Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

'totalitarianism'

dude

this country had vaccine mandates for generations. Generations. We all couldn't go to school without a whole slate of vaccinations. And you were fine with that. We were all fine with that. Fine with the government requiring even children to be vaccinated. No totalitarianism. No tyranny. Just the government keeping the citizenry safe.

Until you all lost your sanity and decided being a moran was better than being an enlightened individual and responsible member of society.

Freedumb, baby.

Yep, this is who right wingers pledge undying fealty to. A prospective convicted felon to boot!

If anyone needs help figuring out who else has criminal liability for their actions on and around January 6th, just take note of who will be rushing to the microphone today to say deranged sh!t that makes no sense. It is an attempt to support Trump and show him they are still loyal so he doesn't turn on them when he flips to save himself.

This no different than a two bit neighborhood criminal claiming the Police are all corrupt because he was caught. Same thing.

We've NEVER had a federal vaccine mandate. Let alone one where the government repeatedly lied about its effectiveness. You are not "enlightend," you are a stooge and a useful idiot for tyrants.

Don't forget traitor. We will soon find out that Trump did exactly what the most corrupt traitors in US history have done. Namely share private national defense information for his own personal gain.

And even after that comes out, the same Trumpers will be supporting him.

Why should I be a responsible member of society?

I care about myself and my family first and foremost. Then I care about safety. I was forced to take an ineffective jab that doesn't benefit me at all.

ok so let's see. Your new position is that local and state governments have had vaccine mandates for generations and that isn't tyranny or unconstitutional, but if the FEDERAL government had a vaccine mandate well THAT is six inches from Stalinism. Do you even hear yourself?

And anyway the Feds have had vaccine mandates in the armed forces for generations and somehow SOMEHOW the nation did not turn to Pol Potism. Miracle!

Moran.

Yikes. You don't understand the difference between state and federal government, and WHY they are different? You don't understand the founders designed the constitution so that most legislating would be done at the local level, so people could move to another community if they didn't like their government? And you don't understand the difference between military members and private citizens? Thinking all private citizens can be regulated like a military is exactly how you get to totalitarianism. If we were in China right now you'd be explaining to us how Chairman Xi's lockdowns saved us and his social credit score keeps us safe. You are not "enlightened" at all and have truly shown yourself to be a useful idiot.

Interesting read, but no evidence of any crime as far as I can tell.

GOP Crime? Blotter

GOP Sugar Daddy Harlan Crow has stepped in a pile of poop. After corrupting Supreme Court justices, I'm glad.

Harlan Crow’s lavish gifts to Clarence Thomas have shined an unflattering light on the Supreme Court justice’s disregard for ethics and judicial integrity. But now, they are also beginning to fuel scrutiny around Crow himself, raising questions about the billionaire GOP donor’s tax practices.

According to ProPublica, whose reports on the Crow-Thomas relationship this year have intensified calls for Supreme Court reform, the real estate developer may have used his yacht trips with Thomas to lower his own tax bill—a possible violation of tax laws, experts told the outlet. “Based on what information is available, this has the look of a textbook billionaire tax scam,” Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden told ProPublica. “These new details only raise more questions about Mr. Crow’s tax practices, which could begin to explain why he’s been stonewalling the Finance Committee’s investigation for months," added Wyden, one of several Democrats looking into Crow’s gifts to Thomas. (Crow declined ProPublica's request for comment, but he and Thomas have each previously denied wrongdoing amid scrutiny over their personal and financial relationship.)

Crow, who has insisted that lawmakers do not have authority to investigate the gifts, reportedly slashed his tax bill by deducting losses from Rochelle Charter—his company that charters the yacht on which he hosted Thomas. But, ProPublica reports, it does not appear that Crow actually chartered the yacht; use of the vessel, the Michaela Rose, was instead apparently “limited to Crow’s family, friends and executives of Crow’s company, along with their guests,” according to the outlet.

vanityfair.com

Harlan Crow's Yacht Trips with Clarence Thomas Now Prompting Questions Around Possible Tax Scam: Report

Eric Lutz

The conservative billionaire, who apparently deducted business losses by taking the Supreme Court justice out for lavish boat rides, may have run afoul of federal tax law.

Link:www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/harlan...

ok so you are 100% fine with states having 100% full COVID vaccination mandates? No problem with that? Not tyranny? Just seems odd that your view is that to support a state mandate is fine and legal but to support a fed COVID mandate is Stalinist.

Is that your stance?

I actually heard someone say in the E Jean Carroll case that it was a victory because Trump was found liable for sexual assault and not rape.

That is NOT something to celebrate, ok!

Yes. That is his stance. And if you do some more research, Russians were A-OK with Stalin's authoritarian dictates if they came from Russian states instead of the Soviet Union as a whole. Big difference.

Seriously, right wingers get caught in their own lies. They try to frame vaccine push efforts to fight covid as some type of new thing that started with covid. Then when they get called out on that BS, they pivot with excuses about the fact it was "Federal" and that makes it super, duper, entirely different. It's all just BS because Govt efforts to squash a pandemic are nothing new. They just want you to believe there was enormous overreach.

Trump has trained his followers well. Any legal outcome for him means "total exoneration". He taught them this and while the rest of the world laughs, Trumpers believe.

No victory for Trump here. He was found to have done something very terrible.

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npr.org

A jury finds Trump liable for battery and defamation in E. Jean Carroll trial

Jurors believed that Carroll's allegation of sexual abuse in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s was more likely true than not. They awarded her $5 million in total damages.

Link:www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1174975870/trum...

GOP Crime Blotter

Rachel Powell of Pennsylvania was convicted on Tuesday of nine federal charges related to the Jan. 6 attacks.
According to NBC, Powell was known as "Bullhorn Lady" because she used a bullhorn to direct rioters into the Capitol.
Powell was found guilty of interfering with officers performing their duties and obstructing an official proceeding, among other charges.

Funny...

listen up, stupids:
Donald Trump and his klansman father tried to prevent black people from renting apartments in their buildings. they got caught.
Donald Trump tried to scam students at his fake university. he got caught.
Donald Trump tried to cheat on his taxes. he got caught.
Donald Trump tried to steal money from a children's charity. he got caught.
Donald Trump tried to cover up hush money payments to a porn actress. he got caught.
Donald Trump stole classified war plans and stashed them in the sh!tter of his tacky golf motel. he got caught.
and now Donald Trump got caught trying to do an insurrection.
my question to you is:
aren't you tired of worshiping such an inept bozo of a criminal

GOP Crime Blotter

Dude refuses to stand down and stand by.

WASHINGTON — A man who recently finished serving a felony sentence for his role in the 2017 white supremacist March in Charlottesville, Virginia, was arrested this week on new felony counts connected to the Capitol riot.

Federal investigators say Tyler Bradley Dykes, of South Carolina, joined a mob that forced its way through the Columbus Doors on the east side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In the process, they say, he assaulted police and disarmed an officer of their riot shield

but...but...on the previous page you actually took fingers to keyboard to try to lessen the severity of this court finding.

Seriously, square that circle, Sallster.