Trump "cool" rally at the Wildwood beach. The former president and his morons boast about crowd sizes again.
Crowds sizes are not voter results. Folks travel for hours from different regions to see political candidates. Republicans used to complain about Barack Obama rallies and how his supporters are part of a cult.
Double standards. Republicans push conspiracy theories about crowd sizes and how their support of the former president is not a cult.
The far right is still on this crowd size bullshit. I mean Wildwood, New Jersey is between New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Wilmington and Trenton. Former president Donald J. Trump and his supporters are so worked up over rally sizes. Crowd sizes do not determine elections.
Democratic voters hold their elected leaders accountable. Biden is a testament of that.
He is getting blowback, protest and opposition from his own party. Trump on the other hand, has four criminal indictments, civil trials and lawsuits on the horizon. He is still supported by 90% of the Republicans. A party that claims they're "law and order" while ignore their role in a deadly pandemic, a deadly insurrection and their continuing failure to connect with voters. Trump has a strong base of supporters. Those who didn't go to federal time out for the insurrection are still backing him.
Former New York Giants linebacker (L.T.) Lawrence Taylor was there to endorse Trump.
Lawrence Taylor, a former New York Giants player endorsed Trump. He is a registered sexual offender from Florida.
Internet sleuths found out that Taylor is a TIER I in Offender U. He was arrested for statutory rape of a 16 year old girl who worked as a prostitute. Taylor was arrested for drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident. His two wives have accused of adultry. One of them was arrested for domestic violence. One drove him to a Florida trap to buy cocaine. He came to practice high or drunk.
Trump embraces this crowd.
Former New York Giants running back Ottis Anderson was also there to endorse Trump as well.
People travel long distances to see Trump. They get tickets online, plan to get to the event early and stay as much as four hours.
Wildwood is a Republican friendly community. It's on an island in southern New Jersey.
Temperatures had to be at 55 to 60 degrees. Pretty cool day for some by the beach.
It has a population of 5,300 residents. Trump and his acolytes claim 80,000 people attended that rally. The current population of Cape May County is 94,000.
Here is 35 unedited minutes showing thousands of MAGA walking out on Trump while he’s still talking. pic.twitter.com/XQC65i1fvC
— Walter Masterson (@waltermasterson) May 13, 2024
I will say that Trump pulled in 30,000 supporters. It was not 80,000 or 100,000.
Cape May County is one of the state's least populated and is represented by far right Republican lawmaker Jeff Van Drew. He was previously a conservative Democrat.
Not too many Americans go to political rallies. Not many Americans care about Trump or President Joe Biden for that matter. Many are concerned about their paychecks.
Trump did pull in an impressive number of supporters, minus the protesters.
Trump and Biden are working overtime to prevent protesters from interrupting their events. With Israel, abortion, the economy and engagement being the main issues, both candidates must prove to the American voters that they are capable of leading the country.
Trump is very definition of white privilege. He uses his privilege to escape accountability.
Speaking before tens of thousands of supporters on a chilly beach on the Atlantic coastline, the former president disparaged District Attorney Alvin Bragg's appearance and dismissed the various state and federal charges he faces as a form of political persecution.
"Fat Alvin, corrupt guy," said Trump, who is on trial for allegedly falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment to a porn star before the 2016 presidential election that he won.
Trump also took aim at the trial judge, Justice Juan Merchan, accusing both men of working at the behest of President Joe Biden, his Democratic rival in this year's presidential rematch - an allegation for which there is no evidence.
"They're doing the bidding for crooked Joe Biden. This is all being done by crooked Joe Biden."
The New York case is one of four state and federal criminal trials Trump faces and may be the only one to be held before the Nov. 5 election. He has pleaded not guilty in all of them, portraying them as politically motivated.
Trump spent his time attacking pro Palestinians protesters, Chris Christie, Democrats and other random noise.
The man who bludgeoned Paul Pelosi will get a long term.
Federal prosecutors are recommending a 40 year bid in federal time out to the Canadian American man who broke into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and severely injured her husband Paul.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the first American woman to be Speaker of the House is vilified by Fox, Newsmax, X, Republicans, former president Donald J. Trump and some Democrats.
She served the position during George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden's presidencies. Pelosi is also facing criticism for her support of Israel, the TikTok ban and racial remarks about protesters being influenced by China. Pelosi also faces criticism for allegedly practicing in insider trading. Her staunch support for AIPAC and Israel has led to protests by some of the left.
Laura Loomer should be blamed for this. She revealed Pelosi's home during one of her mental breakdowns she claims as investigative journalism.
She and former vice president Mike Pence were threatened with death when a mob of Trump supporters stormed and tried to destroy the U.S. Capitol.
The suspect who attacked Paul Pelosi was found guilty. The San Francisco Chronicle reported late Friday that prosecutors made the request ahead of a sentencing hearing for 43 year old David DePape, saying he has not shown remorse for the October 2022 attack.
“There is nothing about the history and characteristics of the defendant that warrant leniency,” federal prosecutors wrote in court documents. “The defendant has admitted — indeed bragged — that he knew what he was doing.”
DePape was convicted last year of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official. He is scheduled to be sentenced Friday.
The attack on then-82-year-old Paul Pelosi, which was captured on police body camera video just days before the midterm elections, sent shockwaves through the political world.
