From Australian Judy Rofe

Biden could be the most motivated democratic president in decades. Though he wasn’t one of the more progressive candidates, Biden signified integrity. He is not radical, nor frightening.

Biden embraces change. And as America climbs out of a four-year ditch, the people are aware they no longer have a president hell-bent on incompetency, arrogance, idiocy, r****m and ignorance. Because the last four years have been so chaotic Biden now has the space to govern audaciously and ambitiously.

Congress may want to hinder progressive changes the new government needs to make, but it cannot prevent Biden from issuing executive orders.

C****-** and the Iran nuclear deal are global issues and they demand a global leader. His vast foreign policy experience has given him the tools to demonstrate ambition for true international leadership that has been AWOL for the past four years.

At 78, Biden may well be the oldest serving president of the United States but he is not so old that he does not recognize there is a future standing right behind him.

And whether he serves one term or two, Biden is aware he does not represent the future of the Democratic party. He is aware, however, that he is the road from which new democratic leaders will emerge.

And while you’re presupposing without facts, like Kayleigh McEnany trump's "Mini Goebbels." who offered her opinion that “Biden is ducking the media to avoid gaffes” and that ‘his staff is protecting him from the sort of unscripted exchanges he would face in a news conference,” gaffes are not what we’re talking about here.

Not only has America been released from the shackles of Twitter, but the White House briefing room is no longer an Orwellian nightmare of lies.

Nor are you paying for golf trips, but your government is confronting white domestic terrorism.

It is also refreshing to note you have a First Lady who engages with the public. There has not been one murmur from the p**********l children; and we’re delighted to note, you once again have First Dogs.

The government’s philosophy is to under-promise and over-deliver and bugger me if the President hasn’t already produced his tax records!

You’ve even got a White House staff that looks like America; a staff who helped to put a national c****-** plan in place. You might even notice masks and social distancing are activities that are practiced in the White House. And just to piss you right off, more than two-thirds of Americans approve of it.

The unanswered questions about the slaughter of journalist Jamal Khashoggi will now be addressed by a President who doesn’t believe military service is for “suckers” and who doesn’t send his “love” to fanatical people who assault law enforcement.

The Muslim ban is gone.

What President Biden is doing is simply guiding your nation; stepping back to allow America to re-enter as the leader of the free world.

That’s what you wanted, wasn’t it?

Asked specifically if he thinks the e******n was s****n, Bush said: "No."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sick-stomach-george-w-bush-233453661.html

'I was sick to my stomach': George W. Bush says J*** 6 i**********n 'really disturbed me'

March 18, 2021

WASHINGTON – Former President George W. Bush says the J*** 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol nauseated and "disgusted" him, describing it as an attack on democracy.

"I was sick to my stomach," Bush said in a taped interview broadcast Thursday for the SXSW conference out of Austin, Texas.

While he did not mention former President Donald Trump by name, Bush said he was disgusted "to see our nation's Capitol being stormed by hostile forces." The attack "really disturbed me to the point where I did put out a statement, and I'm still disturbed when I think about it," he said.

More than 300 people in the pro-Trump mob have been arrested in connection with the J*** 6 attack designed to stop the counting of the e*******l v**es that elected Joe Biden to the presidency.

"It undermines rule of law and the ability to express yourself in peaceful ways in the public square," Bush told interviewer Evan Smith, the CEO of the Texas Tribune. "This was an expression that was not peaceful."

During the interview that was taped on Feb. 24, Bush also said he regards Biden as a legitimately elected president. He did not comment on Trump's protests of the e******n process.

"I think the e******n, all e******ns, have some kind of improprieties," Bush said at one point, but he added "the results of this e******n, though, were confirmed when Joe Biden got inaugurated as president."

Asked specifically if he thinks the e******n was s****n, Bush said: "No."

Bush used the interview to promote a new book on immigration to be published on April 20. In Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants, Bush offers stories and his painting of a select group of migrants who have succeeded in America.

The former president criticized the government for repeated failures to enact new i*********n l*ws, though he did not mention any lawmaker by name. If anything, Bush said his book is a "rebuke of Congress" for its inability to come together on improvements to the immigration system.

