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riversedge's Journal@GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconson is a dangerous threat to our Democracy ..........
https://twitter.com/SenRonJohnson/status/1785431575686996144
Here is a GIFT ARTICLE from the NY Times that #Maddow is referring to, regarding #WISen GOP nominee Eric Hovde being nam
Here is a GIFT ARTICLE from the NY Times that #Maddow is referring to, regarding #WISen GOP nominee Eric Hovde being name in a California lawsuit regarding nursing home elder abuse.
And yes, he is from California and running in Wisconsin.
https://twitter.com/TrumpsTaxes/status/1785114482445852846
"Are you kidding me?!" Newsmax host Eric Bolling goes ballistic over President Biden eating a salad...
Imagine if Biden wore a tan suit--this Bolling guy's peabrain would explode.
“Are you kidding me?!” Newsmax host Eric Bolling goes ballistic over President Biden eating a salad. (Video: Newsmax)
https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1785286157343035888
Trump back in NYC ready for his trial--- Looks like SEVEN Black vans escorted
by a police car! Why so many cars needed?
Waste of gas IMHO
Trump back in NY ready for trial.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1785084825067512023
A Matter of Character On liars, dogs, family and, most of all, the need for decency in our leaders Steven Beschloss
I got as an email.
Steven Beschloss from America, America
5:19 AM (12 hours ago)
to me
A Matter of Character
On liars, dogs, family and, most of all, the need for decency in our leaders
Steven Beschloss
Apr 29
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Photo of Gov. Kristi Noem by Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images.
For the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon campaign, the Democratic Party released a poster with an image of a slick and smiling Richard Nixon and this question: “Would you buy a used car from this man?” That anti-Nixon poster re-emerged when Nixon made another run for the White House in 1968.
Notice that the message was not about his policies or political track record. Its focus was on character—raising doubts about the candidate’s honesty and integrity. It was a time when raising the question of character was a ripe and fruitful strategy to influence the thinking of the voting public.
This poster came to mind in recent days as the question of character has reemerged. Don’t most Americans want a person of decency and integrity running their country? At another time, the answer would have been obvious.
Saturday night, after finishing his jokes, Saturday Night Live host of “Weekend Update” Colin Jost got serious. He took his chance at the White House Correspondents Association dinner—with the President of the United States seated just inches away—to talk about his grandfather and the topic of decency.
Jost said that his grandfather was a Staten Island firefighter and recently passed away. “He helped raise me, and I would not be here today without him,” he said touchingly, turning to President Biden. “You remind me of him. Some of your best qualities remind me of his.”
Jost then said that his grandfather voted for Biden in 2020, the last election that he voted in. And why? “He voted for you because you’re a decent man,” the comedian said with great sincerity.
This was Jost’s moment. A chance to share what he really thinks beyond the often snarky, sometimes clever, usually funny jokes. This was the heartfelt thought that he wanted to end with, the comment that most likely will be what people remember about his appearance as this year’s comedian.
It was an uplifting reminder that character matters—indeed, that the question of character needs to be on the ballot.
The contrast between Jost and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, hot in the running to be Donald Trump’s VP nominee, could not be more stark.
You’ve probably already heard about the excerpt in her soon-to-be-released memoir. Noem decided to include the story of killing her dog, Cricket, a barely-year-old wirehair pointer that she said she hated. Noem complained that the young dog was aggressive, a biter, who killed several chickens and ruined a pheasant hunt by going “out of her mind with excitement.”
Her comment on Cricket, who she decided was “untrainable”? “I hated that dog,” Noem writes, calling her “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless…as a hunting dog.”
So did she search for another owner or take Cricket to the pound? Nope. She got her shotgun and led the dog to a gravel pit.
What kind of person shoots their own dog? What kind of person writes about it, sheds light on it, in the story of her life? And what does this say about Noem’s judgement of what deserves attention—and what she believes will resonate with her book’s readers?
I mean, she didn’t have to include that story. Perhaps she wanted one reader in particular—a possible future employer and sociopath who dislikes dogs—to know about her capacity for cruelty and violence. This was a chance to let him know that she’s ready to do the things, as she put it, that are “difficult, messy and ugly.”
Put a different way: Look at me! I can be a sociopath, too! (Oxford dictionary definition of a sociopath: “A person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.”
