They should have led with that line rather than saving it to the last. The economy in 2018-2019 was tremendous. From labor participation rates, to home ownership rates, to the price of gas, to interest rates and inflation rates. It was at levels that now following the COVID shut-downs, we still have not returned to yet. If the authors had said Trump's actions threaten to return the US economy to how it was in 2018-2019, that would have been informative.
Of all Trump's nominations, he is one of two that I condemned. I agree that he is bad news.Dumber than dirt….
‘Alarming’: RFK Jr sought to stop Covid vaccinations 6 months after rollout: NYT
In May 2021, just six months after the rollout of the Covid vaccine, Robert F. Kennedy Junior tried to stop all coronavirus vaccinations in the U.S., the New York Times reports. Sen. Ed Markey joins to discuss that and more.www.msnbc.com
Do you think there is a chance any of the murderers who were on death row when Biden pardoned them will say the same? One can hope I guess.Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down Trump pardon
Former "Maga granny" Pamela Hemphill tells the BBC the Trump government is trying to "rewrite history".www.yahoo.com
One of the people who served jail time for taking part in the US Capitol riot four years ago has refused a pardon from President Donald Trump, saying: "We were wrong that day."
Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 60 days in prison, told the BBC that there should be no pardons for the riot on 6 January 2021.
"Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation," she said.
"I pleaded guilty because I was guilty, and accepting a pardon also would serve to contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative."
Hemphill, who was nicknamed the "Maga granny" by social media users - in reference to Trump's "make America great again" slogan - said she saw the Trump government as trying to "rewrite history and I don't want to be part of that".
"We were wrong that day, we broke the law - there should be no pardons," she told the BBC World Service's Newsday programme.
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Trump is Cobra Kai through and through. The full-on cartoonish version of it from the tv show. Mercy is for the weak. She asked Trump to be weak, maybe even implied it. Can't do that to Trump. That's the ultimate insult.'I Am Not Going to Apologize': Bishop Who Confronted Trump Speaks Out
In an interview with TIME, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde discussed her sermon, which has drawn death threats and prompted Trump to demand an apology
In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater” who is “not very good at her job.”
Bishop Budde asked Trump “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.” Trump glared and shifted uncomfortably as she spoke.
She added, “I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.”
Since her sermon drew national attention on Tuesday, Budde tells TIME she has “heard from many people who are grateful that someone was willing to speak on their behalf” as well as those who “have said they do wish me dead, and that's a little heartbreaking.”
BISHOP BUDDE: I hope that a message calling for dignity, respecting dignity, honesty, humility and kindness is resonating with people. I'm grateful for that. I'm saddened by the level of vitriol that it has evoked in others, and the intensity of it has been disheartening.
Trump called you a "Radical left hard line Trump hater." What's your response to that?
I don't hate President Trump. I strive not to hate anyone and I dare say that I am not of the 'radical left' either, whatever that means. That is not who I am.
He said you're not very good at your job.
That is for other people to judge, and so he is certainly entitled to his opinion.
And he said you should apologize. Will you apologize?
I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others.
Have you received threats? Do you feel in danger?
The real people who are in danger are those who are fearful of being deported. The real people who are in danger are the young people who feel they cannot be themselves and be safe and who are prone to all kinds of both external attacks and suicidal responses to them. So I think we should keep our eyes on the people who are really vulnerable in our society. I have a lot of support and a lot of safety around me, so no, I'm not feeling personally at risk. Although people have said they do wish me dead, and that's a little heartbreaking. It was a pretty mild sermon. It certainly wasn't a fire and brimstone sermon. It was as respectful and as universal as I could with the exception of making someone who has been entrusted with such enormous influence and power to have mercy on those who are most vulnerable.
Trump is not used to dealing with anyone that is ahead of him in intelligence, wealth, power, and personality (well most are ahead of him in intelligence, but the rest anyway) But he has met his match in Musk. Trump is the rampaging bull, wrecking everything he can by swinging his tiny tiny horns around, while Musk is the bullfighter, killing with targeted strikes. Musk will end up completely controlling this government, no doubt in my mind, mainly because he is intelligent enough and has the power wealth and influence to fully manipulate Trump. He figured this out during the campaign, and now he has Trump where he wants him. His methods are perfectly attuned to keeping Trump in line. Trump hates to be called out publicly in any way, so Musk does just that to get under his skin. Then he will give Trump the alternative he wants, and let's Trump take it and run with it to stroke his ego. It happened with the government funding bill exactly that way. It will happen again and again. Don't kid yourself, this is Musk's presidency, not Trumps.
She has such an easy-to-listen-to voice, and the band is arranged perfectly for her.
DC judges slam Trump pardons as 'revisionist myth,' 'will not change the truth' of Jan. 6
In the days since President Donald Trump handed down pardons and commutations for the more than 1,500 of his supporters who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal judges in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia have remained essentially silent while signing off...
On Wednesday, three judges with the D.C. District Court broke that silence on Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, with one eviscerating Trump's proclamation that stated he was righting a "national injustice" that occurred through the prosecution of the pro-Trump mob.
