U.S. democracy is on the verge of COLLAPSE,
majority of voters say: Democrats and
Republicans are united in their fears,
says new poll, which reveals how concern
has grown by nine points since January
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/1/2022 4:47:58 PM
Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing, according to a new poll: Democracy is under threat. The Quinnipiac University poll, published on Wednesday, found that some 67 percent of all of those surveyed believed that democracy was in danger. That total included 72 percent of registered Democratic voters and 70 percent of Republicans. Details were published just ahead of a major set-piece speech on Thursday by President Joe Biden on what the White House bills as the 'battle for the soul of the nation,' in which he is expected to blast Donald Trump and his allies for undermining the nation's democracy.(Snip)'In a rare moment of agreement, Americans coalesce
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Football star Paul Pogba has allegedly been blackmailed by a group who accuse him of attempts to cast spells—potentially a serious accusation in France, as surveys claim as many as 40 per cent of under-35s there now believe in witchcraft. Paul Pogba, a star of the French national football (soccer) squad who currently plays for Italian side Juventus, allegedly paid off a group of blackmailers, including his own brother, 100,000 euros ($100,100) in April, and claimed masked men armed with rifles threatened him in a Paris apartment the month prior.(Snip)Unlike in many Western nations where belief in witchcraft is confined to the distant past, France has
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Douglas, Ariz.—The Chevy pickup truck growled like a wary pitbull as it crept along the narrow dirt road parallel to Arizona’s southern border wall fence with Mexico. Sam, the owner of a private Arizona security firm, stopped the truck and put the gear in park. “We’re on the Roosevelt Easement right now,” he says bluntly. “The federal government owns this entire road.” Something, though, was glaringly out of place on Aug. 24. Three massive irrigation gates built into the steel border wall fence were open for anyone to walk through.(Snip)“There’s another open gate “bigger than this one, down that way,” he says, pointing up the easement.
FedEx Ground's delivery system is at risk of complete collapse as the local contractors it relies upon face rising costs and without any sign that their compensation will go up any time soon. The FedEx Ground network relies upon local delivery companies to make the package and parcel dropoffs on behalf of the $54 billion multinational conglomerate.(Snip)FedEx Ground works by utilizing the services of around 6,000 small businesses that are under contract with the company in order to make doorstep deliveries. Patton, who controls a fleet of 275 delivery trucks and has 225 employees across 10 states on his books is looking for a raise of 50-cent per stop
After Marine veteran Lloyd Muldrow stopped an attack by an armed assailant at a Baltimore bar, police officers thanked him—and then they arrested him. Now the Good Samaritan credited with saving a man’s life faces up to a year in prison, charged with violating a city ordinance that forbids bringing handguns within 100 feet of a public building, even though he neutralized the attack without drawing his pistol. Mr. Muldrow, a North Carolina security specialist, holds a concealed weapons permit, but it was issued in Virginia, not Maryland. Even so, he has no intention of accepting a plea deal when he appears at his Oct. 31 hearing
California Democrats in the State Assembly and State Senate have advanced legislation that would make the state a sanctuary where out-of-state parents can take their children to undergo sex change procedures. On Monday, the legislative body passed Senate Bill (SB) 107 along party lines, with all 19 Republican assemblymembers voting against it and 60 Democrats supporting it. State Senator Scott Weiner introduced the bill, and a release from his office asserted it would “provide refuge for trans kids and their families.”
On Wednesday, Weiner announced it had passed the State Senate and “was on its way to” Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) office.(Snip)“California must stand with LGBTQ kids
Trinity School staffer admits to sneaking
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political ‘agenda’ into NYC classroom,
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Three Mexican brothers identified as part of an investigation into the shocking killing of a North Carolina sheriff’s deputy were all in the country illegally—including one who was caught and released at the border under the Trump administration. Alder Alfonso Marin Sotelo, 25, and Arturo Marin Sotelo, 29, have been charged with murder in the killing of Wake County Deputy Ned Byrd.(Snip)Federal authorities didn’t encounter the middle brother, Alder, until his arrest in connection with the death of Byrd, a 48-year-old Raleigh resident. Alder did have a local citation in Chapel Hill last year for firearms possession. A state trooper issued the citation.
