Posted on 12/18/2018 2:38:31 AM PST by yoe
the first 10 mins of Laura Ingraham today - Lame Duck Negligence - was despressing. NYT story about outgoing Republicans not even interested in coming to work between now and when the Dems take over. no interest in funding the wall, etc. it begins around 30secs in:
Youtube: Fox News: The Ingraham Angle 12/17/18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JzWFlRabK4
Could be one of the DUMBEST Democrats.....and that is saying something!!!
I know a lady who watches the local news and she believes it. I don’t know how to reach those who do... for they are too lazy to want to know the truth. Taking in another view is too much work...
When we hear things, and do not already have an opinion, the things we hear sink into our head... it happens. When there is a void of opinion or thought, what we hear tends to form an opinion. And it’s hard to shake after we live with those words. If it isn’t important to the person anyway, it’s almost impossible to change their minds. Let it become PERSONAL and they will listen to another view.. if what they heard does not now fit the situation.
Those who buy the lies, just don’t care and they like gossip and good news is not what they want to pass on to others.. it has to be something sensational... for some reason, gossip is only worth passing on if it’s anti whatever.
When hillary was running, the younguns on FB did not know her or who she is... but they liked her because of the media and all the lies being told. I am not on FB but I got on during that time and would take issue with them. They were set because of her stance on their issues and her lies. .. her facade. I just sent them to “ar kan cide”. I didn’t hear from them after that.
It’s hard to put one’s head around such a bad individual, to believe it when being told... but reading it might have made a difference. Proof.. evidence.. it’s better than talk.
I did research on Trump early on. I also am listening to the book, “understanding Trump” by Newt. In that research and in the book, there is not much.. nothing.. against Trump.. he’s a very good person and has many good qualities.. all of which do not match what the anti crowd and media are saying. IT might work to make a list of his qualities... they probably would not read a book or look a list that was complicated.. but a simple one, might work.
Ya have to work around lazy people who want to believe the worst and what takes no effort on their part.
I heard some of that and tend to turn it off...I’d rather watch the harmless and silly Hallmark movies here at Christmas time.
They said they were not coming in for a vote for anything! So we know they don’t care... but we have a President who does.
It’s depressing.. but giving up does not solve it.
The discussion with the liberal definitely made me want to keep fighting. I rarely see such irrational anti-Trump hatred.
This is a rhetorical question only, but where in the Constitution Congress-critters are sworn to uphold does it say they can investigate anything, let alone every aspect of an individual’s life?
Exactly. Add in idiot lazy Repub voters who thought “...there is not a dime’s worth of difference...” about the 2 parties.
Good luck with THAT. There might be one or two principled bureaucrats among the millions of Swamp inhabitants who would make news and resign in protest if the Department of Justice failed to FOLLOW protocol. However, I can’t imagine that any of them would leave their cushy home if the DOJ only failed to CHANGE protocol. This is a non story.
How about we change the rules so that members of Congress have to release their tax returns so we know how their votes affect their pocketbooks?
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How about a list of who paid out sexual harassment settlements in Congress and how much each member cost the U.S. taxpayers in such settlements?
When Maureen Dowd heard someone say boy and "Obama" in the same sentence she thought "racist";
Timothy Noah could not stop thinking, Hes black! when he looked at Obama;
MSNBC's hearing is fine-tuned to discern all the racist dog whistles;
Lawrence ODonnell hears PGA tour as code for deep-rooted white insecurities about black male sexuality.......
The sap-happy, braindead liberal teacher who said "peanut butter and jelly sandwich" was actually hatred of immigrants (b/c latinos do not eat PBJ's).
Joe Biden told Blacks---a President Romney's gonna put them back in c--h--a--i--n--s....emphasizing "chains" as if it were five syllables.
The vicious cycle of racism and thievery in the CBC must be broken. Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. The Congressional Black Caucus had a front seat to #MeToo with the revelation that $220,000 had been paid out to a staffer alleging sexual harassment by Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), a former judge impeached for bribery whose girlfriend has been on his payroll to the tune of $2.4 million, and that Rep. Conyers (D-MI) had his own sexual harassment settlement. That scandal forced Rep. Conyers to resign and hand the seat to his son at the behest of his wife, Monica, who had been convicted of bribery.
