Election 2024 Issues

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Laura Loomer attacks Christina Pushaw using Rebekah Jones’ false allegations​

Let’s start with something basic. Ms. Pushaw is right. She has no record. If you go right now to the Maryland Judiciary Case Search website and search for all cases involving a person with the last name of ‘Pushaw’ you will see this:




That’s right, nothing. But the full story is a little more complicated.

To back up a little bit, Maryland has a terrible set of harassment statutes that is routinely read as applying to expression that is protected under the Constitution. We believe it is only a matter of time before they are struck down by the Supreme Court. To pick out one example, Md. Code Crim. L. § 3-803 prohibits harassment, defined in part as ‘a course of conduct that alarms or seriously annoys the other.’ There several other parts to the statute (with separate problems under the Constitution), but let’s focus on that.

In Coates v. Cincinnati, 402 U.S. 611 (1971), the Supreme Court confronted a statute that made it a crime for ‘three or more persons to assemble . . . on any of the sidewalks . . . and there conduct themselves in a manner annoying to persons passing by . . . .’ The Supreme Court said that the term ‘annoying’ was so vague it violated the Fifth Amendment (which guarantees due process) because it gave the potential criminal no effective notice of what is criminal:

Conduct that annoys some people does not annoy others. Thus, the ordinance is vague, not in the sense that it requires a person to conform his conduct to an imprecise but comprehensible normative standard, but rather in the sense that no standard of conduct is specified at all. As a result, ‘men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning.’

(Citation removed.) The idea is that a person should be able to open the statute books and have half a chance of figuring out what the law says for themselves—and if they don’t have such a chance, it violates the Fifth Amendment.

 

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Meet The ‘Nonpartisan’ Dark-Money Group Rigging Michigan Elections So Democrats Can’t Lose​

Meanwhile, its supposed nonpartisanship had been called into question as early as 2017, when seven of its 10 board members were revealed to have donated to Democratic politicians in the past. This association with state Democrats has since only become more intimate. The current chairman of the board once served as the chief of staff to the former minority leader of the statehouse. At the same time, its vice chair is the executive director of the notoriously unbiased Michigan chapter of the League of Conservation Voters.

Even more revealing is VNP’s finances. During the 2018 election cycle, Voters Not Politicians notably received a large donation of $250,000 from Eric Holder’s National Democratic Redistricting Committee, odd for a supposedly “nonpartisan” organization. However, that donation accounted for only a fraction of the more than $16 million it received.

As noted by Politico and former OpenSecrets reporter Jessica Piper, the vast majority of that funding came from out-of-state, liberal dark money groups, with two-thirds of it coming from only two organizations: Sixteen Thirty Fund and Action Now Initiative, which contributed $6 million and $5 million, respectively.

Action Now is a Texas-based advocacy nonprofit created by liberal mega-donors John and Laura Arnold. Sixteen Thirty, the more nefarious of the two, is a “liberal dark money Behemoth,” which operates as one of the chief organizations housed within the Arabella Network. The Arabella Network is a conglomerate of affiliated advocacy non-profits with a combined war chest of over $1.6 billion. It is managed by Arabella Advisors, a D.C.-based philanthropic consulting company that advises big-money liberal donors. The company was founded by Eric Kessler, a former Clinton administration official and national field director for the League of Conservation Voters. He also served as the president and chair of Sixteen Thirty.

 

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For your consideration ...

Someone is off here. The case numbers do not match. As well as the incident date of 2008, and a CHG date of 2013 vs a denial date of 2021.

 

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Vivek Ramaswamy censored for online ‘hate speech’ as poll shows surge​

LinkedIn has censored GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for “misinformation” and “hate speech” in seemingly anodyne posts about climate change and the threat of China — as a new internal poll shows him third behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump among Republican primary voters.

The entrepreneur’s account has been blocked for more than a week over three posts deemed offensive by LinkedIn, specifically:

• “The CCP is playing the Biden administration like a Chinese mandolin.”
• “If the climate religion was really about climate change, then they’d be worried about, say, shifting oil production from the U.S. to places like Russia and China.”
• “The climate agenda is a lie: fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity.”

