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June 13, 2022

So Roger Stone wrote Trump that Senators Cruz & Hawley will need pardons?

Here’s Roger Stone’s draft memo to Trump on who he should pardon, including Gaetz, Biggs, Gohmert, Jordan, Brooks, Gosar, Cruz, and Hawley. It wouldn’t surprise me if these are some of the Republicans who are revealed in the next hearing. #Jan6thHearings



https://twitter.com/mudpuppy_16/status/1535101370511937536

According to Stone the Federal Court, the D.C. Court of Appeals, and Federal Prosecutors are rigging the system
against those that opposed the outcome of the 2020 election? aka These people are in deep shit for Jan. 6th 2021
and trying to overthrow our Constitutional Democracy.



June 12, 2022

ATTN "Patriot Front" members who are anti gay you should learn some real patriot history.

George Washington and the Continental Army were not doing so well until a
German gay man, Baron Von Stuben showed up to help. Washington never
lost a battle after that.

In WW II allied shipping was going to the bottom of the Atlantic in huge #s
because of German U-boats but a gay man (along with many others) Alan
Turing, helped to build one of the 1st computers that allowed the allies to
break the German coded messages sent to the U-boats which shortened the
war and saved God only knows how many lives.

BTW Turning committed suicide post WW II because he was being prosecuted
for breaking British sodomy laws.

This picture makes me smile.

June 11, 2022

One more time gas prices are not Joe Biden's fault. Shell Oil made $76.5 Billion over the past year

Oil prices (oil is refined to make gasoline) are in part set by oil price futures. President Biden has little
to do with these transactions. Gasoline futures are also traded and these too help set the price of gas
@ the pump.

"Crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) are the world's most actively traded futures contract on a physical commodity. Because of its excellent liquidity and price transparency, the contract is used as a principal international pricing benchmark. The NYMEX also offers trading in heating oil futures and gasoline futures."

Oil companies are making a killing right now.
BP annual/quarterly gross profit history and growth rate from 2010 to 2022. Gross profit can be defined as the profit a company makes after deducting the variable costs directly associated with making and selling its products or providing its services.

BP gross profit for the quarter ending March 31, 2022 was $15.932B, a 16.08% increase year-over-year.
BP gross profit for the twelve months ending March 31, 2022 was $46.328B, a 23.3% increase year-over-year.
BP annual gross profit for 2021 was $44.121B, a 56.42% increase from 2020.
BP annual gross profit for 2020 was $28.207B, a 43.11% decline from 2019.
BP annual gross profit for 2019 was $49.582B, a 0.53% increase from 2018.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/BP/bp/gross-profit#:~:text=1%20BP%20gross%20profit%20for%20the%20quarter%20ending,a%2056.42%25%20increase%20from%202020.%20More%20items...%20

Shell annual/quarterly gross profit history and growth rate from 2010 to 2022. Gross profit can be defined as the profit a company makes after deducting the variable costs directly associated with making and selling its products or providing its services.

Shell gross profit for the quarter ending March 31, 2022 was $21.209B, a 20.14% increase year-over-year.
Shell gross profit for the twelve months ending March 31, 2022 was $76.056B, a 63.43% increase year-over-year.
Shell annual gross profit for 2021 was $72.5B, a 79.66% increase from 2020.
Shell annual gross profit for 2020 was $40.354B, a 42.62% decline from 2019.
Shell annual gross profit for 2019 was $70.331B, a 4.76% decline from 2018.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SHEL/shell/gross-profit#:~:text=Shell%20gross%20profit%20for%20the%20twelve%20months%20ending,2020%20was%20%2440.354B%2C%20a%2042.62%25%20decline%20from%202019.

Republicans and I would dare to say fossil fuel companies want high gas prices in order to hurt Americans
so they will take out their anger on President Biden.

House Democrats pass bill against gas price gouging with no Republican votes
Source: UPI News

May 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. House on Thursday passed a bill to prevent gasoline price gouging bill without a single Republican vote in favor. The vote was 217-207.

The bill sponsored by Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., and Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., would make it illegal to sell gas at an excessive price during an energy emergency.

"At a time when people in my district and across the country are feeling the pain of high prices at the gas pump, Congress needs to be doing all we can to bring down costs," Schrier said in a statement.

Schrier said the FTC needs to have the power to investigate and crack down when there's evidence of real gouging.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/house-democrats-pass-bill-against-gas-price-gouging-with-no-republican-votes/ar-AAXtYSe

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142919516

I believe this bill has been killed in the senate by the republicans and most likely Joe Manchin.

June 10, 2022

Trump says Ivanka Trump doesn't understand elections after she disowned his claim that the 2020 vote

Source: Business Insider

Ivanka Trump testified that she "accepted" there was no evidence of fraud that could overturn the 2020 election.