Corruption, fraud and bribery are ongoing problems at the Congressional Black Caucus. After two decades of financial scandals, Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL) was convicted of running a fake charity and sentenced in December. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) was sentenced last December for bribery, fraud and money laundering. His son, Chaka Fattah Jr, was already in prison on unrelated bank fraud charges. Around the same time the wife of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Il) had wrapped up her prison sentence after her husband had ended his prison term a year earlier on fraud charges.
Hardly a year goes by without a criminal case involving a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Bribery and fraud, fake charities and money laundering to pay for the high life are familiar CBC themes . Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. bought a gold Rolex, Michael Jackson and Malcolm X memorabilia, and mink capes. Rep. Brown stole from poor children to pay for an NFL luxury box (wont you take a knee) and a Beyonce concert. Chaka Fattah Jr. bought Hermes ties and a Ritz-Carlton condo.
These arent aberrations. Theyre part of the culture of corruption at the Congressional Black Caucus. The year that Barack Obama, a former CBC member whose level of corruption outdid any of his former colleagues by climbing into the high stratospheric billions and using the Justice Department to run a massive slush fund, took office, every single House member investigated on ethics charges was CBC. A former study suggested that a third of CBC legislators had faced an ethics probe. Thats what a culture of political corruption looks like.
But the Congressional Black Caucus has consistently blamed all of its corruption troubles on racism. And CBC members would always play the race card. Rep. Corrine Brown had improbably claimed that Obamas DOJ had targeted her because I'm a black woman with a mouth. Its the same old racist excuse. And racism is the usual cover story for CBC corruption.
When Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was accused of stealing a womans first class airplane seat, she claimed that it only happened because I was an African American woman, seemingly an easy target. The woman she casually accused of racism had no previous idea of who even stole her seat. And as a Democrat and a human rights activist was probably angry about her lost seat, not the politicians race. No one can be too surprised at a politician receiving preferential treatment at the expense of ordinary citizens. Especially a politician who had once allegedly howled, You dont understand. I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen. Its the eagerness with which CBC members shut down any conversations about their corruption with casual accusations of racism that is the real problem.
The worst offender in the Conyers sexual harassment case wasnt actually the congressman in question. It was another Black Caucus member who came to his defense by accusing his victims of racism. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) allegedly claimed that Conyers accusers were all white women. And suggested that the accusations were somehow racially motivated. Other CBC members threatened Democrats who criticized Rep. Conyers and there were suggestions that the calls for his resignation were racist. Do you go and stalk white peoples houses or just come to the black neighborhoods and stalk our houses? Monica Conyers demanded.
The claim that Rep. Conyers accusers were all white women proved to be a lie. But it shouldnt have mattered what race the women accusing a politician of sexual harassment were. Nor should it have mattered what race the passenger whose seat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee allegedly stole might have been. The reflexive accusations of racism by Congressional Black Caucus members hurled at their alleged victims and at any attempt to bring them to justice is at the root of the CBCs culture of racial corruption. The Caucus is a racially exclusive body. And it uses race and racism as weapons to protect its privileges of power. It doesnt admit white politicians who represent African-American districts.
"It is critical that its membership remain exclusively African American, Rep. William Lacy Clay Sr. (D-MO) had written. Referring to a white Democrats membership bid from an African-American district, he declared that, he does not, and cannot, meet the membership criteria unless he can change his skin color. Its the same familiar mantra of slavery and segregation but with a politically correct twist. Rep. Clay has paid out nearly a million dollars in campaign funds to his sisters law firm.
"We supported the tradition that only African-Americans have been full members of the CBC," insisted Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI), whose son and husband would be convicted on charges that included fraud and racketeering. Urban political machines have a long history of exploiting ethnic and racial solidarity to maintain their grip on power. The Congressional Black Caucus did not invent an original form of corruption. Tammany Hall went through various ethnic incarnations as one immigrant group made way for another.
The Congressional Black Caucus is not uniquely corrupt because it is black. But it uses racial solidarity and animosity to protect its insidious corruption. The CBC uses the idea of racial persecution to convince the African-American areas it preys on to turn a blind eye to its corruption. And it depicts its critics and victims, whether they are the women groped by Rep. Conyers or the poor children ripped off by Rep. Brown, as pawns or perpetrators of a racist conspiracy against black people.
