30 thoughts on “News/Politics 7-21-23

  1. For the record…..

    This is not the first time nude photos have been brought out in Congress.

    The investigation of Dan Snyder and the Redskins.

    The Marine nude photo scandal in 2017.

    The Matt Gaetz witch hunt.

    The Anthony Weiner censure.

    Matt Gaetz entering the Hunter laptop and it’s contents (the same pics) into the Congressional record.

    And there are more. A simple search shows this. It seems to me those complaining loudest were already not fans of MTG, and they just took the opportunity to attack her.

    Not speaking of anyone here, so no need for anyone to get upset or cranky. I’m speaking of the media and Democrat politicians who suddenly caught the vapors. You know, the same ones pushing far worse images on kids and calling it “education”.

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  2. Oh what a tangled web they weave….

    And they impeached Trump for looking into it.

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  3. Pervs of a feather…..

    And yet Swalwell was raging about the Hunter pics yesterday. Go figure.

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  4. The pics are the squirrel Dems want to put the focus on, to take the focus off Joe and his family’s crimes. Stay on point.

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  6. Censoring speakers at a hearing on censorship is the Dems latest move.

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  8. Bidenomics….

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  9. Bingo.

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  10. If you’re relying on them for your retirement savings, you’d better rethink your choice. They aren’t in it to make you money.

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  11. Aldean, 46, has been accused of promoting violence with his latest song “Try That in a Small Town,” which includes the inflammatory lyrics: “Got a gun that my granddad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round up / Well, that s–t might fly in the city, good luck / Try that in a small town.”

    Nice unbiased verbiage there NYP…”inflammatory” lyrics…

    Colorado has many ills and liberal tilts but this small town got it right a couple years ago:

    https://nationalfile.com/video-horseback-colorado-residents-run-antifa-blm-out-of-town/

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  12. Greene really did launch a squirrel; nice timing too. I’m sure the other Republicans are not impressed.

    Curious in the other cases were the nudes enlarged and held up to the cameras or where they simply entered into the record? And did any Rep send nudes to their constituents before Greene sent Hunter’s pics?

    The comparison to school materials seems odd to me. Although gr 7 and up, may have literature that may describe graphic content; I don’t recall any amateur porn being held up by teachers.

    I thought Schutlz was primaried and had to check – the voters should’ve gotten rid of her when they had a chance. I like RFK’s left wing populism but not anti-vax or Ukraine.

    We’ll agree on Blackrock, Vanguard etc.

    And of course refugees should get health care. That’s what human beings should do – take care of each other.

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  13. Are the new documents being tweeted just a rehash of previous accusations? It sounds similar. Ukrainian politics were/are a mess and it’s almost impossible to determine who is the corrupt and lying official (probably all of them)

    Its been pretty well established the Shokin was fired not because of Biden but due to his refusal to investigate who ordered the shooting at Maidenhand and at the request of the EU who felt he was corrupt and favoured Russian oligarchs. According to Ukrainian officials, he was demanding bribes from Bursima to stop investigating. But to be fair, Zlochevsky was also charged and fled the country; he purchased Cypriot citizenship and moved to Monaco. Nothing happening in Ukrainian politics especially in 2014 -16 should be taken as truthful.

    The documents seem to lose track of the year — one point it says 2015 or 2016, they couldn’t remember.

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  14. Amusingly, Aldean apparently never lived in a small town. The left is throwing out plenty of memes, some even funny. Small town bravado falls apart pretty quick when confronted with urban life.

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  15. NJ — I’m okay with providing health care, housing, etc to refugees who come to Canada. When crossing a border to claim refugee status, you are not breaking the law. However, even prisons provide health care which I’m also okay with.

    Its the human thing to do. Archaeological digs suggest Neanderthals took care of elderly, disabled and those with temporary ailments (broken legs, etc) that required assistance. I’d like to think we’re not regressing.

    Work doesn’t equal rights. And work is often not properly reimbursed. If hard work created wealth, African women would be millionaires and Musk would be working in his dad’s emerald mine.

    Oh that guy —- well he wasn’t nude. He wasn’t showing amateur porn to the kids, he was supposed to be teaching shop classes (welding, auto, etc) They should’ve fired him for breaking safety regulations in the shop. From what I understand, he was upset with the school board over another matter and deliberately dressed as an outlandish trans woman to troll and embarrass them. He succeeded.

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  16. Soooo predictable.

