LINK: Swastika flag displayed in Ohio Congressman's Office
If these Nazis don't want us to call them Nazis, then they shouldn't pin their Nazi paraphernalia all over their offices. Or at least learn to put background filters on when making Zoom calls with media outlets.
LINK: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
[Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country] referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
Yeah, but it's liberals who are violent, right?
Latitia James indicated on her mortgage that she would use the house as a second home.
The US Attorney impaneled a grand jury in Norfolk, Virginia to solicit testimony attempting to prove that James had actually rented the house out to another family as a rental investment.
Testimony elicited during the Norfolk grand jury revealed that James' grandniece had been living in the house for years, and was not paying rent to do so.
US Attorney discharges the Norfolk, VA grand jury and immediately impanels a new grand jury in Alexandria, VA to seek an indictment against James.
US Attorney omits from evidence presented to Alexandria, VA grand jury the exculpatory testimony related to the actual use of the house, in violation of Title 9 of the Federal Rules Justice Manual.
Lacking the exculpatory evidence, the Alexandria, VA grand jury votes to indict.
In any saner universe, the conduct of US Attorney Lindsey Halligan would be referred over to the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility.
Sibling control analyses found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability. This suggests that the small increase in children’s risk of neurodevelopmental disorders associated with acetaminophen use observed in statistical models without sibling control may have been due to unmeasured confounding. In addition, sibling control analyses did not identify a dose-response association between acetaminophen and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Results of this study indicate that the association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders is a noncausal association. Birthing parents with higher acetaminophen use differed in many aspects from those with lower use or no use. Results suggested that there was not one single “smoking gun” confounder, but rather that multiple birthing parents’ health and sociodemographic characteristics each explained at least part of the apparent association. The null results of the sibling control analyses indicate that shared familial confounders were involved, but do not identify the specific confounding factors.
@blablarg18 said in Jimmy Kimmel thing:
your Dot Dot Dot technique classic hoax marker
Are you too stupid to know what ellipses are?
@blablarg18 said in I guess the GOP doesn't care about kids anymore...:
Debunked
To quote your favorite fellow: Prove me wrong.
LINK: Trump administration retreats on combating human trafficking and child exploitation
Under Trump, key initiatives for fighting human trafficking have been cut back at the US Department of State, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Guardian found. Senior officials and other staffers have been forced out, workers shifted to other priorities and grants delayed or cancelled.
I guess we shouldn't be surprised that Epstein's buddy, Donald Trump, isn't committed to combating child exploitation and human trafficking.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
@blablarg18 said in Jimmy Kimmel thing:
swing & miss, something I don't know of & don't care
Clearly you've never seen or read V for Vendetta. That's a shame; you might have learned something.
Who would have ever thought we'd miss the days when Conservative hacks liked to pretend they were the side represented by V. Now, they're creaming themselves to emulate this guy:
If only you would apply the same sentiments expressed in this thread to the FCC Chairman pressuring Disney to cancel Jimmy Kimmel. But, alas, you remain a partisan hack who only wants to acknowledge Free Speech when convenient to you.
@blablarg18 said in Jimmy Kimmel thing:
broadcast licensees like ABC are required legally to be strictly even-handed & factual, different from cable networks.
The Fairness Doctrine was abolished in the United States in 1987 under Reagan. The FCC exercises certain speech restraints on over-the-air broadcasters, but those are confined to specific topics, which usually have been identified by Congress through legislation or adopted by the FCC through full notice-and-comment pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act (e.g., indecency, obscenity, commercial content in children's programming, conduct of on-air contests/game shows, or the Emergency Alert System).
The FCC doesn't have carte blanche power to enforce fairness or even-handedness. The FCC does not have the power to force broadcasters not to criticize the presidential administration.
The FCC Chairman said on the podcast:
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
And make no mistake, he was threatening to use his power to punish broadcasters with whom he disagrees. He made sure to clarify his threat on the Sean Hannity Show, where he further explained:
"Over the years, the FCC walked away from enforcing [the] public interest obligation. I don’t think we’re better off as a country for it.... They [meaning late night hosts] went from going for applause, from laugh lines to applause lines. They went from being court jesters that would make fun of everybody in power to being court clerics and enforcing a very narrow political ideology...."
FCC Chairman Carr called the late night hosts a "narrow, partisan circus," and said that the FCC was currently working to reinvigorate enforcement of the "public interest obligation" of broadcasters.
