Thank you, Dr. Heather, as always, for a concise yet illuminating summary of current events. Rarely ever cheery news but had to laugh at your closing quote of tonight's letter:
"Well, unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant,” Comer said. “We’re hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant. The …
Thank you, Dr. Heather, as always, for a concise yet illuminating summary of current events. Rarely ever cheery news but had to laugh at your closing quote of tonight's letter:
"Well, unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant,” Comer said. “We’re hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant. The whistleblower is very credible.”
I laughed too, Just Janice! How could Comer ever be considered an authority on the definition of “credible”? Anyway, grateful for a somewhat positive closing to a LFAA filled with frightening, ominous news recaps…
It's been going on for a long time, but was hidden from us. Living in bliss is a lovely thing until the truth is revealed. Maybe the shock value will give rational people a kick start to help them get in gear and take part in the adult world of responsibility.
Thank you for the quiet intensity of your comment, Susan. It brings us to the need for all of us to recognize that we have for too long failed to stand up for democracy in the mistaken belief that it cannot be broken.
Interesting thought. I believe that many of us "failed to stand up for democracy" because as we saw it, it had little to do with our lives and we had too much else to worry about.
I fear, however, that the number of rational people may be insufficient to overcome those motivated by racist, misogynistic and xenophobic impulses. White Christian Nationalism is definitely on the move here in the U.S., throughout the South and the Midwest.
I'm really at a loss here. Wasn't America created by people fleeing religious autocracy? How is it that people here practice what Jesus was against (hypocrisy being #1) in the name of Jesus? How did it come to be that a minority of lunatics dictate what is the correct skin color, what happens to our bodies and in our bedrooms, and what books our kids can't read? Yet, "free speech" is their refrain. What happened to the "melting pot" concept? I'm having a problem digesting....
I am Hoosier born and raised and I just started A Fever in the Heartland about the rise of the KKK in the 1920s especially in Indiana. It was run by a horrible man who would give Santos, Rudy, and death star a run for their money. I knew Indiana had largest number of KKK in the 20s, but was not aware of how awful it was. I am now in Oregon which did not escape the plague either. What bothers me most is that all of it sounds very familiar especially the use of Protestant ministers and churches to spread the word, the number of pols who belonged, and how many in LE also belonged. My own family certainly had all the prejudices although I can't see them belonging to such a group and it also explains some of the nonsense i heard growing up especially about Catholics. The KKK burned a cross at Notre Dame in 1923 on St. Patrick's Day. South Bend was always suspect when I was growing up as it was full of Ds and Catholics. He also describes Indiana as the most southern of northern states, an observation I made long ago.
Rational, informed, and activated people are definitely in the minority . . . Tragically, too many people are activated by their irrational, uninformed, and ultimately self-defeating allegiance to messiahs and their mythologies .
The pandemic was the monkey wrench thrown into the mess. The disaster that is two Trumps, father and son, expanded in New York until Trump, the TV “star” did his beauty contest in Moscow, found a second “daddy,”
decided that building Trump Tower Moscow would be his greatest achievement, then, roasted by Obama, decided to run for president.
Because he knows nothing except autocracy (which is how he got rich), having learned nothing of American history, civics, or tolerance, he used his TV “stardom” as bully pulpit to get the Republican nomination. The rest is recent enough history that, were it not for the pandemic, we might remember Trump-as-president’s misdeeds. Instead, fear of poverty and premature death has addled our collective political brains giving Trumpists and the Republican Party generally, room to expand their anti-people agenda to the point that there is very little middle class left to counter big business (supporting Trump and his doctrine) and support those trying to get SCOTUS back to integrity. (Thinking of John Marshall or Earl Warren and looking at John Roberts.)
Do you know that you can message President Biden? Today I encouraged him to go to the meeting of 7 and to do whatever it takes to pay our bills and protect Social Security, etc. We cannot let the traitors take US over!
(If Heather can end a sentence with a preposition, I can dare to also.)
Oh, golly, while there are a few grammar police here, they've learned that this is not the place for it. (Besides, the thing about not ending in a proposition has nothing to do with English, which has always done that. If it's good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for the rest of us.)
It certainly was hidden from me as a child. As a Baby Boomer with a lengthening lens for history now, I see how little I knew at all. One of my children took two classes from HCR in 1999. I found her then. I bought a couple of her books and found them almost impossible to understand because I still knew so little. You know, that learning curve thing. I'm wide awake and on fire now, but the "not knowing" I had in the past helps me interact with others who still don't really know. I can admit my own journey of discovery and appeal to the goodness of the still uninformed or ignorant. It makes my skin crawl to see how I accepted much that wasn't true at all. I was missing the visceral sense of what systemic racism is, for example. So, I keep speaking up (and writing) and finding different ways to bring a few more people here and there across the finish line. History is replete with awful stories. They've always been there. Power mongers, cheats, and users. I figure, let's make a difference now while we are here, each of us. Heather is a godsend.
Hence my reason. & they would go through research material 8 times as fast, AND their ink would come in quite handy if they learned to write ! 🐙🦑 Great, I made myself hungry for calamari.....
