Elections; 2024
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Scalise Faces Uphill Battle For Speaker Amid Divided Republican Caucus
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scalise-faces-uphill-battle-speake
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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
Zerohedge? I don't follow Russian propaganda.
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Scalise Faces Uphill Battle For Speaker Amid Divided Republican Caucus
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scalise-faces-uphill-battle-speake
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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
Zerohedge? I don't follow Russian propaganda.
T
Your head is so full of propaganda that there isn't room for anything else, Theodore.
Meanwhile, what was the point of this post. Scalise already dropped out of his bid for speakership, dummy.
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Lawfare against Trump: Judge-shopping
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Federal Court Asked To Address 14th Amendment Effort To Bar Trump
Friday, Oct 13, 2023 - 11:00 AM
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
Legal academics are divided on the new popular theory that former President Donald Trump can be removed from ballots under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
While I respect many of the academics who view this as a credible interpretation, I have long opposed it as textually and historically flawed. In addition to some exaggerated claims of precedent, I view the theory as one of the most dangerous in my lifetime. One thing, however, we agree upon: it is time for the federal courts to rule on this theory to bring clarity to the election. That may now occur in West Virginia where Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wants a federal court to throw out a lawsuit attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in the state.
What is most striking about the filing is the accusation of judge-shopping by advocates like John Anthony Castro in seeking to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in the state.
I have previously addressed the constitutional basis for this claim. It is, in my view, wildly out of sync with the purpose of the amendment, which followed an actual rebellion, the Civil War.
The 14th Amendment bars those who took the oath and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” It then adds that that disqualification can extend to those who have “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
The “disqualification clause” was written after the 39th Congress convened in December 1865 when many members were shocked to see Alexander Stephens, the Confederate vice president, waiting to take a seat with an array of other former Confederate senators and military officers.
Justice Edwin Reade of the North Carolina Supreme Court later explained, “[t]he idea [was] that one who had taken an oath to support the Constitution and violated it, ought to be excluded from taking it again.”
According to these experts, Jan. 6 was an “insurrection” and Trump gave “aid and comfort” to those who engaged in it by spreading election fraud claims and not immediately denouncing the violence.
Polls have shown that most of the public view Jan. 6 for what it was: a protest that became a riot. One year after the riot, CBS News mostly downplayed and ignored the result of its own poll showing that 76 percent viewed it for what it was, as a “protest gone too far.” The view that it was an actual “insurrection” was far less settled, with almost half rejecting the claim, a division breaking along partisan lines.
Nevertheless, Democrats have claimed that the 14th Amendment prevents Trump from running because he supported an “insurrection or rebellion.”
They have argued that this long dormant clause can be used to block not just Trump but 120 Republicans in Congress from running for office.
The lawsuit could offer a long needed judicial review and an avenue to the Supreme Court for a final ruling. Yet, what was most notable was this paragraph in the filing on the motives and means used by Castro:
“Plaintiff John Anthony Castro filed this lawsuit as part of a multi-state litigation effort that he dubs “Operation Deadlock.” John Anthony Castro (@realJohnACastro), X (Sept. 20, 2023, 2:17 PM), https://bit.ly/48GyE9y. Castro’s supposed operation involves filing suit after suit— roughly two dozen so far —seeking to disqualify President Donald Trump from running for election again. Castro will then “sidelin[e] and neutraliz[e] the influence of conservative judges” by “nonsuit[ing] those cases” that are not assigned to “Obama-appointed or Clinton appointed judges.” Katherine Fung, Donald Trump’s Lawyers Get Stretched Even Thinner, NEWSWEEK (Sept. 19, 2023, 11:22 AM), https://bit.ly/3S2a25B; see, e.g., Notice of Dismissal, Castro v. Henderson, No. 2:23-cv-00617 (D. Utah Sept. 27, 2023), ECF No. 14 (Castro dismissing his suit after it was reassigned to a judge appointed by President Trump); but see, e.g., In reNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Republicans have to ask for help from Democrats to elect a Speaker of the House. As long as Democrats cast all their votes for their own leader — which is traditional — Republican candidates need 217 votes to win the Speaker of the House. But if Ds vote present, a Republican can win with only a majority of Republican votes. Alternatively, a "Gang of 217" Ds and Rs could get together and agree on a compromise candidate.
