VS - Political wars #124 , In Idiocracy We Trust

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Op dinsdag 7 maart 2023 20:04 schreef epicbeardman het volgende:

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Wie is dat? GOP is te vergelijken met VVD.
Republikeinen zoals Bush zijn om uit te kotsen tegenwoordig. Zijn geen republikeinen meer te noemen.

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Op dinsdag 7 maart 2023 23:15 schreef epicbeardman het volgende:

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GOP moet af van de RINO's. Republikeinen die alles voor geld en hen positie doen, zelfs de beste President ooit benadelen. Koning Trump.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 08:50 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:
Je kan zien dat het Linkse Establishment nogal van streek is door de achtergehouden beelden van 6 Januari 2021 die recent zijn gepubliceerd. Beelden die de mensen die MSM-gebruikers nog nooit hebben gezien en de Autoriteit ondermijnen.

Op die momenten zie je Links driftig in BNW posten om vooral zichzelf te overtuigen dat de Autoriteit toch echt de absolute waarheid is. Hetzelfde zie je bijvoorbeeld met Covid. Hoe driftiger ze posten in BNW, des te angstiger ze zijn. Altijd een goed teken.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 09:53 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:

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Trump was een glitch in the matrix. Het was nooit de bedoeling dat Trump zou winnen, HRC was voorbestemd om de eindeloze reeks oorlogen voort te zetten en het Amerikaanse imperium uit te breiden. Daarom werd hij constant door politici uit de 'eigen' GOP dwars gezeten. Alles moest weer terug naar het oude, waar de DNC en GOP samen poppenkast speelden maar achter de schermen gewoon dezelfde knechten van het grootkapitaal zijn.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 09:47 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:

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Fixed

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 12:36 schreef weetjewel5 het volgende:
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Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 19:17 schreef epicbeardman het volgende:
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The January 6th committee is guilty on multiple fronts of deception. They refused to give an honest account, which would have included the riot itself, by editing footage in a way to make things seem far worse and more organized than they were. Past that, they purposely obfuscated footage that would have given Americans a clearer understanding of what did and didn’t happen. For that, they deserve your scorn. That Thompson would continue to lie about it is just the cherry on top.

Veel die erin trappen! Wij wisten al langer dat het een farce was

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"I hate him passionately," Carlson wrote, adding that he "can't handle much more of this," according to the recently released court filings. In the message, he said he "truly can't wait" to be able to stop covering Trump -- and added that he has grown to despise him.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 08:50 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:
Je kan zien dat het Linkse Establishment nogal van streek is door de achtergehouden beelden van 6 Januari 2021 die recent zijn gepubliceerd. Beelden die de mensen die MSM-gebruikers nog nooit hebben gezien en de Autoriteit ondermijnen.

Op die momenten zie je Links driftig in BNW posten om vooral zichzelf te overtuigen dat de Autoriteit toch echt de absolute waarheid is. Hetzelfde zie je bijvoorbeeld met Covid. Hoe driftiger ze posten in BNW, des te angstiger ze zijn. Altijd een goed teken.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 20:13 schreef epicbeardman het volgende:
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Not sure if troll. tegenwoordig verbaast mij niks meer.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 21:45 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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De beelden van de J6 Comm. tonen gewoon aan welke gewelddadigheden er hebben plaatsgevonden bij de aanval op het Capitool? Op grond daarvan zijn er honderden mensen aangeklaagd waarvan de ernst van hun overtreding/misdaad natuurlijk varieert. Dat er ook beelden bestaan van mensen die op bepaalde momenten geen bedreiging vormen weet iedereen maar dat doet niks af aan de aanklachten op grond van de beelden die dat aantonen.

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Daar zijn honderden aanklachten uit voortgekomen en iedere advocaat van de aangeklaagden heeft toegang gehad tot ALLE beelden voor de verdediging. Dus van misrepresentatie is geen sprake tenzij die advocaten hun werk niet goed hebben gedaan.

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En het verklaart ook niet waarom een deel van die aangeklaagden schuldig gepleit hebben en en de zaak niet wilden laten voorkomen om hun onschuld te bewijzen.

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Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 22:47 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
De bron voor verkiezingsfraude van Fox 'News'

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En dat allemaal alleen maar omdat het kijkcijfers oplevert van het goedgelovige volgvolk dat niets anders wil horen.