"No 'national injustice' occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election," Judge Beryl Howell, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said in an order Wednesday. "No 'process of national reconciliation' can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity."
She added, "That merely raises the dangerous specter of future lawless conduct by other poor losers and undermines the rule of law. Yet, this presidential pronouncement of a 'national injustice' is the sole justification provided in the government's motion to dismiss the pending indictment."
"What occurred that day is preserved for the future through thousands of contemporaneous videos, transcripts of trials, jury verdicts, and judicial opinions analyzing and recounting the evidence through a neutral lens," Kollar-Kotelly wrote. "Those records are immutable and represent the truth, no matter how the events of January 6 are described by those charged or their allies."
"What role law enforcement played that day and the heroism of each officer who responded also cannot be altered or ignored," she said.
"Grossly outnumbered, those law enforcement officers acted valiantly to protect the Members of Congress, their staff, the Vice President and his family, the integrity of the Capitol grounds, and the Capitol Building-our symbol of liberty and a symbol of democratic rule around the world," she added. "For hours, those officers were aggressively confronted and violently assaulted. More than 140 officers were injured. Others tragically passed away as a result of the events of that day. But law enforcement did not falter. Standing with bear spray streaming down their faces, those officers carried out their duty to protect."
She closed her order, stating bluntly, "All of what I have described has been recorded for posterity, ensuring that what transpired on January 6, 2021 can be judged accurately in the future."
Later Wednesday, the federal judge who oversaw Trump's criminal case related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election joined the growing chorus of judges breaking their silence.
"No pardon can change the tragic truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," said Judge Tanya Chutkan, another Obama appointee, in a brief order granting the dismissal of one rioter's criminal case. "The dismissal of this case cannot undo the 'rampage [that] left multiple people dead, injured more than 140 people, and inflicted millions of dollars in damage.' ... And it cannot repair the jagged breach in America's sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power.
"In hundreds of cases like this one over the past four years, judges in this district have administered justice without fear or favor," she added. "The historical record established by those proceedings must stand, unmoved by political winds, as a testament and as a warning."
From the comments: Although I voted for President Trump, I am finding it very difficult to understand how he could have pardoned individuals who were found guilty by a jury of their peers. I can only come to one sad conclusion; President Trump wanted to strut his prowess as President, and let people know that he has the power to circumvent the power of our Judicial system. I'm disappointed
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The problem is the vast vast vast majority of people are in it for themselves. They will help others, sure, and give of their means, like money and time, but when push comes to shove comes to prison time, the vast majority will do whatever it takes to save their own skin. Not to mention that many from that day feel they were in the right to begin with, no matter what harm it caused and continues to cause. The pardons are a slap in the face to the families of all that died as a result of the violence that day, or that continue to live with other fall-out from it. It is just Trump swinging his tiny dick around for all to see. Shameful. We are in a severe low point of American politics, maybe the lowest since the Civil War, or the race riots of the civil rights era. But even then we had people with level heads who could effect change. Where the **** are those people now?'I Am Not Going to Apologize': Bishop Who Confronted Trump Speaks Out
In an interview with TIME, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde discussed her sermon, which has drawn death threats and prompted Trump to demand an apology
In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater” who is “not very good at her job.”
Bishop Budde asked Trump “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.” Trump glared and shifted uncomfortably as she spoke.
She added, “I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.”
Since her sermon drew national attention on Tuesday, Budde tells TIME she has “heard from many people who are grateful that someone was willing to speak on their behalf” as well as those who “have said they do wish me dead, and that's a little heartbreaking.”
BISHOP BUDDE: I hope that a message calling for dignity, respecting dignity, honesty, humility and kindness is resonating with people. I'm grateful for that. I'm saddened by the level of vitriol that it has evoked in others, and the intensity of it has been disheartening.
Trump called you a "Radical left hard line Trump hater." What's your response to that?
I don't hate President Trump. I strive not to hate anyone and I dare say that I am not of the 'radical left' either, whatever that means. That is not who I am.
He said you're not very good at your job.
That is for other people to judge, and so he is certainly entitled to his opinion.
And he said you should apologize. Will you apologize?
I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others.
Have you received threats? Do you feel in danger?
The real people who are in danger are those who are fearful of being deported. The real people who are in danger are the young people who feel they cannot be themselves and be safe and who are prone to all kinds of both external attacks and suicidal responses to them. So I think we should keep our eyes on the people who are really vulnerable in our society. I have a lot of support and a lot of safety around me, so no, I'm not feeling personally at risk. Although people have said they do wish me dead, and that's a little heartbreaking. It was a pretty mild sermon. It certainly wasn't a fire and brimstone sermon. It was as respectful and as universal as I could with the exception of making someone who has been entrusted with such enormous influence and power to have mercy on those who are most vulnerable.
www.newschannel5.com
Why, indeed. I haven't heard yet, but I suspect this child, and a 17 year old boy is a child, had no strong male role model in the home. This has all the hallmarks of a child lacking a father figure, and filling the hole with some edgy awful things our culture makes available. Maybe I'm wrong and we'll come to find the kid did grow up in a loving two-parent household. Maybe, but this has the feel of a toddler playing on the freeway.
