Progressives (Liberals)

But certainly you - a someone who wants to protect Confederate statues - are outraged that post-war Germany had torn down Nazi memorials, isn't it? (Germany does not have statues of Hitler, or monuments honouring the valour of Nazi soldiers.)

Erik Prince – the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater and a prominent supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump – has been pushing a plan to deploy a private army to help topple Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicholas Maduro, four sources with knowledge of the effort told Reuters.

Over the last several months, the sources said, Prince has sought investment and political support for such an operation from influential Trump supporters and wealthy Venezuelan exiles. In private meetings in the United States and Europe, Prince sketched out a plan to field up to 5,000 soldiers-for-hire on behalf of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, according to two sources with direct knowledge of Prince’s pitch.

One source said Prince has conducted meetings about the issue as recently as mid-April.

The New York Times reported overnight that White House officials are doing what they should've done before the president threw his support behind the Republican pundit: they're starting to vet his published works.

Quote:

The White House is reviewing past writings by Stephen Moore, the conservative commentator whom President Trump plans to nominate to the Federal Reserve Board, amid criticism that many of his opinion columns denigrated women, and enthusiasm for his candidacy appeared to be waning among Republicans on Capitol Hill. [...]

Mr. Moore apologized on Sunday for some, but not all, of his past writings in an appearance on ABC's "This Week," saying that he did not remember everything he had written over his career. "Frankly, I didn't even remember writing some of these they were so long ago," he said, adding that he was embarrassed by some of the pieces.

Mr. Moore has written that it may be dangerous for women to earn more than men and has criticized women's athletic abilities. On Sunday, he tried to shift the focus from his writings to his critics, saying, "I think most fair-minded people think this has been kind of a sleaze campaign against me."

If by "sleaze campaign," Moore is referring to people quoting things he's said and written, then his whining is well grounded.

Quote:

Me too neither Spanky.

Outside of Mistress Olga (She-wolf of the SS when in uniform) you're the only one who calls me Spanky.

A quickly-recanted sexual assault allegation against a Democratic presidential candidate was reportedly the latest work of two notorious far-right operatives — Jacob Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman. For Burkman, this is the latest in a long series of scandals for a man who once served as counsel to a prominent Republican congressman and as a lobbyist for prominent government affairs firms.

On Monday afternoon, a tweet and blog post on Medium written by someone assuming the identity of a 21-year-old gay man began circulating on far-right websites. With no details, the post alleged a February 2019 sexual assault by the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. By Monday evening, the accuser had recanted the claim.

Later on Monday night, the Daily Beast reported that Burkman and Wohl had been behind an effort to get young men to falsely accuse Buttigieg, in hopes of weakening a candidate they saw as a threat to President Donald Trump’s re-election prospects. The news site obtained an audio recording in which the two apparently attempted to enlist a different person to make similar false accusations.

Here's the post I'm talking about, just in case you found it too difficult to click back 4 replies.

https://able2know.org/topic/468987-363#post-6832902

April 30, 2019 - Biden Surging Among Democrats In Presidential Race, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; U.S. Voters Support Wealth Tax, Oppose Free College

Former Vice President Joseph Biden is surging among Democrats and voters leaning Democratic, with 38 percent of the vote, followed by 12 percent for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 11 percent for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and 10 percent for South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, according to a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today.