2024 US Presidential Election

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Anyone commenting on politics is "woke" these days! Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Democrats for being woke while, at the same time, she won't let them finish a complete sentence before she jumps them at warp speed. so fast it's like a false start in football. She and Matt Gaetz are just as woke as the extreme liberal left.

we're all woke! if you are here on this thread commenting you are "woke"!

i don't see how anyone at any level commenting on politics can believe that they are not woke.

and what's wrong with being woke to begin with? All it means is that you have a heightened awareness about politics.

the negative connotations associated with the term arise from the unbecoming in-your-face rudeness and the language used to deliver it.

Oh, the irony! Everyone is woke but me!

 

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the negative connotations associated with the term arise from the unbecoming in-your-face rudeness and the
language used to deliver it.

 

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Anyone commenting on politics is "woke" these days! Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Democrats for being woke while, at the same time, she won't let them finish a complete sentence before she jumps them at warp speed. so fast it's like a false start in football. She and Matt Gaetz are just as woke as the extreme liberal left.

we're all woke! if you are here on this thread commenting you are "woke"!

i don't see how anyone at any level commenting on politics can believe that they are not woke.

and what's wrong with being woke to begin with? All it means is that you have a heightened awareness about politics.

the negative connotations associated with the term arise from the unbecoming in-your-face rudeness and the language used to deliver it.

Oh, the irony! Everyone is woke but me!

you can be woke but not awake...

 

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you can be woke but not awake...

is this your personal experience? woke is bad but awake is good? will the extreme right start calling those who do not share their political viewpoints "unawakened"?

"I was unawakened and now I'm awake but I never was woke?

that's how this whole woke and wokeness debate sounds to me! ridiculous!

 

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Annelle Sheline for pres.

 

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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/28/robert-f-kennedy-vice-president-nicole-shanahan-ivf-00149523

RFK Jr.'s vice presidential pick calls IVF ‘one of the biggest lies being told about women’s health’​

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/26/abortion-winning-strategy-alabama-democrat-00149205

Abortion proves winning strategy for Alabama Democrat​

I'm sure her stance will drive women to vote for her and Kennedy.

 

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[Zeez]

6 bankruptcies
Failed at casino ownership
90 felony charges
$80 million judgement against him for rape
$450M fine for fraud
Hawking clown shoes and bibles
Buddies with dictators
Shunned by all European leaders
Buddies with convicted child molestor
Long trail of carnage behind him including jailed associates
Carnage includes law licenses gone
Busted with hooker
Brags about winning golf at his owned club
Banned from doing business in NY

 

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pretty sad to lose (TWICE!) to an incompetent babbling senile oid geezer that "nobody likes". says something about the "other guy", huh?

 

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The WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty: Global Regs for Abortion, Gun Control, Climate Change

<p>This press conference shows you what the WHO's Pandemic Preparedness Treaty is really all about – enshrining the global right to abortion on demand.</p> <p>If Biden votes yes, the WHO treaty would bind us to follow orders on anything Dr. Ted can construe as a global health emergency. So, if...

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WHO would have the power to tell us what to eat, plant, drive, and even think in order to "keep the global community safe".​

The WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty: Global Regs for Abortion, Gun Control, Climate Change​

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By Michael J. Matt ——Bio and Archives--March 29, 2024

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This press conference shows you what the WHO's Pandemic Preparedness Treaty is really all about – enshrining the global right to abortion on demand.
If Biden votes yes, the WHO treaty would bind us to follow orders on anything Dr. Ted can construe as a global health emergency. So, if he decides that climate change, for example, is an emergency – which he surely will! – the WHO would have the power to tell us what to eat, plant, drive, and even think in order to "keep the global community safe".
How about gun violence? That’s certainly a global health risk. So, get ready for the WHO to ban gun ownership globally.
How about sexual dysphoria? The WHO will be establishing global rules on that, too, telling doctors, teachers, and parents what they are allowed to say (and think!) about that.

