Tagged: politics
The United States is about to become a different kind of country.
Via:
•
NEWSMucks
•
63 Comments
•
4 months ago
Above all, we must learn to live in an America where an overwhelming number of our fellow citizens have chosen a president who holds the most fundamental values and traditions of our democracy, our...
Teamsters union withholds presidential endorsement amid strong support for Trump
Via:
•
News Viners
•
2 Comments
•
6 months ago
The rank and file support Trump so, naturally, the executive board sweeps it under the carpet. But then union leadership has been feathering their own nests for many, many decades.
Tim Walz's Long Relationship With China Defies Easy Stereotypes
Via:
•
News Viners
•
5 Comments
•
7 months ago
Tim Walz is a Reagan Democrat. Bill Clinton embraced Reagan's small government ideology by eliminating 250,000 Federal jobs and partnering with big business. Under Clinton, big business operated...
'Basel III' bank rules could pose unexpected threat to Biden's green energy plans
Via:
•
News Viners
•
1 Comments
•
11 months ago
First I've heard of this. But the news isn't surprising. Banks have been subsidized and bailed out by taxpayers since Bill Clinton approved the repeal of Glass-Steagall. (That's supposedly one...
Trump and Biden projected to clinch party nominations in 2024 race
Via:
•
News Viners
•
1 Comments
•
last year
Oh, goodie. Now that we have a left cheek and a right cheek, we can have a wild assed election. It's nuthin' but butt chuckles for the rest of the year. Joe Biden wasted no time to make a...
Biden nets landslide victory in South Carolina Democratic Primary, winning 96% of votes
Via:
•
News Viners
•
8 Comments
•
last year
Biden won a participation award! Bless his heart. But it was a long, long, boring day for poll workers. Is a voter turnout of 4 pct really a mandate? Apparently the unbiased liberal press...
DeSantis Posts Deranged Ad Attacking Trump and Pride Month With 'American Psycho' Clips
Via:
•
NEWSMucks
•
10 Comments
•
2 years ago
I feel confident that most people will think this is one of the more disturbing political ads they have ever seen. You can see the video at the Mediate link. OR on twitter...
Ron DeSantis threatens academic freedom in Florida with these new bills - Vox
Via:
•
The Reality Show
•
27 Comments
•
2 years ago
"Ron DeSantis is threatening academic freedom everywhere." Trolling, taunting, spamming, and off topic comments may be removed at the discretion of group mods. NT members that vote up their own...
U.S. Senate advances bill to repeal Iraq war authorizations
Via:
•
News Viners
•
1 Comments
•
2 years ago
It's only taken 30 years to repeal what never should have been enacted. Neoconservative/neoliberal Republicans oppose repealing these war authorizations. And Biden's White House only supports the...
Ukraine Needs Shells, and Arms Makers Want Money. Enter the E.U.
Via:
•
News Viners
•
15 Comments
•
2 years ago
Can't fight a war without factories. Ordering ammunition that can't be manufactured won't bring any sort of victory. Giving money directly to Ukraine won't increase the supply of ammunition that...
GOP Plans Debt Crisis to Cut Medicare, Social Security
Via:
•
The Reality Show
•
64 Comments
•
3 years ago
If Republicans take control of the House of Representatives, they plan to ramp up their attack on Social Security, Medicare and the working people of America. Trolling, taunting, spamming, and off...
Putin signs decree to give money to Ukrainians who fled war to Russia
Via:
•
News Viners
•
2 Comments
•
3 years ago
Will Poland do the same? Yes, Putin is using a propaganda ploy. But the problem is it's an effective propaganda ploy. Rumors will spread. Eventually Ukrainian refugees that fled west will be...
Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer announce deal for energy and health care bill - CNNPolitics
Via:
•
The Reality Show
•
14 Comments
•
3 years ago
This is great news for the economy, very good news for Democrats and excellent news for the country. Trolling, taunting, spamming, and off topic comments may be removed at the discretion of group...
Biden Approval Rating Plummets to New Low, Marking Year of High Disapproval
Via:
•
News Viners
•
1 Comments
•
3 years ago
Yuppers! It's Putin's fault. It's Trump's fault. It's Alito's fault. It's oil companies' fault. It's guns' fault. We all know the litany of blame. The hell of it is we are in a full...
Cheney says January 6 committee could make multiple criminal referrals, including of Trump
Via:
•
News Viners
•
28 Comments
•
3 years ago
Criminal referrals? A political body has subjected the American people to weeks of political theater in an attempt to engender public outrage - and - now they claim they can't do anything about...