On Thursday morning, Ramaswamy tweeted a screenshot of a Tuesday email from LinkedIn that read: “Your account was restricted for repeatedly sharing content that contains misleading or inaccurate information.”

 

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Democrats Use Drag Queen to Rally 2024 Voters​

Reporter and TPUSA contributor Drew Hernandez revealed footage Monday of an all ages drag show in Tempe, Arizona that appeared to turn into a political rally. Democrats joined with a female impersonator at a public “Pride Party” to rally far-left progressive voters for Arizona’s upcoming elections.

“It’s not too late to register for the next election and turn the tide” against the GOP, said Richard Stevens, who uses the “drag queen” stage name of Barbra Seville. He continued:

It’s insane. It’s insane. Over 500 laws [to curb transgenderism] have been introduced across the country … If we could just elect one more person with views and opinions and commitments to us, like some other people do, we can call the shots and we can protect LGBTQU. We can protect trans people, we can protect people of color, we can make housing a priority, we can tackle things like guns in schools. But we can’t do it unless you all get involved and registered to vote.

His anger was directed at Republican legislators in roughly 20 states who have enacted many policies over the last year to protect children.

These very popular laws protect children from transgenderist advocates, shield them in sports from opposite-sex cheaters, and guard children from the harmful and irreversible medical procedures touted by Democrat-affiliated transgender groups.

 

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What Lane Does Mike Pence Think He’s Driving In, Exactly?​

Mike Pence is officially running for president. Why?

Well, because he wants to be president—that much has been clear since he accepted an invitation to be Donald Trump’s running mate in 2016 despite his obvious incompatibility with Trump as a matter of both personal comportment and ideology. Among other things, Pence was a “traditional family values” guy and national security “hawk” vis-à-vis figures like Vladimir Putin; joining the Trump campaign was pretty obviously a case of careerism over principle. And when you’re ambitious, and you’re the vice president, the next job you’re probably looking for is the big one!

But why does Pence think he has a chance of becoming president? This was a good question even before the events of Jan. 6, 2021. His record is extremely conservative even by Republican standards; he criticized George H.W. Bush for signing civil rights legislation and raising taxes and, in 2003, warned that a Medicare prescription drug benefit supported by the younger Bush would potentially “usher in the beginning of socialized medicine in America.” His most high-profile act as governor of Indiana was signing a bill intended to allow businesses to refuse service to gay customers.

This is why Trump selected him as a VP candidate—to give the 2016 Republican ticket credibility among the kinds of free-market evangelicals once thought of as the GOP “base.” But the idea of someone as fiscally and socially conservative as Pence winning a national election in 2024, or really at any point in modern U.S. history, is far-fetched, especially when you consider that conservative figures like George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan were at least considered personally charming by many middle-of-the-road voters. (Pence is, to my knowledge, not considered charming by any statistically significant group of Americans. He speaks in a plodding cadence, and his signature expression—you’d be forgiven for wondering whether it’s his only expression—is a kind of squinting grimace that, to paraphrase the writer Moira Donegan, seems confused about whether it’s supposed to be conveying swaggering alpha aggressiveness or restrained moral piety.)

Those are just the reasons to believe Pence wouldn’t win a general election. In the Republican primary, he’s now contending with a huge number of voters who believe he betrayed the party by refusing to help overturn 2020. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has more money than Pence, is polling way ahead of him, and has been targeting the religious and social conservatives Pence would need to form a winning coalition. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is running on a return-to-traditional-Republican-values theme, which is expected to be the theme of Pence’s campaign as well, without any of Pence’s Trump-related baggage.

 

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“The grift from this family is breathtaking,” Christie said at a New Hampshire town hall. “It’s breathtaking. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Kushner walk out of the White House, and months later get $2 billion from the Saudis.”

Christie was pointing to the $2 billion investment made by the Saudi-backed Public Investment Fund, which is controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, into Kushner’s investment firm A Fin Management, LLC (Affinity) in 2021. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform announced a probe into the investment last year to determine whether Kushner improperly used his influence as a government official to secure the investment.