Congress rejected Bush's own immigration plan proposed in 2006, largely because Republicans objected to his proposed path to citizenship for migrants already in the country illegally.

Right now, Bush said, "there's a lot of anger" in the political system. But he expressed optimism about the future of democracy, citing the high turnout in last year's e******n and the tendency of political movements to come and go.

"These populist movements begin to fritter over time," Bush said.

We the People Need the Power to:

1. Reverse every one of Biden’s/Liberal Congress moves, bar none, and real soon now!
2. Close the border and restore our sovereignty,

3. Ship all I******s back to their home nations, and then create a new I*********n L*w,

4. Create a trustworthy e******n process,

5, Suppress Marxism, Socialism, Progressivism,

6. Return to Full Constitutional government,

7. Ensure Conservatism prevails,

8. Maintain a strong military, free of nonsense,

9. Clear up the C****-** p******c with all the force of government and industry to rescue our economy.


Give us all a plan to achieve these ends! How can that happen?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-e******n-intelligence-community-report.html

Donald Trump was a tool in a long-running Russian campaign to weaken the United States. That’s been documented in Republican-led investigative reports, and now it has been updated with new evidence, thanks to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s assessment of the 2020 e******n. The report, drafted by the CIA, the FBI, and several other agencies, was released in unclassified form on Tuesday, but it was presented in classified form on Jan. 7. In other words, it was compiled, written, and edited during Trump’s administration. It destroys his lies about the e******n, and it exposes him as a Russian asset.


The report debunks conspiracy theories, promoted by Trump and his lawyers, that hackers in other countries robbed him of victory. “We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to interfere in the 2020 US e******ns by altering any technical aspect of the v****g process,” including “b****t casting, v**e tabulation, or reporting results,” says the document. A separate analysis released by the Department of Justice reaches the same conclusion. The IC report adds that evidence of such operations, if they existed, would have shown up in U.S. surveillance or in “post-e******n audits of electronic results and paper backups.” The report implicitly mocks insinuations from Trump’s lawyers that former Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013, somehow r****d Trump’s defeat. “We have no information,” it notes drily, that “current or former Venezuelan regimes were involved in attempts to compromise US e******n infrastructure.

During the campaign, Trump, his national security appointees, and his allies in Congress insisted that China was meddling in the e******n to help Joe Biden. They even claimed that China’s interference was more dangerous than Russia’s. The report shreds that fiction. China “did not deploy influence efforts intended to change the outcome of the US P**********l e******n,” says the assessment. It finds no attempt by China to “provide funding to any candidates or parties,” and it challenges the Republican spin that China feared Trump because he was too tough. It argues, to the contrary, that Beijing saw Trump as a weaker adversary because he “would alienate US partners,” whereas Biden “would pose a greater challenge over the long run because he would be more successful in mobilizing a global alliance against China.”

As to Russia, the report leaves no doubt: In 2020, as in 2016, “President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations” to help Trump and hurt his Democratic opponent. For example, “Shortly after the 2018 midterm e******ns, Russian intelligence cyber actors attempted to hack organizations primarily affiliated with the Democratic Party.” Then, in late 2019, Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, “conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Biden’s family.” Throughout the 2020 e******n, agents “connected to the Russian Federal Security Service,” FSB, planted negative stories about Biden. Internet operatives working for the Kremlin, including the troll farm that had boosted Trump in 2016, continued to promote “Trump and his commentary, including repeating his political messaging.”


Attacks on Biden and his son, H****r, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news.

One section of the report zeroes in on two Russian agents, Andriy Derkach and Konstantin Kilimnik, along with their associates. It says they met with and passed materials to people linked to the Trump administration to advocate for government investigations. Derkach peddled audio recordings that were edited to make Biden look corrupt, and he “worked to initiate legal proceedings in Ukraine and the US related to these allegations.” The report doesn’t name the Americans who collaborated with the Russian agents, but it’s easy to identify them from news reports. Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, met with Derkach twice. Donald Trump Jr. promoted Derkach’s tapes. Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Paul Manafort, gave Kilimnik inside information on the campaign. Trump, in a 2019 phone call, pressed Ukraine’s president to open an investigation of Biden, as Derkach proposed. And congressional Republicans, led by Reps. Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes, parroted a Russian-planted narrative “to falsely blame Ukraine for interfering in the 2016 US p**********l e******n.”