Thank you professor for leading off with the wonderful message of President Biden on Saturday, because after that it all went downhill with the constant reporting noise on the increasing neo nazi/fascism violence growing in this country. Why oh why did I not hear anything on the multiple sources I read or listen to about our Presidents speech and only the constant barrage of neo nazi BS spewing from the mouths of the GOP masking as conservatism. It is my experience the more you hear something the more to start buying into it if you get only one sided information, excuse me mis and disinformation. I am so grateful to be able to have you sharing so succinctly the events and potential effects. Please stay healthy..
Totally agree the media needs to stop seeing the political situation as two parties disagreeing and giving credence to both sides. The Republicans, whether they're the Gosar types or the one's not saying anything, want the end of our democratic government.
Of course, right-wing media (e.g. Maria Bartiromo) is spinning this "missing" informant as possibly being silenced/kidnapped/killed by Biden's operatives. Expect more of this in the future. Who needs proof, or even basic competence, when you can spin like that?
The story is rife with conspiratorial possibilities. Could the missing person have been Antifa all along? A plant? And now he has been spirited away to one of George Soros’ alpine redoubts. All a plot by vile Dems to discredit the “investigation”?
How did you know that Chelsea is one of the deadliest assassins working for the CIA-LWW (CIA-Liberal WetWork) division? That she trained with Army Rangers, spent a couple of years at a Shaolin monastery honing her stealth skills, and now is one of the most formidable members of the GSWD (George Soros World Domination) group? That she was the inspiration for Jennifer Garner's character in "Alias?"
If that were really the fact (and I'm hoping you were just being sarcastic here), do you honestly think they would leave as many enemies around as there are???
Sometimes I honestly do wish that they were the efficient death merchants crazy-ass right-wingers seem to (illogically) think they are!!
Sorry, I don't know you well enough to pick up the sarcasm (although I hope I will in the future). It's very odd how the crap right-wingers spout in deadly seriousness now used to be the laugh lines on Saturday Night Live 10 years ago. Thanks for the clarification (and for letting me admire my memories of Jennifer Garner).
And she and Bill are as patriotic Americans as I ever hope to see (I saw them together in Capitol Square in Richmond, VA, 1992 and have followed them closely ever since).
Enjoy the inexpensive eggs while you can. Climate change is hard on wheat and other grain crops that chickens eat. Not making this up. Have seen the evidence.
True enough about climate change. But that's at the level of mega farming and factory chickens. In many places, small diversified farms are returning, even in urban areas, so we will be eating food grown closer to our homes, including chickens and eggs. Chickens don't need wheat: they eat all kinds of things. (There are also the ubiquitous backyard flocks).
I think we will see some changes that actually are already happening: dry land grain farming will make a return. Some lands that should not have ever been tilled will be returned to it's natural state. Indigenous people in the SW, whose cultural memory includes past droughts, are retrieving old food-ways and practices that are better suited to their conditions than "modern" farming. There is already a trend toward eating seasonally and locally.
The more interest we take in where our food comes from, and the more aware we become to how we can produce food that is suited to where we live, the more able we will be to adjust to climate changes. After all, the various ethnic foods grew out of this very kind of circumstance: using food plants that were adapted to local conditions of climate and soils. We can learn from those cultures instead of trying to maintain a system of food production that is neither efficient (in terms of calories expended for calories returned) nor sustainable.
I don't eat eggs, and I don't eat simple carbs (so no cake, pancakes, etc). But I do feed hard boiled eggs to my dog, along with raw chicken, and various other stuff.
Today's Letter, Heather Cox Richardson, is the dark ode in plain words; the lucid truth-teller of our days and nights in America over the last eight years, with echoes that go back more than a couple of centuries. You have spoken the facts of what we have known in our bones.
Today’s letter was a masterpiece. Beginning with the Howard U story, HCR started with Biden’s masterful speech which was widely seen —nowhere. (Find it on YouTube. It’s fantastic). And then the information kept coming until I had to sit down and stop my head from spinning. May this letter be the start of the wake-up call to everyone on both sides—“What the hell is going on here!?”
I do not get why people think Biden is "boring". Perhaps it is exposure to too many tv shows broken up into commercials and sound-bite news that has created a population unaccustomed to listening to actual speeches. I find his speeches beautifully written and beautifully presented. There are sound bites there for people who want them, but his speeches themselves are nutritious meals, with courses that one can follow.
Could you imagine if John Stewart was the moderator at the dumpster 's town hall !! The outcome would have been so different with dumpster whining and walking off the stage !! Just to imagine this brings a smile to my face !!😅😂😅😂
Justjanice, what Heather didn't mention is that Empty Greene is implying that that the informant is missing but is "very safe, and he fears for his life". Wait for it - she'll be saying out loud in the near future that Biden's henchmen are trying to kill him.
What a disgusting dishonest post. Daniel Penny is a hero. Neely had a rap sheet a mile long of subway crime including 42 arrests in the last 10 years, most recently in November 2021 for slugging a 67-year-old female stranger in the face as she exited a subway station and trying to abduct a child. The day of the incident he was threatening passengers with violence.