You're delusional and living in fantasyland if you think the decision was based on ratings. I mean, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, owner of ABC affiliates, literally told Kimmel in Sinclair's official press release to make a "direct apology" for the comments and demanded he make a donation to both Kirk's family and to Kirk's Turning Point USA. You cannot pretend that the actions were because of rating. They were a reaction to the comments and the backlash from the FCC and Trump.
@blablarg18 said in Jimmy Kimmel thing:
No one who melts down over Jimmy Kimmel today, lifted finger to defend Roseanne.
Roseanne's cancelling wasn't perpetrated by the Administration (which was Trump's first administration) using threats from the Chairman of the FCC to the licenses of both ABC and the affiliate stations broadcasting ABC. The FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, made the public threats to Disney, ABC, and affiliates on the Scott Jennings radio show.
Trump's current FCC chair is using threats to cajole the networks into censoring opponents of the current administration. Disney (owner of ABC) has its ESPN poised to purchase the NFL Network, which will require approval by the FCC. And the largest network affiliate carrying ABC, which is Nexstar, is currently bidding to purchase its rival Tegna. That merger will also require FCC approval.
So, it's not surprising that neither of those corporations want to piss off the FCC chairman. Unlike Roseanne's cancelling, which was just a business decision based on public outrage at Roseanne's racist tweets, here we have a government agent as the cause of the cancellation. That's government censorship, which the First Amendment is supposed to protect against.
And Trump's not ignorant of the power his lapdog at the FCC has, since he just today said that the FCC should pull the licenses of any licensee who broadcasts media critical of Trump. He's already tweeting that he'd like Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers gone as well. FCC Chair Carr has already said he's going to look into how he can take down The View, potentially claiming that it isn't a news show and/or has violated some form of the Equal Time doctrine.
I don't think Trump and his followers are lovers of Fascism. I don't think they'd wear that on the lapel. But they sure to love using the trappings and methods of fascist governments.
@raphjd said in Epstein Cover-up by Trump Administration:
The difference is that Trump files lawsuits on his own; he does not use taxpayer money to do it, like Democrats do.
Literally up until last month when he and his DOJ lost in front of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, Trump was arguing that he could use the Department of Justice (funded by the taxpayers) as his personal horde of lawyers for his appeal of the E. Jean Carroll defamation suit.
Prior to wanting taxpayers to pay for his defense, Trump had been using political donations from his supporters to pay all of his legal bills (well, at least the legal bills that he chose to pay, since he is notorious for not paying his debts to lawyers).
Trump's only using "his" money because the Judiciary literally refused to allow him to rob the taxpayers for his own interests. You don't know what you're talking about.
For those saying if Trump was on the Epstein list, Biden would have released them:
MAGA Members Have Mega Tizzy After DOJ And FBI Claim Epstein Files Don’t Exist
In February, asked on Fox News about the so-called client list, Pam Bondi replied, “It’s sitting on my desk right now to review.”
Hours of recovered video evidence recording thousands of trafficked victims, and we're to believe that they can't identify even one of the men shoving his dick in a girl's mouth? Were they all wearing Squid Games masks?
Usually with conspiracy theories, I assume there's just a bunch of smoke, but no fire. Here, Trump's FBI and DOJ are even denying that any smoke existed. It's like they're trying to convince everyone Epstein was a Mandela Effect.
@blablarg18 said in Minnesota lawmaker murdered; Dem who had repealed illegal aliens:
It shows how Dem violence, or at least Dem advocacy & desire for terrorist political violence, is indeed widespread.
Yes, the lesson we should take away from an Republican/Conservative assassin killing two Democrats is that Democrats are the ones advocating political violence. </sarcasm>
@raphjd said in Minnesota lawmaker murdered; Dem who had repealed illegal aliens:
There are pics of the killer and his wife wearing liberal shirts.
Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative
Friends and former colleagues interviewed by AP described Boelter as a devout Christian who attended an evangelical church and went to campaign rallies for President Donald Trump. Records show Boelter registered to vote as a Republican while living in Oklahoma in 2004 before moving to Minnesota where voters don’t list party affiliation.
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Friends told the AP that they knew Boelter was religious and conservative, but that he didn’t talk about politics often and didn’t seem extreme.
“He was right-leaning politically but never fanatical, from what I saw, just strong beliefs,” said Paul Schroeder, who has known Boelter for years.
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“He never talked to me about abortion,” Schroeder said. “It seemed to be just that he was a conservative Republican who naturally followed Trump.”