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Op donderdag 9 maart 2023 11:12 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Een drukke nacht zo te zien, gezellig! Leuk even alles bij te lezen. Dit hebben we lang niet meer in BNW mogen aanschouwen.
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Volgens mij is dit account een parodie. Maar dit soort dingen kun je in progressieve kringen zeker verwachten, het indoctrineren van kinderen met het eigen radicale gedachtegoed begint daar steeds meer de norm te worden. Het is de bedoeling dat ze op 6 of 7 jarige leeftijd al zich bewust zijn van allerlei intersectionele theorieën en de verschillende vermeende groepenidentiteiten die dit verderfelijke gedachtegoed onderschrijft.

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“There were tears, there was that emotion. But then to sit on that stage and watch the opposite of what we represented on display – there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage, there was no reflection of the broader sense of America,” Obama said.

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Op donderdag 9 maart 2023 15:05 schreef theguyver het volgende:
https://www.amazon.com/Le(...)&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk

Hahaha welke gek gaat daar nu geld aan uitgeven..

Hij zit echt in geldnood.

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Op donderdag 9 maart 2023 11:38 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:

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Niemand ontkent dat er gewelddadigheden hebben plaatsgevonden. Ieder georganiseerd protest trekt naast normale mensen met een mening ook halve zolen aan die er op uit zijn om te rellen. En niet te vergeten undercover FBI-agenten en andere provocateurs wiens bedoeling het was om de boel te laten ontsporen.
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Tuurlijk
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Wat ben je toch aandoenlijk naief. Alsof die arme zielen enige kans hadden in een rechtszaak tegen de staat. De staat blijft gewoon net zolang doorprocederen tot je failliet bent. Carjackers en verkrachters staan na hun arrestatie binnen een paar uur weer op straat na betaling van een minimale borg, maar iemand die een beetje door het capitool slenterde op 6 januari wordt maandenlang op water en brood gezet. Terwijl je in die tijd niet kunt werken, maar de huur/hypotheek wel doorloopt en je al die tijd je vrouw en kinderen maar een paar keer van achter glas kunt zien. En op een gegeven moment heb je weinig keus om de plea deal dan maar aan te nemen en jezelf schuldig te verklaren

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Defense lawyers have long had access to an extensive government database of video from the riot, which is protected under a court order. As part of that discovery process, federal prosecutors have tried to keep certain CCTV clips from the Capitol complex hidden from the public, saying in court that their release would pose a national security risk and could give vital insight to bad actors who may be planning a future attack.

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Op donderdag 9 maart 2023 11:41 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:

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Andrew Weismann quoten. Het ware brein achter de Russia! heksenjacht die op een natte scheet uitdraaide.

Maar dat doe je al die tijd, veel van de mensen wiens tweets jij post zijn zo'n beetje de meest walgelijke types die er op de aardkloot rondkruipen. Chuck Schumer en Liz Cheney bijvoorbeeld. En wie is die Ron Filipowski anyway? Dat lijkt ook wel iets van De Speld ofzo.

Moet jij trouwens niet naar Mastodon?

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The author of the memo in which Powell and Bartiromo put so much stock offered detailed and utterly false claims of how Dominion Voting Systems helped rig the election for Biden. She also shared a bit about herself, writing that she gains insights from experiencing something "like time-travel in a semi-conscious state."

The existence of the memo, its enigmatic author, and her role in Fox's broadcasts surfaced in a devastating 178-page legal brief filed by Dominion Voting Systems and made public last week by a Delaware court. The election-tech company has sued Fox News for $1.6 billion for defamation over the airing of false claims that it engaged in election fraud.

Powell's source also volunteered that the wind tells her that she's a ghost, though she doesn't believe it.

The woman, who is not named in the legal brief, wrote that she knew the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had been killed during a week-long human hunting expedition at an elite social club. (Scalia, a favorite of many Fox News hosts, died in 2016 of a heart attack, according to local officials in Texas, where he died.)

And the woman asserted that the late Fox News chairman Roger Ailes and Fox Corporation founder Rupert Murdoch "secretly huddle most days to determine how best to portray Mr. Trump as badly as possible." By the time the woman wrote her memo, Ailes had been dead for more than three years.

Attorney Sidney Powell spread baseless election-fraud claims on Fox News after the 2020 election. To back up her claims, she forwarded Fox hosts an email from a source who admitted those claims were "pretty wackadoodle."