DePape admitted during trial testimony that he broke into the Pelosis’ home intending to hold the speaker hostage and “break her kneecaps” if she lied to him. He also admitted to bludgeoning Paul Pelosi with a hammer after police showed up at the home, saying his plan to end what he viewed as government corruption was unraveling.
Defense attorneys said DePape was motivated by his political beliefs and caught up in conspiracy theories.
Pelosi is a survivor.
Nancy Pelosi was not at the home at the time of the attack. Paul Pelosi suffered two wounds on his head, including a skull fracture that was mended with plates and screws he will have for the rest of his life. His right arm and hand were also injured.
The San Francisco Police spared his life. Usually, if this was a person of color, cops would have shot the suspect. He shown that his white privilege allowed him to cause bodily harm to an innocent man.
Pauk Pelosi was arrested two years ago after driving drunk and causing an accident.
He got a two year license suspension for that incident. The same year, DePape was indoctrinated by the noise of the far right. The Pizzagate conspiracy theory turned him into a far right extremist. Friends and family said he was once a quiet socially progressive person but drifted to the far right during Trump's term and through the coronavirus pandemic. When Jan. 6 happened, DePape believed the insurrectionists were unfairly targeted. He wanted to kidnap Pelosi and injure her knee caps in an attempt to show solidarity with Jan. 6 and the protection of children.
The attack led to a shameless conspiracy theory about Paul's sexuality. The far right claimed that the suspect and Paul were engaged in some weird sexual encounter with hammers.
A far right Black gay "comedian" named Terrence K. Williams, Fox agitators Pete Hegseth and Sean "Softball" Hannity mocked Paul being attacked. Even X owner Elon Musk spread that dumb bullshit online.
Musk currently faces an advertising boycott on X because of his bullshit. He also partnered with the ADL to stifle criticism of Israel.
Just to make it clear for those who aren't zoologists, ants are small animals that are omnivores. They build nest and have queen ants that produces up to 5,000 eggs. A colony may have over 250,000 active ants. The ants build colonies to protect their nest from predators and shelter from weather. Scavengers search for food and resources. They have an aggressive bite. The venom from the mandibles and stingers could inflict rashes.
Bee stings and spider bites offer a stronger severity. If biten or stung, symptoms of anaphylaxis develop for those allergic to insect bites or stings.
A Houston area woman is lucky to be alive. The Santa Fe, Texas Police are under fire for slamming her to the ground and keeping her restrained while she was being attacked by fire ants.
The animals are aggressive insects. They quickly bite any invaders of the ant mound.
The city of Santa Fe, Texas is in Galveston County with a population of 15,000.
Taylor Rogers was biten so much, her face was practically inflamed with ant bites and life altering scars.
Texas mother was arrested for a traffic violation. She got attacked by not only the police but wild animals.
She is suing the police department in federal court.
In 2021, Rogers was observed by two officers driving erratically and with a child present.
They stopped the vehicle and engaged in a heated argument.
An 18-second clip of police bodycam footage from the arrest, shared by attorneys, shows a woman screaming that ants are biting her face as she is laying down handcuffed in a grassy area. The lawsuit claims 33-year-old mother Taylor Rogers had her head pushed into a fire ant pile while she was being arrested.
According to the suit, Rogers was taking her 9-year-old son to RJ Wollam Elementary School on August 19, 2021, when she turned into a lane designated for busses only. After that, she claims people “banged on her car,” and an officer even pointed a gun at her.
“The morning of August 19th. 2021 stands out in my memory as a day that underscores a significant issue, the absence of empathy and human compassion among some individuals in law enforcement,” Rogers said reading off prepared remakes at a Saturday, May 11, press conference. “I urge the Santa Fe Police Department, along with all law enforcement agencies, to embody the principles, the principles they espouse within their own walls.”
Rogers’ attorney, Randall Kallinen, is calling for punishment for the officers involved.
“The Santa Fe Police Department has not disciplined any officer,” Kallinen said. “They have accepted this behavior. Which means that there are probably other situations where excessive force is used upon by officers.”
The scars from fire ants.
However, the officers involved in the incident say the lawsuit’s description of events is inaccurate.
KPRC 2′s Rilwan Balogun spoke with Santa Fe ISD Police Chief Ruben Espinoza via Zoom. Espinoza was a sergeant with the school district and at the scene of the arrest.
According to Espinoza, Rogers appeared to be attempting to cut to the front of the area where parents drop off their students, and she behaved erratically when he attempted to warn her against it.
A short time later, Rogers was apprehended by different officers, and she drove off the road onto grass attempting to get away after they turned on their lights, Espinoza said.
“She turned her vehicle into a bus driveway where students are dropped off by the bus,” Espinoza said. “That location [is] at the front of the school is very close to where kids are being dropped off. I could tell she was determined not to stop, so my fear was... that she was going to run over someone near the school. So, I used my vehicle to stop her vehicle from doing that.”
After officers stopped her vehicle, Espinoza said Rogers was being erratic and noncompliant when she was put into handcuffs. At this point, he says the events that took place in the video don’t tell the full story.
He also clarified that there was no visible ant pile on the area of the ground where Rogers was placed.
Did you know Israel has trained American law enforcement? Israeli police would small civilians and ignore the pleas for help. The Santa Fe Police ignored a woman's pleas after fire ants attacked her.
“The video that y’all were provided by her attorneys does not show a complete, accurate description of the event,” Espinoza said. “In the video, you can clearly see there is no pile of ants that was observable, that I could see at that time. During this whole time, she’s noncompliant.”