Trying to tie this event to white nationalism is disgrace. ITS A LIE. The whole episode is a LIE. You vilify a good and decent man and lionize a serial criminal. That is the left today. Shame on you.
There is an old Jewish phrase "When are kind to the cruel, you are usually cruel to the kind.
BTW You make no mention of the Durham Report final report which came out yesterday and showed once and for all that there never any Russian collusion - except by the Clinton campaign when it paid Christopher Steele $1MM dollars for the report. The Clinton didn't report the expenditure (sound familiar) and paid a finance law penalty. The FBI, Justice Department were weaponized by the Democrats to spy and affect a presidential election. Plain and simple.
Like always there is no price to be paid for lying and dishonest. Same goes for the COVID farce.
I know you came here to argue in bad faith and troll but I'll take the bait.
First, calling Penny a hero is a little absurd and diminishing to actual heroes... There is nothing to suggest that Neely was physically threatening anyone or was a danger to others. You can read the Times report on the story here: What We Know About Jordan Neely’s Killing (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/nyregion/jordan-neely-chokehold-death-subway.html). You bringing up Neely's history of crime still doesn't excuse being choked to death. You say that he was threatening passengers with violence, but there is no report out there that actually says that, he was threatening himself, but not threatening others. Additionally, as a trained Marine, Penny should have known not to hold someone in a compression choke hold for 15min. Additionally, it isn't Prof Richardson linking Penny to white supremacists, it is actual white supremacist's are doing that. Did you even read her post? She said the following > "Maria Cramer of the New York Times noted yesterday that while no one actually knows much about Daniel Penny, a white man who was recently charged with choking Jordan Neely, a homeless Black man, to death on a subway in New York, right-wing politicians and supporters have rallied around Penny. They seem to see him as a symbol of a powerful man who took matters into his own hands to restore order—although the events that led to the choking are still unclear—much as they lionized Kyle Rittenhouse after he killed two people and wounded another at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020. Florida governor Ron DeSantis tweeted: “We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left’s pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens.”"
Key Quote from the article; "At Mr. Penny’s arraignment, the prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass, said “the defendant approached Mr. Neely from behind and placed him in a chokehold, taking him down to the ground.” The train stopped at Broadway-Lafayette, where it remained standing while Mr. Neely was pinned down, as two other men grabbed his arms. At 2:29 p.m., another passenger can be heard in the video saying that his wife had been in the military and knew about chokeholds, and warning the men that they should make sure Mr. Neely had not defecated on himself. “You don’t want to catch a murder charge,” he says. “You got a hell of a chokehold, man.”"
Your comment about "the left" just shows that you aren't as pragmatic as you pretend to be, is basically anyone to the left of you politically just part of this nebulous "the left" group? You'd think it be pretty easy for us to all just be against general white nationalism and I think we all know that if Neely wasn't someone with a rap sheet and just a white hippie girl that was homeless, and acting erratically and she was choked out by a man for 15min and ended up dying, everyone would probably be calling for justice. Coming up to a homeless person from behind and choking them for 15min doesn't make you a hero, especially if the person wasn't threatening anyone. The manslaughter charge which will probably be dropped down to involuntary manslaughter seems like the appropriate charge. I have not seen anyone online or in real life claim that Daniel Penny went out of his way to murder Neely, but to make it seem that he is a hero or just because he had a rap sheet he was deserving of death is bad form, everyone knows not to keep someone in a choke hold for 15min, especially Marines.
Additionally, there are a lot of other outlets that have spoken about the Durham report. Prof Richardson doesn't always have to report on every newsworthy thing everyday. Additionally, after all of these years I keep seeing right wing people like yourself not actually define what is Russian collusion, because it was proven by the Mueller report that the Trump campaign did actually try to work with Russia to influence the 2016 election, while the left or Democrats never claimed that votes were changed or anything like that. Additionally, while the Steele dossier was mostly false, there were some key points that were actually true, such as that Vladimir Putin favored Trump over Hillary Clinton; that Putin personally ordered an "influence campaign" to harm Clinton's campaign and to "undermine public faith in the US democratic process"; and that Putin ordered cyberattacks on both parties; further it was proven to and even admitted that Trump campaign officials and associates had numerous secretive contacts with Russian agents. Finally Fusion GPS who helped produce the report was originally hired by Marco Rubio before completing the report on behalf of the DNC and the Clinton Campaign. There is nothing illegal about opposition research, even if it is not high quality opposition research.
