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Former U.S. Congressman and Philadelphia Political Operative Pleads Guilty to Election Fraud Charges
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that former U.S. Congressman Michael “Ozzie” Myers, 79, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election for orchestrating schemes to fraudulently stuff the ballot boxes for specific Democratic candidates in the 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 Pennsylvania elections.
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Just another day in the greatest country on Earth - lol
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@Kid-Chocolate said in US Politics:
The tide is moving in one direction.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/07/trump-desantis-00037538
He’s going to bring the party together, I predict. He’s MAGA without the circus, so he’ll be acceptable to most Trump supporters, who I have repeatedly stated are not a cult hypnotized by a Dear Leader, they’re basically nationalists who prioritize America First, and they’re realists. If they believe DeSantis is the guy to deliver on those policies, they will line up behind him.
From gas prices, inflation, to last nights’ recall of Chesa Boudin, the Dems should be worried. Regular people hate their divisive woke priorities.
Things could really ugly between him and Trump if both run. My understanding is that Trump is still by far the most popular politician of the Republican base.
I really hope Trump doesn't run. He is at risk of losing to almost any Dem' candidate outside of Harris and Biden because of his personal baggage.
I also question if DeSantis defeats Trump in the primary whether he can bring himself to support anyone other than himself.
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DeSantis is going to sell himself as the America First MAGA candidate who can win.
He doesn’t have the baggage and negatives. He can show a fresh leader moving forward versus a retread going back. The energy is with real change.
He can also play his ultimate “trump” card, forgive the pun, pointing to Jan 6 political prisoners and demanding to know why the former president hasn’t done more to defend his supporters rotting in confined isolation without bail like Al Qaeda prisoners. He can make that case. Right now most conservatives see the hearings as yet another partisan witchhunt scam, and many supporters believe Trump has dropped the ball. DeSantis isn’t afraid to defend them, mocking Dems hyperbole accusations of coups and sedition and “worse than Pearl Harbor,” etc. , and they will galvanize to him and see Trump’s silence as weakness. These conversations have been taking place in the grassroots for months now.
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He really is a senile retard.
He made that big NATO address where he went off-script and said that Putin cannot remain in office, which was not great for any peace agreement in Ukraine, and more recently he directly stated that the US would make a direct military intervention if China invaded Taiwan, something that the US has avoided directly stating for 40 years plus.
This is sad to watch, but dangerous.
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@antipodean democrats MO. Yell at the top of your voice and hopefully something sticks. Trump pushed bureaucratic buttons and challenged the establishment and status quo. They never liked that.
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“When Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1980, his age was a serious challenge. If he won, he’d be the oldest elected president ever. Eight years later, when he left the White House after a second term with clear signs of declining abilities, he was younger than Joe Biden was the day he began his presidency.“
Jeff Greenfield gets a few things mistaken, but in an otherwise good commentary says Joe (39% and sinking) is the party’s only hope to hold them together, which says much about the train wreck they have become.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/09/democrats-2024-dilemma-00038105
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@Frank said in US Politics:
@Kid-Chocolate
Interesting points, but I still see Trump as a wrecking ball who could potentially fuck things up.Trump only supports himself. If he doesn't win he won't care if his actions afterwards hurt the prospects of the party's chosen candidate in the presidential race
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@canefan said in US Politics:
@Frank said in US Politics:
@Kid-Chocolate
Interesting points, but I still see Trump as a wrecking ball who could potentially fuck things up.Trump only supports himself. If he doesn't win he won't care if his actions afterwards hurt the prospects of the party's chosen candidate in the presidential race
Yep. And ironically the Democrats obsession with Trump, to the point of derangement, seems to have blinded them to the need to look more than a few weeks beyond the 2020 Presidential election or to the one in 2024.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
@canefan said in US Politics:
@Frank said in US Politics:
@Kid-Chocolate
Interesting points, but I still see Trump as a wrecking ball who could potentially fuck things up.Trump only supports himself. If he doesn't win he won't care if his actions afterwards hurt the prospects of the party's chosen candidate in the presidential race
Yep. And ironically the Democrats obsession with Trump, to the point of derangement, seems to have blinded them to the need to look more than a few weeks beyond the 2020 Presidential election or to the one in 2024.
Oh yeah. Throughout the campaign all they talked about was Beating Trump. They had no after plan
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@Kid-Chocolate said in US Politics:
Jeff Greenfield gets a few things mistaken, but in an otherwise good commentary says Joe (39% and sinking) is the party’s only hope to hold them together, which says much about the train wreck they have become.
What does the future or competence matter when choosing a diversity tick-box candidate for VP makes the Democrats feel just soooo damn good?
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@canefan said in US Politics:
Trump only supports himself. If he doesn't win he won't care if his actions afterwards hurt the prospects of the party's chosen candidate in the presidential race
You’re wringing your hands from too much partisan brain-washing, and in the end it won’t mean a thing. Trump is and always has been a businessman. He’ll negotiate and cut a deal. That’s what he does. DeSantis will create a medal in his name if that’s what it takes. People gots to start searching for alternate perspectives and move past the Manichean cartoon character they’ve been spoonfed the past five years. Is he a narcissist? Like most leaders, yeah, almost certainly, he’s just very poor at hiding it. But even narcissists care about their legacy, and despite your prejudices, I have mine, and I believe he does in fact love his country and desperately wants his enemies defeated for the good of his country and his legacy.
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@canefan said in US Politics:
Oh yeah. Throughout the campaign all they talked about was Beating Trump. They had no after plan
Oh, they had a plan. A very big plan. It’s just that their first step on Day One — an immediate Executive Order to kill the Keystone pipeline — blew up spectacularly in their faces. You can trace that decision directly to global energy crises, escalating inflation, and Vlad invading Ukraine with a whiphand.
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“Don’t under-estimate Joe’s ability to F things up.”
From two years ago, worth remembering:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/14/obama-biden-relationship-393570
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Correction: They’re not whispers; they’re bullhorns.
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