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China Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Trump's top campaign strategist, Jason Miller, is hiding payments from Steve Bannon President Trump's top campaign strategist, Jason Miller, has been paid tens of thousands of dollars a month through a third-party campaign vendor rather than taking a salary from the campaign, obscuring the flow of money and apparently concealing how much he makes — an arrangement campaign finance experts say is illegal. Miller, a 2016 senior adviser who joined the re-election campaign in early June, additionally appears to have been paid as recently as July by Citizens of the American Republic (COAR), a nonprofit founded by Steve Bannon which is currently part of a federal fraud and money laundering investigation into the former Trump campaign chief, as a vehicle used to fabricate invoices in furtherance of that scheme. Miller also appears to have taken monthly payments of several thousand dollars from a firm co-founded by two Trump officials — one of them being Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien. Salon was first to report that the campaign does not report any salary payments to Stepien, either. The question of the campaign payments, and Miller's mysterious and varying monthly income, is important not only for reasons of public transparency, but for determining how much Miller, who is married, should pay for child support in a contentious custody case with a 2016 Trump campaign adviser which has dragged out for years in Florida family court. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Transition warning: Trump's mental illness is a growing danger As the world celebrated a Biden-Harris victory, mental health professionals braced for the two-and-a-half months that we deemed would be the most dangerous period of this presidency. Indeed, in just the days since announcement of election results, Donald Trump has refused to concede, has obstructed a peaceful transfer of power, has fired and replaced top officials responsible for the nation’s security, and has contemplated catastrophic war. All this is on top of ignoring a surging pandemic that is now infecting more than 150,000 per day and killing more than 1,500 Americans per day. Since Donald Trump’s election, mental health professionals have come forth in historically unprecedented ways to warn against entrusting the U.S. presidency to someone exhibiting dangerous mental impairments. We held an ethics conference with the most highly respected psychiatrists in the country to ensure a solid ethical basis for speaking up. We then published "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President," which became an unprecedented bestseller of its kind, and donated all proceeds from the book to remove conflicts of interest. We knew from speaking and meeting with Congress members at their request, since April 2017, that they were depending on us to “educate the public medically, so that we can do our work politically.” Hence, blocking mental health experts’ voices would come to mean impeding any possibility of intervention, and this is indeed what happened. Yet, according to my scholarly exchanges with author of the 25th Amendment, together with Sen. Birch Bayh, attorney and professor John Feerick — with whom I had the honor to speak at the same conferences — the amendment was written so that “the data would drive the process, and medical professionals are a source of data.” Professor John Rogan, his close collaborator on the 25th Amendment, clarified on another occasion: “physicians have a supererogatory obligation to share specialized knowledge. This is especially important when discussing psychiatric conditions, which may be hard to apprehend.” The vice president, far from being the driver of the process, would be “leaned upon” by the cabinet or the “other body” that Congress can appoint to supplant the cabinet, in response to the data. Therefore, whereas I consider it unethical for a medical professional to opine on whether or not the 25th Amendment should be invoked — it is not within the boundaries of our expertise — we as mental health professionals can and should say if a president must be removed for public health and safety reasons, whatever the means. Indeed, thousands of mental health professionals have joined together in this assessment since the start of this presidency, with more than 800 petitioning Congress about the dangers almost a year ago, and, more recently, 100 senior mental health professionals going on video record to declare the current president too psychologically dangerous and mentally unfit to be in the presidency or candidacy for reelection. We recently published more than 300 pages of our letters, petitions, and conference transcripts in an attempt to alert the authorities. When these did not have effect, we reconvened top experts in the fields of law, history, political science, economics, journalism, social psychology, climate science and nuclear science at an emergency interdisciplinary conference, to follow up on a meeting with the same speakers at the National Press Club in early 2019, with the full three hours broadcast on C-SPAN. The president’s dangerousness is no longer debatable. Our warnings have now been realized exactly as we said they would four years ago, as if on schedule, with abundant real-life evidence. When the right information became available, a peer-reviewed panel of independent experts performed a standardized assessment of mental capacity, to the highest rigor possible, in which the president failed every criterion. This means he would be unfit for any job, let alone president. Our evaluation fully predicted that he would disastrously mismanage a pandemic, as our blow-by-blow account shows. Click on the link for more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 “Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.” As utterly bizarre and repulsive these latest cartoons are, they are absolutely necessary to hammer home the fact that the right/Repubs/wtf-ers are not only crazier than you imagine, they are crazier than you can imagine, and that they represent a fundamental existential threat to our country and the world. That's not drama It's not hyperbole If anything it is a fairly sere assessment of what they are and what they are becoming. A great many people, for a lot of reasons that I won't judge, feel that they did their part, went and voted and are racing back to their couches to binge Netflix, secure in the delusion that it's over, the threat has passed, the tide receded and their part is done. Battle has only just been joined, we are still in the afternoon of Dec 7th, and sadly there is still the vast majority of the heavy lifting to be done. So Rudy doing Shart Week on OAN, the Silence of the Lambs playing on a loop in the Senate, the 'Rona raging a megasurge on top of a surge, all of it is necessary to get and keep people awake and aware and engaged, because I swear to doG, turn your back, let it slip even a little and the forces of darkness are gonna come screaming back, waving papers and howling about deficits, attacking and accusing nominees for coloring outside the lines in preschool, demanding hearings on Joe's walking boot, any and all of it. Take a breath, take a break, smoke 'em if ya got 'em but be prepared to step back into the fray when you're R&R'd, the worst is yet to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Spyder is still around? I thought he was dead. Nsfw (language) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 2 hours ago, Cooked Crack said: Sidney Powell, left, and Spyder discuss litigation strategy outside a Georgia courtroom: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Arizona Legislature 'cannot and will not' overturn election, Republican House speaker says Republican Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives Rusty Bowers said Friday that pleas from some GOP lawmakers to overturn the results of the state's presidential election are illegal and "cannot and will not" happen. State Reps. Mark Finchem, R-Oro Valley, and Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, spent much of the day imploring their fellow legislators on social media to overturn the election results in favor of President Donald Trump. Bowers said such action would be both illegal and inappropriate. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Joe Biden officially secures enough electors to become president after California certifies SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – California certified its presidential election Friday and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Democrat Joe Biden, officially handing him the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House. Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s formal approval of Biden’s win in the state brought his tally of pledged electors so far to 279, according to a tally by The Associated Press. That’s just over the 270 threshold for victory. Although it’s been apparent for weeks that Biden won the presidential election, his accrual of more than 270 electors is the first step toward the White House, said Edward B. Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University. “It is a legal milestone and the first milestone that has that status,” Foley said. “Everything prior to that was premised on what we call projections.” Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dan T. Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Say what you will about Hilary Clinton, she knew what the hell she was talking about: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 She was also 100% correct in calling Trump's cult members "deplorables". Though in retrospect she might have been a bit too nice in that terminology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 I just read the whole brief. The Watkins referred to in the table of contents is literally the administrator of 8chan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 5 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: I just read the whole brief. The Watkins referred to in the table of contents is literally the administrator of 8chan. Holy ****, are you serious?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdsknbill Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 9:31 PM, visionary said: AOC or Mitch McConnell. Pick one. McConnel? Pelosi? Shumer? ( Biden? anyone?) ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!! AOC? She's a poison to this country. Anyone from the "squad that promotes a Venezuela type socialism? How is anyone, that is supposed to speak for their constituency, be so Anti Democracy? Or, IMHO, Anti-American? As I said in a previous post, they promise everything to their supporters, but, sadly, only do what benefits their own pockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 * shakes head and marvels * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Llevron Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 36 minutes ago, rdsknbill said: they promise everything to their supporters, but, sadly, only do what benefits their own pockets. Crazy **** right? And these dummies actually believe them. It almost makes the case for free education by itself. That so many people can hear obvious bull**** and not understand they are being lied to or have the sense to use their own sources, like Hannity, to verify it is beyond me. What has happened to these people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Wiggles Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Quote Venezuela type socialism Ah classic old timey racist talking points. My favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 “Venezuela-type socialism.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 1 hour ago, rdsknbill said: How is anyone, that is supposed to speak for their constituency, be so Anti Democracy? Seriously, those people are SO anti-democracy, it’s crazy. Totally unrelated: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry.Randolphe Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 I'm a fan of Venezuela style arepas, maybe their socialism is just as good? 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LD0506 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistertim Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 1 hour ago, rdsknbill said: McConnel? Pelosi? Shumer? ( Biden? anyone?) ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!! AOC? She's a poison to this country. Anyone from the "squad that promotes a Venezuela type socialism? How is anyone, that is supposed to speak for their constituency, be so Anti Democracy? Or, IMHO, Anti-American? As I said in a previous post, they promise everything to their supporters, but, sadly, only do what benefits their own pockets. "Venezuela type socialism"? This ain't the Gateway Pundit or Brietbart comments section, bro. You're gonna have to come with something better than that mindless gibberish here if you want to be taken even a little seriously. As far as being "Anti Democracy" and "Anti-American", I cannot possibly see you saying that while simultaneously supporting Trump's attempts to throw out the results of an election and have cronies try to install him as POTUS in contravention of the will of the American People. Right? Right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redskins59 Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 1 hour ago, rdsknbill said: McConnel? Pelosi? Shumer? ( Biden? anyone?) ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!! AOC? She's a poison to this country. Anyone from the "squad that promotes a Venezuela type socialism? How is anyone, that is supposed to speak for their constituency, be so Anti Democracy? Or, IMHO, Anti-American? As I said in a previous post, they promise everything to their supporters, but, sadly, only do what benefits their own pockets. Who is more anti democracy, Trump or AOC? It's Trump who is trying to overturn the election. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted December 7, 2020 Share Posted December 7, 2020 14 minutes ago, mistertim said: "Venezuela type socialism"? This ain't the Gateway Pundit or Brietbart comments section, bro. You're gonna have to come with something better than that mindless gibberish here if you want to be taken even a little seriously. I saw a NY Post column indicating the libs want just that (Venezuela socialism). It was written by the renowned, unbiased......Dinesh D'Souza! 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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