And one other thing: Kristi Noem wasn’t done after killing poor Cricket. Nope. She goes on to recount killing one of her family’s goats that same day, a farm animal that was “nasty and mean” and smelled bad. She dragged that goat to her gravel pit, too.
Every regular reader of America, America knows that I take the subject of decency seriously. It takes no stretch of the imagination to recognize that this topic has taken on particular importance at a time when a felonious ex-president and presumptive GOP nominee not only relishes cruelty and violence himself, he’s succeeded at making it a feature of his party’s ethos.
Is that what the majority of Americans want? Is that what the GOP thinks is a winning message? Among all the issues that are on the ballot this year, is not the question of character—of cruelty versus decency—high on the list? I think so.
This week the Manhattan jury in the Trump election interference trial heard plenty of nauseating facts—about the the National Enquirer boss David Pecker using his tabloid rag (the real fake news) to fantastically lie about Trump’s rivals and to hide the truth of Trump’s infidelities from the voting public. They heard from witness Pecker how Trump was actively involved in these efforts, both with his dollars and by signing false business records.
Trump’s defense attorney Todd Blanche showcased one of their key arguments: That Donald Trump is a husband and a father. He “fought back…to protect his family.”
In other words, Blanche is trying to make Trump’s actions appear to be a matter of character—that a good husband and father would want to do whatever he could to keep this damaging information from his family, never mind the infidelities themselves.
Such a defense depends on the jury of 12 women and men believing that the criminal defendant is motivated by such things. But Pecker did not help that ludicrous enterprise, laughable to anyone who’s been sentient these last years.
Pecker, who’s been given criminal immunity as long as he testifies honestly, contradicted Blanche’s assertion like this: “I thought it was for the campaign…his family was never mentioned and [in] the conversations that I had directly with Mr. Trump, his family wasn’t mentioned.”
I think most Americans want a person of decency and integrity running their country. I think it’s why Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976 after the criminality and degradations of Nixon. And I think it can be a key reason why Joe Biden is reelected in 2024 after the continuing criminality and degradations of Trump.
But that will take raising the question of character often and loudly in the coming months—and our body politic, despite being terribly broken, recognizing that you can’t have a decent country if you have an indecent and cruel man occupying the White House.
One final note: When our Hazel (now seven but pictured here at eight weeks) was a puppy, she was a serious biter. But we never thought about shooting her for crying out loud. And guess what? She grew out of it.
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Dem U.S. Rep. @MarkPocan calls @derrickvanorden a "dipshit" for his reaction to protests @UWMadison......
Good on Pocan [he was my congresscritter while I was in Madtown-now I have the dipshit!!
Democratic U.S. Rep. @MarkPocan
, whose district includes the UW-Madison campus, calls fellow congressman Republican @derrickvanorden
,who represents western Wisconsin, a "dipshit" for his reaction to protests on the @UWMadison
campus today.
https://twitter.com/sbauerAP/status/1785001751680069773
Derrick Van Orden
@derrickvanorden
Antisemitism has no place in Wisconsin.
Zero.Federal.Dollars.
https://twitter.com/derrickvanorden/status/1784983440133103678
Protests at UW-Madison have remained peaceful, and chants have not targeted Jewish students.The statement also defended UW-Madison’s commitment to free speech and expression.
https://twitter.com/dailycardinal/status/1785034415527137637
@ruthyjacobs
I'm at a rally on UW-Madison campus where people just put up tents on library mall.
https://twitter.com/ruthyjacobs/status/1784955575882686770
Journal Sentinel
@journalsentinel
Student protestors gather at UW-Madison demanding an end to the Israel-Hamas war
https://twitter.com/journalsentinel/status/1785009413046100464
'Rest of life in prison': RNC official frets about 'decades' in jail in fake elector case
Source: msn
Story by David Edwards • 3h •
Republican National Committee lawyer Christina Bobb, a former conservative news anchor and attorney for Donald Trump, said she expected to spend the rest of her life in prison if she is found guilty of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Arizona.
During a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, host Steve Bannon asked Bobb what her punishment could be if she is found guilty on nine counts of trying to organize fake electors to hand the election to Trump.
"The nine felonies are how many years in prison?" Bannon wondered.
"I don't know how many for those nine felonies. Yeah, several decades or 50 years in prison," Bobb replied. "Yeah, I assume it would be the rest of my life in prison."