Donald Trump lashed out at his daughter's testimony, suggesting she doesn't understand elections.

snip

Trump said in a Friday morning post on his social-media platform, Truth Social: "Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results. She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!)."

snip

Trump did not elaborate on what he meant by Ivanka Trump's being "checked out." The New York Times reported earlier this week that she and Kushner were quietly planning to leave Washington, DC, and deciding on their post-White House steps while President Trump and his allies worked on how to overturn the election.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-ivanka-trump-doesnt-understand-elections-after-she-disowned-his-claim-that-the-2020-vote-was-stolen/ar-AAYiM31?ocid=BingNewsSearch#image=AAYiRVK|2



June 10, 2022

C. Pierce, "I Don't Believe in This Kind of Luck" ... Trump's shock Troops knew the weak spots

Published Oct. 2021

"Video shows some of the first rioters to break through the police line running past 15 reinforced windows, making a beeline for a recessed area on the Senate side of the building, where two unreinforced windows and two doors with unreinforced glass were all that stood between them and hallways leading to lawmakers inside."

The majority of the Capitol’s 658 single-pane windows were quietly upgraded during a 2017-19 renovation of the historic building. The original wooden frames and glass were covered with a second metal frame containing bomb-resistant glass.

snip

And whether by sheer luck, real-time trial and error, or advance knowledge by rioters, several of those vulnerable windows and two glass-paned doors — protected with only a thin Kevlar film added after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — became easy entry points for hundreds of Trump supporters who overran and ransacked the building on Jan. 6.

snip

Video shows some of the first rioters to break through the police line running past 15 reinforced windows, making a beeline for a recessed area on the Senate side of the building, where two unreinforced windows and two doors with unreinforced glass were all that stood between them and hallways leading to lawmakers inside who had not begun to evacuate. A rioter’s fist cracked the glass of one window, video posted to social media shows. A stolen police riot shield and a wooden pole finished the job. In seconds, the unreinforced glass gave way in a single sheet. Rioters poured through the window. Similar methods were used to break glass in at least three other locations.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a37884804/january-6-capitol-riot-unreinforced-windows/

June 10, 2022

Bennie Thompson is very good.

End of story.

June 9, 2022

So Fox News will not cover the hearings live but they will wait until afterwards to comment on them.

aka They will watch the hearings, set up their counter narrative stories, and then
broadcast "their coverage" after the hearings are over and 80 + % of Fox News
watchers are asleep.

"Fox News Channel’s primetime programs will cover the hearings “as news warrants.”
At 11 p.m. ET, Fox News @ Night anchor and chief legal correspondent Shannon Bream
will anchor a two-hour live special joined by Baier and MacCallum for news analysis
through 1 a.m. ET."

https://deadline.com/2022/06/how-to-watch-january-6-hearings-online-tv-schedule-1235040755/

Jan. 6th 2021 was about the attempted overthrow of our Constitutional Democracy by violence,
massive law breaking, and hundreds of people including a sitting President went right along with
that. Spin that Fox.

thanx to DUer EndlessWire for the link

June 7, 2022

Daily KOS, The BIG Guide: Who's who in the January 6 committee's investigation

Trump, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Rudy, Navarro, Jeffery Clark, Dan Scavino, Stephen Miller, Jason Miller,
Cassidy Hutchinson, Keith Kellogg, Marc Short, John McEntee, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Oath Keepers, Proud
Boys, Michael Flynn, Bernard Kerik, Ali Alexander, Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, Ivanka, Don Jr., & Eric, Kush-Turd,
Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Rep. Scott Perry, Rep. Mo Brooks, Rep. Andy Biggs, Rep. Ronny Jackson, Rep. Barry
Loudermilk, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Trump’s election “fraud” lawyers, The “alternate electors," Kimberly Guilfoyle,
Kayleigh McEnany, Boris Epshteyn, Nicholas Luna personal assistant to Trump, and Kashyap Patel.

I had to stop.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/22/2067807/-A-field-guide-to-the-figures-at-the-center-of-the-Jan-6-probe?_=2022-06-06T18:46:09.000-07:00

June 7, 2022

Gas prices are not Joe Biden's fault. Fox News is a cancer on America for spreading their lies.

Oil price futures are a publicly traded commodity.

BP gross profit for the quarter ending March 31, 2022 was $15.932B, a 16.08% increase year-over-year.
BP gross profit for the twelve months ending March 31, 2022 was $46.328B, a 23.3% increase year-over-year.
BP annual gross profit for 2021 was $44.121B, a 56.42% increase from 2020.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/BP/bp/gross-profit#:~:text=1%20BP%20gross%20profit%20for%20the%20quarter%20ending,a%2056.42%25%20increase%20from%202020.%20More%20items...%20

https://twitter.com/BillPascrell/status/1533803445454610434

Joe Biden is the best President of my lifetime and he protected this too:



These are prairie wetlands that help to recharge the ground water in the great plains protecting them was a
priceless act by the Biden administration. This will helps farmers, ranchers, wildlife, the ecology, and these
areas can help suck up CO2 from the atmosphere too.

Joe B.

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