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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 10:56:30 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/48589/watch-trump-has-rally-crowd-cheer-vote-official-amanda-prestigiacomo?ampOn Tuesday night, President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign to a massive crowd at the Amway Center arena in Orlando, Florida. During the raucous event, the always-interactive Trump had his amped supporters cheer-vote on his official 2020 slogan. “What do we use as our theme, as our statement? I’m gonna ask you to vote on it. … Let me just hear by your cheers what you like,” Trump instructed the crowd. The president’s supporters had two options: the classic “Make America Great Again” — which Trump declared the “greatest” slogan “of all time” — or “Keep America Great.” After the vote-cheering and an impromptu USA chant, Trump declared “Keep America Great” the winner and officially launched his 2020 re-election run. “‘Keep America Great’ … pretty good. We are going to keep on fighting for every man, and woman, and child all across this land. With every ounce of heart and might, and sweat and soul, we’re going to keep making America great again, and then we will, indeed, keep America great,” the president said. “And that is why, tonight, I stand before you to officially launch my campaign for a second term as President of the United States,” Trump announced. According to Yello, Trump has actually had the “Keep America Great” slogan trademarked since before he was president: “The trademark for “Keep America Great” was filed for Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. on January 18, 2017, two days before he was sworn into office and subsequently filed for reelection, and 882 days before his scheduled 2020 kickoff rally in Orlando, Florida. Trump is known for thinking ahead when it comes to political branding; he trademarked 'Make America Great Again' on November 19, 2012.” However, during an April fundraiser, the outlet noted, Trump seemed less than enthused by the “Keep American Great” slogan. “KAG. I don’t know if I like that as much,” he said, also suggesting both slogans be used on the 2020 campaign trail. Trump, as he did during the entire 2016 presidential election save the day of election, is trailing in the polls against Democrat rivals in hypothetical match-ups. Quinnipiac University polling released last week shows Trump unable to crack 42% support and losing a head-to-head against former Vice President Joe Bided by 13 points, according to Bloomberg News. “Internal Trump campaign polling has also shown Biden leading Trump or within the margin of error in a number of key states for several months, according to a person familiar with the data,” Bloomberg noted. “Trump has publicly insisted that all of his campaign’s internal polling shows him winning re-election.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 12:26:52 GMT -6
“Know what I was most proud of?” former Vice President Joe Biden said last week during a campaign event. “For eight years, there wasn’t one single hint of a scandal or a lie.”
Maybe his memory is going (he is 76 years old, after all). But I can think of a bunch of scandals — right off the top of my head — that occurred during the two terms in office for the Obama-Biden administration. Here are a few of the biggest, in no particular order:
Benghazi scandal
Terrorists stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith were killed, as were CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. President Obama slept through the attack and then headed to Las Vegas for a fundraising event. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly said it wasn’t a terror attack, but an investigation later found Clinton told daughter Chelsea — in an email that very night — that al Qaeda was responsible. Clinton later deleted 30,000 emails, and famously uttered in a hearings months later: “What difference at this point does it make?” A scandal, to be sure, and not the only deadly scandal, at that.
‘Fast and Furious’ scandal
Also known as the “ATF gunwalking scandal,” Operation Fast and Furious involved the Arizona Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms allowing licensed firearms dealers in the U.S. to sell weapons to illegal buyers. The brilliant plan was for those buyers to sell the weapons to Mexican drug cartel leaders, and U.S. officials would then track the guns and arrest the bad guys. Some 2,000 weapons were sold; just more than 700 were ever recovered — and no high-level cartel figures were ever arrested. Instead, some of the weapons were used in crimes on both sides of the border, including when U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in December 2010. In the end, Attorney General Eric Holder became the first sitting member of the U.S. Cabinet ever to be held in contempt of Congress. No scandals? Please.
Trump campaign spying
Then, of course, there’s the Obama-Biden administration spying on the Trump campaign. Officials in their administration secured wiretapping warrants — with suspect backing — to spy on Trump, who they feared might just pull off the win in 2016. “I think spying did occur,” Attorney General William Barr testified before Congress in April, adding that “I’m not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly.” The authorization to spy on the campaign was approved by a secret court based on a bogus dossier funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign. After his win, the dossier was used to impose a special counsel to investigate the spurious allegations that Trump colluded with Russia to influence the election. Special counsel Robert Mueller, after a 22-month probe, found no collusion whatsoever. “Anything the Russians did concerning the 2016 Election was done while Obama was President. He was told about it and did nothing! Most importantly, the vote was not affected,” Trump tweeted after Mueller’s report was released in April by the Justice Department.
IRS ‘tea party’ scandal
In 2013, the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative political groups, many connected to the tea party movement, applying for tax-exempt status. Judicial Watch, a watchdog group, secured documents showing that the handling of tea party applications was directed out of the agency’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. “The documents also show extensive pressure on the IRS by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) to shut down conservative-leaning tax-exempt organizations. The IRS’ emails by [Director] Lois Lerner detail her misleading explanations to investigators about the targeting of Tea Party organizations,” the group wrote. Those documents also showed IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House nearly 160 times while the IRS was actively targeting tea party groups. Scandalous, right?
Secret Service scandal
In 2012, several members of the U.S. Secret Service got snagged in a prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, while preparing for a visit by Obama. What’s more, a member of the White House advance team — aiding in the preparations for the president’s visit to the Summit of the Americas — was also implicated in the scandal. At first the White House said no staffers were involved, but when evidence emerged to the contrary, the White House sought to cover it up. “We were directed at the time … to delay the report of the investigation until after the 2012 election,” David Nieland, the lead investigator on the Colombia case for the homeland security agency, told Senate staffers, according to The Washington Post. Sure sounds like a scandal, doesn’t it?
