What is the next worst thing to being arrested for DUI just before Christmas with a viral video of you berating an officer? Being confused with that person by irate citizens because you share the same name, Maria Bucci. It is particularly unwelcome when you are a substance abuse counselor.
On December 18, Maria Bucci, a 51-year-old Rhode Island political figure, was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving by an officer in East Greenwich. The Chairwoman of the Democratic Committee in Cranston is shown on the police bodycam video invoking her special or influential status: “You know who I am right?”
The Cranston Herald reported Bucci is a former Cranston mayoral candidate who previously served on the City Council and made an unsuccessful bid for the Rhode Island House of Representatives last year.
The officer responds by saying, “I don’t know who you are, miss. You can start throwing out names and start doing out what you need to do, it’s not going to work with me, I’m telling you right now, I’m not the guy for that.”
That only seemed to set Bucci off, who then abused the officer. The most ironic statement was the following:
“Call my husband right now, and call the attorney general and everybody else in town, cause this is disgusting, God forbid I was a Black person, I’d be arrested.”
So, after invoking a special privilege or status, Bucci attacked the officer as presumptively racist for not arresting white people for crimes that Black people are arrested for. He then arrested her for a misdemeanor as she declared, “You’re a d**k … Like I am not drinking, you’re a loser.”
If she were drunk, it would seem a case of in vino veritas, or “in wine there is truth.” The immediate response of this politician is to reveal a deep dislike of police officers and her view of officers as inherently racist.
Bucci will have to deal with the consequences, but it should be the right Bucci. While the real Bucci asked “You know who I am, right?” some appear to have done little to answer in the affirmative before going on the attack.
The problem is that East Greenwich has a second Maria Bucci, who is also a substance abuse counselor. She was apparently deluged by trolling and angry citizens.
The “other” Maria Bucci is also from Cranston but works in East Greenwich. She is 61 years old and was surprised to find herself taking the heat for someone else over the holiday.
It was bad enough that East Greenwich News ran a story to ask people to stop harassing the poor woman, noting that the newspaper:
“typically doesn’t use names when people who get arrested unless there is a public service aspect. We did not consider Bucci’s arrest rose to that level but we are writing about it now to clarify that the Maria Bucci who works for the Town of East Greenwich is not the same Maria Bucci arrested by EGPD Dec. 18 (here is that arrest report: 25-251-AR).”
Legally, the “other” Maria Bucci could sue for a publication that falsely claims she was responsible for this viral encounter. (So far, no news organizations have committed that error). However, such litigation is expensive and trolls are notoriously difficult to track down. That leaves Maria Bucci in the unfortunate class of others who share names with notorious figures, as Dr. Jeffrey Epstein recently learned after a bizarre shoutout from ep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX). Indeed, even spelling “Madoff” with one “f” does not help when you are scooped up in the sensation of a crime.
Bucci is clearly not on the same level as an Epstein or a Madoff. This is, after all, a still unproven misdemeanor. However, in the community of Cranston, Rhode Island (pop. 84,934), it is hard to shake a viral story with your name. The greatest penalty likely to befall the real Maria Bucci is the reputational damage, which should not be shared with that “other” Maria Bucci.
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Trump v. Illinois- is SCOTUS pushing Trump et al to use the military? The army?
Art. II, sec 3, cl 5, the take care clause to uphold the laws faithfully? By what authority? Take your pick.
OT ^^^ So what’s the duration of Judge Perry’s order ? Until the matter is settled? That’s a pretty long time as she extends it?
Oh heck DJT, hit Illinois with all military forces. Full on attack since they’re begging and 5 justices are pushing for it. Bunker busters for Pritzker.
^^^^ Gorsuch goes back to the militia. Picture congress or the president calling up every able bodied person between 17- 45 as the militia to fight an insurrection as is seen in blue States headed by renegade governors. If you do not follow orders as a citizen and those who’ve sworn it’s their intent to become citizens then what? Treason?
This is law enforcement by the federal government of laws legally already passed by congress. Is it safe to assume the president can faithfully execute the laws of the United States?
Give them the whole 9 yards, DJT. Judiciously, as a practical matter he called for some NGs to assist the ICE forces in the protection of ICE forces and federal property as he faithfully executes the law.
Why not ask Illinois to produce constitional evidence that the president LACKS the authority to execute laws congress enacted? By what authority, Illinois do have such power granted to you?
OT. ^^^ Alito kills it in B 1 dissent 😂 . The plausibility aspect.
Thanks 🎄
^^^ It’s a national security issue about people with allegiance to foreign nations.
Why would a president of the United States have less power than a governor in deploying NG to enforce federal law if regular forces are insufficient. Btw NG is a civilian force.
Stunning
“You Know Who I am Right?” Yes the ‘Karen’ everyone has been talking about for the last few years!
The Rhode Island Story Turley Missed
A churn of disinformation after a major news event is hardly a surprise anymore, but its spread after the Brown killings was not limited to the dark fringes of the internet. It was fueled by prominent figures in business and government whose false statements or politically charged innuendo compounded public anger and anxiety.