 

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Spending;
$700k for new turnstiles
$150m for 1,000 MORE cops to be added to the already $5.5 BILLION DOLLAR NY POLICE BUDGET
$However much it costs to deploy the national guard into subways

To Stop;
$100,000 (probably monthly idk) in MTA fair evasions

NYC Police Overtime went from $4m in 2022 to over $155m in 2023. We pay these people to stand around and look at their phones. Subways aren't safer, police aren't stopping more criminals. It's all neoliberal window dressing to give people the illusion of safety (while already living in one of the safest largest cities in the goddamn country)

Liberalism in a nutshell. It's quite literally cheaper just to make transportation FREE.

 

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Biden strategic petroleum reserve refill costing 3 times Trump's 2020 plan​

Dem used asset to lower price at pump heading into midterm elections​

By Around the Web
Published March 29, 2024 at 10:37am

By Nick Pope
Daily Caller News Foundation


The Biden administration purchased 2.8 million barrels to partially refill the strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) at prices significantly higher than prevailing prices when former President Donald Trump proposed to top off the key stockpile in 2020, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced Thursday.

The 2.8 million barrels announced Thursday are part of a wider effort by the DOE to refill America’s emergency oil reserves after the administration released about 180 million barrels in 2021 and 2022 to bring down prices at the pump ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The administration’s refill purchases have cost an average of nearly $77 per barrel, a substantially higher price than the $25 per barrel price at which former President Donald Trump proposed to top off the SPR in the spring of 2020.

According to the White House, Joe Biden has: “presided over the largest historical release of barrels of oil from the strategic reserve, one hundred and eighty million barrels.”
Only problem? Millions of those barrels went to China, and not us. Thanks Joe! pic.twitter.com/egHQ50Ei5u
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 18, 2022

Senate Democrats, including then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, sharply criticized Trump’s push to fill up the SPR at a low price point caused by the pandemic, referring to the $3 billion initiative as a handout to major energy corporations, according to Roll Call. Biden’s subsequent releases have proven to be approximately three times as expensive on a per barrel basis, though the DOE considers its refill purchases to be a good deal for taxpayers because the average purchase price is about $20 lower than the $95 per barrel sale price of the released reserves.

“DOE set out to refill the SPR at a good price for American taxpayers, and that’s what we’ve delivered. Since refill began, DOE has purchased more than 32 million barrels at an average price of under $77, well below the average sale price of $95 in 2022,” a DOE spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “And it will continue to evaluate market conditions and competitive bids to ensure our SPR continues to meet its mission when called upon.”

As of December 2023, the SPR was at its lowest levels since 1983, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Former DOE officials and other experts have cautioned that it could take decades to refill the SPR to pre-Biden levels.

During the 2021 and 2022 SPR releases, several million barrels ended up being sold to Chinese corporations or interests. Congress moved earlier in March to include a provision in the short-term government funding bill to ban the sale of SPR oil to China and other adversarial nations.

Biden strategic petroleum reserve refill costing 3 times Trump's 2020 plan | WND | by Around the Web

The Biden administration purchased 2.8 million barrels to partially refill the strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) at prices significantly higher than prevailing prices when former President Donald Trump proposed to top off the key stockpile in 2020, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced Thursday.

www.wnd.com

 

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One Group of Americans is Doing Very Well Under Biden – The Extremely Rich​

by Mike LaChance Mar. 29, 2024 9:40 pm

While millions of Americans are struggling to afford basic items under Biden and the staggering inflation on his watch, one group of people in the country are doing great. The extremely wealthy.

In other words, Biden has been great for the people who the left describe as the one percent.

Bernie Sanders doesn’t complain about the one percent as much as he used to, because he is now a member of the club. In fact, Bernie wants people to vote for Biden.

For all of their talk about income inequality in the past, Democrats are now the party of the rich. There’s nothing wrong with being rich, but liberals don’t seem to want other people to be prosperous as well.