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One of the most appropriate and fitting responses we saw
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Whenever political leaders lose all political capital due to their misgovernance and have no real issues to base their campaign on, they often resort to focusing on the symbolic — usually referring to "the soul of the nation."
This happened before in the U.S., it happened in India, it happened in the U.K. and it happened again in the U.S.
This is most typical of the left.
Instead of being humble and conceding their mistakes, they attack voters for thinking of voting against them while overlooking the myriad catastrophes they presided over. They often blame their opponents for what they are guilty of — bigotry, violence — and then end with the "soul" plea.
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Team for a National Address Were Off the
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I usually prefer to stay away from the ancillary stuff, but the remarks by Joe Biden today were not normal, not even close. (snip) These are not modified images or changes in presentation; they are exactly what was broadcast to the nation. It looks straight up evil. Like something out of a hellscape theatrical production intended to showcase Baal as the “soul of the nation.” (snip) I have never seen anything even close to this in a presidential address. Beyond creepy.
Satan: “Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.”
--John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I
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Beschloss Admits Advising Biden – 'This
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Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In” that he was part of a group of historians that advised Presidentii Joe Biden that democracy was in danger like it was before the Civil War and World War II.
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Replacement, Says Immigrants Are ‘Only
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The Democrat party’s pick for Secretary of Labor says CEOs are being victimized by a shortage of immigrant workers.
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If those 11 million jobs had to be filled tomorrow, we certainly don’t have enough people in the United States to fill those jobs … the issue of workers has to be addressed and the only way [emphasis added] you can do it is through immigration.
“When I talk to CEOs from companies all across America, they’re all in favor of immigration reform,” he said,
President Joe Biden walked back his attacks on Donald Trump's MAGA supporters, saying on Friday he doesn't consider 'any Trump supporter a threat to the country.'
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Biden toned down his tough talk on Friday, defending supporters of the former president.
Victoria White from Rochester, Minnesota attended the Stop the Steal rally in Washington DC on January 6th. She was nearly killed by DC police officers during the rally. Victoria was later arrested and charged with assault on the US Capitol.
Victoria White was brutally beaten near death by the US Capitol Police.
According to attorney Joseph McBride:
She is hit approximately thirty- five times over the course of 4 minutes and 30 seconds, while appearing to be begging for mercy the entire time. She is hit with the baton while facing away. She is hit with the baton while facing forward.
Even though yours truly took a two-week hiatus from his weekly documentation of supreme stupidity, knuckleheadedness itself did not take a vacation. In fact, the phenomenon was clearly working as feverishly as ever, then switched into overdrive this week. Up until Thursday evening, the front runner for Knucklehead of the Week had been President Joe Biden’s Press Secretary, the inestimable Karine Jean-Pierre. But after Thursday’s bizarre, occult-like speech from Mr. Biden, our Commander-in-Chief sealed the deal as we bestow the honor upon him for a record sixth time. Congratulations, Mr. President, how proud you must be.
NYT Mourns ‘Death’ of ‘Defund the
Police’ Movement, Warns Americans Will
‘Regret’ Rejecting It 25 replies
Police’ Movement, Warns Americans Will
‘Regret’ Rejecting It 25 replies
Decline in support for the “defund the police” movement signals that “racial equity is a tertiary issue,” according to a New York Times (NYT) op-ed mourning the apparent “death” of the issue, regretting it had not “caught on broadly enough,” and warning Americans will yet “regret” rejecting it.
The Wednesday New York Times essay titled “‘Defund the Police’ Is Dead. Now What?” and penned by left-wing opinion columnist Charles M. Blow, claimed, “both the slogan and the substance” of the “defund the police” movement, “appears to be dead.” “Its opponents beat it to death, not that it was ever wildly popular,” he wrote.
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We never were a democracy, and we could not keep the republic, either. USA is now a nation of the government, by the government, and for the government, which means the international Marxist 0.1% oligarchs who pull the strings in order to maximize their wealth by pushing the rest of us into abject poverty, begging for another bowl of insects while freezing in the dark. And God bless us, we put up with it.