Friday, June 21, 2024

Blood In The Black Belt: Mass Shooting In Fordyce, Arkansas!

Those brave enough caught the shooter committing a massacre in Fordyce, Arkansas.

Another mass shooting in the United States. 

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and the U.S. Representatives of Arkansas were notified of this mass shooting in Fordyce, Arkansas.

A city with a 55% Black population. The city with 4,100 residents.

Three people were killed and 10 wounded in a mass shooting Friday outside of a grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas, state police said. Two law enforcement officers were among those injured, but their conditions are not life-threatening, police said in an afternoon press conference.

Arkansas State Police responded to the Mad Butcher grocery store at 11:38 a.m. local time on Friday. Upon arrival, officers engaged in a shooting with the lone suspect, authorities said. 

A video clip from the scene appears to show a man in the parking lot armed with a shotgun firing at officers, who were returning fire.

The shooter was injured and has been taken into custody, police said, adding that the suspect's injuries aren't considered life-threatening. 

The eight civilians who were wounded have injuries ranging from non-life-threatening to extremely critical, Arkansas Department of Public Safety Director Mike Hagar said at the briefing.

"This situation is secure and it's contained. There are no active threats to the community," Hagar said.

The Fordyce Police are accused of being yellow.

One witness, David Rodriguez, was at a gas station next to the grocery store when the shooting started. He told CBS News he pulled into the gas station and "heard some popping," and at first he thought it was fireworks. Then, he said, he heard the sirens and saw the police pull up and "people just started running all over the place."

Rodriguez took out his cellphone and started filming moments after he heard the shots. "There is someone lying in the parking lot shot," he can be heard saying.

Rodriguez told CBS News, "It was quite a scare." 

Ken Vanderzwalm, who worked three doors down from the grocery store at a lawn mower supplier, told CBS News several people ran into their shop when the shooting started, "crying and screaming." Vanderzwalm, a former police officer, who said he was armed, said he let the people know they would "be safe" inside the building. 

"We had a lot of kids who were really traumatized," he said.

Vanderzwalm said he was pretty shaken up and described it like "something you see on TV," where shots were being continuously fired. 

Sanders said on social media: "I have been briefed on the tragic shooting in Fordyce, and I'm in constant contact with State Police at the scene. I am thankful to law enforcement and first responders for their quick and heroic action to save lives. My prayers are with the victims and all those impacted by this."

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said special agents from the ATF's New Orleans field office are at the scene and providing assistance in response to the shooting.

The White House put out a statement that said, "We are grateful for the law enforcement officers who put themselves in harm's way by engaging the suspect and bringing him into custody. Federal law enforcement is assisting with the local investigation."

This incident happened in the Black belt. 

There were warnings that white extremists were preparing to "stand back and stand by."

Lucky to be alive. Man shows the damage a semi-automatic firearm does.

They are hoping they trigger a race war which could impact Biden's reelection. They want to put Trump back in because he supported their views when it came to immigration, crime, globalism and Muslims.

The terrorist is a white male. His victims were Black. He was captured with a graze wound to his head but still alive and booked into the county lockup on suicide watch.

The shooting, carried out by a lone wolf, began in the supermarket's parking lot, close to U.S Route 79. The shooter shot 11 civilians, killing three and wounding eight, whose injuries ranged from non-life threatening to critical. Arkansas State Police immediately engaged with the shooter upon arrival. 

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.

Mad Butcher was a massacre.

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.

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.

Well is it ironic?

A bullet does not care about color. We all bleed red and so many lives are lost to gun violence and Republicans offer no solutions other than "thoughts and prayers" with a touch of "lock em up."

Gun violence is the number one threat in the United States.

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" 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.

It takes a fool. Sarah Huckabee Sanders allowed it to happen.

The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Anytime a person of color kills a white victim, it is often wall-to-wall coverage on Fox, Twitter and 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.

So in closing, expect more.

The website Officer Down is a memorial to those police officers who were killed in the line of duty. Those victims who don't get their names or accomplishments mentioned in the junk food media. Also the website the National Gun Violence Memorial also keeps record of the many individuals killed by gun violence. We are tracking police violence as well. 

Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Lifeline) at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or 988, or text the Crisis Text Line (text HELLO to 741741). Both services are free and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The deaf and hard of hearing can contact the Lifeline via TTY at 1-800-799-4889. All calls are confidential. Contact social media outlets directly if you are concerned about a friend’s social media updates or dial 911 in an emergency. Learn more on the Lifeline’s website or the Crisis Text Line’s website.

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 we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. Let them know you are very tired of your lawmakers embarrassing themselves in the media. You are tired of your lawmakers always being outside their district or state. You elected them to serve their districts and state not travel across the country or to foreign countries on your taxpayer dollars. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism. 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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Trump Claimed Dead And Gone Joan Rivers Voted For Him In 2016!

Trump with Ivanka and Joan Rivers. The former president got confused again.

I really believe Joan Rivers deserved her unfortunate fate. She was a comedian who said some really racist things about former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama. She literally made a career off of insulting Americans with tasteless rants and body shaming.

Rivers died from a botched surgery. 

She was a Zionist who once said that Palestinians deserved to die regardless of the war crimes Israel committed. She said racially offensive remarks about Black women, Indigenous women and Arab women. 

She was given millions in movies, clothing line and clout.

Yet, she and daughter Melissa Rivers spent countless amounts of money for plastic surgery. Rivers was not shy about her surgeries. She even joked about them.

Former first lady Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump, Lara Trump, Venessa Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Marla Maples, Ivana Trump, Laura Ingraham, Kristie Noem, Laura Loomer, Tomi Lahren, Caitlyn Jenner and Cheryl Hines are notoriously spending millions on plastic surgery.

