Know-It-All Tuesdays: Declaration of Independence Trivia

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I found this quiz about the Declaration of Independence on Quiz-everyday.com. See how well you do!

Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, which declared the American colonies’ separation from Great Britain?

A) Benjamin Franklin

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) John Adams

D) George Washington

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on which date?

A) July 2, 1776

B) July 4, 1776

C) July 6, 1776

D) July 8, 1776

Which philosophical concept, derived from the writings of John Locke, is prominently featured in the Declaration of Independence as “unalienable rights”?

A) life, liberty, and property

B) life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

C) freedom, equality, and justice

D) liberty, equality, and fraternity

In the Declaration of Independence, who is specifically blamed for the various grievances listed against Great Britain?

A) Parliament

B) King George III

C) the British people

D) the British military

Which delegate from Massachusetts is famously known for his large, bold signature on the Declaration of Independence?

A) John Hancock

B) Samuel Adams

C) John Adams

D) Paul Revere

In total, how many delegates signed the Declaration of Independence?

A) 50

B) 52

C) 54

D) 56

Which colony did not have a delegate sign the Declaration of Independence?

A) New York

B) New Jersey

C) Virginia

D) Massachusetts

Which influential American founding father edited the draft of the Declaration of Independence and later became the second President of the United States?

A) Benjamin Franklin

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) John Adams

D) James Madison

In which city was the Declaration of Independence adopted by the Second Continental Congress?

A) New York City

B) Boston

C) Philadelphia

D) Charleston

In the Declaration of Independence, what phrase is used to describe the colonies’ new status as an independent nation?

A) free and independent states

B) united and independent states

C) sovereign and independent states

D) united and sovereign states

Which delegate from Virginia presented the resolution for independence to the Second Continental Congress, paving the way for the Declaration of Independence?

A) George Wythe

B) Richard Henry Lee

C) Benjamin Harrison

D) Thomas Nelson Jr.

Who was the president of the Second Continental Congress and the first to sign the Declaration of Independence?

A) John Hancock

B) John Adams

C) Thomas Jefferson

D) Benjamin Franklin

The introduction of the Declaration of Independence, which explains the purpose of the document, is commonly referred to as what?

A) Preamble

B) Prologue

C) Introduction

D) Declaration

Which year was the first time the term “Declaration of Independence” was used to describe the document?

A) 1776

B) 1777

C) 1781

D) 1783

Who was responsible for printing the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that were distributed throughout the colonies?

A) Benjamin Franklin

B) John Dunlap

C) Robert Aitken

D) David C. Claypoole

Want to see how you did? 

Answers:

Thomas Jefferson

July 4, 1776

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

King Geroge III

Jonh Hancock

56

New York

John Adams

Philadelphia

Free and independent states

Richard Henry Lee

John Hancock

Preamble

1776

John Dunlap


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  2. Morning All!
    sunny but still cool here this morning.
    i still have a few orioles come tot he feeder–but not the female who loved to spin on the hummer feeder. I just have males coming.
    the hummers are going to town though!

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    1. Morning, Pat! Interesting open today. It was technically signed on August 2 but some members may have actually signed it after that date.

      Wiki: “In an 1811 letter to Adams, Benjamin Rush recounted the signing in stark fashion, describing it as a scene of “pensive and awful silence.” Rush said the delegates were called up, one after another, and then filed forward somberly to subscribe what each thought was their ensuing death warrant.[15] He related that the “gloom of the morning” was briefly interrupted when the rotund Benjamin Harrison of Virginia said to a diminutive Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, at the signing table, “I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry, when we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes and be with the Angels, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.”[15] According to Rush, Harrison’s remark “procured a transient smile, but it was soon succeeded by the Solemnity with which the whole business was conducted.”[15]

      Still cloudy and gloomy, humid and 70 already, w/no wind, thankfully. Wheezer was sleeping on my chair this morning. IDK what it is with cats: she seems to do the same thing Jake does – leave the last bottom layer of food, almost like they’re keeping it for an emergency! LOL There was still a layer of food in her dish when I went out to get it. She jumped down, stretched and yawned, then sat down and looked at me, like “Well, what are you waiting for???” I reached out but she still won’t let me touch her. Once I refilled it, put it back outside, and closed the door, she promptly tucked in, then left.

