Witholding aid because opposition to the state’s strict abortion ban.

 Louisiana officials stall New Orleans flood funds over abortion

Citing New Orleans' officials' stance on abortion, the Louisiana State Bond Commission has twice voted to delay approval of a $39 million line of credit for a power station to run the city's drainage pumps, which have been described as critical for its ability to adapt to climate change.

So pro life they're willing to drown an entire city of people.

Louisiana State Government denying flood recovery funds for New Orleans because city government respect women's rights.

Below are the Commission members that voted to delay the project. These people should be held accountable at the ballot box when their fringe special interest pet project results in the loss of Louisianan’s lives and countless millions of dollars in repairs:

Atty Gen. Jeff Landry

Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin

Rep. Jerome Zeringue (R-Houma)

Rep. Neil Riser (R-Columbia)

Rep. John Stefanski (R-Crowley)

Rep. Scott McKnight (R-Baton Rouge) 

Louisiana state officials delay flood funding to New Orleans a second time over city officials' stance on abortion

(CNN)Louisiana's State Bond Commission denied funding Thursday for a $39 million infrastructure project in Orleans Parish for the second time, at the behest of state Attorney General Jeff Landry, according to a statement on Landry's official Facebook page and video posted from the bond commission meeting.

Landry urged the commission to deny the funding in both instances due to a New Orleans City Council resolution encouraging area law enforcement not to enforce the state's abortion ban within their respective jurisdictions.

What the hell does abortion stance have to do with flood funding? Like seriously what the fucking fuck is wrong with this country recently? This is beyond messed up.

 Very abusive behavior from the GOP.

Holding disaster aide hostage for political gain is vile abuse of power.

Pot calling kettle black

 Marjorie Taylor Greene says student-loan forgiveness is 'completely unfair' despite the fact her company had loans worth $183,504 forgiven

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized Biden's student-loan-forgiveness plans as "completely unfair," despite records showing that her own company had $183,504 worth of Paycheck Protection Program loans forgiven in 2020.

This is consistent with the conservative mindset.

Biden had a really good response to the criticism in his announcement yesterday. He basically said he wasn’t going to apologize to people who handed the wealthy and corporations 2 trillion dollars in tax cuts. This is the line that Democrats need to be using in their campaigns to counter these ridiculous arguments. Was it fair for Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to get a giant handout in the form of massive tax breaks? That’s what I’d be asking opponents of the student loan forgiveness

White House trolls Marjorie Taylor Greene for student loan criticism: ‘She had $183k in PPP loans repaid’ 

The White House called out congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene on Thursday, after the Georgia Republican criticised the Biden administration’s student loan debt plan as unfair despite getting more than $183,000 in federal loan forgiveness herself.

Who ever is running the account needs a raise and other democrats need to take note on how to fight these cretins online.

Biden White House pulls a "this you" tweet on Marjorie Taylor Greene's past PPP loan

Republicans who have spent the past 24 hours freaking out over President Joe Biden's announcement of a limited college debt jubilee for some Americans are now being met with receipts of their own hypocrisy. The official White House Twitter account is calling out specific Republican congressmen who saw Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans during the height of the COVID pandemic completely forgiven. 

Also per White House:

To those Republicans in Congress who believe student debt shouldn’t be forgiven: I will never apologize for helping America’s middle class – especially not to the same folks who voted for a $2 trillion tax cut for the wealthy and giant corporations that racked up the deficit.

 

Dark Brandon brought the receipts baby!

Whole twitter thread is pure gold. 

Trumpster Toddler Tantrum

 Trump Was Hoarding Some of America’s Most Sensitive Secrets, Letter Reveals

The National Archives identified documents classified as “special access program materials,” in a trove of more than 700 pages of documents retrieved from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in January, according to a letter sent by the Archives to Trump’s lawyers. 

