Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

Democrats are “funny”

with all due respect (zero), go do obscene things to yourself.

Buttigieg joined the U.S. Navy Reserve through the direct commission officer (DCO) program and was sworn in as an ensign in naval intelligence in September 2009.[58] He took a seven-month leave during his mayoral term to deploy to Afghanistan in 2014.[59][60][61][62] While there, Buttigieg was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks. Part of this was done at Bagram Air Base, but he was also an armed driver for his commander on more than 100 trips into Kabul. Buttigieg has jokingly referred to his role as an armed driver as "military Uber", because he had to watch out for ambushes and explosive devices along the roads and ensure that the vehicle was guarded.[63] Also, while deployed in Afghanistan, Buttigieg was assigned to the Afghan Threat Finance Cell, a counterterrorism unit that targeted Taliban insurgency financing.[64][65] Buttigieg was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal,[66] and he left the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2017.[67][68][69]

Far-left Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is facing a new scandal involving the black community after reports surfaced over the weekend that indicated Buttigieg falsely claimed to have endorsements for his plan to reach out to the black community, used a stock photo from Africa to depict African-Americans, and falsely claimed that the plan had support from hundreds of black voters who were actually white.
Buttigieg has struggled to gain support among black voters because of how poorly the community fared under his leadership as the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and over how he handled an officer-involved shooting of a black man.

Buttigieg’s campaign began promoting a list of 400 black South Carolina voters that it claimed supported his plan, but it turned out that nearly half of the list was white.

To add insult to injury, the top three black people that Buttigieg claimed supported his plan all pushed back against his claims, and said his campaign was dishonest.
“Buttigieg traveled to South Carolina to spread awareness of the plan. The supporters were rolled out in a press release and open letter published in the HBCU Times – which focuses on ‘positive news related to Historically Black Colleges and Universities,'” The Intercept reported. “Listed at the top of the press release were three prominent supporters, Columbia City Councilwoman Tameika Devine; Rehoboth Baptist pastor and state Rep. Ivory Thigpen; and Johnnie Cordero, chair of the state party’s Black Caucus.”

Devine: “Clearly from the number of calls I received about my endorsement, I think the way they put it out there wasn’t clear, that it was an endorsement of the plan, and that may have been intentionally vague. I’m political, I know how that works. I do think they probably put it out there thinking people wouldn’t read the fine print or wouldn’t look at the details or even contact the people and say, ‘Hey, you’re endorsing Mayor Pete?’”
Thigpen: “How it was rolled out was not an accurate representation of where I stand. I didn’t know about its rolling out. Somebody brought it to my attention, and it was alarming to me, because even though I had had conversations with the campaign, it was clear to me, or at least I thought I made it clear to them, that I was a strong Bernie Sanders supporter – actually co-chair of the state, and I was not seeking to endorse their candidate or the plan. But what I had talked about was potentially giving them a quote of support in continuing the conversation, because I do think it’s a very important conversation. I actually had not circled back to give them a quote, so I was alarmed and very much surprised to see, particularly, the headline as such because I do think it muddies the water, I do think it was a misrepresentation, and it easily could have confused a lot of people as to where I stood. That was, from the very beginning, concerns that I expressed.”
Cordero: “I never endorsed that plan. I don’t know how my name got on there. … I had some difficulties with it. It’s entirely presumptuous. I’m not going to change what I’m going to say. It’s presumptuous to think you can come up with a plan for black America without hearing from black folk. … you don’t do that. Those days are over and done with. We’re tired of people telling us what we need. You wanna find out what we need? Come and ask us.”
Further investigation found that the picture that Buttigieg used to promote his plan was a stock photograph from a woman in Kenya.
The Intercept reported the following quote from the woman: “Am the ‘woman’ featured on that photo by githiri Nicholas. what’s the meaning of the message accompanied by the photo? Have no idea of what’s happening…”

By 538's polls only model, Dems are 81% likely to keep the senate. Remember Gary is on record saying the Rs will win the senate. How you feeling about that, Gary?

Still just a 34% the Ds will keep the House. (same polls only model)

Somebody on this forum warned Gary about celebrating too early.

That same somebody says it's still too early to know much about what will happen in November. But we are getting closer to the time when people will start paying attention.

Polls mean very little. If I trusted polls, Hillary beat Trump in a landslide. A lot can change in the next two and a half months.

Nate Silver is a glorified poll reader, whose record is nothing to crow about. I follow Rich Baris "the people's pundit" his record destroys 538's.

I'm holding firm with a GOP majority in the Senate at 52-48 minimum. Walker will beat the 'Warlock', in Ohio, the dem Sen incumbent is behind and in PA, Fetterman can hardly speak since his stroke and Oz will take it. I believe NH can flip to red too.

The Red Earthquake is coming.

The same polls that assured us Hillary would win in 2016.

So, you're claiming that 76% of Republicans, 49% of Independents and 37% of Democrats are monumentally stup!d? Sounds about right.

Another possible GOP flip: Laxalt has leads in the Senate race for NV over Dem incumbent, Masto.

Your over-reliance on 538 will spell doom.

Edit: now leads....

That's "one out of three IS," dear.

I'd suggest you avoid posting things that advertise your ignorance. But if you do post such things, I'd suggest that you avoid introducing a word like "stupid" into the discussion. It just seems like poor strategy, dear.

I'd suggest U get a life.

Tucker pushing Republican candidates to go hard against increasing waves of crime prior to November. Dems pushed BLM and defunding the police, while hurting the communities they claim to champion.

nypost.com

Footage shows ‘flash mob’ of looters ransack 7-Eleven in Los Angeles

@nypost

Snacks, drinks, cigarettes, lottery tickets and more were stolen by flash mob that ransacked a 7/11 in Los Angeles.

Link:nypost.com/2022/08/19/los-angeles-flas...

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