Anonymous ID: ca16a6 Jan. 5, 2021, 3:41 p.m. No.12332785   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2830 >>2895 >>3052

FWEEDOM RIDER: The Secret Life of Kamala Harris

 

Kamala Harris has lived an unbelievable life. The aspiring vice president has detailed, in books and interviews, moments from her childhood and early adolescence that inspired her to pursue a career in politics by dating Willie Brown in the mid-1990s. Here are some of the most heartwarming examples:

 

The time she marched for "fweedom"

 

Senator Kamala Harris started her life’s work young. She laughs from her gut, the way you would with family, as she remembers being wheeled through an Oakland, California, civil rights march in a stroller with no straps with her parents and her uncle. At some point, she fell from the stroller (few safety regulations existed for children’s equipment back then), and the adults, caught up in the rapture of protest, just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and doubled back, she was understandably upset. "My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing," Harris says, "and she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom.’"

 

Her first day of preschool

 

I remember sitting in a large group at the coloring station. A few of the kids were talking about their mommies and daddies, but everyone went quiet when I started to cry. The teacher rushed over to see what was wrong. Honestly I didn't even know. "She'll be fine," the teacher assured my classmates. Suddenly it hit me. "Pwonouns," I blurted out between sobs. "Gin-doored pwonouns." My parents had to come pick me up. "What's the matter?" they asked, looking concerned. "Twans wives," I said, no longer crying. "Twans wives matter."

 

Her first day at the University of Alabama

 

It didn't occur to me at the time that I was making history as one of the first black students to enroll at U of A. I just wanted to get to class on time. Not even George Wallace could stand in the way of my penchant for punctuality. He was a lot like Trump, albeit less of a racist. I just wish I hadn't dropped my textbook in front of all those photographers. It was really embarrassing, but a nice white boy picked it up for me. He looked like he might have been a little "slow," but my mother always told me not to judge a book by its cover.

 

The time her brother died in Vietnam

 

Bubba, that was what we called him, dreamt of becoming a shrimping boat captain. Instead, he died by a river in Vietnam, cradled in the arms of a fellow soldier. His last words—"I wanna go home"—echo in my mind to this day, a reminder of the senselessness of war, and the futility of resisting communist aggression.

 

The time two white dudes got into a fight in the middle of her Black Panther party

 

We were just trying to blow off a little steam before the protest, and Masai thought hosting a party would be a good idea. Some of the Panthers were smoking weed. I think some of them were supposed to be in school. In retrospect, I wished I had called the cops to report the illegal activity, but hindsight is 20/20. Things went off the rails when some white poser named Reuben started beating up his hippie girlfriend, and another white dude dressed as a soldier stepped in and started whooping on him. "Me too!" I shouted, acknowledging my approval. "Criminals must learn to fear the swift and ruthless hand of justice."

 

Her semester abroad in China

 

The summer of '89 was an absolute scorcher in Beijing. I got so fed up with the heat that I cut off most of my hair. Most people thought I was a man, which was annoying at first, but I got used to it. I never got used to the tanks, though. They were always blocking my favorite route from the square to my apartment. On one particular occasion, after a long day of souvenir shopping, a whole line of them cut me off. "Excuse me, I'm still walking," I said, with as much sass as I could muster, daring them to run me over. China is a complicated place, I thought to myself.

 

https://freebeacon.com/parody/kamala-harris-plagiarism/

Anonymous ID: ca16a6 Jan. 5, 2021, 3:45 p.m. No.12332841   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2894 >>2895 >>3052

Study finds Americans are leaving Democrat-run states in throngs and heading for Republican ones

 

Surprise, surprise

 

A newly published study that tracks migration patterns in the United States has found that Americans are leaving states and cities run by Democrats for Republican-dominant ones — and that the trend may have been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

What are the details?

 

The study, conducted annually by United Van Lines, the nation's largest mover of household goods, found that in 2020, Americans continued the trend of ditching northeastern and West Coast liberal states for southeastern and Sun Belt states.

 

According to the group's data, which is based on household moves handled by United, the 10 states with the highest inbound rates were as follows:

 

Idaho

South Carolina

Oregon

South Dakota

Arizona

North Carolina

Tennessee

Alabama

Florida

Arkansas

 

The trend is patently obvious: Nearly all the states with the highest inbound rates are predominantly run by Republicans and consistently vote Republican.

 

On the other hand, the study found that states with the highest outbound rates were predominantly run by Democrats. Here's the list:

 

New Jersey

New York

Illinois

Connecticut

California

Kansas

North Dakota

Massachusetts

Ohio

Maryland

 

Near the top of the list for highest outbound rate was deep blue New York, a state that has been suffering from steady population decline for years and in 2022 could lose a House seat — or two.

The trends were not isolated to states either, but the study found the same pattern existed when examining inbound and outbound rates among U.S. cities.

What else?

Commenting on the study, Michael A. Stoll, an economist and professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, noted that the coronavirus pandemic was a huge factor in this year's moving patterns.