Those who spread rumors about the motives behind the shooting included at least two members of Congress, Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, both Republicans. The assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department, Harmeet Dhillon, called the falsely accused student’s political activism “concerning.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/technology/brown-university-shooting-disinformation-politicians.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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A Republican Senator, Congresswoman and Assistant Attorney General all spread false accusations regarding Palestinian student Mustapha Kharbouch. Yet Turley’s Rhode Island Story concerns a very minor Democrat charged with a DUI.
“Those who spread rumors about the motives . . .”
You and the NYT can prove the murderer’s motives? Please share.
If you have no such proof, then you have no grounds for claiming that others are spreading “disinformation” and rumors.
Missed? Maybe simply ignored.
More drivel from a liberal troll. No sources, no names, nothing. And you ignore all the false stories and facts the lying Democrats spread everyday.
Hilarious that you cite the NY Times to support a claim of disinformation. What a hoot!
Trump Administration Bans Hate Speech Monitors
The United States placed visa bans Tuesday on five Europeans leading campaigns to combat misinformation and hate online, whom the Trump administration has accused of censoring social media platforms.
The ban was placed on French former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, Center for Countering Digital Hate CEO Imran Ahmed, Global Disinformation Index CEO Clare Melford, and HateAid leaders Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5662138-european-leaders-digital-hate/
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Europe is trying to filter out Hate Speech. But the Trump administration is essentially saying hate speech somehow represents legitimate conservative viewpoints.
Hate Speech Monitors Were Censoring Antisemitism
Two major US Jewish groups have defended a digital hate-speech researcher who has been barred by the Trump administration from entering the country.
Representatives for Jewish Federations of North America and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs responded after the US State Department restricted the visas of five European digital speech activists. The banned activists include two who helped Jewish college students sue the social network X over the proliferation of antisemitic content on the platform, and another who has advised Jewish federations on social media hygiene. The government made the announcement late Tuesday.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-jewish-groups-defend-european-media-monitors-barred-from-entering-us/
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For years Turley has told us that freedom of speech is so important that we must tolerate far-right radicals and bigots. And now the Trump administration is banning Europeans trying to stop antisemitism from spreading online.
😂 you’ll say anything.
Turley knows that fueling the radical right rage machine is worth a good paycheck.
More rage = bigger payout.
No, he’s just saying alla sucks.
Yep, clearly moharmed is a phoney d!ck-weed.
“Europe is trying to filter out Hate Speech.”
Don’t you just love Leftists euphemisms.
In plain English, that one means: Europe criminalizes opinions it doesn’t like.
That interpretation of yours shows intentional bias. You twisted that statement. Its quite clear, says: filter hate. You create hate. So then you may wonder why the EU, not Europe, wants to filter out hate. Once to tone down the hate, things are easier to understand.
Tu quoque. One more step and you’re reduced to babbling.
P.S. Don’t care that you can’t grasp a word of that.
Gotta love Arkansas Governor Sanders. She doesnt suffer fools nor atheists.
She has a point. Medical organizations and public academic medical centers were closed today. For not being religious they sure know how to celebrate Christmas.
DEC 16, 2025
Sanders Closes State Offices on Friday, December 26 in Celebration of Christmas
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS COME – GREETINGS:
WHEREAS: More than two millennia ago in the little town of Bethlehem, far from the centers of power in first-century Rome, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was born in a humble manger;
WHEREAS: Jesus was the Messiah and became a teacher and leader, and He would be crucified, suffer for the sins of all mankind, die and be buried, and rise again on the third day to sit at the right hand of the Father;
WHEREAS: But on that first Christmas, Christ’s arrival was unassuming, witnessed only by Mary and Joseph, humble shepherds guided by angels, and three wise men from the East. It presaged his ministry, which was not focused on the wealthy or powerful but rather on the poor, powerless, and meek; and
WHEREAS: We give thanks for the arrival of Christ the Savior, who will come again in glory and whose kingdom will have no end, by celebrating His birth each year on Christmas Day.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, Governor of the State of Arkansas, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the laws of the State of Arkansas, do hereby proclaim December 25, 2025, as
“CHRISTMAS DAY”
in the State of Arkansas, and in order that state employees may spend this holiday with their families giving thanks for Christ’s birth, I further declare the State Capitol and state offices will be closed on Friday, December 26, 2025, as well.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Arkansas to be affixed this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord 2025.
https://governor.arkansas.gov/news_post/sanders-closes-state-offices-on-friday-december-26-in-celebration-of-christmas/
But then a spitball was shot across the bow by atheists, Freedom from Religion Foundation, where they demanded she retract her proclamation because it was “unconstitutional”. She would have none of it
I say that, even if I wanted to do that, it would be impossible. Christmas is not simply an ‘end-of-the-year holiday’ with ‘broadly observed secular cultural aspects,’ as your letter states. It’s not gifts, trees, and stockings that make this holiday special. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, and if we are to honor Him properly, we should tell His miraculous, world-changing story properly, too.”
Sanders wrote that she found it ironic that she received the foundation’s letter which claimed that she was “alienating” non-Christian constituents as she left a Menorah lighting celebration with people from all across Arkansas.
“I doubt they would say that my administration alienates non-Christians,” Sanders wrote. “In fact, many would say the opposite: that only by voicing our own faith and celebrating other faiths can we make our state’s diverse religious communities feel seen and heard.”