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        1. The males come first to settle on a territory that has suitable nesting trees and water nearby; the females follow within a week or two. This is specific to PA:

          EXCERPT: “During July, most baby orioles are leaving the nest and becoming independent. Once that occurs and breeding season is over, the parents start molting their body and flight feathers in anticipation of their migration south. Believe it or not, some orioles leave Pennsylvania as early as July!

          But the majority of orioles start their migration south in August. By September, it’s rare to see any orioles still hanging around.

          To attract orioles to their yard, many people set out fresh oranges, grape jelly, and nectar, which orioles will readily consume when they first get back to Pennsylvania in the spring. But as summer progresses and flowers bloom, fruits ripen, and bugs are readily available, orioles don’t need your feeders as much.

          So even though orioles may still be in the area, it’s pretty common for them to stop visiting feeders in early summer.”

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  4. DC_Draino
    @DC_Draino
    Now that the dust has settled, here’s what I believe happened with the debate:

    The war between Biden machine & the Obama machine spilled into the open

    Democrat leaders on both sides are truly panicking about Biden’s crashing poll numbers

    Biden knows if he’s out of power, his crime family will be prosecuted and disgraced and Jill Biden has gotten way to used to the lifestyle – she won’t give it up

    Obama team knows their mafia operation will be prosecuted under Trump as well

    So both sides are desperate and fighting over whose strategy is best to beat Trump

    Obama machine launched a final sneak attack to pressure Joe to drop out after the debate that they knew he would be awful in

    It didn’t work

    Biden met with Obama the next day, made clear he wasn’t quitting, and now Obama machine puppets are all backtracking, including Obama himself

    It’s now clear that Biden controls the DNC machine while Obama controls the media machine

    The Democrat machine as a whole is begrudgingly unifying behind Biden in hopes that he can pull it off

    But make no mistake – these people are truly scared of what’s coming down the road for them under Trump

    I’ve never seen them act this desperately

    These are not the moves of a confident & powerful regime

    They are divided and desperate

    If Trump wins, we will truly destroy the Deep State and they know it

    Push forward with everything you’ve got b/c these weakened criminals are on the ropes

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  11. Mark R. Levin

    @marklevinshow

    SOTOMAYOR IS AN IDIOT AND MORE Sotomayor proves yet again that she’s a complete idiot. Let me help her and all the clowns in the media.  If a president orders the assassination of a political rival, that is not part of his official duties. He’s not immune. Even more, the hysterical examples, which would require the involvement of scores or more conspirators, including civil servants and military, are so insane that none of this should be taken seriously.  The Democrat Party, including their jurists, are hellbent on destroying the institutions of this constitutional republic. They say Trump is Hitler, the majority justices are right-wing hacks, and Republicans who support Trump (or anyone else who stands in their way) are cultists, brain dead, white supremacists, etc.   Garland and Smith are disfiguring the Constitution, and the Supreme Court, as well as Judge Cannon, are doing their best to set things straight and place things back in the constitutional box. It is Smith, a historically rogue and vile prosecutor, who deserves our contempt, along with his boss, Garland. The January 6 case is a farce. The documents case was utterly unnecessary.  He and the Democrats may be in a rush to destroy a constitution they have never admired, and whose authors they hate, in pursuit of their American-Marxist police-state. But the rest of us are not.

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  12. the President KNEW & SAID this years ago…

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  14. could this administration be anymore reckless and unconstitutional? The maggot is bringing illegals BACK INTO the US that were ordered deported during the Trump administration. they had their court time, asylum was denied. case closed. but some activist group complained and the maggot is flying them back here!

    FTA

    The Biden administration is flying previously deported Cameroonians whose asylum claims were determined to be invalid back into the United States, according to interviews with Immigration and Customs Enforcement staff and internal agency memos reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

    The program, which has not been announced to the public, appears to be a response to a February 2022 Human Rights Watch report about dozens of Cameroonians deported between 2019 and 2021 and then allegedly mistreated by their government. An estimated 80 to 90 Cameroonians were deported during that period of time.

    But now some are arriving back in the United States under a program with little precedent, both current and former ICE officials say. All of the individuals deported under the previous administration were found not to have valid asylum claims in the United States.

    The decision to fly back the previously deported Cameroonians is the latest instance of the Biden administration reversing its predecessor’s immigration initiatives. On his first day in office, President Joe Biden rolled back a number of former president Donald Trump’s border policies and paused southern border wall construction. Biden later ended a policy that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico before their court hearing, which critics blame for the sharp uptick in illegal border crossings.