Going back to the report, you are right that the investigation "could not prove" that Russian interference in the 2016 election was facilitated by communications with the Trump campaign. So while it seems that election interference did happen, it doesn't appear that it was personally directed by Trump in a method that would define collusion. Just for context by the way, the Durham’s investigation cost $6.5 million and lasted twice as long as Mueller's. (The Mueller investigation was effectively free because Mueller recovered $48 million for the US)
Durham's investigation was more of a nothing burger. He prosecuted 2 people and they were both acquitted, his report includes a lot of feelings and not facts. In contrast, special counsel Robert Mueller filed charges against 34 individuals and 3 companies, obtained 8 guilty pleas, and obtained the conviction of Paul Manafort after a jury trial. Durham made claims about the FBI’s (alleged) differential treatment of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but didn't really provide concrete examples, nor did the report reveal anything that was new information. What is still true is that the FBI disclosed details of its investigation into Secretary Clinton ten days before the 2016 election and leaked it to the NY Time's but kept its investigation of Trump's connections to Russia confidential until after the election.
Additionally, the FBI had already announced and made reforms years ago, nothing in Durham's report actually makes recommendations. However it does appear that the report had the intended affect of keeping people like you upset and hating on "the left" and Democrats while refusing to acknowledge that Republicans are terrible and do a lot of sham investigations. Again, the Durham investigation accused the FBI of ignoring mitigating facts in its Russia investigation, but it still did not find evidence of politically motivated misconduct, as Donald Trump had suggested.
To say the Justice Department and FBI were weaponized by Democrats goes to show you don't know anything of the people who work there, that is a disingenuous statement to say the least. To also say Covid was a farce when some of us have known people that were hospitalized or died from Covid is also ridiculous and ignorant.
Another stupid cliche. How about you fire your brain and outline where you believe I'm wrong. Leftist have no idea how to defend ideas. That would require brain waves.
"Covid farce?" That statement destroys any credibility for your other assertions. Explain "covid farce" to the children, friends, and loved ones of the million-plus Americans killed by covid.
The left demanded EVERYONE get vaccinated. "The believe in science" Just a little problem
they promoted a "vaccine" that didn't work or was tested. It didn't work.
2) The LEFT demanded that everyone get a booster regardless of whether they had been infected. They claimed that the booster/vaccine where superior to natural immunity. THAT WAS A LIE.
3) The LEFT demanded children be vaccinated, and locked up at home. Yet no a single child in America died from the pandemic other than children who had severe cancer or other illnesses. Children suffer from the lockdown with depression, suicide, drug, and learning loss.
4) The LEFT demanded that all critics be CENSORED. As the twitter files show a number of leading scientist, academics, and journalist were banned from social media because THEY TOLD THE TRUTH about the pandemic.
Yes the COVID farce.
The good news, it was a great trial run for a police state the left so joyful would love to impose.
Thank you, Dr. Heather, as always, for a concise yet illuminating summary of current events. Rarely ever cheery news but had to laugh at your closing quote of tonight's letter:
"Well, unfortunately, we can’t track down the informant,” Comer said. “We’re hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant. The whistleblower is very credible.”
Very fine, credible people indeed.
I laughed too, Just Janice! How could Comer ever be considered an authority on the definition of “credible”? Anyway, grateful for a somewhat positive closing to a LFAA filled with frightening, ominous news recaps…
The s--tstorm before the calm, maybe. WILL THIS MESS NEVER END ?
Grab the plunger and flush 15 times.
I'll look up Roto - Rooter.....
15 isn't enough...the mess is too big.
Rosalind, too true. This job calls for an industrial-sized snake. 👍🏻😂
There’s so much MESSINESS going on, it’s practically impossible to keep up with it.
As to Comer, his “credibility”has no basis:
https://congressionalintegrity.org/why-does-james-comer-keep-lying-to-the-press/
It's been going on for a long time, but was hidden from us. Living in bliss is a lovely thing until the truth is revealed. Maybe the shock value will give rational people a kick start to help them get in gear and take part in the adult world of responsibility.
Thank you for the quiet intensity of your comment, Susan. It brings us to the need for all of us to recognize that we have for too long failed to stand up for democracy in the mistaken belief that it cannot be broken.
Interesting thought. I believe that many of us "failed to stand up for democracy" because as we saw it, it had little to do with our lives and we had too much else to worry about.
I fear, however, that the number of rational people may be insufficient to overcome those motivated by racist, misogynistic and xenophobic impulses. White Christian Nationalism is definitely on the move here in the U.S., throughout the South and the Midwest.
My fear also, the MAGAts and their ilk rule in much of Texas. I used to think that logical and rational people were the majority.
I'm really at a loss here. Wasn't America created by people fleeing religious autocracy? How is it that people here practice what Jesus was against (hypocrisy being #1) in the name of Jesus? How did it come to be that a minority of lunatics dictate what is the correct skin color, what happens to our bodies and in our bedrooms, and what books our kids can't read? Yet, "free speech" is their refrain. What happened to the "melting pot" concept? I'm having a problem digesting....
It is a real cancer fed my right wing media and it can be fatal if unchecked.
