Month: October 2021

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Capitol Insurrection Congress Social Media WTF?!

Greene Attacks AOC To Divert Attention From Her Being Named As A Jan. 6 Co-Conspirator

The walls are closing in on Republicans who took part in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and matters have been made even worse for several of them who were named in an explosive article from Rolling Stone.

According to that article, Republican members of Congress were intimately involved in planning the Capitol riots:

The two sources, both of whom have been granted anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, describe participating in “dozens” of planning briefings ahead of that day when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol as his election loss to President Joe Biden was being certified. 

“I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically,” the organizer says. “I remember talking to probably close to a dozen other members at one point or another or their staffs.”

Along with Greene, the conspiratorial pro-Trump Republican from Georgia who took office earlier this year, the pair both say the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).

“We would talk to Boebert’s team, Cawthorn’s team, Gosar’s team like back to back to back to back,” says the organizer.  

That revelation led Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to suggest any member of Congress who helped plot what transpired on Jan. 6 should be given the boot:

Greene read that posting and responded in a manner that almost sounds like a an admission of guilt. Her tweets to AOC were shrill and did nothing to deny the Rolling Stone report. Take a look:

Did you notice Greene had two items that were numbered as “6”? The woman is so dense that she can’t even count correctly.

There’s also the false equivalency between what protesters did in the aftermath of the 2020 killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis and the Capitol insurrection. Greene can complain all she wants about BLM protests, but none of them attacked the Capitol, and none of them are elected members of Congress. She, on the other hand, has praised the domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 and is indeed a member of the House.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and the other House members identified in the Rolling Stone article need to be subpoenaed and compelled to testify before the Jan. 6 Select Committee. If they refuse, they should be referred to the Justice Department for charges of criminal contempt.

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U.S. Senate

West Virginians Are Furious With Joe Manchin For Blocking Federal Aid They Need To Survive: Report

Ruth and James Jones of Charleston, West Virginia, are raising their two grandchildren, ages 10 and 17, and are struggling to get by.

James works part-time as a cook at Applebee’s and Ruth is on Social Security.

So it was a blessing to both of them when the child tax credit was put forth by the Biden administration and made part of the American Recovery Act, according to the Washington Post:

“Like thousands of other West Virginians, their financial burden has been eased since July by monthly federal payments, championed by the Biden administration, to support families with children. Now, however, those funds — which total $500 a month — could vanish if lawmakers agree to the demands of their own senator, Joe Manchin.”

James, who is now 64, has a message for his senator:

“We want Manchin to take a little bit more active role in protecting us as far as West Virginians. We’re not a bunch of deadbeats. We work for a living and we’re due.”

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That same anger mixed with pain is being played out across the state, with Beth Zarate, president and chief executive of Catholic Charities West Virginia, noting:

“For some of our clients, this is keeping them above water right now. West Virginia just has so many challenges. We struggle with jobs, we struggle with our people leaving our state for other jobs. So the Child Tax Credit has been huge.”

A month ago, Manchin said he couldn’t support extending the child tax credits for another year:

“There’s no work requirements whatsoever. There’s no education requirements whatsoever for better skillsets. Don’t you think, if we’re going to help the children, that the people should make some effort?”

The Child Tax Credit has been especially helpful in West Virginia, which remains one of the poorest states in the country. And the purpose of the program is to help lift children and their parents out of poverty, which polls show is supported by a the vast majority of Americans:

In West Virginia, 170,000 children became newly eligible under the tax credit expansion, which was included in Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package passed in March. The changes to the tax credit raised the maximum benefit from $2,000 to $3,600 per child per year and dramatically expanded the share of poor families receiving the credit. In July, the food insecurity rate in West Virginia households with children dropped from 11.6 percent to 8.4 percent, and in September a survey found 86 percent of West Virginians felt the payments had made a “huge difference.”

Despite those facts, Manchin continues to be an obstacle to helping alleviate the suffering of his own constituents, and that threatens the health and futures of hundreds of thousands of kids in West Virginia, which doesn’t seem to bother the senator in the least.

All of this has left many wondering who exactly Joe Manchin is working for: Them, or the lobbyists who are busily pumping money into his campaign to help get him re-elected to yet another term in 2025?

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Forbes Calls Investing In Trump’s New Social Media Platform ‘A Sucker’s Bet’

Even though failed, one-term former President Donald Trump’s latest business venture — a social media platform he’s dubbed Truth Social — won’t actually be operational until early next year at the soonest, he’s already raising money to finance the project, which has Chuck Jones of Forbes warning that putting a dime into the Trump project is “a sucker’s bet.”

