, so far as any further medical or psychiatric treatment might be concerned. This candid and humble statement of yours was beyond doubt the first foundation stone upon which our Society has since been built.”
We all have our biases. Something I have seen over the past several years, on Facebook and on here, is that it is too easy to take a brief snippet of a video or brief snippet of a quote at face value. If we see an egregious quote from a public figure whom we like, we get suspicious and check it out, right?
Well, I am assuming so. I know that I do. But we should also do the same when we see an egregious quote from a public figure whom we do not like. (Which is why I was sometimes defending Trump on certain friends’ Facebook posts.)
This brings me to yesterday’s tweet with the brief video of President Biden saying, “. . .and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared.”
It turns out that Biden was joking. Right after that sentence, he went on to say, “Now all kidding aside. . .”
Apart from Trump’s evil powers, another theory on the coup attempt is that Putin organized it to have plausible deniability when Wagner uses the tactical nukes Putin has already sent to Belarus. Apparently, the theory goes, the head of Wagner has wanted to use nukes against Kiev since the Ukraineian coup in 2914.
It’s a decent theory, but I wouldn’t want to underestimate Trump, so the evil powers scenario is also quite possible.
Mumsee – But until the “Readers added context” part that is on there now was added, many people, such as many of those who commented on the tweet, were taking it seriously.
As for whomever originally edited the video and tweeted it, I don’t know if they intended to deceive by leaving off the next part or if they assumed that people would realize that it was a joke, without adding Biden’s statement about kidding. But most of those commenting seem to have taken it at face value as serious.
Over the past several years, I have come across way too many videos that were intentionally deceptively edited. It is even more disturbing when it is done by someone on “our side”. We expect people on “the other side” to be deceptive, but not “our side”.
I rarely believe anything on the internet so I don’t actually spend a lot of time reading stuff on there.
But when I watched the snippet, I chuckled because I thought he was trying to be funny but appears to have been doing just that for years (not being funny, selling things). And it sounded to me like he said he told, not sold. But I certainly did not take it seriously.
“As for whomever originally edited the video and tweeted it, I don’t know if they intended to deceive by leaving off the next part or if they assumed that people would realize that it was a joke, without adding Biden’s statement about kidding. But most of those commenting seem to have taken it at face value as serious.”
That was the RNC’s tweet, who put the video out. That’s the establishment for ya.
They need to limit their vendetta to Trump. Leave those who had nothing to do with it out of it.
A New York appeals court has dismissed claims against Ivanka Trump in the state attorney general's $250 million lawsuit against the former president, his oldest children and his company. https://t.co/uISTh9fSzU
A New York appellate court has dismissed a portion of the New York attorney general's civil lawsuit against members of the Trump Organization. https://t.co/Z0lmCddU6l
“Those who commented on the Biden snippet,” at least on the Wanderer’s site, would be me, and I did take what he said seriously, as seriously as I take anything said when I am half awake as I was when I made my comment. It is a nightmare that a President or anyone in such a high level government position of any nation could say something like that.
And I am up way past my bedtime considering I have been awake since about 4:30 a.m. so I am feeling a bit punchy now. Plea for grace if I have misinterpreted something as I am so apt to do.😀 I need to stick to the prayer thread!
Wandering Views 
Tough cookies.
“BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Whines that Term “ESG” Has Become “Weaponized”
Fink cites DeSantis decision to pull funds as part of reason. Meanwhile, Florida’s governor calls for ‘crippling the ESG movement’ in his new book.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-whines-that-term-esg-has-become-weaponized/
“BlackRock Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink, whose firm has attempted to foist environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) standards on the global business community, has stopped using the term, whining it has become too politicized.
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is reportedly “ashamed” by the environment, social and governance (ESG) investment criteria debate and argued the term was being “misused by the far left and far right.”
“I’m ashamed of being part of this conversation,” Fink said, according to Axios.
Fink admitted during a conversation with the outlet at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Sunday that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to pull $2 billion in assets from Blackrock in 2022 hurt his firm.
“When I write these [investment] letters, it was never meant to be a political statement. … They were written to identify longterm issues to our longterm investors,” he said on Sunday.
