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Liars just like the media.

https://www.businessinsider.com/adl-extremism-ultraright-wing-violence-statistics-anti-defamation-league-2020-4

You have not seen my posts supporting Israel? I am not an antisemitic but the Democratic party is.

The Democratic governors have already done that. Now they are letting people loot their cities so they won't be called racist. Idiots.

A code word antisemites use.

This is as close to a Reichstag fire as Trump can get.

Virginia Governor Plans to Order Robert E. Lee Statue Removed

A statue of the Confederate general in Richmond is controlled by the state, but the city’s mayor said he would propose a bill to remove additional Confederate monuments there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/robert-e-lee-statue-richmond.html

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

June 3, 2020
Updated 8:14 p.m. ET

Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia plans to order the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond to be removed, an administration official said on Wednesday, the same day Richmond’s mayor said he would propose removing additional Confederate monuments from the state capital.

Demonstrators in at least six cities have targeted symbols of the Confederacy in recent days after George Floyd was killed while Minneapolis police officers arrested him, marring some statues and monuments whose presence has long ignited controversy.

The Northam administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the move had not yet been publicly announced, said Mr. Northam, a Democrat, would release more details at a news conference on Thursday morning.

The official said the Robert E. Lee monument was the only Confederate statue in Richmond over which the state had control. The statue of Lee, the Confederacy’s commanding general during the Civil War, was one of many monuments in Richmond that were recently vandalized with spray paint; protesters tried to topple others from their bases.
George Floyd Protests and Confederate Statues
Protesters outraged over the death of George Floyd are targeting some of the remaining confederate statues.

Mayor Levar Stoney of Richmond said on Wednesday that he would propose an ordinance to remove all four Confederate monuments that the city controls along Monument Avenue. Mr. Stoney said he would introduce the bill on July 1, when a new state law goes into effect giving local governments the authority to remove the monuments on their own.

“Richmond is no longer the capital of the Confederacy — it is filled with diversity and love for all — and we need to demonstrate that,” Mr. Stoney said in a statement.

Michael Jones, a City Council member who has been a leading voice for removal of the Confederate monuments, is also sponsoring the proposed ordinance. “This is not my victory,” he wrote on Twitter. “To our great grandparents, who lived in their shadow and to young protesters who echoed the call - this is all yours.”

At least two cities have removed contentious statues from public spaces this week amid the protests that have followed the death of Mr. Floyd, a black man who worked as a bouncer. Prosecutors have charged Derek Chauvin, a white police officer who has since been fired, with murder and said three other officers aided in the killing.
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On Monday, the mayor of Birmingham, Ala., ordered the removal of a Confederate statue from a public park. Protesters had defaced the statue, the 115-year-old Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Monument in Linn Park, and chipped away at its base over the weekend. A large crane arrived to remove it shortly before 8 p.m. Monday, which was Jefferson Davis Day, a state holiday in Alabama honoring the president of the Confederacy.

The city of Philadelphia took down a statue on Wednesday morning that depicted the former mayor Frank Rizzo, a champion of conservatives who aggressively policed black people and gay people in the 1960s and ’70s and whose likeness has long been criticized as a symbol of racism and oppression.

The statue, which sat on the steps of a municipal services building since its unveiling in 1999, was often vandalized, and protesters in recent days have tried to take it down and light it on fire.

Mayor Jim Kenney said the Rizzo statue was already scheduled to be removed — in 2021, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. But he said the protests showed that the statue “had to go away for us to understand where we need to go to look forward.”

Reporting was contributed by Aimee Ortiz, Johnny Diaz, Maria Cramer, Audra D. S. Burch and Richard Pérez-Peña.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs reports on national news. He is from upstate New York and previously reported in Baltimore, Albany, and Isla Vista, Calif. @nickatnews

whole lot of armwaving and blather and woefully short of actual facts to back up their claim.

No surprise you would know that. Myself, I had no idea. Unless you are lying, of which there is a very good chance. You are spreading another unfounded rumor because you never have an argument.

My posts supporting Israel abound. You do not do that and hate Jews. Stop lying.

A CASE OF VOTER FRAUD!!!!


President Trump tried to register to vote in Florida using an out-of-state address

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/president-trump-tried-to-register-to-vote-in-florida-using-an-out-of-state-address/2020/06/03/687d0014-a4f2-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

By
Manuel Roig-Franzia
June 3, 2020 at 11:44 a.m. CDT

President Trump originally tried to register to vote in Florida while claiming his “legal residence” was in another part of the country — Washington, D.C. — according to Florida elections records.

The September 2019 registration application listed Trump’s legal residence as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, the location of the White House. That created a potential problem for Trump: Florida law requires voters to be legal residents of the state. A month later, Trump resubmitted his application to use a Florida address and in March he voted by mail in Florida’s Republican primary.

The revisions complicate Trump’s own record as a voter at a time when the president has made unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud in mail-in balloting.