“Though you may enter this season with bitterness, know that Christ is with you, that He loves you, and that He died for your sins just the same as He did for mine and everyone else’s,” the letter concluded.
https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/arkansas-governor-defends-christmas-proclamation-amid-church-state-separation-outcry-jesus-christ-freedom-from-religion-foundation
Touché, Gov Sanders.
Estovir, I’m sure Mandani will declare a day as Mohammed day in return in NYC and everyone will get the off or Walz or Pritzker will. Gov Newsom will declare a day for Allah in honor of those fine Moslems. 😏. Will that be OK, too?
“But on that first Christmas, Christ’s arrival was unassuming . . .”
That is hokum.
The evidence points to Jesus being born in the spring. With the date changed centuries later, so that Christianity could co-opt Christmas.
(You are now free to hurl your insults.)
Glad to see Huckabee speaking for God because, God knows, God hasn’t had anything to say to anyone in a very long time, possibly ever.
“The U.S. is undergoing its fastest religious shift in modern history, marked by a rapid increase in the religiously unaffiliated and numerous church closures nationwide,”
All thank you to the “christians” that voted for trump. Your hypocrisy is self exposed as you yell your un-Christian beliefs.
Someone’s been slurping the eggnogg. Drunken fool.
Thank you for confirming the thesis. People like you drive good people away from Church. Whatever your having. I want no part of it.
Nobody offered you anything.
Church? You mean cult.
Well then Anonymous, it’s obvious that you would have not been a friend of PASTOR Martin Luther King Jr.
It also appears that you would not have associated yourself with another Christian who went by the name of Nelson Mandela. It is obvious that you are not only against Christians but you are also a racist. It’s not inherent but rather a choice. We knew it all along. You just do not think about what you do not think about.
Lots of hate in that rant. You always exaggerate and lie.
Racist huh? Whew, now you officially went to the crazy side.
BTW, King was pastor for just 6 years of his life, the rest he spent chasing skirts.
But sizable percentages of religiously unaffiliated adults continue to hold some religious beliefs like the concept of an afterlife & rituals like prayer, lighting candles, etc. Per Pew, in the United States, 45% of the unaffiliated say they believe in God.
Many of these unaffiliated disagreed with either their church’s existing or changing views on political/social issues.
Sadly, as you say, 45% of the unaffiliated still believe in a god.
Historically, over the millennia humans have worshiped a plethora of gods, by some measures over 1,000 gods.
Fortunately, through science and reason, these gods have been proven to be non-existent creations of mankind. The vast majority of people are rightfully atheists with respect to these 1,000 gods of history. The number of gods has now been reduced to one. This is tremendous progress, and eventually this one last remaining god will be proven to be a figment of human imagination, just like all the others.
2 bad you’re wrong. 😂
Fortunately, through science and reason, these gods have been proven to be non-existent creations of mankind.
This pronouncement of devout religious faith brought to you by one of the acolytes of the Rock Fairy Religion Of Atheism. Where, as a sign of their faithful devotion they sit crouched, waiting for any chance to leap to their feet and denounce deist faiths.
They call this “progress” – but their religion of atheism was used by Karl Marx to spawn the communist theocracies of communist Russia, Nazi Germany, communist China and Italy to justify the murder of over 100 million people in thelast century.
They are rightfully mocked by those of us who are agnostics, who relegate these crazy fools who cannot prove ANY of their theories of the beginning of the universe – their suggestions are less persuasive than those of the deists.
The dancing and chanting Hare Krishna beggers are nowhere near as annoying – and don’t go out of their way to make it a religious practice to insult those who don’t share the atheist faith of Marx.
Superstitions take a long time to vanish. When there’s nothing to push them out, so they linger.
Clearly, if there was a solid belief in the afterlife then murder and suicide would be far more common as who could be blamed for wanting to escape this hellhole.
Televangelists caused great harm to Christianity.
Televangelists caused great harm to Christianity.
Communists and atheists (but I repeat myself) caused far more harm to Christianity than any wealthy televangelist even remotely did.
“God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim ‘I am what I am.” Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims, “I am what I am not.” ‘Eric Hoffer’
The phrase “I am what I am not” is famously associated with the character Iago in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello.
some RI animals are more equal than others.
She was probably drunk when she said that. 😏. Just like Kavanaugh had too many eggnogs on December 23, 2025.
I wonder what the success rate is for politicians and other self-imagined mucky-mucks who have an undesired law enforcement encounter and who resort to asking “You know who I am, right?” of the uniformed officer standing in front of them or looking down at them through their driver-side window? Either there is a large number of such people who evade stories like this by asking that question, and so the risk may seem acceptable, or the proliferation of body cams is driving the success rate down and we are seeing stories like this when it involves the dumber ones who haven’t gotten the word yet to act very meek and respectful and hope they don’t recognise you.
“I wonder what the success rate is for politicians and other self-imagined mucky-mucks who have an undesired law enforcement encounter and who resort to asking “You know who I am, right?” ”
There are undoubtedly some politicians and other public figures who could potentially make an LEO miserable after an arrest. However, I’m pretty sure that the number is pretty small, and that cops in the area are probably already pretty well aware of their identities. The idiot who was stopped failed to realize that she didn’t really have any weight to throw around, in spite of her fantasies.