He added that he told officers to put Rogers in the police vehicle seconds after she was heard saying she was being bitten, but she resisted again. After the video cuts, Espinoza says officers told Rogers to calm down, at which point she agreed and was lifted without further incident.
“The description of the ants only lasted seconds, and it only lasted as long as it did because she was noncompliant. She would’ve been lifted off the ground sooner if she had quit resisting at that time.”
Santa Fe Police Chief Walter Barun could not be reached for comment, but Santa Fe City Manager Alun Thomas has spoken out in support of the officers involved. He added that he was satisfied with the internal investigation into the officers’ behavior during the incident.
“We have a process in place and certain standards we expect our officers to meet,” Thomas said. “When officers fall short of those standards, appropriate ction is taken against them.”
Thomas said city policy prevented him from commenting further on the case or the lawsuit.
Can we do a Darwin Award for the most stupidest people on the planet?
You can't fix stupid!
You can't change minds!
You are completely trapped in stupid.
You are wrapped and emboldened in stupid.
Taylor Rogers lucky to be alive.
Again, why do white people always treat wild animals like they're domesticated?
I would never touch a wild animal.
Alas, some people think that animals are timid when you're petting them. Nope.
If you spot a fire ant mound, you must avoid it. Keep trash cans closed and never leave food [human or pet] opened. When cutting grass or watering flowers watch for a significant ant presence near plants or trees.
Wear insect repellent or use orange peels to repel ant aggression.
Call a certified exterminator to handle fire ants.
Do not pour hot grease, hot metal or chemicals into ant mounds. It can cause a wildfire.
Barron will not attend the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Barron Trump will no longer represent the Florida delegation when they nominate his father, former president Donald J. Trump.
Former first lady Melania Trump has made it crystal clear, Barron is going to stay close to her. The tensions between Melania and the former president are showing.
“While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments,” Melania Trump’s office said.
Republican Party of Florida chairman Evan Power had said Wednesday that the 18-year-old high school senior would serve as one of 41 at-large delegates from Florida to the national gathering, where the GOP is set to officially nominate his father as its presidential candidate for the November general election.
Power did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
In an interview earlier Friday on “Kayal and Company” on Philadelphia’s Talk Radio 1210 WPHT, Donald Trump was asked about Barron joining the Florida delegation. “He’s really been a great student. And he does like politics,” Trump said. “It’s sort of funny. He’ll tell me sometimes, ‘Dad, this is what you have to do.’”
Barron Trump has been largely kept out of the public eye, but he turned 18 on March and is graduating from high school next week. The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York said there would be no court on May 17 so that Trump could attend his son’s graduation.
Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Trump’s youngest daughter, Tiffany, are part of the Florida delegation to the convention taking place in Milwaukee from July 15 to July 18.
Trump and President Joe Biden will expect protesters thanks to their support of Israel.
The only obstacle in the way of a Free Palestine is the United States. The Biden Administration is losing favor with the world and his base.
Guess where the United States went when the United Nations drafted a resolution that formally recognized Palestine as a country?
This morning I watch the theatrics of the Premanent Representative to the UN Gilad Erdan. This idiot was throwing his hands up and down, calling other country ambassadors "anti-semitic" and shredded the UN Charter to show his disgust to the majority rule.
The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on Friday to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and called on the Security Council to reconsider Palestine’s request to become the 194th member of the United Nations.
The world body approved the Arab and Palestinian-sponsored resolution by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions. The United States voted against it, along with Israel, Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Papua New Guinea.
The vote reflected the wide global support for full membership of Palestine in the United Nations, with many countries expressing outrage at the escalating death toll in Gaza and fears of a major Israeli offensive in Rafah, a southern city where about 1.3 million Palestinians have sought refuge.
It also demonstrated growing support for the Palestinians. A General Assembly resolution on Oct. 27 calling for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza was approved 120-14 with 45 abstentions. That was just weeks after Israel launched its military offensive in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel, which killed 1,200 people.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield was told that she will no longer be invited to Xavier University New Orleans. Students opposed Thomas-Greenfield’s invitation to speak because of her constant fucking around. Today, she opposed the recognition and vows to keep this shit going despite Americans and especially Democrats demanding President Joe Biden abandon his pro Israeli stance.
The U.S. can't keep this charade up much longer.
Student opposition to the past positions by the U.S. on the war in Gaza has made Biden and Democrats face protests. They can't claim "democracy is under attack" when they back Israel, ban TikTok, call for arrest of peaceful protesters and want to criminalize criticism of a foreign country.
Before presenting a March resolution to the U.N.’s Security Council that called for an “immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza,” the U.S. vetoed three other cease-fire resolutions proposed by other countries.
While Friday’s resolution gives Palestine some new rights and privileges, it reaffirms that it remains a non-member observer state without full U.N. membership and the right to vote in the General Assembly or at any of its conferences. And the United States has made clear that it will block Palestinian membership and statehood until direct negotiations with Israel resolve key issues, including security, boundaries and the future of Jerusalem, and lead to a two-state solution.
It's a farce. Republicans and Democrats both claim the path to peace is a two state solution, but in reality, they want Israel to have complete control of sovereignty, will not sanction settlements being illegally built on stolen land, demolish segregation walls and force Israel to pay for reparations. The state of Israel has illegal settlements in 70% of the West Bank. The Gaza Strip is still going to be under military control and the fact that partition of rights will still be opposed by Israel.