The CBCs merger of xenophobia and corruption is nothing new. But its a uniquely toxic tactic to utilize during a time of racial tensions. The Caucus styles itself as the conscience of the congress, but it has no conscience. Its become a gang of thieves united by greed, racial solidarity and racial animosity. The Congressional Black Caucus is uniquely destructive to black people and to the entire country. Its corrupt civil rights icons have long since become mirrors of the very thing they once fought against. And their accusations of racism are reflections of their own racism and their own racial privileges.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and Rep. Clyburns accusations show how the perniciously corrupt culture of the CBCs racial solidarity has turned race and racism into unlimited justifications for their own abuses. The Caucus racism and corruption feed into each other in a vicious cycle that spurs its members to greater ethics violations and noisier accusations of racism. The corruption charges then become proof of racism.
The more CBC members are arrested and jailed, the more the Caucus doubles down on the conviction that the only reason they were jailed is racism. And then it exploits that sense of racial grievance to justify even more corruption. This vicious cycle of racism and thievery in the CBC must be broken.Congress has a racism problem. Its name is the Congressional Black Caucus.
The BHN is a seditionist conspirator
His name is high up on the spread sheet listing the names of the criminal conspirators. All his staff is also complicit and their names all appear in the first column.
All will go down
Obama's onetime campaign manager said important yardsticks to determine a candidate's viability are
"passion and intensity. The poll number I looked at every day was intensity. Are my voters more motivated than
Republican voters?
The "passion and intensity" for Obama was such that the Congressional Black Caucus suppressed this image of the then Ill state Sen with Nation of Islam head Farrakhan to dupe Americans into voting Obama as president.
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Is Islamic money being funnelled into the Congressional Black Caucus?
The Bank Secrecy Act should be mobilized----to follow the paper trail and determine how money changed hands among (a) CBC (b) the CBC Foundation; (c) leftist black identity groups and elected black members.
Taxpayers must Demand that the scope and dimension of collusion in sub rosa deals be examined, as to who might be personally profiting and if financing domestic terrorism is being facilitated.
<><> L/E needs to examine bank accounts of the aforementioned.
<><> Joint bank accounts might be used to facilitate the transfer funds from one account to another, and/or wire-transferred offshore;
<><> To cover their tracks, fake invoices might be created to show that money deposited into CBC accounts was being used for legitimate purposes.
<><> Financial schemes scheme might be advanced by issuing phony statements of payments from financial sources that actually covered the transfer of funds for insiders' personal use and/or for financing domestic terrorism.
Shady banking transactions could be prosecuted under the (1) Bank Secrecy ACT, (2) RICO, and, (3) the Hobbs Act.
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<><> L/E should get ahold of: (1) copies of CBC checks, (2) wire transfers, (3) account statements, (4) invoices, (5) bills, (6) delivery tickets, (7) CBC correspondence including snail mail, e-mail, mobile devices, cell phones, (8) contracts, (9) loan agreements, (10) other account books or official records.
L/E should also explore (a) monies paid to brokers, sub-brokers, (b) family members, (c) mortgage brokers, (d) financial managers, and, (e) real estate agents, brokers, and developers.
<><> L/E should scrutinize CBC members bank accounts for suspicious activities: (A) large deposits, (B) funds transferred from one account into another, (C) frequent requests for withdrawals.
<><> CBC bank records might also show diversions to secret LLC accounts, to money launder and to operate personal ventures;
Tax fraud may also be a factor, facilitated by withdrawals, gift cards purchases, credit card purchases and intra-bank transfers from legal bank accounts into personal accounts, or redistribution schemes.
<><> A huge tipoff is whether bank withdrawals support luxurious lifestyle including payments for real estate, investment and stock holdings, jewelry, luxury vehicles, resort travel....... and gifts and purchases from luxury outlets.
What did Calypso Louis tell then-Sen Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus tete a tete?
Hard to imagine that. . . . /sarc
Oh, c’mon. Congressional pubbies are always ready to do the right thing as long as it doesn’t risk media criticism. /s
I grow weary of the fake anger from congressional negroes.
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