David Andrews Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 On 8/8/2020 at 4:46 AM, Bob Ness said: Both. I believe the civil portion is a lower bar but does not foreclose criminal referrals, particularly after whatever is derived from discovery and findings. I have no doubt the NRA got sloppy. Insider book on the internal horrors at NRA: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ex-nra-insider-speaks-out-gun-owners-should-be-horrified-by-what-i-saw/ar-BB18GklN?li=BBnb7Kz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 The Minority Report Florida sheriff created algorithm to predict who would commit crimes — then had cops harass them: report https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/florida-sheriff-created-algorithm-to-predict-who-would-commit-crimes-then-had-cops-harass-them-report/ “The department created a 30-person intelligence department and devised an algorithm to predict who was likely to commit crimes in the future. “One of the people caught up in this system was 15-year-old Rio Wojtecki, who was identified as a future crime risk for stealing motorized bicycles.” “Those were the only charges against Rio, and he already had a state-issued juvenile probation officer checking on him. Yet from September 2019 to January 2020, Pasco Sheriff’s deputies went to his home at least 21 times, dispatch logs show,” said the report. “They showed up at the car dealership where his mom worked, looked for him at a friend’s house and checked his gym to see if he had signed in.” Even after acknowledging he wasn’t getting in trouble or doing anything suspicious, they continued to harass him.” “In another case, said the report, “Deputies gave the mother of one teenage target a $2,500 fine because she had five chickens in her backyard. They arrested another target’s father after peering through a window in his house and noticing a 17-year-old friend of his son smoking a cigarette inside. As they make checks, deputies feed information back into the system, not just on the people they target, but on family members, friends and anyone else in the target’s orbit.”“ Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 9 hours ago, Douglas Caddy said: Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/ “No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?" - Donald Trump https://apnews.com/b823f2c285641a4a09a96a0b195636ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Web journalist Greg Olear's list of Trump Traitors, a small milestone in epithet comedy. https://gregolear.substack.com/p/101-collaborators-treason-power-rankings?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo5NTk3NDA1LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo5MjA5ODEsIl8iOiJIbkk2RyIsImlhdCI6MTU5OTIyNTY2NCwiZXhwIjoxNTk5MjI5MjY0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjA2OTUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.YrPrfCW2DI40FxmKd0zfP2Jpyvu06g3YjluZeNHE9L8&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share Excerpt: 31/ Chuck C. JohnsonMillennial Roger Stone. Invisible to the naked eye, yet traces of him can be seen everywhere, as when a blacklight reveals the semen stains all over the peepshow’s Champagne Room. 30/ Corey Lewandowski, campaign chairBully. 29/ Brian Kemp, GovernorAs Attorney General, rigged the Georgia gubernatorial election in his favor. Celebrated his “victory” by embracing Trump tactics during the pandemic, to up the covid body count. 28/ Louis DeJoy, businessmanLooks and sounds like a recurring character on The Sopranos, but I’m sure the late-term Trump appointee installed at USPS to break xxxx isn’t mobbed up at all. 27/ Mick Mulvaney, Chief of StaffThe Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark before his face got melted. 26/ Wilbur Ross, CommerceThe Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark after his face got melted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 (edited) 4 hours ago, Ron Ecker said: “No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?" - Donald Trump https://apnews.com/b823f2c285641a4a09a96a0b195636ed As quoted from the same Atlantic story, in the Greg Olear piece cited in my post just above: On Memorial Day 2017, Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery, a short drive from the White House. He was accompanied on this visit by John Kelly, who was then the secretary of homeland security, and who would, a short time later, be named the White House chief of staff. [...] A first lieutenant in the Marine Corps, Robert Kelly was killed in 2010 in Afghanistan. He was 29. Trump was meant, on this visit, to join John Kelly in paying respects at his son’s grave, and to comfort the families of other fallen service members. But according to sources with knowledge of this visit, Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned directly to his father and said, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” Kelly (who declined to comment for this story) initially believed, people close to him said, that Trump was making a ham-handed reference to the selflessness of America’s all-volunteer force. But later he came to realize that Trump simply does not understand non-transactional life choices. Edited September 4, 2020 by David Andrews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Caddy Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 The ugly numbers are finally in on the 2017 Trump tax rewrite — and the rich made out like bandits https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/the-ugly-numbers-are-finally-in-on-the-2017-trump-tax-rewrite-and-the-rich-made-out-like-bandits/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 6 hours ago, Ron Ecker said: “No animal — nobody — what animal would say such a thing?" - Donald Trump https://apnews.com/b823f2c285641a4a09a96a0b195636ed Was it, perchance, an orange-headed New Jersey sap sucker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ecker Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 30 minutes ago, W. Niederhut said: Was it, perchance, an orange-headed New Jersey sap sucker? It wasn't an animal but a projector, and it's a very bad movie. Please turn it off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Bauer Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, W. Niederhut said: Was it, perchance, an orange-headed