Until something like this happens the House is paralyzed. Without a speaker, they can't vote on anything — not budgets, not so much as a post office renaming.
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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Until something like this happens the House is paralyzed. Without a speaker, they can't vote on anything — not budgets, not so much as a post office renaming.
Perfect.
We should have this all the time. Forever.
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AP: Most say Biden has acted either illegally or unethically in his son’s business dealings
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Ethical concerns are casting a shadow over President Joe Biden as he seeks reelection amid investigations into his son Hunter and an impeachment inquiry, with a poll showing that 35% of U.S. adults believe the president himself has done something illegal.
An additional 33% say they think the Democratic president behaved unethically, but not illegally. And 30% say Joe Biden did nothing wrong, according to the poll. The results of the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reflect both a vast political divide and skepticism about the morality of government leaders.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-hunter-ethics-illegal-poll-survey
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https://apnorc.org/projects/most-say-biden-has-acted-either-illegally-
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CBS NEWS: New poll suggests President Biden may have Pennsylvania problem for 2024
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President Joe Biden made another visit to Philadelphia on Friday, a place that he comes to frequently and a state that's vital to his reelection in 2024. But with just under 13 months until the presidential race, new polling shows the president may have a Pennsylvania problem.
The president's trip to Philly on Friday was at least his 15th since he's taken office, but the latest polling shows that Pennsylvanians are looking for more from the commander-in-chief.
"It looks better and better for Donald Trump here," Jim Schultz, former White House counsel for former President Donald Trump, "but there's a lot of game to be played between now and then."
A Quinnipiac poll released last week shows Biden narrowly trailing Trump in a hypothetical matchup in the commonwealth. The same poll found Biden's favorability rating among Pennsylvanians sits at just 39%.
Trump is up in both Michigan and Pennsylvania:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/michiganandpen
nsylvania.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/biden-trump-pennsylvania-202
4-presidential-election-poll/
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Fran Lebowitz on Trump: "No one in New York thinks he's a New Yorker"
Q: I read an interview you did with W in 2016 where you said, I don't believe Donald Trump will become president because I don't believe there are that many morons in the United States.
There are, turns out.
Q: Turns out there are.
There's three events in my lifetime that I remember every second of the event from the time it occurred. One is the assassination of John F. Kennedy. One is September 11. And the third is the night Donald Trump was elected. Because first of all, yes, I spent the year prior to the election going around the country telling thousands of people, “Zero. He has zero chance.” I said that because I believed it. It never occurred to me. It was a joke. I was really shocked.
For at least three or four months after that election, every time I walked out of my apartment, people screamed at me. "You were wrong. You were wrong." I know, I'm sorry. Believe me, I'm sorry. I was sorry I was wrong. I was sorry what that meant that I was wrong. Truthfully, if you've only been wrong one time in your life, that was not the time to be wrong. So, no, I did not believe that there were that many people who would [vote for him].
A friend of mine right before the election said he could win. I said, "That is just absurd." She said, "You don't understand this country because you don't watch reality television." I said, "That's ridiculous." I'd heard of [Trump's] television show, but I never saw it. That's true. But I never saw any reality television. I knew that a lot of people like reality television, but I didn't know they thought it was reality. It's called reality television, not reality. Right?
As you know, New York City voted for Hillary Clinton nine to one. Even the Upper East Side voted for Hillary Clinton, even though they always vote Republican on the Upper East Side in presidential elections because no taxes on capital, but they didn't vote for Donald Trump.
Of all the horrible things about Donald Trump, one of the things that most bothers me, and perhaps you, is that people outside New York think he's a New Yorker. No one in New York thinks he's a New Yorker. It's the most insulting thing to me. I always say, “No one in New York thinks he's a New Yorker.” And no one in New York even thought he was a real estate developer. The truth is that in New York, the real real estate developers looked down on him. Can you imagine a level of moral squalor so profound that real estate agents look down on you? And they were right. It was a shocking thing. Really shocking.