    “Gutting deportations isn’t enough for the Biden administration, so now they’re apparently bringing back previously deported illegal aliens,” said former ICE official and director of investigations at the Center for Immigration Studies Jon Feere. “These are people who have already had their cases closed, one way or another, and they’ve been returned home.”

    Internal memos reviewed by the Free Beacon show an ICE official working with outside nonprofits to help relocate the Cameroonians. One email from earlier this year reviewed by the Free Beacon shows the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Texas A&M University, Fatma Marouf, informing an ICE official where one migrant will arrive.

    In that incident, the migrant arrived at Washington-Dulles airport in Virginia. ICE officials familiar with the program say airports around the country are being used as ports of entry for the Cameroonians in an attempt to keep the public in the dark about the program and avoid concentrating the migrants in a single location.

    Marouf did not respond to a request for comment.

    The official rationale for the program, according to internal memos reviewed by the Free Beacon, is to avoid a “potential lawsuit.” There is pending litigation in New York over documents related to alleged abuse of Cameroonian migrants, but no court has ordered their return.

    “These individuals were deported by the order of a court after they were afforded all due process rights,” said former ICE chief of staff Tom Blank. “For DHS to arbitrarily reverse court orders to satisfy complaints from an activist group makes a joke out of the entire legal immigration process. It looks like outside activist groups now run the DHS immigration process instead of the courts.”

    https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-flying-migrants-trump-deported-back-into-the-us/

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  15. i found this comment in one of the articles about the rulings yesterday…

    @lloydgilham6153

    13 hours ago Arrest Garland and Smith for spending non-appropriated funds.

    there might be a good check & balance question there. congress approves the funding. since Smith was not constitutionally appointed by law, is Garland guilty of illegally providing funding (taking it from the budget?) and smith guilty for receiving unappropriated funds–stealing from the US gov’t?

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  18. dogsmaw

    July 2, 2024 7:32 am

    Judge Rejects Biden Admin Bid To Dismiss Lawsuit Over ‘Illegal and Dangerous’ $1.5 Billion Palestinian Payment Plan

    https://freebeacon.com/national-security/judge-rejects-biden-admin-bid-to-dismiss-lawsuit-over-illegal-and-dangerous-1-5-billion-palestinian-payment-plan/

    A U.S. district court rejected the Biden administration’s bid to dismiss a landmark lawsuit alleging it engaged in an “illegal and dangerous $1.5 billion terrorism subsidy program for the Palestinians.”

    The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled on Friday that the lawsuit brought by victims of Palestinian terrorism can proceed, marking the second time the Biden administration’s motion to dismiss the case has been rejected. The court, in its latest decision, said there is evidence the Biden administration continued awarding taxpayer cash to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)—the leading aid organization in Gaza—even after Congress blocked funding to that group due to its support for Hamas’s military infrastructure.

    The lawsuit, originally filed in December 2022 by American victims of Palestinian terror attacks and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R., Texas), alleges the Biden administration violated federal law when it restarted aid to the Palestinians, including for programs in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. This money, they argue, subsidized terrorism and contributed to the Palestinian government’s “pay to slay” program, which provides imprisoned terrorists and their families with monthly stipends.

    The latest decision paves the way for the case to “move forward, tearing away the veil from the Biden Administration’s illegal and dangerous $1.5 billion terrorism subsidy program for the Palestinians,” America First Legal, a watchdog group handling the lawsuit on behalf of terror victims, said in a summary of the case provided to the Washington Free Beacon.

    Full article at The Washington Free Beacon at link provided.

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  19. GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr

    GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr

    July 2, 2024 7:46 am

    15 Secretaries Blow Off Congressional Subpoenas While Subpoena Refusal Lands Trump Adviser In Jail
    On June 13, U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, chairman of the Committee on House Administration, issued subpoenas to 15 administration cabinet members seeking documents related to Biden’s constitutionally suspect executive order commanding federal agencies to assist in voter registration and get-out-the-vote campaigns. The agency chiefs failed to comply by Steil’s deadline of June 26.