Rivers endorsed Trump's attacks on Barack Obama during his 2012 election. Trump was on the birther nonsense. She was considered a liberal Republican because of her support of LGBTQIA issues and suicide prevention.

Rivers said Obama was the first gay president and referred to Michelle as a transwoman.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted that besides bringing laughter to millions of people around the world, she was "proud of her Jewish heritage". Trump attended her funeral and tweeted that she "was an amazing woman and a great friend".

Trump even claimed that Rivers voted for him in 2016.


Just one thing, Rivers died in 2014.

Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh interviewed Trump in November for Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass. The book, which was released on Wednesday, explores the business mogul's time hosting the reality show The Apprentice.

Rivers won Season 2 of the star-studded spin-off show, Celebrity Apprentice, in 2009. Trump mentions Rivers in the book, suggesting the Daytime Emmy winner "might have been a Republican."

"I know one thing: she voted for me, according to what she said," Trump claimed in Apprentice in Wonderland.

During an appearance on CNN's The Source on Wednesday, Setoodeh said he'd "interviewed Trump more than any other journalist since he'd left the White House."

Dead and gone.

Setoodeh interviewed the Republican politician six times, beginning in May 2021. He described the process as "challenging," calling the 78-year-old's recollections as "meandering and confusing."

"He's goes from one story to the next, he struggles with the chronology of events," Setoodeh told host Kaitlan Collins. "He seems very upset that he wasn't respected by certain celebrities in the White House, and then he'd go to a story about The Apprentice."

"There were some cognitive questions about where he was and what he was thinking," Setoodeh continued. "He would from time to time become confused."

Collins asked Setoodeh about the section on Rivers, to which he replied: "He definitely told me and declared that Rivers voted for him when he ran for president.

"Joan Rivers died in 2014, so she would not have been able to vote for Donald Trump."

Steven Cheung, Trump's communications director, told Newsweek: "This is nothing more than Fake News being peddled by those who suffer from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Biden and his loser cronies should stop using cheap fakes to gaslight the American people."

Sean "Softball" Hannity spent all month trying to convince his dwindling viewers that President Joe Biden isn't prepared for the debate that he and Trump are scheduled for CNN on Thursday. The softball said that Trump is "fit and prepared" and is facing a "3 on 1" battle where the moderators and Biden will challenge Trump. The softball, Republicans and Trump have ran on the Biden is senile old man for months. When Trump fails to remember his former physician and rants about sharks, they turn back to Biden being corrupt and it carrying out a mission through the Justice Department to destroy the former president.

Joan Rivers would have been proud to see Trump and Republicans whip up chaos.

Her life was based off their ignorance.

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Thursday, June 20, 2024

Feds Raid Oakland Mayor's Home!

Feds came a knocking on Sheng Thao's door. The Oakland mayor also has a recall to deal with too.

That's not good.

Winners and losers of 2024.

Democratic mayor of Oakland, California had a no knock warrant and FBI raid of her home. The mayor of California's 8th largest city, Sheng Thao had her home raided on Thursday.

Thao is the first Hmong American to be mayor of the city. Under Thao's term, Oakland lost the MLB A's to Las Vegas. The previous mayor Libby Schaaf also had the NFL Raiders move to Las Vegas and the Golden State Warriors move to San Francisco.

Oakland has 447,000 residents. It also had a mass shooting on Juneteenth.

The U.S. Justice Department is tight lipped on what Thao did during her mayoral or council member term. It comes also as a recall effort is underway.

Agents served warrants at Thao's house on Maiden Lane in the city's Lincoln Highlands neighborhood at around 5:30 a.m. 

In an emailed statement to CBS News Bay Area, the FBI said, "The FBI is conducting court authorized law enforcement activity on Maiden Lane. We are unable to provide additional information at this time." 

Just after 10 a.m., several FBI agents emerged from the home carrying boxes as news crews staked out positions across the street. It was unclear what the agents were seeking or what was seized. 

Federal agents also served warrants at a nearby home on Viewcrest Court in the city's Ridgemont neighborhood and at the Embarcadero offices shared by the Vietnamese American Business Association (VABA) and California Waste Solutions which manages the city's curbside recycling program. 

The San Francisco Chronicle reported another search at the Skyline Boulevard home of VABA chairman David Duong, who is also CEO of California Waste Solutions. 

The owner of the Viewcrest Court house is listed as Andrew Duong, the son of David Duong. Both VABA and California Waste Solutions list multiple members of the Duong family on their leadership teams. 

FBI agents and IRS criminal investigation special agents  carried out about 20 boxes of seized materials, many of which had "Andy Duong" written on them.

California Waste Solutions has previously been investigated over campaign contributions to Oakland city officials, including Thao when she was a city councilmember, according to Oaklandside. A company staffer who identified herself as Teresa Hoang said the firm was cooperating with authorities and that it was "confident the government will conclude that they are not involved in anything unlawful." Hoang is also listed as a VABA director.

Andy Duong has more than 100,000 followers on Instagram, which includes photos with President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Gavin Newsom.

Hoang also said the Duong family has "dealt with a lot of injustice over the past three decades" and is confident no wrongdoing will be found.

"This isn't the first time we've had to deal with stuff like this. Every time we've come out clean," Hoang said. "The officials know more than anybody right now what the investigation is about."

CBS News Bay Area reached out to Mayor Thao's office for a response to the raids. Thao was a no-show Thursday morning at a scheduled press conference in San Francisco on affordable housing with the mayors of San Francisco, San Jose and Berkeley. 

The raids come two days after the Alameda County Registrar of Voters announced there were enough signatures on a petition to recall Thao from office to move the process forward.