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Trump also helped Putin discredit American democracy. That was a major goal of Russia’s 2016 and 2020 operations, the report explains: “Throughout the e******n, Russia’s online influence actors sought to amplify mistrust in the e*******l process by denigrating mail-in b****ts, highlighting alleged irregularities, and accusing the Democratic Party of v***r f***d.” Trump peddled the same fears. After the e******n, as “Russian online influence actors continued to promote narratives questioning the e******n results,” Trump duplicated that message. Russia’s agents also hyped “allegations of social media censorship,” as Trump did.

The IC assessment doesn’t address what Trump knew about the Russian influence campaign. But according to former officials who spoke last fall to the Washington Post and the New York Times, he was directly warned. In a December 2019 conversation, then–national security adviser Robert O’Brien told Trump that Giuliani had been “worked by Russian assets in Ukraine.” Trump shrugged and went on promoting the allegations Giuliani was feeding him. That makes Trump more than a Russian asset. It makes him, in technical terms, an agent of a foreign power.

Latest stats on federal mooching blow up GOP lies about ‘Democrat-run states’
Ray Hartmann
March 18, 2021

Latest stats on federal mooching blow up GOP lies about ‘Democrat-run states’


States run by Republicans are far more dependent upon the help of the federal government than their Democratic-run counterparts, based on the latest annual study from Wallethub.com.

In ranking the 50 states, the financial website listed 11 red states among the 12 most dependent upon Washington D.C. No fewer than 19 of the 25 of the most-dependent states were Republican dominated. Conversely, 12 of the 14 states least dependent on the federal government were run by Democrats.

"Blue states are less dependent on federal government than red states," the site observed, noting that in its 50-state ranking, red states ranked 20.68 in dependency to Washington DC, versus a much lower average ranking of 30.32 for blue states.

The findings directly contradict the talking points of right-wing politicians and commentators who continually claim that "Democrat-run states" are mismanaged and in need of financial bailouts. See Hannity, Sean.

A great example is Tennessee, the 14th most dependent state, with the 9th most dependent state government. That didn't stop the state's Republican Governor Bill Lee and Senator Marsha Blackburn from whining in a Fox News opinion piece about their state "being on the losing end of the deal" in the $1.9 trillion C***D bill Blackburn v**ed against:

"For purely partisan reasons, this bill uses unemployment numbers to determine final state payouts and rewards failing blue states with the tax dollars of red states whose jobless rates didn't spike as dramatically. Under this new formula, our home state of Tennessee will lose $164 million dollars; meanwhile, New York, New Jersey, and California will walk away with a combined gain of almost $9 billion."

Oh the horror of the 26th, 49th and 38th most federally dependent states on a 24/7 coming out better on the C***D bill because the p******c has caused higher unemployment problems in more population-dense states. That's too close to a scientific explanation for GOP minds, so the folks from Tennessee chalked up their lower unemployment rates to having implemented fewer health restrictions.

Here's how the overview was present by Wallet Hub editors:

"Federal assistance to states has come into the spotlight recently during the c****av***s p******c, where some states have received far more money per case than others. For example, in the initial $150 billion given to states from the stimulus package, which was allocated by population, New York got less than $24,000 per positive case while Alaska received over $3.3 million. While the second stimulus package passed in December didn't include any direct assistance to states, the government still faces questions about whether its initial distribution was truly equitable and efficient, and whether any future aid will be as well.

"For years, Americans have looked at federal assistance programs with growing scrutiny, and the number of people dependent on government assistance was decreasing prior to the c****av***s crisis. Regardless of overall trends, though, it is clear that some states receive a far higher return on their federal income-tax contributions than others."

The Wallet Hub rankings were based upon three major metrics: return on taxes paid to the federal government; share of federal jobs; and federal funding as a share of state revenue.

Complaining about the effects of a passed bill they v**ed against.
Just when you think they can’t get more discombobulated, they do anyway.