Trump escalates attacks ahead of DeSantis’
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 5/18/2023 5:40:47 PM
Former President Donald Trump has launched a relentless series of attacks intended to end Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ fledgling White House run with death by a thousand cuts. Mr. Trump’s social media feed is jam-packed with DeSantis digs and links to stories and polls suggesting the Florida governor’s support is fading. “The storm is coming, said Aubrey Jewett, assistant director of the University of Central Florida’s School of Politics. “As long as Trump views DeSantis as his most serious competitor for the nomination, the attacks are going to keep coming.” Asked about the constant stream of attacks, Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for Mr. DeSantis’ political operation, said
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As the nation barrels toward defaulting on our debt, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Saturday that negotiations are on pause until President Joe Biden returns Sunday from the Group of Seven summit in Japan. Both sides are accusing the other of being intractable in negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, which Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says we could hit as soon as June 1, causing “economic chaos.”
Said McCarthy about the latest developments (or lack thereof):
Unfortunately, the White House moved backwards.
I don’t think we’re going to be able to move forward until the president can get back in the country.
Are Republicans actually about to win a political messaging battle? It’d certainly be shocking given the party’s track record, but that’s the story of a new Associated Press poll that is just brutal for the Democrat narrative on the debt ceiling fight.
According to the results of the AP-NORC poll, a whopping 63 percent of Americans want a debt ceiling deal that includes measures to decrease the federal deficit. That compares to just 19 percent who want a debt ceiling increase to be passed without any conditions.
Twenty-one percent of adults are following the debate over increasing the national debt limit closely and another 38% are following it somewhat closely.
Democrats continue to vent over how they have been forced to negotiate with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on a potential debt ceiling deal after months of saying they would not consider discussing such a compromise.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said that he regrets that Democrats did not raise the debt ceiling during the lame-duck session in 2022 before Republicans formally took back the House in January. “If I could do one thing different. And I was saying it at the time … ‘Hey, we got the votes,'” Kaine remarked, saying he believes that even the purportedly fiscal hawk Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) would have backed a debt ceiling hike.
Martin Amis, the influential author of era-defining novels including Money and London Fields, and the memoir Experience, has died at the age of 73 at his home at Lake Worth in Florida . His wife Isabel Fonseca said that the cause was cancer of the oesophagus.
Amis was among the celebrated group of novelists including Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes, whose works defined the British literary scene in the 1980s.
His 1984 novel Money was named by Robert McCrum in the Guardian as among the 100 best novels written in English. Money, wrote McCrum, was a “a zeitgeist book that remains one of the dominant novels of the 1980s”.
Report: NY Non-Profit CEO Accused of Lying
About Veterans Being Displaced from Hotels
for Migrants 2 replies
About Veterans Being Displaced from Hotels
for Migrants 2 replies
A New York State Assemblyman is calling on the state’s attorney general to investigate a non-profit group and its CEO over claims the group lied about homeless veterans being displaced from hotels for migrants, according to a local news outlet. The New York Post originally reported the group’s claims which were later alleged to be a hoax.
New York State Assemblyman Jonathan Jacobson (D-Newburg) called on the state’s attorney general to investigate the Yerik Israel Tooney (YIT) Foundation and CEO Sharon Toney-Finch, the Mid Hudson News reported.
New Poll: DeSantis Is Only GOP Presidential
Candidate Who Leads Biden in Crucial Swing States 19 replies
Candidate Who Leads Biden in Crucial Swing States 19 replies
Before we dig into the main course, a few words about polling in general. First, it’s been my experience that many—if not most—casual poll watchers tend to pay selective attention to polls, not unlike Fox News or CNN viewers who watch various on-air personalities to be told what they want to hear.
Second, we’ve seen candidates laud the results of a particular poll when its results favor them, then turn around and call the exact same polls “fake” when they don’t like the poll’s latest results. Third, while pre-primary polls conducted among likely voters of a single party might be lauded by various candidates and their followers, polls conducted among
Debt ceiling talks resumed Friday night on Capitol Hill, after multiple sources told CNN that earlier discussions between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office and the White House had hit a snag, triggering a pause.
McCarthy told Fox Business Friday evening that they would “be back in the room tonight,” adding that he remained “very frustrated” with the White House’s position. A source familiar with the negotiations separately told CNN Friday evening that negotiators would convene shortly.
Negotiators had met briefly in the Capitol earlier Friday before breaking up, dashing hopes that there could be a deal in principle by the weekend.