Supporters of a recall blame the mayor for not doing enough to fight crime which has led many businesses to close down in the city. They also blame Thao for the city's failure to apply for millions of dollars in state money to fight retail crime.

Thao was also criticized for firing former police chief LeRonne Armstrong and not hiring a replacement for more than a year. On Thursday, Armstrong called the FBI raids "a sad day for the City of Oakland" in a prepared statement.

"Oakland is a city in crisis. Crime, violence, shootings, uncontrolled homelessness, unmitigated encampments, the budget deficit and more," said Armstrong. "The biggest obstacle to overcoming these crises are the failures of leadership in City Hall. Even before today's news, some city leaders have done nothing to help--and much to hurt—our city. Oakland needs leadership with a plan to address public safety, leadership who works with businesses, and leadership that's prepared to meet our challenges with a vision for the future of Oakland. In this moment we must unite and work together to move our great city forward."

KPIX correspondents Kevin Ko and Lauren Toms contributed to this report.

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RFK, Jr.'s Campaign Dwindling Down!

Kennedy may be out of campaign cash.

Winners and losers of 2024.

The independent candidate for president failed to meet the requirements to debate on CNN and his fundraising is drying up. The Republicans and Democrats are siding with their nominees.

President Joe Biden and former president Donald J. Trump will debate next Thursday in what may be their only time [depending on Trump's reactions] on CNN.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will not be on the stage. 

Biden will only have one conspiracy theorist to debate not two. 

The deadline to qualify for the debate was 12 a.m. EST Thursday. To qualify, candidates must “appear on a sufficient number of state ballots to reach the 270 electoral vote thresholds to win the presidency” and receive at least 15% in four qualifying national polls prior to the eligibility deadline, according to a CNN news release.

Kennedy had received at least 15% in three qualifying polls and was on the ballot in six states, making him eligible for only 89 electoral college votes, according to CNN.

Kennedy filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in May claiming that CNN was making “prohibited corporate contributions” to the Biden and Trump campaigns violating federal campaign finance law and negotiated with the two campaigns to exclude other candidates, including him, from the debate stage.

Kennedy and his wife actress Cheryl Hines.

He asked that the FEC take actions no later than Thursday and keep CNN, Biden and Trump from holding the debate “until the parties have come into compliance with the Federal Election Campaign Act,” according to the complaint.

Kennedy and running mate Nicole Shanahan have so far managed garnish 8% of the vote.

Kennedy is denounced by his family. His own children and cousins support Biden.

Last month, Biden and Trump agreed to the CNN debate and a second on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC, bypassing the nonpartisan commission that has organized debates for nearly four decades.

After winning a coin toss, Biden's campaign chose the right podium position, meaning that he will be on the right side of viewers' screens, with Trump on the left, according to CNN. Trump's campaign then opted to deliver his closing statement after Biden.

Both campaigns have agreed to appear at podiums, and microphones will be muted except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak.

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La Louisiane met les dix commandements dans les Γ©coles publiques!

The Louisiana government impose religion in public schools.

Louisiana Puts The Ten Commandments In Public Schools!

Christian nationalism has spread down in the Deep South. The results of Democrats not taking elections seriously. The results of a government that is going through an overreach. It is radicalism and religious intolerance. America faces a crossroads come 2024.

With Project 2025 and Greater Israel being essential threats to the world, the choice is clear. Vote like your life depends on it. 

Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana has only been in office less than a year and he is already a headache to President Joe Biden. He is literally daring the U.S. government to sue him for violating the Constitution.

Landry and Republicans signed off a law requiring public schools to have the Ten Commandments in vicinity. It is a clear violation of the "separation of church and state."

It means that Muslims, Jewish, Hindus, Satanists, Buddhists and other religions are subjected to a law that shows favoritism towards Christianity.

Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.

“If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses” who got the commandments from God, Landry said.

Opponents questioned the law’s constitutionality and vowed to challenge it in court. Proponents said the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance. In the language of the law, the Ten Commandments are “foundational documents of our state and national government.”

The posters, which will be paired with a four-paragraph “context statement” describing how the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries,” must be in place in classrooms by the start of 2025.

Under the law, state funds will not be used to implement the mandate. The posters would be paid for through donations.

The law also “authorizes” but does not require the display of other items in K-12 public schools, including: The Mayflower Compact, which was signed by religious pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and is often referred to as America’s “First Constitution"; the Declaration of Independence; and the Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in the Northwest Territory — in the present day Midwest — and created a pathway for admitting new states to the Union.

Not long after the governor signed the bill into law at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Lafayette on Wednesday, civil rights groups and organizations that want to keep religion out of government promised to file a lawsuit challenging it.

The law prevents students from getting an equal education and will keep children who have different beliefs from feeling safe at school, the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation said in a joint statement Wednesday afternoon.

“Even among those who may believe in some version of the Ten Commandments, the particular text that they adhere to can differ by religious denomination or tradition. The government should not be taking sides in this theological debate,” the groups said.

Jeff Landry signs Christian nationalism into law.

The controversial law, in a state ensconced in the Bible Belt, comes during a new era of conservative leadership in Louisiana under Landry, who replaced two-term Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in January. The GOP holds a supermajority in the Legislature, and Republicans hold every statewide elected position, paving the way for lawmakers to push through a conservative agenda.

Similar bills requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms have been proposed in other states including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah. However, with threats of legal battles over the constitutionality of such measures, no state besides Louisiana has succeeded in making the bills law.

Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms are not new.

In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar Kentucky law was unconstitutional and violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says Congress can “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The high court found that the law had no secular purpose but rather served a plainly religious purpose.