If you have to ask that question, you probably should STFU and take responsibility. Seems like even many truly famous people are getting arrested these days (athletes, actors, TV personalities.)
Why did Professor Turley write today about a worthless, drunk, parasitic, overpaid, communist, state, musical chairs apparatchik rather than the Supreme Court, which acted yesterday to reinforce its Black Supremacy—the authority of the Black Robes—and to wield the power of the “Dictatorship of the Juristocracy”?
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HIGH COURT BLOCKS PRESIDENT FROM DEPLOYING NATIONAL GUARD
“Alito rips Supreme Court majority as ‘unwise’ for blocking Trump’s National Guard plan”
Conservative justice warns decision could limit federal government’s ability to protect personnel during unrest
Justice Samuel Alito criticized the Supreme Court’s majority in a sharp dissent Tuesday after the high court decided 6–3 to temporarily block President Donald Trump from deploying the National Guard in Chicago.
– Fox News
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The judicial branch may judge and issue a decision that is devoid of, or compels, the exercise of executive power.
The legislative branch may enact laws that are devoid of, or compel, the exercise of executive power.
That you do not enjoy the verbatim Constitution and disagree does not bear.
Congress may impeach and convict the president if it determines that he has committed crimes of high office.
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“I HAVE EXERCISED ALL THE POWER WHICH THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS CONFER ON ME”
“The clause in the Constitution which authorizes the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus is in the ninth section of the first article. This article is devoted to the Legislative Department of the United States, and has not the slightest reference to the Executive Department.”
“I can see no ground whatever for supposing that the President in any emergency or in any state of things can authorize the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus, or arrest a citizen except in aid of the judicial power.”
“I have exercised all the power which the Constitution and laws confer on me, but that power has been resisted by a force too strong for me to overcome.”
– Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, May 28, 1861
Right.
Finally, a high-functioning logical mind that is able to read English and assimilate the immutable dominion of the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the American Founders, 1789.
It ain’t the vote. It ain’t the “interpretation.” It ain’t the officials. It ain’t the communists. It ain’t the “free stuff.” It ain’t the “free status.” It’s the “free dom!” It’s the “manifest tenor.”
It’s the Constitution.
“I have exercised all the power which the Constitution and laws confer on me, but that power has been resisted by a force too strong for me to overcome.”
– Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, May 28, 1861
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Roger B Taney🙀🙀🙀!!!! ….LOL….Hahahahahahahaha ……Hahaha…..
Would this be the SAME “Roger G Taney” who wrote, what is considered by most SCOTUS legal scholars, the WORST ruling to ever come out of the SCOTUS; using twisted, tortured application of “case law” with insane “interpretations” of the Constitution and “Bill of Rights”, the OPINION in the Dredd Scott case ????🤬 Hahahahaha ….. 🤮 🤮 🤮
Go Home Junior, this is WAY ABOVE your deranged TDS Pay Grade😹😹😹
The failure is yours: the failure to evaluate that case and decision in the legal context of the time. In 1857, slaves were still considered to be the legal property of their owners, and therefore were not considered US citizens. The case outcome, and Taney’s majority (7-2) opinion, hinged principally on legal standing (i. e., citizenship), and on whether the slaveholder had conferred freedom upon and legally released Scott and his wife Harriet by virtue of transporting them to the states of Illinois and Wisconsin (which had outlawed slavery) before returning to Missouri, where slavery continued to be practiced. As reprehensible as we find slavery to be today, in the context of Federal law in 1857, Taney’s opinion was defensible, and, most likely, legally correct.
There were many criticisms of the broad Dred Scott majority opinion when it was issued, including in the dissent.
“There were many criticisms of the broad Dred Scott majority opinion when it was issued, including in the dissent.”
Of course there were. Any abolitionist would have objected, as would any politician looking to cynically use the trial to his benefit, as well as anyone who was looking to SCOTUS to legislate, instead of sticking to its Constitutionally-defined responsibilities to apply existing law (the last item was probably the point of the original poster after you strip out the outlandish rhetorical embellishments). I didn’t say it met with widespread consensus. I didn’t say it wasn’t controversial. I didn’t say that the laws in force at the time were equitable or just when examined by the light of our current understanding of the human race. I did say that it was legally defensible, and probably a correct decision based on the body of law and precedent in place at the time. Can you demonstrate otherwise? The poster to whom I responded would deny the evolution of law and knowledge to castigate Roger Taney for executing the task he was charged with performing, according to his best understanding of his duty to perform it.
Statutory and fundamental law cannot be immoral in a nation of representative self-governance.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney upheld statutory and fundamental law.
That one does not like the law enacted by a nation’s founders, and the law passed by its elected representatives does not bear.
Period!
I thought my comment was fair and appropriate given your views of slavery today comment. The majority opinion went far beyond what was necessary to resolve the particular case — for example no need to rule on the Missouri compromise or the US citizen status of all free blacks.
Taney was not voting politically in an elected legislative body to achieve an end his party sought.
