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BREAKING: Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General is rocked by bombshell bad news as a report from the NAACP reveals that she has a history of “undermining” voting rights.
And it gets so much worse…
Pam Bondi, the blatantly corrupt woman who Trump wants the lead the Department of Justice, previously served as Florida’s Attorney General and as the chair of the far-right America First Policy Institute. The report says that the work she did in both positions makes her “unfit” to serve as AG.
“Ms. Bondi has a record of limiting voting rights, baselessly undermining faith in U.S. elections, and encouraging politically motivated prosecutions as an act of vengeance,” the report states.
“By contrast, DOJ has historically played a vital role in protecting the right to vote, a function that has become even more important in a post-Shelby County v. Holder era in which there has been a widespread effort across the country, particularly in the South, to limit the voting rights of Black communities and other communities of color,” it goes on.
“DOJ has also been central to the federal government’s efforts to ensure free and fair elections and to the upholding the principle of equal justice under law,” it continues.
While serving as Florida attorney general she was on the state clemency board where she abused her position and “used unfettered discretion to deny formerly incarcerated individuals the right to vote.”
On top of that, Bondi worked up a new law that required Floridians to wait at least five years before they could even request to have their rights restored — a transparent effort to disenfranchise voters to help Republicans.
As a result, Black Floridians of voting age were disproportionately adversely affected, with 25% of them ending up disenfranchised.
“Ms. Bondi’s record of actively seeking to limit voting rights, coupled with her attempts to undermine the integrity of our elections by supporting President-Elect Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen, should raise grave concerns among Senators who will be tasked with considering her nomination,” the report reads.
And it somehow gets even worse…
Bondi also backed the false claims that Trump won the 2020 election, going so far as to represent a member of the Fulton County Board of Election and arguing that the election could be decertified based on the “mere suspicion of voter fraud.”
The report concludes by bluntly stating that Bondi is “wholly unfit to lead the Justice Department and poses a threat to the independence and integrity of this critical agency.”
We couldn’t agree more. If confirmed, Bondi would be the least qualified, most corrupt Attorney General in American history.
 
movetheboat said:

Does California's Economy Prop Up Red States?​

Published Jan 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM ESTUpdated Jan 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM EST

s some Republicans mull adding conditions to federal relief aid for California, which has been devastated by wildfires in Los Angeles County, critics have pointed out that the state already pays more than it receives in federal taxes.

Why It Matters​

California's political leadership has faced scrutiny over its handling of the fires and water resource management, and there have been calls for any federal aid to be conditioned. But these calls have been met with backlash from both Democrats and Republicans in California, who argue that states typically get funding without any political stipulations.

At least 24 people have been killed and 1,200 structures destroyed in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which erupted in Los Angeles County last week. They are two of the most destructive fires to hit the region, and it is estimated that recovery efforts will cost billions of dollars.
"Obviously, there has been water resource mismanagement...mistakes, all sorts of problems," the Louisiana Republican told reporters on Monday. "And it does come down to leadership, and it appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty in many respects. So that's something that has to be factored in. I think there should probably be conditions on that aid."

But California is already one of the states least reliant on federal aid, according to data from the Rockefeller Institute of Government. In 2022, Californians paid an average of $17,731 in federal taxes, while the state received an average of $15,603 per person.

The state's gross domestic product was about $3.9 trillion in 2023, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. Its economy ranks fifth internationally, behind the U.S., China, Germany and Japan.

Of the 11 states that paid more in federal taxes than they received, all but one, Utah, backed Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, according to the data.
Reached for comment by Newsweek, a spokesperson for Newsom pointed to his previous remarks since the wildfires broke out.

On Tuesday, the Democratic governor told MSNBC: "I'm not meeting Democrats. I'm not meeting Republicans. I'm not meeting Californians. I'm meeting American citizens desperate in need. What they need is empathy, care, compassion, understanding. They need support, not rhetoric. Not strings attached."