The right of return will not be accepted by the Israelis either. So the U.S. is fucking around and pushing the world closer to global conflict.
U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood said Friday that for the U.S. to support Palestinian statehood, direct negotiations must guarantee Israel’s security and future as a "democratic Jewish state" and that Palestinians can live in peace in a state of their own.
The U.S. wants to continue to back an ethno-nationalist state. To openly support a religious theocracy while condemning other countries is a double standard. The U.S. is a federal republic that assures a separation of church and state. Why would the U.S. back a country that openly calls for Jewish supremacy and an outright dismissal of other religions in its government?
This idiot represents Israel and all he done was a show.
The U.S. also vetoed a widely backed council resolution on April 18 that would have paved the way for full United Nations membership for Palestine.
Under the U.N. Charter, prospective members of the United Nations must be “peace-loving” and the Security Council must recommend their admission to the General Assembly for final approval. Palestine became a U.N. non-member observer state in 2012.
The United States considers Friday’s resolution an attempt to get around the Charter’s provisions, Wood reiterated Thursday.
Unlike resolutions in the Security Council, there are no vetoes in the 193-member General Assembly. Friday’s resolution required a two-thirds majority of members voting and got significantly more than the 118 vote minimum.
U.S. allies supported the resolution, including France, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Australia, Estonia and Norway. But European countries were very divided.
The resolution “determines” that a state of Palestine is qualified for membership — dropping the original language that in the General Assembly’s judgment it is “a peace-loving state.” It therefore recommends that the Security Council reconsider its request “favorably.”
The renewed push for full Palestinian membership in the U.N. comes as the war in Gaza has put the more than 75-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict at center stage. At numerous council and assembly meetings, the humanitarian crisis facing the Palestinians in Gaza and the killing of more than 34,000 people in the territory, according to Gaza health officials, have generated outrage from many countries.
Before the vote, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, told the assembly in an emotional speech that “No words can capture what such loss and trauma signifies for Palestinians, their families, communities and for our nation as a whole.”
He said Palestinians in Gaza “have been pushed to the very edge of the strip, to the very brink of life” with Israel besieging Rafah.
Mansour accused Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of preparing “to kill thousands to ensure his political survival” and aiming to destroy the Palestinian people.
He welcomed the resolution’s strong support and told AP that 144 countries have now recognized the state of Palestine, including four countries since Oct. 7, all from the Caribbean.
Erdan vehemently opposed the resolution, accusing U.N. member nations of not mentioning Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and seeking “to reward modern-day Nazis with rights and privileges.”
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. A white man who has his family descendants from Romania and Hungary calling other nations who voted in favor, Nazi supporters.
Last time I've checked, Germany occupied Romania and Hungary. I don't recall any Palestinians occupying those lands.
That idiot Erdan said if an election were held today, Hamas would win, and warned U.N. members that they were “about to grant privileges and rights to the future terror state of Hamas.” He held up a photo of Yehya Sinwar, the mastermind of the Hamas attack on Israel, saying a terrorist “whose stated goal is Jewish genocide” would be a future Palestinian leader.
Erdan also accused the assembly of trampling on the U.N. Charter, putting two pages that said “U.N. Charter” in a small shredder he held up. .
The original draft of the resolution was changed significantly to address concerns not only by the U.S. but also by Russia and China, three Western diplomats said, speaking on condition of anonymity because negotiations were private.
The first draft would have conferred on Palestine “the rights and privileges necessary to ensure its full and effective participation” in the assembly’s sessions and U.N. conferences “on equal footing with member states.” It also made no reference to whether Palestine could vote in the General Assembly.
An overwhelming majority favor a Palestinian state.
According to the diplomats, Russia and China, which are strong supporters of Palestine’s U.N. membership, were concerned that granting the rights and privileges listed in an annex could set a precedent for other would-be U.N. members — with Russia concerned about Kosovo and China about Taiwan.
Under longstanding legislation by the U.S. Congress, the United States is required to cut off funding to U.N. agencies that give full membership to a Palestinian state, which could mean a cutoff in dues and voluntary contributions to the U.N. from its largest contributor.
This legislation was backed by AIPAC and the ADL, two foreign agents of Israel. It is ridiculous to strip funding from the U.N. because the rest of damn world wants to give Palestinians their own rights to self governance. Zionism is a disgrace on American politicians.
The final draft that was voted on dropped the language that would put Palestine “on equal footing with member states.” And to address Chinese and Russian concerns, it decided “on an exceptional basis and without setting a precedent” to adopt the rights and privileges in the annex.
It also added a provision in the annex clarifying that it does not give Palestine the right to vote in the General Assembly or put forward candidates for U.N. agencies.
What the resolution does give Palestine are the rights to speak on all issues not just those related to the Palestinians and Middle East, to propose agenda items and reply in debates, and to serve on the assembly’s main committees. It also allows Palestinians to participate in U.N. and international conferences convened by the United Nations, but without the right to vote.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas first delivered the Palestinian Authority’s application for U.N. membership in 2011. It failed because the Palestinians didn’t get the required minimum support of nine of the Security Council’s 15 members.
They went to the General Assembly and succeeded by more than a two-thirds majority in having their status raised from a U.N. observer to a non-member observer state. That opened the door for the Palestinian territories to join U.N. and other international organizations, including the International Criminal Court.