GOP Rep. Dusty Johnson, an ally of McCarthy and chair of
NFL legend Jim Brown dead at 87
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Cleveland Browns legend Jim Brown has died at the age of 87.
Brown is one of the greatest running backs of all time, having won three MVPs (including in his rookie season in 1957) and being named to nine All-Pro teams, eight of which he was a First-teamer.
Brown led the NFL in rushing yards eight times and rushing touchdowns on five occasions - he won the NFL Championship in 1964. His 106 rushing touchdowns are the sixth-most all-time, and his 12,312 rushing yards rank the 11th most in NFL history. He was enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
Feeling pret-tee smug right now about my home state, yes sirree, Bob.
And not for the first time, either. But in the middle of some pretty wretched economic numbers and an absolutely abysmal administration doing it’s best to sink the country in a morass of fiscal distress and racial division, all the while doing their damnedest to deride and destroy everything Americans once held dear, Florida is like an oasis of calm, sanity, courage, and FREEDOM.
It’s sure looking as if we Floridians aren’t the only ones who think so, either.
Today, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Florida has the lowest unemployment rate among the top 10 largest states
Bezos' Blue Origin wins NASA astronaut
moon lander contract to compete with SpaceX’s Starship 8 replies
moon lander contract to compete with SpaceX’s Starship 8 replies
WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos has his NASA moon ticket.
The billionaire's space company, Blue Origin, won a key contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Friday to develop a crewed lunar lander for delivering astronauts to the moon's surface later this decade under the agency's Artemis program. The effort is effectively a more than $7 billion project. NASA's contract award is worth just over $3.4 billion, officials said Friday, and Blue Origin Vice President John Couluris said the company will contribute "well north" of the contract's value as well.
"We're making an additional investment in the infrastructure
President Joe Biden told G7 leaders on Friday that Washington supports joint allied training programs for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, senior U.S. officials said, a significant endorsement as Kyiv seeks to boost its air power against Russia.
Training on the U.S.-made jets will take place in Europe and will require months to complete, one of the officials said. U.S. officials have estimated the most expeditious time needed for training and delivery of F-16s at 18 months. "As the training takes place over the coming months, our coalition of countries participating in this effort will decide when to actually provide jets, how many we will provide,
Debt-ceiling talks were paused Friday afternoon after Republican negotiators walked out, blaming the White House for making unreasonable demands.
“Until people are willing to have reasonable conversations about how you can actually move forward and do the right thing, then we’re not gonna sit here and talk to ourselves,” explained Representative Garret Graves (R., La.,), who was tapped to lead the negotiations.
“We decided to press pause because it’s just not productive,” Graves said, adding he doesn’t know if talks will resume over the weekend.
Late last month, House Republicans narrowly passed a bill to raise the nation’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling by an additional $1.5 trillion. The Limit, Save, Grow Act
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) will announce his 2024 White House candidacy “in the coming days,” New Hampshire news radio host Chris Ryan reported on Thursday.
Ryan reported that Christie’s campaign would be “focused on New Hampshire,” an early Republican primary state that often determines the success of a candidate’s campaign.New York Mets owner Steve Cohen will be one of several donors supporting Christie’s 2024 run, Ryan reported. (Tweet) Ryan’s report comes after months of speculation and a statement from Christie that he would make a final decision by mid-May.
Top Republicans remind FBI Director Chris Wray he must comply with a subpoena for a document allegedly linking Joe Biden to a cash-for-access 'criminal scheme' or else face 'consequences.'
'The FBI's delay in producing a single, unclassified record is unacceptable,' said House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer to Wray in a Friday evening letter marking nine days since the deadline passed.
'The FBI’s credibility is on the line, and their continued failure to cooperate will have long lasting consequences,' added Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warns in a report released Friday that rising temperatures could lead to more than nine million additional deaths each year by the end of the century.
The W.H.O., which has been criticized for its close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), declared in its annual World Health Statistics report that “climate change continues to degrade the environmental and social determinants of physical and mental health, posing enormous risks to us all.” “Climate change is one of the greatest health challenges of the 21st century,” the W.H.O. alleges.
Former US Attorney General Bill Barr on Thursday predicted Special Counsel Jack Smith will indict Trump in August or September.
Jack Smith reportedly has “new and significant evidence” of potential Trump obstruction in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.Biden’s Justice Department has nothing on Trump so they are going to try to get him on ‘obstruction’ charges.
Jack Smith is also investigating Trump’s effort to raise money off of ‘false claims of election fraud,’ according to a leak to the Washington Post.