This trove of documents, separate from the stash of materials seized by the FBI earlier this month, was reviewed by archivists tasked with storing and cataloging materials from the Trump presidency in January. The trove of documents was not made available to federal investigators until after a series of negotiations with Trump’s legal team.

Hillary testified for 12 hours in front of congress over buttery males, Trump couldn't make it 12 minutes in front of congress over these documents.

Trump's team released this. The seem to be trying to find the limit of what they can do before DoJ has no choice but to arrest a former President in the interest of national security.

That’s probably what the GOP wants as well.

Trump out of the picture, and a martyr so they can hold on to his supporters without dealing with his insanity. 

Here is the link to the actual letter https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/full-text-national-archives-letter-trump-classified-documents

Trump’s Behavior Strengthens Case Against Him

Should former presidents who are believed to have committed crimes, either in office or afterward, be indicted? 

It is never simply the case that prosecutors in the U.S. indict anyone who they believe is guilty of crime, as my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Clive Crook has pointed out. For one, it’s misconduct to indict without confidence that a conviction will follow.

Saying they planted evidence made it pretty clear.

Don't forget that Trump declassified all the evidence they planted.

He had a standing order to plant declassified evidence that belongs to him.

The evidence should be more then enough (hopefully). His behaviour has been absurd for decades.

he's already started the legal process to slow roll this, by clogging things up with legal challenges. he's going to try holding off until the 2024 election, hoping that the White House will change hands and the next GOP selected AG can shut it down.

Trump described boxes of classified documents as 'mine' and swatted away White House officials who tried to return documents from Kim Jong Un and Barack Obama, report says 

Former President Donald Trump resisted returning official materials from his presidency as the National Archives and Records Administration spent much of 2021 trying to retrieve the government property, including communications with the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and former President Barack Obama, The New York Times reported Monday.

Trump is made of crime. His entire being, every molecule of it, is crooked. He's a super spreader of felonies. And yet he has never spent an hour in jail, in the 70 years of his existence. It's enough to make a person lose faith in the system.

To this day I'll never understand the GOP's worship of this man. I don't get it. At all.

Bullies like to see other bullies in positions of authority, i.e. coaches, politics, law enforcement, military leadership, etc. It justifies their own bad behavior as acceptable and reaffirms their whole belief system.

Trump sues to block DOJ from reviewing materials FBI seized at Mar-a-Lago until watchdog appointed

Trump’s lawsuit, which suggests the Aug. 8 FBI raid was politically motivated, also asks that the Department of Justice be blocked from “further review of seized materials” from his Mar-a-Lago residence until the so-called special master is appointed to review the documents.

The FBI already has a filter team in place to separate out the material responsive to the warrant from extraneous... that's how the passports were found in the leatherbound box and returned to him.

This will be objected to by the DoJ and then rejected by the courts... and doesn't stop anything that has happened in the previous week. 

 

Trump is reaping what he sow

 “Everyone's saying no”: Trump hires Florida insurance lawyer as top attorneys refuse to work for him

Former President Donald Trump and his team have spent days since the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago trying to assemble a "team of respected lawyers" but keep getting rejected, according to The Washington Post.

"Everyone is saying no," a prominent Republican lawyer told the outlet.

That's what happens when you have a record of not paying legal bills.

Don’t forget, asking lawyers to do illegal things!

https://www.voanews.com/amp/trump-lawyer-rudy-giuliani-target-of-georgia-election-fraud-case-/6702707.html

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/08/04/politics/trump-justice-department-january-6-criminal-investigation/index.html

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/03/donald-trump-lawyers-election-lawsuit-sanctions

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/08/15/justice-department-subpoenas-trump-lawyer-eric-herschmann-00051899

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-legal-adviser-jenna-ellis-ordered-to-testify-in-georgia-election-probe_n_62fcace2e4b0c8c57f575255

https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-election-data-copied-under-direction-of-trump-attorney/XCPM33PXC5ABJN6UXG645EXLM4/

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/09/20/politics/trump-pence-election-memo/index.html

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-crime-new-york-manhattan-campaigns-3a0413202e80ab99c9f6377f97d07c04 

I'm sure there are a lot of top flight lawyers who would be happy to take on a high profile case like this, knowing that they will probably get stiffed. But they won't take Trump as a client, because he's the client from hell.