President Trump’s Florida voter registration form

Trump’s original voter-registration application, which was obtained by The Washington Post via a public records request, was filed during a time when the president was making a highly publicized move to change his permanent residence from his Manhattan penthouse to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Fla.
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The voter application is dated Sept. 27, 2019 — the same day that Trump made the domicile change. On one of his forms that day he was telling Florida officials that his “legal residence” was Washington, D.C., and on another he was saying he was a “bona fide resident” of Palm Beach.

Florida voter-registration applicants are warned on registration forms that they may be subject to fines and even prison time if they do not provide truthful information.

There has been at least one recent instance in Florida in which a public official faced legal consequences for registering to vote at an address that was not her legal residence. Last year, the city manager of Deltona, Fl., entered into an agreement with the local state’s attorney’s office to pay more than $5,000 in fees and reimbursements for the state’s investigation to avoid being prosecuted on criminal charges in a voter-registration case. She had registered to vote using the address of Deltona’s City Hall, rather than her home address, and had cast ballots in elections using that registration.
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In Palm Beach, where Trump has registered to vote, there was a high-profile arrest in 1993 of a popular restaurateur who was charged with voter fraud and briefly jailed because he registered to vote in Palm Beach but lived in the neighboring city of West Palm Beach. A felony charge in the case was eventually dropped.

A month passed before Trump filed the second voter registration application, this time listing 1100 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach — the address of Mar-a-Lago — as his legal residence. There also was another difference: Trump’s original voter-registration directed election officials to send his registration materials to Mar-a-Lago in care of another person — Sean McCabe, a vice president and general manager of Trump Florida Properties in the neighboring city of West Palm Beach. (McCabe’s first name — Shawn — is misspelled.)

It’s unclear precisely what happened during the 31 days between Trump’s two applications. It’s possible that Florida elections officials flagged the D.C. address on the application and may have requested a change or clarification.
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Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link and the state’s Division of Elections did not respond to written questions. Trump Organization representatives did not respond to written questions, and McCabe could not be reached for comment.

Trump has used his change of residency as a political tool, saying at the time of his announcement that he had been treated badly in New York. Beyond that, he hasn’t explained his reasons.

Voting outside the District of Columbia while serving as president is not uncommon. President Barack Obama cast his vote in the 2016 presidential election in his hometown of Chicago, and President George W. Bush voted by mail in Texas in the 2008 presidential election.

Trump, however, has sent confusing signals about his official state of residence beyond the recent change on his Florida voter-registration forms. On Monday, he declared, “I live in Manhattan,” during a call with the nation’s governors about the response to unrest related to protests over the death of an unarmed black man who had been held down by police in Minneapolis.
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Afterward, prominent Democratic lawyer Marc E. Elias tweeted: “Sounds like New York may have a good claim for taxes. And Florida for voter fraud.”

Questions about the legality of Trump’s change of domicile surfaced in the past few weeks during an otherwise mundane fight he’s been waging since 2018 to persuade Palm Beach to let him build a dock at Mar-a-Lago.

Trump made Florida his residence. He also may have made a legal mess.

Trump initially made the request, which is being considered by the Palm Beach City Council, saying it was needed to enhance security to protect him. He later changed the request, saying Mar-a-Lago is his “personal residence” and that the dock would be “for private family use only.” According to Mar-a-Lago’s website, he maintains “private quarters” at the club. Trump calls Mar-a-Lago his “Winter White House” and has traveled there more than two dozen times during his presidency, staying there well over 100 days, according to a Washington Post tally.
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Opponents of the dock unearthed an agreement with the city that Trump signed in the early 1990s converting Mar-a-Lago’s use from a single-family residence to a private club. At the time, his attorney told the council that he would not live at the club, but would have use of the facilities like any other member. The agreement also bans members from staying at the club for more than 21 days a year spread over three nonconsecutive visits.

“It’s one or the other — it’s a club or it’s your home,” Reginald Stambaugh, an attorney who represents a neighbor opposed to Trump’s dock plan, told The Post in an interview last month. “You can’t have it both ways.”

Trump withdrew the dock request in early May — three days after The Post reported on the existence of the use agreement and the potential legal problems it posed. His attorney told the council that he would revisit the request at a future date.
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Under fire, Trump withdraws controversial Mar-a-Lago dock plan

Glenn Zeitz, a Philadelphia-area attorney who has a home in Palm Beach and has been informally advising the dock opponents, has said that the withdrawal has no bearing on the legal issues raised by Trump’s domicile issue. Zeitz has said that Trump’s decision to use Mar-a-Lago as his domicile may represent “a substantial and serious potential legal impediment” to Trump registering to vote in Florida. The revelation about Trump using an out-of-state address for his first voter application only adds more questions, he said.

“It’s just beyond the pale,” Zeitz said, “that something is being done like this.”

Amy Gardner, Philip Bump and Alice Crites contributed to this report.