In the Security Council vote on April 18, the Palestinians got much more support for full U.N. membership. The vote was 12 in favor, the United Kingdom and Switzerland abstaining, and the United States voting no and vetoing the resolution.
Biden, Donald J. Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., most of Congress as well as the junk food media will suck the cock of Israel. They will spin tall tales about how Israel is constantly under attack and it's our mission to protect it. It is a taxpayer's burden and a testament of how American lawmakers still have this notion to dehumanize those who oppose the status quo.
Let me be clear:
IT IS NOT ANTI-SEMITIC TO CRITICIZE THE STATE OF ISRAEL.
Israel will be a 2024 issue. Once this pass, I get the feeling that Biden will be the last U.S. president to support Israel.
Presidents after Biden (hopefully Trump never wins a second presidency) will come to realize that Israel was the bad guy all along.
The day will come when Israel will no longer be a burden on the world stage. Peace will happen when the U.S. abandons Israel and the country dismantles its apartheid regime.
Keep pressure on them with Israel.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should help Israel any further.
They are feeling it. Democrats know the risk of supporters being turned off by their policies. They know that Biden is under extreme pressure to do something. Arab Americans, Muslim and young voters have vowed to never back Biden putting his reelection chances in danger.
The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. Let them know this law on TikTok is a ban on free speech. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists.
Steve Bannon loses his appeal to stay out of federal time out.
Former Trump advisor and former Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon will be heading to the iron college after appeals were rejected. He defied a congressional subpoena and tried to claim executive privilege years after he left the White House.
Now the Real America News host will spend at least four months in federal time out.
Bannon was convicted after a trial in 2022 and sentenced to four months in prison. The trial judge, however, stayed Bannon’s sentence, allowing him to remain free pending his appeal.
Bannon still has the option of asking the full bench of the D.C. Circuit to hear his case, or he can petition the Supreme Court for review.
An order issued by the D.C. Circuit said the judges' mandate will not officially take effect until seven days after further appeal attempts are resolved. That means Bannon is unlikely to have to report to prison immediately.
In a statement Friday night, Bannon's attorney said he will be asking the full D.C. Circuit to hear his case.
"Mr. Bannon will now seek redress before the full Court of Appeals," David I. Schoen said. "That is the next step."
“There are many fundamentally important constitutional issues at stake in this case,” Schoen also said. “Today’s decision is wrong as a matter of law and it reflects a very dangerous view of the threshold for criminal liability for any defendant in our country and for future political abuses of the congressional hearing process.”
Bannon, who was an aide to former President Donald Trump, was convicted in July of 2022 when a jury found him guilty of two contempt of Congress charges for failing to comply with a subpoena for documents and testimony issued by the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Arguing before the appeals court last fall in an effort to overturn the four-month prison sentence, Bannon's attorney asserted that his client couldn't comply with those subpoenas because Trump had invoked executive privilege. In addition to jail time, Bannon was fined $6,500.
This is about a foreign country committing an active genocide on our taxpayer money.
Whomever claims this was about an attack on the Jewish religion is dead wrong.
I am tired of this troupe about how criticism of the Israeli government is equal to attacking the Jews or denying the Holocaust. The horrible atrocities of the Holocaust were not caused by the Palestinians. It was done by a ruthless dictator and his allies of the European Axis.
The 20th Century mistakes are repeating itself.
While many of these lawmakers and several centrists are looking the other way, rational Americans are saying "enough is enough."
You cannot erase the images and the videos of Palestinian children being killed. You cannot erase the images and the videos of civilians being executed by a state actor.
You cannot forget the remarks of many of these individuals claiming that Palestinians are less than human and they all deserve to die.
Republicans and Democrats are united in their opposition of anti-Israel protests on American colleges and universities.
Israeli propaganda dehumanizes protesters and resistance fighters.
With the approval of AIPAC, the ADL and the state of Israel, Congress has:
1. Forcing TikTok to divest from ByteDance or face a ban in the U.S.
2. Advocated the arrest, the suspension, the termination of students, staff and media figures for protesting.
3. Drafted bills to define criticism of Israel as antisemitic and are working to push for fines and jail time.
4. Working to sanction the International Criminal Court and its prosecutors from issuing arrest warrant to top Israeli leaders.
5. Continue to give Israel billions in taxpayer money without any conditions.
6. Refuse to have a formal investigation into the deaths of Americans killed by Israel.
7. Support retaliation towards Yemen, Syria, Iran and Iraq despite Israel launching illegal airstrikes.
8. Refuses to sanction Israel for illegal settlements, killing of journalists and other atrocities.
9. Voted to block funding to UNRWA and WHO because of allegations made by Israeli propaganda.
10. Called organized protesters and those who support them outside agitators as a label to denounce active protest and dissent against status quo.
To make this clear, it doesn't matter anymore who the fucking president is. President Joe Biden, former president Donald J. Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are backing Israel over the world. They are so out of touch with reality.
From theRiver to the Sea, Palestine will be Free! 🇵🇸 🍉
Cry more!
Israel for way too long has manipulated me with this endless victimhood. All the while pushing for an ethno-nationalist state, Israeli government leaders [both left and right] have called for the eradication of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
America is more violent towards peaceful protesters.
The operatives have operated with shell agencies like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Anti-Defamation League. These organizations operated at the behest of Israel.