He won't listen to legal advice. He openly asks lawyers to help him conceal criminal activity. He won't shut up. He conceals things from his own attorneys. He throws temper tantrums. And whenever he has a setback, he blames everyone around him and trashes them in the media.

Usually, a high profile client will boost a lawyer's profile, even if he loses. But everyone who has represented Trump in a high profile case has wound up doing grievous damage to their own careers.

Rules are for thee, not for mee party

 The GOP Suddenly Wants to Defund Law Enforcement After Feds Raid Mar-a-Lago

After years defending the continued militarization of law enforcement agencies across the United States, Republican lawmakers appeared to have a change of heart Monday after learning the FBI executed a search at the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump. Faced with the possibility that the “good guys” aren’t necessarily on their side, prominent members of the party that made backing the blue a central tenet of its political platform began spouting rhetoric that belied their professed allegiance to the “rule of law.”

Of course they want to defund the police. Biden wanted to hire 100,000 new police officers. The GOP said "no." The first stimulus package included money for state and local governments to pay their employees (police, firefighters etc...) and the GOP said "no." They visciously attacked Capitol police officers. The only time they stand behind the police is when a police officer kills a black guy....that's when they love law enforcement.

Funny how quick to move to “defund” rhetoric after the ONE arrest they don’t like.

It’s not like it was even a no knocked warrant.

The GOP’s inauspicious knee-jerk reaction to the Trump raid

One day, relatively soon, the heads of the Justice Department and the FBI are likely to be brought to Capitol Hill to testify about the historic decision to raid a former president’s home.

For now, though, we don’t yet know much about what was in the search warrant used to raid Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago on Monday. We do know that the raid concerned the removal of classified documents from the White House and that, according to Trump, agents raided his safe.

"If they could go after Trump like this, nobody is safe"

No one that commits crimes against the American people should feel safe. They should be sweating bullets every day until the evidence of their crimes is seized, they are arrested, and they are prosecuted.

This is a bright day for American justice. 

Don't take their threats lightly; when Republicans tell you who they are, believe them.

In 2013 Hillary Clinton had a 67% favorability rating as Secretary of State, by 2016 her favorability had dropped to 41%; what caused the 26% drop in the three years in between? House Republicans used their majority to run fishing expeditions into Benghazi and politicized the investigation into her private email server.

If you won't take my word for it I'll let the Republicans themselves explain:

Current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R): "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee. A select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known that any of that had happened had we not fought to make that happen."

Former Senator Darrell Issa (R): “You know, people often ask Trey Gowdy and myself, what did our [Benghazi] investigations do? Well what they did is that they opened up an opportunity for the American people to sort of smell what’s in the garbage can, and I think that’s the reason that a devout socialist who wants to nationalize almost everything in America is close to and probably will beat Hillary here in New Hampshire. It’s not because they like Republicans. It’s because they don’t trust Hillary.”

Friendly reminder here that Hillary Clinton was exonerated by Republicans of any responsibility in the deaths at Benghazi, and that James Comey declared that no ‘reasonable prosecutor’ would bring charges against Hillary Clinton over her private email server. The fishing expeditions into Benghazi and Hillary Clinton's emails were unproductive for the purpose of finding wrongdoing, but extremely productive for the purpose of hurting Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

We've seen Republicans make this play before, if we let them win in November they'll do the same thing to Biden and the Democrats et al as they did to Hillary Clinton, and their voters will believe every word of it.

Don't give Republicans the chance to play their game, vote this November!

Republicans Promise Retaliation Against Justice Department Over Trump Raid

Congressional Republicans vowed payback for the Justice Department after federal law enforcement agents searched former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida.