In fact, the press is laying the blame thick on Republicans, in general, for the Bud-Lite level of popularity ESG is now experiencing.
Republican politicians have attacked ESG as a way for the corporate world to implement what they argue is a politically liberal agenda, triggering a backlash from Democrats who are seeking to defend it.
The controversy has led to some Wall Street firms backing down on ESG commitments, with insurers abandoning a United Nations-backed climate alliance becoming the latest example last month. BlackRock has itself been the target of investigations by some Republican-controlled states, and even an investment boycott in Texas.
However, as we reported, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been an important leader in the pushback in a movement that attempts to force companies to adopt fiscally draining and time-wasting policies based on climate pseudoscience and social engineering. As we reported in March o this year, he led a coalition with 18 other governors against ESG.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., joined forces with 18 GOP governors to reject President Joe Biden’s environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) “agenda,” claiming the push is a “direct threat” to the economic freedom of American retirees.
Governors in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming formed the alliance Thursday in what they described as an effort to ensure American retirement funds are not used for “woke” investments.
In fact, a significant part of Desantis’ newsbook is focused on his plans to “cripple” ESG.
“Both the legislative and executive branches should use their respective authorities to defend individuals against large corporations that are wielding what is effectively public power,” DeSantis wrote in “The Courage to Be Free,” which published Tuesday.
“Reining in Big Tech, enforcing antitrust laws, prohibiting discriminatory job training, and crippling the ESG movement are all ways in which the political branches can protect individual freedom from stridently ideological private actor,” he wrote.
However, Florida and the other 18 states are not the only ones disenchanted with ESG. I reported at the end of last year the Europeans were also cooling toward ESG.”
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ESG is corrupt, just like the DEI movement.
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Of course….
https://twitter.com/magifesq/status/1539798248302514176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1539798248302514176%7Ctwgr%5E8c77610114f6806d2e9c0180b54e918cbcd397f5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Faaronwalker%2F2023%2F06%2F27%2Fwhistleblower-fbi-threatened-agents-who-questioned-whether-jan-6-rioters-were-being-treated-equally-n2384862
https://twitter.com/KelseyreneaReta/status/1673231032613580800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1673231032613580800%7Ctwgr%5E8c77610114f6806d2e9c0180b54e918cbcd397f5%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Faaronwalker%2F2023%2F06%2F27%2Fwhistleblower-fbi-threatened-agents-who-questioned-whether-jan-6-rioters-were-being-treated-equally-n2384862
And yet none of that sat in squalid DC jail cells for 2 years after a corrupt judge waived their right to a speedy trial.
Our justice system is broken.
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Pence sides with the groomers. It’s time he shuts up and goes away.
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DoJ wants to change the rules again, because Orange Man Bad….
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You don’t say…..
“With new evidence, Congress unmasks a multi-year government plot to protect Biden, sully Trump
From search warrants to charges, federal agencies put thumb on scale of justice and elections, new evidence suggests”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/congress-has-begun-unmasking-whole-government-plot-protect-biden
“hen the Justice Department discovered from journalists a storage locker containing evidence against ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a search was executed immediately.
But when IRS agents found a similar storage area containing evidence in the Hunter Biden criminal tax probe, they were denied the right to search despite meeting the probable cause standard, then Biden’s lawyers were tipped off, according to new congressional testimony.
Likewise, when federal prosecutors believed there was evidence of crimes at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, they launched an unprecedented and full scale-raid on the former president. But when agents wanted to execute a search warrant at Joe Biden’s Delaware home because they had probable cause to believe evidence of Hunter Biden tax crimes, they were turned down for a warrant to raid the guest house in which the first son was living.
And when FBI agents believed former Trump adviser Michael Flynn had committed no crime in the Russia collusion case, they nonetheless conducted an interview with him in what a supervisor concluded smacked of an effort to lure him into a lying charge. But when IRS and FBI agents wanted to interview witnesses in the Biden case, they were told most were off limits, including the Biden grandchildren whom agents believed may have unwittingly been entangled in a tax scheme.