Israel has fanned outrage over octopuses, buttons, protests at synagogues, protests at Holocaust museums, sleep ins at college campuses, comparing Zionism to Nazism, blocking roads, blocking bridges, wearing a keffiyeh, posting on TikTok, boycotting companies that do business with Israel and calling for international sanctions. Now Israel is outraged over the slightest suggestion of regime change and it comes from the biggest U.S. Zionists like Biden, Trump, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.
Israel keeps calling it an attack on Jewish people and it amounts to antisemitic propaganda.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.
Israel must be held accountable. The U.S. must end military aid and diplomatic relations to the ethno-fascist apartheid state of Israel now. Our taxpayer money should not help Israel any further.
They are feeling it. Democrats know the risk of supporters being turned off by their policies. They know that Biden is under extreme pressure to do something. Arab Americans, Muslim and young voters have vowed to never back Biden putting his reelection chances in danger.
The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. Let them know that bans on TikTok are bans on free speech. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism. We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists.
If anyone trolls you about condemning Hamas for Oct. 7, 2023, kindly ignore them or respectfully tell them that Israel has committed an illegal occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights and the West Bank. They shoot innocent civilians and indiscriminately bomb heavily populated areas in Gaza and the West Bank.
Will you condemn the actions of Israel if I have to condemn Russia, China, North Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas?
If you're upset over peaceful protests, why are you not upset over the brutal treatment of innocent people being killed by Israel?
If you're upset over TikTok being a danger to data privacy and children, why are you not upset over X, Amazon, Instagram, Facebook, Rumble, Threads, YouTube and Truth Social?
If you want to pass laws to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish Americans, will you pass laws to protect Christians, Muslims, Satanists, Scientologists, Mormons, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists and every religion in the United States?
If you wanted "Death to America," remind yourself that Trump supporters tried to violently overturn a peaceful transfer of power. They violently broke into the U.S. Capitol and tried to kill Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence. Republicans refuse to hold former president Donald J. Trump accountable for his actions. They are more upset over protected speech than a foreign country committing war crimes and an active genocide.
Is the junk food media gonna make Roger Fortson a thug or hero?
Ben Crump is involved in the police strangling of Frank Tyson in Ohio and the police shooting of U.S. Air Force service man who was killed in Florida.
The police shooting of Roger Fortson has now attracted major controversy. The Oskaloosa County Sheriff's Department is under fire once again for their incompetence.
Only a mere month ago, a deputy fired into a police cruiser where a handcuffed suspect was positioned. An acorn fell on the vehicle and he thought he was being fire on. The deputy and his sergeant both fired off 32 rounds into his patrol vehicle. Marquis Jackson was grazed but not seriously injured. He is suing the county for reckless endangerment.
Jesse Hernandez and Beth Roberts could be charged with a crime. Hernandez resigned.
Roberts was taken off the beat.
Now two more deputies are under fire. They ended up going to the wrong apartment.
Fortson was a case of mistaken identity. The deputies did not announce themselves when they broke down the door and confronted an armed Fortson.
Which deputy shot Roger Fortson?
Fortson, 23, who was assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron at Hurlburt Field, was alone in his apartment May 3 when police burst through the door and fatally shot him six times, according to Crump, an attorney representing Fortson's family.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office was responding to a disturbance between a man and woman in the apartment building, and deputies shot Fortson, who was Black, multiple times in the chest, according to police radio communications.
"The circumstances surrounding Roger's death raise serious questions that demand immediate answers from authorities, especially considering the alarming witness statement that the police entered the wrong apartment," Crump said. "The narrative released by law enforcement, which falsely suggests that Roger posed a threat, is deeply troubling and inconsistent with the details provided by that witness: Roger was home alone, causing no disturbance, when his life was tragically cut short by law enforcement."
The sheriff's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the attorney's claims. The sheriff's office recently came under scrutiny after one of its deputies resigned following an internal investigation last year of an incident in which he fired his weapon multiple times at a detained suspect after mistaking the sound of an acorn hitting the roof of his patrol vehicle as a gunshot, GulfLive.com reported.
Fortson lived in an off-base residence, and his special operations squadron at Hurlburt Field in the Florida panhandle flies AC-130J Ghostrider gunships.
Oskaloosa Sheriff Eric Aden got some explaining to do.
Crump said there was no disturbance and that Fortson was home alone on a video call with another person, who reported the airman heard a knock on the door.
Fortson, according to the witness, asked, "Who is it?" But he didn't receive an answer. After a subsequent "aggressive" second knock and seeing no one through the peephole, Fortson grabbed his legally owned gun, Crump detailed.
As Fortson was walking back to his living room, police entered the apartment and shot him. He reportedly said "I can't breathe" while on the ground after being shot, Crump said, repeating a witness account of the event.
Publicly available police radio audio reviewed by Military.com reported a call for a disturbance at an apartment complex at 319 Racetrack Road around 4:30 p.m. local time.
"Don't have anything further than a male and female; it's all fourth party information from the front desk at the leasing office," a deputy said on the radio.
A few minutes later, another deputy called in to report "shots fired, suspect down," and called for emergency medical services.
"Multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, Black male," another deputy chimes in shortly after. Fortson was shot six times, Crump said in his statement.
No other details, including the circumstances of the disturbance that prompted the local deputies to visit the apartment building, were released. Fortson was taken to an area hospital, where he later died. No officers were harmed in the incident.
Fortson joined the Air Force on Nov. 19, 2019, according to a copy of his service record provided to Military.com. He joined as an AC-130J gunner. Crump added that Roger graduated from high school with honors and had no criminal record.
