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riversedge's JournalAt the Trump rally in GB, WI: Guy at Trump rally in WI today says he's upset that Biden wants bisexuals in the military.
I listened to some--the man in the red hat just called Biden senile!!
https://twitter.com/blossomedchild/status/1775225511641231398?s=20
https://twitter.com/ChidiNwatu/status/1775221757844001195?s=20
Dem, Tx: "If Republicans want to name something after him [Trump], I'd suggest they find a federal prison."
Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat who reps part of Dulles, weighs in on GOP bill to rename the airport after Trump.
"Donald Trump is facing 91 felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I'd suggest they find a federal prison."
https://x.com/AndrewSolender/status/1775170142474735718?s=20
Wisconsin Dems - Please do whatever's necessary to get out and vote NO today on the two referendum questions. You can re
If you are outside of WI but have relatives or friends in WI-please remind them
to vote today April 2.
Wisconsin Dems - Please do whatever’s necessary to get out and vote NO today on the two referendum questions. You can register at the polls. Good info here: https://wsaw.com/2024/04/02/wis
https://twitter.com/thanewisc/status/1775167185972773040?s=20
riversedge (69,767 posts) Tue Mar 19, 2024, 05:17 PM
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@WisDems OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION FOR WISCONSIN'S SPRING ELECTION: Vote "NO" on Question 1 and Question 2--
Wisconsin Democrats @WisDems
OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION FOR WISCONSIN’S SPRING ELECTION:
Vote “NO” on Question 1 and Question 2—the constitutional amendment on the April 2 ballot.
Educate yourself on why—read and share:
https://twitter.comWisDems/status/1770184509771674092?s=20
RFK Jr said Bill Gates is putting 5G chips in your brain to steal your bank account. This is straight up QAnon.
I do not know when this video was taken. But seems to be a fairly large crowd.
https://twitter.com/Caerage/status/1775055073640415420?s=20
Mark Meadows tells Georgia judge to dismiss his election racketeering case
Source: raw story
Sarah K. Burris April 1, 2024 5:12PM ET
Mark Meadows is demanding that his Georgia election racketeering case be dismissed due to the Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution, according to court records revealed by investigative reporter Zach Merchant.
Meadows' attorneys requested Monday an evidentiary hearing to discuss his argument in the Fulton County court where he and former President Donald Trump face multiple criminal charges linked to the 2020 presidential election, according to the Atlanta NBC affiliate reporter's post.
Trump's former White House chief of staff previously filed a suit demanding that his case be moved to federal court but was denied. His new argument is that the Constitution mandates state law not interfere with federal law......
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...........This argument does not pass muster with legal analyst Andrew Weissmann, who compared Meadows to a hypothetical federal employee accused of robbing a bank. He explained that employees would not be charged in federal court due to their job as they broke a state law.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/mark-meadows-2667648178/
https://twitter.com/thomaskaine5/status/1774938322965602790?s=20
Mark Meadows speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)
Speaker Johnson describes Jan6 as "people who were just there and happened to be walking through the building...........
Johnson is nothing but scum.
Mike Johnson describes January 6 insurrectionists as "people who were just there and happened to be walking through the building"
https://twitter.com/BidenHQ/status/1774975561267400961?s=20
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1774962599857176654?s=20
The Weakness of a Violent Man [Trump] He pretends to be a strongman, but his desperation is always on display
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The Weakness of a Violent Man
He pretends to be a strongman, but his desperation is always on display
Steven Beschloss Apr 1
Time for the man who thinks he’s strong to leave the stage. (Photo by Scott Olson via Getty Images)
He attacks a judge’s daughter to stir up hate and conflict. He posts a video of the President of the United States, bound and gagged. He condemns millions of humans as poison, who, in their struggle to survive, have come to the United States to seek better lives. This is not a strong man, a man displaying his strength to lead; this is a malignant man who’s revealing his essential weakness and dangerously exacerbating a climate of violence.
Bereft of any vision of positive change, this is a man who is only capable of exploiting an aggrieved people’s worst instincts—who has figured out that he can get what he wants by stoking the fear, hatred and anger of others. He uses violence, not imagination. Conflict, not collaboration. Cruelty, never kindness. Retribution, not affirmation. These are the tools of a weak man inciting the mob to satisfy his hunger for carnage.
A man like this sells bibles wrapped in an American flag. Desperate for dollars and loyalty, he laughably claims the bible is his “favorite” book and that he has many of them. Empty and broken inside, he needs to compare himself to Jesus Christ on the holy weekend of Easter.
But this is a weak man, a narcissist in the extreme, who cannot tolerate his own failures or the painfully obvious reality that he will never get the total adoration that his bottomless pit of need seeks. This is a sad creature, utterly lacking self-consciousness. When he looks in a mirror, he never sees the truth.
We are living in complex, challenging times, in which our problems are increasingly global and often seem insurmountable. Climate change. Immigration driven by displacement. Murderous rulers set upon stealing their neighbors’ sovereignty, ending their commitment to democracy and exploiting their limited resources by undermining their allies’ commitment to support them.