Breitbart News reports:

Joe Biden’s America: Wealthiest 1% Set Record with $44 Trillion Total Net Worth
The wealthiest one percent in President Joe Biden’s America set a record with a net worth of $44 trillion at the end of the fourth quarter, U.S. Federal Reserve data revealed.
Biden casts his administration as opposed to the widening wealth gap, even though a majority of Americans still live paycheck to paycheck, a recent LendingClub study found, raising concerns that so-called “Bidenomics” failed to help average Americans.
A majority of voters are “worse off financially” under Biden, up 25 points since he assumed office in 2021, a Fox News poll found Wednesday.
The fourth quarter gains resulted from stock holdings, thanks to an end-of-year rally, CNBC reported:

The total net worth of the top 1%, defined by the Fed as those with wealth over $11 million, increased by $2 trillion in the fourth quarter. All of the gains came from their stock holdings. The value of corporate equities and mutual fund shares held by the top 1% surged to $19.7 trillion from $17.65 trillion the previous quarter.

It’s ironic, isn’t it?

Democrats have become the Party of rich elites! pic.twitter.com/HP1vo8HiJM
— Wayne Dunlap (@wdunlap) March 29, 2024

The Biden campaign keeps boasting about how much money they are raising from rich Democrats and powerful special interests. Is this the first campaign in history to brag about being bought and paid for?
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) March 29, 2024

Republicans are now the party of the working class, which has been abandoned by the Democrats for years.

One Group of Americans is Doing Very Well Under Biden - The Extremely Rich | The Gateway Pundit | by Mike LaChance

While millions of Americans are struggling to afford basic items under Biden and the staggering inflation on his watch, one group of people in the country are doing great.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

 

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Behind Massive Mail-in Ballot Push Is a Little-Noticed Executive Order​

The federal government is using its vast resources and its largest agencies to register new voters and expand mail-in balloting, with the help of nonprofits.​

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By Kevin Stocklin
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March 28, 2024
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March 29, 2024

A federal effort to register voters using the government’s vast reach, including throughout the U.S. prison system, is raising concerns from critics who have said it won’t benefit Democrats and Republicans equally.
Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson wrote to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on March 6 alleging that agencies under the attorney general’s charge are “attempting to register people to vote, including potentially ineligible felons, and to co-opt state and local officials into accomplishing this goal.”
The allegation relates to President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14019, which states, “The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation.”
Among other things, this order has forced U.S. Marshals to modify more than 900 contracts with prisons and jails to provide voter registration documents and facilitate mail-in voting for inmates, Mr. Watson wrote.
“We have worked extremely hard to restore the confidence of Mississippi voters in our election process,” Mr. Watson told The Epoch Times. “To have the Biden administration and the DOJ purposefully undermine these efforts and jeopardize the integrity of Mississippi’s elections is unacceptable.”
The secretary of state is the chief election officer in Mississippi.

The work by the Department of Justice to register voters in prisons, critics say, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Other agencies, including the Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, are also carrying out campaigns to sign up new voters.
On Feb. 26, Vice President Kamala Harris lauded a federal plan to use work-study grants to pay students to register voters.

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In addition, President Biden’s executive order directed federal agencies to select “approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and state officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.”
President Biden’s executive order was called “visionary“ by Ceridwen Cherry, a former staff attorney on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Voting Rights Project, who said, ”In a democracy, governments at all levels should be doing everything they can to help eligible people register to vote.”
However, critics say elections are under the purview of states, not the federal government.
“The reason it’s such a big problem is that, with the president, it’s only one political party that’s in power,” Stewart Whitson, legal director of the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), a conservative think-tank, told The Epoch Times.
“If you allow the president to be the one to decide where all these massive resources are channeled, that’s problematic,” he said, adding that this is why the Founders gave election authority to states and not to the federal executive.

Cook County jail detainees check in before casting their votes after a polling place was opened in the facility for early voting in Chicago on Oct. 17, 2020. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images)

Implementation Questions​

The plan has been called “Bidenbucks” by some of its detractors, referencing the injection into state election programs of $400 million in 2020 from Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, dubbed “Zuckerbucks.”
“This is Zuckerbucks on steroids because instead of $400 million, it’s unlimited funding and resources and the reach of the federal government and all its offices located across the country,” Mr. Whitson said.
Previous efforts to federalize elections through Congress have failed.
In 2022, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) attempted to eradicate the legislative filibuster in order to pass H.R. 5746, the “Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act,” which would have given the federal government authority over parts of state election systems, expanded voting by mail, and eliminated security protocols such as requiring voter identification.
Democrats claimed the bill was necessary to fight “voter suppression” by state governments.

