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The Cabal of the Republican-Oriented Racists in Arizona for Its Two Big Lies…And While We Wait for the Third Big Lie to Arrive…

El Trumpudo [our smarmy association of the former president for his lack of brain power despite his ever-present loud voice] has jabbered away at his “woke” for the continued tout that his re-election was stolen from him by the new president, and now President Biden. Thus, Arizona was his downfall by losing by the scheming-tonic that was for the Unassailable Fact that 10,457 votes cost him this re-election. Consequently, his first Big Lie created a life of its own on the political right.

And the Second Lie was that the future wall-mounted “trophy” for Republicans, writ large, would be the America’s Indigenous Flag held in the hot hands of a Chicano Military Vet. Yet, this second Big Lie never came to fruition, despite their extended political efforts, and to be the notion that “dead military vets” voted, and in large measure. Consequently, the exemplar for the agreed upon behavior that Arizona’s “audit” would be conducted by a reputable organization with a history for such audits, was to be the contemplated ‘norm’. But it was not to be, given that the Republican-oriented leader (and her cabal) at the state legislature and this affected cabal had a change of mind and opted instead for a less reputable and amateur-oriented stroke of politics residing within and among the Cyber Ninjas.

And with our unbated breath in-check due to our self-restraint, the arriving Third Lie from Arizona’s Republicans, will soon surface due to the pending demographics of our state’s confluence among our nation’s Progressives.

Jaango1--pposted on November 29, 2021

Odds and Ends...

1. The conclusions have now been achieved and where the Ninja "audit" of Arizona's "fraudulent election" has been all about raising large amounts of political-oriented monies with no expectation that the "legitimacy" was the predominant question to be answered.

2. As a far right Icon and known as Ted Nugent, is continuing to keep his fame from deteriorating, and thusly, has offered Kyle Rittenhouse a lifetime supply of ammo.

3. New York's news media is now reporting that the National Republican Party is delivering the financial support to El Trumpudo and done in order to assist in the legal costs that he is undergoing due to the simultaneous investigations being foisted on him by the New York legal authorities.

4. In a memo dated November 16, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said soldiers who refuse the vaccine would be "flagged," preventing them from "reenlistment, reassignment, promotion, appearance before a semi-centralized promotion board, issuance of awards and decorations"

5. Senator Manchin calls on President Biden to restore the Keystone XL Pipeline, now that a gas crunch is driving up vehicle costs at the pump.

6. NASA's Dart Missile has been launched on a journey to change the orbit of an asteroid in deep space. The mission is designed to test technology that could one day be used to change the course of a dangerous asteroid if one is ever found on a collision course with Earth.

7. The best part on the "after" Thanksgiving Day are the "leftovers" and now it's time to chow down.

Jaango1, posted on November 26, 2021

Where Is Biden's Indigenous Free Trade Agreement For This Hemisphere...

For these past many years, we have delivered our Argumentation for establishing our version of the Indigenous Free Trade Agreement for this hemisphere, and this advocacy has not been successful, even though our presidents, as well as Congress, have been locked into their minimalism that is the USA, Canada and Mexico, as their continuing behavior. Consequently, our traditional politics regarding our neighbors is neither long reaching nor future-oriented.

However, over at the internet web site that is the Washington Monthly Magazine, James North, has published his article and titled, "Honduran President Is Preparing To Rig The Country's Election...What Will the US Do About It" and dated November 11, 2021.

After having lived and worked in the Latin America Region, and with much of my accrued experience, both busines and politics, I find that North's assessment is highly accurate and which effectively demonstrates that Hondurans are rightfully correct for decamping their nation for the United States, given highly inherently organized crappola, and as such, from the drug industry and to including the of both the Far Right and the Far Left.

Earlier today, I contacted the Washington Monthly Magazine in order to ask permission to reprint their entire article in a free frontal form, here at our CVO.

In the meantime, visit the Magazine at your convenience at

https://washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/

Jaango1, posted on November 22, 2021

Odds and Ends...