A federal prosecutor “told us it will get us into hot water if we interview the president’s grandchildren,” IRS supervisory criminal investigative agent Gary Shapley told Congress in blockbuster testimony released last week that furthers an unmistakable portrait being painted by congressional investigators of a whole-of-government effort to preserve Joe Biden’s viability as a presidential candidate while attempting to destroy Trump’s re-election effort in 2020.
The pattern and evidence about the behavior of federal bodies – ranging from the IRS, FBI and spy agencies to the Justice Department, U.S. attorney’s office and National Archives – is enough to even convince one unabashed Joe Biden supporter there has been a scheme to administer unequal justice.
“I don’t agree that this is necessarily Republicans versus Democrats. A lot of FBI agents are Republicans. This is a separate system of justice for Donald Trump and anybody who defended him, or who was close to him and everybody else, Republicans and Democrats alike,” said Alan Dershowitz, the famed Harvard law professor emeritus who voted for Biden but also represented Trump at an impeachment trial.
Dershowitz wrote a whole book about the disparate system for Trump world called “Get Trump.” But it was completed before bombshell evidence began emerging that showed:
The FBI long held evidence from a confidential source that Joe Biden was involved in a possible bribery scheme that was allegedly captured on 17 tape recordings;
Biden’s son Hunter was engaged in a $2.2 million tax evasion-and-avoidance scheme that IRS agents were thwarted from fully investigating;
The infamous Hunter Biden laptop had been validated by the FBI in 2019, a full year before it was falsely portrayed as Russian disinformation by intelligence professionals, Joe Biden and the news media – in a blitz that misled voters ahead of the 2020 election.
Dershowitz said the plea deal Hunter Biden reached last week on two misdemeanor charges related to tax evasion isn’t the biggest reason for concern.
“Where he may have gotten not only a sweetheart deal, but an incredibly unjust deal, is for [the government’s] failure to investigate and perhaps prosecute the laptop, Burisma, those 17 tapes,” he said
The latter two in that list refer to the Burisma Holdings Limited in Ukraine in which Hunter Biden had a questionable business dealing and audio tapes a foreign national who allegedly bribed then-Vice President Joe Biden and son Hunter allegedly has in connection to the alleged bribe.
Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, a House Judiciary Committee member, said the FBI is the tip of the spear of a judicial and intelligence system that has been corrupted by political bias.
“There were investigations open that should not have been opened,” he said. “There were Americans being spied on, officials of a political campaign for president were being spied on, just based on political preferences of those in charge. And we cannot have a system where political bias gets in the way of what what the head of the FBI or with the leaders of the FBI, are directing or deciding.””
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Yep.
“‘Ego, pure delusion and fantasy’: How the 2024 GOP field got so big”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/27/how-the-2024-gop-field-got-so-big-00103711
“The hottest club in GOP politics right now is the party’s presidential primary. The calculus of every longshot is that anything could happen. And the likely, worst-case scenario? It isn’t that bad at all.
A failed presidential run is often the ladder to a better gig: a spot on the ticket, an elevated platform to run for a different office, landing an administration job— a Slovenian ambassadorship, perhaps—or to notch a plum media contract.
Truth is, the shoot-for-the-moon-and-you’ll-land-among-the-stars strategy is all upside. And in the presidential attention-grabbing industrial complex, 2024 is looking like one for the record books.
More than a dozen people have declared in the Republican field. All but two of them are polling below 10 percent. Even candidates who would typically appear viable have other motivations to run.
“Every single candidate other than Donald Trump on the Republican side has no chance of being president or getting the Republican nomination,” said Jeff Timmer, a senior adviser to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and the former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party. “The motivations are bolstering their statures, satisfying their ego, pure delusion and fantasy.”
In a sign of how lucrative presidential campaigns can be, Mike Pence announced pre-orders of his new book, Go Home for Dinner, a tome about faith and family. (A month earlier, his wife Karen got in on the action, too, launching her own book).”
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Has Pence’s reason for running become apparent to ya’ll now?
It’s pretty obvious.
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And who writes our laws?
Mostly lawyers……
Seeing part of the country’s problem now?