Investors have been somewhat bullish early on:

Former President Trump announced on Thursday that a newly formed company, TMTG or Trump Media & Technology Group, would merge with Digital World Acquisition Corporation. Digital World is a SPAC or Special Purpose Acquisition Company that was formed in September and whose stock price had essentially been trading around $10 before the TMTG announcement. On Thursday the stock rose to $52 before closing at $45.50 and on Friday it hit a high of $175 and closed at $94.20.

From $10 to $52, then back down to to $45.50 and finally closing at $94.20. That’s some major fluctuation in such a short time, but Jones explains people are betting on a company that has no revenue and no earnings, which is just as absurd and unstable as it sounds:

As Digital World’s IPO prospectus stated, “We have neither engaged in any operations nor generated any revenues to date. Our only activities since inception have been organizational activities and those necessary to prepare for this offering. Following this offering, we will not generate any operating revenues until after completion of our initial business combination.”

Does that sound like something you want in your stock portfolio? If so, then you should probably hand over control of your investment decisions to a 10-year-old and let them choose what stocks to buy on your behalf.

There’s also the matter of the only other publicly traded company Trump has ever been a part of: Trump Entertainment Resorts, which included most of the Donald’s Atlantic City casinos. How did that work out? According to the Washington Post:

“The company operated for roughly two decades, starting in 1995. For Trump’s investors, it was a disaster: The company lost more than $1 billion, its stock price nosedived, and it filed for bankruptcy three times, in 2004, 2009 and 2014. … But Trump himself did well: The struggling company paid him more than $44 million in salary, bonuses and other compensation.”

Trump did great, but investors got fleeced. That’s the story of Donald Trump’s life. He’s a failure and he’s always been one. He just has others pay for his ignorance. And for some reason, they keep falling for his con job.

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Congress Social Media WTF?!

‘Ghoulish’ Lauren Boebert Slammed For Tweet Mocking Alec Baldwin After Tragedy On Movie Set

Less than 24 hours after actor Alex Baldwin accidentally shot and killed award-winning cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie “Rust,” Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) posted a hateful, tone-deaf tweet making light of the situation and attacking Baldwin.

Boebert referenced a tweet Baldwin sent seven years ago in the aftermath of the police shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man who was gunned down by a police officer in Ferguson, Missiouri.

Even though the two events are not even vaguely similar, Boebert sent out this tweet:

Reaction on social media was immediate. Even former Trump White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah was disgusted by Boebert’s attempt to use a tragedy in order to score cheap political points:

 

Democratic Congressman Ruben Gallego (AZ) also lit into Boebert:

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Donald Trump Social Media

Meghan McCain Claps Back When Trump Calls Her A ‘Low Life’

Even though it was established long ago that failed, one-term former President Donald Trump reads almost nothing except the minimal words on Big Mac boxes and Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets, the twice-impeached loser still gets incredibly triggered whenever anyone releases a book and mentions him in a less than flattering manner.

For example, Meghan McCain has written a book, Bad Republican, that was released on Thursday. And she does indeed mention the fact that Trump talked in disparaging ways about her late father, John McCain.

Meghan is also letting it be known that she isn’t a fan of the Donald’s favorite child, Ivanka, or her husband, Jared, telling Bravo host Andy Cohen that the two showed up at her father’s funeral, even though they hadn’t been invited:

“They should never have come, they had no business being there, I remember seeing them and seeing her specifically. They had no goddamn business being there and it’s something that still angers me, clearly.”

That led the ex-president to offer up an enraged reaction, issuing a statement through his spokesperson in which he angrily ranted:

Isn’t it funny that Meghan McCain, who has always been a bully and basically a low life, is now complaining that it was she who was bullied by the Slobs and Radical Left maniacs of “The View.” At the request of many of her representatives, I made it possible for her father to have the world’s longest funeral, designed and orchestrated by him, even though I was never, to put it mildly, a fan.

In his own very special way, he was a RINO’s RINO. Despite his fighting against me, I won Arizona by a lot in 2016 and won Arizona by even more in 2020—unfortunately the vote counters in 2020 were far more important than the candidate (See the determinative Report issued Wednesday by the Arizona Auditors!). I have since found out that McCain, who was close to last in his class at Annapolis, sent the fake and totally discredited scam Dossier to the FBI, hoping to stop the “Trump Train.”

In any event, Meghan should fight the Communists instead of explaining how they made her “physically ill.” She should fight back against the Losers of The View the way she fights against very good and well-meaning Republicans, and she would do herself a world of good!

Wow! That’s a hell of a lot of anger, pettiness, and delusion for one person, but we’re talking about Donald Trump, so it’s par for the course when it comes to one of the most hateful people to ever slither across the face of the planet.

Rather than try to do a point-by-point rebuttal that Trump would never have taken the time to read, Meghan McCain countered with a perfectly-worded tweet that put Donnie right in his place:

Yep, that pretty much covers it. And even though Meghan McCain may not be your cup of tea, either, at least she isn’t as deplorable as the tangerine shit stain.