CALIFORNIA MONEY FOR CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gonna whip up this lie again? :rolleyes:

Federal expenditures are not "aid "
 

Days Before Trump Takes Office, Former Oath Keepers Lawyer Sentenced​

With pardons for Jan. 6 rioters by President-elect Donald Trump potentially just days away, former Oath Keepers lawyer Kellye SoRelle just got sentenced.

awesome!!

Brandi Buchman
By Brandi Buchman
Jan 17, 2025, 12:42 PM EST
|Updated 2 hours ago

With pardons for Jan. 6 rioters by President-elect Donald Trump potentially just days away, former counsel and onetime stand-in president to the far-right Oath Keepers Kellye SoRelle was sentenced on Friday.
SoRelle pleaded guilty to obstructing justice and telling members of the extremist group to delete texts after Jan. 6, 2021. Though prosecutors had sought a 16-month sentence, presiding U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced her to 12 months in prison plus 36 months of supervised release. SoRelle was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution and complete 120 hours of community service.
SoRelle’s public defender had filed a heavily redacted motion to delay the hearing just days earlier and asked the judge to wait until at least March to render the sentence, but Mehta was unwilling to delay any longer.
SoRelle was first arrested in September 2022 and indicted alongside fellow Oath Keeper Donovan Crowl, a former Marine, and James Beeks, a former Broadway actor who marched with Oath Keepers on Jan. 6.

Crowl, a member of the Ohio State Regular Militia, marched up the Capitol steps behind Oath Keeper Jessica Watkins and others on Jan. 6. Crowl was found guilty at a bench trial in July 2023 of conspiracy to obstruct an official congressional proceeding and impeding officers.
Beeks was acquitted of the conspiracy charge after all others were dropped. (Beeks denied ever being a formal member of the Oath Keepers and told prosecutors that while he might have associated with them, it was only because he had been misled by the group.)
SoRelle, meanwhile, faced similar charges, including conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, and obstructing justice for the tampering of evidence.
When she was first indicted, she pleaded not guilty to everything. That changed several months later when she struck a deal with federal prosecutors.