The Louisiana government impose religion in public schools.

Louisiana Puts The Ten Commandments In Public Schools!

Christian nationalism has spread down in the Deep South. The results of Democrats not taking elections seriously. The results of a government that is going through an overreach. It is radicalism and religious intolerance. America faces a crossroads come 2024.

With Project 2025 and Greater Israel being essential threats to the world, the choice is clear. Vote like your life depends on it. 

Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana has only been in office less than a year and he is already a headache to President Joe Biden. He is literally daring the U.S. government to sue him for violating the Constitution.

Landry and Republicans signed off a law requiring public schools to have the Ten Commandments in vicinity. It is a clear violation of the "separation of church and state."

It means that Muslims, Jewish, Hindus, Satanists, Buddhists and other religions are subjected to a law that shows favoritism towards Christianity.

Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.

“If you want to respect the rule of law, you’ve got to start from the original lawgiver, which was Moses” who got the commandments from God, Landry said.

Opponents questioned the law’s constitutionality and vowed to challenge it in court. Proponents said the measure is not solely religious, but that it has historical significance. In the language of the law, the Ten Commandments are “foundational documents of our state and national government.”

The posters, which will be paired with a four-paragraph “context statement” describing how the Ten Commandments “were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries,” must be in place in classrooms by the start of 2025.

Under the law, state funds will not be used to implement the mandate. The posters would be paid for through donations.

The law also “authorizes” but does not require the display of other items in K-12 public schools, including: The Mayflower Compact, which was signed by religious pilgrims aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and is often referred to as America’s “First Constitution"; the Declaration of Independence; and the Northwest Ordinance, which established a government in the Northwest Territory — in the present day Midwest — and created a pathway for admitting new states to the Union.

Not long after the governor signed the bill into law at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Lafayette on Wednesday, civil rights groups and organizations that want to keep religion out of government promised to file a lawsuit challenging it.

The law prevents students from getting an equal education and will keep children who have different beliefs from feeling safe at school, the American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation said in a joint statement Wednesday afternoon.

“Even among those who may believe in some version of the Ten Commandments, the particular text that they adhere to can differ by religious denomination or tradition. The government should not be taking sides in this theological debate,” the groups said.

Jeff Landry signs Christian nationalism into law.

The controversial law, in a state ensconced in the Bible Belt, comes during a new era of conservative leadership in Louisiana under Landry, who replaced two-term Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in January. The GOP holds a supermajority in the Legislature, and Republicans hold every statewide elected position, paving the way for lawmakers to push through a conservative agenda.

Similar bills requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms have been proposed in other states including Texas, Oklahoma and Utah. However, with threats of legal battles over the constitutionality of such measures, no state besides Louisiana has succeeded in making the bills law.

Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms are not new.

In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a similar Kentucky law was unconstitutional and violated the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says Congress can “make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The high court found that the law had no secular purpose but rather served a plainly religious purpose.

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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Crockett Was Close To "Juneteenthing" MTG!

Jasmine Crockett and Ayanna Pressley were close to fighting Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Insufferable lawmakers were really close to physical contact. 

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) really want to step out of their roles as insufferable members of the House to straight up ratchet bitches when it comes to fellow member Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Greene is the most laziest and most insufferable lawmaker in the 118th Congress.

The infamous "Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body" remarks really got to Greene.

The Georgia lawmaker is now resorting to showing off her body physique in response.

Crockett confirmed that she and a fellow insufferable member were close to serve Greene a hot plate. This happened after the committee to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, members literally had to restrain Crockett from assaulting Greene.

If the two did get into a physical conflict, they would be immediately censured, have a report sent to House Ethics and a possible vote to expel them from Congress which would allow Texas governor Greg Abbott and Georgia governor Brian Kemp issue a special election to replace them.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and her boyfriend Brian Glenn have armed security thanks to her big mouth causing drama.

Crockett wasn't alone.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) was close to jumping out of her seat and going over to confront Greene with possible physical contact.

Greene set off a round of insults by slamming Crockett's "fake eyelashes messing up what [Crockett] reading." The insult led to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reacting to the remarks. Ocasio-Cortez demanded Rep. James Comer (R-KY) get control of the matter and have Greene apologize for her remarks. 

Greene refused to do it.

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 we are tired of police officers using immunity when committing death of suspects in custody. Let them know that you are tired of private equity firms getting away with destroying small businesses and long established companies. Let them know that you are tired of your taxpayer money going to foreign nations like Israel. Let them know you are very tired of your lawmakers embarrassing themselves in the media. You are tired of your lawmakers always being outside their district or state. You elected them to serve their districts and state not travel across the country or to foreign countries on your taxpayer dollars. You are tired of hearing about "Israel having a right to..." and the bogus claims of being anti-semitic or in support of terrorism. 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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Juneteenth!


President Joe Biden signed the law that officially made Juneteenth a federal holiday.

In the United States, Juneteenth is on June 19. Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was adopted in 1983.

Mind you, the far right hates King Day and holidays that don't honor white supremacy. 

Charlie Kirk was keen on that. Republicans are pushing to name monuments and tributes to the 45th U.S. President, a convicted felon.

The holiday's name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", as it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War. Although this date commemorates enslaved people learning of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation, this only applied to former Confederate states. There remained legally enslaved people in states that never seceded from the Union. These people did not gain their freedom until the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 6, 1865.

The far right hate Juneteenth because the holiday is the official Independence Day for Black Americans who were descendants of slavery. Biden made it possible.

Former president Donald J. Trump couldn't do it during his term. And yes, he did consider it but his base opposed it and of course, white nationalists hate political correctness [when it doesn't suit their agenda].