    “Not a single agency has responded with their strategic plan or with any details about the implementation of the EO,” the Wisconsin Republican said in a statement to The Federalist. “Additionally, we know that as many as 40 outside groups assisted and advised the agencies on implementation – we have received nothing on the role these groups played in the design of the strategic plans.” 
    Seems like contempt of Congress.

    https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/01/15-secretaries-blow-off-congressional-subpoenas-while-subpoena-refusal-lands-trump-adviser-in-jail/

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  20. Bubby

    Bubby

    July 2, 2024 8:28 am

    https://bigleaguepolitics.com/trojan-horse-north-dakota-gov-doug-burgums-history-of-selling-out-to-china-kowtowing-to-bill-gates-supporting-transgenderism-hating-trump-is-revealed

    FTA”North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has emerged as a leading vice presidential candidate for Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential run.Coming seemingly out of nowhere, Burgum is now being aggressively astroturfed as the new sensation of the conservative media establishment, particularly by globalist-run Fox News. Burgum is saying all the right things as he sees a potential vice presidential nomination in his future.

    However, before Burgum became the darling of the conservative media gatekeepers, he was a typical globalist politician with deep ties to China and Bill Gates who vetoed bills to protect children from transgenderism and trashed Trump on the campaign trail….Burgum made his millions by seizing control of Great Plains Software, a firm that provided accounting software to small and medium-sized businesses. He sold out to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001, becoming life-time friends with Bill Gates in the process.

    Burgum’s record should disqualify him as a vice presidential candidate. He would be the globalist Trojan Horse planted in the administration by the Deep State, similar to former Indiana Governor Mike Pence, to severely undermine President Trump’s America First agenda.”

    How did this guy even get on the VP list? He’s not MAGA or an America Firster! Who is President Trump listening to? Burgum will be no help to President Trump or us We The MAGA People! If he gets the nod I’ll be extremely disappointed! I will vote for President Trump but the enthusiasm will be gone! I hope Don Jr has an intervention! Godspeed President Trump!

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    1. Huh….I used Great Plains Software back in the day at several companies. It was quite popular and easy to use. He’s another Romney!

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  21. Zelensky’s wife buys one of the most expensive hypercars in the world

    The wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Elena, has purchased one of the most expensive sports cars in the world – a Bugatti Tourbillon hypercar for 4.5 million euros. This was reported by Verite Cachee, citing an employee of the Bugatti showroom in Paris.

    According to media reports, Zelensky’s wife was shown the new car two weeks before the official presentation, and she decided to order the hypercar.

    At the moment, the production of 250 cars of this brand is planned. The Bugatti Tourbillon is expected to be handed over to Elena Zelenskaya in 2026.

    Earlier, Elena Zelenskaya told the media in an interview that at some moments she feels that she is close to psychological exhaustion.

    Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian president’s wife spent $1.1 million in the expensive Cartier boutique on New York’s famous Fifth Avenue. — Mockba 24

    And …‘I am not made for war’: the men fleeing Ukraine to evade conscription

    The autumn cannot arrive soon enough for Dmytro, when his handlers have promised to get him out of Ukraine.

    For the past month, the 31-year-old photographer from Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has been holed up in his flat, rarely stepping outside, to avoid being conscripted into the army. “I want to leave the country. My mind can’t take being trapped here any more,” Dmytro said.

    Since the start of the war, thousands of Ukrainian men have illegally crossed the Ukrainian border to dodge conscription, despite a nationwide ban prohibiting men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving.

    Attempts to flee the country are expected to increase after Ukraine’s recent adoption of new sweeping mobilisation measures, which allow the military to call up more soldiers and impose stricter penalties for draft evasion.

    “I never thought about leaving until the mobilisation laws were introduced. But I can’t stay in my flat forever,” Dmytro said. — The Guardian

    Our Take: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

    These two stories perfectly showcase the current dichotomy in today’s world between the elitist reprobates who see themselves as the keepers of mankind against the backdrop of overwhelming suffering among the commonfolk.

    Zelensky’s wife is so shameless, she would make Marie Antoinette blush.

    And that cash is our money.

    This is all so obscene and grotesque, yet so necessary. The world must see it all for what it is. A scam. — GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

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    1. I saw that this morning…along with a picture of the “invoice” for it. readers added content that at least the invoice was most likely a fraud. does that mean she didn’t buy it? no, maybe she did…but the posted invoice is a fraud
      Readers added context
      – Lacks VAT, and currency, legal requirements for French invoices
      – Misspellings in address (“Neuilly-sur-Seine” incorrect)
      – Lacks dealer’s tax ID, payment terms, delivery details
      – Suspicious formatting
      – Nigerian forum Nairaland is unreliable content

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        1. this was not their tweet though…the invoice was with this one…same info basically but maybe this guy had bad info?
          I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
          @ImMeme0
          🚨BREAKING: Zelensky’s wife allegedly purchased the newest Bugatti Turbillon for €4.5 million ( $4,832,325.00)

          French journalists obtained an invoice showing the car’s base price of nearly 4 million euros, with 500,000 euros in options. Allegedly, Zelenskaya will receive her car in 2026.