According to the Justice Department, SoRelle assumed leadership of the Oath Keepers once the group’s founder Elmer “Stewart” Rhodes — who doubled as her boss and, for a time, boyfriend — was arrested on seditious conspiracy charges.
The newfound role was a natural fit, prosecutors argued, because SoRelle had already spent more than a year peddling pro-Trump conspiracy theories of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. She was intimately close to Rhodes and trusted by him, U.S. attorneys said.
But after all hell broke loose on Jan. 6, prosecutors said SoRelle acted as Rhodes’ conduit, using her cell phone to share his messages with the group surreptitiously. In those messages, she told members of the Oath Keepers to delete their text chains or other communications that could be used against them in court later.
SoRelle and Rhodes had fled Washington, D.C., together by car after Jan. 6, traveling back to Texas as Rhodes weighed how the Oath Keepers could regroup and amass more weapons if needed for another uprising once Biden was formally inaugurated.
When Rhodes took the stand in his own seditious conspiracy case, aka insurrection, he testified under oath that it was SoRelle who had instructed him — not the other way around — to nuke chats and texts that discussed what Oath Keepers were up to before, during and after Jan. 6.
That allegation was met with deep skepticism by Judge Mehta: He told Rhodes the claim didn’t “pass the laugh test.”
One of the texts found on SoRelle’s phone, for example, showed her telling Oath Keepers after Jan. 6: “Per SR, clean up all your chats.”
“SR” was shorthand for “Stewart Rhodes,” SoRelle told the judge last year when she went before him to formally change her plea. Half of the charges she faced, including conspiracy to obstruct proceedings in the Capitol on Jan. 6, were dropped in the bargain, and she copped to telling Oath Keepers to delete messages.
SoRelle was often shoulder-to-shoulder with Rhodes as the Oath Keeper founder publicly called on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and raise members of the group to his side. She attended private calls orchestrated by Rhodes where he discussed plans to stop the transfer of power, and SoRelle was also the former counsel to Latinos for Trump and was present for a key meeting between Rhodes and Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio on the eve of the insurrection.
On Jan. 6, SoRelle never went inside the Capitol but was with Rhodes stalking its grounds and livestreaming the violence.
She was heard in a livestream from the day urging: “They broke the barrier, they got up there, they may end up inside before it’s all said and done, and that’s OK, too!”
“That’s how you take your government back, you literally take it back,” SoRelle said.
As the rioting was erupting and roughly a half hour before Oath Keepers breached the Capitol, SoRelle sent a text to Oath Keepers leadership, saying they were “acting like the founding fathers.”
“Can’t stand down. Per Stewart, and I concur,” she wrote.
Throughout the day, SoRelle seemed to relish in the attack, writing that it was “hilarious,” and she agreed with Rhodes when he remarked to her that lawmakers inside the Capitol were “shitting their pants” inside.
As she awaited trial, SoRelle underwent a mental competency evaluation. Both prosecutors and her defense attorney agreed she wasn’t fit to stand trial. The precise reasons she was deemed incompetent were kept under seal, and public court records only attributed the decision to a “mental disease or defect.”
Memorably, it was SoRelle who served as co-counsel in a lawsuit filed just days Jan. 6 that sought to declare Trump president by invoking the fantasy world of “The Lord of the Rings” and comparing Trump to a displaced “true king” of Gondor.
In a bid for leniency ahead of sentencing, SoRelle’s public defender said she was manipulated by Rhodes after meeting him in Texas in 2017.
Calling him a “classic grandiose, bombastic, manipulative cult leader,” SoRelle’s lawyer said Rhodes “used her in every way” and “enmeshed SoRelle in his paranoid, conspiratorial obsessions that were the basis of the movement.”
In 2020, SoRelle said her husband at the time gave her an ultimatum: Choose him or choose politics. She chose politics and began to isolate herself from her family, her sentencing memorandum states.
SoRelle’s lawyer told the judge before Friday that it was highly unlikely that SoRelle was ever seen as a leader, noting that as early as 2019, confidential human sources who left the Oath Keepers said she was “crazy.”
“Her lawyering cannot have been taken seriously [nor] provided any inspiration to the troops,” her lawyer wrote on Jan. 15.
Rhodes was using SoRelle for her Texas prosecutor bonafides at the time, the lawyer argued.
Today, SoRelle says she’s lost her marriage and family and has been indefinitely suspended from practicing law in Texas.
 

Trump moves inauguration indoors due to 'very cold weather'​


My son in law is playing the pipes with the NYPD at this event. He likes TRUMP...Nice guy but dumb as a rock
 
Rick67 said:
I don’t believe he believes any of the click and pastes he does. He said he couldn’t care less about anyone. However he does believe it pisses everyone off so he stirs that pot with whatever he can find. He voted for Trump.
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Me voting for trump is like you voting for kamalla....

If my posts piss magas off then maybe they are the snowflakes......the only reason the maga posts don't stir the pot or piss anyone off is because you are all in the same boat. You all get so threatened by lil ole me posting a different view. Sounds like all you have a problem not me. I didn't ask them to allow politics again...but they do...so everyone put on your big boy pants and go with the flow......i mean seriously we aren't going to change anything around here. Lighten the eff up and have a little fun in life. None of those mama lukes in Washington give a shit about us.
 
Rick67 said:
I don’t believe he believes any of the click and pastes he does. He said he couldn’t care less about anyone. However he does believe it pisses everyone off so he stirs that pot with whatever he can find. He voted for Trump.
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I know.

He's said many times before that he'll post things he doesn't agree with just to be contrary. Pretty sad to have nothing better to do with your time.
 
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