Federal prosecutors are investigating money raised between November 3, 2020 and January 20, 2021.
First lady Jilll Biden told an audience in Hiroshima that 'we must teach this history' after touring the atomic bomb site Friday as part of the G7 summit.
She was speaking in front of private and public university students at the Next Generations' Symposium early Friday evening, which was attended by the summit's spouses, after earlier visiting Hiroshima's Peace Park and Memorial Museum.
Dr. Biden didn't show up with Japan's Yuko Kishida, the United Kingdom's Akshata Murty and Germany's Britta Ernst, arriving with granddaughter Maisy 10 minutes later.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been knocked back after demanding the picture agency involved in a 'near catastrophic car chase' give them its pictures. Backgrid has rejected the couple's demands after the incident in New York on Tuesday night, telling them that Americans 'long ago rejected royal prerogative'. The letter, which the agency said it got from the pair's legal team on Thursday, reportedly said: 'We hereby demand that Backgrid immediately provide us with copies of all photos, videos, and/or films taken last night by the freelance photographers after the couple left their event and over the next several hours.'
Reverend Al Sharpton has used the funeral of subway chokehold victim Jordan Neely to condemn the ex-marine who fatally restrained the homeless schizophrenic.
Hundreds gathered at the Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem with loved ones visibly devastated as they carried Neely into the place of worship in an ivory and gold casket ahead of the service.
Sharpton delivered a fiery eulogy as mourners clapped and chanted: 'No Justice, no peace.' The civil rights activist told the congregation: 'When they choked Jordan they put their arms around all of us. All of us have a right to live.'
Daniel Penny, 24, was charged with manslaughter last week after putting 30-year-old Neely,
Printer Error Turns Almost a Million Registered
Voters in Nassau County, New York Democrat 24 replies
Voters in Nassau County, New York Democrat 24 replies
A printer error in Nassau County, New York turned every registered voter in the county Democrat.
The printer reportedly botched over 976,000 voter registration cards and labeled every voter in the county Democrat.
Republicans make up over 60% of registered voters in Nassau County which left many Conservatives in the county feeling absolutely blindsided by the error.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman told NBC 4 News “We’re already starting to get phone calls from people, saying ‘I’m a registered Republican, I’m a registered Conservative – how come I’m being identified as a Democrat? Who changed my registration?’ And they’re quite upset about it.”
Boebert slams Fetterman for wearing hoodie,
shorts to Senate news conference: 'No excuse' 23 replies
shorts to Senate news conference: 'No excuse' 23 replies
Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., blasted Democratic Senator John Fetterman's "unbecoming" decision to attend a Senate press conference while wearing a hoodie and shorts. "John Fetterman redefined Casual Friday on a Thursday morning," Boebert wrote on Twitter. "It’s truly unbecoming for someone to show up like that to any job, let alone a job that only 100 people are elected to do." The Pennsylvania senator attended a Thursday news conference to discuss debt limit negotiations wearing a white hoodie, gray workout shorts, and running shoes, while standing alongside four fellow Democratic Senators who all were dressed in a suit and tie.
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and that 2-hour
'car chase.' I'm ex-NYPD and here's the
411 on their 911 22 replies
'car chase.' I'm ex-NYPD and here's the
411 on their 911 22 replies
As an attorney and retired NYPD Inspector, I’ve been told some stories in my day. This one lands someplace between "Beowulf"and Monty Python. So let us now uncover these mysteries, hidden deep in the tale.
As we’ve all heard by now, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (wasn’t he recently banished from the realm or something?) are claiming that on Tuesday night, after leaving an event in Manhattan’s midtown, they were pursued by paparazzi in a "near catastrophic" car chase that went on for two hours.
Rep. Lauren Boebert didn't hold back when it came to criticizing Democrat Senator John Fetterman's decision to wear a hoodie and shorts to a Senate press conference on Thursday.
The Colorado Republican was so incensed she took to Twitter to express her disapproval, calling Fetterman's appearance 'truly unbecoming.'
She argued that such attire was inappropriate for any job, especially considering the limited number of individuals elected to serve in the Senate.
President Joe Biden told G7 leaders on Friday that Washington supports joint allied training programs for Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, senior U.S. officials said, a significant endorsement as Kyiv seeks to boost its air power against Russia.
Training on the U.S.-made jets will take place in Europe and will require months to complete, one of the officials said. U.S. officials have estimated the most expeditious time needed for training and delivery of F-16s at 18 months. "As the training takes place over the coming months, our coalition of countries participating in this effort will decide when to actually provide jets, how many we will provide,