Most companies are still operating as normal. There is a push for companies to recognize this a federal holiday to celebrate with time off.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff celebrate Juneteenth at the White House this past Saturday.

Biden issued a statement in regards to Juneteenth.

"One of my proudest moments as President was signing into law Juneteenth as a new Federal holiday — the first Federal holiday to be established since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day four decades prior.  Juneteenth is an acknowledgment of the truth of our Nation’s history.  It is about realizing the idea that America was founded on:  All people are created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout their lives.  It is about the generations of brave Black leaders and selfless activists who never let us walk away from that idea, including Ms. Opal Lee, whom I awarded the Medal of Freedom for her work as the grandmother of Juneteenth, and former State Representative Al Edwards, who authored the bill to designate it a holiday in Texas."

"My Administration is working to ensure we continue to deliver on that idea — creating a country that truly stands for freedom, justice, dignity, and opportunity for all.  Today, record numbers of Black Americans have jobs and health insurance, and Black business ownership is growing at the fastest pace in over 30 years.  We are investing more money than ever in Black families and communities.  That includes the funding we are delivering to support predominantly Black neighborhoods that had been divided and left behind by segregation and racial discrimination, the checks we delivered that reduced Black child poverty to the lowest rate in history, the changes we have made to the appraisals process to root out biases that put Black homeowners at a disadvantage, and the over $16 billion investment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities so that we can ensure the next generation of Black leaders has equal opportunities for a quality education and pathways for economic mobility.  We are working to rebuild and strengthen all of America by removing every lead pipe across our country, delivering affordable high-speed internet, forgiving $167 billion in student loan debt, and creating good-paying jobs that you can raise a family on.  We are creating a new sense of pride and dignity in communities across the country."

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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Justin Timberlake Caught A DUI In New York!

The famous mugshot of Justin Timberlake. 

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Winners and losers of 2024.

In the state of New York, a DUI could range from a one year to five year suspension of license. It requires mandatory alcoholic treatment and a fine up to $15,000. Insurance rate will surge and the motorist will be placed as a high risk.

The Memphis born pop star who was a member of the boy band N'SYNC before becoming a very successful R&B/pop singer, inventor, director and actor was arrested in New York on suspicion of driving under the influence.

The spokesperson declined to identify his charges, though ABC News and The Associated Press, citing law enforcement officials, said the arrest was for driving while intoxicated.

He is currently on tour for his latest album.

Justin Timberlake, 43 was pulled over in Suffolk County, New York near Sag Harbor.

Officers clearly saw Timberlake driving like he was intoxicated and they conducted a routine traffic stop.

“His eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests,” the court papers said.

Timberlake told the officer he had one martini and was following some friends home, according to the documents. After being arrested and taken to a police station in nearby East Hampton, he refused a breath test, said the court papers, which listed his occupation as “professional” and said he’s “self-employed.”

The 10-time Grammy winner was released without bond later Tuesday morning after being arraigned in Sag Harbor. He was charged with a driving-while-intoxicated misdemeanor, and his next court date was scheduled for July 26, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said.

Edward Burke Jr., a local lawyer representing Timberlake, declined to comment Tuesday other than to confirm the star doesn’t need to appear in person for his next court date. Timberlake’s California-based representatives didn’t return multiple requests for comment Tuesday.

The arrest brought a steady stream of curiosity seekers to the village’s quaint Main Street, with many taking photos in front of the brick municipal building throughout the day.

Even music legend Billy Joel, who owns a home in Sag Harbor, took in the scene outside the American Hotel, a popular hotel and restaurant located next to the courthouse where Timberlake had been spotted before his arrest.

“Judge not lest ye be judged,” the “Piano Man” singer told WPIX, declining to comment on Timberlake or his arrest.

A young Timberlake began performing as a Disney Mouseketeer, where his castmates included future girlfriend Britney Spears (he’s now married to actress Jessica Biel). He rose to fame in the behemoth boy band NSYNC, embarked on a solo recording career in 2002 and was one of pop’s most influential figures in the early 2000s.

Fluent in the inflections of pop and R&B, he’s known for such Grammy-winning hits as “Cry Me A River,” “SexyBack,” “What Goes Around...Comes Around” and “Can’t Stop The Feeling!” He has performed at Super Bowl halftime shows multiple times, including the infamous 2004 “wardrobe malfunction” moment when he ripped off a piece of Janet Jackson’s clothing and revealed her bare nipple.

The episode led to Jackson’s exclusion from the Grammy telecast a week later. She said in a 2022 documentary that what happened was an accident and that she and Timberlake remained good friends.

Timberlake also built an acting career, garnering acclaim in movies including “The Social Network” and “Friends With Benefits” and winning four Primetime Emmy Awards.

Last year, Timberlake was in the headlines when Spears released her memoir, “The Woman in Me.” Several chapters were devoted to their relationship, including deeply personal details about a pregnancy, abortion and painful breakup. In March, he released his first new album in six years, the nostalgic “Everything I Thought It Was,” a return to his familiar future funk sound.

Timberlake has two upcoming shows in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, then is scheduled for New York’s Madison Square Garden on June 25 and 26.

Sag Harbor, a onetime whaling village mentioned in Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby-Dick,” is nestled amid the Hamptons, around 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of New York City. The Hamptons have long been a hot spot for the rich and famous, and various stars and otherwise prominent people have had brushes with the law there.

Located on a bay, Sag Harbor for years cultivated a more down-to-earth, “un-Hampton” reputation than its oceanfront neighbors — a place where people gathered not at a country club but at a corner bar called the Corner Bar. There is still a five-and-dime store, and a mainstay of the social scene is the quaint, cozy mid-19th-century American Hotel.

