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It doesn't matter if he was there or if he wasn't, it had to be cleared through the Secret Service first

You've elevated the Secret Service above the US Department of Justice, which it isn't. There is no law or regulation constraining the FBI from raiding a place they knew the President wouldn't be!

Gawd, you people are morons!

I seem to recall that Trump was not present the day the warrant was executed.

On purpose. They didn't want him at Mar-a-Lago at the time of the raid. However, Trump and his family were able to watch everything the FBI did because they allowed his surveillance system to operate as normal. It was all reported at the time. None of this garbage is new.

We should be drilling our own oil.
But Biden is stupid. He's being run by the pie in the sky, no gas liberals, who "feel" a utopia where no one is using fossil fuels.
Idiots.

The only "idiot" here is you Boaz. Stop reading your disinformation sites and find REAL news and reporting.

Bobb, of course, enjoys the presumption of innocence, but it continues to be no small detail that the Republican National Committee's election integrity lawyer has been indicted on election-related charges.

What's more, by all appearances, this has not affected her status at the RNC. It's not as if party officials learned of the criminal charges and hastily arranged her going-away party. On the contrary, Bobb stands accused of election-related crimes and she's still the RNC's election integrity lawyer.

Bobb also talked in 2022 about a plot to overturn the 2020 election results and possibly reinstate Trump to the White House. A year later, the lawyer raised the possibility of someone "intentionally" having released Covid as part of a scheme to interfere with Trump's re-election effort.

A year after that, she suggested that it shouldn't much matter whether a presidential candidate was found guilty of insurrection.

In other words, the lawyer who will help oversee the Republican National Committee's "election integrity" efforts is a "big lie" proponent, an election conspiracy theorist who played a prominent role in a scandal that led to one of Trump's many felony indictments, and now under indictment in Arizona, where she has been charged with election-related crimes.

Being a Democrat today based upon most of the people I know comes down to finding reasons to find or make anger and hate. Always pissed about something. The worst are the ones with a permanent chip about new absurdities like gender and stupid stuff that people normally do not care about.

This is how I wish Cohen had responded when asked if he stole $30,000 from Trump by intentionally overcharging him:

"Yes, I cheated the cheater who paid me money to help him cheat other people because he cheated me out of money I believed that he owed me."

They fail to report large gifts, luxury vacations and payments to their family members by wealthy donors, at least one of whom had business before the court, and they express nakedly partisan opinions or fail to adequately distance themselves when their spouses express such views.

They are saying, in effect, that they don't care if any of this bothers you. To go by recent polls showing that this court's public approval has approached record lows, it bothers many millions of Americans. And yet no one in Washington seems willing to act.

It can't go on. The court's refusal to police itself, willingly allowing a few justices to trample on its reputation, demands that Congress step up and take far stronger action to enforce judicial ethics, and to require justices to recuse themselves when they have or appear to have clear conflicts of interest.

As all justices are aware, federal recusal law is clear: "Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned."

In the Jan. 6 cases, recusal should not be a close call. At the least, reasonable people are justified in questioning Justice Alito's impartiality based on his failure to take down the inverted flag, especially during a period of intense national conflict over an issue that was at that very moment before the justices.

Justice Thomas's extreme closeness with his wife (he has described them as being melded "into one being") raises similar doubts about his ability to be impartial. He is further implicated by a separate provision of the law, which requires a judge to recuse when his or her spouse is "to the judge's knowledge likely to be a material witness in the proceeding." That sure sounds like Ginni Thomas, who testified, under threat of a subpoena, before the House Jan. 6 committee.

In short, Justices Alito and Thomas appear to be breaking federal law, tanking what remains of the court's legitimacy in the process. The challenge is whether anyone is willing to do anything about it.

The 2045 needs to quit.

Naw, this was just the first attempt.

And a reminder for those who know and don't know the details: This election ONLY happened because the organizers were able to get over 50% of the workforce to sign cards asking for such an election. And reports were that the union collected over 60% of the workforce's cards - if I read correctly, so the fact that only 44% ended up voting for the union, the company's efforts and expenditures to forcibly change minds was successful.

That is why there are companies being paid millions to come into workplaces and stop workers from unionizing after an election has been called.

I guess the workers who voted against union representation must be blindly ignorant to the fact that their employer will spend millions of dollars to stop them from having a collective voice while at the same time not spending that same amount of money (or any at all) providing them better pay and benefits, if they really want to make the case their workers don't need a union.

I think most of you know exactly why and I wish workers in these situations would stop and think about it themselves and then respond accordingly.

Well, the MB tactics worked. The union lost the election 2045 for unionization versus 2642 against.

Alabama is what it always has been and forever will be by its own choice.

Scheffler's attorney has released a statement that I'll paraphrase since it isn't in writing. He claims that Scottie was following the protocols for entry that the players had been given and that he flashed his credentials as he was supposed to. Scheffler had no knowledge of the accident when he proceeded, and that the officer who interacted and arrested him was not one of the officers hired for tournament security and wasn't familiar with the instructions given the golfers as to how they were to enter the course.

Currently, Scheffler has been processed, released from jail, and has been returned to the course and is warming up for today's round moved back 2 hours due to the accident.