The cowering president and his men are playing defense. It’s not working.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/03/cowering-president-his-men-are-playing-defense-its-not-working/

By
Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
June 3, 2020 at 11:18 a.m. CDT

The debacle that unfolded Monday — the tear-gassing of peaceful protesters, the debasement of St. John’s Episcopal Church, the wholly inappropriate participation of the defense secretary and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the goose step across Lafayette Square — turned out to be President Trump’s way of trying to compensate for reports of his widely mocked trip to the White House bunker in the face of protests Friday evening. Things have turned out so badly that we are now entering the better-to-sound-stupid phase of excuses for the fiasco.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper insisted he did not know where he was going — no time to brief! — when he marched out of the White House with Trump. Or was it, as Esper also claimed, to inspect a bathroom that had been vandalized in the park, which we are supposed to believe warranted his appearance?

This followed a different excuse given on Tuesday. CNBC reports:
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“The Secretary and the chairman were both actually heading to the Washington Field Office of the FBI to be co-located with the director of the FBI and the Attorney General to observe and provide leadership for response efforts last evening,” explained a senior Defense official on a call with Pentagon reporters.
“They were not aware that the Park Police and law enforcement had made a decision to clear the square. And once they began that walk off the White House grounds with the president, their understanding was that they were going out of the White House to go into Lafayette Park to review the efforts to address the protests,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Esper is apparently so embarrassed by the incident that he is directly contradicting his boss. At a news conference on Wednesday he insisted, “I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act. The option to use active-duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now.” He also promises to investigate the low-flying helicopter that appeared to try to intimidate protesters Monday night. Since Esper has now debased himself both by participating in the stunt and coming up with a pathetic excuse to explain his lack of judgment, it might be time for him to resign.

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“Inspection” now seems to be the excuse of choice. Trump claims, ludicrously, that he had gone down to the bunker “more for an inspection.” ”I went down during the day, and I was there for a tiny period of time," he claimed, adding, "There was never a problem. We never had a problem. Nobody ever came close to giving us a problem.” It’s true he was never endangered, but the inspection excuse, even for Trump, is among the lamest to date and only makes him look weaker and more desperate.

The reaction to the Monday stunt has been so negative that apparently White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has thrown Ivanka Trump and Hope Hicks under the bus, letting it be known the mess was their idea.

Rats leaving a sinking ship? Well, there is no evidence they are actually leaving, but Trump’s advisers are clearly running for cover. No amount of excuses is going to spare Trump and his lackeys the humiliation and condemnation they so richly deserve. The contrast between their conduct — bullying, authoritarian, self-reverential — and that of the thousands upon thousands of protesters who were overwhelmingly peaceful on Tuesday should not be lost on anyone. The threat of violence comes from a cornered president, not from Americans protesting injustice.

As former president George W. Bush put it in a remarkable written statement released on Tuesday, “Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America — or how it becomes a better place.” Trump also fails to understand he cannot bully an entire country into submission. He cannot even bully his own advisers to stick to a single cover story.

Figures. Obama knew when he started kneecapping America this violence would come about as the logical progression of a radical ideology. They all gradually turn violent. Look at any other Communist take over.

So, two more losers that think America sucks go on their merry way.

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/former-obama-intelligence-official-helps-secure-bail-for-molotov-cocktail-throwing-nyc-lawyer/

coldjoint: take me to the bunker. I'm agog to meet King Trump.

Brad Parscale : that's a bagatelle. All you have to do is sing the praises of King Trump online day in and day out.

coldjoint: I have been doing this for years without getting a wage increase. I take home less than five dollars from this job everyday. Even workers from Mexico earn more than me. You know the the federal minimum wage for covered nonexempt employees is $7.25 per hour. I'm white, sir. That's ridiculous. Elizabeth Warren proposes increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Mike Pence: I'm wearing pants, not skirts, you bumpkin from Gotham.

coldjoint: what difference does it make"


Mike Pence: how would I know? I'm just saying. You know I haven't read any books ever since I graduated from Oxfart. That's why Trump chose me to be his valet.

coldjoint: you are the vice president, not a valet.

Mike Pence: what difference does it make? I'm told to help Trump get dressed everyday without being televised by Fox News. I mean I'm invisible in the words of Ralph Ellison.

coldjoint: I understand. Trump told me Fox news would hire me one day. I was tickled pink after hearing this. Yet he scolded me for being an interloper when I burst into his bedroom to ask him about this. You know I had actually heard a strange sound from his bedroom.

Mike Pence: what was that sound?

coldjoint: I can't dwell on it. Well, Trump happened to be slithering up the wall of his bedroom with his tongue sticking out.

Mike Pence: like a chameleon?

coldjoint: right on. And his tongue was even festooned with a ribbon that reads ....

Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson: America first? that's a moving story. Now we can attest to the fact that Trump is a patriot.

coldjoint: nah. It reads I love Russian chicks with king-sized buttocks.

Mike Pence, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Brad Parscale : same here.

coldjoint: is it okay for Trump to increase my wage to 5.5 dollars everyday.

Trump: you are fired

Giving Bob a break?

Bob's not your uncle?

This is what some are so eager to defend and enable? Violence for political purposes.

That is terrorism.
https://conservativefiringline.com/organized-riots-piles-of-bricks-in-cities-chicago-police-radios-jammed/

What's your take on the so-called boogaloo movement as a racist?

Falsely accusing everyone of racism makes you look pretty silly.

Your inability to come up with an intelligent argument is no excuse for your false accusations.

No take at all.