The village has long had its share of prominent homeowners and residents, including singer-songwriter Joel, former CNN host Don Lemon, Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck, feminist writer Betty Friedan, and Pulitzer Prize winners Colson Whitehead and Lanford Wilson. Whitehead’s novel “Sag Harbor” is set there, particularly in a beachfront enclave where generations of Black families have spent summers.

In recent decades, Sag Harbor has increasingly become a destination for celebrities, wannabes and even cruise ships. Manhattan-like restaurants and pricey boutiques have multiplied. Homes fetch seven or eight figures, and the village’s evolving nature has prompted grumbles from some longtime residents about traffic, crowds and a changing character.

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Willie Mays Passed Away!

Willie Mays, an iconic baseball star passed away.

An American legend.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, members of Congress, former president Barack Obama, former president George W. Bush, former president Bill Clinton and the MLB will react to the passing of Willie Mays.

I did not include former president Donald J. Trump. I doubt he will respond to the passing. He was notified though.

Known as the electrifying “Say Hey Kid”, Willie Mays had the singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93.

Mays’ family and the San Francisco Giants jointly announced Tuesday night he had died earlier in the afternoon in the Bay Area.

“My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones,” son Michael Mays said in a statement released by the club. “I want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken heart for the unwavering love you have shown him over the years. You have been his life’s blood.”

The center fielder, who began his professional career in the Negro Leagues in 1948, was baseball’s oldest living Hall of Famer. He was voted into the Hall in 1979, his first year of eligibility, and in 1999 followed only Babe Ruth on The Sporting News’ list of the game’s top stars. The Giants retired his uniform number, 24, and set their AT&T Park in San Francisco on Willie Mays Plaza.

Mays died two days before a game between the Giants and St. Louis Cardinals to honor the Negro Leagues at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama.

“All of Major League Baseball is in mourning today as we are gathered at the very ballpark where a career and a legacy like no other began,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said. “Willie Mays took his all-around brilliance from the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League to the historic Giants franchise. From coast to coast ... Willie inspired generations of players and fans as the game grew and truly earned its place as our National Pastime.”

Few were so blessed with each of the five essential qualities for a superstar -- hitting for average, hitting for power, speed, fielding and throwing. Fewer so joyously exerted those qualities -- whether launching home runs; dashing around the bases, loose-fitting cap flying off his head; or chasing down fly balls in center field and finishing the job with his trademark basket catch.

Former president Barack Obama honored Willie Mays with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Over 23 major league seasons, virtually all with the New York/San Francisco Giants but also including one in the Negro Leagues, Mays batted .301, hit 660 home runs, totaled 3,293 hits, scored more than 2,000 runs and won 12 Gold Gloves. He was Rookie of the Year in 1951, twice was named the Most Valuable Player and finished in the top 10 for the MVP 10 other times. His lightning sprint and over-the-shoulder grab of an apparent extra base hit in the 1954 World Series remains the most celebrated defensive play in baseball history.

“When I played ball, I tried to make sure everybody enjoyed what I was doing,” Mays told NPR in 2010. “I made the clubhouse guy fit me a cap that when I ran, the wind gets up in the bottom and it flies right off. People love that kind of stuff.”

For millions in the 1950s and ’60s and after, the smiling ball player with the friendly, high-pitched voice was a signature athlete and showman during an era when baseball was still the signature pastime. Awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2015, Mays left his fans with countless memories. But a single feat served to capture his magic -- one so untoppable it was simply called “The Catch.”

In Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, the then-New York Giants hosted the Cleveland Indians, who had won 111 games in the regular season and were strong favorites in the postseason. The score was 2-2 in the top of the eighth inning. Cleveland’s Vic Wertz faced reliever Don Liddle with none out, Larry Doby on second and Al Rosen on first.

With the count 1-2, Wertz smashed a fastball to deep center field. In an average park, with an average center fielder, Wertz would have homered, or at least had an easy triple. But the center field wall in the eccentrically shaped Polo Grounds was more than 450 feet away. And there was nothing close to average about the skills of Willie Mays.

Decades of taped replays have not diminished the astonishment of watching Mays race toward the wall, his back to home plate; reach out his glove and haul in the drive. What followed was also extraordinary: Mays managed to turn around while still moving forward, heave the ball to the infield and prevent Doby from scoring even as Mays spun to the ground. Mays himself would proudly point out that “the throw” was as important as “the catch.”

“Soon as it got hit, I knew I’d catch the ball,” Mays told biographer James S. Hirsch, whose book came out in 2010.

“All the time I’m running back, I’m thinking, ‘Willie, you’ve got to get this ball back to the infield.’”

“The Catch” was seen and heard by millions through radio and the then-emerging medium of television, and Mays became one of the first Black athletes with mass media appeal. He was a guest star on “The Donna Reed Show,” “Bewitched” and other sitcoms. He inspired a handful of songs and was named first in Terry Cashman’s 1980s novelty hit, “Talkin’ Baseball (Willie, Mickey & The Duke),” a tribute in part to the brief era when New York had three future Hall of Famers in center: Mays, Mantle of the Yankees and Snider of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Giants went on to sweep the Indians, with many citing Mays’ play as the turning point. The impact was so powerful that 63 years later, in 2017, baseball named the World Series Most Valuable Player after him even though it was his only moment of postseason greatness. He appeared in three other World Series, in 1951 and 1962 for the Giants and 1973 for the Mets, batting just .239 with no home runs in the four series. (His one postseason homer was in the 1971 National League playoffs, when the Giants lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates).

But “The Catch” and his achievements during the regular season were greatness enough. Yankees and Dodgers fans may have fiercely challenged Mays’ eminence, but Mantle and Snider did not. At a 1995 baseball writers dinner in Manhattan, with all three at the dais, Mantle raised the eternal question: Which of the three was better?