President Biden’s executive order includes the directive for federal agencies to find ways to distribute “vote-by-mail ballot application forms” as well as assist applicants in completing the application “in a manner consistent with all relevant State laws.”
In 2020, nearly 45 percent of voters used mail-in-ballots.

Since the president signed EO 14019, a number of attempts have been made to obtain information about how federal agencies will implement it, particularly which private organizations it has selected to work out of federal offices alongside government officials.
Federal departments refused to release this information, and requests were followed up with FOIA filings and subsequently by lawsuits; however, the Biden administration continues to defy the requests.
In July 2021, the FGA filed a FOIA request regarding President Biden’s Voting Access plan. The group sought information about what federal agencies were doing to implement the plan, as well as records from planning and strategy meetings among President Biden’s staff, federal agencies, and the architects of EO 14019.
“These documents, in any other context, would be handed over much more quickly,” Mr. Whitson said. “So this indicates to us that there’s something there the Biden administration really does not care to share, because they’ve withheld it for nearly three years now.”

President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama step off Air Force One upon arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on March 28, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

The America First Legal foundation, another plaintiff in a FOIA suit, characterized EO 14019 as “the president’s unprecedented effort to deploy federal agencies in support of partisan voting operations and fortify politically aligned private organizations working to circumvent state election integrity laws.”
More than two years later, court battles over the information requests are ongoing. The administration has brought in White House counsel and the Department of Justice to fight the requests.

How Federal Agencies Enact EO 14019​

Prominent among the many federal agencies carrying out the executive order is the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which announced in 2022 that federal health centers across the nation now have the discretion to participate in activities—including voter registration—that are outside the scope of core department activities.
“Such voter registration activities may include making available voter registration materials to patients, encouraging patients to register to vote, assisting patients with completing registration forms, sending completed forms to the election authorities, providing voter registration materials in waiting rooms, and allowing private, non-partisan organizations to conduct on-site voter registration,” the HHS website says.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development instructed more than 3,000 public housing authorities managing some 1.2 million public housing units across the country to run voter registration drives in those units.
The Department of Education sent a letter to universities, directing them to use Federal Work Study funds “to support voter registration activities.”
The letter states, “If a student is employed directly by a post-secondary institution, the institution may compensate a student for [Federal Work Study] employment involving voter registration activities that take place on or off-campus.”

The Department of Education has been particularly active in turning out likely Democrat voters, according to Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center.
“Every college campus is massively dependent on Department of Education largesse, from Pell grants to every other kind of aid,” Mr. Walter told The Epoch Times.
“The Department of Education in 2022 was threatening campuses that you better be registering students or you could lose your federal funds.”
The Department of Agriculture issued letters to state agencies administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Women’s Infants and Children’s low-income food program, instructing them to carry out voter registration activities with federal funds.

People cast their ballots during early voting on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Feb. 20, 2024. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)

Targeted Registration?​

Two proponents of President Biden’s Voting Access plan, the ACLU and a coalition of progressive groups called Strengthening Democracy, produced their “Progress Report on Federal Agency Action to Promote Access to Voting” in March 2023.
The report details their assessment of how well 10 federal agencies are doing in implementing EO 14019 and what they must do to improve.
The report states that federal agencies should sign up new voters in the following ways: HHS should include voter registration in applications for health insurance under Obamacare; the VA should include voter registration for veterans who sign up for VA health benefits; Indian Health Services should help register patients using IHS facilities; the Education Department should include voter registration when students apply for federal student aid; and the Bureau of Prisons should work to register eligible convicts.

The report praised the Treasury Department for its efforts targeting voter registration efforts at “low income clients of its voluntary tax preparation clinics.”
“They’re targeting welfare agencies that serve predominantly left-leaning voters,” Mr. Whitson said. “It’s targeted voter registration, so you don’t have to worry about turning out more Republican voters if you focus your efforts in places where the vast majority of voters are going to lean left.”