“The Justice Department has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization,” House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in a statement.

Republicans: “We don’t have any idea what was found, we don’t know what the probable cause was to get the warrant, we don’t know if a crime was committed, we really don’t know anything, but we know the FBI is wrong.” 

Oh and this is the same party that voted against capping insulin at $35!

'What the Hell is Wrong With Them': GOP Senators Kill $35 Cap on Insulin

Republicans strip $35 insulin price cap from Democrats' bill -- but insist Senate rules are to blame

Trumpster is on a roll as justices grip tighten

 Trump tried to flush documents down White House toilet, new photos show

Images obtained for an upcoming book on the Trump presidency appear to show torn documents floating in toilets – backing up reports that Donald Trump tried to destroy presidential paperwork by flushing it away.

WTF? There are like 35 fireplaces in the White House and he flushes paper down the toilet?

And if he manages to secure the nomination and run people will still vote for him. Several million Americans are fine with this.

The second highest-ranking US general told Trump his idea for a big military parade in DC is 'what dictators do,' book says 

Trump, as has been previously reported, crafted the idea for a military parade after witnessing a lavish Bastille Day celebration in Paris in 2017. He wanted to top it with one of his own during the Fourth of July holiday. 

Trump: “Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade. This doesn’t look good for me.”

Kelly: “Those are the heroes. In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are—and they are buried over in Arlington.”

Trump: “I don’t want them.” 

As more and more of trumps behavior is revealed it seems like he had something like a dictatorship in mind very early on. He actually claimed he was owed more than two terms because of how democrats treated him. He hasn’t given up on that dream either.

He needs to be knocked down as far as someone can be legally knocked down and he’s broken enough laws to justify doing so. DOJ, let’s get busy on this.

He wanted to be like his pal, Putin.

Trump suggests abolishing Department of Education to stop ‘radicalisation’ of children

The former president hit out at what he sees as a left-wing takeover of education policy and suggested that “federal bureaucrats” are pushing to radicalise children through the school system.

“If federal bureaucrats are going to push this radicalism, we should abolish the Department of Education,” Mr Trump said triggering a huge round of applause.

I mean, he tried to by appointing DeVos. They want to get rid of non-denominational schools. It’s projection like it always is with these idiots. They want to radicalize and indoctrinate children in “Christian” based schools.

Just to be clear here for anyone unaware, that's not hyperbole: Trump Education Secretary says Department of Education Should Not Exist

Devos, who spent four years as the Education secretary during the Trump administration, made the remarks at the inaugural Moms for Liberty summit on Saturday, according to the Florida Phoenix.

“I personally think the Department of Education should not exist,” Devos told the mostly conservative crowd in Tampa, Fla.

This isn't just a Trump thing, though; Republicans have been trying to get rid of the Department of Education since the 90's and Trump planned on merging the Department of Education with the Department of Labor in his first term and was clear even back then what his plans were:

On April 4, 2016, Fox host Sean Hannity asked Donald Trump if he would eliminate any federal departments if he were to become president. Trump responded by saying that the Department of Education "is massive and it can be largely eliminated."

This isn't a case of a new, oppressive and remarkably stupid thing Trump has started saying. He's been saying it for years, and it's not his idea. 

Trump Complained His Generals Did Not Act Enough Like Hitler's: Book

“You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump reportedly asked Kelly, referring to German generals in World War II.

To which Kelly later responded: “You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?”

Still, Trump — in an attempt to rewrite history — insisted those generals “were totally loyal” to Hitler.

If Trump wins again this problem may be corrected which should scare the hell out of all of us. Donald Trump is a danger to this country.

Trump wants to punish Wisconsin legislator for not stealing the election

Donald Trump won the state of Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes in 2016. He lost it by a similar margin in 2020. In both years, the state was evenly divided, with Trump seeing similar margins in similar places.