Oof … we’re running out of room, there are so many scandals. Here are a few more.
⦁ In 2012, Obama’s Department of Justice wiretapped at the phones of at least 20 reporters at The Associated Press, monitoring “both the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters” and the main line used by reporters in the House of Representatives. The DOJ also investigated the activities of Fox News reporter James Rosen in what it said was a potential crime in a probe of classified leaks. Scandal.
⦁ In 2016, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch refused to answer questions from Congress about the Obama administration paying $1.6 billion to Iran. The whole operation was shady — and secret — and just happened to coincide with the release of four hostages. No members of Congress knew about the deal. Big scandal.
⦁ Then there was the huge scandal that the PolitiFact called “The Lie of the Year”: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” How is “The Lie of the Year” not a scandal?
And there are more, plenty more. But if Biden can’t think of a single scandal, maybe President Trump is right. Maybe Biden really isn’t mentally fit for the presidency. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 12:49:19 GMT -6
Couple this with the fact New York voters are not happy about the law that gives illegals drivers licenses: www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-19/ca-voters-not-happy-free-medical-illegalsCA Voters Not Happy With Free Medical For Illegals ...... Free health care for illegals may have Gov. Newsom and the Dems grinning as the voters grimace... As the California state legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom dislocate their shoulders in the hearty backslapping of their self-congratulatory moment in American history, the rest of the nation is snarling and spitting over the lunacy of the left coast Democrats. That is, according to the new Rasmussen Reports poll, which asked if illegal immigrants should receive free health care. The answer was a resounding no. No way, no how, nuh-uh, nada.
It was a brief two-question survey that spoke volumes: “Do you favor or oppose making health care benefits available to young low-income illegal immigrants in your state? Is it offensive to refer to someone who has entered this country illegally as ‘an illegal immigrant?’”
Out of 1,000 online and telephone respondents, “31% of Likely U.S. Voters favor making health care benefits available to low-income illegal immigrants under the age of 26 in their state. Fifty-five percent (55%) are opposed, while 13% are not sure.” One can only imagine the responses to question number two.
The only surprising statistic is that 13% had not yet picked a side in what might be the watershed issue for 2020 presidential candidates.Force Fed Mandates Gag Americans Last week, Newsom’s quest for universal healthcare – including illegal residents – was passed by the legislature as part of a $215 billion budget. He was self-assured and puffing in his peacock fashion, declaring, “We’re going to get it. We’re committed to universal health care. Universal health care means everybody…We will lead a massive expansion of health care, and that’s a major deviation from the past.’’ Laurel Lucia, health care program director at the University of California-Berkeley Labor Center, gushed excitement at expanding Medi-Cal to illegal immigrants while forcing taxpayers to foot the bill through individual-mandate penalties. “The bigger reason to do this is about values,” says the woman who seems not to care about legal citizens in need of health care benefits. And to boil it down in dollars, for those Californians who do not buy insurance, they will now be hit with a penalty of $695 or 2% of their household income, whichever figure is higher.But Lucia went a tad over the top with “What kind of state do we want to live in?” Funny you should ask. Many Californians – and other Americans, for that matter – are aghast that 130,000 plus people in the Golden State are homeless, living in undeniable squalor, and not only contracting highly contagious medieval diseases but spreading them to others. Perhaps the state should round up the unwashed American masses, clean them up, and give them free healthcare so the rest of the nation can avoid the Black Death. Newsom’s Noose Gov. Newsom campaigned in part on universal healthcare, and it’s no secret he has his sights on a national run in the future – perhaps president in 2024 depending on whether President Trump trumps the progressive left in the 2020 winner take all contest. But protecting illegal aliens before addressing the most significant crisis his state faces – homelessness – is not going to help him avoid the political gallows. The state’s current crisis of reality — highest poverty rate in the country, no affordable housing, taxpayers fleeing to points east, and vicious identity politicsranking California much further left of the nation as a whole — are becoming serious millstones for this progressive governor. Add to the list of Newsom’s liabilities, the boilerplate individual health plan in California starts with premiums of more than $5,000 a year and annual deductibles can skyrocket to several thousand dollars each year. Which means folks are going to have to decide to pay thousands for private health plans or be taxed in penalty thousands to pay for illegal aliens.Perhaps the good governor should take stock of what Americans think about his plan to give aid to illegals as his fellow countrymen suffer on his once gold-paved streets. He may find his holier-than-thou ideology could soon blow up on him — and signing this budget might be the match he strikes and regrets.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 12:59:00 GMT -6
