Bruddah IZ
DA
Okay.
Dirty Cop Mueller's History of Cover Ups !!!!
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So the buyer has to pay an additional 22% to the feds when it gobbles up another company? I like it.
Bruddah IZ
DA
Both you and the gobblers.
Huh?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Sorry. You and the buyers "like it"
Sheriff Joe
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CA College Board Of Trustees Eliminates Pledge Of Allegiance: Its History ‘Steeped in Nativism And White Nationalism’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42760/ca-college-board-trustees-eliminates-pledge-hank-berrien
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42760/ca-college-board-trustees-eliminates-pledge-hank-berrien
The President of the California Community College Board of Trustees below.......
Tom Epstein
President
Appointment: 2014-2020
Residence: Orinda
https://extranet.cccco.edu/SystemOperations/BoardofGovernors/Members.aspx#top
Water only runs down hill......
California is being set up to become an independent Country.....Don't laugh
you Lemming Liberals, just look up the facts and you'll see the alignment
that has been put in motion .....then you can cry....
Especially when the top taxpayers in California who constitute less than
2.5 - 3 % and pay damn near 3/4 of the taxes have stated that they will move
if the rates go any higher...
If they move it makes California damn near one of the poorest states....
Man, you always know shit so far in advance, it really is impressive. You're like Iz, you know so much.The President of the California Community College Board of Trustees below.......
Tom Epstein
President
Appointment: 2014-2020
Residence: Orinda
Tom Epstein recently retired after 15 years as vice president of public affairs of Blue Shield of California, where he led government relations, corporate communications, philanthropy and corporate social responsibility. Prior to joining Blue Shield, Epstein was vice president of communications for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and served in the Clinton White House as a special assistant to the president for political affairs. Previously, he was deputy commissioner of the California Department of Insurance. Mr. Epstein earned a J.D. from UCLA School of Law and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the board of the Coalition for Clean Air and is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Water only runs down hill......
California is being set up to become an independent Country.....Don't laugh
you Lemming Liberals, just look up the facts and you'll see the alignment
that has been put in motion .....then you can cry....
Especially when the top taxpayers in California who constitute less than
2.5 - 3 % and pay damn near 3/4 of the taxes have stated that they will move
if the rates go any higher...
If they move it makes California damn near one of the poorest states....
So what date are we going to secede from the union? You must know it.
Sheriff Joe
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Didn't they already try it?
Looks like Joe tried it. But nono knows about the next effort.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Those Russians are some busy little bees, or you just have Russia stuck in that empty head of yours.
Good point. Very busy.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Fake News
Sheriff Joe
DA
Really Fake News.
I know you are baffled by Bullshit...
I know you wash your feet in Urine...
I know you have Donkey Dung under your Nails....
I know for sure that you DO NOT PAY ATTENTION !
Yur such a dipshit.....you need to call Adam Schiff for Brains and get new
talking points....That one is out of style like the Don Jr phone call....
Oh and furthermore Rodent " Dipshit "....your Fake News above is contradicted by
Real News from the same year about Democrats who are quietly BEHIND the secession
movement....
The CNP is a quiet arm of the Democrats......
Trump critics turn to obstruction, secession
as Democrats & rsquo; power fades
by Stephen Loiaconi
Thursday, February 2nd 2017
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — Hoping to capitalize on the state’s overwhelming rejection of President Donald Trump in November, activists in California have taken the first step toward accomplishing what many experts say will be impossible: seceding from the United States.
Last week, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla granted the “Cal-exit” movement approval to seek signatures to get an amendment to the state Constitution on the ballot in 2018. That alone will be a difficult task: finding 585,407 people to sign off on a measure that a majority of Californians oppose by July 25.
California Nationhood. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute by Stephen Loiaconi on Scribd
Once the Constitution is amended to remove references to the state being “an inseparable part of the United States,” a referendum on independence would be voted on in 2019. However, that could only pass if at least 50 percent of registered voters participate in the election and 55 percent of them vote for it.
If the effort cleared that hurdle, the country would be left to navigate the largely uncharted territory of secession, according to Robert Hawes, author of “One Nation Indivisible? A Study of Secession and the Constitution.”
“There’s nothing in the Constitution that references it,” he said.
According to Hawes, a few states were accepted into the Union with the provision that they could leave if they wanted, but those policies were never legally tested. The only Supreme Court case he is aware of that directly addressed secession was Texas v. White, an 1869 case that concluded a state cannot secede unilaterally.
Hawes expects that if any serious secession effort garnered enough support for passage to be plausible, it would be opposed vigorously by the White House and Department of Justice and would eventually reach the Supreme Court. If the justices follow the precedent set by White, a national referendum winning the approval of other states or even an amendment to the U.S. Constitution could be required.
If Californians were somehow able to overcome all of those obstacles, declaring independence would have drastic ramifications for both the Golden State and the other 49.
The new California government would need to develop alternatives to social service programs like Medicaid and Social Security that are currently funded with federal dollars, and it would require its own military. As Patrick Gleason argued in Forbes, the state would also lose the option of seeking federal aid to alleviate an underfunded pension system and struggling infrastructure projects.
