Examples of GOP Leadership
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CaptainCAVEMAN
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I miss chef too man.
topcat
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Did Kenny die?
DIY-HP-LED
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Mike might have an indictment in his future, where is this document, Mike? It is a crime to destroy evidence.... The got the overstock guy already so the pillow guy shouldn't be far behind.
DIY-HP-LED
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Tim Scott might as well run for Grand Wizard of the KKK, as try to be the republican nominee.
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Too lazy to figure out where this should go.
Trump knocks ‘Fox & Friends’ as debate decision looms
Former President Trump attacked Fox News and its flagship morning news program Thursday over the way it has been covering him.
“Why doesn’t Fox and Friends show all of the Polls where I am beating Biden, by a lot. They just won’t do it,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website.
The former president also took issue with the way the network was portraying him physically.
“They purposely show the absolutely worst pictures of me, especially the big ‘orange’ one with my chin pulled way back. They think they are getting away with something, they’re not,” he said. “Just like 2016 all over again…And then they want me to debate!”
Trump has been railing against the network for months, arguing Fox has not been giving him favorable enough coverage and accusing the network of boosting his political enemies.
Fox is hosting the first GOP debate next week, which Trump has not committed to participating in, citing his sizable lead in most GOP primary polls and what he says is a “hostile” relationship with the network.
A number of top hosts and executives have made public and private overtures to Trump, encouraging him to participate in what will likely be a widely-watched television event with major implications for the 2024 GOP primary.
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Trump knocks ‘Fox & Friends’ as debate decision looms
Former President Trump attacked Fox News and its flagship morning news program Thursday over the way it has been covering him.
“Why doesn’t Fox and Friends show all of the Polls where I am beating Biden, by a lot. They just won’t do it,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website.
The former president also took issue with the way the network was portraying him physically.
“They purposely show the absolutely worst pictures of me, especially the big ‘orange’ one with my chin pulled way back. They think they are getting away with something, they’re not,” he said. “Just like 2016 all over again…And then they want me to debate!”
Trump has been railing against the network for months, arguing Fox has not been giving him favorable enough coverage and accusing the network of boosting his political enemies.
Fox is hosting the first GOP debate next week, which Trump has not committed to participating in, citing his sizable lead in most GOP primary polls and what he says is a “hostile” relationship with the network.
A number of top hosts and executives have made public and private overtures to Trump, encouraging him to participate in what will likely be a widely-watched television event with major implications for the 2024 GOP primary.
Trump knocks ‘Fox & Friends’ as debate decision looms
Former President Trump attacked Fox News and its flagship morning news program Thursday over the way it has been covering him. “Why doesn’t Fox and Friends show all of the Polls where I am be…
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Comer asks National Archives for unredacted Biden emails involving Hunter and Ukraine
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday requested that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide unredacted documents and communications from President Biden’s time as vice president as part of the panel’s probe into the president’s son Hunter Biden.
Specifically, Comer is requesting that the National Archives provide the committee special unredacted access to a tranche of emails from Biden’s vice presidential records, which includes messages related to Ukraine and the Ukrainian gas company Burisma sent or received by President Biden or Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma at the time. Redacted copies of those emails were previously released publicly under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Comer is also asking for documents and communications in which Biden used a “pseudonym”; that included Hunter Biden or his business partners Eric Schwerin and Devon Archer; and all drafts of the speech that Biden delivered to the Ukrainian legislature in December 2015.
The request comes as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the foreign business dealings of Hunter Biden and his business associates, with an apparent focus on whether Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Ukraine impacted then-Vice President Biden’s policy decisions or financially benefited him, or if Hunter Biden received information that helped his business.
Comer and the committee have over the past few weeks released a series of transcripts and memos seeking to link Hunter Biden’s activities back to his father. Democrats have dismissed the allegations.
“Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling,” Comer said in a statement alongside the request to the National Archives.
“We already have evidence of then-Vice President Biden speaking, dining, and having coffee with his son’s foreign business associates. We also know that Hunter Biden and his associates were informed of then-Vice President Biden’s official government duties in countries where they had a financial interest. The National Archives must provide these unredacted records to further our investigation into the Biden family’s corruption,” the statement said.
The White House has previously said that the president was never in business with his son. Archer, who sat on the board of Burisma with Hunter Biden, testified to the Oversight Committee earlier this month that the president was never involved in their business decisions, and that he had no evidence or knowledge that the U.S. took any action to benefit Burisma or Hunter Biden.
Archer said that Hunter Biden portrayed the “illusion” of access to his father when he was vice president but did not have real influence.
Republicans, meanwhile, have pointed to Archer’s testimony that Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone multiple times while with foreign business associates to allege the president wasn’t being truthful when he said in 2019 he hadn’t discussed business with his son.
Archer said the speakerphone conversations largely consisted of small talk.
In the letter to the National Archives, Comer specifically points to a redacted email from May 27, 2016, with Biden’s daily schedule sent to [email protected] and Hunter Biden — saying that the committee has identified “Robert L. Peters” as a pseudonym for the then-vice president. The schedule for that day includes a call with the then-president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, Comer notes.