www.nationalreview.com/news/2020-democrats-scold-joe-biden-for-praising-civility-of-segregationist-senators/amp/A number of former vice president Joe Biden’s rivals for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination chastised him Wednesday after he lauded the civility and pragmatism of the southern segregationist senators he worked with early in his career. During a fundraiser at the upscale Carlyle Hotel in New York Tuesday night, Biden praised deceased Democratic senators James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, both of whom vocally supported segregation, for their civility and willingness to compromise. In response, New York mayor and 2020 presidential aspirant Bill De Blasio recounted the abhorrent views espoused by the southern senators and urged Biden to apologize for his comments. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, who is polling well behind Biden in early primary states, also criticized the former Delaware senator for holding up the conduct of openly racist lawmakers as an example to be aspired to. “Vice President Biden’s relationships with proud segregationists are not the model for how we make America a safer and more inclusive place for black people, and for everyone. I have to tell Vice President Biden, as someone I respect, that he is wrong for using his relationships with Eastland and Talmadge as examples of how to bring our country together,” Booker said. “And frankly, I’m disappointed that he hasn’t issued an immediate apology for the pain his words are dredging up for many Americans. He should.” During the fundraiser, Biden, who was first elected to the Senate in 1973, argued that his experience negotiating with southern Democrats decades ago would enable him to break through the partisan hostilities that today prevent legislative progress. “I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland,” Mr. Biden said, slipping briefly into a Southern accent, according to the pool report. “He never called me ‘boy,’ he always called me ‘son.’” “Well guess what?” he continued. “At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today you look at the other side and you’re the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don’t talk to each other anymore.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 19, 2019 16:21:18 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/19/cory-booker-on-reparations-u-s-yet-to-truly-acknowledge-white-supremacy-that-tainted-this-countrys-founding/Testifying Wednesday before a House subcommittee on reparations for slavery, 2020 White Houe hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said that the United States has thus far failed to adequately address the “white supremacy that tainted this country’s founding.” The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is holding a hearing on subcommittee member Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s (D-TX) H.R. 40 bill to establish a commission to study reparations. The panel invited Booker, Hollywood actor and left-wing activist Danny Glover, author Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others to discuss Lee’s measure that was re-introduced in January. In April, the New Jersey Democrat introduced his own version to the Senate. Booker, who testified first, said the U.S has “yet to truly acknowledge and grapple with the racism and white supremacy that tainted this country’s founding and continues to cause persistent and deep racial disparities and inequality.” “The stain of slavery was not just inked in bloodshed, but in policies that have disadvantaged African Americans for generations,” he added. Following Booker was Glover, who declared that establishing a national policy on reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans is a “moral, democratic, and economic imperative.” “A national reparations policy is a moral, democratic, and economic imperative,” he told lawmakers, before detailing his lineage as a descendant of former slaves. “I sit here as a great-grandson of a former slave, Mary Brown, who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1st, 1863. I had the fortune of meeting her as a small child.” “Despite much progress over the last centuries, this hearing is yet another important step in the long and heroic struggle of African-Americans to cure the damages inflicted by enslavement, post-emancipation and forced racial exclusionary policies,” he added. The hearing comes amid a growing discussion in the Democrat Party about reparations. Several of the party’s presidential candidates have endorsed looking at the idea, though they have stopped short of endorsing direct payouts for African Americans. In a Point Taken-Marist poll conducted in 2016, 68 percent of Americans said the country should not pay cash reparations to African American descendants of slaves to make up for the harm caused by slavery and racial discrimination. About 8 in 10 white Americans said they were opposed to reparations, while about 6 in 10 black Americans said they were in favor. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Tuesday that he opposes reparations, telling reporters: “I don’t want reparations for something that happened 150 years ago. We’ve tried to deal with the original sin of slavery by passing civil rights legislation.” “It would be hard to figure out who to compensate” for slavery, the Kentucky Republican noted. “No one currently alive was responsible for that.” Appearing Wednesday on Sirius XM radio, Booker criticized McConnell’s remarks, accusing the Kentucky Republican of demonstrating a “tremendous amount of ignorance.” Booker argued reparations is about “equality of opportunity, a leveling of our economic playing fields, health playing fields, housing playing fields” and “addressing those past consciously racial harms and wounds.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 20, 2019 13:08:59 GMT -6
Hunter Biden accused of fathering child with an Arkansas woman while he was with his dead brother's wife. pagesix.com/2019/06/20/hunter-biden-accused-of-fathering-child-with-arkansas-woman/Lunden Alexis Roberts, 28, filed a petition for paternity and child support against Joe Biden’s lawyer son, saying she gave birth to his kid, “Baby Doe,” in August 2018, according to court papers. The two-page suit was filed in Independence County, Arkansas, on May 28 — nearly two weeks after Hunter tied the knot with a South African woman named Melissa Cohen. Roberts wants a court to establish that the 49-year-old father of three is her baby’s biological dad. She is also seeking child support and for him to provide health insurance for the now-10-month-old infant. All out-of-pocket expenses would be split between the two parents, the filing said. The petition does not say how Roberts and Hunter met or how long they were together. But the birth of the child came while Hunter was in a relationship with Hallie Biden, his late brother Beau’s wife. The former in-laws started dating in 2017 and split in April, Page Six exclusively reported.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 22, 2019 0:40:09 GMT -6
Democrat lawmakers warn 2020 Democrat Presidential nominees to lay off of the Joe Biden attacks.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 23, 2019 18:59:48 GMT -6
Pocahontas Warren, the 1/1024th native American running for president, proposed a new way to buy votes for Democrats.