“Some conservatives, once they get used to the idea, will probably like it,” Hawes said.
Democrats in the U.S. would lose 55 electoral votes in presidential elections, two senators, and 53 members of the House. The millions of votes that gave Hillary Clinton her popular vote victory, for whatever that is worth, would be gone. Winning national elections, regaining control of Congress, and advancing progressive policies would become far more difficult.
“That will be a huge block of dependably left votes going away,” Hawes observed.
Other states have fielded similar calls for independence in the past. 125,000 people signed a petition to the Obama White House in 2013 to allow Texas to secede. A faction in California has advocated it for a while, but Trump’s victory in November energized the movement.
“Being a U.S. state is no longer serving California’s best interests. On issues ranging from peace and security to natural resources and the environment, it has become increasingly true that California would be better off as an independent country,” the group behind the latest initiative, Yes California, states in a 36-page promotional brochure.
Calexit Blue Book by Stephen Loiaconi on Scribd
Critics have questioned Yes California’s links to Russia, and a more established group that supports independence, the California National Party, is not backing the current effort. Nor are most Californians; a Reuters poll in December found support for secession at a relative high of 32 percent, but a SurveyUSA poll earlier this week only showed 18 percent favoring withdrawal.
Pointing to President Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding from the University of California, Berkeley because of violent protests that derailed an appearance by a Breitbart editor on Wednesday night, New Hampshire progressive radio host Arnie Arnesen said it makes sense that some in the state want to break free.
“I think that’s a really interesting threat,” she said. “I don’t want them to leave, but I don’t blame them.”
In many ways, the state is operating like its own country with liberal policies, high taxes, an embrace of sanctuary cities, and an economy that would be the sixth largest in the world if separated from the rest of the U.S.
Democrats control all branches of government there now, ensuring that it will continue drifting left as Trump’s federal government veers right.
The secession effort is just one of many extreme reactions to Trump’s presidency that have emerged among liberals and Democrats in the last three months that risk generating a pro-Trump backlash.
Citing Russian hacking that benefited his campaign, prominent Democrats like Rep. John Lewis have declared Trump’s victory illegitimate. Celebrities and activists spent weeks on a longshot bid to flip votes in the Electoral College against him.
Hundreds of thousands turned out across the country to march for women’s rights the day after Trump’s inauguration. Last weekend, thousands more protested at airports against his immigration executive orders.
More protests are planned in the days ahead and pressure is growing on Democrats in Congress to stand up to Trump on behalf of their base. Lawmakers who spoke of working with Trump on some issues a couple of weeks ago are now boycotting Cabinet confirmation hearings and threatening to filibuster his Supreme Court nominee.
Liberal activists held a “What the f*ck, Chuck?!” march to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s house in Brooklyn Tuesday to “deliver protein bars and weights to Schumer, so he can regain his strength.”
“No appeasement, no dealmaking, no collaboration: we need powerful resistance and leadership of all the Senate Democrats to fight the administration!” organizers wrote on a Facebook page for the event.
Conservatives warn that Democrats risk overplaying their hand by indulging the frothing anger of their base, no matter how unpopular Trump now seems.
“My prediction is that Dems are digging their own grave and their revolt against his legitimacy will, in the short term at least, boost Trump’s popularity,” wrote Michael Goodwin in the New York Post. “Most Americans will conclude he is honestly trying to fulfill the mandate he won and that the fevered rush to destroy him is neither principled nor patriotic.”
"Democrats are at risk of missing the point of what was an almost revolutionary election," Republican strategist Christian Ferry told the Washington Examiner. "People looking at what goes on in Washington and saying, 'Enough is enough.'"
While some liberals are threatening to run primary challenges against Democrats who vote for Trump nominees, Arnesen recognize the futility of nonstop attempts at obstruction.
“Democrats can’t be obstructionist,” she said. “They’re not in the majority.”
Republicans could “essentially flip the bird” at Obama for the last six years because they had a majority in Congress and the power to destroy his agenda.
“The difference is the Democrats have no power,” she said. “All the can do is expose and oppose.”
Arnesen said Democrats need to make their opposition to Trump’s policies known and make Republicans own the negative consequences, but they can do little to prevent them from being implemented.
“Oppose, expose and remember,” she said. “That’s their job to the public, to remind them.”
Where critics see overreaction, others see opportunity. There is already talk of mobilizing the anti-Trump anger in a Tea Party-like movement, but some Democratic leaders are hesitant to give in to the rage that the new president inspires.
“The radical nature of this government is radicalizing Democrats, and that’s going to pose a real challenge to the Democratic Party, which is to draw on the energy and the activism and the passion that is out there, but not let it turn us into what we despised about the Tea Party,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Cal., said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times Tuesday.
Experts see similarities to where Republicans were in 2009, but there are crucial differences.
