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Kid Berwyn
Kid Berwyn's Journal
Kid Berwyn's Journal
January 16, 2024
Is this what happened to Sen. Paul Wellstone?
The liberal Democrat was one of the leading opponent to Bush's illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous war on Iraq.
Then, he wasn't. And soooo many voted along with Bush, it hurts to type.
January 10, 2024
Thank you for posting this!
It explains what Dip argued in federal court yesterday and its hypocrisy.
January 9, 2024
Experts: Jack Smith’s “dramatic new proof” so “overwhelming” reluctant witnesses may decide to flip
Prof: Trump “demonstrated a criminal intent" to collaborate with insurrectionists at “expense of the Constitution"
by Areeba Shah
Salon.com, January 8, 2024
Former President Donald Trump refused to help stop the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and instead watched TV from the White House, according to previously undisclosed details that special counsel Jack Smith's team uncovered as part of its Jan. 6 probe, ABC News reported.
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“Trump was ‘very angry’ that day – not angry at what his supporters were doing to a pillar of American democracy, but steaming that the election was allegedly stolen from him and his supporters, who were ‘angry on his behalf,’” ABC News reported. “Scavino described it all as ‘very unsettling,’” sources told the outlet.
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Former Trump aide Nick Luna also shared that when the ex-president was told about Vice President Mike Pence’s need to be moved to a secure location, Trump responded by saying "So what?" Luna perceived this as an “unexpected willingness” on Trump's part to expose a longtime loyalist to potential harm.
“Indeed, Trump’s angry response to Scavino’s comment to him that there’s smoke coming out of the Capitol in effect was, ‘Let it Burn,’” Gershman said. “And his nonchalant indifference to Vice President Pence’s safety and welfare offers chilling proof that Trump’s conscious purpose, namely, his intent, was first to incite an insurrection and then by his inaction to demonstrate his intent that the insurrection effectively stop Congress from doing its constitutional duty to certify the election results.”
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https://www.salon.com/2024/01/08/experts-jack-smiths-dramatic-new-proof-so-overwhelming-reluctant-witnesses-may-decide-to-flip/
Not only is Trump a traitor, he is willing to murder his Vice President.
"So what?"
Experts: Jack Smith’s “dramatic new proof” so “overwhelming” reluctant witnesses may decide to flip
Prof: Trump “demonstrated a criminal intent" to collaborate with insurrectionists at “expense of the Constitution"
by Areeba Shah
Salon.com, January 8, 2024
Former President Donald Trump refused to help stop the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol and instead watched TV from the White House, according to previously undisclosed details that special counsel Jack Smith's team uncovered as part of its Jan. 6 probe, ABC News reported.
SNIP...
“Trump was ‘very angry’ that day – not angry at what his supporters were doing to a pillar of American democracy, but steaming that the election was allegedly stolen from him and his supporters, who were ‘angry on his behalf,’” ABC News reported. “Scavino described it all as ‘very unsettling,’” sources told the outlet.
SNIP...
Former Trump aide Nick Luna also shared that when the ex-president was told about Vice President Mike Pence’s need to be moved to a secure location, Trump responded by saying "So what?" Luna perceived this as an “unexpected willingness” on Trump's part to expose a longtime loyalist to potential harm.
“Indeed, Trump’s angry response to Scavino’s comment to him that there’s smoke coming out of the Capitol in effect was, ‘Let it Burn,’” Gershman said. “And his nonchalant indifference to Vice President Pence’s safety and welfare offers chilling proof that Trump’s conscious purpose, namely, his intent, was first to incite an insurrection and then by his inaction to demonstrate his intent that the insurrection effectively stop Congress from doing its constitutional duty to certify the election results.”
CONTINUES...
https://www.salon.com/2024/01/08/experts-jack-smiths-dramatic-new-proof-so-overwhelming-reluctant-witnesses-may-decide-to-flip/
Not only is Trump a traitor, he is willing to murder his Vice President.
January 7, 2024
The lynch mob coming for democracy.
"Violence is American as apple pie." -- Imam Jamil Al-Amin, formerly H. Rap Brown
January 6, 2024
Trump warns of ‘big trouble’ as Supreme Court agrees to hear Colorado ballot case
by Nick Robertson
The Hill, January 6, 2024
Former President Trump warned Friday that there will be “big trouble” if the Supreme Court does not rule in his favor on his eligibility for the 2024 presidential ballot.
The Supreme Court is set to hear the Colorado case after the state’s Supreme Court determined last month that Trump should not be on the primary ballot due to his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Because if we don’t, our country’s in big, big trouble. Does everybody understand what I’m saying?”
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“They’re saying, ‘Oh, Trump owns the Supreme Court, he owns it. He owns it. If they make a decision for him, it will be terrible. It’ll ruin their reputations,” he said. “‘He owns the Supreme Court. He put on three judges. He owns the Supreme Court. If they rule in his favor, it will be horrible for them. And we’ll protest at their houses.’”