Kushner served in his father-in law’s administration as an adviser who was tasked with policy in the Middle East. Kushner incorporated Affinity in Delaware in January 2021, shortly after former President Trump left office. Six months later, he received the $2 billion investment, according to the House committee.

“You think it’s because he’s some kind of investing genius? Or do you think it’s because he was sitting next to the president of the United States for four years doing favors for the Saudis?” Christie asked on Tuesday. “That’s your money. That’s your money he stole and gave it to his family. You know what that makes us? A banana republic.”

Christie targets Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner: ‘The grift from this family is breathtaking’

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie took aim at former President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, during the former New Jersey governor’s campaign …

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HUGE if true --> Receipt-filled thread suggests SHOCKING claims about the FBI, China, and our elections

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TRUMP: DOCUMENTS INVESTIGATION IS 'ELECTION INTERFERENCE.' There are reports the Biden Justice Department is on the verge of indicting former President Donald Trump in the classified documents investigation. Not only would such an indictment be the first federal charge against a former president, but it would also be the first time a sitting president's administration has indicted a leading opposition party candidate in the run-up to a presidential election.

"They're doing it to affect the election," Trump said in a conversation Wednesday at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey. "They [are] cheating on the election just like they did the last time."

Earlier Wednesday, journalist John Solomon, who has represented Trump in dealings with the National Archives and Records Administration, reported that federal prosecutors, led by special counsel Jack Smith, "have notified Donald Trump that he is a criminal target and likely to be indicted imminently" in the classified documents case. Solomon reported that prosecutors rejected the Trump defense team's request that the indictment be put off so allegations of possible witness tampering can be investigated.

"They'll do whatever they can to win the election," Trump said of the Justice Department. "If I were down in the polls, where I wasn't going to win — I'm way up on Biden, by the way, far more than DeSanctimonious — if I were going to lose the election, or if I wasn't running, they wouldn't even waste their time. This is a civil situation. It's a civil case. At most, it's a civil case."

In a move thought to precede an indictment closely, Trump's lawyers met with Smith and other Justice Department officials in Washington on Monday. The Trump team reportedly made its final case on why Trump should not be indicted. There is no evidence it succeeded.

"This is the greatest witch hunt of all time," Trump said. "This is election interference. I did absolutely nothing wrong. The Presidential Records Act is 100% clear. ... There was no crime committed. This is a civil thing. They could sue me civilly to get things back, but every president took things when they left the White House. ... And then they [go after] me criminally? I don't think the people are going to stand for it."

"When you say the people are not going to stand for it, what do you mean?" I asked. "Do you mean they're going to elect you again? Or that they're going to be out in the streets?"

Trump: Documents investigation is ‘election interference’ - Washington Examiner

TRUMP: DOCUMENTS INVESTIGATION IS 'ELECTION INTERFERENCE.' There are reports the Biden Justice Department is on the verge of indicting former President Donald Trump in the classified documents investigation. Not only would such an indictment be the first federal charge against a former...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

 

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People in charge while their political opponents were arrested:
Mao
Stalin
Mussolini
Pol Pot
Castro
Hitler
Amin
Biden
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The ‘Pick a Moderate’ Canard




At the 2020 Republican convention Haley went from describing herself as an almost generic South Carolina Evangelical Republican, albeit with a slightly dark complexion, to someone who grew up “as a brown girl” and whose Sikh father wore a turban. Haley claimed that she and her family had been the victims of cruel bigotry as residents of Camden, South Carolina. Despite these stereotypically nasty neighbors, Haley won the governor’s office in 2010 with lots and lots of Bubba votes but very few black ones. But by 2020 she was working to distinguish herself by liberalizing her image after having gotten considerable mileage out of the decisiveness with which she removed the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds in 2015. This followed the killing of nine black worshippers in Charleston at the hands of a crazed racist. These days Haley is combining her usual neoconservative foreign policy remarks with digs at Ron DeSantis for apparently picking a needless fight with Disneyland. Nikki has even urged the aggrieved woke corporation to relocate to South Carolina.