“Law, Betrayed
Identity’s triumph over argument in legal education undermines democracy.”
https://www.city-journal.org/article/law-betrayed
“Law schools matter. They serve, after all, as the gatekeeping institution of the legal profession—a key occupation in a democratic republic. Such a republic depends on the core notion of being a “government not of men, but of laws.” A government of men controls by arbitrariness; a government of laws controls through transparent rules that allow citizens to make choices over time. It’s essential that law be protected from political caprice.
But laws are often not entirely clear, and men and women legitimately dispute their content and meaning. A central purpose of the legal system is to clarify these rules through adversarial presentations, leading to authoritative decisions by neutral tribunals. Just as the adversary system perfects the rule of law, so a robust culture of free speech and inquiry perfects the adversary system. What the best arguments are, or even what makes an argument best, is often itself unclear and disputed. A culture of exploring arguments vigorously before they reach court, without fear of retaliation, complements the adversary system and improves our governance.
Any free society needs the rule of law, the adversary system, and a culture of free speech and inquiry in law, but this is particularly true of the United States. Nearly two centuries ago, Alexis de Tocqueville observed of the American republic that almost all political issues there became legal issues, and that remains the case today. It’s the law that preserves the U.S. Constitution’s balance of powers, preventing tyranny.
When English departments, say, are consumed by the politics of identity, they marginalize mostly themselves. The classes they teach no longer provide students with analytic skills, and the books they assign no longer stir student souls. By contrast, law schools remain important to society, whatever their quality, because lawyers remain essential to a modern market democracy. At their best, law schools facilitate responsible advocacy and inculcate a respect in future lawyers that law isn’t simply politics by another name, but instead the basis of a rule-based order needed for human flourishing. If law schools lose sight of this, society suffers.
Today, many, if not most, law schools, like English departments, have become ideologically and structurally committed to the Left, especially on issues of race and gender. Since the new ideology of race and gender claims to affect almost everything, almost everything that law schools do is now distorted; the freedom of speech and inquiry that makes the adversary system work for society’s benefit is threatened. A focus on identity rather than argument leads directly to cancel culture—even at law schools, where debate should be central, because ideas that some believe threaten identity are rendered off-limits. And the circle of cancellation is ever widening: Stanford students shouted down Judge Kyle Duncan and prevented him from speaking at a recent Federalist Society event, not even because of what he was to talk about there but because of his past writings on other subjects.
Liberal professors have predominated in law schools for a long time, but their dominion did not conflict with the adversary system. These professors remained committed to hearing ideas with which many liberals disagreed, and they appreciated the importance of separating rules from politics. These older-style liberals may have pursued “social justice” in their legal work, but they did not impose a definition of it on their schools. Further, the social justice that they sought—more power for labor unions, say, or higher taxes on the rich—was compatible with freedom of speech and inquiry about such things. Nowadays, by contrast, the rise of political commitments focused on identity in law schools condemns many statements of fact and value as part of the subordination of women and minorities. Freedom of speech and inquiry gets rejected as oppression.
Many forces are making law schools more monolithically left-wing.
First, the relentless emphasis on race and gender concentrates law-faculty hiring disproportionately on increasing the representation of women and minorities. As a major recent study from Stanford’s Adam Bonica and several coauthors, “The Legal Academy’s Ideological Uniformity,” shows, this imperative pushes law schools leftward because the minority and female hires tend to be even more progressive than the median law professor, who is already a liberal by ideology. This effect is likely especially pronounced in the politically salient area of public law. (In private law, minority and female candidates remain relatively scarce.) Diversity therefore helps entrench ideological uniformity on public matters vital to the nation.
Because of the greater ideological uniformity in the schools, some professors—younger ones, particularly—feel no pressure to present (other than to ridicule) ideas important to today’s legal adversarial system, such as the theory of originalism, which maintains that constitutional provisions should be interpreted in the way they were publicly understood. Yet originalism is a dominant, if not the dominant, theory of the majority of current Supreme Court justices.”
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Institutional capture is real.
