Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)
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Trust me, those of us who actually make the money for these tech companies hate the children working there too.
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Project Virginia has the exact right mindset. They stop just short of saying "death to pedos" on a daily basis. Another thing they bring up that I like is pointing out that Dems are incapable of admitting error, so you just have to ask innocent questions like, "Why did you cover up a trans rape in school?" They will play out the bad optics for months because they can't admit you have a point and will double and triple down on saying there wasn't a rape, a coverup, a troon, or even a school at play. It's an easy way to hijack their programming and make the policies they advocate for toxic in the public eye, because they hang themselves for you.
Edit: Good tweet.
By the way, some conservatives have been buzzing anxiously because Youngkin nominated a big data person to be Secretary of Ed in Virginia, which is sort of how wokeness got into schools in the first place. But he has balanced that with picking a school choice outsider from Wyoming and one of the angry parents from Fairfax to help run the department (the state superintendent office). So he is literally letting a pissed-off NoVa mama bear loose on CRT and telling her not to report back until it's completely dead. It's awesome.
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/...-bomb-on-virginias-educational-establishment/
Boom! Youngkin Drops a Bomb on Virginia’s Educational Establishment
Posted on January 13, 2022 by James A. Bacon | 49 Comments
by James A. Bacon
Signaling his intention to transform Virginia’s public school system, Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin announced today the appointment of outsiders to the positions of superintendent and assistant superintendent of public instruction — the top two officials in the Virginia Department of Education.
Jillian Balow, Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction
Jillian Balow, superintendent of Wyoming’s public schools, landed the top slot. Elizabeth Schultz, a senior fellow with Parents Defending Education and an outspoken foe of Critical Race Theory in Virginia schools, will be Balow’s deputy.
“Jillian and Elizabeth are going to be crucial in helping Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera restore excellence in education,” Youngkin said in making the announcement. “Under my direction, they will get to work on ensuring our schools remain safely open, ban critical race theory and political agendas from our classrooms, and rebuild our crumbling schools.”
Elizabeth Schultz, assistant superintendent
Wow. Youngkin’s campaign rhetoric wasn’t just campaign rhetoric. He’s not recruiting retreads from the Virginia public school system. Between Balow, Schultz, and Aimee Guidera, his pick for Secretary of Education, he’s putting in charge three outsiders not beholden to the educational establishment in any way.
Balow is a fifth-generation Wyoming native who graduated from the University of Wyoming. She taught in Wyoming classrooms for ten years. Among her accomplishments as superintendent of Wyoming’s public schools, says her profile page:
Schultz, by contrast, does have Virginia ties. A graduate of James Madison University, she served eight years on the Fairfax County School Board. As a senior executive in Parents Defending Education, she has been an outspoken critic of Northam administration education policy. You can get a flavor for her thinking in a column published in Bacon’s Rebellion: “The Left Is Lying: CRT Is Peddling Hate in Our Schools.”
- She led the transformation of the state’s early literacy laws “into some of the most rigorous in the country.”
- Worked with tribal partners to enact “Indian Education for All” so that Wyoming students would learn about the history of the Northern Arapahoe and Eastern Shoshone tribes.
- Hewing to the belief that “small government is best,” reduced in-agency personnel by 11% and agency operating funds by 15%.
- Overhauled the state standards review process to be the most collaborative and transparent in the nation.
Bacon’s bottom line: Glenn Youngkin will not be a “business as usual” governor. His cabinet picks are ample proof that he will not shy away from confrontation. I can promise you, the next four years will be eventful.
As an aside, I wonder if the media and punditry will credit Youngkin with appointing a team of three strong women to transform Virginia’s public schools.
There is really no need for moderators at all, though. Literally just let the candidates talk. The debates in this country used to be just two guys standing on turnip boxes and making their case for why x issue was important and what needed to be done about it. Make them do a long-form podcast together. The debates we have now are artificially shallow, gatekept screaming matches, so sticking to that format only benefits the cable networks. The political parties aren't able to get their message out as it is, so why wouldn't they bypass the debates entirely and challenge each other man to man? Something like Cruz and Sanders did with a long debate on health care. I respected them both for that.