"Who am I? And how do I know all of this?... I've had the strangest dreams since I was a little girl," the woman wrote in the email shared by Powell with Bartiromo and Dobbs. "I was internally decapitated, and yet, I live."

This all appeared in the same memo that claimed Dominion's software flipped votes from Trump to Biden, and tied the election company to a conspiracy involving Democrats Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

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More Black Women Run for Office, but Prospects Fade the Higher They Go

As Rep. Barbara Lee hits the campaign trail for a Senate seat in California, significant hurdles await her. The race is expected to be one of the most competitive, and expensive, in the country. Even more daunting, she will face one of the strongest glass ceilings in American politics.

When Lee, 76, was first elected to Congress in 1998, the House had 11 Black women in office, and only one Black woman served in the Senate. With the swearing-in of Jennifer McClellan as the first Black woman to represent Virginia on Tuesday, the House now has 28 Black women in its ranks, a new high-water mark, but the Senate has none.

“It blows my mind that in 2023, I am a first,” McClellan said in an interview Tuesday. “Frankly, it is this imagination gap that people have had for a very long time — that because they haven’t seen a Black woman in these offices, they can’t imagine it.”

Over the past decade, Black women have made tremendous gains: Kamala Harris broke barriers as the nation’s first Black, Asian American and female vice president. More Black women are leading major cities, and many more have sought Senate seats and governorships.

But winning those offices still poses familiar and enduring challenges for women of color, and Black women in particular. Many confront both blatant racism and sexism, along with subtler forms of racial and gender bias that, candidates and political advocates said, make it more difficult for them to raise money to pay for the costly work of hiring staff and buying advertising in expensive markets.

The numbers are stark: Only two Black women have served in the Senate in its 233-year history — Harris, who was elected in 2016 in California, and Carol Moseley Braun, the Illinois Democrat who served one term in the 1990s.

Out of 64 Black women who have run for the Senate since 2010, only eight have secured major-party nominations. No Black woman has ever been elected governor and, out of the 22 who have run for the position since 2010, only four have become major-party nominees, according to data compiled by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. All of the nominees have been Democrats.

“It is absolutely shameful that we do not have a Black woman in the Senate, especially given the contributions of Black women to this country,” said Stefanie Brown James, a co-founder and senior adviser at the Collective PAC, which works to elect Black candidates.

Interviewed before her swearing-in, McClellan said her run for Congress after nearly two decades as a state lawmaker was much easier than her first, when she was 32 and had never held public office but had been highly involved in Democratic politics. But she said her trajectory showed the higher standards Black women must meet.

“We have to prove ourselves at another level that others are not required to,” she said. “I just want to emphasize that because someone’s experience may be different, it doesn’t mean it is less valuable.”

Black leaders and advocates working to increase women’s representation in politics still see signs for optimism. The dearth of Black women in government has encouraged more to seek higher office. And much like the generation of Black female politicians in the mold of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, in 1968, this next wave of leaders has high-profile role models. They include Harris; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court; and Stacey Abrams, whose first campaign for governor in Georgia in 2018 propelled her to prominence as a political tactician, even if her second run exposed her limitations.

“The possibilities of the electoral map for Black women’s leadership has expanded over the last 10 years, and the numbers of Black women running and winning — and running and losing — are all rich data points to be able to build the blueprint forward,” said Glynda C. Carr, president and co-founder of Higher Heights for America, which is dedicated to helping Black women win elected office.

The void in the Senate in particular has served as a motivator, said A’shanti F. Gholar, president of Emerge, which recruits and trains Democratic women to run for office. “So many bills impact Black women, and we don’t have a voice in implementing them at all,” she said, citing legislation on abortion rights and the high mortality rate among Black mothers.

But for Black women, the hurdles to higher office begin even before they decide to run. In races for governor, most voters still tend to picture men in the job, and they require women to provide far more evidence about qualifications, according to research by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation, a nonpartisan group working to increase the ranks of women in politics whose namesake is a Massachusetts philanthropist with no relation to the congresswoman.

“Men can release their résumé, and it is taken at face value,” said Amanda Hunter, the foundation’s executive director. “Women have to show what they have accomplished in each position.”

An increasingly toxic and divisive political environment that often turns Black female candidates and politicians into targets on social media has only added to the burden of entry, former candidates and campaign officials said. A prime example is Harris, who faced an onslaught of racist and sexist online attacks on her gender, identity and appearance during and after the 2020 campaign.

