All Things Biden: Is It Over Yet?

[Brian Peacock]

Will you be able to squeeze your Trump diaper into them?

I wish you good toiletry.

[pErvinalia]

Turns out the price was in AUD, not US. So when they don't fit I'll be wasting $35 less!

[Tero]

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... ocrite?amp

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) blasted President Biden on Tuesday, accusing him of being a "hypocrite" for planning Fourth of July celebrations at the White House after her plans to hold a fireworks display at Mount Rushmore were denied.

[Cunt]

I think Putin publicly criticized Biden for his handling of the capitol riot, and then this sort of criticism rolls in.
https://nationalfile.com/congressman-pa ... i-babbitt/

Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed election integrity protestor and USAF veteran, was gunned down by a Capitol Police officer on January 6th, during the protests at the US Capitol in Washington DC. On Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced that they would not pursue charges against the officer responsible, claiming that there was “insufficient evidence” to determine whether her civil rights had been violated.

Video footage of Babbitt’s killing was seen around the world, documenting the tragic incident, and one journalist who filmed the “clearest” footage was Samuel Montoya, a video journalist from Texas. Montoya, however, was arrested by federal agents on Wednesday morning, and charged with four counts, including “interfering with government business,” and “disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol Building.”

[Tero]

Why is the death of a Qanon nut a loss? The tourists were having a party. Stuff happens.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Somebody employed by the admitted professional liar Alex 'I'm playing a character' Jones might call themselves a reporter, none of us is required to consider them as such.

The zealot Babbitt was intent on attacking the US Congress. That can and did prove a hazardous proposition.

[Tero]

Babbitt might not have died. Trump is to blame, as Pentagon people loyal to him held off the national guard for 5 hours. With the guard there, nobody would have entered the capitol.

[pErvinalia]

I think Putin publicly criticized Biden for his handling of the capitol riot, and then this sort of criticism rolls in.
https://nationalfile.com/congressman-pa ... i-babbitt/

Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed election integrity protestor and USAF veteran, was gunned down by a Capitol Police officer on January 6th, during the protests at the US Capitol in Washington DC. On Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced that they would not pursue charges against the officer responsible, claiming that there was “insufficient evidence” to determine whether her civil rights had been violated.

Video footage of Babbitt’s killing was seen around the world, documenting the tragic incident, and one journalist who filmed the “clearest” footage was Samuel Montoya, a video journalist from Texas. Montoya, however, was arrested by federal agents on Wednesday morning, and charged with four counts, including “interfering with government business,” and “disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol Building.”

[airquotes]Video journalist[/airquotes]

[Cunt]

The senate acquitted Trump. You can still blame him though, I guess. Facebook sure does.

https://www.rebelnews.com/62_of_america ... tions_poll

According to a survey conducted by Zogby, more than 60% of American voters believe that the mainstream media protects President Joe Biden by refusing to ask tough questions.

No-one is going to blame Biden. They probably won't blame the gentle reporters either.

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Everyone is a 'journalist' now.

Maybe the right approach would be to define responsibilities that must be undertaken in order to earn the title.

[Joe]

Well, I guess he didn't know about press credentials. Then they might not have arrested him for trespassing, even though he looked very professional.

[Cunt]

That's a Toobin of the future right there.

[L'Emmerdeur]

There is abundant evidence that when firearms get into the hands of felons and the mentally unstable, mayhem and murder ensue. This is a legitimate justification for infringing on the right to bear arms, specifically requiring an ID and a background check.

But what about the black person without an ID? Is he or she or ze not allowed to protect themselves? White dude is allowed to stand his ground, but the black guy isn't?

If murder and mayhem ensue because mentally unstable / felonious people get their hands on guns, then what justification do you have for restricting their ownership ("assault rifle" or not) to law abiding citizens?

While noting that the issue of legitimate justification for infringement of rights has somehow slipped by, I will address the points here.

The person without an ID who has money for a gun should continue to save their meager earnings and purchase an ID. This person may believe that a gun is required as ultimate defense, but the government is not required to provide one--it must be purchased, just like an ID. If you have the means to get to a gun shop and get yourself a gun, you certainly have the means to get an ID--the requirement is not onerous.

There definitely is a history of discriminatory gun control laws in the US. However, given the situation today (guns are relatively expensive) I don't think ID requirements can reasonably be considered to have a disproportionate impact on minority wannabe gun owners, who by definition have the means to get an ID.

Voting on the other hand is something that the government is required to provide, and provide free of cost. Any requirement from the government that a citizen must pay the government to vote is a poll tax, which the US Constitution specifically outlaws. About ten states provide 'free' identification cards, however even those are not actually free.

