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Why the 2024 US presidential election will likely be a choice between Biden and Trump again
https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/07/23/why-the-2024-us-presidential-electi
on-will-likely-be-a-choice-between-biden-and-trump-again/
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott craved a showdown with President Joe Biden over illegal immigration. He wanted a test case that would give the Supreme Court a chance to expand states’ authority over unauthorized immigrants. He wanted to shift jurisdiction over the southern border from the federal government to the state of Texas.
What he got, instead, was a dispute over the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899.
Abbott’s scheme to seize control over immigration enforcement crashed against that law on Monday, when Biden’s Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Texas. At Abbott’s direction, state officials constructed a 1,000-foot barrier in the Rio Grande designed to block migrants from crossing the river. The governor justified the project in a letter to Biden by asserting Texas’ alleged prerogative to defend itself against “invasion,” teeing up a constitutional confrontation. But he and his lawyers appear to have overlooked a more mundane problem with this plan: Federal law prohibits any state from obstructing a navigable waterway like the Rio Grande without a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. Abbott’s brawl over the border is fizzling into a dispute for permitting—one that the governor will lose.
So far, Operation Lone Star (only a single 1,000-foot barrier) has had no evident impact on unlawful border crossings, and many Texas Guardsmen—who receive none of the benefits awarded to federal agents—have nothing to do; suicide and criminal conduct are rising in their ranks.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/biden-versus-texas-greg-ab
bott-fail.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Americans mostly hate Republican cultural beliefs
Jonathan Chait has a long piece in New York about the right's latest "master theory" of political war: namely that ever since the '60s the left has engaged in a cultural "long march" that has steadily taken over practically every influential American institution—entertainment, universities, big business, etc.—and the only hope for conservatives is to wage a scorched-earth counter-revolution from within the government. Why government? Because it's the only institution they still have a chance of controlling. They just have to win elections to do it. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/long-march-through-institution
s-conservatives-rufo-milikh-claremont-desantis-trump.html
Now, some of this has an obvious element of truth, but other parts are faintly ridiculous. Big corporations might spout crowd-pleasing slogans now and then, but they're still a Republican stronghold. Just check out the Chamber of Commerce or the Business Roundtable if you're unsure of this. The military remains steadfastly conservative regardless of their pragmatic stance toward gay and trans recruits. The Supreme Court is dominated by conservatives. Churches that involve themselves in the culture wars are strongly conservative.
So the liberal domination of institutions is a little less complete than the "long march" theorists would have you believe. But the real weakness of their argument is simpler: public opinion is what really matters. Institutions are always downstream of public opinion, changing only after the public demands it. And the plain fact is that conservative social attitudes are overwhelmingly unpopular. Just to run through some of the most obvious examples:
• Opposition to abortion remains limited. Solid majorities say abortion should be legal in all or most circumstances and that women should be allowed to have abortions "for any reason." Bans on abortion have never been popular and are even less so now. They poll in the mid-teens following the Dobbs decision.
• Only about a third of the country still wants to ban gay marriage.
• Immigration remains polarized, but there's little support for abolishing policies like DACA. Even a majority of Republicans oppose getting rid of it.
• Less than a third of Americans want to keep marijuana illegal.
• Virtually no one opposes sex education in schools and less than a third support the conservative insistence that sex ed classes should exclusively teach the benefits of abstaining from sexual activity.
• At the time they were taking place, only a third of Americans opposed the George Floyd protests. To this day, only a minority think the police treat white and Black people equally.
• Transgender issues are still new and fraught, but a core belief in protecting trans people from discrimination in jobs, housing, and general public acceptance generates only tiny opposition.
• Only a third of the country believes that churches should be involved in politics. Less than a quarter think churches should endorse candidates. Only small minorities think the government should favor Christianity. And only about a quarter think the religious freedom of Christians is threatened.
• Only about 15% of Americans think gun laws should be loosened. About a third oppose background checks, high-capacity magazines, and bans on assault weapons. That said, this is one of the very few issues where conservative views, broadly speaking, retain fairly high support.
• Taken as a whole, we can say that public opinion remains split on guns and immigration, but in virtually every other area conservative social attitudes are strongly unpopular. Even on the semi-cultural question of raising taxes on the rich, only a quarter of Americans share conservative opposition to the idea.
There are obviously still polarized opinions on the newer and more extreme borders of cultural issues—things like wokeness, puberty blockers for minors, and trans women in sports. There always is until
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Meanwhile, the DNC strategy re the Biden* crime family is to not ask questions during the Congressional hearing, hope that the DOJ limits its prosecution of Hunter to a plea deal for misdemeanor offenses, and bury the whole sad, tawdry tale.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Oh BTW SECOND, you can stop flogging that trope about how the GOP is the party of "big business".
