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Elections 2024 / Re: REPORT: Top Trump VP Candidate Removed From Consideration: ‘No Shot’
« Last post by DCPatriot on Today at 07:49:36 pm »I'm not voting for Trump anyways, but Noem would have been a consideration for me to vote for him.
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Re: Miranda Devine: We’ve finally found an issue that unites the country — Trump’s potential VP pic
« Last post by banddag on Today at 07:45:56 pm »Dog was killing chickens. I doubt she'd have put it down if not for that fact.
Why was she allowing her dog to run wild especially on other peoples property? She is an idiot.
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Climate Change / Re: WEF speaker warns every time we drink coffee, we are 'putting CO2 into the atmosphere’
« Last post by GtHawk on Today at 07:43:04 pm »Till then I will fart in his general direction.Methane polluter!
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Trump Legal Investigations / Trump New York trial: Jailing former president could spark ‘mass protests,’ experts say
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 07:42:39 pm »Trump New York trial: Jailing former president could spark ‘mass protests,’ experts say
Trump New York trial: Jailing former president could spark ‘mass protests,’ experts say
By
Kaelan Deese
April 30, 2024 2:41 pm
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Donald Trump received the clearest threat of jail time yet in his New York criminal trial after a judge said on Tuesday that “jail may be a necessary punishment” for future gag order violations from the former president, a statement legal experts say could have sweeping consequences on his 2024 presidential election bid.
Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the criminal hush money trial against Trump, found him in contempt for nine violations of his gag order due to various social media posts about witnesses in the trial, with a fine of $1,000 for each instance and an order to delete the posts. Trump, the Republican front-runner to face off against President Joe Biden, has decried his four criminal cases as “election interference,” a claim that legal experts told the Washington Examiner could be authenticated if Merchan decides to jail him over social media posts before the trial’s expected end in late May.
“Judge Merchan is operating within his discretion, but I think he would be an automaton if he didn’t appreciate that the world is watching him and how any imprisonment would be viewed by most as true election interference — not in the hyperbolic way that Trump routinely says this trial is amounting to by its very existence,” Alton Harmon, legal analyst and corporate general counsel, told the Washington Examiner.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told the Washington Examiner it would mark an “unprecedented step” to jail a former president and candidate during an election year, a move that would come with its own set of public policy problems.
While Harmon and Rahmani both said jailing Trump seems unlikely, Rahmani stressed that doing so “may lead to mass protests or even civil unrest.”
more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/2984573/trump-new-york-trial-jailing-former-president-spark-mass-protests/
Trump New York trial: Jailing former president could spark ‘mass protests,’ experts say
By
Kaelan Deese
April 30, 2024 2:41 pm
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Donald Trump received the clearest threat of jail time yet in his New York criminal trial after a judge said on Tuesday that “jail may be a necessary punishment” for future gag order violations from the former president, a statement legal experts say could have sweeping consequences on his 2024 presidential election bid.
Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the criminal hush money trial against Trump, found him in contempt for nine violations of his gag order due to various social media posts about witnesses in the trial, with a fine of $1,000 for each instance and an order to delete the posts. Trump, the Republican front-runner to face off against President Joe Biden, has decried his four criminal cases as “election interference,” a claim that legal experts told the Washington Examiner could be authenticated if Merchan decides to jail him over social media posts before the trial’s expected end in late May.
“Judge Merchan is operating within his discretion, but I think he would be an automaton if he didn’t appreciate that the world is watching him and how any imprisonment would be viewed by most as true election interference — not in the hyperbolic way that Trump routinely says this trial is amounting to by its very existence,” Alton Harmon, legal analyst and corporate general counsel, told the Washington Examiner.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told the Washington Examiner it would mark an “unprecedented step” to jail a former president and candidate during an election year, a move that would come with its own set of public policy problems.
While Harmon and Rahmani both said jailing Trump seems unlikely, Rahmani stressed that doing so “may lead to mass protests or even civil unrest.”
more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/2984573/trump-new-york-trial-jailing-former-president-spark-mass-protests/
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Health/Education / Re: Anti-Israel Columbia students defiant as 2 p.m. deadline passes to clear encampment
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 07:39:28 pm »Northwestern Capitulates to Pro-Palestinian Mob; Offers House for Muslims, Scholarships for Palestinians
Joel B. Pollak 30 Apr 2024
Northwestern University has capitulated to the demands of pro-Palestinian protesters who set up an encampment last week, offering scholarships for Palestinians, Palestinian faculty appointments, and special housing for Muslim students.