[T]he expenses for documentation, travel, and waiting time are
significant—especially for minority group and low-income voters—typically ranging from about
$75 to $175. When legal fees are added to these numbers, the costs range as high as $1,500.
Even when adjusted for inflation, these figures represent substantially greater costs than the
$1.50 poll tax outlawed by the 24th amendment in 1964. When aggregating the overall costs
to individuals for “free” IDs in all voter ID states, plus the costs to state government for
providing “free” IDs, the expenses can accumulate into the $10s of millions per state and into
the $100s of millions nationwide.

The voting restriction laws being passed around like party favors by Heritage Action are intended to prevent disadvantaged people from voting and they do just that.

If murder and mayhem ensue because mentally unstable / felonious people get their hands on guns, then what justification do you have for restricting their ownership ("assault rifle" or not) to law abiding citizens?

The actual question here is: Why put a law in place to prevent those who cannot legally posses a gun from buying one? In fact, why have a law that restricts felons from owning a gun? After all that is a restriction on the right to have a gun, isn't it? Such things are supposedly not allowed according to a literalist interpretation of the US Constitution. However, the restriction exists because it was agreed that it is legitimately justified.

If no ID and background check, then those who cannot legally possess a gun can simply go to a shop and buy one. The restriction imposed by requiring an ID and background check is not onerous, given the economic hurdle that is inherent in gun ownership. There is a legitimate justification for such a restriction, as mentioned above.

[L'Emmerdeur]

A Trump-appointed judge helping out the cause.

'Federal judge blocks Biden's ban on leases for drilling on public lands'

In a setback for President Joe Biden’s efforts on climate change, a federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday blocked the administration’s temporary ban on new leases to drill for oil and gas on public lands and ordered that lease sales continue.

The Interior Department said it would “comply with the decision,” signaling that lease sales to drill in Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico will likely resume — at least for now.

During Biden’s first says in office, his Interior Department paused new leases while reviewing the program to decide whether extracting oil and gas from federal lands and waters should continue in the future, as the president seeks to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels. The Interior Department has held a public forum on the issue and said that an interim report on the future of the program would be coming over the summer.

But Louisiana state Attorney General Jeff Landry and 12 other GOP attorneys general sued in March to block the temporary ban, arguing the administration had circumvented legal requirements for carrying out such a move. On Tuesday, Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from enforcing its moratorium.

Doughty said his order applies “nationwide.”

[Hermit]

I think Putin publicly criticized Biden for his handling of the capitol riot, and then this sort of criticism rolls in.
https://nationalfile.com/congressman-pa ... i-babbitt/

Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed election integrity protestor and USAF veteran, was gunned down by a Capitol Police officer on January 6th, during the protests at the US Capitol in Washington DC. On Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced that they would not pursue charges against the officer responsible, claiming that there was “insufficient evidence” to determine whether her civil rights had been violated.

Video footage of Babbitt’s killing was seen around the world, documenting the tragic incident, and one journalist who filmed the “clearest” footage was Samuel Montoya, a video journalist from Texas. Montoya, however, was arrested by federal agents on Wednesday morning, and charged with four counts, including “interfering with government business,” and “disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol Building.”

[airquotes]Video journalist[/airquotes]

and [airquotes]election integrity protestor[/airquotes]

Both of them were active and enthusiastic participants in the violent storming of the capitol. They were insurrectionists who attempted to prevent the orderly democratic process of transferring the presidency from one man whose presidential term had expired to another who had won the election to serve the next scheduled term as president.

Montoya was employed by Infowars as a video editor. That does not make him a journalist of any sort. Not that had any press credentials anyway. He recorded 44 minutes of video footage during the storming of the capitol. Here is a description of some of it:

At one point, he turned the camera on himself and exclaimed, “It feels good to be in the Capitol, baby!”

“Here we are in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., in the Capitol building. It has officially been stormed by Trump supporters,” Montoya says at another point in the video, according to charging documents. “Again, the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., has officially been stormed by Trump supporters. And here we are, taking our — the people’s house back!”

In the same footage he also recorded himself saying "we’re gonna do whatever it takes to MAGA".

That is not journalism. That is active participation in the insurrection.

Ashli Babbitt was part of a group of rioters who tried to smash their way through a door separating the hall from the speaker's lobby. It was barricaded with furniture from the other side. Nevertheless the rioters looked like they were going to get through after smashing the glass in the door with flagpoles, helmets and other objects. An officer fired one shot after identifying himself and ordering the insurrectionists not to come through the barricade. The bullet hit Babbitt in the shoulder as she was climbing through a hole left in the door that was created by the smashing of its glass windows. It is not as though he knelt on an already arrested and handcuffed man's neck for nine minutes, causing his death.

[pErvinalia]

It's a shame Cunt isn't here to admit he got it wrong again. He was surely going to do it.