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I take it Nancy doesn't want people to keep asking why she defends insider trading so fiercely?
Nancy Pelosi — under pressure — directs House to consider bigger penalties for lawmakers and aides who break a federal conflict-of-interest law
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The Democratic leader asked the Committee on House Administration to investigate how many members have broken the reporting requirements of the the 2012 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, also known as the STOCK Act.
At least 54 members of Congress and 182 of their top aides have violated the STOCK Act's disclosure provisions, according to Insider's "Conflicted Congress" investigation, which published in December.
Drew Hammill, Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, told Insider that the Speaker asked the panel to look into "the possibility of stiffening penalties," and confirmed it would extend to senior staff.
"The speaker believes that sunlight is the best disinfectant and has asked Committee on House Administration Chair Zoe Lofgren to examine the issue of Members' unacceptable noncompliance with the reporting requirements in the STOCK Act," he said. The panel is responsible for setting rules on lawmakers and staff, including everything from human resources directions to ethical standards.
Pelosi's actions contrast with most recent statements about members of Congress and their stock trades. Following publication of Insider's "Conflicted Congress" project, Pelosi told Insider that members of Congress should be allowed to buy and sell individual stocks.
"We are a free-market economy. They should be able to participate in that," Pelosi said, adding that members of Congress should report their trades on time.
But while the STOCK Act requires members of Congress to publicly report their stock transactions within 30 to 45 days, depending on when they learned about a trade, dozens of Democrats and Republicans alike have recently failed to do so. Some have broken federal disclosure deadlines by months with stock trades worth into the millions of dollars.
Lawmakers who have violated the STOCK Act's disclosure provisions routinely invest in companies that vie for federal contracts and lobby the federal government, sometimes spending millions of dollars annually to do so.
"Conflicted Congress" also revealed numerous, recent examples of potential conflicts: House Armed Services Committee members trading defense contractor stocks, lawmakers responsible for health policy buying shares of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, environmentally minded congressional members investing in oil companies.
Pelosi does not personally trade stocks, but her husband, Paul Pelosi, has millions of dollars worth of stock investments that the speaker must by law disclose.
Insider also contacted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's office and the Senate Rules Committee to ask whether the Senate might undertake a similar review, but did not immediately receive a response. On Tuesday, Schumer dodged a question about whether he supported a stock trading ban for lawmakers, but told Insider "I don't own any stocks, and I think that's the right thing to do."
Minimal consequences
Insider's "Conflicted Congress" investigation found that few face consequences for violating the law, including cases in which they reported millions of dollars in trades months or even years late.
Scofflaws are supposed to pay a late fee of $200 the first time they file a report about their stock trades late, and increasingly higher fines are supposed to follow if they continue to be late — potentially costing tens of thousands of dollars in extreme cases. But that rarely happens.
Pelosi's latest actions come as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have in recent days proposed a slew of similar bills to ban stock trading, including a pair of competing proposals unveiled on Wednesday by Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia, and Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican of Missouri.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, who is poised to become the new speaker if Republicans win back the House after the 2022 elections, told Punchbowl News this week he supports restrictions on members of Congress buying and selling individual stocks. Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas has sponsored a bill restricting members of Congress from trading stocks, and US Senate candidate Blake Masters of Arizona has made banning congressional stock trades a cornerstone campaign issue.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Abigail Spanberger, and Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, and Mark Warner of Virginia rank among Democrats who've said they want tough restrictions on lawmakers' stock trades.
Pelosi's decision also arrives as the White House on Friday opened the door to a potential ban on members of Congress trading individual stocks.
Meanwhile, Rep. Angie Craig, a two-term Democrat from Minnesota, is preparing to next week introduce a resolution banning members of the US House from owning "common stock of any individual public corporation."
Unlike the several other bills lawmakers are introducing to squelch stock trade activity among members of Congress, Craig's resolution, if passed, wouldn't be a law. Instead, it'd be a House rule that only applied to House members and not subject to a vote in the US Senate or the signature of President Joe Biden.
Why is Craig willing to defy Pelosi on this matter and potentially invite political blowback from the speaker?