"We're seeing that the COVID-19 pandemic has without a doubt accelerated broader moving trends, including retirement driving top inbound regions as the Baby Boomer generation continues to reach that next phase of life," Stoll said in the news release.

Eily Cummings, director of corporate communications at United Van Lines, added, "As more people experience job and lifestyle changes amid the pandemic like remote working, we're seeing they have more flexibility in where they can live — many choosing to move from urban to more rural areas."

Anything else?

However, in its coverage of the news, the Daily Wire noted that while the pandemic may have accelerated the exodus from Democratic states and cities, the trend has been ongoing for a while and it mostly has to do with bad Democratic policies.

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/americans-leaving-democratic-states

Anonymous ID: ca16a6 Jan. 5, 2021, 3:47 p.m. No.12332889   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2897 >>3007 >>3052

Electoral College objection divides Senate GOP: Here's where everyone stands

 

Most Republican senators have gone on the record ahead of Wednesday's historic debate

 

So far, 38 of 51 Republican senators who will have a vote on Wednesday have gone on the record about where they stand. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) will not participate in the Electoral College certification Wednesday because his term ended Sunday. If he wins re-election, the results of his election will not be certified before Congress votes. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, (R-Ga.) on the other hand is running in a special election to complete the term of retired Sen. Jonny Isakson (R-Ga.), so she will have a vote even though her election is on the same day as Perdue's.

 

Those in favor of objecting

 

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was the first to declare his intention to object to the Electoral College vote, calling out the state of Pennsylvania for, in his words, failing to "follow their own state election laws" and accusing "mega corporations" including Facebook and Twitter of interfering in the election.

 

Later, a group of 11 Republican senators led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced they would object as well. They issued a joint statement on Saturday citing widespread allegations of voter fraud as reason to appoint an Electoral Commission to investigate the 2020 election and conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the returns.

 

"A fair and credible audit-conducted expeditiously and completed well before January 20-would dramatically improve Americans' faith in our electoral process and would significantly enhance the legitimacy of whoever becomes our next President. We owe that to the People," the senators said.

 

"These are matters worthy of the Congress, and entrusted to us to defend. We do not take this action lightly. We are acting not to thwart the democratic process, but rather to protect it. And every one of us should act together to ensure that the election was lawfully conducted under the Constitution and to do everything we can to restore faith in our Democracy."

 

The senators who joined this statement include Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.).

 

Also, Loeffler, who is running for re-election in a run-off against Democratic candidate, the Rev. Raphael Warnock, that will be decided Tuesday, released a statement Monday lending her support to the objection effort.

 

"The American people deserve a platform in Congress, permitted under the Constitution, to have election issues presented so that they can be addressed," Loeffler said. "That's why, on January 6th, I will vote to give President Trump and the American people the fair hearing they deserve and support the objection to the Electoral College certification process."

 

That makes 13 Republican senators so far who will object to the Electoral College results from battleground states disputed by President Donald Trump's campaign.

Those opposed to objecting

 

They are met with opposition from at least 25 of their colleagues, several of which have raised constitutional concerns about whether lawmakers have the ability to disregard election results certified by the states at all.

 

Four Republican senators including Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) joined Democrats in a statement calling for Congress to certify Biden as the winner of the election.

 

"The voters have spoken, and Congress must now fulfill its responsibility to certify the election results," the senators said collectively.

 

Romney issued an additional statement on Jan. 3 condemning Cruz and the co-signers of his statement for their "egregious ploy to reject electors," accusing them of dangerously threatening the republic.

 

"President Trump's lawyers made their case before scores of courts; in every instance, they failed. The Justice Department found no evidence of irregularity sufficient to overturn the election. The Presidential Voter Fraud Commission disbanded without finding such evidence," Romney said.

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/electoral-college-objection-divides-senate-gop

 

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Anonymous ID: ca16a6 Jan. 5, 2021, 3:48 p.m. No.12332897   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3007 >>3052 >>3061

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Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.): "Vice President Biden is the president-elect based on the electoral count."

 

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.): On how the vote on the objection will turn out: "It's going down like a shot dog."

 

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas): "There's good constitutional and other legal grounds to say: You had your day in court, 60 different lawsuits in state courts, you had a chance to appeal those to the Supreme Court, and as I read the law once a state certifies its electoral vote it's conclusive."

 

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah): "… with respect to presidential elections, there is no authority for Congress to make value judgments in the abstract regarding any state's election laws or the manner in which they have been implemented."

 

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.): "Several of my congressional colleagues have made clear their plans to object to counting certified electoral votes from certain states. I will oppose their effort because the will of voters in each state—not political considerations or the individual preferences of senators and representatives—must determine the winner of the presidential election."

And the rest

 

There are 13 Republican senators who have not definitively stated their position ahead of Wednesday

 

Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have each released statements indicating they will listen to the debate and cast their votes after considering what those objecting have to say. According to the Washington Post, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) acknowledged that Biden is the "presumptive president-elect" but did not comment on the effort to object to the Electoral College results.

 

The remaining 10 Republicans, Sens. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Mike Crapo (R-Id.), Jim Risch (R-Id.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy.) have not made their intentions clear.

 

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