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What is it with you lemmings? Are you brain dead? No one needs to provide 5 links because everyone already knows that BOTH Alito and Menendez blamed their wives when caught in each's unique situation - the commonality being the wives, not the situations themselves.

Lamplighter couldn't have been more plain and direct.

Nothing like Menendez.

It's EXACTLY like Menendez in that BOTH blamed their wives. Can't you comprehend a simple english sentence correctly?

He wasn't analogizing the acts themselves, just the excuses given by both men.

A police officer instructed Scheffler to stop, but Scheffler continued to drive about 10 to 20 yards toward the entrance.

At one point, an officer attached himself to the side of Scheffler's car. Scheffler stopped his car as he turned into the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club.

After about 20 to 30 seconds, Scheffler rolled down his window to talk to the officer. The officer grabbed Scheffler's arm to pull him out of the vehicle, according to Darlington. The officer reached inside the vehicle to open the door, and once Scheffler was pulled out, he was pushed against the car and placed in handcuffs.

Darlington was standing at the entrance when Scheffler was detained. Darlington said Scheffler turned to him and asked, "Can you help?"

According to Darlington, an officer instructed him to back away. "You need to get out of the way," the officer told Darlington. "Right now, he's going to jail, and there's nothing you can do about it."

The part I'm failing to understand is how Scheffler is charged with 2nd degree assault of a police officer when it was the officer who decided to "attach" himself to Scheffler's moving car. Unless Scheffler was going to endanger others in his attempt to circumvent the accident scene, I don't see how any of this was warranted nor useful in the overall scheme of things. Police judgment is often out of control, and this appears to be another example of an unwarranted escalation solely due to an officer's lack of reasonable perspective. To my knowledge, event-provided courtesy cars are readily identifiable by stickers, plates, and uniformity of make and model.

An uproar ensued, with Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) calling for order, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) demanding the committee "take down" Greene's words, essentially reprimanding her for insulting another lawmaker.

"That is absolutely unacceptable, how dare you attack the physical appearance of another person," Ocasio-Cortez said.

Comer soon suspended the hearing for several minutes so lawmakers could confer with their parliamentary experts, and Greene agreed to "strike" her words, but she refused to apologize.

Eventually, after several more minutes of parliamentary arguing, the committee voted to allow Greene to finish her allotted speaking time. But Crockett wasn't finished.

"I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling," Crockett said. "If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach blonde, bad built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?"

"What now?" Comer said.

But the absolute lack of respect and decency shown her fellow elected officials and for the institution of representative government itself constantly shown by MTG is appalling and falls far beneath what should be expected by anyone elected to national office. She's an absolute disgrace.

Wow, I cant believe this article. Gotta keep that race stuff going I guess.

Wow, I guess factual history that upsets you shouldn't be mentioned, huh? You know who keeps the "race stuff" going? Those who enrich and empower themselves through the use of race. And as the article notes, it's not the marginalized, it's those who use their race to demand privileges and access not allowed to others.

And race is used to divide and otherize human beings as somehow inferior to those judging them and often subjugating them to a lessor status because they do not belong in the majority.

Can you tell me if this statement if factually wrong?

"The only countries that people name as consistently better than the US (usually Scandinavian countries) are more white than the US"

Depends upon which metric you use, but yes, there are other non-white countries currently ranked higher than the US as it regards "quality of life" where the US ranks #23, including Japan, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. As mentioned above, almost every single country (and in other lists EVERY single country) ahead of the US is a socialist democracy, including all of the Scandinavian countries you mention.

Ergo, the REASON these countries offer better quality of living conditions than the US is due to the fact their state economies look out for the welfare of ALL people by spreading the wealth with more equality than does the US.

Rick Webster, an employee at the plant and member of the union's organizing committee, said workers had been pulled into meetings leading up to the vote to hear talking points against the union.

"It's been nonstop anti-union. We've had to go to meetings every day to watch videos or have them read off a piece of paper," he said. "They've spent all this money on all these commercials and everything else. ... They're just blowing all kinds of money on this thing, and it just hasn't fazed us."

Mercedes was not supposed to take a position on the Vance election under the "Principles of Social Responsibility and Human Rights" agreement the company had signed alongside IndustriALL, the global union federation based in Europe that has come out in support of the UAW. The group says the Vance plant is Mercedes' only non-union plant in the world.

The agreement states: "In the event of organization campaigns, the company and its executives shall remain neutral."

IndustriALL general secretary Atle Hoie sent a letter to Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kallenius , "I expect you to intervene immediately to ensure that neutrality prevails at least for the remaining four days of the vote."

Dow is currently at 39,914 as of 1:50EDT.

And let's not forget that fairly soon when Trump stoops to calling the President "crooked Joe", Biden will likely be able to reply by rightfully calling him "convicted felon Donald".

Zed, do you seriously think Biden can stand up for 2 hours without a teleprompter and win a debate against anyone?

Joe Biden works out almost every day along with riding his road bike.

Donald Trump waddles from shot to shot on his golf courses, only lifting his ------- from his souped-up golf cart between shots. And he guzzles Diet Cokes on a daily basis as his drink of choice.

He currently is unable to keep his eyes open for one single hour while sitting in a courtroom on trial for dozens of criminal violations.

You tell me who's more likely to last 2 hours under television lights based on their current physical conditions and health regimens.