I am Hoosier born and raised and I just started A Fever in the Heartland about the rise of the KKK in the 1920s especially in Indiana. It was run by a horrible man who would give Santos, Rudy, and death star a run for their money. I knew Indiana had largest number of KKK in the 20s, but was not aware of how awful it was. I am now in Oregon which did not escape the plague either. What bothers me most is that all of it sounds very familiar especially the use of Protestant ministers and churches to spread the word, the number of pols who belonged, and how many in LE also belonged. My own family certainly had all the prejudices although I can't see them belonging to such a group and it also explains some of the nonsense i heard growing up especially about Catholics. The KKK burned a cross at Notre Dame in 1923 on St. Patrick's Day. South Bend was always suspect when I was growing up as it was full of Ds and Catholics. He also describes Indiana as the most southern of northern states, an observation I made long ago.
Do not forget about some of the western states! ID & MT especially!
Yes Richard Sutherland. Ominous times. The coming election is certainly a critical time.
Rational, informed, and activated people are definitely in the minority . . . Tragically, too many people are activated by their irrational, uninformed, and ultimately self-defeating allegiance to messiahs and their mythologies .
The pandemic was the monkey wrench thrown into the mess. The disaster that is two Trumps, father and son, expanded in New York until Trump, the TV “star” did his beauty contest in Moscow, found a second “daddy,”
decided that building Trump Tower Moscow would be his greatest achievement, then, roasted by Obama, decided to run for president.
Because he knows nothing except autocracy (which is how he got rich), having learned nothing of American history, civics, or tolerance, he used his TV “stardom” as bully pulpit to get the Republican nomination. The rest is recent enough history that, were it not for the pandemic, we might remember Trump-as-president’s misdeeds. Instead, fear of poverty and premature death has addled our collective political brains giving Trumpists and the Republican Party generally, room to expand their anti-people agenda to the point that there is very little middle class left to counter big business (supporting Trump and his doctrine) and support those trying to get SCOTUS back to integrity. (Thinking of John Marshall or Earl Warren and looking at John Roberts.)
Do you know that you can message President Biden? Today I encouraged him to go to the meeting of 7 and to do whatever it takes to pay our bills and protect Social Security, etc. We cannot let the traitors take US over!
(If Heather can end a sentence with a preposition, I can dare to also.)
Oh, golly, while there are a few grammar police here, they've learned that this is not the place for it. (Besides, the thing about not ending in a proposition has nothing to do with English, which has always done that. If it's good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for the rest of us.)
Excellent points!--PS: The preposition rule is pretty much an anachronism. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Dangling-Prepositions.htm#:~:text=A%20dangling%20preposition%20(also%20called,form%20a%20complete%20prepositional%20phrase.
It certainly was hidden from me as a child. As a Baby Boomer with a lengthening lens for history now, I see how little I knew at all. One of my children took two classes from HCR in 1999. I found her then. I bought a couple of her books and found them almost impossible to understand because I still knew so little. You know, that learning curve thing. I'm wide awake and on fire now, but the "not knowing" I had in the past helps me interact with others who still don't really know. I can admit my own journey of discovery and appeal to the goodness of the still uninformed or ignorant. It makes my skin crawl to see how I accepted much that wasn't true at all. I was missing the visceral sense of what systemic racism is, for example. So, I keep speaking up (and writing) and finding different ways to bring a few more people here and there across the finish line. History is replete with awful stories. They've always been there. Power mongers, cheats, and users. I figure, let's make a difference now while we are here, each of us. Heather is a godsend.
If I were a professional journalist, I'd need an intelligent octopus or perhaps 2 to help fact - check & research.
It's interesting that you would choose to use an octopus. Studies have shown that they are very intelligent.
Hence my reason. & they would go through research material 8 times as fast, AND their ink would come in quite handy if they learned to write ! 🐙🦑 Great, I made myself hungry for calamari.....
Thank you professor for leading off with the wonderful message of President Biden on Saturday, because after that it all went downhill with the constant reporting noise on the increasing neo nazi/fascism violence growing in this country. Why oh why did I not hear anything on the multiple sources I read or listen to about our Presidents speech and only the constant barrage of neo nazi BS spewing from the mouths of the GOP masking as conservatism. It is my experience the more you hear something the more to start buying into it if you get only one sided information, excuse me mis and disinformation. I am so grateful to be able to have you sharing so succinctly the events and potential effects. Please stay healthy..
Totally agree the media needs to stop seeing the political situation as two parties disagreeing and giving credence to both sides. The Republicans, whether they're the Gosar types or the one's not saying anything, want the end of our democratic government.
THEY'VE HAD THE EQUIVALENT OF WET DREAMS ABOUT IT FOR ABOUT 20 YEARS. EXCUSE my candor.
Of course, right-wing media (e.g. Maria Bartiromo) is spinning this "missing" informant as possibly being silenced/kidnapped/killed by Biden's operatives. Expect more of this in the future. Who needs proof, or even basic competence, when you can spin like that?
I was thinking that Comer should take a look in that pizza place basement. Maybe the missing person is down there with the kids. Just saying.
My first thought, too, Martin!
The story is rife with conspiratorial possibilities. Could the missing person have been Antifa all along? A plant? And now he has been spirited away to one of George Soros’ alpine redoubts. All a plot by vile Dems to discredit the “investigation”?
I could go on…
This era has definitely left its mark on everyone! 😵💫‼️
Rupert never needed proof
Surely the Clintons do the Democrats wet work, don't they?