    “Media Pound ‘Sound of Freedom,’ Ignore Biden Crime Family

    Reporters X-ray every element of indie smash while downplaying Dem scandal”

    https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/media-sound-of-freedom-ignore-biden/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=media-sound-of-freedom-ignore-biden

    “Reporters are treating “Sound of Freedom” like it’s Watergate 2.0.

    Meanwhile, media outlets are either downplaying or covering up one of the biggest news cycles in recent memory. The drip-drip-drip of proof the U.S. government rushed to protect a Democrat’s son from the long arm of the law matters little to the Fourth Estate.”

    “To be fair, it’s hard to cover a scandal that goes all the way to the White House when you’re savaging an over-performing indie film.

    Priorities.

    Major media outlets have pulled out all the stops to cover “Sound of Freedom,” which just shattered the $100 million mark at the U.S. box office. That’s stunning for a film made by a major studio but left on the shelf for five years.

    Even Best Picture winners like “Parasite” ($53 million) and “Everything Everywhere All at Once” ($77 million) couldn’t break that mark stateside. And “Sound of Freedom” may earn much more in the weeks to come.

    It should be a major story for entertainment outlets, and maybe some mainstream platforms.

    Yet coverage of the film is exhaustive … and exhaustively negative. Outlet after outlet has attacked “Freedom” as if it featured under-age girls gyrating for our sick pleasure. Oh, wait, the press defended Netflix’s “Cuties” three years ago.”

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  17. The Master no like it when you leave the plantation….

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/07/21/will-democrats-live-up-to-their-vote-calling-out-racism-against-clarence-thomas-n2626009

    “On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee did their markup on “ethics” legislation that is targeting the U.S. Supreme Court, all while hit pieces have come out against the conservative justices, especially Justice Clarence Thomas. Republicans have vowed to block it from passing. While the Supreme Court Code of Conduct Act did only pass out of Committee with votes from all Democrats, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) got an amendment in there that condemned racism against Thomas.

    The amendment passed unanimously, which might be somewhat surprising, given that Democrats themselves are the ones who have gone after Thomas with such vitriol, as has been brought up at previous hearings. They also took some time in getting there with their support. As is the case whenever Kennedy makes a point, his remarks about the amendment are one for the ages.

    Kennedy needed to dumb it down for Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) who needed clarification that the amendment would only refer to Thomas, as she insisted in bringing up “we condemn racism against any justice.”

    “I don’t understand the reluctance to accept the fact that Justice Clarence Thomas, who happens to be a black man, has been the butt of a lot of racist statements. And I don’t understand reluctance to condemn those. And that’s what my amendment does,” Kennedy pointed out, as he went on to make clear “I don’t want it watered down, I don’t want to bubble wrap it, I don’t want to sugar coat it, I want to say, big as Dallas, the United States Senate condemns all these racist things that have been said against Justice Clarence Thomas.”

    Kennedy also reminded that another senator could simply put forth another amendment “to condemn every racist thing that has ever been said in the history of ever,” which he would vote for.

    It’s not as if the examples aren’t there. Less than a week before the markup took place, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who once served in the U.S. House of Representatives, likened Thomas to the house slave Stephen in “Django Unchained,” who turned on his fellow slaves and was loyal to his sadistic master to the very end.”

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  18. Propagandists ahead.

    “So Called” Journalism: NBC Calls the Two Respected IRS Veterans “So Called Whistleblowers”

    “So Called” Journalism: NBC Calls the Two Respected IRS Veterans “So Called Whistleblowers”

    “On Thursday’s broadcast of NBC’s “MTP Now,” NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent Ali Vitali discussed the new release of the 1023 form “to bolster these investigations that we saw them do earlier this week with IRS so-called whistleblowers about Hunter Biden.”

    Figures like Joe Scarborough on MSNBC joined in the disparagement. In interviewing House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) who actually called the corruption investigation “dangerous,” Scarborough said “we have these so-called whistleblowers who are saying, yeah, we’re really angry … It’s just a clown show with these House Republicans, isn’t it?”

    It was reminiscent of how Democrats attacked journalists who came forward to offer detailed records of censorship by the Biden Administration. Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-VI, the ranking member of the House Judiciary subcommittee, attacked the reporters appearing as witnesses as “so-called journalists” and said they were “a direct threat” to the safety of others by reporting the censorship story. Plaskett also later called for the possible arrest of Taibbi.

    It is all part of an effort to attack the credibility of those who raise corruption or censorship. Even Special Counsel John Durham was warned by Rep. Steve Cohen that he would end up burning “at the bottom of a pyre” if he did not change his views of basis for the Russian collusion investigation.