Equally moderate has been her fellow-South Carolinian and fellow-presidential candidate, Senator Scott, who according to Peggy Noonan and other admirers has “a wonderful personality” and a winning story. Scott’s story is about how his grandfather was a black South Carolina sharecropper, who was abused by Southern white racists. But his grandson rose to become a U.S. Senator in a transformed and far better America, indeed one that is working to become even more tolerant. Unlike our other black presidential candidate, Larry Elder, Scott does not dwell on the glaring imperfections of present-day woke America or worry, like Elder, about infectious anti-white racism. He is too busy telling us about how wonderful the country has become since the bad old days. Moreover, Scott’s proposals for “justice reform” would have the effect of restricting the use of what many policemen regard as necessary force. Scott’s negotiating partner in this project was the California Democrat Karen Bass, who has been vociferously critical of what she calls police brutality.

The efforts of our two presidential candidates to appear “moderate” have nonetheless won them no bouquets from the MSM. A CNN news analyst, Bakari Sellers, has just teed off against Haley as a “white governor from the Deep South.” This supposed Nordic supremacist from the former Confederacy has treated blacks callously. In South Carolina “nine people died so that the Confederate flag could come down.” Although Haley might have taken that action as part of a career move, it is hard to see how the presence of the flag contributed to the murders. There is also no evidence that the lives of minorities have improved because the offending flag is gone. Kaitlan Collins, a CNN news anchor, felt obliged to correct her colleague by explaining that Haley is “the first woman of color who is running” for the Republican nomination.

 

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Vivek Ramaswamy: I Would Pardon Trump If Elected​

Ramaswamy said, “The top question actually we should be asking is what did Biden tell Merrick Garland? And what did Merrick Garland tell Jack Smith? Because what I see in the document is deeply politicized. Not a single mention of the Presidential Records Act, the most relevant statute to the actual, alleged crime here. Selective statements from President Trump, statements on the campaign trail in 2016 about classification and how he would treat it without one mention of the fact that he actually after he was elected in 2016, said he would not prosecute Hillary Clinton and would not want to see her prosecuted. No one mentioned this. Yet this stood out to me. The classification scheme itself was defined not by statute but by executive order, which is interesting because executive orders appellate courts have held do not bind a U.S. president with the force of law. This is selective prosecution. I think it is irresponsible not to have included any treatment of those facts or law in this indictment.”

 

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Mitt Romney Approval Rating Sinks in Utah, Most Say He Should Not Seek Reelection​

The survey found just 41 percent expressing approval of Romney’s job performance, and of those, 15 percent “strongly” approve. Forty-nine percent disapprove, and of those, 30 percent disapprove “strongly.” Another ten percent “don’t know.” This reflects a five-point increase for Romney in terms of disapproval as 44 percent of voters disapproved of his performance in March. It also reflects an 11-point drop from the 52 percent who approved in March.

When asked if Romney should seek reelection in 2024 for the U.S. Senate, most, 51 percent, said, “no,” he should not. Another 47 percent said, “yes,” he should run again, and three percent “don’t know.”

More specifically, 54 percent of Republicans do not believe Romney should run again, while most Democrats, 55 percent, believe he should run for Senate again.

The failed 2012 presidential candidate, however, has yet to say if he will run for reelection in 2024, although he said he is putting together a team, raising money, and “keeping my options open.”

 

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Biden is too old and feeble for the job and swing voters are noticing​

Two online focus groups of swing voters in North Carolina caught the attention of Axios and they reported on them. It is not good news for Joe Biden and his bid for re-election. The groups were comprised of 11 North Carolinians. They were a mix of three registered Democrats, one registered Republican, and seven independents.

It should be noted at the top that this is a very small sample of voters, too small for any significance but it does give a general feel of how voters are thinking and talking about current events. Before anyone gets too excited that swing voters think Biden is too old to be president, nine out of the 11 participants said they would vote for Biden in 2024 if he is running against Trump.