"I just fundamentally disagree with her on this topic … I wish the speaker had a different point of view," Craig told Insider on Friday. "If the American people can't believe that we're here just to serve them, not to pad our own portfolios, then how can they trust we're doing what's in our best interest?
"I want to start the conversation about why my leadership wants to block this legislation," Craig said, adding that she will "working across the aisle to see what kind of support we can build."
Craig recalled once participating in a House Subcommittee on Aviation hearing involving Boeing, the aviation and defense contracting giant.
"I literally sat there that one day and said to myself, 'My God, if I wanted to short Boeing today, and make a little money — this is the most ridiculous thing in the world that members of Congress can trade individual stocks," she said. "We often get information before the general public."
- A House panel will scrutinize congressional stock trades following Insider's 'Conflicted Congress' investigation.
- Lawmakers may face higher fines if they report their stock trades late.
- The move comes after Insider revealed numerous violations and lawmakers are proposing stock bans.
The Democratic leader asked the Committee on House Administration to investigate how many members have broken the reporting requirements of the the 2012 Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, also known as the STOCK Act.
At least 54 members of Congress and 182 of their top aides have violated the STOCK Act's disclosure provisions, according to Insider's "Conflicted Congress" investigation, which published in December.
Drew Hammill, Pelosi's deputy chief of staff, told Insider that the Speaker asked the panel to look into "the possibility of stiffening penalties," and confirmed it would extend to senior staff.
"The speaker believes that sunlight is the best disinfectant and has asked Committee on House Administration Chair Zoe Lofgren to examine the issue of Members' unacceptable noncompliance with the reporting requirements in the STOCK Act," he said. The panel is responsible for setting rules on lawmakers and staff, including everything from human resources directions to ethical standards.
Pelosi's actions contrast with most recent statements about members of Congress and their stock trades. Following publication of Insider's "Conflicted Congress" project, Pelosi told Insider that members of Congress should be allowed to buy and sell individual stocks.
"We are a free-market economy. They should be able to participate in that," Pelosi said, adding that members of Congress should report their trades on time.
But while the STOCK Act requires members of Congress to publicly report their stock transactions within 30 to 45 days, depending on when they learned about a trade, dozens of Democrats and Republicans alike have recently failed to do so. Some have broken federal disclosure deadlines by months with stock trades worth into the millions of dollars.
Lawmakers who have violated the STOCK Act's disclosure provisions routinely invest in companies that vie for federal contracts and lobby the federal government, sometimes spending millions of dollars annually to do so.
"Conflicted Congress" also revealed numerous, recent examples of potential conflicts: House Armed Services Committee members trading defense contractor stocks, lawmakers responsible for health policy buying shares of COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, environmentally minded congressional members investing in oil companies.
Pelosi does not personally trade stocks, but her husband, Paul Pelosi, has millions of dollars worth of stock investments that the speaker must by law disclose.
Insider also contacted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's office and the Senate Rules Committee to ask whether the Senate might undertake a similar review, but did not immediately receive a response. On Tuesday, Schumer dodged a question about whether he supported a stock trading ban for lawmakers, but told Insider "I don't own any stocks, and I think that's the right thing to do."
Minimal consequences
Insider's "Conflicted Congress" investigation found that few face consequences for violating the law, including cases in which they reported millions of dollars in trades months or even years late.
Scofflaws are supposed to pay a late fee of $200 the first time they file a report about their stock trades late, and increasingly higher fines are supposed to follow if they continue to be late — potentially costing tens of thousands of dollars in extreme cases. But that rarely happens.
Pelosi's latest actions come as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have in recent days proposed a slew of similar bills to ban stock trading, including a pair of competing proposals unveiled on Wednesday by Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat of Georgia, and Sen. Josh Hawley, a Republican of Missouri.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, who is poised to become the new speaker if Republicans win back the House after the 2022 elections, told Punchbowl News this week he supports restrictions on members of Congress buying and selling individual stocks. Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas has sponsored a bill restricting members of Congress from trading stocks, and US Senate candidate Blake Masters of Arizona has made banning congressional stock trades a cornerstone campaign issue.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Abigail Spanberger, and Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, and Mark Warner of Virginia rank among Democrats who've said they want tough restrictions on lawmakers' stock trades.