The Greatest of All Time.

“We don’t mind being second, do we, Duke?” he added.

Between 1954 and 1966, Mays drove in 100 or more runs 10 times, scored 100 or more 12 times, hit 40 or more homers six times, more than 50 homers twice and led the league in stolen bases four times. His numbers might have been bigger. He missed most of 1952 and all of 1953 because of military service, quite possibly costing him the chance to overtake Ruth’s career home run record of 714, an honor that first went to Henry Aaron; then Mays’ godson, Barry Bonds. He likely would have won more Gold Gloves if the award had been established before 1956. He insisted he would have led the league in steals more often had he tried.

“I am beyond devastated and overcome with emotion. I have no words to describe what you mean to me,” Bonds wrote on Instagram.

Mays was fortunate in escaping serious injury and avoiding major scandal, but he endured personal and professional troubles. His first marriage, to Marghuerite Wendell, ended in divorce. He was often short of money in the pre-free agent era, and he received less for endorsements than Mantle and other white athletes. He was subject to racist insults and his insistence that he was an entertainer, not a spokesman, led to his being chastised by Jackie Robinson and others for not contributing more to the civil rights movement. He didn’t care for some of his managers and didn’t always appreciate a fellow idol, notably Aaron, his greatest contemporary.

“When Henry began to soar up the home-run chart, Willie was loathe to give even a partial nod to Henry’s ability, choosing instead to blame his own performance on his home turf, (San Francisco’s) Candlestick Park, saying it was a lousy park in which to hit homers and this was the reason for Henry’s onrush,” Aaron biographer Howard Bryant wrote in 2010.

Admirers of Aaron, who died in 2021, would contend that only his quiet demeanor and geographical distance from major media centers — Aaron played in Atlanta and Milwaukee — kept him from being ranked the same as, or even better than Mays. But much of the baseball world placed Mays above all. He was the game’s highest-paid player for 11 seasons (according to the Society for American Baseball Research) and often batted first in All-Star Games, because he was Willie Mays. From center field, he called pitches and positioned other fielders. He boasted that he relied on his own instincts, not those of any coach, when deciding whether to try for an extra base.

Sports writer Barney Kremenko has often been credited with nicknaming him “The Say Hey Kid,” referring to Mays’ spirited way of greeting his teammates. Moments on and off the field sealed the public’s affection. In 1965, Mays defused a horrifying brawl after teammate Juan Marichal clubbed Los Angeles Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with a bat. Mays led a bloodied Roseboro away and sat with him on the clubhouse bench of the Dodgers, the Giants’ hated rivals.

Years earlier, when living in Manhattan, he endeared himself to young fans by playing in neighborhood stickball games.

“I used to have maybe 10 kids come to my window,” he said in 2011 while visiting the area of the old Polo Grounds. “Every morning, they’d come at 9 o’clock. They’d knock on my window, get me up. And I had to be out at 9:30. So they’d give me a chance to go shower. They’d give me a chance to eat breakfast. But I had to be out there at 9:30, because that’s when they wanted to play. So I played with them for about maybe an hour.”

He was born in Westfield, Alabama, in 1931, the son of a Negro League player who wanted Willie to do the same, playing catch with him and letting him sit in the dugout. Young Mays was so gifted an athlete that childhood friends swore that basketball, not baseball, was his best sport.

By high school he was playing for the Birmingham Black Barons, and late in life would receive an additional 10 hits to his career total, 3,293, when Negro League statistics were recognized in 2024 by Major League Baseball. With Robinson breaking the major league’s color barrier in 1947, Mays’ ascension became inevitable. The Giants signed him after he graduated from high school (he had to skip his senior prom) and sent him to their minor league affiliate in Trenton, New Jersey. He began the 1951 season with Minneapolis, a Triple-A club. After 35 games, he was batting a head-turning .477 and was labeled by one scout as “the best prospect in America.” Giants Manager Leo Durocher saw no reason to wait and demanded that Mays, barely 20 at the time, join his team’s starting lineup.

Durocher managed Mays from 1951-55 and became a father figure — the surly but astute leader who nurtured and sometimes pampered the young phenom. As Durocher liked to tell it, and Mays never disputed, Mays struggled in his first few games and was ready to go back to the minors.


“In the minors I’m hitting .477, killing everybody. And I came to the majors, I couldn’t hit. I was playing the outfield very, very well, throwing out everybody, but I just couldn’t get a hit,” Mays told the Academy of Achievement, a Washington-based leadership center, in 1996. “And I started crying, and Leo came to me and he says, ‘You’re my center fielder; it doesn’t make any difference what you do. You just go home, come back and play tomorrow.’ I think that really, really turned me around.”

Mays finished 1951 batting .272 with 20 home runs, good enough to be named the league’s top rookie. He might have been a legend that first season. The Giants were 13 games behind Brooklyn on Aug. 11, but rallied and tied the Dodgers, then won a best-of-3 playoff series with one of baseball’s most storied homers: Bobby Thomson’s shot in the bottom of the ninth off Ralph Branca.

Mays was the on-deck batter.

“I was concentrating on Branca, what he was throwing, what he might throw me,” Mays told The New York Times in 2010. “When he hit the home run, I didn’t even move.

“I remember all the guys running by me, running to home plate, and I’m saying, ‘What’s going on here?’ I was thinking, ‘I got to hit!‘”

His military service the next two years stalled his career, but not his development. Mays was assigned as a batting instructor for his unit’s baseball team and, at the suggestion of one pupil, began catching fly balls by holding out his glove face up, around his belly, like a basket. Mays adopted the new approach in part because it enabled him to throw more quickly.