          (the invoice is in an attached picture and then the readers added comments under that

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          1. Yes, but they included it in their newsletter, which is where I got it so…..it behooves them to verify that stuff, IMO.

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      2. OK – found this from a site I’ve never visited before so I can’t speak to it’s veracity: comingsoon.net

        “The Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, swiftly escalating the ongoing conflict between the two countries and causing widespread loss of life and property. So, when rumors about Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, buying a Bugatti car started circulating, it drew considerable attention.

        Here is what we have discovered about the rumors about Olena Zelensky purchasing a Bugatti car and whether they are true.Did Olena Zelenska buy a new Bugatti car?

        As of early July 2024, the claims about Olena buying a new Bugatti car appear to be nothing more than rumors.

        Outlets such as AutoJosh reported on July 1, 2024, that Olena purchased a Bugatti Tourbillon, the latest hypercar from the automobile manufacturer. The company reportedly organized a private presentation for Olena and her husband on June 7, 2024, two weeks before the car’s official unveiling.

        These outlets and several social accounts also claimed that an insider from Bugatti’s Paris dealership disclosed the purchase. Further, they reported that the invoice of the transaction was made available to the journalists. Bugatti Tourbillon costs €3.8 million, but according to the invoice, Olena paid €4.5 million due to the additional options she selected for the car.

        Since then, these reports and social media posts have been vehemently refuted. The invoice mentions an address, “Neuily-sur-Seine, Paris,” in France. However, the community notes on various posts on X (formerly known as Twitter) sharing the invoice state that there is no such as address in France and that the entire invoice is fake. Given that there is a Parisian commune named Neuilly-sur-Seine, there is a possibility that the invoice is indeed fake, as a Bugatti dealership is unlikely to make such a typographical error.

        Additionally, there is a video making the rounds online that features a man named Jacques Bertin, purportedly the Bugatti insider mentioned above. The community notes under some of the posts that shared this video state that it’s a product of deepfake technology and that the person in the video doesn’t exist.”

        https://www.comingsoon.net/guides/news/1787881-zelenskyy-wife-bugatti-car-olena-rumor-explained

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  22. “Democrat Leaders Convince Biden He Already Stepped Down Yesterday”

    POLITICS · Jul 1, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    WASHINGTON, DC — In a clever move to encourage an embattled Biden to relinquish his position, Democrat leaders convinced the President he had already stepped down yesterday.

    “There’s no shame in bowing out while you’re so ahead,” Nancy Pelosi told Joe Biden. “You’re at the top of your game, Joe. It’s great that you agreed to step down and hand over the reins to someone a little more…alive. Thank you for making that decision all on your own…because you did. Remember?”

    Democrats spent the better part of Sunday convincing the President that stepping down was his idea and reminding him he said he’d bow out of the election and hand over power to either Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsom, Michelle Obama, The Monopoly Man, or three members of Hamas stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat but definitely NOT Kamala Harris.

    “Yes, I do remember saying all that. That does sound like me,” Biden commented to a nearby houseplant. “What are you gonna do about it, little plant boy? Whahtiergohrrrghhh. Biden out.”

    As of publishing time, Jill Biden could be seen supergluing her husband to the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and screaming at aides to barricade the doors.

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  23. “Media Apologizes For Briefly Reporting The Truth About Biden Last Week”

    MEDIA · Jul 1, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    U.S. — In the wake of the uproar following the president’s disappointing debate performance and subsequent rumors that he was insistent on staying in the race, the media apologized for briefly reporting the truth about Biden last week.

    Multiple media outlets expressed shock and consternation following the presidential debate, describing President Biden as confused, unfit, and incompetent before backtracking and apologizing profusely for their short spell of accurately reporting on his mental capacity.

    “We have no excuse for our objective and accurate reporting last week,” said CNN anchor Anderson Cooper as he read a prepared statement. “In the hours and days following last week’s debate, we in the media made the mistake of upholding our journalistic duty and portraying President Biden as being mentally unfit for office and calling on him to step down for the good of the country. We were wrong. We neglected our responsibility to spread state-sponsored propaganda and create a false narrative following the debate, and for that, we are deeply sorry. We promise to do better.”