1. Threats targeting Parents. This week House Republicans released information about a new FBI tracking program reportedly designed to help the DOJ field these threats. The GOP campaign was, seemingly, part of a broader attempt to push a bad faith narrative: that the Biden administration is seeking to intimidate and silence parents and community members who disagree with local school policies.

2. Texas Politics...To wit, Democrat Ryan Guillen announced he's switching to the Republican Party! And his overall statement for his continuing support: "Democrat leaders are so focused on appeasing their fringe-left base that even elected officials in their own party cannot support their radical agenda anymore."

3. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) slammed the right-wing “Moms for Liberty” nonprofit yesterday for offering a $500 cash reward to anyone who snitches on a public school teacher they believe broke the state’s new law that allows teaching licenses to be revoked if the instructor teaches what conservatives call “critical race theory.”

4. Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and now a national 'talking head' is addressing his issue for being overweight. And a a former candidate for the GOP's presidential primary challenging El Trumpudo, in years past, is complating another presidential run within the next three years. However, next week, he will begin having his latest book in book stores and titled "Republican Rescue: Saving the Party from Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists and the Dangerous Politcies of Joe Biden."

5. President Biden's staff that he will take a constructive step to our oust Post Master Louis DeJog from the U.S. Postal Service. And it's about time!

6. President Biden's Interior Department announced that it will ban on new oil and gas drilling at or near Chaco Canyon located in northwest New Mexico. Further Deb Haaland declared "Our nation’s lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors ... not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression."

7. The Cook Political Report is touting that three Senators, and as such, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Ralphael Warnock of Georgia, and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, should be expected to achieve their political defeat. However, the good news would culminate in the unassailable fact that the Cook Political Report should face its demise should their prognostics prove inaccurate.

8. A 'secret' cabal of rightwingers under the umbrella of ALEC are continuing to develop further their voter suppression efforts

9. The attorneys for Rittenhouse are now touting that Fox News and Tucker Carlson bankrolled the legal efforts for defending Rittenhouse.

10. It was nice to see that President Biden "pardoned" both Peanut Butter and Jelly.

Jaango1 and posted on November20, 2021

Selling the Biden Agenda...And On A Weekly Basis

Dr. Josh Marshall's editorial approach, over at his internet web site of Talking Points Memo, offers the following and with no upside for addressing Biden's Agenda, other than a mere suggestion that the following should take place:

"Messaging is generally the most overrated aspect of electoral politics. But it’s not nothing. And Democrats need to do better at it. I just wrote a way too long post on this. But it really comes down to this. President Biden has to learn a lesson from President Trump and brag more about the economy. A lot more. And do it consistently. In every public setting. And about COVID too.

AND

Job reports have been up and down this year. But they’ve actually been consistently revised upward after the fact. That’s happened every month for the last six months. In August the number doubled. But this gets drowned out. Revisions of earlier months don’t make headlines. That’s life. But the power of the presidency is to push these things to the front of the conversation."

However, we, the Chicanos, here in our wonderful Sonoran Desert, recognize that the "sales and marketing" in the arena of of both public discourse and public policy must come together and thereby 'informing' the progressive view that a more vociferous voice is much needed.

For many years now, we have been demanding that the Democrats need to establish the President's Saturday Morning Bloggers Conference and where an approximate100 principal-bloggers in attendance, can question Biden's "presenters" that being the formalized Cabinet Secretaries, and further ask the pertinent questions that Cabinet Secretaries are, and at times, unwilling address some inconvenient subjects. And if so, we become better informed citizens.

And in doing so, the Sunday Morning Talk Shows, will become better educated and subsequently, the public policies become more relevant, despite the best efforts of the "taking heads" providing their outdated opinions and therefrom, their assessments, as well. And needless to say, but I will, we, the Chicanos, have for these many past years, including the Obama years, advocated for this seminal 'selling' moment and yet,the Biden experts are either unwilling or are brutally unfamiliar with our latest version that is the continuation of today's Chicano Movement.

Jaango1--posted on Novembeer 17.2021

A Reposting For Better Clarity...

It's not often that I receive a 'corrective' message from one our audience members on a posting but I have, and therefore, this 'corrective' is an accurate assessment and now, I am addressing such since its importance is indeed, a necessary corrective.