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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4392902-trump-warns-big-trouble-as-scotus-agrees-hear-colorado-case/
Traitor warns America there'll be "Big Trouble" if SCOTUS kicks him off ballot
Trump warns of ‘big trouble’ as Supreme Court agrees to hear Colorado ballot case
by Nick Robertson
The Hill, January 6, 2024
Former President Trump warned Friday that there will be “big trouble” if the Supreme Court does not rule in his favor on his eligibility for the 2024 presidential ballot.
The Supreme Court is set to hear the Colorado case after the state’s Supreme Court determined last month that Trump should not be on the primary ballot due to his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Because if we don’t, our country’s in big, big trouble. Does everybody understand what I’m saying?”
SNIP...
“They’re saying, ‘Oh, Trump owns the Supreme Court, he owns it. He owns it. If they make a decision for him, it will be terrible. It’ll ruin their reputations,” he said. “‘He owns the Supreme Court. He put on three judges. He owns the Supreme Court. If they rule in his favor, it will be horrible for them. And we’ll protest at their houses.’”
Continues...
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4392902-trump-warns-big-trouble-as-scotus-agrees-hear-colorado-case/
January 6, 2024
Ashcroft Flying High
BY CBSNEWS.COM STAFF CBSNEWS.COM STAFF
JULY 26, 2001 / 7:04 PM / CBS
Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.
In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.
"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.
A senior official at the CIA said he was unaware of specific threats against any Cabinet member, and Ashcroft himself, in a speech in California, seemed unsure of the nature of the threat.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ashcroft-flying-high/
AG Ashcroft Sr. warned off commercial aviation in July 2001.
Ashcroft Flying High
BY CBSNEWS.COM STAFF CBSNEWS.COM STAFF
JULY 26, 2001 / 7:04 PM / CBS
Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.
In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.
"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.
A senior official at the CIA said he was unaware of specific threats against any Cabinet member, and Ashcroft himself, in a speech in California, seemed unsure of the nature of the threat.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ashcroft-flying-high/
January 5, 2024
Proud to be Liberal.
“Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.” — Aristotle
January 5, 2024
Larry Summers also loved deregulation of banks.
Cough.
Great Moments in Bi-Partisanship: The Signing of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2201368
January 3, 2024
"Uh-oh": Fox News hosted a psychic to predict Trump's 2024 fate — and it didn't go well
“I do recognize I’m on Fox," psychic Paula Roberts acknowledged as she predicted a "sense of loss"
By TATYANA TANDANPOLIE
Salon, January 3, 2024
Fox News host Jesse Watters rounded out his first show of the year with a look toward the political futures of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, forgoing featuring a political authority in favor of a psychic and self-described "ghost hunter" who foresaw "a sense of loss" for the former president, The Daily Beast reports. On Tuesday's "Jesse Watters Primetime," the host spoke with Paula Roberts, "The English Psychic," who, per her website, is also a clairvoyant and handwriting analyst. Watters prefaced the conversation with claims that another fortune teller he'd asked about Trump's 2024 fate told him “there would be a grave injustice this fall.”
“We may not even have an election,” Watters recalled, voicing some of Trump supporters’ anxieties. “Therefore, we need a second opinion.” After Watters asked for Roberts' reading on the former president, who is slated to face four criminal trials in the coming months, the psychic drew one card from her tarot deck. Both she and the right-wing host let out an "Uh-oh" as she unveiled a figure cloaked in black looking down at three overturned cups with two standing upright behind it. “I do recognize I’m on Fox TV,” Roberts began. “A sense of loss. A sense of loss, but it’s very specific… It’s as if he may be thinking more about what he’s lost, and not still taking full advantage of what he still has.”
“That’s a great interpretation, Paula,” Watters responded. He then asked about Biden's 2024, which Roberts predicted would see “lots and lots and lots and lots of money" after drawing another card. "You mean from China?” Watters asked, later joking that he'd connect her with House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., whose impeachment inquiry into the Biden family has failed to yield any evidence and gain traction.
SOURCE: https://www.salon.com/2024/01/03/uh-oh-fox-news-hosted-a-psychic-to-predict-2024-fate--and-it-didnt-go-well/?in_brief=true
The world is becoming Paddy Chayefsky's Network.
Sybil the Psychic tells Jesse Pinhead at Fox Noiz that Trump is toast.