The schedule also notes that Biden ended the day at his lake house. That weekend marked the first anniversary of the death of Biden’s other son, Beau Biden, and the family had gathered in Delaware that weekend.
Comer said that it is “concerning” that the email was sent to the Robert L. Peters address, but did not elaborate on why.
It was reportedly common for high-profile elected officials and appointees in the administration to have secondary government email accounts, but an Oversight Committee spokesperson said it is concerning that Biden had multiple email accounts with fake names.
The redacted portion of that email is a phone number for the White House aide who sent the email. An unredacted version is available on archives of emails found from a hard drive that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden. Comer has previously said the committee has access to a copy of that hard drive.
Comer also requests emails that were sent or received from “Robin Ware” and “JRB Ware,” two other pseudonyms that the New York Post previously reported President Biden used, one of which is a Google email address. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) have previously sent the National Archives requests for information about those pseudonyms.
In Biden’s 2015 speech to the Ukrainian Rada, the parliament of Ukraine, the then-vice president advocated for democracy and warned about corruption in the country, adding that the U.S. would not recognize Russia’s attempt to annex Crimea.
thehill.com
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday requested that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide unredacted documents and communications from President Biden’s time as vice president as part of the panel’s probe into the president’s son Hunter Biden.
Specifically, Comer is requesting that the National Archives provide the committee special unredacted access to a tranche of emails from Biden’s vice presidential records, which includes messages related to Ukraine and the Ukrainian gas company Burisma sent or received by President Biden or Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma at the time. Redacted copies of those emails were previously released publicly under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Comer is also asking for documents and communications in which Biden used a “pseudonym”; that included Hunter Biden or his business partners Eric Schwerin and Devon Archer; and all drafts of the speech that Biden delivered to the Ukrainian legislature in December 2015.
The request comes as part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the foreign business dealings of Hunter Biden and his business associates, with an apparent focus on whether Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Ukraine impacted then-Vice President Biden’s policy decisions or financially benefited him, or if Hunter Biden received information that helped his business.
Comer and the committee have over the past few weeks released a series of transcripts and memos seeking to link Hunter Biden’s activities back to his father. Democrats have dismissed the allegations.
“Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling,” Comer said in a statement alongside the request to the National Archives.
“We already have evidence of then-Vice President Biden speaking, dining, and having coffee with his son’s foreign business associates. We also know that Hunter Biden and his associates were informed of then-Vice President Biden’s official government duties in countries where they had a financial interest. The National Archives must provide these unredacted records to further our investigation into the Biden family’s corruption,” the statement said.
The White House has previously said that the president was never in business with his son. Archer, who sat on the board of Burisma with Hunter Biden, testified to the Oversight Committee earlier this month that the president was never involved in their business decisions, and that he had no evidence or knowledge that the U.S. took any action to benefit Burisma or Hunter Biden.
Archer said that Hunter Biden portrayed the “illusion” of access to his father when he was vice president but did not have real influence.
Republicans, meanwhile, have pointed to Archer’s testimony that Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone multiple times while with foreign business associates to allege the president wasn’t being truthful when he said in 2019 he hadn’t discussed business with his son.
Archer said the speakerphone conversations largely consisted of small talk.
In the letter to the National Archives, Comer specifically points to a redacted email from May 27, 2016, with Biden’s daily schedule sent to [email protected] and Hunter Biden — saying that the committee has identified “Robert L. Peters” as a pseudonym for the then-vice president. The schedule for that day includes a call with the then-president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, Comer notes.
The schedule also notes that Biden ended the day at his lake house. That weekend marked the first anniversary of the death of Biden’s other son, Beau Biden, and the family had gathered in Delaware that weekend.
Comer said that it is “concerning” that the email was sent to the Robert L. Peters address, but did not elaborate on why.
It was reportedly common for high-profile elected officials and appointees in the administration to have secondary government email accounts, but an Oversight Committee spokesperson said it is concerning that Biden had multiple email accounts with fake names.
The redacted portion of that email is a phone number for the White House aide who sent the email. An unredacted version is available on archives of emails found from a hard drive that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden. Comer has previously said the committee has access to a copy of that hard drive.
Comer also requests emails that were sent or received from “Robin Ware” and “JRB Ware,” two other pseudonyms that the New York Post previously reported President Biden used, one of which is a Google email address. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) have previously sent the National Archives requests for information about those pseudonyms.
In Biden’s 2015 speech to the Ukrainian Rada, the parliament of Ukraine, the then-vice president advocated for democracy and warned about corruption in the country, adding that the U.S. would not recognize Russia’s attempt to annex Crimea.
Comer asks National Archives for unredacted Biden emails involving Hunter and Ukraine
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) on Thursday requested that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) provide unredacted documents and communications from Presid…
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Trump-Appointed Judge Cites Wildlife Cases As a Reason to Ban Abortion Pills
On Wednesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said it would restrict access to the main abortion pill, mifepristone, allowing its use only through seven weeks of pregnancy (down from the current 10) and banning telemedicine prescriptions of it. (None of the proposed changes will take effect until the Supreme Court weighs in on the case.)
But Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho—who was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas in GOP megadonor Harlan Crow’s library in 2018—wanted his colleagues go even further. He would have fully reversed the Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion pill, and he used some uh, wild, reasons to support his argument. Ho wrote in his unhinged concurrence that the plaintiffs, a group of anti-abortion doctors, have standing in the case because they like looking at babies, and the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill deprives them of that right. He cites “aesthetic injury” precedent from past cases involving federal decisions that threatened wildlife and plants:
It’s....pretty close to comparing women and pregnant people to wild animals! And he kept going!
Judge Ho is an established troll. He notoriously asked during a May hearing, “Is pregnancy a serious illness? When we celebrated Mother’s Day, were we celebrating illness?” But it’s still scary to think what the Supreme Court will do with his writings in the case when they finally weigh in—right in the middle of the 2024 election. It’s also scary to think that Ho, who was on Donald Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist, could get nominated to the high court if Trump wins the presidency in 2024.
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On Wednesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said it would restrict access to the main abortion pill, mifepristone, allowing its use only through seven weeks of pregnancy (down from the current 10) and banning telemedicine prescriptions of it. (None of the proposed changes will take effect until the Supreme Court weighs in on the case.)
But Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho—who was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas in GOP megadonor Harlan Crow’s library in 2018—wanted his colleagues go even further. He would have fully reversed the Food and Drug Administration approval of the abortion pill, and he used some uh, wild, reasons to support his argument. Ho wrote in his unhinged concurrence that the plaintiffs, a group of anti-abortion doctors, have standing in the case because they like looking at babies, and the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill deprives them of that right. He cites “aesthetic injury” precedent from past cases involving federal decisions that threatened wildlife and plants:
It’s....pretty close to comparing women and pregnant people to wild animals! And he kept going!
This whole flora/fauna line of reasoning gets even creepier when you read this sentence from Ho: “Pregnancy is not a bad or unhealthy condition of the body—it’s a natural consequence of a healthy and functioning reproductive system.” It really sounds like, to him, that women are nothing more than broodmares whose function is to gestate and bring joy to others gazing at them in their habitat.
Judge Ho is an established troll. He notoriously asked during a May hearing, “Is pregnancy a serious illness? When we celebrated Mother’s Day, were we celebrating illness?” But it’s still scary to think what the Supreme Court will do with his writings in the case when they finally weigh in—right in the middle of the 2024 election. It’s also scary to think that Ho, who was on Donald Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist, could get nominated to the high court if Trump wins the presidency in 2024.
Trump-Appointed Judge Cites Wildlife Cases As a Reason to Ban Abortion Pills
On Wednesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said it would restrict access to the main abortion pill, mifepristone, allowing its use only through seven weeks of pregnancy (down from the current 10) and banning telemedicine prescriptions of it. (None of the proposed changes will take effect...
cannabineer
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More Repug dysfunction
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DeSantis debate memo urges him to defend Trump and attack Ramaswamy
A memo written by leaders of a pro-DeSantis super PAC outlined the "overarching goals" for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in next week's first GOP presidential primary debate.
DIY-HP-LED
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DIY-HP-LED
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I have no idea, but the idiot smashing a barbie house was amusing, shows how far down the "Christian" grift has gone, they might as well be worshiping the fucking Devil! These dumb asses will swallow anything enrage to engage and they are putty in your hands after they are worked up and their brains shut down. What kind of gun would Jesus own, is a serious theological question among the "pluck their eyes out Lord" crowd.
DIY-HP-LED
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Perhaps, but the meek shall inherit the earth and he didn't look meek to me. Didn't Ken screw barbie in the movie? What kind of boyfriend is he, unless Ken swings both ways!
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cannabineer
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Mom, my Barbie and I want a GI Joe doll for Christmas.
But honey, Barbie comes with Ken!
Oh Mom. Barbie sleeps with Ken but she comes with GI Joe!
DIY-HP-LED
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What a fitting end to Trump, eaten by bedbugs, they will have the give the SS cans or raid to protect him! I hope they hold him in a cell for a few hours until his arraignment. 
This is a preview, Donald!
Donald would freak out, the whine heard around the world as Donald has to use special shampoo for crabs and lice after his brief stay...
This is a preview, Donald!Donald would freak out, the whine heard around the world as Donald has to use special shampoo for crabs and lice after his brief stay...
Budzbuddha
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What a fitting end to Trump, eaten by bedbugs, they will have the give the SS cans or raid to protect him! I hope they hold him in a cell for a few hours until his arraignment.
Donald would freak out, the whine heard around the world as Donald has to use special shampoo for crabs and lice after his brief stay...
DIY-HP-LED
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It sounds like a scary place for Donald, the other prisoners can't threaten him, but his cell might be another matter. There is talk they will hold the defendants in jail until they are arraigned, the sheriff is black and doesn't appear to like Trump... Donald already has a warrant for his arrest sworn out if he or the others don't show up. The prospect of spending time in that jail should terrify Donald and make him behave, if he can. He will be under the thumb of 4 different judges, 2 state and two federal, but Cannon doesn't count, Trump could shoot someone on 5th avenue while out on bail and she wouldn't lock him up.