Pelosi's decision also arrives as the White House on Friday opened the door to a potential ban on members of Congress trading individual stocks.
Meanwhile, Rep. Angie Craig, a two-term Democrat from Minnesota, is preparing to next week introduce a resolution banning members of the US House from owning "common stock of any individual public corporation."
Unlike the several other bills lawmakers are introducing to squelch stock trade activity among members of Congress, Craig's resolution, if passed, wouldn't be a law. Instead, it'd be a House rule that only applied to House members and not subject to a vote in the US Senate or the signature of President Joe Biden.
Why is Craig willing to defy Pelosi on this matter and potentially invite political blowback from the speaker?
"I just fundamentally disagree with her on this topic … I wish the speaker had a different point of view," Craig told Insider on Friday. "If the American people can't believe that we're here just to serve them, not to pad our own portfolios, then how can they trust we're doing what's in our best interest?
"I want to start the conversation about why my leadership wants to block this legislation," Craig said, adding that she will "working across the aisle to see what kind of support we can build."
Craig recalled once participating in a House Subcommittee on Aviation hearing involving Boeing, the aviation and defense contracting giant.
"I literally sat there that one day and said to myself, 'My God, if I wanted to short Boeing today, and make a little money — this is the most ridiculous thing in the world that members of Congress can trade individual stocks," she said. "We often get information before the general public."
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It's not like tech workers can't be managed well. Tech guys who work in finance get paid well without all the bullshit.
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It's okay, they fact checked Pelosi's net worth. It's fine that she's making $225K and is worth nearly $100M and definitely not $200M (FALSE!!!). Her husband owns an investment firm, which hilarious completely misses the point so hard it's actually funny.
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So, partially serious question and I may just be making her excuses for her... But has anyone considered the possibility that Kamala comes off the way she does because she's fucking high? Her random inappropriate laughter, her frequent state of confusion, her inability to string coherent sentences together much better than the dementia patient she serves under... I know she's incompetent and stupid but I genuinely wonder if some of her behavioral ticks are due to just being stoned.
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I think you do need some kind of moderator or master of ceremony is needed in debates. Otherwise who reads the questions that keep the politicians from rambling about nothing?
A better way is to just have a list of topics, and the moderator’s only job is to introduce the topic and give warnings about time.
I think you do need some kind of moderator or master of ceremony is needed in debates. Otherwise who reads the questions that keep the politicians from rambling about nothing?
A better way is to just have a list of topics, and the moderator’s only job is to introduce the topic and give warnings about time.
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I'm quite sure by now that rumor would have already spread if true. As far as I'm concerned she's cut from the same cloth as Hillary or Nancy Pelosi as far as their public persona goes.
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And that's not even to mention her son, who's competing with Hunter Biden. Paul Pelosi Jr. has been involved in FIVE different companies that have broken the law. No wonder she doesn't want people looking into her finances!
Paul began his amazing work career as the Senior Vice President at a data company named InfoUSA in 2007, a job that paid him a $180,000 salary even though he had no relevant work experience for the field. The CEO of InfoUSA was Vinod Gupta, a major Democratic Party donor who was in trouble with the state of Iowa since he sold millions of people's data to scammers. The investigation convienently ended after a couple of years with nothing happening. It's suspected that he hired Paul in order to build up his personal connections with Nancy.
Two years later in 2009 he became the President of a company called Natural Blue Resources. An SEC investigation revealed that it was being secretly controlled by two convicted fraudsters who were using Paul and other employees as a front so they could secretly take profits without disclosing their past to investors. One of the other people Paul worked with, a former Governor of New Mexico was charged but he somehow escaped prosecution.
In October 2013 he became Vice President of a biofuel company named FOGFuels. Just one month previously the SEC had announced it was pressing charges against FOGFuels and its founder, Paul Marshall. Paul didn't care though. After a lengthy legal battle, Marshall went to prison for 6 years for committing fraud and also bribing government officials in Georgia, but he was released after 2. FOGFuels as a company was dissolved at the end of 2015.