The deputy involved was not identified in the news release and was "placed on paid administrative leave" pending the outcome of an investigation and administrative review, the sheriff's office said.
On Monday evening, Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden released a statement saying the department was "saddened" by the incident and calling for further investigation into the shooting.
Ben Crump demands the Oskaloosa Sheriff Department release all body camera footage.
"I immediately placed the deputy on administrative leave and have asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to conduct the investigation that is required in such incidents," Aden said. "The State Attorney's Office will also conduct an independent review. At this time, we humbly ask for our community's patience as we work to understand the facts that resulted in this tragic event."
The sheriff's office declined to provide Military.com the original 911 call and the police report into the incident, citing "the ongoing active investigation" in an emailed response.
"We are calling for transparency in the investigation into Roger's death and the immediate release of bodycam video to the family," Crump said. "His family and the public deserve to know what occurred in the moments leading up to this tragedy. We urge authorities to immediately stop demonizing Roger in their statements to the media. It's imperative to correct the record and acknowledge the wrongful entry into Roger's home."
To all the Black firearm owners who support the Second Amendment or former president Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential race, I just want to say...
"YOU'RE GONNA BE SHOT BY POLICE TOO!"
The National Rifle Association never reacts to lawful exercise of firearm use when a Black, Hispanic, Arab, Muslim, Indigenous, LGBTQ or underage teen of color is carrying them.
It is automatic dehumanizing from the far right, police unions and the junk food media.
When white men, women or even some Asians are carrying firearms, the NRA is often parading them around like they're heroes and protectors of freedom.
In about 45 states, I believe it is lawful for you to walk down a street with a firearm.
Marquis Jackson survived a police shooting. He was handcuffed and placed in a police vehicle when a deputy fired on him. The deputy mistaken an acorn as gun fire.
If you're a Black man walking down the street with a firearm, the random 911 call or the visual spotting from a police officer merits an automatic drawl of a service weapon.
Police officers within seconds are either shooting or premeditated an excuse to use force.
The unions back up their claims of "fearing for their lives" despite the perpetrator not even firing a round. Given that the junk food media loves to paint the aggressor as the victim, the police officer is given the benefit of doubt. The person police shot usually do not get any ounce of doubt. A mugshot of a suspect or a picture of a person posing with money or firearms automatically draws far right conclusions to justification of force.
Even fleeing from police with a firearm and not even pointing at them results in police shootings.
If a person does survive, the state still charges the person for a crime despite the state allowing open carry and lawful possession.
So I just want to say that the Second Amendment is White, period.
Gun violence is the number one threat in the United States.
You notice when Blacks are owning or posing with firearms, the junk food media calls it disturbing. When white people are posing with firearms, they are patriotic and expressing freedom.
I dismiss this ridiculous notion that criminals are the problem, not the guns. Firearms are often obtained through legal purchases.
Again, having more security, teachers being armed and offering safe rooms are not solving the problem. The problem is lawmakers not willing to stop gun violence.
According to the far right: White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanic and Asian shooters are illegal immigrants. Almost all mass shooters are registered Democrats because they have liked one thing common to the left. Of course, they often share disinformation by using the "Sam Hyde" meme as a way to denounce most mass shooters being white. They say a white person should "protect" themselves from protesters and use of firearms are justified. They say if a shooter is active military or a veteran who supports conservative causes, they are considered a "heroes" and use of firearms are justified. If the shooters are teens, the far right automatically assume the gunmen are Black.
He lucky to be alive.
The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, X and other extreme outlets. They force it into national news. They make the case to blame Black Lives Matter, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Democrats, Rev. Al Sharpton and rap music for Black on whatever violence. Republican lawmakers who do not live in urban neighborhoods often troll social media to talk about gun violence or crime in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee and New York City while not doing a damn thing to stop it. If a white person shoots a Black person, the shooter is given the benefit of doubt. White shooters are given glowing profiles about their perfect lives and how friends noticed something but refused to do something. When it comes to Black shooters, automatic vilification. They don't see mental illness. They see it as gang violence, allegedly fatherless homes, Democratic policies or the need for more firearms. The far right and Republicans exploit gun violence in the Black community for culture wars and racism.
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The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. Let them know this law on TikTok is a ban on free speech. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. We have rampant gun violence happening in the country every day. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists.
Biden paused arms to Israel. The Republicans and Democrats balk at it.
The Rafah invasion is on.
Israel is not willing to agree to a ceasefire and recognition of a Palestinian state. They are not willing to agree with Hamas to exchange the remaining survivors of their genocide.
Now the president is slowly putting a hold on weapon shipments for now.
Israel is meddling in our elections, openly bragging about defying international law, attacking Americans who are protesting their regime, trying to rig Eurovision, instigating conflict in Iran and Lebanon and is openly endorsing Donald J. Trump.
And President Joe Biden and Democrats are still willing to embrace this regime.
Biden said Wednesday the U.S. would not supply Israel with certain weapons and artillery shells if its military invades Rafah, a city in southern Gaza where more than 1 million people are sheltering.
If the Israeli military launches a ground offensive in Rafah, the administration will not supply “the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities,” Biden said in an interview on CNN.
“We’re not going to supply the weapons and the artillery shells used,” Biden said.
The move would mark a shift in U.S. policy toward the war, though Biden said the U.S. would "continue to make sure Israel is secure in terms of Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks."