Warren wants to give gays and lesbians over $50 million in tax reparations.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 23, 2019 19:21:00 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-23/maher-democrats-screwed-if-they-run-reparations-and-concentration-camps-2020Maher: Democrats Screwed If They Run On 'Reparations And Concentration Camps' In 2020 .......... Establishment comedian Bill Maher warned that if 2020 Democrats run "a campaign based on reparations and concentration camps" it will be "very hard to win the election" against President Trump. Maher was responding last week's latest outrage when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called migrant detention facilities to "concentration camps," a remark she has doubled and tripled-down on despite receiving considerable backlash from Jewish groups and others over the comparison. While conservative political consultant Liz Mair tried to argue that Democrats can win the argument without invoking Nazi Germany, liberal guests Thom Hartmann and Dan Savage disagreed, with Savage arguing "the use of the term concentration camp has caused people to debate what is actually going on." Mair replied "that was already happening," to which a triggered Savage spat back "these are fucking concentration camps." Maher pushed back. "Come on, when we think of concentration camps, I think of mass graves, I think of experimenting on human people." "If you want to run a campaign based on reparations and concentration camps, then it's going to be very hard to win the election, I'm not saying you can't do it, I'm not saying you can't do it, but very hard to argue that this is helping," said Maher.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 24, 2019 7:26:25 GMT -6
So, not only are they trying to eliminate the Electoral College by circumventing the Constitution with their "end around", now, they want to go back to where the runner up is the Vice President/elect the Vice President separately. abcnews.go.com/Politics/effort-launches-democratically-elect-vice-president-2020/story?id=62839131elect the U.S. vice president separately from the president. Vice.run, is a campaign that seeks to create a separate and independent ballot line for the vice president in 2020. The group is trying to collect -- from all 50 states -- voter signatures and pledges in support of the separate vice president election. "An independently-elected vice president would give American voters a new level of direct control over who serves in the White House," Vice.run says on its website. "Further, a separately-elected vice president could provide a moderating influence on the partisanship of the president." (MORE: Who is running for president in 2020?) The founder of Vice.run David Blake announced on Twitter earlier this month that Utah became the first state to reach the signature pledges goal since launching their website in March. You did it, Utah! Thanks to your efforts, we now have our first state with enough pledges to get ballot access for an independently elected Vice President. #electthevp pic.twitter.com/L5RNed6ncQ — vice.run (@electthevp) May 3, 2019 Traditionally, presidential candidates and their running mates are listed on a ballot together, with voters selecting a joint ticket on Election Day. However, in the first U.S. elections, the vice president got into office by securing the second-highest number of Electoral College votes. When the 12th amendment was ratified in 1804, it required a distinct Electoral College vote for vice president and thus began the tradition of the joint ticket with the presidential and vice presidential candidates.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 24, 2019 8:21:23 GMT -6
File this one under Election Rigging/Manipulation. Also, this is a perfect example of why Google needs to be broken up. www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/24/project-veritas-google-exec-decries-trumps-election-how-do-we-prevent-it-from-happening-again/Undercover videos recorded by Project Veritas reveals that Google is determined to prevent the re-election of Donald Trump in 2020, and is altering its products with this aim in mind. The report includes undercover footage featuring a top Google executive, Jen Gennai, discussing how Google might prevent an electoral outcome like 2016 from happening again. Here’s what Gennai says in the undercover video:
We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again.
We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different?
Gennai also declares her opposition to Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up Google. Why? Because, says Gennai, if Google is broken up it can’t prevent another “Trump situation.”
Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse, because all these smaller companies who don’t have the same resources that we do will be charged with preventing the next Trump situation, it’s like a small company cannot do that.
Gennai also declared that no amount of soft pressure from Congress or the White House will make Google change its ways. In other words, talk won’t help — if politicians want to change Google’s behavior, they’ll have to go beyond committee hearings and actually change the law.
We got called in front of Congress multiple times, so we’ve not shown up because we know that they’re just going to attack us. We’re not going to change our, we’re not going to change our mind. There’s no use sitting there being attacked over something we know we’re not going to change. They can pressure us but we’re not changing. But we also have to be aware of what they’re doing and what they’re accusing us of.According to her professional profile, Gennai works on “responsible innovation” in the Global Affairs division of Google — the same division run by Kent Walker, the Google VP who has declared his intention to make the populist-nationalist movement represented by Donald Trump a “blip” or “hiccup” in history, which he said “bends towards progress.” Walker made these statements just days after the 2016 election, in a confidential video recording that was leaked to Breitbart News.
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 25, 2019 4:36:14 GMT -6
So...let's see. What all will we be hearing about in the debates?
Free college Absolving student loans Healthcare for all Guaranteed wage Guaranteed income Full on open borders Abortion Racism Sexism Reparations - for blacks as well as gay/LGTBQWERTY and whoever else they want to pay. I've heard someone say things about Natives Gun control Nazis Immigration sob stories Climate change.
What am I missing? Doubt we'll hear about the water in Flint, the continuing destruction of places like California and NY, our crumbling roads, etc.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 6:12:37 GMT -6
Hmmm, maybe hitting a little to close for home?