    The American public was stunned to see prominent members of the news media openly discussing facts and conveying the truth without any regard for the regime-approved talking points they were supposed to be parroting. “It’s like they forgot to do their jobs,” one concerned citizen said. “I saw a group of people acting like respectable journalists on national television. It was horrifying.”

    At publishing time, the media issued another statement recommitting themselves to defeating Donald Trump and helping Joe Biden get re-elected whether he is still alive in November or not.

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  24. “Wait for it….”

    I know this has been posted before but I can’t resist – it’s just toooo funny!!!

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    1. i think i told this story before–back when i was a teenager, i babysat for the neighbor’s 2 boys all the time. one Saturday they asked if i would mine babysitting their friend’s 2 other boys–(i got paid double and it was only a few hours.) i agreed. cute little guys. THE VERY NEXT DAY…someone crashed into their parents’ pinto and they all died at the scene. so sad!

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  27. this was at the end of a comment and brings up an interesting point–(that’s mainly why i try to read comments on articles/sites. can the maggot claim executive privilege for acts done BEFORE he was President?

    Maybe the AG should have given this more thought before this case was filed?
    BTW this investigation of Biden’s classified document case by Hur was not(I repeat NOT) an official act by Biden cause he was NOT the president when the act took place (only VP and Senator) 😛

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  28. j x

    j x

    July 2, 2024 10:38 am

    > Today, America First Legal (AFL) released eleven documents highlighting and explaining the numerous errors in the phony and politically-motivated prosecution of President Donald J. Trump by Alvin Bragg’s Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

    > To document just how egregious each issue is, AFL has released a series of documents, each focusing on a discrete issue with the Bragg case. This series explains the glaring legal errors

    https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-releases-documents-highlighting-glaring-legal-errors-in-alvin-braggs-prosecution-of-president-donald-j-trump/

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  29. hope the SS pays him a call and he gets thrown in jail

    T. Turtle

    T. Turtle

    July 2, 2024 10:36 am

    This really is outrageous…there have been numerous stories exactly like this in the past 24 hours. One Zoomer punk called on FJB to k**l MAGA patriots and President Trump supporters.

    “If I Was Biden I’d Hurry Up and Have Trump M**dered” – BBC Presenter Sparks Outrage After Calling for M**der of President Trump”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/if-i-was-biden-id-hurry-up-have/

    “Take All of Them Out” Zoomer Biden Superfan Tweets About Military Offing Trump and Supreme Court Justices Following Immunity Ruling – Trump Campaign Responds (VIDEO)”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/take-all-them-zoomer-biden-superfan-tweets-about/

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  30. WeThePeople2016
    July 2, 2024 11:10 am

    BREAKING 🇺🇸🦅 Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday agreed with President Trump’s request to postpone his criminal sentencing so that the judge overseeing the case could weigh whether a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling might imperil his conviction. (NYT)

    https://t.me/THEREALTORIABROOKE/48514

    BREAKING: The Manhattan DA’s office will NOT oppose Trump lawyers’ request to delay the July 11th sentencing after his legal team filed a motion Monday to get the conviction tossed following the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. They claim that certain evidence introduced in the “hush money” trial was in fact precluded under the Supreme Court’s test. Trump’s sentencing date will most likely be pushed back by at least a “few weeks.”

    https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4751649-alvin-bragg-trump-sentencing/

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  31. Wow! Hurricane Beryl, tracking towards Jamaica, has been upgraded to a Cat5!!! Still cloudy, calm wind, & humid here, up to a muggy 73. No rebate check today….I talked to Mom – she is doing well and home now. She’s got a 6′ or so wooden trellis that my brother made for her that she doesn’t need so she’s is going to give it to me. Both Sis and her daughter didn’t have room for it in their vehicles – it could be neither one of them wanted it and just told her that! LOL I’ll find a place for it for sure!

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  33. This is such outright bullshit!!!!

    Just The News: “A New York court on Tuesday disbarred former New York Mayor and Donald Trump adviser Rudolph Giuliani, after he was found to have repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.

    The decision was handed down by a New York appeals court in Manhattan, according to the Associated Press. The ruling stops Giuliani from practicing law and removes his name from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-law in the state. 

    Giuliani’s spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday by the wire service. The 80-year-old Giuliani has already had his New York law license suspended for false statements he made after the election.”