Ukrainians are giving Americans two lessons about democracy we've forgotten
Via:
•
News Viners
•
3 Comments
•
3 years ago
The liberal press has the impudence, audacity, insolence, unmitigated gall to publish this tripe? The United States was founded for the sole purpose of oppressing the Black race. Americans are...
Americans' trust in science now deeply polarized, poll shows
Via:
•
News Viners
•
6 Comments
•
3 years ago
Americans are not as polarized over science as these journalistic narratives suggest. And, if the reporting is accurate, then the political biases are quite apparent in news reporting. What is...
Takeaways from the landmark sedition indictment against the Oath Keepers - CNNPolitics
Via:
•
Today's America
•
19 Comments
•
3 years ago
The case resolves around the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group, and its leader Stewart Rhodes. Many of the defendants were already facing charges for storming the US Capitol building and...
Oath Keepers leader and 10 others charged with 'seditious conspiracy' - CNNPolitics
Via:
•
The Reality Show
•
37 Comments
•
3 years ago
These are the first indictments for "seditious conspiracy" related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Will there be more coming? Stay tuned, folks! Trolling, taunting, and off...
Ashley Biden Caught in Diary Investigation After Leak | PEOPLE.com
Via:
•
SiNNERs and ButtHeads
•
27 Comments
•
3 years ago
I went in search of a story about Ashley Biden and her dad. I was told there was an FBI investigation. What I wasn't told was that the FBI investigation is centered on James O'Keefe and Project...
Exclusive: Secret Commandos with Shoot-to-Kill Authority Were at the Capitol
Via:
•
SiNNERs and ButtHeads
•
108 Comments
•
3 years ago
Three days before the Jan. 6th insurrection, here was a secret meeting in Quantico to address existing contingency plans to deal with the potential "terrorist attack" on the capitol. Jeffrey A....
Biden's Troubled Relationship With the Truth - and Consequences
Via:
•
Today's America
•
7 Comments
•
3 years ago
Trolling, taunting, and off-topic comments may be removed at the discretion of group mods. NT members that vote up their own comments or continue to disrupt the conversation risk having all of...
January 6: How the House select committee finally exposed Trump's empire of lies - CNNPolitics
Via:
•
The Reality Show
•
36 Comments
•
4 years ago
The essential work being performed by the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack continues to reveal the criminal malfeasance of Trump and his enablers. History will long remember the...
Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate appears with Nazi sympathizer and QAnon-linked activists at campaign events - CNNPolitics
Via:
•
The Reality Show
•
20 Comments
•
4 years ago
The Trump endorsed candidate for Arizona governor pals around with Nazis sympathizers and QAnon extremists. Fascism continues to gain a foothold in the Republican Party. Trolling, taunting, and...
Tax strategy of the rich, backdoor Roth survives in latest Democrat plan
Via:
•
News Viners
•
1 Comments
•
4 years ago
Way to stick it to the rich. Let's go, Brandon! Don't be surprised if a repeal of the limit on SALT deductions is buried in Build Back Better, too. It's one thing to not bite the hand that feeds...
Texas GOP consolidates power in new congressional maps as Senate again fails to act on voting rights - CNNPolitics
Via:
•
SiNNERs and ButtHeads
•
2 Comments
•
4 years ago
Showing their total contempt for Hispanic citizens, urban and suburban-dwelling citizens, and democracy itself, elitist Texas Republicans used redistricting to consolidate the power of their base,...
Donald Trump (yet again) proves there's no bottom - CNNPolitics
Via:
•
SiNNERs and ButtHeads
•
32 Comments
•
4 years ago
Just as he did when John McCain died, Trump is using Colin Powell's death as an opportunity to exact revenge. Trolling, taunting, and off topic comments may be removed at the discretion of group...
Texas Lawmaker Files Resolution to Make the Bible the "Official State Book" | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos
Via:
•
SiNNERs and ButtHeads
•
36 Comments
•
4 years ago
Which Bible will it be? English Standard Version. ... King James Version. ... New American Standard Bible. ... New English Bible. ... New International Version. ... New King James Version. ... New...
Analysis: What the Census results tell us about the future US electorate
Via:
•
News Viners
•
33 Comments
•
4 years ago
If the United States is diversifying then why is the country's politics controlled by only two political parties dominated by non-Hispanic whites? The analysis presented by CNN is rather...