In return, the students agreed to take down their tents and to protest during daylight hours in Deering Meadow, the common space that they had occupied since last week and decorated with radical and antisemitic signs and slogans.
As Breitbart News noted, the activists in the encampment not only physically barred other students from entering, but also stole an American flag from peaceful pro-Israel counter-demonstrators and vandalized university buildings.
Jewish students had felt threatened by the encampment, a source told Breitbart News.
The Daily Northwestern reported the details of the deal:
The University has committed to provide a conduit for students to engage with the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees. It will also re-establish an Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility this fall, which will include students, faculty and staff.
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In addition, the University committed to some support for Palestinian students and faculty in the agreement. NU will “support visiting Palestinian faculty and students at risk,” and will provide the cost of attendance for five Palestinian undergraduates to attend Northwestern.
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The University also committed to providing an “immediate temporary space for MENA/Muslim students” — a longtime demand from students on campus — and will provide and renovate a house for MENA/Muslims students as soon as possible. The final house is expected to come in 2026.
Funds for the new scholarships and faculty, as well as the “MENA/Muslim” housing, will be raised by Northwestern.
more
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/04/30/northwestern-capitulates-to-pro-palestinian-mob-offers-house-for-muslims-scholarships/
Joel B. Pollak 30 Apr 2024
Northwestern University has capitulated to the demands of pro-Palestinian protesters who set up an encampment last week, offering scholarships for Palestinians, Palestinian faculty appointments, and special housing for Muslim students.
In return, the students agreed to take down their tents and to protest during daylight hours in Deering Meadow, the common space that they had occupied since last week and decorated with radical and antisemitic signs and slogans.
As Breitbart News noted, the activists in the encampment not only physically barred other students from entering, but also stole an American flag from peaceful pro-Israel counter-demonstrators and vandalized university buildings.
Jewish students had felt threatened by the encampment, a source told Breitbart News.
The Daily Northwestern reported the details of the deal:
The University has committed to provide a conduit for students to engage with the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees. It will also re-establish an Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility this fall, which will include students, faculty and staff.
…
In addition, the University committed to some support for Palestinian students and faculty in the agreement. NU will “support visiting Palestinian faculty and students at risk,” and will provide the cost of attendance for five Palestinian undergraduates to attend Northwestern.
…
The University also committed to providing an “immediate temporary space for MENA/Muslim students” — a longtime demand from students on campus — and will provide and renovate a house for MENA/Muslims students as soon as possible. The final house is expected to come in 2026.
Funds for the new scholarships and faculty, as well as the “MENA/Muslim” housing, will be raised by Northwestern.
more
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2024/04/30/northwestern-capitulates-to-pro-palestinian-mob-offers-house-for-muslims-scholarships/
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Re: Miranda Devine: We’ve finally found an issue that unites the country — Trump’s potential VP pic
« Last post by Maj. Bill Martin on Today at 07:38:38 pm »From the article...
Sure, it’s a fact of life on farms and ranches that animals will have to be put down, but to do so in anger, as Noem apparently did, is appalling. The dog was young, and she had failed to train it properly or keep it under control.
Yup
She has poor impulse control so in that sense she's a perfect VP pick for Trump
Dog was killing chickens. I doubt she'd have put it down if not for that fact.
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Elections 2024 / Re: REPORT: Top Trump VP Candidate Removed From Consideration: ‘No Shot’
« Last post by Smokin Joe on Today at 07:36:20 pm »Seriously....It says to me she is willing to do what needs to be done. Even if that is an unsavory job, or even painful (I had to put down a much beloved dog over biting someone, and that hurt.).
Lost in all this is the part of her statement where she said the dog was running around killing chickens. So I suppose all these folks in favor of saving the dog didn't care that it was killing chickens for fun?
I have to say that prior to this statement, I thought she might be a bit of a poser. Turns out she's the real deal, and it makes me like her more.
That adds to my respect, not any disdain for her.
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Elections 2024 / Re: REPORT: Top Trump VP Candidate Removed From Consideration: ‘No Shot’
« Last post by banddag on Today at 07:35:55 pm »Seriously....