Taney was judging impartially in a court whether actions comported with law, the legitimacy of slavery being fundamentally irrelevant.
Any abolitionist would have objected, as would any politician looking to cynically use the trial to his benefit
Let’s see the other side of that window: any current Democrat Confederate Kluxxer like the other versions of George X would still try to swim upstream like a dying spawning salmon, claiming that Taney’s decisions were thoughtful jurisprudence rather than what Constitutional scholars have called it ever since: failed desperate political legislating from the bench, hoping he could prevent the Democrat slave states from starting a war.
His duty was to interpret the law – not to desperately legislate from the bench in hopes he could mollify the racist Confederate Democrat states.
The failure is yours: the failure to evaluate that case and decision in the legal context of the time.
The only failure is yours – hoping you as the Anonymous version of George (and now X) could sell the Democrat Kluxxer BullSchiff that Taney’s decision was one that should be considered Constitutional – rather than perhaps the worst ever – by legal scholars from that time forward.
Taney has been regularly described (in much nicer and more appropriate legal language) as an incredible idiot by various justices and decisions ever since then.
Taney developed a habit of regularly shyting his judicial bed throughout his career and having to be overturned as a result by following SCOTUS courts..
It’s so bad it leads me to think a clerk wrote it? Bizarre.
😂 the court was paying homage to massa chief justice Illinois, P. Scott Neville. Let’s all read his opinion in Trump v. Illinois. Have your bucket ready.
As Alito points out- the 5 kiss a#ses added language 😂. Hope it was in pencil. Instead of regular “forces” they improved as regular “military”. They’re phasing.
Since this case is a trainwreck Gorsuch says let’s wait for another. 😂 . He dissented of course.
Ain’t bitin’ massa.
. ^^^ Push it back citing Title 10 The insurrection act, obstruction by State, domestic violence to implement federal law. If you must…
Btw, if congress meant military force they would have said military force, WHENEVER, at any time for any reason as it is unable… maybe it’s just unwise …
😂. Feathering their nest
It just keeps going and I don’t believe Barrett wrote that. Had to be Buttinski.
Phasing, phishing..^^^
Have your phasers ready.
^^^^ oops, Judge April Michelle Perry heard the case, appointed by lunch bucket Joe’s shadow gubment signed by autopen as Otto P. Joe.
The remainder is salty. Neville is an affirmative action result. 😂. AA known today as DEI, CRT. 😂.
You know who I am, right? I’m a big name VIP that you should be scared of. What makes me a big name VIP? I once lost an election where I was trying to become a member of the Rhode Island house of representatives. Got that? Had I won, I would have been one of 75 members of one legislative chamber in the smallest state in the nation. But I’m not even that because I lost.
As for right now, well this should scare you to reason: right now I’m the co-chair of a political committee in a town few people have ever heard of. That should frighten you into letting me go so I can endanger the lives and safety of innocent motorists and pedestrians. P.S. Nobody is above the law.
Exactly. If she was a real VIP, she would be above the law. .. see, e.g., the Epstein Transparency Act.
* why Turley seems to dwell on these radical left scum persona non gatas .. . is a mystery to me.
To serve your prurient interests.
Rhode Island is so small, that’s where the “I know a guy” crap comes from. Anyone in any position is almost always there because they too, ‘knew a guy’ and so feel ‘privileged’, the “in” group. The attitude on this lady is unfortunately Rhode Island culture now, they’re everywhere.
It’s the main way democrats maintain power here; schmooze, go along with the ‘gang’, keep your position. Hilarity ensues. Voters eyes glaze over thinking they at least got the mob out of RI politics…
“Voters eyes glaze over thinking they at least got the mob out of RI politics…”
That history may be part of the RI attitude problem on full display here. The state was once a primary refuge for major organized crime players…
It does cause wonder that such a small State can have 2 Senators. It seems unfair as it skews the Senate.
Her husband sounds like a mob enforcer. She was endorsed by Teamsters. Watch what you say or your bones might become a structural element of a bridge abutment.
Really, omfk, it appears the judiciary is above the law. Is there any other group that can make so many errors and keep their job?
Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king,
“Do you know who He is?
In your palace warm, mighty king,
Do you know who He is?
A Child, a Child shivers in the cold–
Let us bring him silver and gold,
Let us bring him silver and gold,
Said the king to the people everywhere,
“Listen to what I say!
Pray for peace, people, everywhere,
Listen to what I say!
The Child, the Child sleeping in the night
He will bring us goodness and light,
He will bring us goodness and light.”
–from Do You Hear What I Hear
When danger appears without warning, and the police intervene to keep us safe, gratitude comes naturally. Officers routinely put their lives at risk on our behalf. When we are issued a ticket for our own wrongdoing, we should remember that same commitment to public safety and respond with respect, even thanking them, because enforcement exists to protect lives, not to punish arbitrarily.
Then, there were those Capitol Police officers who were battered, beaten, sprayed with bear spray, spat upon and crushed in doors, trying to do their jobs protecting members of Congress from an angry mob who believed the lie that Trump’s “victory” was “stolen by fraud”. They were deluded into believing that they should get to the floor of the House and prevent Biden from becoming President: “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country any more.” Where is the gratitude for their sacrifice and dedication in the face of danger? One of the first things your hero did was pardon them–even those who pleaded guilty–even those found guilty by juries of their peers So, where’s the appreciation for their sacrifice? I don’t ever want to hear you Trump fans praise law enforcement ever again–it’s hypocrisy if you can just ignore Trump pardoning the J6 defendants.