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 6:15:07 GMT -6
So...let's see. What all will we be hearing about in the debates? Free college Absolving student loans Healthcare for all Guaranteed wage Guaranteed income Full on open borders Abortion Racism Sexism Reparations - for blacks as well as gay/LGTBQWERTY and whoever else they want to pay. I've heard someone say things about Natives Gun control Nazis Immigration sob stories Climate change. What am I missing? Doubt we'll hear about the water in Flint, the continuing destruction of places like California and NY, our crumbling roads, etc. Basically, they are running on reparations & claiming Republicans/President Trump are racist Nazis. That's it.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 6:18:46 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 11:17:44 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 11:19:48 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/06/25/google-exec-project-veritas-undercover-video/A Google executive said Monday night that an undercover video of her discussing what the company plans to do about the “next Trump situation” was deceptively edited. Project Veritas caught veteran Google employee Jen Gennai in a video appearing to suggest that her company is working on preventing President Donald Trump from winning re-election. She said in a Medium post shortly after the report was published Monday that she was referring to ways the company can wipe out misinformation online. “Project Veritas has edited the video to make it seem that I am a powerful executive who was confirming that Google is working to alter the 2020 election. On both counts, this is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course,” Gennai wrote. (RELATED: Google Exec Says Breaking Up Big Tech Will Not Prevent ‘The Next Trump Situation’) Gennai claims her comments were misconstrued to seem ominous. “I was explaining how Google’s Trust and Safety team (a team I used to work on) is working to help prevent the types of online foreign interference that happened in 2016,” she said. A full, unedited, version of the video has not yet been released. FILE PHOTO: A “No Trespassing” sign is seen in the Port Lands, where Alphabet Inc, the owner of Google REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File Photo Gennai said she was recorded during a dinner meeting with members of a group that claimed to be interested in a program for young women of color in tech. These people “filmed me without my consent, selectively edited and spliced the video to distort my words and the actions of my employer,” she wrote. Google has not responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for an interview with Gennai.Her comments come as big tech companies are feeling pressure to do more to clean up their platforms ever since Trump’s 2016 victory. Lawmakers, for instance, are demanding to know what the three companies are doing to filter out Russian-style trolls before the 2020 election. The video is part of a report PV published Monday morning that also contains snippets of an interview with an alleged Google insider, who provides context to what Gennai is saying at various parts of the undercover video. The insider claims at one point that the company is using an algorithm called Machine Learning Fairness to push a political agenda. ....... My response to her claims:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 13:07:14 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/25/google-executive-jen-gennai-i-used-imprecise-language-in-project-veritas-video/Project Veritas discussing the tech firms plans to stop the next “Trump situation,” Jen Gennai, has published a blog post commenting on the video, explaining she used “imprecise language.” In a Medium post titled “This is not how I expected Monday to go!” Google executive Jen Gennai defended comments she made to undercover Project Veritas investigators in which she stated: We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again. We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different? Now, Gennai has defended her comment in a Medium post in which she says that she spent 12 hours traveling from Dublin, Ireland, to San Francisco, and was unaware of the Project Veritas videos which were published during that time. Gennai claims that she received multiple calls, text messages, and emails from those critical of her, she claims that one stated: “Your ideology will be shredded to pieces, just moments before you got executed for treason…you are living on lended time, enjoy till then.” Gennai further explained the situation and what she claims happened in the lead up to the publication of the videos: In late May, I accepted an invitation to meet with a few people who claimed to be from “2 Step Tech Solutions”. They said they wanted to chat to me about a mentoring program for young women of color in tech, an area I’ve long been passionate about. We went for dinner at a restaurant in the Mission, San Francisco. Unfortunately, I now know that these people lied about their true identities, filmed me without my consent, selectively edited and spliced the video to distort my words and the actions of my employer, and published it widely online. I now know they belong to a group called “Project Veritas”, which has done this to numerous other people working in the tech and other sectors. Why did they do this to me? It seems they found that I had spoken publicly at Google I/O on Ethics, and they wanted someone who would give them juicy soundbites about tech’s alleged bias against conservatives. Over the course of a two hour dinner, I guess they think I delivered. Gennai then claims that the Project Veritas video is selectively edited and pushes a series of “debunked conspiracy theories,” about censorship. What Gennai does not address is her direct comments about Google’s view of Congress, the company’s refusal to appear before Congress and her statements claiming that Google will not change its business practices regardless of what Congress says: Project Veritas has edited the video to make it seem that I am a powerful executive who was confirming that Google is working to alter the 2020 election. On both counts, this is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course. In a casual restaurant setting, I was explaining how Google’s Trust and Safety team (a team I used to work on) is working to help prevent the types of online foreign interference that happened in 2016. Google has been very public about the work that our teams have done since 2016 on this, so it’s hardly a revelation. The video then goes on to stitch together a series of debunked conspiracy theories about our search results, and our other products. Google has repeatedly been clear that it works to be a trustworthy source of information, without regard to political viewpoint. In fact, Google has no notion of political ideology in its rankings. And everything I have seen backs this up. Our CEO has said ”We do not bias our products to favor any political agenda.” He’s somewhat more powerful and authoritative than me. But despite what the video may have you believe, I’m not involved in any of these products, just like I’m not involved in any of the other topics Project Veritas baited me into discussing (whether it’s antitrust, Congress, or the dozens of other topics that didn’t appear in the video, on which I presumably didn’t say anything that could be twisted to their advantage). I was having a casual chat with someone at a restaurant and used some imprecise language. Project Veritas got me. Well done. Gennai finishes the post stating that others in her position should be “more skeptical about a dinner” they’ve been invited to. She also encourages others to “pause and reflect” on the toxicity of online discourse. I don’t expect this post will do anything to deter, or convince, the people who are sending me abusive messages. In fact, it will probably encourage them, give them oxygen and amplify their theories. But maybe a few people will read it and realize that I’m not the cartoon cut-out villain that Project Veritas would have you believe. Maybe someone will read it, be more skeptical about a dinner they’re invited to, and avoid the same trap I fell into. And maybe some people will take a pause and reflect on how toxic and menacing our online discourse has become, about how quick we are to believe the worst of each other, and think about the human cost of demonizing and doxxing people, the way that Project Veritas has done to me. Read Gennai’s full post on Medium here. medium.com/@gennai.jen/this-is-not-how-i-expected-monday-to-go-e92771c7aa82........ My response:
