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Quote:Over the past few weeks, we have recorded about 40% more deaths than we normally would.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Falsehoods like Biden* won the election and half a million Americans died of Covid.
https://jabberwocking.com/how-much-is-500000-extra-deaths/
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Virginia used to execute more people than any state other than Texas. Until 2002, the state capped lawyers’ fees at $650 per murder case and $13 an hour, all but ensuring that many capital defendants would receive incompetent representation.
But Virginia hasn’t executed anyone since 2017, and it will soon abolish the death penalty altogether. The state legislature gave its final approval to legislation ending capital punishment in Virginia on Monday. Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, intends to sign the bill.
Virginia’s decision to halt executions is possible because of demographic changes that have transformed the one-time Republican stronghold into an increasingly reliable blue state. Northern Virginia has long provided homes to much of Washington, DC’s cosmopolitan workforce, but this region has grown both more diverse and more Democratic in recent years, especially in DC’s formerly conservative exurbs.
Meanwhile, Richmond, Virginia’s young professionals bring liberal views that have transformed the politics of the former capital of the Confederacy.
Virginia’s previous aggressive use of the death penalty existed largely because capital defendants frequently received inadequate representation at their trials. As the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in 2001, “People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.”
More at www.vox.com/22297141/death-penalty-virginia-abolish-ralph-northam-exec
utions
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Over the past few weeks, we have recorded about 40% more deaths than we normally would.
No we didn't.
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A government is a body of people usually, notably, governed by Mark Zuckerborg and Slack Dorsey.
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Quote:The Republican Party has lost control of itself
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Over the past few weeks, we have recorded about 40% more deaths than we normally would.
No we didn't.
I try never to miss Fareed Zakaria Sunday mornings on CNN. His latest take (6 minutes) discusses why Germany went fascist in the 1930s when England didn’t — and the lessons for us here, now.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/02/21/exp-gps-0221-fareeds-take.cnn
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Republicans’ New Strategy Is to Pretend Trump Never Happened
(At Least Until He Makes His Huge Comeback To Power, Which He Plans On Doing)
At Merrick Garland’s confirmation hearing, GOP senators remembered to be very upset about the Obama years.
It’s hard to know whether Republicans Hawley, Cruz, and Lee have somehow just forgotten the Trump years themselves, or if they really believe that the rest of us possess the short-term memories of a goldfish. Either way, it’s something of a relief to set our clocks back to the old-timey days of free-floating GOP whining about Obama and Eric Holder and gun control and all the ways Republicans have been made to suffer at the hands of bloodthirsty Democrats over the past few years. The free floating whining is probably the most tangible symbol of the return to business as usual.
Among the many reasons Garland is the perfect nominee for this moment? His refusal to be offended or drawn into stupid colloquies over political talking points so aged they smell like old cheese. He kept reminding the committee that he has been around a long time, and has seen a lot of things, and he isn’t going to fuss himself with their self-pity. His opening statement, in which he quoted Attorney General and later Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, was a subtle, preemptive caution that he simply has no time for petty politics. Quoting Jackson’s famous warning, Garland said, “The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America. While prosecutors at their best are one of the most beneficent forces in our society, when they act from malice or other base motives, they are one of the worst.” He closed with Jackson’s admonition that “the citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches the task with humility.”
It was an elegant formulation, and one that, with all the talk of Hunter Biden and James Comey and political prosecutions of innocent Republicans, felt both relevant and deeply out of step with our current moment. Perhaps more than anything, it was an indication that Garland, and the Justice Department, and the country are moving forward, and onward. In response, Senate Republicans appear to be retreating to the bland comforts on offer back in 2016, hand wringing over the Fast and the Furious (really Ted Cruz?) and the good old days in which Donald J. Trump was still just a TV clown.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210223104632/https://slate.com/news-and-
politics/2021/02/republicans-pretend-trump-never-happened.html
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Originally posted by second:
Republicans’ New Strategy Is to Pretend Trump Never Happened
(At Least Until He Makes His Huge Comeback To Power, Which He Plans On Doing)
Trump and his legal problems will keep him front and center and follow many of the republican party wherever they go.
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Quote:I am not confident that Trump's legal problems will stop him from being renominated for President by the GOP.
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Republicans’ New Strategy Is to Pretend Trump Never Happened
(At Least Until He Makes His Huge Comeback To Power, Which He Plans On Doing)
Trump and his legal problems will keep him front and center and follow many of the republican party wherever they go.
Remember Trump's income tax evasions before 2016? Remember Trump University? It takes forever and a day for the American legal system to make a final decision about rich defendants. I don't think the courts can stop Trump in the next 4 years from running again. Maybe if courts are given 10 or 15 years Trump could be stopped by legal maneuvers, but the GOP primary season starts in about two years. The only people that could stop Trump quick enough to keep him off the primary ballots are the leaders of the GOP.
Trump is fortunate that the GOP leaders are guys like Mitch McConnell who don't have the guts to stop Trump. Mitch voted not guilty during the impeachment. Voting guilty was the easiest, quickest, most certain way to stop Trump from running again, but Mitch would NOT do it, which proves to me that Mitch won't stop Trump in other ways from getting on the primary ballots.
McConnell on Impeachment: “Disgraceful Dereliction” Cannot Lead Senate to “Defy Our Own Constitutional Guardrails”
https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=2ED
4EA6B-4BEE-462C-BF1E-7972207B5F53
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Trump will be fine.
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Quote:Trump will be fine only because Mitch McConnell decided that Trump was guilty but Mitch refused to convict. Mitch's speech makes that clear:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Trump will be fine.
“In recent weeks, our ex-President’s associates have tried to use the 74 million Americans who voted to re-elect him as a kind of human shield against criticism.
“Anyone who decries his awful behavior is accused of insulting millions of voters.
“That is an absurd deflection.
“74 million Americans did not invade the Capitol. Several hundred rioters did.
“And 74 million Americans did not engineer the campaign of disinformation and rage that provoked it.
“One person did. (Hint: TRUMP is that one person)
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“I have made my view of this episode very plain.
“But our system of government gave the Senate a specific task. The Constitution gives us a particular role.
“This body is not invited to act as the nation’s overarching moral tribunal.
“We are not free to work backward from whether the accused party might personally deserve some kind of punishment.
“Justice Joseph Story was our nation’s first great constitutional scholar. As he explained nearly 200 years ago, the process of impeachment and conviction is a narrow tool for a narrow purpose.
“Story explained this limited tool exists to “secure the state against gross official misdemeanors.” That is, to protect the country from government officers.
“If President Trump were still in office, I would have carefully considered whether the House managers proved their specific charge.
“By the strict criminal standard, the President’s speech probably was not incitement.
“However, in the context of impeachment, the Senate might have decided this was acceptable shorthand for the reckless actions that preceded the riot.
“But in this case, that question is moot. Because former President Trump is constitutionally not eligible for conviction. {Experts on the Constitution said Mitch was talking nonsense:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/constitutionality-trying-former-president-
impeached-while-office
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/01/22/legal-scholars-letter-supporting-
constitutionality-of-impeaching-and-convicting-presidents-after-they-leave-office/ }
https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=2ED
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Liz Cheney: "We're Not White Supremacy Party" as Stephen Miller Briefs GOP Congress on Immigration!
If they're not the party of white supremacy, why is it that white supremacists always, only, vote Republican?
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