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    1. so they punish Alex Jones for “false statements” and now Rudy for what they consider “false statements”. ‘when do they punish the 51 intelligence people who claimed hunter’s laptop was russian disinfo??????

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  34. Just The News: “The Institute for Energy Resources, a free-market energy research group, updated its running list of actions President Joe Biden and Democrats have taken to make it harder to produce energy since Biden took office. The list has grown to 225 laws, regulations and decisions making it more expensive and take longer to produce oil, gas and coal.

    The list hit 200 in March after growing by 25 from the previous September. The newest actions since March, many of which target oil and gas development in Alaska, include:

    • Cutting oil and gas land auctions by 3,000 in New Mexico
    • Passing a final methane rule regulating emissions on public land
    • New EPA emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks
    • Blocking 23 million acres of Alaska to oil and gas drilling
    • Restricting new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres of Alaska
    • Rejecting the Ambler Access Road, blocking mining development in Alaska
    • Finalizing rules to create “conservation leases,” which block resource development

    The latest item is the efforts in May at the G7 Ministerial Meeting on Climate, Energy and the Environment to phase out existing coal generation by 2035.

    The U.S. is producing record-high levels of oil and gas. Tom Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, which is the advocacy arm of the IER, told Just the News in May that the industry has grown despite the Biden administration’s efforts, which ironically have kept the economy in a much better position than it would have. A lot of that, he said, has to do with production on private lands, which is harder to regulate like that on public lands, such as those in Alaska.”

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  40. Just The News: “An FBI supervisor is blowing the whistle on his own organization, alleging to the Justice Department’s chief watchdog and Congress that the bureau has been improperly suspending or revoking the security clearances of agents it believes hold conservative political views.

    The new whistleblower’s allegations surfaced Tuesday in correspondence obtained by Just the News that was sent to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, dramatically claiming that as a supervisory special agent he witnessed efforts by senior FBI brass to target employees who supported Donald Trump or opposed COVID-19 vaccines.

    “If an FBI employee fit a certain profile as a political conservative, they were viewed as security concerns and unworthy to work at the FBI,” the whistleblower’s lawyer, Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt, wrote Horowitz in requesting an independent investigation.

    The supervisory special agent, whose name was redacted from the letters, was in charge of security clearance reviews for all FBI employees on the East Coast and alleged that other agents involved in the process also share his concerns that FBI leadership has been improperly applying a political litmus test to the question of whether employees get their top secret clearance re-approved. 

    The agent alleged he and other agents who voiced concerns were retaliated against with transfers or suspensions, the letter states,

    FBI’s internal affair unit “have already been made aware of reprisal by the same SecD officials for the same reasons against other SecD employees,” the letter to Horowitz stated. “In light of SecD’s pattern of abuse of the security clearance process and retaliation against SecD employees who try to stop that abuse.”

    The supervisory agent’s claim back up documents first reported by Just the News last month that security clearance reviews inside the FBI were considering questions like whether an employee supported Trump, expressed concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine or had attended a Second Amendment rally.

    The new whistleblower says he was once assigned a supervisory role over the case of another FBI whistleblower, Marcus Allen, whom the agency had investigated over his political views. The security division specifically investigated Allen under Guideline A — Allegiance to the United States and raised concerns that he was hesitant to “attest to his current vaccination status.”

    Despite lower-ranking agents’ findings that Allen had not violated the guidelines, higher-ranking officials pushed for his security clearance to be revoked for questioning the January 6 prosecutions, according to the new letter.

    In June, the FBI reached a settlement with Allen—who is also represented by Empower Oversight—to restore his security clearance and pay him 27 months of back pay and benefits that the agency had withheld during his suspension.

    The whistleblower, who submitted a complaint to the Department of Justice Inspector General on June 28, alleges that the security division responsible for reviewing clearances is infected by political bias and that he had his own security clearance suspended in a retaliatory move by the agency after he raised concerns about the way it was investigating its employees.

    The Allen investigation is just one review that the new whistleblower observed during his time at the agency. His complaint to Horowitz details several other examples of probes focused on employees’ views about January 6 and vaccines, hot button political topics and matters of opinion usually protected by the First Amendment. 

    The compliant also alleges that the new whistleblower—a registered Democrat—was himself retaliated against for making protected disclosures about the behavior he observed by FBI leadership. The day after he contacted the Inspector General with complaints about one of his supervisors, he was called in to a meeting and notified that he would be suspended for sending an image of “health and wellness” activities and for “performance” issues and “attitude,” according to the complaint.  