Biden also said Israel has used the 2,000-pound bombs — the type his administration halted in a planned shipment last week — to kill Palestinian civilians.
“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” he said when he was asked about the paused shipment of U.S. weapons to Israel.
Biden struggling with the decision of aiding or cutting the Israeli regime loose.
NBC News has reported that the White House halted a shipment of offensive weapons last week that included 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs, according to a senior administration official.
An Israeli official told NBC News there was deep frustration in the Israeli government over the decision as Israel's military prepares to launch an expected ground offensive in Rafah.
The country's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said the U.S. pause was “a very disappointing decision, even frustrating.” He suggested in an interview with Israeli Channel 12 TV news that the move stemmed from domestic political pressure on Biden.
Israel's right-wing national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, offered a more hardline reaction. "Hamas ❤️ Biden," he said in a post on X that drew swift criticism from Israel's opposition leader, Yair Lapid, and others.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the country's military would enter the city “with or without” a deal with Hamas.
Israel demands that Rafah be walled off from a cease-fire deal, according to four current and one former U.S. officials familiar with the discussions.
Netanyahu’s government refuses to agree to a deal unless it can move forward with military operations in Rafah, even during a cease-fire, the officials said.
An Israeli official denied that characterization, citing recent remarks by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who said, "This operation will continue until we eliminate Hamas in the Rafah area and the entire Gaza Strip or until the first hostage returns."
Biden has reiterated his opposition to the Rafah offensive in calls with Netanyahu, according to White House readouts of their ' conversations.
Biden also touched on his administration's work with Arab states regarding the Israel-Hamas war, saying in the CNN interview that "five leaders in the Arab community were prepared to help rebuild Gaza, prepared to help transition to a two-state solution."
Asked for clarity about whether the leaders would help govern the area, Biden said they would work to "maintain the security and peace while they're working out a Palestinian Authority that's real and not corrupt."
The Congress already are giving billions to Israel while Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, Rite Aid are closing up in poor and impoverished rural communities.
Congress is foring TikTok to sell to Zionists or be banned.
Congress is trying to make criticism of Israel a crime.
AIPAC openly bragged about helping Democrats and Republicans win primaries.
The ADL is spying on protesters and demanding the U.S. Justice Department to investigate them.
Ungrateful Israel angry that Biden cut weapons.
AIPAC and the ADL refuse to register as foreign agents of the Israeli regime. That is a huge problem and it must be a demand to keep these organizations from influencing our elected leaders.
Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions.
We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.
Could you name one damn thing Israel's done for the United States?
Israel's latest excuses to justify the genocide:
They claimed that Hamas wants to kill as many Jews as possible.
They claim that Hamas has underground tunnels under schools, hospitals and refugee camps.
They claim that Hamas was planning on building a dirty bomb.
They claim that Hamas are using civilians as human shields.
They claim that Hamas is ISIS.
They claim that Hamas had a copy of Mein Kampf inside a base in a children's bedroom.
They claim that Hamas was beheading 40 babies.
They claim that Hamas misfired a rocket at a hospital.
They claim that Hamas wants a regional war.
They claim that Hamas had top secret plans to attack the U.S. and Great Britain.
They claim that Hamas has a calendar that showed the shifts of who was watching the hostages.
They claim that Hamas shot female soliders in the buttocks and breasts.
They claim that Hamas shot dead a civilian and raped the victim's corpse,
They claim that Hamas has placed explosive devices on corpses.
They claim that Hamas has infiltrated college campuses in the U.S. and Great Britain.
They claim that Hamas support from individuals amounts to being a terrorist sympathizer.
They claim that President Joe Biden loves Hamas.
Hamas is not raping women and there is no proof they done such a horrible act. It is part of the dehumanizing campaign Israel is promoting to influencers in the West. You see it when they are constantly deflecting from the images of Gaza being destroyed by American and European sponsored Israeli weapons. In their minds, they are justifying the brutal slaughter of children, men, women, journalists and doctors as collateral damage.
Hamas stated the reasons for the attack on occupation forces. It has nothing to do with the Jewish religion or Iran.
Biden, Donald J. Trump, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Republicans, Democrats and the American junk food media are on the wrong side of history. Israel will be a 2024 issue. Once this pass, I get the feeling that Biden will be the last U.S. president to support Israel.
Presidents after Biden (hopefully Trump never wins a second presidency) will come to realize that Israel was the bad guy all along.
Keep pressure on them with Israel.
Israel must be held accountable for war crimes and the U.S. must end its aid. Our taxpayer money should help Israel any further.
They are feeling it. Democrats know the risk of supporters being turned off by their policies. They know that Biden is under extreme pressure to do something. Arab Americans, Muslim and young voters have vowed to never back Biden putting his reelection chances in danger.
The call number to the White House and U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official White House numbers 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414. This is the Congress official phone number, 202-224-3121. Please be respectful to operators, staff members and elected leaders. Your calls are monitored by the U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Capitol Police.
Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. Let them know this law on TikTok is a ban on free speech. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism.
We have bigger issues at home and our tax dollars should solve the housing crisis, lowering food prices, fixing roads, bridges, helping reinvest in struggling urban and rural communities. We have hospitals closing, big box retailers leaving communities and television programs dying. There are bigger issues in the country than Israel. You want an immediate ceasefire and accountability for war crimes done by Israel. You want no more foreign influence in American elections. You also want to make sure future presidents and lawmakers avoid influence from lobbyists.
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