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“I am sitting here with my father,”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-malarkey-defense-hunter-taxes-fraud-gun-charge-whistleblower-bribery-fbi-6ffa15e0
“Just when Joe Biden thought the Hunter business was behind him, new evidence is pulling him back in. This time it won’t be as easy suppress as in 2020.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has forced into public the existence of a Federal Bureau of Investigation FD-1023 form detailing an informant’s claim that a Burisma executive paid $5 million each in bribes to then-Vice President Biden and his son. After the bureau begrudgingly let a few members of Congress look at the document, Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed the FBI had redacted the part about the executive saying he had 17 audio recordings of conversations with Joe and Hunter Biden.
The latest development came Thursday, courtesy of the House Ways and Means Committee. Republicans on the committee released testimony from two Internal Revenue Service “whistleblowers” accusing the Justice Department of interfering in their investigation with the aim of protecting Hunter Biden. The testimony included a July 30, 2017, WhatsApp text allegedly showing Hunter Biden threatening a Chinese business partner who hadn’t fulfilled some unnamed “commitment.” “I am sitting here with my father,” the note says. All this news comes on the heels of a plea agreement with the Justice Department that deals only with Hunter’s taxes and a gun charge.
Team Biden has responded by going back to the script that worked so well in 2020, talking about how the president loves his son and attributing anything embarrassing to Hunter’s crack-cocaine addiction. “It’s a bunch of malarkey,” the president said earlier this month to a question about bribery. On Monday he tersely answered “no” when asked if the new evidence proves he hadn’t been truthful about his knowledge of Hunter’s business deals.
Democrats say these are unsubstantiated accusations from Republicans. That’s rich, given that what Mr. Comer wants to know is whether the FBI and Justice made an honest effort to substantiate the information about the Bidens. Attorney General Merrick Garland has been careful not to address specifics. On Friday he painted criticisms of his department as a threat to democracy.
At the White House, meanwhile, it was déjà vu all over again. John Kirby, the National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, refused to answer whether the WhatsApp message undermined the president’s repeated claims of ignorance about Hunter’s foreign business dealings. Mr. Kirby declared, “I am not going to address this issue from this podium”—and walked off.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre picked up the ball, making clear that if reporters asked “anything related to—to Hunter, I’m just not going to respond to it from here.”
Whatever this is, it isn’t a winning strategy for 2024. Especially with Republican subpoenas still coming. On Sunday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy raised the possibility of impeaching Mr. Garland over this.
Remember, the whistleblowers are all testifying under pain of a perjury charge if they lie, and their allegations are relatively easy to prove or disprove. IRS career investigator Gary Shapley Jr. testified about a 2022 meeting of prosecutors and FBI and IRS agents he found shocking…….”
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It’s even worse than you think in American education. They indoctrinate the kids with leftist crap and groomer sex ed. They do not teach them the useful stuff they need to prosper. They want victims, not citizens. Throw in a pandemic, and it’s one heck of a storm.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/27/school-performance-is-even-worse-than-you-think-n560858
“By now you have to have lived on a deserted island to not have heard about the disastrous learning loss experienced by students during and after the pandemic.
Americans are almost numb to reality, partly because the problem seems abstract, and partly because the sheer repetition makes the problem seem like the new normal.
Schools themselves are treating the problem as something to be ignored or swept under the rug. New York, for instance, has increased graduation rates by…relaxing the standards. Gotta keep those numbers looking good, even if the reality really sucks.
But the problem is much worse than you think because few people talk about a huge chunk of the problem: many students are barely attending school, and others have opted out and are just missing from the system.”
https://twitter.com/vkoganpolisci/status/1673298721486848000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1673298723273670657%7Ctwgr%5E14d9b2f837f1cb1ecf2caa389814f03dc694d5e9%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Fdavid-strom%2F2023%2F06%2F27%2Fschool-performance-is-even-worse-than-you-think-n560858
“The basic numbers are hideous–wiping out decades of progress in student performance. And there is no sign of progress having been made now that students have been back in school for two years. In fact, in many cases, the decline continues.
Much worse, though, is the lesser-known fact that at least hundreds of thousands and perhaps many more, since not all states have reported–simply dropped off the map and don’t appear to be getting any education at all since the beginning of the pandemic.”
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Click that tweet for more info. It’s bad.