    You can read the complaint below:

    ATTACHMENT – 2024-06-28 TL to DOJ OIG-OPR – Retaliation Complaint-Redacted.pdf

    You can read that letter to Congress below:

    2024-07-02 TL to Congress – FBI SecD WB Retaliation Complaint.pdf

    “As I have written before, the FBI is not a private club for FBI executives to make in their own image. Empower Oversight respectfully requests that you work swiftly to independently corroborate the information in the attached disclosure with other witnesses, publicly document your findings, hold Director Wray and any responsible FBI officials accountable, and pass legislation to fix the abusive security clearance process and successfully protect future whistleblowers,” Leavitt wrote.”

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      1. Absolutely! I’ve said that from the very beginning, when people say “there are good people at the FBI, it’s just the one’s at the top.”

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  41. Here ya’ go, Pat – 9 different cat vocalizations and what they mean. Next to birds, cats have the widest range of vocalizations of any domestic pet.

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  42. David Limbaugh: “Accepting the award for Rush’s induction into The Florida Broadcasters Hall of Fame this past Thursday.”

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  46. “Congressman Wesley Hunt Reveals Jaw-Dropping Trump Story: This is amazing. In a tense meeting with Taliban leaders, Trump declared, “I want to leave Afghanistan, but it’s going to be a conditions-based withdrawal,” before issuing a stark warning. “If you harm a hair on a single American, I’m going to kill you,” Trump said. The translator conveyed this exact message. Trump then “reached in his pocket, pulled out a satellite photo of the leader of the Taliban’s home, handed it to him, got up and walked out the room.”

    Video of Hunt and Byron Daniels:

    https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1808179617397719127

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      1. It’s from a Tweet by the Babylon Bee – “Kamala Harris instructed to stop answering all her phone calls ‘Did he die? with a picture of HeelsUp holding a phone.

        And you can’t see the one above that? It’s a PSA:

        “If you’re ever lost while hiking, get stranded with a broken down car, etc. and you notice your cell phone is either low on juice or has no signal, here’s a tip that very well may save your life.

        Change the VM on your phone to a message that gives your approximate location, the time, the date, your situation (lost, out of gas, car broken down, injured etc.) and any special instructions such as you are staying with the car, walking toward a town, etc.

        The best part is that even if your cell phone dies or stops working, the VM still works so anyone calling your phone looking for you will hear the message and know where to find you or where to send help.”

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  50. “Presidential Immunity: Trump v. USA Bad Day for Special Counsel Jack Smith”

    TECHNO FOG, JUL 02, 2024

    EXCERPT: “I planned to write this yesterday but life got in the way.

    After flight delays and illness, I first read the Supreme Court’s opinion in Trump v. United States – the case resolving the issue of Presidential immunity – on my phone as I sat in the hallway of the third floor of a hotel. Next to me, dreaming peacefully in her stroller, was our 10-month-old baby girl. This dark corner of the hallway was the quietest place I could find (the room was too bright). There were more comfortable spots but silence was necessary. Sometimes you’ll do anything for a nap.

    Now let’s get to it. For background, Chief Justice John Roberts, in writing for the majority, answered the following question:

    “Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”

    The Court provided three answers based on the classifications of the President’s conduct:

    1. A President has absolute immunity when he exercises his core constitutional powers: “Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the re­sponsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitu­tion.”
    2. A President has presumptive immunity from criminal prosecution for his acts within the outer perimeter of his official responsibility. This covers actions “so long as they are not manifestly or palpably beyond his authority.”
    3. A President has no immunity for his unofficial acts.

    With the basics of immunity being established, the Court then had to distinguish Trump’s official acts from his unofficial acts. The first part of that inquiry was to assess “the President’s authority to take that action.” This assessment must be made at the “outset of a proceeding.”

    The President’s duties, as Chief Justice Roberts observed, “are of unrivaled gravity and breadth,” and include serving as the Commander in Chief, conducting foreign policy and diplomacy, managing matters relating to terrorism, trade, and immigration, and faithfully executing this nation’s laws.

    While a President is without the power to act unlawfully or to exceed his constitutional authority, courts “have no power to control the President’s discretion when he acts pursuant to the powers invested exclusively in him by the Constitution.” If a President acts “within the scope of his exclusive authority, his discretion in exercising such authority cannot be subject to further judicial examination.” ………”

    https://technofog.substack.com/p/presidential-immunity-trump-v-us

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