If Hillary Clinton was responsible for as many murders as Republicans like to claim, Donnie boy would have broken his neck coming down that escalator.
😁
Hillary is competent.
Love it ! I didn't realize that Hillary Clinton was so CIA ! If she did anything you would never find the bodies . She is that good !!🤣😅😂🤣😅😂
How did you know that Chelsea is one of the deadliest assassins working for the CIA-LWW (CIA-Liberal WetWork) division? That she trained with Army Rangers, spent a couple of years at a Shaolin monastery honing her stealth skills, and now is one of the most formidable members of the GSWD (George Soros World Domination) group? That she was the inspiration for Jennifer Garner's character in "Alias?"
I miss laugh reacts like on Facebook. Well played!
Haven’t the Clintons been trashed by Republican cretins enough. Or are you one
If that were really the fact (and I'm hoping you were just being sarcastic here), do you honestly think they would leave as many enemies around as there are???
Sometimes I honestly do wish that they were the efficient death merchants crazy-ass right-wingers seem to (illogically) think they are!!
Yes, I was being sarcastic.
Sorry, I don't know you well enough to pick up the sarcasm (although I hope I will in the future). It's very odd how the crap right-wingers spout in deadly seriousness now used to be the laugh lines on Saturday Night Live 10 years ago. Thanks for the clarification (and for letting me admire my memories of Jennifer Garner).
It really is amazing, and not in a good way.
And she and Bill are as patriotic Americans as I ever hope to see (I saw them together in Capitol Square in Richmond, VA, 1992 and have followed them closely ever since).
Do you have a link to Bartiromo’s spin?
I also had to laugh about the price of eggs...
Omelettes, pancakes, multi-layer sponge cakes...eggs are good for you! Make the most of it.
Enjoy the inexpensive eggs while you can. Climate change is hard on wheat and other grain crops that chickens eat. Not making this up. Have seen the evidence.
True enough about climate change. But that's at the level of mega farming and factory chickens. In many places, small diversified farms are returning, even in urban areas, so we will be eating food grown closer to our homes, including chickens and eggs. Chickens don't need wheat: they eat all kinds of things. (There are also the ubiquitous backyard flocks).
I think we will see some changes that actually are already happening: dry land grain farming will make a return. Some lands that should not have ever been tilled will be returned to it's natural state. Indigenous people in the SW, whose cultural memory includes past droughts, are retrieving old food-ways and practices that are better suited to their conditions than "modern" farming. There is already a trend toward eating seasonally and locally.
The more interest we take in where our food comes from, and the more aware we become to how we can produce food that is suited to where we live, the more able we will be to adjust to climate changes. After all, the various ethnic foods grew out of this very kind of circumstance: using food plants that were adapted to local conditions of climate and soils. We can learn from those cultures instead of trying to maintain a system of food production that is neither efficient (in terms of calories expended for calories returned) nor sustainable.
We will see the careful reuse of water as well.
I don't eat eggs, and I don't eat simple carbs (so no cake, pancakes, etc). But I do feed hard boiled eggs to my dog, along with raw chicken, and various other stuff.
Colette Wismer -- I laughed too because paying 50-cents an egg is still a steal!
I have always said this.
Yes, it is Judith.
Today's Letter, Heather Cox Richardson, is the dark ode in plain words; the lucid truth-teller of our days and nights in America over the last eight years, with echoes that go back more than a couple of centuries. You have spoken the facts of what we have known in our bones.
Thank you.
Today’s letter was a masterpiece. Beginning with the Howard U story, HCR started with Biden’s masterful speech which was widely seen —nowhere. (Find it on YouTube. It’s fantastic). And then the information kept coming until I had to sit down and stop my head from spinning. May this letter be the start of the wake-up call to everyone on both sides—“What the hell is going on here!?”
I do not get why people think Biden is "boring". Perhaps it is exposure to too many tv shows broken up into commercials and sound-bite news that has created a population unaccustomed to listening to actual speeches. I find his speeches beautifully written and beautifully presented. There are sound bites there for people who want them, but his speeches themselves are nutritious meals, with courses that one can follow.
I haven't seen/heard the full speech but have seen a number of excerpted clips on MSNBC and the local CBS affiliate.
I expect that G. Santos will vouch for him.
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Maybe Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert can hold another “Rally for Sanity.” We need it.
Could you imagine if John Stewart was the moderator at the dumpster 's town hall !! The outcome would have been so different with dumpster whining and walking off the stage !! Just to imagine this brings a smile to my face !!😅😂😅😂
I also thought that was laughable! It seems we are in a nightmare from which we cannot awaken but a bit of levity doesn't hurt.
Just don’t lose sight of the threat to us all…
probably never existed
Justjanice, what Heather didn't mention is that Empty Greene is implying that that the informant is missing but is "very safe, and he fears for his life". Wait for it - she'll be saying out loud in the near future that Biden's henchmen are trying to kill him.
BEST nickname for that twit I've heard yet. Sure does fit like a glove.