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...................Bobb was among 18 people charged in the Arizona fake elector scheme. Trump confidantes Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn were also charged.
Watch the video from Real America's Voice below or at this link.
Bobb noted that she had served in the Marine Corps.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rest-of-life-in-prison-rnc-official-frets-about-decades-in-jail-in-fake-elector-case/ar-AA1nSeZO?ocid=socialshare&cvid=71b1f5f43e924e0da879aecde512918c&ei=26
You would think a lawyer would know better!!
https://twitter.com/leghorn1357/status/1784994652589822328
Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News 'imminently'
Source: nbc
A letter obtained by NBC News says action is pending because of Fox’s alleged "conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light.
April 29, 2024, 11:45 AM CDT By Sarah Fitzpatrick
Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News “imminently,” according to a letter sent to the network and obtained by NBC News.
The letter, dated April 23, puts the Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital on notice for litigation claims arising from the network’s alleged “conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light, the unlicensed commercial exploitation of his image, name, and likeness, and the unlawful publication of hacked intimate images of him.”
Biden has hired attorney Mark Geragos and his firm to represent him in the Fox litigation efforts. The letter is the second outreach to Fox this month. An earlier letter was hand-delivered to Fox’s counsel two weeks ago, and the network asked for more time to respond, according to a source familiar with Biden’s legal efforts. The network has not yet responded to the letter sent April 23, which included a Friday evening, April 26, deadline to respond, according to Geragos. The letter is signed by Tina Glandian, a partner at Geragos & Geragos working on the case.
Fox News did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The new threat of litigation comes almost a year after Fox News agreed to pay almost $800 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle defamation claims related to Fox’s airing of election fraud claims in the 2020 election. Fox News also agreed to a $12 million settlement with a former employee who alleged she was pressured to provide misleading information as part of the Dominion case.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/lawyers-hunter-biden-plan-sue-fox-news-rcna149707
@kylegriffin1
Breaking:
Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox "imminently," according to a letter obtained by NBC News.
The letter puts Fox on notice for litigation claims arising from the network's alleged "conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame Mr. Biden and paint him in a false light, the unlicensed commercial exploitation of his image, name, and likeness, and the unlawful publication of hacked intimate images of him." https://nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/lawyers-hunter-biden-plan-sue-fox-news-rcna149707
12:50 PM · Apr 29, 2024
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1785003640811376991
George Conway gave $$$ to SD local Humane Society -and inspired others to do so also [for Cricket}...
Whatever you think of Conway and his political comments--he did a good deed with this and inspired others to contribute also.
George Conway @gtconway3d
For no reason in particular, I made a contribution to the Glacial Lakes Humane Society in Watertown, South Dakota.
https://watertownpaws.org/give
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1784549907593826596
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1784549907593826596
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1784584654508466344
https://twitter.com/TChazStevens/status/1784570936479432710
https://twitter.com/RindyReh/status/1784569111244165315
Trump shoves Kari Lake out of Mar-a-Lago and frets she'll be electoral liability: report
Source: raw story
Tom Boggioni April 29, 2024 9:03AM ET
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It was previously reported that the former president became annoyed with Lake because she was causing him problems with his wife Melania because of her constant presence at his Mar-a-Lago resort. On Monday, the Washington Post reported the rift also was based over Trump's concerns she is not out doing enough campaigning.
As the report notes, the race to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) is one of the most closely watched in the 2024 election and Lake, a political novice with one failed bid for statewide office in 2022, is expected to face
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ).............
......................According to the new Post report, there is growing tension between the Trump and Lake camps that she will be a detriment in a close election and that Trump has had to urge her to decamp from Mar-a-Lago and get to work winning over voters. ...............
............."Trump’s frustration with Lake has only increased over the past year, heightening the tension," the Post report adds, and then notes that the former president is still aggravated she failed to acquire the governorship in the pivotal state, grumbling to a friend at Mar-a-Lago, 'She didn't win.'"......................
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-kari-lake-2668078593/
Trump complains that Lake not doing enough campaigning, yet Trump had OFF last Wednesday
and last weekend and did NO campaign rallies [3 full days--golfing on 2 of them that I know of].
https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1784945519044755821
https://twitter.com/BGulsby/status/1784949580754202843
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