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 13:27:01 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/06/25/beto-orourke-proposes-war-tax-everyone-hasnt-served-military/Beto O’Rourke Proposes ‘War Tax’ On Everyone Who Hasn’t Served In The Military JUNE 25, 2019 By Tristan Justice Are neither you nor a family member a current or former member of the U.S. armed forces? There might be a tax for that. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke proposed a “war tax” Monday as part of the former Texas congressman’s plan to support veterans and spread the burden of military conflict. O’Rourke’s “war tax” is part of the candidate’s new plan to provide better services to the nation’s veterans and to end the “Forever Wars” in the Middle East. “The time has come to cancel the blank check for endless war and to ensure that any future engagements are the result of a national conversation about our security interests and duly authorized by Congress,” O’Rourke’s plan states. The new tax, according to O’Rourke, would apply to households that lack either current or former members of the military. Qualifying households with an income below $30,000 a year would pay $25, and those making under $40,000 annually would pay $57. Households with an income below $50,000 would pay $98, those making less than $75,000 would pay $164 and those under $100,000 would pay $270. Households making less than $200,000 would pay $485 and those making above $200,000 would pay $1,000. If enacted by Congress, revenue generated by the tax would be deposited into a new “Veterans Health Care Trust Fund” O’Rourke claims would provide better veteran health care for each war that the United States engages. O’Rourke has proposed the war tax before, introducing similar legislation while serving in the House in 2016 and 2017. O’Rourke served on the House’s Veterans’ Affairs Committee and made veteran care a focus of his time in Congress. His west Texas congressional district is home to Fort Bliss, a large U.S. Army base. Other prominent political players have also previously supported the idea of a war tax, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I-Vt.), a fellow 2020 contender for the Democratic presidential nomination. The plan unveiled Monday further outlined O’Rourke’s sweeping proposals to alter the Department of Veterans Affairs. It includes a number of steps such as filling the 45,000 staff vacancies at the VA, making staffing rations and wait times publicly visible, expanding access to telehealth, requiring more attention to mental health, treatment for addiction, suicide prevention, and making electronic health care data the standard. The candidate is also calling on Congress to double the National Institutes of Health funding on Alzheimer’s research to $5 billion per year to better asses cases stemming from military service. In addition, O’Rourke wants to increase funding for research into Amyotrphic lateral sclerosis (ALS) based on a study from the Institute of Medicine that found that veterans of the Persian Gulf War, Vietnam War, and World War II were more prone to developing the disease. The plan would also require the Defense Department to update its records regarding LGBTQ veterans who were discharged because of their sexual orientation, and creates a pathway to citizenship for foreign citizens who serve in the U.S. military. The plan announcement comes three days before the first round of Democratic debates as O’Rourke tries to improve his reputation as a young and inexperienced policy lightweight. The 2020 hopeful has recently increased his television appearances and has been more detailed in his policy suggestions in recent weeks. Throughout his three terms in Congress and during his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2018 midterms, O’Rourke has called for the United States to pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Currently, there are approximately 20,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, most of which are American, and 5,000 American troops in Iraq.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 14:08:46 GMT -6
www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/robertrobb/2019/06/21/democratic-presidential-candidates-scaring-off-never-trumpers/1500809001/=Democratic presidential candidates keep raising the stakes, particularly on the economy, making the choice for Never Trump Republicans and independents increasingly difficult. For purposes of this column, let’s define Never Trumpers as people who are center to center right on policy, so there is a lot that Donald Trump has done as president that they like. They nevertheless find his behavior, as president and as a candidate, abhorrent. And his impulsive and erratic conduct of the nation’s business, internationally and domestically, a threat to stability and tranquility. Election may ride on these Never Trumpers The Never Trumpers can be divided into two camps. There are those who are truly anyone-but-Trump. They regard removing Trump from office as the highest political objective and will cast tactical votes accordingly. I think their numbers are probably pretty small. The larger group could be described as anyone-but-Trump-within-limits. This group may very well decide the election. If Trump loses the votes of everyone who thinks he’s a cad and an irresponsibly erratic force as president, he’ll lose the election. If Trump wins the votes of those who prefer his policies to those of his Democratic opponent, as those policies are shaping up, he might very well win. The anyone-but-Trump-within-limits cohort understands that getting rid of Trump means at least four years of liberal governance. Voters may tolerate this kind of liberalism That’s an exchange they undoubtedly would make for the creeping liberalism of Bill Clinton’s tenure. Clinton did raise marginal income tax rates. But, largely checked by a Republican Congress, he mostly played small ball on expanding the role of the federal government. Things like federal funding for street cops. That’s digestible. They might even make the exchange for the trotting liberalism of Barack Obama’s tenure. Obama did a few big things. He also raised the marginal income tax rate, got a big stimulus package enacted and put Obamacare in place. But these things didn’t fundamentally change the basic structure of the American system of democratic capitalism. Want more opinions? Subscribe to azcentral.com. Obama also harnessed the administrative state to achieve liberal ends, such as climate change and labor relations. But, as the Trump administration demonstrated, what is done administratively can be largely undone administratively. Again, no fundamental or irreversible changes. But candidates want to make wider changes Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont unveiled a new version of his "Medicare for All" plan on Wednesday, shaking up the 2020 presidential election by reopening the debate over his call to eliminate private health insurance. (April 10) AP Instead of creeping or trotting liberalism, the Democratic candidates for president are virtually all running on galloping liberalism bent on fundamentally and permanently changing the basic structure of the American system of democratic capitalism. That raises the stakes on ousting Trump tremendously. Virtually all the candidates want to turn health care into a public good, with the federal government taking responsibly for, at a minimum, its financing. Some want to abolish private health insurance entirely. Virtually all the candidates want to radically change the U.S. energy market in a short period of time. Rather than doing this through a carbon tax, stimulating private sector adjustments and innovations, they want to do it through massive public investment programs. The green-energy white elephants of the Obama stimulus program will multiply manifold. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want to fundamentally change the nature of major U.S. corporations, turning them into social rather than economic organizations. Newsletters Get the Opinions Newsletter newsletter in your inbox. Our best and latest in commentary in daily digest form. Delivery: Mon-Fri Your Email Warren would require large corporations to obtain a federal charter with responsibilities to various stakeholders beyond their shareholders, inevitably opening them up to endless litigation. She would require that a certain percentage of board seats be set aside for workers. Sanders would actually require that workers be given equity positions in large corporations. Where they'll lose Never Trumpers And, of course, the rich would pay for everything, through higher income tax rates, a wealth tax and a confiscatory inheritance tax. All of this illustrates the economic blind spot of liberal Democrats, a lack of understanding and appreciation for the importance of private investment capital in sustainable private-sector growth. But the European-style social democracy the Democrats are pledging to transform the United States into can’t be financed just by taxing the rich. A European-style social democracy will require a European-style value added tax, although none of the candidates will openly acknowledge that. ROBB: If millennials embrace socialism, fine. Just don't make this mistake Joe Biden, the frontrunner, was vice president during the trotting liberalism of the Obama years. But he seems prepared to break out in a gallop as well. At present, how high the Democrats are raising the stakes in this election isn’t clear to the Never Trumpers. As the election approaches, it will become clearer.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 15:12:06 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 25, 2019 19:42:01 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/06/25/google-executive-jen-gennai-i-used-imprecise-language-in-project-veritas-video/Project Veritas discussing the tech firms plans to stop the next “Trump situation,” Jen Gennai, has published a blog post commenting on the video, explaining she used “imprecise language.” In a Medium post titled “This is not how I expected Monday to go!” Google executive Jen Gennai defended comments she made to undercover Project Veritas investigators in which she stated: We all got screwed over in 2016, again it wasn’t just us, it was, the people got screwed over, the news media got screwed over, like, everybody got screwed over so we’re rapidly been like, happened there and how do we prevent it from happening again. We’re also training our algorithms, like, if 2016 happened again, would we have, would the outcome be different? Now, Gennai has defended her comment in a Medium post in which she says that she spent 12 hours traveling from Dublin, Ireland, to San Francisco, and was unaware of the Project Veritas videos which were published during that time. Gennai claims that she received multiple calls, text messages, and emails from those critical of her, she claims that one stated: “Your ideology will be shredded to pieces, just moments before you got executed for treason…you are living on lended time, enjoy till then.” Gennai further explained the situation and what she claims happened in the lead up to the publication of the videos: In late May, I accepted an invitation to meet with a few people who claimed to be from “2 Step Tech Solutions”. They said they wanted to chat to me about a mentoring program for young women of color in tech, an area I’ve long been passionate about. We went for dinner at a restaurant in the Mission, San Francisco. Unfortunately, I now know that these people lied about their true identities, filmed me without my consent, selectively edited and spliced the video to distort my words and the actions of my employer, and published it widely online. I now know they belong to a group called “Project Veritas”, which has done this to numerous other people working in the tech and other sectors. Why did they do this to me? It seems they found that I had spoken publicly at Google I/O on Ethics, and they wanted someone who would give them juicy soundbites about tech’s alleged bias against conservatives. Over the course of a two hour dinner, I guess they think I delivered. Gennai then claims that the Project Veritas video is selectively edited and pushes a series of “debunked conspiracy theories,” about censorship. What Gennai does not address is her direct comments about Google’s view of Congress, the company’s refusal to appear before Congress and her statements claiming that Google will not change its business practices regardless of what Congress says: Project Veritas has edited the video to make it seem that I am a powerful executive who was confirming that Google is working to alter the 2020 election. On both counts, this is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course. In a casual restaurant setting, I was explaining how Google’s Trust and Safety team (a team I used to work on) is working to help prevent the types of online foreign interference that happened in 2016. Google has been very public about the work that our teams have done since 2016 on this, so it’s hardly a revelation. The video then goes on to stitch together a series of debunked conspiracy theories about our search results, and our other products. Google has repeatedly been clear that it works to be a trustworthy source of information, without regard to political viewpoint. In fact, Google has no notion of political ideology in its rankings. And everything I have seen backs this up. Our CEO has said ”We do not bias our products to favor any political agenda.” He’s somewhat more powerful and authoritative than me. But despite what the video may have you believe, I’m not involved in any of these products, just like I’m not involved in any of the other topics Project Veritas baited me into discussing (whether it’s antitrust, Congress, or the dozens of other topics that didn’t appear in the video, on which I presumably didn’t say anything that could be twisted to their advantage). I was having a casual chat with someone at a restaurant and used some imprecise language. Project Veritas got me. Well done. Gennai finishes the post stating that others in her position should be “more skeptical about a dinner” they’ve been invited to. She also encourages others to “pause and reflect” on the toxicity of online discourse. I don’t expect this post will do anything to deter, or convince, the people who are sending me abusive messages. In fact, it will probably encourage them, give them oxygen and amplify their theories. But maybe a few people will read it and realize that I’m not the cartoon cut-out villain that Project Veritas would have you believe. Maybe someone will read it, be more skeptical about a dinner they’re invited to, and avoid the same trap I fell into. And maybe some people will take a pause and reflect on how toxic and menacing our online discourse has become, about how quick we are to believe the worst of each other, and think about the human cost of demonizing and doxxing people, the way that Project Veritas has done to me. Read Gennai’s full post on Medium here. medium.com/@gennai.jen/this-is-not-how-i-expected-monday-to-go-e92771c7aa82........ My response: It's always just someone misspeaking.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 25, 2019 20:23:54 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/06/25/elizabeth-warren-decriminalize-crossing-the-border/Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday she would be in favor of decriminalizing illegal crossing of the U.S. border, the latest call for open borders by a 2020 presidential candidate. Warren joins former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Barack Obama and 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro, who also believes immigration courts should be the only ones with legal control over immigration enforcement at the border, according to HuffPost. “I agree with Secretary Castro,” Warren said in a statement to HuffPost. “We should not be criminalizing mamas and babies trying to flee violence at home or trying to build a better future. We must pass comprehensive immigration reform that is in line with our values, creates a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants including our DREAMers, and protects our borders.” Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren arrives at the Moral Action Congress of the Poor People’s Campaign June 17, 2019 at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) This all comes as apprehensions of immigrants have increased every month since January. There have also been over 100,000 encounters at the southern border in both March and April, putting the current border crisis on track to be the worst it has been in a decade. (RELATED: House Passes Mass Amnesty Bill Which Would Give Millions Of Illegal Immigrants A Path To Citizenship) The House passed a vote on June 4 that would grant protection from deportation to illegal immigrants and give millions a path to permanent citizenship status.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 26, 2019 14:40:36 GMT -6
Yet, it didn't prevent him from taking Clinton's money,(a third house) & openly endorse her back then. dailycaller.com/2019/06/26/sanders-2016-election-rigged/The system was rigged against Democratic presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in his loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, Sanders claimed Wednesday on MSNBC. Sanders spoke to Katy Tur on MSNBC’s “Live With Katy Tur” Wednesday, and said that he would have beaten President Donald Trump had the election against Clinton not been “rigged against” him. Sanders bowed out of the 2016 election less than two weeks before the Democratic National Convention and endorsed Clinton for presidency in her race against Trump. “No, some people say that if maybe that system was not rigged against me I would have won the nomination and defeated Donald Trump,” Sanders said after Tur asked his thoughts on whether or not he hurt Clinton’s candidacy. “That’s what some people say.” The system was rigged against Democratic presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in his loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, Sanders claimed Wednesday on MSNBC. Sanders spoke to Katy Tur on MSNBC’s “Live With Katy Tur” Wednesday, and said that he would have beaten President Donald Trump had the election against Clinton not been “rigged against” him. Sanders bowed out of the 2016 election less than two weeks before the Democratic National Convention and endorsed Clinton for presidency in her race against Trump. “No, some people say that if maybe that system was not rigged against me I would have won the nomination and defeated Donald Trump,” Sanders said after Tur asked his thoughts on whether or not he hurt Clinton’s candidacy. “That’s what some people say.” WATCH: Some people, such as Donna Brazile, have alleged that Clinton had been able to accomplish a “secret takeover” of the Democratic National Committee at the very beginning of the primary race, ending Sanders’ chances of winning. Sanders seems to concur with this idea and was adamant that he would have been the one to defeat Trump. Sanders went on to say that he is a Democrat, although he has been outspoken about being for socialism throughout his campaign. “Of course I’m a Democrat,” Sanders said. “This is a democratic national convention – a Democratic primary here.” This is a change of tune from his past, where Sanders has proudly admitted that he considers himself to be a socialist. (RELATED: 70% Of Democrats Say Socialism Would Be Good For America: Survey) “When I ran for the Senate the first time, I ran against the wealthiest guy in the state of Vermont,” Sanders said in an interview with The Nation in 2015. “He spent a lot on advertising — very ugly stuff. He kept attacking me as a liberal. He didn’t use the word ‘socialist’ at all, because everybody in the state knows that I am that.” “I intend to be the Democratic nominee,” Sanders told Tur Wednesday.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 26, 2019 18:37:51 GMT -6
On Wednesday Mark Zuckerberg bragged about banning pro-life ads from American companies during the Irish elections. The company decided it would be the best thing to do.
Facebook is playing favorites, not just in America, but globally. This should concern EVERY American.
I'm now firmly in the camp that both Facebook & Google need to be broken up.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 26, 2019 20:05:06 GMT -6
And victims of Socialism from Cuba and Venezuela are outside the debate protesting.
And police officers were outside the debate protesting New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 26, 2019 20:08:21 GMT -6
Bobby ‘Beto’ O’Rourke rattled off in Spanish when answering one of the debate questions.
Savannah Guthrie asked Beto if he would support a 70% marginal tax rate and instead of answering directly, he rattled off in Spanish.
“This economy has got to work for everyone and right now we know that it isn’t — and it’s going to take all of us coming together to make sure that it does,” Beto said — then he began speaking Spanish but never really answered the question.
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Post by soonernvolved on Jun 26, 2019 20:13:25 GMT -6
Let the clown show continue. Democrat Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) just had to one-up Beto so he answered a debate question about immigration in Spanish. Friendly reminder that these candidates are running to be President of the United States of America and they are debating in Spanish. Let that sink in. Booker vowed to “end the ICE policies…that are violating human rights,” on his first day as president.
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Post by redrex on Jun 26, 2019 20:32:26 GMT -6
This is a cluster fuck----love it
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Post by kcrufnek on Jun 26, 2019 23:18:11 GMT -6
And the key to the election? Well, of course silly, it's abortion rights of trans.
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