And in this regard, I am speaking of the below posting and titled, "The Long Game: Being Revisited" and as such, consider the following:

In the early years of the1900s, historians recognized that there were over 150 Indigenous languages spoken or being utilized on a daily basis then, and now, to date, there are 28 differing and distict Indigenous communities and of which are consistent with the 25 Indigenous languages being utilized on a daily basis, brings forth another differing or contrasting view supportive of the legal theory that enumerates Critical Race Theory as located in the law schools throughout our nation. And as such, 'reparative justice' is a consequential element that is part and parcel to the Argumentation for Reparations and relative to slavery.

In today's context and content, the Far Right in our era of toxic politics, the parents and the interaction of elective officials within the local school boards, the attention being given to both 'masking' and anti-vaccination relative to COVID-19, amply demonstrates that "more" is needed with regard to public policies, and consequently, our public educational systemics, are in need of an ongoing version of Common Sense.

Therefore, in the next 20 years or so, our nation will be addressing our public policies with far more attention to what we all need to expand both our integration and self-empowerment efforts, as well our educational systems that include our K-12 and colleges and universities. --

Jaango1--posted on November 15,2021

"The Long Game: Being Revisited"

When it comes to the "aniti-blackness" among the receptive Far Left Movement, here in our wonderful Sonoran Desert, we, the Chicanos easily dismiss this political agitation and in which, "antiblackness" has been around for ages, and thusly, and this dismissed advocacy is easily recognized as being less than viable.

And subsequently, the Critical Race Theory movement came to fruition given that parents, at the local school boards, addressed what was being taught in the local school classrooms.

Needless to say, but I will, the affected parents defending themselves againt this Critical Race Theory and all that it engenders, encountered that "nothing" within the political systemic's of educational applications, have been deemed "pure garbage" despite the ongoing Right's best efforts to incite parents. And yet, the legal theory consumed among law shool students are rooted in the agitation that is quite consuming in today's political context.

And yet, the more informational data via the Census Bureau has determined, for these past years, "racial and ethnics" will arrive at their political "moment" when these racial and ethnics do achieve their equivalence for representing 50% of our national population. When this does occur, the idea of bilingual education programs installed in favor of our white population and the parents for their childen and when attempting to view "integration and assimilation," achieves its daily successes.

In closing, the parents of white kids and the grandparents' raising of these white kids, absent their parents, will eventually arrive to the conclusion that we, the Chicanos recognize, as the new 'privilege' of "bilingual education" residing in our public educational sysems, will continue to generate not only 'ntegration' but to include the educational 'wilds' of Self-Empowerment.

Jaango1--posted on November 12, 2021

Odds and Ends...

1. The political folks on the Right, have been measured from a low of 29% in February of this year and in the latest polling, the rise is now measured at 31% for firmly believing that El Trumpudo's Big Lie has factual relevance. Long story short, the Right considers that "violence" may be necessary to save the US.

2. Florida University's Management Team announced last week that their legal staff or Professors would not be permitted to testify in court. However, this Management Team has had a change of heart, in that the Professors are now being permitted to testify, as long as they are not being financially compensated in a voting rights lawsuit (voter suppression) that is challenging the State of Florida.

3. Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (R), who commissioned Cyber Ninjas’ joke of an election audit that ended up finding absolutely nothing but apparently more votes for Biden than originally counted, announced yesterday that she won’t be seeking reelection in 2022.

4. Nineteen states have passed legislation that would provide the opportunity for their respective citizens to participate in voter suppression, and all that follows, seems somewhat ironic, especially when this sort of voter suppression targets the non-white population.

5. Arizona's Supreme Court has ruled, as unconstitutional, the GOP's overall efforts to prohibit a universal mask mandate requirement.

6. "Democrats are doomed" will soon become the political meme that will personify the journalists advocating for the GOP's agenda. Of course, these self-same journalists are touting that the Democrats should "build themselves an ark!"

7. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is introducing legislation barring foreign nationals from financing U.S. referendum campaigns, after Axios revealed federal regulators recently okayed the practice. Gillibrand's bill would close what good government advocates call a glaring loophole in federal election laws allowing foreign nationals to bankroll efforts to reshape state and local laws.