THEY ALREADY SERVED TIME IN PRISON!!! Trump: Protest peacefully!
No, they didn’t. And, several of them have been re-arrested for other crimes. Many of them had criminal records, which is why some of them were denied bail–they were already out on bail or on probation, which would require their re-arrest. \
But, your reply is not responsive. WHY is it OK with you Trump fans that the J6 defendants and those who hadn’t been arrested yet, to batter, spit on, bear spray and injure the Capitol Police?
I’ll tell you WHY. because you left out all the context, all the true opinions of non-radicals like yourself, and lumped it all together with your dumb wrong conclusion which is driven by TDS causing you to not be able to be objective. Either you’re ignorant or you’re malicious. That’s WHY.
NOT RESPONSIVE. What’s “objective” about the blanket pardon of all of the J6 participants? What is the “context”? Did or didn’t Trump tell the faithful to “fight like hell”, but then threw in the word “peaceful” later on? You can’t “peacefully….fight like hell”. As usual, all you MAGAs can do is name–call and accuse your opponent of lying or of having a “derangement syndrome”. If there is “derangement” involving Trump–it’s those of you who can’t see the malignant narcissist who is hungry for power and attention, who is petty, vindictive, ignorant of economics and world history, and who will tell whatever lie it takes to get what he wants. According to his niece, clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Trump, he is looking for love, but will never find it because he doesn’t deserve it. He can only love himself. As to the J6 participants, we all saw what they did–how they beat up cops, broke down doors, smashed windows, bear-sprayed and spit on police officers, tore up Nancy Pelosi’s office and stole things, trashed the John Lewis Memoria, and how they chanted “Hang Mike Pence”. What did my lying eyes and ears get wrong?
You sure can go on and on about your opinion of Trump! TDS afflicted always have lots of ‘reasons’.
Admit ALL the facts you know that would mitigate the defendants . You cannot, outside “The Narrative”
list any details you know about what happened that someone *might* think maybe there’s more there? like, How many FBI agitators were in the crowd? what were they there for? Why were the doors opened for them? why did Pelosi turn down the NG? facts not what you think.
J6, Russia, Epstein, all made up narratives only deranged TDS leftards can believe, so the reasonable can see through it all. Maybe you cannot, i listed the 2 reasons you cannot go there, refute it.
How sad that you believe MAGA lies. Nancy Pelosi not only did NOT turn down the National Guard, she had NO authority to deploy them–but Trump did. Trying to blame Nancy Pelosi for not deploying the NG is a lie Trump has told over and over again. There would NOT have been any need for the National Guard but for Trump’s lie about getting cheated out of a “landslide victory”–a lie that has proven false over and over again–how many recounts? How many failed lawsuits? How many audits? Where’s the proof, and why don’t you believe the truth? Trump lost. Polls predicted he would lose.
On the occasions when the Capitol Police were overwhelmed with idiots who believed Trump’s election denial lie and they knew couldn’t stop them from progressing further, they were told to stand down by their commanding officer and not risk further injury—this was after the MAGA believers had already broken through police lines and had weapons like flag poles and stolen police shields that they were assaulting police officer with. That was the only situation in which a door was opened. They still trashed the Capitol and stole things. “FBI agitators” did NOT tell the J6 insurrectionsts to do anything–they didn’t need to be agitated–Trump already told them to “fight like hell or you’re not going to have a country any more”, that he had “won” in a “landslide” AND the insurrection was planned in advance. A British journalist who was embedded with the Proud Boys went with them on reconnaissance trips to plan the most-vulnerable points where they could distract the Capitol Police away from from point and then get through another, more-vulnerable point–he so testified before the J6 committee. There was a cache of weapons planted in a Virginia hotel room across the Potomac, waiting for “Dear Leader” to join them in taking over Congress and installing him as president. He didn’t show up, and he also didn’t call off the faithful for over 3 hours while they hunted for Pence, intending to kill him, as well as continually beating up police officers and damaging property. These are facts. There are no facts in “mitigation”. People gullible enough to believe a chronic, habitual liar and then commit crimes because he told them to deserve prison.
Epstein is NOT “made up”. Trump can’t lie his way out of all of the photos and videos of them together, the at least 8 plane trips on Epstein’s plane, and Trump’s general bad reputation as a womanizer. He brags about grabbing womens’ genitals. There have been literally dozens of women who claimed he forced himself on them, and a new allegation that he raped another woman. A jury found him guilty of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and then defaming her.
You can call those of us who don’t believe the MAGA lies “leftards” all you want to, but the things you claim are NOT ” reasonable”. Trump’s pardoning of the J6 insurrectionists is a slap in the face of law enforcement.
Trump’s pardoning of the J6 insurrectionists is a slap in the face of law enforcement.
Any comment on Obama concealing Clinton’s Espionage and bribery felonies from law enforcement? The Biden Crime Cartel’s felonies? Both of them pardoning terrorists who had murdered Americans?