Racism and sexism are common enough on the campaign trail, and women running for office, Black or white, are peppered with concerns about their electability. The question is pointed: Can she win?

Black women often come up against another question: “Can she win enough white voters?” said Kelly Dittmar, the research director and a scholar at the Rutgers center.

In fact, the number of Black women serving the House from majority-white congressional districts jumped to five in 2020 from two in 2018. But Nadia E. Brown, the chair of the women’s and gender studies program at Georgetown University, said Black female candidates still have greater difficulty winning in statewide races in part because media coverage — both reflecting and reinforcing the biases of voters in general — tends to treat Black female candidates “as experts only in issues that Black women disproportionately deal with,” minimizing the scope of their experience.

“They are not seen as the go-to people on tax policy or the go-to people on immigration reform,” she said.

Money, however, is perhaps the biggest hurdle. “For Black women to win, the money has to come early, and it has to come often, and it has to come in competitive amounts,” said James of the Collective PAC. The donations they receive tend to be fewer and smaller, researchers and Black political operatives and activists said.

Despite the obstacles, the support networks have grown, and in recent election cycles Black women have made headway in hard-to-win places. In 2020, Marquita Bradshaw, a Tennessee Democrat and environmental activist, was the only Black woman to secure a major-party nomination for Senate.

Last cycle, all four Black women nominated for Senate came from Southern states.

In Florida, Rep. Val Demings raised about $81 million, the third-highest fundraising amount of any Senate candidate, to take on Sen. Marco Rubio. He raised nearly $51 million — and won.

In the Senate race in North Carolina, Cheri Beasley, a Democrat and former chief justice of the state’s Supreme Court, raised more than double what her Republican opponent, Rep. Ted Budd, pulled in, but was outmatched in outside spending by Republicans. That plus Budd’s endorsement by former President Donald Trump seemed to tip the scales in an otherwise sleepy race.

The two other Black women who won nominations for Senate races last cycle — Krystle Matthews, a former state lawmaker from South Carolina, and Natalie James, a first-time candidate in Arkansas — never raised anywhere near the several million dollars required to mount competitive campaigns in those deep-red states, each bringing in only around $100,000.

James, a real estate agent and political activist from Little Rock, helped organize mass protests after the murder of George Floyd. She has been considering running again, she said, as she has watched Lee roll out her campaign.

Among those talked about as future candidates for Senate or governor are trailblazers like Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell of Massachusetts, the first Black woman to hold statewide office, and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, a Democrat who is the first woman and first Black person to represent Delaware in Congress.

In the California race to succeed Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Lee, the highest-ranking Black woman in the House, has several advantages. She serves on powerful House appropriations and budget committees and has gained national recognition as a leading anti-war voice in Congress. But she started behind her competitors in fundraising, and her rivals, Reps. Adam Schiff and Katie Porter, built national profiles and donor networks during the Trump administration.

Lee, whose announcement video underscored the racism she has confronted, said she was first inspired to run by Chisholm, who took her on as an organizer and director during her historic 1972 presidential bid and, Lee said, taught her to dismantle unjust rules.

But Lee had been challenging the status quo long before. As a high school student, she successfully challenged cheerleader tryouts that were overseen by a small committee and excluded women of color. The rule changes she helped usher in allowed the entire student body to pick its squad members, and Lee became the school’s first Black cheerleader.

As she now runs for the Senate, she said, a common refrain she hears from white voters and potential donors is: “We love you, Barbara. We think you would make a great senator. But Adam Schiff, he just looks like a senator.”

“It is the same situation as years ago, when I did not look like what a cheerleader should look like,” she said. “But all of this is positive because I am challenging that.”

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Op vrijdag 10 maart 2023 13:00 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Artikel van Yahoo, maar oorspronkelijk van de New York Times. Wat een titel ook hier weer, haha. Ja, natuurlijk worden de kansen kleiner naarmate je hogerop komt, er zijn immers minder posities om te vullen. Dat werkt voor letterlijk iedereen zo. Maar uiteraard, dit is weer rrrrrrrrrracisme! Sssssekisme!
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Op vrijdag 10 maart 2023 14:06 schreef weetjewel5 het volgende:

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In de NBA zijn African Americans dan weer oververtegenwoordigd. Tijd dat ze die in gaan wisselen voor een paar blanken.