Lost in all this is the part of her statement where she said the dog was running around killing chickens.
Why was she allowing the dog run around not leashed up on others people property? She knew how the dog was running around during the hunt.
People need to stop blaming all of this on the dog. Noem was an incompetent owner.
We live on a small farm. All our dogs are trained not to leave the yard and they won't. While young and still running around uncontrollable they stay leashed
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Military/Defense News / Re: Lloyd Austin Says Troops On Gaza Pier Are Not ‘Boots On The Ground’
« Last post by Elderberry on Today at 07:35:47 pm »'Boots on the ground' and other military jargon are designed to confuse
The Guardian by Scott Beauchamp
In the carnival-mirror world of Washington bureaucracy, language is used to obscure more often than communicate the presence and role of US troops
When it comes to describing our military engagements across the world, Orwellian seems to be the language of choice for the US government. They consistently use the alchemy of bureaucratic language to transform words with clear meaning into jargon. This baffles any attempt to truly inform the public and keeps our national defense insidery and anti-democratic.
Take the phrase “boots on the ground”. The literal meaning of the words seems clear enough, and the colloquial use of the phrase – defined as “American forces deployed to a foreign country” – is unambiguous. So why was there such an awkward debate over this phrase after Barack Obama’s announcement last month that special forces advisers would be deployed to Syria?
It’s important to remember that if American “boots on the ground” was defined by actual boots on real ground, then it would be safe to say that we’re currently engaged in a worldwide deployment. America has bases in over 80 countries around the globe.
There are 113 “base sites” located in Germany alone. At any given moment there are nearly 250,000 American troops stationed overseas. Syria might be in the spotlight at the moment, but we also have a troop buildup currently happening in Africa, deployments in the Sinai and we even just recently sent Stryker armored vehicles to the Arctic Circle for the first time.
To list our considerable military involvement with the world, to describe the nearly unbroken chain of bases that girdle the globe, doesn’t amount to a knee-jerk condemnation of the situation. It’s just a prerequisite for having an honest conversation. But to avoid acknowledging the extent of American military undertakings is to implicitly condone them.
In the carnival-mirror world of Washington bureaucracy, language is used to obscure more often than communicate the presence and role of US troops abroad. So when White House press secretary Josh Earnest was asked to explain why Obama had gone back on his 2013 promise to not put “boots on the ground” in Syria, Earnest was forced to redefine the phrase to mean “large-scale, long-term ground combat operations in either Syria or Iraq”.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/13/boots-on-the-ground-other-confusing-military-jargon-us-troops
The Guardian by Scott Beauchamp
In the carnival-mirror world of Washington bureaucracy, language is used to obscure more often than communicate the presence and role of US troops
When it comes to describing our military engagements across the world, Orwellian seems to be the language of choice for the US government. They consistently use the alchemy of bureaucratic language to transform words with clear meaning into jargon. This baffles any attempt to truly inform the public and keeps our national defense insidery and anti-democratic.
Take the phrase “boots on the ground”. The literal meaning of the words seems clear enough, and the colloquial use of the phrase – defined as “American forces deployed to a foreign country” – is unambiguous. So why was there such an awkward debate over this phrase after Barack Obama’s announcement last month that special forces advisers would be deployed to Syria?
It’s important to remember that if American “boots on the ground” was defined by actual boots on real ground, then it would be safe to say that we’re currently engaged in a worldwide deployment. America has bases in over 80 countries around the globe.
There are 113 “base sites” located in Germany alone. At any given moment there are nearly 250,000 American troops stationed overseas. Syria might be in the spotlight at the moment, but we also have a troop buildup currently happening in Africa, deployments in the Sinai and we even just recently sent Stryker armored vehicles to the Arctic Circle for the first time.
To list our considerable military involvement with the world, to describe the nearly unbroken chain of bases that girdle the globe, doesn’t amount to a knee-jerk condemnation of the situation. It’s just a prerequisite for having an honest conversation. But to avoid acknowledging the extent of American military undertakings is to implicitly condone them.
In the carnival-mirror world of Washington bureaucracy, language is used to obscure more often than communicate the presence and role of US troops abroad. So when White House press secretary Josh Earnest was asked to explain why Obama had gone back on his 2013 promise to not put “boots on the ground” in Syria, Earnest was forced to redefine the phrase to mean “large-scale, long-term ground combat operations in either Syria or Iraq”.