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Meanwhile….
“American Library Association schemes to censor conservatives”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/26/american-library-association-schemes-to-censor-conservatives-n560682
“I have no opinion about the literary merit of Christian literature with positive messages. I am not the demographic it is intended for, and the marketplace will determine whether it succeeds or not.
I do, however, have an opinion about public libraries scheming to keep such literature out of the hands of kids and parents, and apparently, that is what the government-funded American Library Association is doing, explicitly objecting to it because it is “right-wing” and thus incompatible with the mission that libraries have adopted.
We are constantly lectured that attempts to age-restrict books promoting alphabet ideology are “censorship” and must be resisted; but when it comes to Brave Books, a Christian-themed publisher, the ALA is promoting strategies to its members on how to deny permission for events where parents and celebrities gather to read books published by Brave being held in public spaces that libraries provide for meetings.”
“None of this is surprising, of course. It is blindingly obvious that libraries, like public schools, have absolutely no interest in actually ensuring that people have access to a wide range of literature and information from various religious and ideological perspectives.
Instead, they have become playgrounds for the Left to promote its own ideological views, sponsoring programs, pushing books through displays and other methods, and discouraging the consumption and discussion of books and ideas that are not approved of by librarians.”
Librarians–at least the people who dominate librarians’ circles–explicitly see themselves as part of a larger social movement whose goal is shaping how society evolves into a socialist and cultural Marxist utopia.
This is, needless to say, not how they are sold to the public.
The methods discussed for how to exclude Kirk Cameron and Brave Books from meeting in libraries are notable for a lot of reasons, but the one that stands out above all others is the suggestion that adults reading anodyne books to children presents a security risk. This, in light of the fact that libraries across the country work very hard to ensure that Drag Queen Story hours are common in libraries, and often sponsored and paid for by the libraries themselves.”
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Why change what’s worked for nearly a hundred years, in numerous countries, for hundreds of millions of people?
One word. The most offensive word to the secularists of this world.
Jesus.
https://stream.org/please-dont-banish-jesus-from-alcoholics-anonymous/
“A couple years ago I noticed a trend in meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. The meeting was no longer ending with the Lord’s Prayer.
For more than 30 years every meeting I attended ended the same way — with the “Our Father,” then the Serenity Prayer, then the chant of “Keep Coming Back, It Works if You Work It!”
Suddenly, meetings were going straight to the Serenity Prayer and then the final pep chant. The “Our Father” was gone. This seems to be part of a larger trend. As reported in the Daily Mail, one group was censured for saying the prayer:
An Alcoholics Anonymous group is under threat after being censured for reciting the Lord’s Prayer at the start of meetings.
The group in Somerset was told by leaders it had become too Christian-focused and has been removed from the organization’s online directory.
But John Palmer, treasurer of the group in Yeovil, pointed out that the AA was started in the 1930s by Christians and that it adopted and popularized the Serenity Prayer, which is recited at the end of meetings across the world. ‘It’s a ridiculous decision,’ said Mr. Palmer. ‘They’ve removed us from the “Find a meeting” section of the AA website which will prevent new members from finding us. In other words, we’re being shut down.’
A Thirst for Union With God
It has taken me a while to admit this, mostly because I am so reluctant to criticize a fellowship that saved my life when I stopped drinking over three decades ago. But the elimination of the “Our Father” does in fact bother me. Not only because I believe Jesus is the way, the truth and the life, but because Christianity played a crucial role in the formation of AA. Had Judaism or Islam played such a foundational role in the Twelve Steps I would also want that tradition honored. The truth is, however, that Alcoholics Anonymous was founded, and was effective, because of Christians.
AA has its origins in the evangelical Christian Oxford Group. In fact, AA co-founder Bill Wilson credits the Oxford Group for the methodology of AA: “their large emphasis upon the principles of self-survey, confession, restitution, and the giving of oneself in service to others.” Even before the Oxford Group was the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. Wilson wrote to Jung in 1961 to express his “great appreciation” for his efforts. “A certain conversation you once had with one of your patients, a Mr. Rowland H. back in the early 1930’s,” Wilson wrote, “did play a critical role in the founding of our Fellowship.”