He returned full time in 1954, hit 41 homers and a league-leading .345. He was only 34 when he hit his 500th career homer, in 1965, but managed just 160 over the next eight years. Early in the 1972 season, with Mays struggling and the Giants looking to cut costs, the team stunned Mays and others by trading its marquee player to the New York Mets, returning him to the city where he had started out in the majors.

Mays’ debut with his new team could not have been better scripted: He hit a go-ahead home run in the fifth inning against the visiting Giants, and helped the Mets win 5-4. But he deteriorated badly over the next two seasons, even falling down on occasion in the field. Many cited him as example of a star who stayed too long.

In retirement, he mentored Bonds and defended him against allegations of using steroids. Mays himself was in trouble when Commissioner Bowie Kuhn banned him from the game, in 1979, for doing promotional work at the Bally’s Park Place Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Kuhn’s successor, Peter Ueberroth, reinstated Mays and fellow casino promoter Mantle in 1985).

But tributes were more common and they came from everywhere -- show business, sports, the White House. In the 1979 movie “Manhattan,” Woody Allen’s character cites Mays as among his reasons for living. When Obama learned he was a distant cousin of political rival and former Vice President Dick Cheney, he lamented that he wasn’t related to someone “cool,” like Mays.

“Willie Mays wasn’t just a singular athlete, blessed with an unmatched combination of grace, skill and power,” Obama said Tuesday on X. “He was also a wonderfully warm and generous person — and an inspiration to an entire generation.”

Asked about career highlights, Mays inevitably mentioned “The Catch,” but also cherished hitting four home runs in a game against the Braves; falling over a canvas fence to make a catch in the minors; and running into a fence in Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field while chasing a bases-loaded drive, knocking himself out, but still holding on to the ball.

Most of the time, he was happy just being on the field, especially when the sun went down.

“I mean, you had the lights out there and all you do is go out there, and you’re out there by yourself in center field,” he told the achievement academy. “And, I just felt that it was such a beautiful game that I just wanted to play it forever, you know.”

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Republicans Aren't Serious!

The Republicans are pushing conspiracy theories again about President Joe Biden and his mental fitness.

The White House is about to go to war with Rupert Murdoch. The New York Post, Fox and several of his allies are making claims about the president which aren't true. Being old is not crime. Being a politician is always a blood sport.

Joe Biden is 81 years old.

Dick Van Dyke is 98 years old.

Rupert Murdoch is 93 years old.

Donald J. Trump is 78 years old.

Chuck Grassley is 90 years old.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is 70 years old.

Richard Blumenthal is 77 years old.

Jim Risch is 80 years old.

Should I go further.

They lived longer than most Americans like Herman Cain, Rush Limbaugh and Kristie Alley. Those far right agitators are dead and gone. Never to be seen again.

Israel is the biggest issue that affects President Joe Biden. His iron clad support for the apartheid ethnostate is killing him with young voters, Arab voters, Muslim voters and some Black voters. His refusal to end the foreign aid to Israel and stand up to the Israeli lobby will doom him and the Democratic Party.

Biden host a fundraiser with Barack Obama and Jimmy Kimmel.

Republicans on the other hand are a bunch of idiots. They are rallying behind a former president who is a convicted felon. They continue to deny election results. They are pushing racial gerrymandering, still advocating for segregation through repeals of civil rights, women's rights, border walls, deporting immigrants, making Christian nationalism a reality, pushing for English only rights, repealing healthcare reform and abolishing the filibuster to install conservative federal judges on the bench.

They are using all the dirty tricks in their tired playbook. 

Biden was in Italy and at an event hosted by former president Barack Obama and Jimmy Kimmel. Both events, the far right tabloid The New York Post aided by the Republican National Committee pushed some of the most asinine conspiracies about the president.

While at the G7 Summit, Biden looks away to congratulate a parachuter who was tucking in his parachute when the far right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni asked him to pose with the rest of the G7 members.

The New York Post and other far right outlets as well as the RNC used it as an attack.

The claim that Biden "wandered off" and gave "awkward" movements towards Meloni were used in the New York Post. Also when the president watched Black singers and Vice President Kamala Harris dance at the Juneteenth event at the White House, the Post claimed he stood "motionless." 

The Post even claimed that Obama helped Biden off the stage at an event with Hollywood donors and comedian Kimmel presenting. Obama and Kimmel warned supporters that Donald J. Trump and Republicans pose a great risk to democracy if Democrats are divided. Yeah, Democrats are divided over issues like Israel. Folks are abandoning Democeats because they won't stand up to Israel.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre slammed Republicans and Rupert Murdoch's tabloids for using poor "cheapfakes." In actual video, Biden gave a thumbs up to a parachuter while he wandered away. Biden and Obama shake hands and the former president put his hands on the back of the president as they and Kimmel left the stage.

They're desperate attempts to paint Biden as senile may fall flat on its face.

Trump confused Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) as Ronny Johnson. Jackson was White House physician under Obama and Trump. He is a far right lawmaker and insufferable member from Amarillo. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is an insufferable far right conspiracy theorist from Oshkosh.
 
All this talk about Project 2025 is concerning. I started to reluctantly swing back to Biden.

Under Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, the Republican Party abandoned its principles for cheap attacks and bogus talking points. Trump barely talks about his one term as president.

He openly brags about accomplishments that happened after he left office. He still denies that he lost the 2020 presidential election, still pushes attacks on Hunter Biden who was convicted in federal court on gun charges, still advocating violence and rambles about nonsense.

The Republicans still claims the rallies are larger and voters are flocking to him.

Republicans are insufferable and they have no ideas or policies.

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