8. Progressive Michelle Wu defeated Annissa Essaibi-George to win Boston's race for mayor on Tuesday, becoming the first woman and Asian American elected to the office in Boston's nearly 200-year history. The majority of Boston's residents today are people of color and they are flexing their political muscles as they are in other parts of the country.

Jaango1 and posted on November 5, 2021

Chicano Voters And Arizona's Senator Sinema..

For the past six months, I have been a zealot for both "the written word" and even when it comes to the "digital wampum" that is focused on Sinema, writ large. Thus, her "street cred" is far less than stellar,given that the historical voting behavior among Chicanos, are, for the most part, politically-oriented Progressive voters.

Of course, our political future here in this wonderful Sonoran Desert, is our self-limiting usage for our Yardstick Of Ambition, As such, two elements will be driving our voting behavior over the next couple years, and as parcel and part to our eventual decision-making that will be premised on the following:

1. At the end of next year, Arizona's Governor will be term limited and therefore, we will be awaiting his decision on whether he will challenge Sinema in 2024, since he has a sizable fundraising capacity to effectively compete.

2; Governor Ducey was elected in 2015, and has been a Trump ally for these past seven years, and consequently, he too is highly ambitious. However, the Governor has spoken somewhat 'quietly' among his political buds, and in which he has expressed his desire to "toss his hat into the ring" that is the GOP's presidential election category that arrives in 2024. Moreover, Governor Ducey's decision will better determine the pending results on Biden's legislative agenda currently before the House and Senate chambers. Therefore, this possible failed agenda, being well received and disliked, will animate Ducey's ambition to tackle El Trumpudo's continued insistence on fascist behavior.

In closing, measuring Sinema's political behavior is the rationale for her current behavior for moving to the 'center' and for discounting the progressive-oriented elected officials currently serving the in the House chamber,. To wit, Sinema can sell herself to Arizona's conservatives and independents from her poition of self-assuredness, nonetheless.

Jaango1--posted on November 3, 2021

Odds and Ends

1. It's now become obvious that the reduction in medical prescription costs is not at the top of lists for legislative introduction, given that the "centrist" Democrats are ignoring the demands among the progressive caucus in the House. Apparently, Arizona's Krysten Sinema in the Senate Chamber, has far more support, given her level for the Pharma Industry and the associated financial support she reportedly being received into her campaign coffers.

2. Back in the 1990s, President Clinton appointed Kevin Kiser to address the decline of the Veterans Health Care System, and as such, he created the technical scientists and known infamously as the "hard hats." And in doing so, he lead to political charge to change the System to incorporate the "data collection" that is today's realization where the private sector's desire to implement the late Senator McCain's 'dream' wholeheartedly fizzled out. Today the agency is saddled with a totally dysfunctional Trump-era IT overhaul, an out-of-control outsourcing office, and an anti-union accountability office set up under the previous administration. And now, comes to hard work to revisit this Trump fiasco.

3. Former President Trump attends a World Series game in Atlanta and demonstrates his racism with his Tomahawk Chop.

4. When Republican Rep. Bill Posey of Florida ended an Oct. 21 House floor speech with a fist pump and the phrase “Let’s go, Brandon!” it may have seemed cryptic and weird to many who were listening. But the phrase was already growing in right-wing circles, and now the seemingly upbeat sentiment ― actually a stand-in for swearing at Joe Biden ― is everywhere.

5. It now seems that cable television stations are the 'driving force' for extremist behavior or the standard for toxic status for christian obnoxiousness.

6. How the critical race theory hysteria may be a death blow for affirmative action, is an extremist view of Hate. Not so, of course. And the long story short, the advocacy for the Academic-Military Draft is more acceptable solution that addresses Health, Happiness and Decency Personified. Of course, this Academic-Military Draft will replace the "privilege' with a long term view for the "reparations" of a fixed behavior.

Jaango1 and posted on October 31.