"Uh-oh": Fox News hosted a psychic to predict Trump's 2024 fate — and it didn't go well
“I do recognize I’m on Fox," psychic Paula Roberts acknowledged as she predicted a "sense of loss"
By TATYANA TANDANPOLIE
Salon, January 3, 2024
Fox News host Jesse Watters rounded out his first show of the year with a look toward the political futures of President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, forgoing featuring a political authority in favor of a psychic and self-described "ghost hunter" who foresaw "a sense of loss" for the former president, The Daily Beast reports. On Tuesday's "Jesse Watters Primetime," the host spoke with Paula Roberts, "The English Psychic," who, per her website, is also a clairvoyant and handwriting analyst. Watters prefaced the conversation with claims that another fortune teller he'd asked about Trump's 2024 fate told him “there would be a grave injustice this fall.”
“We may not even have an election,” Watters recalled, voicing some of Trump supporters’ anxieties. “Therefore, we need a second opinion.” After Watters asked for Roberts' reading on the former president, who is slated to face four criminal trials in the coming months, the psychic drew one card from her tarot deck. Both she and the right-wing host let out an "Uh-oh" as she unveiled a figure cloaked in black looking down at three overturned cups with two standing upright behind it. “I do recognize I’m on Fox TV,” Roberts began. “A sense of loss. A sense of loss, but it’s very specific… It’s as if he may be thinking more about what he’s lost, and not still taking full advantage of what he still has.”
“That’s a great interpretation, Paula,” Watters responded. He then asked about Biden's 2024, which Roberts predicted would see “lots and lots and lots and lots of money" after drawing another card. "You mean from China?” Watters asked, later joking that he'd connect her with House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., whose impeachment inquiry into the Biden family has failed to yield any evidence and gain traction.
SOURCE: https://www.salon.com/2024/01/03/uh-oh-fox-news-hosted-a-psychic-to-predict-2024-fate--and-it-didnt-go-well/?in_brief=true
The world is becoming Paddy Chayefsky's Network.
December 30, 2023
'The only way you can deal with bullies': Dem congresswoman explains how to stand up to Trump
by Carl Wilson
Alternet, December 30, 2023
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan), who was elected to Congress after the retirement of her husband, former Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan), has firsthand experience with what she refers to as "bullying" from former President Donald Trump.
In an essay for the New York Times, Dingell recalled being attacked by then-President Trump, who remarked that her late husband was "looking up" at her in the wake of her vote for his first impeachment, implying that her deceased spouse "was in hell."
"That’s the Trump way — the cruelty is the point, yet that awareness doesn’t make it any less painful. We’re human. He knows that, and he thrives on it," Dingell wrote. "I am not seeking a fight with Mr. Trump. It’s not easy to tangle with him, especially after that experience involving John. But I do know that hateful rhetoric cannot be ignored or become normalized. We have to stand up to bullies in this country, and we have to call out indignities."
"In my view, the only way you can deal with bullies is to consistently call out their inexcusable behavior and stand in defense of those they choose to target," she continued.
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"What I would encourage people to do, if attacked by Mr. Trump or his supporters, is to not be afraid to challenge the attack. Try to de-escalate the situation by presenting an alternative point of view calmly. Don’t let them bait you to descend to their level," she added. "[T]hat animosity is exacerbating the problem: We are watching very premeditated and carefully chosen words and actions by Mr. Trump that are stoking anger, further fueling a lack of trust in many institutions and creating a climate that is threatening democracy. Beware, the dangers are real."
Source: https://www.alternet.org/bullies-congresswoman-stand-trump/
"The only way to deal with bullies: Stand up to them." -- Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan)
'The only way you can deal with bullies': Dem congresswoman explains how to stand up to Trump
by Carl Wilson
Alternet, December 30, 2023
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan), who was elected to Congress after the retirement of her husband, former Rep. John Dingell (D-Michigan), has firsthand experience with what she refers to as "bullying" from former President Donald Trump.
In an essay for the New York Times, Dingell recalled being attacked by then-President Trump, who remarked that her late husband was "looking up" at her in the wake of her vote for his first impeachment, implying that her deceased spouse "was in hell."
"That’s the Trump way — the cruelty is the point, yet that awareness doesn’t make it any less painful. We’re human. He knows that, and he thrives on it," Dingell wrote. "I am not seeking a fight with Mr. Trump. It’s not easy to tangle with him, especially after that experience involving John. But I do know that hateful rhetoric cannot be ignored or become normalized. We have to stand up to bullies in this country, and we have to call out indignities."
"In my view, the only way you can deal with bullies is to consistently call out their inexcusable behavior and stand in defense of those they choose to target," she continued.
SNIP…
"What I would encourage people to do, if attacked by Mr. Trump or his supporters, is to not be afraid to challenge the attack. Try to de-escalate the situation by presenting an alternative point of view calmly. Don’t let them bait you to descend to their level," she added. "[T]hat animosity is exacerbating the problem: We are watching very premeditated and carefully chosen words and actions by Mr. Trump that are stoking anger, further fueling a lack of trust in many institutions and creating a climate that is threatening democracy. Beware, the dangers are real."
Source: https://www.alternet.org/bullies-congresswoman-stand-trump/
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