New Jersey sap sucker? Typical Trump MO when he says something that is so inappropriate or demeaning and disrespecting that it creates national outrage. The very next day he goes ALL CAPS TWEET BANANAS either claiming the comments attributed to him are total lies ( like this WWI soldier blurb) or his huge wag-the-dog propaganda machine creates a massive all out alternate reality media damage control counter blitz. Regards Trump's crazy vote twice proclamation, dozens of Trump mouthpieces ran out to the cameras and appeared on political TV shows pushing the same desperate damage control line ... uh...uh... He ( Trump) didn't actually mean to suggest his supporters vote twice this November 3rd which is a crime! He really didn't. No sir... no sirree. Although that is "exactly" what their fearless leader said. Uh... what he "meant" was that they should just check to see if their mail in votes for him were actually registered. ... oh...Uh Huh! And if hundreds of thousands if not millions of Trump's voters actually did what Trump asked them to do, and went down to polling places and tied up poll workers time and energy and effort checking their mail in votes, this would be a deliberate act of impeding the legal voting process for citizens actually there to vote in person. So, this Trump vote twice suggestion is really one of voter rights suppression via tying up voting centers with frivolous time consuming demands blocking legitimate voters ability to do so. Isn't that another crime as well? Should be. Edited September 4, 2020 by Joe Bauer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/09/03/trump-backed-qanon-candidate-posts-meme-showing-off-gun-and-urging-offense-against-aoc-the-squad/#37f9bd146aca Marjorie Taylor Greene, the House candidate and professed QAnon acolyte whom President Trump called “a future Republican star,” posted a photo of herself holding a gun she plans to raffle off, saying she wanted to go on the “offense” against the three Congresswomen known as “The Squad”—and her campaign said anyone who takes offense is “paranoid and ridiculous.” “On Thursday, Greene posted a photoshopped graphic on Facebook that pictured her holding her AR-15 and standing next to three progressive members of Congress known as “The Squad”—Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) (after this story was published, Greene restricted users from seeing the image on Facebook).” “In the caption above the graphic, Greene wrote that America needed “strong conservative Christians” to “go on the offense against these socialists who want to rip our country apart.” God, guns and Trump. That's all it takes. This is insanity, just insanity. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Prutsok Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Buzzfeed is now referring to Q cult members as suffering from "collective delusion" rather than merely spouting conspiracy theories. Not sure if that is good or bad. It's certainly accurate, but I fear it will simply harden those pathetic, gullible souls in their beliefs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 36 minutes ago, Steve Thomas said: God, guns and Trump. That's all it takes. This is insanity, just insanity. Steve Thomas https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/gop-lawmaker-advocated-burning-blm-supporters-homes-now-hes-under-investigation/ "Local news station WCVB reports that four-term GOP state Rep. James Spillane wrote in a Facebook post this week that anyone who has a Black Lives Matter sign on their lawn deserves to have their house burned and looted. “Public Service Announcement: If you see a BLM sign on a lawn it’s the same as having the porch light on for Halloween,” he wrote. “You’re free to loot and burn that house.” The post has since been deleted, but that hasn’t stopped the New Hampshire Department of Justice from launching an investigation into his advocacy of violence against political opponents." Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 (edited) https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/09/04/trump-and-stars-and-stripes-attacking-american-icon-column/5706859002/ The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason Trump wants to pull funding from Stars and Stripes, a newspaper for American troops that began in the Civil War and has been serving our soldiers. By Kathy Kiely Opinion contributor “Even for those of us who are all too wearily familiar with President Donald Trump’s disdain for journalists, his administration’s latest attack on the free press is a bit of a jaw-dropper. In a heretofore unpublicized recent memo, the Pentagon delivered an order to shutter Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that has been a lifeline and a voice for American troops since the Civil War. The memo orders the publisher of the news organization (which now publishes online as well as in print) to present a plan that “dissolves the Stars and Stripes” by Sept. 15 including "specific timeline for vacating government owned/leased space worldwide.”” “The memo ordering the publication’s dissolution claims the administration has the authority to make this move under the president’s fiscal year 2021 defense department budget request. It zeroed out the $15.5 million annual subsidy for Stars and Stripes. But Congress, which under the Constitution has the power to make decisions about how the public’s money is spent, has not yet approved the president’s request. In fact, the version the House approved earlier this summer explicitly overruled the decision to pull the plug on Stars and Stripes, restoring funding for the paper.” Our current president loves the military. Steve Thomas Edited September 4, 2020 by Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Thomas Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC National Security Correspondent for @FoxNews https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC Acccording to a former senior Trump administration official. is confirming everything that was in the Atlantic magazine concerning what Trump said about the military. Fox News. Oh my. Steve Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Video interview with now-deceased Portland shooter: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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