Partnering With Private Organizations​

An additional concern is that these federal agencies are partnering with private groups to sign up voters on federal agency premises.
“They’re essentially taking third-party groups and they’re bringing them onto federal land, into a federal office, and who knows what they’re doing,” Mr. Whitson said. “Who knows if they’re following state laws governing voter registration and the collection of applications?
“Our question is, which groups are approved, what’s the criteria for approval, who gets to decide which groups you’re going to cooperate with? And they haven’t disclosed that information either.”

Codie Horse-Topetchy, student at the university of Oklahoma and coordinator of Rock the Native Vote, arranges her stall during a cultural meeting at the Comanche Nation fairgrounds in Lawton, Okla., on Sept. 30, 2023. (Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

Mr. Watson also voiced this concern regarding DOJ efforts to sign up prison inmates to vote in Mississippi.
The Mississippi secretary of state’s letter stated that, although his department oversees state elections, it is not aware of any contact between it and the DOJ, which raises the question of which organizations the Marshals are using to accomplish this demand.
“Many outside groups performing voter registration and vote harvesting services are partisan entities with a history of being unreliable,” it reads.
According to the FGA’s investigations, Mr. Whitson said, “We can see a sampling of who these hidden third-party groups are, and they’re all left-wing voter advocacy groups.
“As they’re handing out welfare benefits, they’re allowing these groups special access. They’re allowing them to set up in the lobby so when people come into the agency to fill out their paperwork and apply for benefits, they’re greeted by these groups.”
Although the Biden administration has refused to disclose which nonprofit organizations will partner with federal agencies, groups that support the effort include the ACLU, teachers unions, public employee unions, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the NAACP, the Black Voters Matter Fund, Public Citizen, Planned Parenthood, the League of Women Voters, and the Sierra Club.

Pushback​

In May 2023, a group of Republican senators introduced a bill that would prohibit federal agencies from using taxpayer funds or collaborating with private organizations to mobilize voters.
“The federal government and its millions of employees should not be using official resources to advance partisan politics,” Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) said. He was one of six senators to introduce the bill, the Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act.
“President Biden’s executive order empowering every federal agency to engage in electioneering on the taxpayers’ dime raises serious ethical and legal concerns [and] is inherently political and directed primarily at groups expected to vote for one party over another,” he said.

People vote in a special election at Robert M. Finley Middle School in Glen Cove, N.Y., on Feb. 13, 2024. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

In November 2023, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) introduced an amendment to the 2024 appropriations bill that would prohibit federal agency funding from being used to implement Executive Order 14019.
“This is an inappropriate and unconstitutional federalization of elections,” Rep. Tenney said at the time. “America’s civil service should be nonpartisan, and federal agencies should not be using taxpayer funds to actively engage in get-out-the-vote operations that have nothing to do with the agency’s core missions.”
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) responded by saying President Biden’s executive order “recognizes that there are too many obstacles to voting” and it is in place to “expand access to voter registration and election information.”

The amendment passed by a voice vote; the bill is currently stalled in Congress.
Simultaneously, a group of 24 Republican legislators in Pennsylvania have filed a federal complaint against President Joe Biden, Gov. Josh Shapiro, and representatives of the Pennsylvania Department of State, saying they have usurped the authority of the Legislature by changing voter registration and election rules.
Their complaint in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania asks a judge to declare three actions unconstitutional: a voter registration executive order made by President Biden, a voter registration action by Mr. Shapiro, and some Department of State directives. They also request that the judge issue an order prohibiting the president, the governor, and state executives from making future changes to the elections process in Pennsylvania without following the legislative process.
“Federal campaign finance laws apply to private parties’ voter registration activities,” the court papers say. “Voter registration drives ... are a federally recognized private function, not a government function.”

Behind Massive Mail-in Ballot Push Is a Little-Noticed Executive Order

The federal government is using its vast resources and its largest agencies to register new voters and expand mail-in balloting, with the help of nonprofits.

www.theepochtimes.com

 

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another day of contemptuous behavior from the fuhrer.

 

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the desperation just DRIPS off of some of these posts...