20 thoughts on “News/Politics 2-19-24

  1. This is how the uniparty has been laundering money into campaign donations. By using unknowing, usually elderly people, as “ghost” donors.

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  2. Biden’s invasion.

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  3. Even Dems know this won’t stand on appeal, but the point is just to muddy him up before the election. I would hope even NTers can see this.

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  5. Yay, diversity!

    Or something…

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  6. Why is Rhode Island enabling child rapists?

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  7. Nothing to see here, just yet another corrupt Dem DA….

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  8. It’s too graphic for adults to hear, yet they tell you it’s fine for kids to read.

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  9. At least a few NTers are getting it.

    “Powerful piece by Steven Calabresi, a vocal Never Trumper:“The civil fraud judgment against Donald Trump is a travesty and an unjust political act rivaled only in American politics by the killing of former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton by Vice President Aaron Burr.  If the New York State appellate courts do not reverse this judgment, the U.S. Supreme Court MUST grant cert on this case and reverse Judge Engeron’s outrageous decisions.”

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  10. Hello, AJ

    Hope all is well with you.

    With the House speaker’s refusal to consider the Senate immigration/Ukraine bill in the House, Democrats believe they can campaign on immigration and the border. They will point out they had a bill ready to go but it was killed by political expediency dictated by Trump and House friends. 

    Illegal crossings were in decline from its high in 1998 and bottom out roughly in 2008. They remained low until a sharp uptick around 2018-2019 with a quick drop back to what was the norm due to Covid in 2020. Once Covid rules were finished it started to climb and hasn’t stopped since. Who was president at the time Clinton, Bush, Obama or Trump seems to have little to do with it.

    Interesting to note, the Border patrol no longer counts apprehensions and expulsions separately but has merged the stat together as “encounters” — seems a good way to increase the data.

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  11. Not sure why Eric is whining – his Dad made a lot of money and then cheated on his taxes. Is the City of New York supposed to thank him for making himself money? and cheating?

    Of course, it’s targeted – NYC hates Trump; has for decades. He is/was the ultimate slum lord. Doesn’t take away the fact he is guilty.

    American campaign finances astound me every time. If I take my congressman out for lunch prior to an important vote, it’s illegal but if I give a million to his PAC, it’s completely above board. I can’t give a DA a hundred dollars for reelection but I can take a Supreme Court judge for a million dollar vacation. 

    You can hack away with a ball point pen but Dominion voting systems have a paper record. You just need to count them by hand.

    For this and the above comment – HRW

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  12. Oak Park, Ill., mentioned in one of those earlier posts here, is where some of my ancestors put down roots, nice town.

    Good to see you HRW, hope all has been well. -dj

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  13. I went to church in Oak Park for nearly 14 years, DJ, and lived right on the edge of Chicago (half a block into Chicago, right next to Oak Park) for about half that time. Property taxes are insane. When friends in Oak Park died, their children moved to sell their house pretty quickly, since they couldn’t really afford the $750 a month of property tax–and that was more than 15 years ago (my rent was cheaper than the property tax of several people I knew, and none of them lived in luxury). The friends had been married nearly 70 years, and had lived in the same house all but about 10 years of that time; it was a two-story house, but hardly a mansion, maybe 2500 square feet (?).

    Oak Park also has laws of how many dogs and cats you can own. It’s just one or two dogs, and I think you can have different numbers of cats depending on whether they’re indoor cats or outdoor cats. To keep the riffraff of Chicago out of their fair city, they have two or three hours in the middle of the night that no one can park on the street, so most residents who don’t have a garage rent a parking space; my church rented its parking spaces to neighbors, with the stipulation the car had to be moved by Sunday morning. Since Oak Park schools were considered much better schools than Chicago ones, Oak Park was quite careful to keep non-residents out. But it was a very “progressive” city, and my friend and I ended up deciding we didn’t really want to live in it, so we rented in Chicago instead (much, much cheaper rent since it was an all-black neighborhood, but less of a sense the government was watching your every move).

    I always laughed on entering Oak Park, though, and seeing the sign announcing it to be the “original birthplace of Ernest Hemingway.” It did have some lovely homes and some fun places to shop, but I didn’t shop there often because parking was a nuisance. (I don’t like meters.)

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  14. What church did you attend there? My mom and I were there when we spent time in Illinois some years back and I remember it being very attractive, with some beautiful old architecture. We spent quite a bit of time in the library there where my mom did family research (before the days of the Internet, this was).

    -dj

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  15. HRW, I am with you 100% on campaign finance. I have always felt that if the money spent on re-election were to be spent on social programs, rather than smear ads, we would be better served. It is hundred of millions of dollars every year.

    And while we are at it, I think that congress should only be in session part of the time, and all legislators should live in a dorm and eat at the cafeteria. That would cut out most of the influence of lobbyists, and being in close proximity so much of the time, would force our representatives to work together to pass legislation that is good for the country, rather than just 1 party. They should also be required to spend the rest of their time in their home states, meeting with the people they actually are supposed to represent. 

    OK…end of rant.

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