"Working the Refs" With "Leaks"

When it comes to the usefulness of metaphors, today's higjly partisan poitics and where the GOP's leadership in congress, have no conservative-oriented "issues" that are being advocated, we, the Democrats will have to depend on the next election cycle of 2022 to move the remaining elements of the Biden Agenda and which is expected to succeed in the next sixty or so days, requires that we address a Chicano-oriented "agenda" that is progressive in scope.

And in doing so, the White House will be required to "leak" a variety of new ideas that are progressive - in -orientation, and if not, we, the voters residing here in our wonderful Sonoran Desert, will have much more work to accomplish since the cohort of Chicanos are largest component of today's Democratic Party, and currently measured at 46%. Thus, our future is dependent on Health, Happiness and Decency Personified.

Today's Senate legislation has yet to be released to the general public and which requires the Senate Majority Leader the Democrats to move forward and with the voting process that will determine our future over the next ten years proving that the financial funding is both provident and prudent, and starting with Health Care.

And as to the "leaks" from the Biden administration, and where our Decency Personified will become the yardstick for our future for voting, given that our many year's long advocacy for congressional implementation of the Academic-Military Draft, and if so, we will quickly achieve our future.

And from Michael Cohen of MSNBC, he writes of what has been readily available sense President Biden arrived into the White House, any access to such political "leaks" have a minimalist value. To wit, he writes:

"As Congress gets closer to an agreement on a multitrillion-dollar budget package, there is one actor notably missing from the negotiations: the Republican Party. It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans boasted about being the party of ideas. While Democrats are fighting over the details of policy proposals that could create the nation’s first paid family and medical leave program, make pre-K universal, lower the cost of child care, expand Medicare and prepare the nation for the effects of climate change, the GOP is contentedly sitting on the sidelines, throwing spitballs and complaining that the whole thing is going to cost too much money."

Meanwhile, over at the Federal Reserve, their latest report relative to Latinos speaks volume. As such, " Fear of never being able to pay off school loans is keeping many young Latinos in the U.S. from going to college or completing a degree, according to a report published in September. And more so, "Latinos have more difficulty repaying school debt than white student borrowers, according to Federal Reserve data, at the same time that they need more loans in order to afford tuition."

In closing, today's politics and its financialization, puts the Chicano student in the uncomfortable position for to contend with a perpetual future absent achieving a qualitative

education.

jAANGO01 AND POST ON oCTOBER 28TH

Odds and Ends

1. The House chamber holds Steve Bannon in Criminal Contempt over January 6th subpoena refusal.

2. Turkey's president has announced that ten foreign ambassadors are to be declared "persona non grata" for their respective nation's support for a jailed activist.

3. Lyft releases it report on sexual assaults data and where 4,158 incidents and which included 360 rape reports during their latest three-year period.

4. Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor called the high court’s refusal to once again block Texas’s six-week abortion law “catastrophic.”

The court agreed to review Senate Bill 8 on an expedited basis in response to legal challenges from the Justice Department and abortion providers on Nov. 1. However, the court did not halt enforcement of the lSupreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor called the high court’s refusal to once again block Texas’s six-week abortion law “catastrophic.” The court agreed to review Senate Bill 8 on an expedited basis in response to legal challenges from the Justice Department and abortion providers on Nov.

1. However, the court did not halt enforcement of the law. In a seven-page opinion, Sotomayor said she “cannot capture the totality of this harm in these pages.”

5. It's easy to forget that despite all the political attention accruing to Arizona's Senator Sinema, measuring her ambition, now rests with today's Governor Ducey. Take, for example, the Governor has quietly spoken about becoming the GOP's presidential candidate in 2024. Additionally, he's the GOP's top candidate for the position of becoming the topper list candidate that could conceivably challenge Senator Sinema in 2024, as well.

Jaango1 and posted on October 23.

"Restart" in Mexico

The latest effort by Suzanne Monyak, writing for the news outlet of Roll Call. Com is a very lucid and provides an accurate description of President Biden's scheduled Novermber undertaking. And in her published writing and titled, "DHS To Restart 'Remain in Mexico' For Asylum -Seekers Next Month'" and dated October 15, 2021. And she clearly speaks of her knowledge base with the following:

The Homeland Security Department could restart as early as next month a controversial Trump administration border program requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for their court dates, according to a court filing late Thursday night.