More: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/13/boots-on-the-ground-other-confusing-military-jargon-us-troops
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Editorial/Opinion/Blogs / Peter Schweizer: Biden’s ‘Sinister but Brilliant’ Campaign Strategy Is Lawfare
« Last post by mystery-ak on Today at 07:35:12 pm »Peter Schweizer: Biden’s ‘Sinister but Brilliant’ Campaign Strategy Is Lawfare
Breitbart News30 Apr 202435
3:59
Campaigns are changing because of a tactic called “lawfare.” The Biden administration is using federal government resources, and taxpayer money to conduct the sort of mudslinging that has traditionally been done by political campaigns.
That’s the focus of the most recent episode of The Drill Down, where hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers go into the weeds to show how the Biden administration is coordinating all four of the legal prosecutions against Biden’s opponent in the November presidential election, former President Donald Trump.
The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) constructed a timeline of events, which Eric shares on the podcast, which shows the extent of the White House’s involvement in these supposedly “independent” prosecutions. As they showed in a previous podcast discussing how Biden has weaponized federal agencies for Democratic voter turnout efforts, the use of taxpayer dollars on a political prosecution is a blatant effort to hobble a political opponent.
Fani Willis, the Fulton County prosecutor prosecuting Trump in Georgia on election interference charges, even showed up at the White House Correspondents Dinner last week. She corruptly hired her boyfriend Nathan Wade (at a cost of $625,000) to handle the daily work of that case. Wade made two trips to the White House, in May 2022 and again in November of the same year for meetings — not with Department of Justice officials, but with staff at the White House Counsel’s office. Wade was later forced to step down from that job by a judge.
In April 2022, the Biden White House leaked a story to the New York Times showing Biden “confided to his inner circle” his frustration with Attorney General Merrick Garland for not throwing the book at Trump. Four months later, Trump’s Mar a Lago residence was raided by the FBI at Garland’s direction.
Schweizer says another interesting coincidence occurred in December of 2022 when the #3 person at the Department of Justice in Washington, Matthew Colangelo, announced he was leaving DOJ to take a job with the Manhattan DA’s office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHX3dAnJi4&t=1s&ab_channel=TheDrillDown
more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/30/peter-schweizer-bidens-sinister-but-brilliant-campaign-strategy-is-lawfare/
Breitbart News30 Apr 202435
3:59
Campaigns are changing because of a tactic called “lawfare.” The Biden administration is using federal government resources, and taxpayer money to conduct the sort of mudslinging that has traditionally been done by political campaigns.
That’s the focus of the most recent episode of The Drill Down, where hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers go into the weeds to show how the Biden administration is coordinating all four of the legal prosecutions against Biden’s opponent in the November presidential election, former President Donald Trump.
The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) constructed a timeline of events, which Eric shares on the podcast, which shows the extent of the White House’s involvement in these supposedly “independent” prosecutions. As they showed in a previous podcast discussing how Biden has weaponized federal agencies for Democratic voter turnout efforts, the use of taxpayer dollars on a political prosecution is a blatant effort to hobble a political opponent.
Fani Willis, the Fulton County prosecutor prosecuting Trump in Georgia on election interference charges, even showed up at the White House Correspondents Dinner last week. She corruptly hired her boyfriend Nathan Wade (at a cost of $625,000) to handle the daily work of that case. Wade made two trips to the White House, in May 2022 and again in November of the same year for meetings — not with Department of Justice officials, but with staff at the White House Counsel’s office. Wade was later forced to step down from that job by a judge.
In April 2022, the Biden White House leaked a story to the New York Times showing Biden “confided to his inner circle” his frustration with Attorney General Merrick Garland for not throwing the book at Trump. Four months later, Trump’s Mar a Lago residence was raided by the FBI at Garland’s direction.
Schweizer says another interesting coincidence occurred in December of 2022 when the #3 person at the Department of Justice in Washington, Matthew Colangelo, announced he was leaving DOJ to take a job with the Manhattan DA’s office.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHX3dAnJi4&t=1s&ab_channel=TheDrillDown
more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/04/30/peter-schweizer-bidens-sinister-but-brilliant-campaign-strategy-is-lawfare/
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