Rowland Hazard, an investment banker and former state senator from Rhode Island came to Jung desperate to stop drinking, He kept failing. Finally Jung, in an incredible act of humility and wisdom, told Hazard that only a religious conversion could save him. “His craving for alcohol was the equivalent,” Jung wrote to Wilson, “on a low level, of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness, expressed in medieval language: the union with God.” As Wilson puts it in a letter to Jung: “[Y]ou frankly told him of his hopelessness, so far as any further medical or psychiatric treatment might be concerned. This candid and humble statement of yours was beyond doubt the first foundation stone upon which our Society has since been built.”
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Read the rest.
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So did Putin orchestrate the “coup attempt”?
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No, I heard Trump did.
There is no end to his evil powers. Just ask the media.
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We all have our biases. Something I have seen over the past several years, on Facebook and on here, is that it is too easy to take a brief snippet of a video or brief snippet of a quote at face value. If we see an egregious quote from a public figure whom we like, we get suspicious and check it out, right?
Well, I am assuming so. I know that I do. But we should also do the same when we see an egregious quote from a public figure whom we do not like. (Which is why I was sometimes defending Trump on certain friends’ Facebook posts.)
This brings me to yesterday’s tweet with the brief video of President Biden saying, “. . .and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared.”
It turns out that Biden was joking. Right after that sentence, he went on to say, “Now all kidding aside. . .”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/23/remarks-by-president-biden-and-prime-minister-modi-of-the-republic-of-india-in-meeting-with-senior-officials-and-ceos-of-technology-companies/
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It’s not appropriate for a President to joke about such things, IMHO, especially under this current political climate.
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Janice – I agree. It was a stupid joke.
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And inappropriate.
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Kizzie, it was rather obvious from the clip that he was joking. It was just quite funny.
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Apart from Trump’s evil powers, another theory on the coup attempt is that Putin organized it to have plausible deniability when Wagner uses the tactical nukes Putin has already sent to Belarus. Apparently, the theory goes, the head of Wagner has wanted to use nukes against Kiev since the Ukraineian coup in 2914.
It’s a decent theory, but I wouldn’t want to underestimate Trump, so the evil powers scenario is also quite possible.
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*2014
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God knows!
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Mumsee – But until the “Readers added context” part that is on there now was added, many people, such as many of those who commented on the tweet, were taking it seriously.
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As for whomever originally edited the video and tweeted it, I don’t know if they intended to deceive by leaving off the next part or if they assumed that people would realize that it was a joke, without adding Biden’s statement about kidding. But most of those commenting seem to have taken it at face value as serious.
Over the past several years, I have come across way too many videos that were intentionally deceptively edited. It is even more disturbing when it is done by someone on “our side”. We expect people on “the other side” to be deceptive, but not “our side”.
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Kizzie,
I rarely believe anything on the internet so I don’t actually spend a lot of time reading stuff on there.
But when I watched the snippet, I chuckled because I thought he was trying to be funny but appears to have been doing just that for years (not being funny, selling things). And it sounded to me like he said he told, not sold. But I certainly did not take it seriously.
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“As for whomever originally edited the video and tweeted it, I don’t know if they intended to deceive by leaving off the next part or if they assumed that people would realize that it was a joke, without adding Biden’s statement about kidding. But most of those commenting seem to have taken it at face value as serious.”
That was the RNC’s tweet, who put the video out. That’s the establishment for ya.
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Good.
They need to limit their vendetta to Trump. Leave those who had nothing to do with it out of it.
Nope.
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Mumsee – Yup, so much on the internet is not to be trusted. And yet, so many people take these things at face value.
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“Those who commented on the Biden snippet,” at least on the Wanderer’s site, would be me, and I did take what he said seriously, as seriously as I take anything said when I am half awake as I was when I made my comment. It is a nightmare that a President or anyone in such a high level government position of any nation could say something like that.
And I am up way past my bedtime considering I have been awake since about 4:30 a.m. so I am feeling a bit punchy now. Plea for grace if I have misinterpreted something as I am so apt to do.😀 I need to stick to the prayer thread!
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