Any comment on Biden’s FBI refusing to arrest his corrupt kid – or any of the hundreds of you involved in the two day assault on the White House.
Any of that qualify for what you like to call “a slap in the face of law enforcement”? The law enforcement you and the rest of the Democrat Commies are once again attacking and attempting to murder?
Or did none of that happen in the fairy tale life you live and just gave us a glimpse into?
Late-stage TDS is painful to witness, but it is vividly apparent in your case. The democrat party is the epicenter of mob-violence and destruction in the United States, with endless examples, but you be sure to obsess about a 2-3 hour protest that the Feds participated in provoking. Try putting things in perspective – The “Summer Of Love” $Billions in arson, destruction, mayhem and murders, across the United States …….. ALL sponsored and carried out by radical leftist operatives, including Antifa. https://politifix.com/summer-of-love-looting-and-murder Keep clinging to the phony staged “insurrection” (which it never was). The left has “work” at being that willfully ignorant to not see such a stark contrast. One is staged, the others are aimed at undermining the USA.
Just think, If the dims take back the house and senate and they successfully impeach Trump. Who becomes president?
The new husband of Erika Kirk becomes President.
It’ll then be Trump lovers vs. the GOP ripping the Republican party to shreds as they vie to either keep their cult leader in power while he Truth Socials like a demon or to recover from the massive overdose they’ve had of psychotropic drugs and they can recover their sanity.
I bet most will put their Trump flags into the storage in the basement along with their KKK robes.
Stupidity is exposed by the use of the term “radical leftist”. No explanation of what the extent of being “radical” is nor any particular detail on what “leftist” encompasses.
There’s arson, mayhem, destruction, and mayhem following some major sports events.
Note that the most recent mass protests happened during the Trump administration. What part of his claim to uniting people was that?
politifix appears to have no content added in the last 5 years and all the content appears to be 5 years old, the sort of thing a short term propaganda source would do.
From the website:
“PolitiFix offers campaign development and consulting as well as crisis management, grassroots strategy, media buying and placement, media coaching and training, social media management, fundraising, and public relations.”
That “grassroots strategy” means making an effort look like a grassroots one that is in fact bought and paid for propaganda.
Your eyes are envious. Your ears are envious known as coveted the money of DJT.
you asked…
NOT RESPONSIVE. What’s “objective” about the blanket pardon of all of the J6 participants?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11752998/trump-secure-bunker-friday-george-floyd-protests-white-house/
NON RESPONSIVE. What’s “objective” about the same FBI and FBI Director REFUSING to do the same with those who assaulted the White House just weeks earlier in an attempt to murder Trump just a few weeks earlier? Why weren’t they ALREADY in those cells, warming a bunk for the J6 rioters who followed.
Why do your lying eyes and ears convince you everybody here will buy your attempt to make years and months of Democrat police state fascism/street terrorism disappear, with history only beginning the day after J6?
Some of the J6s needed to go to jail because they were violent. Some on the left needed the same, and perhaps a few in law enforcement should have been examined as well. Byrd killed a young woman who was not violent. It was a bad shooting, and he was removed from public view to silence him. Some J6s jailed were later found to be innocent, but innocence did not seem to matter. The committee created a kangaroo court and treated its followers accordingly. Are you related to kangaroos? They destroyed documents and turned the process into a farce.
I thank the officers who kept order and did their jobs properly, and I blame Nancy Pelosi for what happened. She refused the troops and later admitted her culpability on video. I also thank those within the Capitol Police who recognized
Yes, we must fight to keep our country. That is why Trump, after being shot, shouted “fight, fight, fight” following an assassination attempt. But we should also remember the words of Trump that the mainstream media failed to report: peacefully.
So far, your record for accuracy is near zero. I hope, for your sake, it improves.
Thank you for your measured and accurate reply.
Byrd killed a delusional Trump supporter who proceeded through a broken side light, trying to access the Speaker’s Lobby, despite a police officer pointing a gun at her. Trump is 100% responsible for her death–so he rewards her by handing over millions of taxpayer dollars for “wrongful death”. How could Officer Byrd know whether she was or wasn’t armed? He couldn’t. She disregarded the command of a police officer and got shot. That was fully appropriate. Send proof of any J6ers who were “found innocent”–where? In a jury trial? They were tried in the same court as any other person charged with a crime, and based on video evidence. What documents were destroyed? Where ‘s the proof?
From “PolitiFact”: “No member of Congress has the authority to activate the District of Columbia National Guard. Only the president, defense secretary and U.S. Army secretary do.” Stop repeating Trump’s lie. Trump threw in “peacefully” as a cover–but the plans had already been laid for a violent take over of the Capitol to prevent Biden’s victory from being completed. MAGA media has exaggerated what they claim to be her “culpability”.
YOUR “accuracy” is literally zero.
“Byrd killed a delusional Trump supporter who proceeded through a broken side light, trying to access the Speaker’s Lobby, despite a police officer pointing a gun at her. “
How do you know she was delusional? Are you projecting? How do you know she saw the police officer? Are you psychic?