Yeah, right.
GOP has the support of business, EXCEPT... BIG TECH, BIG BANKS, BIG REAL ESTATE, BIG MEDIA, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE, BIG HEALTH ETC... You can include Soros in that list. I'm sure if I dug a little more I'd find plenty of extremely deep pockets behind the DNC!
Bill was EXTREMELY friendly to banks (doing away with Glass Steagall), tech (the whole digital copyright law thing) and speculation (commodities exchange "modernization") and transnationalism.
Didn't you notice Shillary's list of donors last time? A crap-ton of "international finance law firms", like Mossack Fonseca... yanno, the kind that create shell companies and foundations that allow transnational firms and financiers to hide money laundering and escape taxation. And how about Biden's transnational grift, and the big wet kisses he gives to the military industrial complex,?
Seriously, dood, stop pretending that the Dems have our interests at heart.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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wacky links...it could just be web gossip
if any is true it seems Babylon is truly falling
Corruption, Open Border, Coke at the White House
this Marco Polo Report?
Some claim almost any page in that document has enough to put that whole family in jail?
Lots of weird names, Drugs and degeneracy, Front companies and running with bags of money, call girls....
https://marcopolousa.org/bidenlaptopreport/report_viewer/index.html#p=
1
Hundreds of pages and names keep popping up
Majority Of Americans Believe Media Buried Hunter Laptop Story To Help Joe Biden
Bianca's Smut Shack, was an online community created on February 14, 1994, by a group of dot-com software developers. Originally based in Chicago, the group later moved to San Francisco and included David Thau and Chris Form Miller. bianca was one of the web's first 500 content creations and was the world's first web-based chat room. It later also became a popular theme camp at Burning Man.
TDS never trumpers that voted for this.
Obama's oldest daughter in a hotel room with drugs? some claim that is false but they just look similar
complaints about a cousin Kaitlin Sansone and the name "Whitey" Bulger link, Ross Kulinkovich reaction, Voshawn Sample wanted for armed robbery, first-degree assault, and other crimes and related charges
Narcotics use, Crack Dealers
He would get high and a Russian call girl or Ukraine call girl would vanish with a phone
DMT Ayahuasca
Driving his Porsche 911 at 172 mph?
He admits he lost Laptops
Dewayne Miller darkness and addictions, a female wanted to have some two girl fun with Hunter
Hundreds of drug related crimes
Moving money again, Hunter Biden planning big "art show" in NYC
vid
DEEP DIVE with Marco Polo USA Founder
600 + pages
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Quote:The Democrats look after my interests and the Republicans definitely don't. But what about your interests, Signym? The Democrats will not look after yours because you are crazy. Nobody cares, not even the GOP, what crazy people want. You want Ukraine to surrender because you are crazy. You want to control climate change by planting a trillion trees because you are crazy. You want America to do this or that stupidity because all your wants and needs are crazy. This is something I expect about you because all the Trumptards I know in real world were crazy people long before Trump got into politics. Their entire life stories before Trump proved they are ineffectual, maladjusted crazy people with endless personal problems. (Suddenly I see what they find so attractive about Trump. He is like them.) It's extra special fine with me when the Democratic Party isn't catering to such people as Signym and 6ix.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seriously, dood, stop pretending that the Dems have our interests at heart.
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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
ineffectual, maladjusted crazy people with endless personal problems
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Quote:And if you're as rich as you insinuate that you are, and a Big Businessman like, you say, that proves my point, doesn't it.?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Seriously, dood, stop pretending that the Dems have our interests at heart.
SECOND: The Democrats look after my interests
Quote:They won't look after my interests bc I'm a hard-working American patriot and most of them... not!
SECOND: But what about your interests, Signym? The Democrats will not look after yours because you are crazy.
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SECOND: TRUMP! blah blah blah... TRUMPTARDS! ... blah blah blah
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Quote:Signym, no political party will help Trumptards like you because you are crazy and stupid. It would be a waste of money and human energy to squander resources on you. Everybody but Trumptards knows that about you which leaves slow-witted Trumptards angry and frustrated that nobody caters to their foolishness. Except Trump, obviously, who talks the way Trumptards want but that is his limit. Actually giving the foolish Trumptards what they want? Not gonna happen.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And if you're as rich as you insinuate that you are, and a Big Businessman like, you say, that proves my point, doesn't it.?
They won't look after my interests bc I'm a hard-working American patriot and most of them... not!
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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