    I wrote years ago that the media had bought into the Biden spin of the corruption story to the point that they would have a difficult time acknowledging the growing evidence of influence peddling and special dealing. Even after Joe Biden’s discussions of Hunter’s deals were revealed, the media continued to deny it.

    Now, when two classic and credible whistleblowers come forward at great personal and professional risk, the media has to tag them with a “so called” pejorative reference.

    What is left is so-called journalism where readers are given shaded and shaped accounts to advance a particular political narrative. It has the hallmarks of a new type of state media, where journalists follow an agenda not by coercion but consent.

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  19. I have no problem caring for the elderly and disabled. These dang people are crossing over talking on their cell phones wearing Nikes.
    And yes… it is expected one works for their wages….that’s how it works. Too many entitled people sitting on their arses with hand out.

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  20. The hollywoodintoto article was weird. Comparing media coverage of a movie to a news story? And then wondering why an indictment of a former president is the lead story? You should be able to criticise media coverage of one story without referring to another. Sound of Freedom has some problems with it; and the media can cover it. They don’t need to cover something else to “balance” it out.

    Criticism of the lack of ethics in the Supreme Court has moved past just criticising Thomas, even though he’s the worst offender. They’ve started looking at the actions of Roberts, Alito, Sotomayor, etc. There’s a lot of issues in the Court and there’s no need to focus on just Thomas (although he’s an easy target).

    Why did the article say “IRS Veterans” and not “IRS employees” the latter is far more accurate whereas the former could lead to confusion. And “clown show” is an accurate term for Republican behaviour from MTG’s nudes to “whistleblowers” who disappear and then found to be fugitives.

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  21. So they have cell phones and Nikes? Does that disqualify them from health care? Imagine imposing that rule on every resident in America. Cell phones and data are incredibly cheap outside of Canada and the US, especially Androids. And yes refugees like the homeless all have one – at one time they weren’t homeless or a refugee and they could afford a phone.

    The rich do not work for their wages. Working for a wage is not how you gain wealth. It’s not how it works. Instead of criticising the poor, the refugees etc., we need to question how the rich are so incredibly wealthy. When the CEO of Disney makes more in a day than the average actor or writer does in a year, we know know somebody is not working for their wage as hard as their employees.

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  22. Their “rights”….yep….

    A group of illegal immigrants holding up signs demanding free housing and paid job training held a protest in Chicago on Wednesday.

    The group of about 20 illegal aliens held up signs reading, “We Need Paid Job Training” and “We Need Jobs, We Need Housing” during Wednesday’s protest. Other demands included access to quality food, water infrastructure, and “safe” neighborhoods.

    https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/watch-illegal-immigrants-demand-free-housing-job-training-during-chicago-protest-cmc/

    How about we take care of our veterans….and our elderly who have paid into the system their entire lives.

    Biden/Trump=apples oranges (orange would be Trump I suppose!)

    Trump is a businessman. Biden and been on the dole with the government his entire life and he extorts money from other countries for favors.

    Free enterprise….you work you make money. You invest your money your make or even lose money. Thankful we are not a socialist country …. yet

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  23. And speaking of “try that in a small town” and all the attacker from Hollywood….
    They sit in their gated communities with their body guards and millions. They say they live in a small town…Nashville? Really?
    They and others attempt to deflect the meaning of the song…that this country is out of control and it is time to take it back.
    It isn’t racist, it is not inciting violence…it is saying enough is enough. Laws are written to protect. Break them you pay the price…although in some parts of this country you can steal, rob and murder with no consequence.
    Jason was born in Macon…not particularly “small” but certainly way smaller than many cities like Colorado Springs.
    When we moved here the Springs was a smallish town…no more.

    Here is what he had to say

    https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=660721189426011&set=a.477857437712388&__cft__%5B0%5D=AZUOMGlS6MShdv45gLDwn4sNzXNe6TdtLx_lIkljnmO49zKt-1ua5bIfOWfEu0y7XJtJLvJ92wfvL9CC6oVeqaTsVasGVN2cZYaoQuCjj42w-pTkFQD5gLjuWFN96RRX1nQaKEwoaWmi6pozlnAXFYRMYORvCoCJbdUjPmp6eHRjJQbcN2AMZ3j7kuYO4kpOt9u1tnSi7hJuCHkg47yyfU5-&__tn__=EH-y-R

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