In such times, we hope for leaders possessed of the necessary intellect and imagination, compassion and competence to engage the public in the arduous task of self-governance. At a time when the problems we face depend on genuinely strong leaders, capable of inspiring the public to pursue their better selves and work together, a weak man relies on scapegoating the most vulnerable among us and promising that he alone can fix our most intractable problems—and do it quick. The demagoguery is as old as the hills, only the details and the targets of hate change over time.
In less troubled times, a man like this would remain in the darkened fringes of society, limited in his ability to incite stochastic terrorism. In times like this, such a man can not only ascend to the nation’s highest office once, he has the potential to regain that office even after he’s been disgraced with two impeachments, engaged in a violent insurrection, lied more than a documented 30,000 times, and has been indicted four times and charged with 88 felony charges. Still today, his followers remain devoted to him, even after he was found guilty of raping and defaming E. Jean Carroll, as well as committing widespread tax and business fraud and facing fines of more than half a billion dollars. For Trump and his cult, rising political violence is assuredly a feature, not a bug.
Times like these make the weak man masquerading as the strong man look like a real answer for the aggrieved voters who are attracted to cruelty and brute force as a promised path to easy solutions. The increasingly poisonous hostility between parties only intensifies their dark desires.
I’ve quoted it before, but the prophetic insight and warning of George Washington bears repeating. In his farewell address from 1796, America’s first president worried about the dangers of factionalism and revenge-filled hostility between factions. “The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual,” he wisely said. “And sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.”
I have also noted before the necessary insight of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on the topic of cruelty and kindness, but this too bears repeating. “When someone’s path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society,” he told newly minted college graduates in a commencement address. “They never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct. They never forged new mental pathways to overcome their instinctual fears and so their thinking and problem-solving will lack the imagination and creativity that the kindest people have in spades.”
The responsibility to defeat Donald Trump and the Trump Republicans could not be clearer. In another time, that may sound like a partisan urging. But this is about our commitment to sustaining America’s centuries-old democratic experiment.
Many of our fellow citizens look at Joe Biden and insist he lacks something they want. But his capacity for compassion and kindness, his commitment to democracy, and his record of competence and achievement should be more than enough for doubters to find a reason to support him.
The failure to achieve massive voter turnout can lead to a dark, fascistic future, led by a weak and desperate man who thinks he’s strong. That is a dangerous combination, which each of us has the power to help overcome.
Senate rankings: 5 seats most likely to flip 04/01/24; WI, MT, PA, AZ, OH..........
I dread seeing WI on this list.
Senate rankings: 5 seats most likely to flip
by Al Weaver - 04/01/24 6:00 AM ET
The Senate battlefield is increasingly locked in as Republicans turn their attention from the primaries to the November contests in a bid to turn the chamber red.
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Wisconsin
The entrance of Eric Hovde, a wealthy businessman, into the Wisconsin Senate race is giving the GOP something it hasn’t had since Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) first won her seat 12 years ago: a real chance at defeating her.
According to the latest Emerson/The Hill survey, Baldwin holds a 3-point advantage over Hovde, who is expected to spend in the neighborhood of $20 million of his own money on the contest. Hovde went on the air almost immediately after he announced his campaign and has been running television ads since.
Republicans are also heartened by some key numbers early on, including that Baldwin is short of 50 percent support in polls and that only 42 percent approve of her work, according to the latest Marquette Law School poll, taken in January.
Democrats, though, remain confident that Baldwin’s winning ways will continue and that she is doing everything she needs to.
They also constantly point to their ongoing attempt to define Hovde as an out-of-touch carpetbagger who is trying to nab the seat and isn’t “one of us.”
“The contrast there is great,” said a Democratic strategist with experience working on Senate races, pointing to Baldwin’s recent Dairyland tour and emphasis on rural areas. “Tammy talking about rural priorities and going to places Dems don’t always go in Wisconsin compared to a guy who flew in from California to try to buy a Senate seat.”
🚨#BREAKING: All New York State Landmark buildings are now lit up in celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility 📌#Ne
Good for NY!!
🚨#BREAKING: All New York State Landmark buildings are now lit up in celebration of Transgender Day of Visibility
📌#NewYork | #NY
Currently, all New York State landmark buildings, including the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, Niagara Falls, and other buildings and landmarks, are illuminated in rainbow colors and transgender pride colors, such as light pink, white, and light blue, following President Joe Biden's declaration of March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. Governor Hochul stated, "I am proud of the strength the transgender community displays every day, and I want to make one thing clear: you are always welcome in New York. You are loved
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1774631415432319180?s=20
Trump: "When we go in church and I drink my little wine....and have my little cracker, ...
Trump is such a crude man!
Donald Trump:
“I’m a Sunday church person.”
“When we go in church and I drink my little wine....and have my little cracker, I guess that’s a form of asking for forgiveness.”
https://tweet.com/ConscienceIsIt/status/1774579543145095399?s=20
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