In that lobby, there were other police officers and no legislators. Why didn’t the other shoot? Because there was no need. It was a bad shoot, and Byrd was then hidden to hide the facts. What is wrong with you that you can’t get your facts straight and why don’t you understand what a fact is?
” Trump is 100% responsible for her death.” Byrd was responsible. It was a bad shoot, but you don’t deal with reality. Trump was elsewhere calling for peaceful actions. You of course, do not want the people to have the right to protest. You are dictatorial with fascist leanings.
” How could Officer Byrd know whether she was or wasn’t armed?”
Look at the video and where her arms were. It was a bad shoot.
” Send proof of any J6ers who were “found innocent”–where?”
It was a judge who released them. That you are ignorant is your problem.
“What documents were destroyed? Where ‘s the proof?”
Again. You are ignorant of the facts.
I won’t deal with the second paragraph. More ignorance.
Your revisionist history is duly noted …….. “Politifact” has to be one of the finest examples of leftist propaganda on the internet, but it must suit your make-believe agenda.
Byrd killed a young woman who was not violent, except for her aid in bashing through a window to gain access to the door locks that would allow the mob to flood the Speakers Lobby.
“Some media reports described Babbitt as “unarmed” at the time of the shooting, but according to a January 11, 2021, crime scene examination report by the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences, the police “recovered a ‘Para Force’ folding knife in Ms. Babbitt’s pants pocket” after she was shot.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashli_Babbitt#Capitol_attack
I doubt Trump was shot. There were about 100 people in close proximity with cell phones capturing video and photos and only one photographer, who claimed hadn’t even look at the images until the next day, has photos of Trump with blood on his hand before being shoved down by the Secret Service. Oddly, his ear went right by the hammer of a holstered pistol, a sharp metal piece capable of making a deep scratch that would bleed profusely. This is why Trump healed with no scarring or other evidence of the damage a bullet would make and why only photos after he got up by anyone else showed blood.
Close to being shot? Sure. Let’s ignore the former fireman who died because Trump had his rally in an open and difficult to protect fairground.
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The mainstream did report “peacefully.” It was used at the start of the speech, a speech which then went on and on and on with a massive list of grievances. This included:
“But it almost seems that they’re all going out of their way to hurt all of us and to hurt our country. To hurt our country.”
“In every single swing state, local officials, state officials, almost all Democrats, made illegal and unconstitutional changes to election procedures without the mandated approvals by the state legislatures.”
And lies:
‘”There were over 205,000 more ballots counted in Pennsylvania. Think of this, you had 205,000 more ballots than you had voters. ”
In the last lines, summing up and calling for action:
“And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial
“except for her aid in bashing through a window to gain access to the door locks that would allow the mob to flood the Speakers Lobby.”
You are delusional, lying, or ignorant. Babbit didn’t bash the window.
“‘Para Force’ folding knife in Ms. Babbitt’s pants pocket”
More ignorance. That is a short utility knife that Byrd wouldn’t have seen it, and isn’t a knife one uses to attack, especially since it is a folding knife
“I doubt Trump was shot. “
More ignorance.
I’ll skip the rest of the nonsense and ignorance.
Then, there were those Capitol Police officers who were battered, beaten, sprayed with bear spray, spat upon…
Projection paired up with Democrat hypocritical sealioning:
Over 50 Secret Service agents wounded and hospitalized in White House riots as Donald Trump is taken to ‘terror attack’ bunker
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11752998/trump-secure-bunker-friday-george-floyd-protests-white-house/
you writing about these officers or different ones? Were they the exact same Capital Police – as well as Secret Service – that got the exact same treatment just a few months earlier from the Democrats’ Black Liars & Marxists and intersectional Antifa street terrorists who spent over a day mounting assaults on the White House? Hoping to get entry so they could murder Trump and his family?
The ones that then Bribery Joe Biden called “A courageous group of Americans” and that then Senator DEI Hire Harris raced to raise bail money to get them out so they could rejoin the assault on the White House?
So where’s the names of the ones that were already in those Washington DC cells – warming a cot for the J6 rioters that the same FBI and Director would be jailing later?
You communist police state fascist Democrats can hope and pray to Marx that the Internet and Americans will forget how you were planning and carrying out attacks using deadly force for over a year on American law enforcement.
Your hypocrisy will be celebrated over on Rachael Maddow’s blog.
This officer deserves a commendation for his patience with miss somebody.
Meanwhile Tina Peters rots in jail for doing her job but apparently that story isn’t worthy of a blog post.
Tina Peters’ job was NOT to tamper with election equipment, which is the STATE crime with which she was charged, and for which Trump has NO power to issue a pardon. She DESERVES to “rot in jail”. Regardless of politics, someone who tampers with election equipment to try to falsify election results because they are an election denier cannot be allowed to escape prosecution.
Yea right. A completely uninformed says. She broke state law. She gave access to election equipment to a person the law did not allow. Do the crime, do the time.
She was witness to the commission of a crime, and you’re supporting her unjust incarceration because you condone the perpetrators cheating in elections.
Witness? Wrong. She let the person in.
315,000 unsigned tabulations of votes in Georgia, Fulton County.
Reeks of fraud, reeks of corruption.
That was sufficient to give Trump the State. It was stolen.