Paul was more active in 2014. He first became Independent Director at a drug company known as Targeted Medical Pharma. When he was first applying to the position, he chose to leave FOGFuels off his resume. He stayed there for seven months, quit, and a year later the company was accused of testing drugs on people without authorization by the FDA... but they only recieved a warning and the whole thing was dismissed as a "clerical error" by the FDA.
Also in 2014, he became "Business Development Executive" of the Corporate Governance Initiative, a non-profit focusing on "transparency, capitalism and building sustainable organizations". He was promoted to Executive Director in December 2015. Through this job, he built close ties with another charity whose executive who was also a crypto scammer. This executive was charged in court and his case is still ongoing.
And as for the last company given the Pelosi kiss of death, in 2016 he joined a lithium mining company named Oroplata Resources as a Senior Advisor. One month before he joined, the company's leaders were accused of issuing $26 million in stock without the board's approval and then gave the shares to themselves. Paul received somewhere between $4.2 and $5.1 million but for some very peciular reason he was never charged for anything.
Two years later in 2009 he became the President of a company called Natural Blue Resources. An SEC investigation revealed that it was being secretly controlled by two convicted fraudsters who were using Paul and other employees as a front so they could secretly take profits without disclosing their past to investors. One of the other people Paul worked with, a former Governor of New Mexico was charged but he somehow escaped prosecution.
In October 2013 he became Vice President of a biofuel company named FOGFuels. Just one month previously the SEC had announced it was pressing charges against FOGFuels and its founder, Paul Marshall. Paul didn't care though. After a lengthy legal battle, Marshall went to prison for 6 years for committing fraud and also bribing government officials in Georgia, but he was released after 2. FOGFuels as a company was dissolved at the end of 2015.
Paul was more active in 2014. He first became Independent Director at a drug company known as Targeted Medical Pharma. When he was first applying to the position, he chose to leave FOGFuels off his resume. He stayed there for seven months, quit, and a year later the company was accused of testing drugs on people without authorization by the FDA... but they only recieved a warning and the whole thing was dismissed as a "clerical error" by the FDA.
Also in 2014, he became "Business Development Executive" of the Corporate Governance Initiative, a non-profit focusing on "transparency, capitalism and building sustainable organizations". He was promoted to Executive Director in December 2015. Through this job, he built close ties with another charity whose executive who was also a crypto scammer. This executive was charged in court and his case is still ongoing.
And as for the last company given the Pelosi kiss of death, in 2016 he joined a lithium mining company named Oroplata Resources as a Senior Advisor. One month before he joined, the company's leaders were accused of issuing $26 million in stock without the board's approval and then gave the shares to themselves. Paul received somewhere between $4.2 and $5.1 million but for some very peciular reason he was never charged for anything.
TL;DR the Daily Mail seems to do very good investigative work. Also, I believe Nancy would NOT like a close light shined on her son's activities
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Why would we need a rumor? She's confirmed her past pot use and all but confirmed she approves of it, I don't think anyone would really be surprised enough to rage about it at this point, and it'd be one of the most benign aspects of this entire administration.
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Really? ...are we 100% sure she didn't say that just because she thought that might make her "hip" with the young? I mean this is the same person that bragged about somebody, I don't know. Maybe some rapper (Tupac?) being her favorite musician or something and it sounded like complete bullcrap.
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...freaking A man. I knew I was right, but holy crap.
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@Trianon: hot damn, those tweets are spicy.
I'd expect those kind of tweets from Bob Chipman. And yeah, it's Internet Tough Guy talk, but it's refreshing to see "fuck you, liberal assholes, you've forfeited your right be treated nicely!", instead of "wow, imagine if things were reversed" or "Dems arr da real raycists".
I'd expect those kind of tweets from Bob Chipman. And yeah, it's Internet Tough Guy talk, but it's refreshing to see "fuck you, liberal assholes, you've forfeited your right be treated nicely!", instead of "wow, imagine if things were reversed" or "Dems arr da real raycists".
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Now that's the GOP I want to see.
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People want to go back to work and make a living. Big surprise.
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The only criticism I can give to such a fucking hilarious moment is the presence of those salads.
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It looks impressive, but honestly if you don't eat McDonalds within 15-20 minutes, it becomes inedible.
Still a great photo though.
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