To an external observer, there’s nothing inherently weird about this: A swing state that tipped one way tipped the other way four years later. To Trump, though, his loss in Wisconsin two years ago remains flatly unacceptable, if not inconceivable. To the extent that he is now endorsing a challenger to the state’s fervently conservative assembly speaker, Robin Vos (R), solely because Vos hasn’t overturned the 2020 results.

 They're not even hiding it anymore. In the GOP, fascism is the preferred form of government.

Republicans sure love their Army veterans

 ‘You just sentenced veterans to death’: Democrats and veterans outraged as GOP senators block burn pits bill

Republican senators have been accused of “sentencing veterans to death” after they blocked the passage of a landmark bill that would finally give US service members sick and dying from toxic exposure to burn pits access to the healthcare that they need.

The bill received just 55 of the needed 60 votes to pass a cloture motion on Wednesday, with only eight Republicans voted to move forward with the bill.

A staggering 25 of those who voted against the bill had previously voted to pass it just one month earlier.

...

But – between one month and the next – dozens of Republican senators decided that they no longer supported expanding healthcare and disability access to US servicemembers and decided to change their vote. 

Let nobody forget.

Republicans in 2010 FILIBUSTERED a 911 Responders Health Care bill

Cops, firefighters, paramedics were finding that they were having serious health issues 10 years later from breathing in all the toxic debris from the building collapses.

Republicans FILIBUSTERED a Health Care bill for a single cities worth of first responders because "too expensive". 

Callous GOP Fist-Bump After Holding Up Aid For Burn-Pit Veterans Sparks Fury

Republican senators sparked outrage when they bumped fists after voting to hold up aid for military veterans suffering from burn-pit exposure.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was captured on video Thursday fist-bumping Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) shortly after Republicans managed to block the PACT Act, which would allow soldiers, sailors and airmen exposed to pits of smoldering waste in combat zones to be covered by the Veterans Affairs health care system for linked illnesses. Many are suffering from cancer.

Pay no attention to what they say, pay attention to what they do. In this case they did a disservice to the people who have risked life and limb for this Country. Despicable human beings, all of them.

The first and second bill were the exact same except for once sentence change and a change to the table of contents in the Bill. The sentence change did nothing to change money spent, what could be spent, etc. it only corrected a sentence which referenced the wrong federal code. If you don’t believe me, check the evolution of the bill yourself on the official Congress website:

Republicans Senators are flat out lying as to why they tanked it, after passing it in June. They know people won’t read bills for themselves and they can save face.

The real reason they didn’t pass it was because it came immediately after they found out Democrats had votes to pass a Reconciliation Bill which lowers prescription prices, funds IRS to investigate tax cheats, and invests in clean energy. It was something the Dems were acting like they couldn’t get done until after they got Rep support for the Computer Chip Manufacturing Bill.

Essentially this is throwing a fit. Congressional Republicans literally tried to tank all bills after the Manchin/Shumer deal got made. The Republicans didn’t think people would call them out, cause who pays attention to these things? However, Jon Stewart went all in and is calling them out. So now, they are all lying to save face.

I haven’t heard a response from either MO Senator. If they give that stupid talking point about things for changes and it is pork spending, IT IS A BOLDFACED LIE! Read it for yourself! 

‘Burn Pit’ Bill Passes Senate After Jon Stewart Assails GOP

Legislation giving veterans exposed to toxic burn pits access to expanded health benefits passed the Senate Tuesday night amid an outcry from veterans and comedian Jon Stewart, who camped out on the Capitol steps since Republicans blocked the bill last week. 

The vets, their families, and people who claim to support them should vote out all the people who were against this bill.

This is the exact same bill right? Lots of republicans on Reddit were claiming there was pork barrel money in it. Were they lying the whole time?

Yes. They invented a 400 billion dollar loophole that didn’t exist

The story of the bill being changed to add $400B in pork was not true. It was... a fabrication. Ted Cruz looked straight at the television camera and flat out lied about why he (and other Republicans) changed their vote on this bill. THEY LIED.