In a document filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the federal government said it "anticipates being in a position to re-implement” the so-called Remain in Mexico program, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, “by mid-November.”

Under MPP, which began under the Trump administration and was formally terminated in June, asylum-seekers who cross the U.S.-Mexico border and request protection are required to wait in Mexico for decisions in their U.S. immigration court cases. The wait could be months, and the pandemic even stretched some to more than a year.

Following a lawsuit by Texas and Missouri, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk ordered the Biden administration to make a good faith effort to reinstate the program, finding that the administration hadn’t sufficiently explained its reasons for ending it. Last month, the states filed a motion accusing the administration of delaying the reinstatement of the program in violation of that court order.

Jaango1--dated 10/19/21

od faith effort to reinstate the program, finding that the administration hadn’t sufficiently explained its reasons for ending it. Last month, the states filed a motion accusing the administration of delaying the reinstatement of the program in violation of that court order.

Jaango1

The House Veterans Affairs Committee have completed the first of three hearings on military vets being enticed into joining insurrection-led organizations and likened to the January 6th example.

And the second and thirds hearings will be focused on the recruitment of veterans and the third hearing is expected to be address strategies that steer veterans away from these insurrectionist-type groups such as the Proud boys, Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters.

And furtzher today, the FBI and DOJ are 'processing' an approximately 650 insurrectionists and of which 71 have a history for being military veterans-oriented.

Odds and Ends

Despite the fact that Congress is not in session, the politics of today, keeps searching for a news outlet. And here are a few 'ideas' that have an internet or perceived news platform.

1. Newt Gingrich is a deadbeat with a $4.3 million debt, and still doesn't much care for self-imposed responsibility.

2. One of today's evangelical branches the AntiVaxxers are positing that the "vacination is the sign of the Beast."

3. With Congress taking testimony of the challenge that a fomer employee of Facebook has stipulated that "money" is the driving motivation for its corporate behavior, this political tempest will become known as the "algorithm battle" in the next several months.

4. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday that changes in the format of oral arguments were made in part after research showed that female justices were interrupted more by male justices and advocates. According to CNN.

5. America’s banks firmly believe that everyone should pay their taxes, but a proposal in Congress would force banks to provide details to the IRS on what’s going in and out of almost every bank account in the country.

And next week's public protests will remain unabated.

Jaango1and posted on 10/15

Arizona's Senator Krysten Sinema Is Confronting Her Dilemma,

Between today and December, Senator Senator's political career is now in jeopardy and premised on her fateful decision for voting on Biden's Agenda, and in the semblance of a wholehearted accomplishment.

Further, Senator Sinema is facing a political decision of not of her making, and thusly, Arizona's Governor is now contemplating a decision-making process to challenge Sinema in 2023 or by reaching higher for his political apex, that being a challenge to President Biden's next reelection cycle.

Therefore, we, the Chicanos here in our wonderful Sonoran Desert, will bring forth a decision-making moment too and where our votes will determine the ousting of Senator Sinema and subsequently, having to address another Republican Governor starting in 2025.

By way of background for these 20 past years, I have been the political writer for the Chicano Veterans Organization and in which we have a membership roster of 40,000 vets. Consequently, can our membership 'shift' Sinema's future into a status of a non-Senator as well a new Governor, that is not Democratic Party affiliated?

Furthermore, her "agenda" is first and foremost, has been her affection for following the SCOTUS derived Citizens United complement and complimentary to today's toxic politics.

However, we, here in the Sonoran Desert, utilize a differing yardstick and which contains the following Three Elements.

1. The Native American Stereotype is "...He's just another white person."

2. The Chicano Stereotype is "...El Gringo quere componer todo con su 'I'm sorry."

3. The White Stereotype is "...I don't care...I'll be dead...So, what's your point?"

And in closing, much has been written and discussed among our nation's intelligencia, and today, we, the Chicanos, are awaiting the vote counting in both chambers of Congress and where the Biden Agenda achieves either its success or its failure.

Jaango1

Posted on 10/11

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