I must admit that I plagiarized that one from another commenter on this site. Wish I'd been smart enough to do it on my own. 😉
You’re smart enough to steal good material
Thanks for the vote of confidence!
Doesnt matter - there have been quite a few little hummers from many on here. I should have been making a note of them = my memory isnt that great!
Welcome to my world!
I doubt we are alone here!
I agree with you, that quote is great. I laughed out loud.😂
That one made me laugh out loud. That should have had a spew alert - I was lucky I had just swallowed a swig of coffee!! :0)
Yup, and the typical, tyrannical Trump toady says to all of this….”So……?”
What a sorted news day. Beginning after Mr Biden's inspiration at Howard and on to the end of today’s Letter.
What a disgusting dishonest post. Daniel Penny is a hero. Neely had a rap sheet a mile long of subway crime including 42 arrests in the last 10 years, most recently in November 2021 for slugging a 67-year-old female stranger in the face as she exited a subway station and trying to abduct a child. The day of the incident he was threatening passengers with violence.
Trying to tie this event to white nationalism is disgrace. ITS A LIE. The whole episode is a LIE. You vilify a good and decent man and lionize a serial criminal. That is the left today. Shame on you.
There is an old Jewish phrase "When are kind to the cruel, you are usually cruel to the kind.
BTW You make no mention of the Durham Report final report which came out yesterday and showed once and for all that there never any Russian collusion - except by the Clinton campaign when it paid Christopher Steele $1MM dollars for the report. The Clinton didn't report the expenditure (sound familiar) and paid a finance law penalty. The FBI, Justice Department were weaponized by the Democrats to spy and affect a presidential election. Plain and simple.
Like always there is no price to be paid for lying and dishonest. Same goes for the COVID farce.
Dude.
Penny, US Marine trained to kill. Marine chokeholds -kill
Neely, in the momem, Penny had ZERO clue about Neelys past. Irrelevant.
Penny absolutely should have RESTRAINED Neely by simply binding his legs ans then his arms.
Neely had no weapon.
Penny was the weapon.
Penny murderered Neely when he should have restrained him as I explained
Another passenger held Neely’s legs while Penny kept him in the chokehold
Which is more evidence of murder. Neely was restrained. They just had to bind his legs with a shirt or pants and pull the Emergency Subway stop lever.
Agreed. Who goes immediately to a chokehold, much less maintain it?
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I know you came here to argue in bad faith and troll but I'll take the bait.
First, calling Penny a hero is a little absurd and diminishing to actual heroes... There is nothing to suggest that Neely was physically threatening anyone or was a danger to others. You can read the Times report on the story here: What We Know About Jordan Neely’s Killing (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/05/nyregion/jordan-neely-chokehold-death-subway.html). You bringing up Neely's history of crime still doesn't excuse being choked to death. You say that he was threatening passengers with violence, but there is no report out there that actually says that, he was threatening himself, but not threatening others. Additionally, as a trained Marine, Penny should have known not to hold someone in a compression choke hold for 15min. Additionally, it isn't Prof Richardson linking Penny to white supremacists, it is actual white supremacist's are doing that. Did you even read her post? She said the following > "Maria Cramer of the New York Times noted yesterday that while no one actually knows much about Daniel Penny, a white man who was recently charged with choking Jordan Neely, a homeless Black man, to death on a subway in New York, right-wing politicians and supporters have rallied around Penny. They seem to see him as a symbol of a powerful man who took matters into his own hands to restore order—although the events that led to the choking are still unclear—much as they lionized Kyle Rittenhouse after he killed two people and wounded another at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020. Florida governor Ron DeSantis tweeted: “We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left’s pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens.”"
Key Quote from the article; "At Mr. Penny’s arraignment, the prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass, said “the defendant approached Mr. Neely from behind and placed him in a chokehold, taking him down to the ground.” The train stopped at Broadway-Lafayette, where it remained standing while Mr. Neely was pinned down, as two other men grabbed his arms. At 2:29 p.m., another passenger can be heard in the video saying that his wife had been in the military and knew about chokeholds, and warning the men that they should make sure Mr. Neely had not defecated on himself. “You don’t want to catch a murder charge,” he says. “You got a hell of a chokehold, man.”"
Your comment about "the left" just shows that you aren't as pragmatic as you pretend to be, is basically anyone to the left of you politically just part of this nebulous "the left" group? You'd think it be pretty easy for us to all just be against general white nationalism and I think we all know that if Neely wasn't someone with a rap sheet and just a white hippie girl that was homeless, and acting erratically and she was choked out by a man for 15min and ended up dying, everyone would probably be calling for justice. Coming up to a homeless person from behind and choking them for 15min doesn't make you a hero, especially if the person wasn't threatening anyone. The manslaughter charge which will probably be dropped down to involuntary manslaughter seems like the appropriate charge. I have not seen anyone online or in real life claim that Daniel Penny went out of his way to murder Neely, but to make it seem that he is a hero or just because he had a rap sheet he was deserving of death is bad form, everyone knows not to keep someone in a choke hold for 15min, especially Marines.