 

Known man for not paying his bills still got lawyers?

 Trump's lawyers are brainstorming how to fend off a criminal case from the DOJ if he is charged: report

Former President Donald Trump's legal team is preparing for the possibility of Trump being criminally charged by the Justice Department, according to Rolling Stone.

The outlet spoke to three people familiar with the matter and looked at written communications regarding the issue.

Imagine doing all that legal work to defend a former POTUS and then just not getting paid for it.

The lawyers are being paid by the RNC under the condition that Trump doesn't announce any candidacy before the midterms. Sounds like they are holding him at arms length for fear of him tanking the midterms.

Their strategy will be to stall it as long as possible and hope someone gets elected to make it all go away.

Trump’s Lawyers Are Preparing Legal Defenses Against Criminal Charges 

Donald Trump’s lawyers are preemptively preparing a legal defense against criminal charges from the Justice Department, as the former president’s lawyers are increasingly anxious that their client will be prosecuted for his role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Members of the ex-president’s legal team have already begun brainstorming strategy and potential defenses, according to three people familiar with the matter and written communications reviewed by Rolling Stone. Trump himself has been briefed on potential legal defenses on at least two occasions this summer, two of the sources say.

That effort intensified after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s June testimony before the House committee investigating Jan. 6. 

Can’t wait to hear these defenses…

“John Baron stole my phone so I couldn’t call in the National Guard to stop the insurrection and wrote the scripts that I mindlessly recited calling for election fraud!”

It’s mind boggling how much of the nation’s time this moron has wasted with his incessant bullshit. 

Mistake of law is no defense, especially as you say when you intentionally seek out poor counsel. I wonder if a judge would even allow this argument at trial

The fact that a source in the article says an advice of counsel defense would be a "big one" tells me they have no defense. Bannon tried the same thing and he wasn't even allowed to raise it at trial because it is criminal law 101. 

Trump will try the immunity defense but the Supreme Court probably won't give him that. My thinking is his ultimate out is a variation of the Oliver North defense. The defense will be that he cannot be tried because no jury can be picked since everyone is a witness to the crime. I think that is why DOJ will ultimately charge him with something like the false electors which doesn't involve something Trump said publicly and it is harder to claim that every juror witnesses the crime.

Trump Blames Pelosi, D.C. Mayor Bowser for Jan. 6 Capitol Riot

Former President Donald Trump blamed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for the events that unfolded during last year's Capitol riot.

"January 6th is her [Bowser] and Nancy's fault. 'No, I'm not kidding' (as Joe Bidden would say!)," Trump said Sunday on his social media platform, Truth Social.

The ex-president's post included his earlier comments that criticized Bowser for asking the National Guard to help deal with migrants being transported to D.C., alleging that she refused to do so during the Capitol riot.

No.

The D.C. National Guard is the only National Guard unit, out of all of the 54 states and territories, which reports only to the President.

https://dc.ng.mil/About-Us/ 

Trump is angry that Fox News is ignoring him and focusing on other potential 2024 candidates, report says

Former President Donald Trump is reportedly angry that Fox News is no longer putting him front and center in its coverage, according to The New York Times.

The Times reported that it would be more than 100 days since the former president was last interviewed by the network.

Fox News, which Trump appeared on around eight times more than any other TV channel during his presidency, is instead focusing on other potential candidates for the Republican nomination in 2024, per the newspaper.

Instead of broadcasting a July 22 Trump rally in Arizona, Fox News aired a Laura Ingraham interview with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, The Times said.

It won't last. Remember Fox hated Trump... right up until he won the primary and then they tripped over themselves to lick his taint.

He's also suing CNN for using the phrase "The Big Lie" and accurately reporting that Trump did indeed lose the election and tried to overturn the results.

Both great reasons for wasting more taxpayer dollars.