I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.
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“The events of the Night of the Long Knives was not public until the 13th of July, when Hitler gave a public address, he downplayed the event, stating that only 61 were executed, 13 more were shot and 3 committed suicide, when in truth the death toll ranged from 400 to 1000."It began on June 30, 1934.
Judging from Trump’s threat to put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad the GOP’s ‘watch list of federal employees for firing could fester into putting them in front of firing squads.
An organization funded by the conservative Heritage Foundation has compiled an online “watch list” of federal employees itclaims cannot be trusted to secure the U.S. borderand should be fired, a sign that supporters of Donald Trump’s immigration policies are preparing to help him neutralize the administrative state they believe tried to thwart his first presidency.
The “DHS Bureaucrat Watch List” — a website unveiled in the final weeks of a presidential campaign in which immigration is a key issue — names 51 federal policy experts and high-ranking leaders, the majority of whom are career civil servants at the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies. The group identified them largely using public social media comments, prior work experience and campaign finance records…
“In early June 1934 Hitler compiled the Reich list of unwanted persons. It was Hitler’s shoot and kill list coded Operation Hummingbird.
June 30, 1934 Hitler & a group of SS men arrived at the Hanslbauer Hotel. Around 6am. Hitler and his men apprehended Ernst Rohm and his deputy. The deputy was taken outside and shot. Ernst Rohm was taken to the Stadelheim Prison and shot.
The Night of the Long Knives began.
Around 200 other SA leaders were arrested and executed, with most of the execution occurring at the Stadelheim Prison or another site Southeast of Berlin. SA leaders and members were not the only ones executed. Kurt von Schleicher, the former German chancellor, Gregor Strasser a high ranking Nazi figure, Edgar Jung, a prominent conservative and Ferdinand von Bredow German general and political figure.
The executions would continue until the 2nd of July, when the SA finally collapsed. Leaving the SS-Schutzstaffel in total control of Germany.
The events of the Night of the Long Knives was not public until the 13th of July, when Hitler gave a public address, he downplayed the event, stating that only 61 were executed, 13 more were shot and 3 committed suicide, when in truth the death toll ranged from 400 to 1000.”
Trump also complained about the low height of microphone stands at his events and showed how he would work around such issues, bobbing his head up and down in ... an imitation of oral sex
Former President Donald Trump used apparent technical issues during a Friday rally to toy with the idea of attacking people working the event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
“You’ve got to be kidding. Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage?” asked the GOP presidential nominee, who called it a “pretty stupid situation” after rallygoers chanted “fix the mic” during his speech.
He later added: “I get so angry. I’m up here seething. I’m seething. I’m working my ass off with this stupid mic. I’m blowing out my left arm. Now I’m going to blow out my right arm and I’m blowing out my damn throat, too, because these stupid people.”
He went on to rant about retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, his former chief of staff, before continuing to fume over the apparent microphone issues.
Trump also complained about the low height of microphone stands at his events and showed how he would work around such issues, bobbing his head up and down in ... an imitation of oral sex.
The comments on Twitter/X were about what you’d expect, although many were too graphic to be posted here:
“Trying to make sure the campaign has a happy ending.”
“These are the book banning folks, right.”
“Evidently, Donald Trump’s final campaign message is ‘Hawk Tuah!’”
“There is something seriously wrong with this person. He’s willing to do or say ANYTHING to get some applause from his sycophantic cult.”
“He finally found something that consents.”
“Tomorrow the press headlines will be: Trump has technical difficulties but gives rousing speech.”
Tom Nicholls, staff writer at The Atlantic, who has written extensively about Trump, including his authoritarianism, tweeted: “This is why Trump voters avoid any news sources outside of their bubble - including Drudge. They know Trump is completely off the rails and mentally unstable. But they want to say ‘Well, I didn’t hear about that. I just like his tax policies.’”
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Thom Hartmann: Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt has already introduced federal legislation requiring companies selling devices that track ovulation to report their results to state agencies or a federal database, including police agencies nationwide, so pregnancies can be caught and tracked. Republicans won’t be happy until every girl in America grows up the way Amy Coney Barrett did in her People of Praise Catholic cult where she was referred to as a “Handmaiden.”
"Bolduan began the segment by noting, “Liz Cheney is responding to these dangerous and reckless comments from Donald Trump last night.” CNN then played a clip of those comments from Trump in Arizona:
She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.
“Liz Cheney this morning saying this, quote, in response, ‘This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death,’” Bolduan continued, adding:
These are comments like the repeated talk of the enemy within from within that have marked Trump’s entire presidency of late and candidacy of late. An NPR analysis found that Donald Trump has made more than 100 threats since 2022 to go after his perceived enemies.
It’s also the focus of a New York Times opinion piece by prominent conservative legal scholar, retired federal Appeals Court Judge Michael Luttig. He says this in the opinion piece, ‘There could be no higher duty of American citizens than to decisively repudiate a man who betrayed the nation when he was previously entrusted with the highest office in the land and now threatens the persecution of American citizens who have crossed him. In the almost 250 years since the founding of the nation. No president before Donald Trump has ever so betrayed America. Judge Michael Luttig joins us now. Judge, thank you so much for being here.’
“What Donald Trump said about Liz Cheney last night. His allies in the past have explained it away and likely will explain it away as he doesn’t really mean what he’s saying. What do you see as the danger when you hear him talk about his enemies like this?” Bolduan asked Luttig.
“Those despicable words spoken by the Republican nominee for the presidency, who Americans will either elect or reject as the next president of the United States of America in just five days were reprehensible. They are unprecedented. I cannot tell you how many emails and texts I received this morning that just said, ‘Oh my God,’” responded Luttig. “And the only reply to those messages I could think of Kate was, ‘Yes, oh my God!'”
He continued:
Every citizen of the country, especially Republicans, has an obligation to themselves and to America to watch the video from last night, as I did before coming on this morning and ponder those un-American words by Donald Trump before they cast their votes on Tuesday. The nation is now on notice if it was not already. If Americans return Donald Trump to the White House after those comments about our fellow Americans, Liz Cheney statements that Donald Trump would make about any one of his countless other enemies from within those who voted for him will get what they deserve.
Apropos of his reprehensible words last night, of course, three nights ago, Vice President Harris spoke the most powerful words that anyone running against Donald Trump could ever speak. She said, I will give those who disagree with me a seat at the table. Those are the words of a president of the United States. Those were the words that Americans, especially Republicans and independents, need to hear and desperately want to hear from their next president.
“You said in your opinion piece, Judge, that this is not a difficult decision for voters. Why is it then such a close race, do you think?” Bolduan followed up.
“It’s beyond my comprehension at this point, Kate. I will say this. Long before last night’s insidious comments, just talking about people, people Kate, not politics. It has been beyond my comprehension how or why any woman in America would vote for Donald Trump,” Luttig replied, concluding:
For all of the sordid reasons we all know all too well by nominating Donald Trump as their standard bearer. I think the Republican Party has created the perfect storm for the election of the first woman president in America, and I fully expect that the women in America will elect Kamala Harris, that first woman president this coming Tuesday. And, Kate, if we ever needed a woman president, it is now."
CNN’s Kate Bolduan spoke to retired Judge Michael Luttig on Friday morning about Donald Trump’s shocking comments attacking Liz Cheney the night before during a conversation that saw Luttig denounce Trump’s rhetoric as “unamerican.”