John Kerry told Iranians about secret Israeli operations in Syria: Report
Via:
•
We the People
•
84 Comments
•
4 years ago
Former Secretary of State John Kerry kept Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif informed about secret Israeli military actions in Syria, the Iranian diplomat said in recently leaked...
Biden sees `win' for US in electric vehicle battery deal
Via:
•
News Viners
•
31 Comments
•
4 years ago
What's good for South Korea is good for the United States. Of course, South Korean doesn't have to deal with BLM protests or a porous southern border or health care deserts or a shrinking middle...
Trump and the Republican revolt against democracy, explained in 13 charts
Via:
•
The Beacon
•
7 Comments
•
4 years ago
America's last President was a fascist: - undoubtedly authoritarian, and - undoubtedly xenophobe (racist). Tens of millions of Americans - including quite a few here on Newstalkers - fervently...
The Trump Mob's Nooses, Gallows, Crosses, and Costumes Are Deadly Fascist Symbols
Via:
•
The Beacon
•
9 Comments
•
4 years ago
We're fools. They've been telling us for years that they are opposed to democracy. We haven't listened. They have lied over and over... but we continue to hope they'll someday be honest.
Four criminal laws Trump may have broken in his call with Georgia's Brad Raffensperger
Via:
•
The Beacon
•
14 Comments
•
4 years ago
No American should miss the opportunity to hear their President, successively wheedling and then threatening, to persuade an election official to change a result he has already certified ....
Dr. Fauci says slow Covid vaccine rollout has been 'disappointing'
Via:
•
News Viners
•
13 Comments
•
5 years ago
Why has the rollout of the vaccines been disappointing? The vaccines have only been available for emergency use for two weeks. According to reporting, over half of the initial planned quantity...
What's next? Saturday's election verdict isn't last step
Via:
•
News Viners
•
52 Comments
•
5 years ago
How can a nation that extravagantly expends time, money, and resources on sports demand contestants concede? When did sports announcers begin declaring winners and calling for the losing side to...
How Biden plans to undo Trump's 'America First' foreign policy and return US to world stage
Via:
•
News Viners
•
3 Comments
•
5 years ago
Joe Biden will ignore the flaws revealed by the coronavirus pandemic and plans a rebirth of neoliberalism. Biden will rebuild the international bureaucracy of technocratic authoritarians that...
Liberal group's letter riddled with duplicate names amid 'thousands' opposing Amy Coney Barrett
Via:
•
We the People
•
2 Comments
•
5 years ago
Liberal judicial advocacy group Alliance for Justice sent a letter to the U.S. Senate with the names of thousands of lawyers purportedly opposing Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court...
"What's Wrong With a Sweep?": As Trump Falters, Democrats See an Expanding 2020 Senate Map
Via:
•
The Beacon
•
4 Comments
•
5 years ago
For several decades, the Republican Party used obstruction to prevent California's government from functioning. Finally, the people were so fed up that they gave the Dems a bullet-proof...
Gretchen Whitmer exceeded powers during coronavirus pandemic, Michigan Supreme Court rules
Via:
•
We the People
•
43 Comments
•
5 years ago
LANSING, Mich. — A 1945 law repeatedly used by Gov. Gretcher Whitmer to respond to the coronavirus pandemic was declared unconstitutional Friday by the Michigan Supreme Court , a striking...
Biden in 1993 speech pushing crime bill warned of 'predators on our streets' who were 'beyond the pale'
Via:
•
News Viners
•
17 Comments
•
5 years ago
It's even become necessary to throw Hillary Clinton under the bus to gloss over Joe Biden's political past. Joe Biden, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, advocated a specific solution...
Anthony Fauci calls 200,000 pandemic death toll 'sobering, and in some respects, stunning'
Via:
•
News Viners
•
79 Comments
•
5 years ago
Why would 200,000 coronavirus deaths be stunning? The 1918-19 Spanish Flu pandemic killed 675,000 in a population of 103 million. That would translate to over 2 million deaths today. We are...
Herman Cain, former GOP presidential candidate, dies after battle with coronavirus
Via:
•
The Reality Show
•
66 Comments
•
5 years ago
I knew he was sick with the COVID. Less than two weeks before receiving his diagnosis, Cain had attended Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the marquee event for the president’s self-proclaimed...
Mitt Romney: The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short
Via:
•
SiNNERs and ButtHeads
•
110 Comments
•
6 years ago
Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah and the party’s 2012 nominee for president, will be sworn into the U.S. Senate on Thursday. By Mitt Romney January 1 at 8:00 PM The...