Additionally, there are a lot of other outlets that have spoken about the Durham report. Prof Richardson doesn't always have to report on every newsworthy thing everyday. Additionally, after all of these years I keep seeing right wing people like yourself not actually define what is Russian collusion, because it was proven by the Mueller report that the Trump campaign did actually try to work with Russia to influence the 2016 election, while the left or Democrats never claimed that votes were changed or anything like that. Additionally, while the Steele dossier was mostly false, there were some key points that were actually true, such as that Vladimir Putin favored Trump over Hillary Clinton; that Putin personally ordered an "influence campaign" to harm Clinton's campaign and to "undermine public faith in the US democratic process"; and that Putin ordered cyberattacks on both parties; further it was proven to and even admitted that Trump campaign officials and associates had numerous secretive contacts with Russian agents. Finally Fusion GPS who helped produce the report was originally hired by Marco Rubio before completing the report on behalf of the DNC and the Clinton Campaign. There is nothing illegal about opposition research, even if it is not high quality opposition research.
Going back to the report, you are right that the investigation "could not prove" that Russian interference in the 2016 election was facilitated by communications with the Trump campaign. So while it seems that election interference did happen, it doesn't appear that it was personally directed by Trump in a method that would define collusion. Just for context by the way, the Durham’s investigation cost $6.5 million and lasted twice as long as Mueller's. (The Mueller investigation was effectively free because Mueller recovered $48 million for the US)
Durham's investigation was more of a nothing burger. He prosecuted 2 people and they were both acquitted, his report includes a lot of feelings and not facts. In contrast, special counsel Robert Mueller filed charges against 34 individuals and 3 companies, obtained 8 guilty pleas, and obtained the conviction of Paul Manafort after a jury trial. Durham made claims about the FBI’s (alleged) differential treatment of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but didn't really provide concrete examples, nor did the report reveal anything that was new information. What is still true is that the FBI disclosed details of its investigation into Secretary Clinton ten days before the 2016 election and leaked it to the NY Time's but kept its investigation of Trump's connections to Russia confidential until after the election.
Additionally, the FBI had already announced and made reforms years ago, nothing in Durham's report actually makes recommendations. However it does appear that the report had the intended affect of keeping people like you upset and hating on "the left" and Democrats while refusing to acknowledge that Republicans are terrible and do a lot of sham investigations. Again, the Durham investigation accused the FBI of ignoring mitigating facts in its Russia investigation, but it still did not find evidence of politically motivated misconduct, as Donald Trump had suggested.
To say the Justice Department and FBI were weaponized by Democrats goes to show you don't know anything of the people who work there, that is a disingenuous statement to say the least. To also say Covid was a farce when some of us have known people that were hospitalized or died from Covid is also ridiculous and ignorant.
Right on! Philly T. Thank you!!
Thank you, PhillyT.
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Immediate execution is not the punishment for irritating people riding in the subway.
And here we have another case of rectal-cranial inversion.
So sad... :/
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Another stupid cliche. How about you fire your brain and outline where you believe I'm wrong. Leftist have no idea how to defend ideas. That would require brain waves.
You are as predicable as the other mosquitos.
I don't owe you shit. Go buzz into the ether with the other flying insects.
Just another no nothing leftist who couldn't think their way out of a paper bag. Your stupid post speaks for itself.
Yes I'm predictable. I believe in facts over feelings.
Pro tip: Don’t feed the trolls
Generally agree although I really appreciate PhillyT's factual comment in reply.
What facts? He omitted all the relevant facts. Mr Neely was a serial criminal who had a long record including assault and attempted kidnap.
Of course Heather is trying to tie white supremacy and the incident in NYC together - its why she she linked everything together.
"Covid farce?" That statement destroys any credibility for your other assertions. Explain "covid farce" to the children, friends, and loved ones of the million-plus Americans killed by covid.
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Have you been living in a cave?
The left demanded EVERYONE get vaccinated. "The believe in science" Just a little problem
they promoted a "vaccine" that didn't work or was tested. It didn't work.
2) The LEFT demanded that everyone get a booster regardless of whether they had been infected. They claimed that the booster/vaccine where superior to natural immunity. THAT WAS A LIE.
3) The LEFT demanded children be vaccinated, and locked up at home. Yet no a single child in America died from the pandemic other than children who had severe cancer or other illnesses. Children suffer from the lockdown with depression, suicide, drug, and learning loss.
4) The LEFT demanded that all critics be CENSORED. As the twitter files show a number of leading scientist, academics, and journalist were banned from social media because THEY TOLD THE TRUTH about the pandemic.
Yes the COVID farce.
The good news, it was a great trial run for a police state the left so joyful would love to impose.
Except for the dead. There’s always the dead, James. Bad luck, eh?
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PLOP!
So true, Charlie!
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And from which part of the web (or is it Fox “news”) do you get your information? We are about truth here.
James A is not about information. This is about distraction and diversion. Let's not feed the trolls.
However, I did appreciate PhillyT's well-done summary of what has been going on, using facts and thoughtful analysis. Thank you, PhillyT.
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