According to Daniel Chirot, a professor at the University of Washington and author of “How Societies Change,” the Tea Party brought together libertarians, frustrated middle class workers, and white racists who all opposed Obama for different reasons, but it took advantage of an existing conservative political infrastructure that the left lacks.
“The reason it worked so well was that the Republican Party had been building up local strength and organization that could then mobilize votes with the help of ample financing from some big moneyed interests,” he said. “They were therefore able to take advantage of these diverse sources of anger and keep them together despite obvious ideological differences. Now the anger against Trump is probably even bigger, but it is also disparate.”
There are many constituencies among liberals and Democrats that are opposed to Trump for various reasons, but that anger is not enough if it cannot be harnessed into productive action.
“The money is there, the energy is there, but where is the organization?” Chirot said. “The Democrats fell woefully behind in that respect. Obama, whatever you may think of him, was not good at helping his party and neglected supporting local organization.”
To keep the movement from splintering, they must keep that anger alive without alienating moderate voters and independents who could be swayed by the Republican agenda.
“In Congress, they have to be prepared to be a bare-fisted, hostile opposition,” Chirot said. “If one side fights a war and the other does not, warriors will win.”
Citing Russian hacking that benefited his campaign, prominent Democrats like Rep. John Lewis have declared Trump’s victory illegitimate. Celebrities and activists spent weeks on a longshot bid to flip votes in the Electoral College against him.
Hundreds of thousands turned out across the country to march for women’s rights the day after Trump’s inauguration. Last weekend, thousands more protested at airports against his immigration executive orders.
More protests are planned in the days ahead and pressure is growing on Democrats in Congress to stand up to Trump on behalf of their base. Lawmakers who spoke of working with Trump on some issues a couple of weeks ago are now boycotting Cabinet confirmation hearings and threatening to filibuster his Supreme Court nominee.
Liberal activists held a “What the f*ck, Chuck?!” march to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s house in Brooklyn Tuesday to “deliver protein bars and weights to Schumer, so he can regain his strength.”
“No appeasement, no dealmaking, no collaboration: we need powerful resistance and leadership of all the Senate Democrats to fight the administration!” organizers wrote on a Facebook page for the event.
Conservatives warn that Democrats risk overplaying their hand by indulging the frothing anger of their base, no matter how unpopular Trump now seems.
“My prediction is that Dems are digging their own grave and their revolt against his legitimacy will, in the short term at least, boost Trump’s popularity,” wrote Michael Goodwin in the New York Post. “Most Americans will conclude he is honestly trying to fulfill the mandate he won and that the fevered rush to destroy him is neither principled nor patriotic.”
"Democrats are at risk of missing the point of what was an almost revolutionary election," Republican strategist Christian Ferry told the Washington Examiner. "People looking at what goes on in Washington and saying, 'Enough is enough.'"
While some liberals are threatening to run primary challenges against Democrats who vote for Trump nominees, Arnesen recognize the futility of nonstop attempts at obstruction.
“Democrats can’t be obstructionist,” she said. “They’re not in the majority.”
Republicans could “essentially flip the bird” at Obama for the last six years because they had a majority in Congress and the power to destroy his agenda.
“The difference is the Democrats have no power,” she said. “All the can do is expose and oppose.”
Arnesen said Democrats need to make their opposition to Trump’s policies known and make Republicans own the negative consequences, but they can do little to prevent them from being implemented.
“Oppose, expose and remember,” she said. “That’s their job to the public, to remind them.”
Where critics see overreaction, others see opportunity. There is already talk of mobilizing the anti-Trump anger in a Tea Party-like movement, but some Democratic leaders are hesitant to give in to the rage that the new president inspires.
“The radical nature of this government is radicalizing Democrats, and that’s going to pose a real challenge to the Democratic Party, which is to draw on the energy and the activism and the passion that is out there, but not let it turn us into what we despised about the Tea Party,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Cal., said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times Tuesday.
Experts see similarities to where Republicans were in 2009, but there are crucial differences.
According to Daniel Chirot, a professor at the University of Washington and author of “How Societies Change,” the Tea Party brought together libertarians, frustrated middle class workers, and white racists who all opposed Obama for different reasons, but it took advantage of an existing conservative political infrastructure that the left lacks.
“The reason it worked so well was that the Republican Party had been building up local strength and organization that could then mobilize votes with the help of ample financing from some big moneyed interests,” he said. “They were therefore able to take advantage of these diverse sources of anger and keep them together despite obvious ideological differences. Now the anger against Trump is probably even bigger, but it is also disparate.”
There are many constituencies among liberals and Democrats that are opposed to Trump for various reasons, but that anger is not enough if it cannot be harnessed into productive action.
“The money is there, the energy is there, but where is the organization?” Chirot said. “The Democrats fell woefully behind in that respect. Obama, whatever you may think of him, was not good at helping his party and neglected supporting local organization.”
To keep the movement from splintering, they must keep that anger alive without alienating moderate voters and independents who could be swayed by the Republican agenda.
“In Congress, they have to be prepared to be a bare-fisted, hostile opposition,” Chirot said. “If one side fights a war and the other does not, warriors will win.”