Are you going to ask me if he's going to win this time?
Q: I am afraid to ask you now, Fran.
I don't think so. I really don't think so. The problem, of course, is the electoral college. If it wasn't for the electoral college, there'd never be a Republican president. Twice in my life — which is long, but it's not a thousand years — twice in my life, the presidency was won by someone who lost a popular vote, both times Republicans, George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
In other democracies, the popular vote is called “the vote.” The electoral college, both times this happened, people that I know who are non-American say, "What does this mean?" When I explain it, they go, "Oh, so it doesn't work." I go, "No, it works perfectly. It does exactly what it was meant to do." It overweights the rural vote, the Southern vote and that far Western vote. Every state has two senators. Fewer than 600,000 people live in Wyoming; they have two senators. That many people live in my building. My building should have a senator.
It is absolutely not representative. These people represent acreage because when you look at these maps, Wyoming is gigantic. You can't believe it, but there's no one there. It's just empty. That's the way they can win, but otherwise
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Cope more, bitch.
Trump will be your next President. 
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Quote:Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Tell that to your 450-pound brother and Fatso Trump, 6ix. Or your drunk past self.
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Cope more, bitch.
Trump will be your next President.
Study uncovers a nuanced link between obesity rates and support for Donald Trump in 2016
by Eric W. Dolan | October 16, 2023 in Political Psychology
https://www.psypost.org/2023/10/study-uncovers-nuanced-link-between-ob
esity-rates-and-support-for-donald-trump-in-2016-214039
In a study published in the American Journal of Health Behavior, researchers found a nuanced connection between obesity and voting behavior in the 2016 presidential election. Counties with increasing obesity rates initially showed rising support for Donald Trump until a threshold, after which support began to decline. This suggests a complex, non-linear relationship between local obesity prevalence and political voting patterns.
Obesity has become a major public health issue in the United States. The prevalence of obesity has been increasing significantly, and it is associated with various chronic diseases and substantial healthcare costs.
The condition has become a political issue with two predominant standpoints: the “personal-responsibility” perspective and the “environmental” perspective. These perspectives have different policy implications and are associated with different political parties.
While health disparities have been studied as a political outcome, the reverse relationship, i.e., how health behaviors or conditions influence political behavior, has not been extensively explored. Researchers Ruopeng An and Mengmeng Ji aimed to fill this gap in the literature.
To investigate the link between voting behavior during the 2016 presidential election and obesity rates, the researchers retrieved county-level 2016 presidential election data from the New York Times database. This data included the percentage of votes for the Republican Party presidential candidate (Donald Trump), the percentage of votes for the Democratic Party presidential candidate (Hillary Clinton), and the total number of votes in each county.
To ensure the accuracy of their election data, the researchers compared it with data from two other major election datasets maintained by The Guardian and Ballotpedia.org. They found that the state-specific percentage of votes for the Republican and Democratic candidates agreed across all three databases.
Data on county-level prevalence of adult obesity in 2013 were obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s County Data Indicators (CDIs). This data was based on the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), an annual survey that collects information on health-related behaviors, chronic conditions, and preventive services.
To account for potential influences, they controlled a wide range of county-level sociodemographic factors, such as age groups, racial and ethnic composition, education, income, poverty rates, unemployment, metropolitan status, and total population.
The researchers used a spatial modeling approach called a spatial autoregressive regression (SAR) to examine the relationship between obesity rates and voting patterns. This approach allowed them to account for the spatial clustering of data, which is often seen in political behaviors. They analyzed information from 3,111 U.S. counties, excluding Alaska due to data limitations.
Contrary to previous studies that had suggested a linear relationship between obesity rates and votes for the Republican Party candidate, this research uncovered a non-linear, or more complex, connection.
The study found that as the obesity rate in a county increased from around 12% to approximately 34%, there was a steady rise in votes for the Republican Party presidential candidate. However, this trend plateaued when obesity rates reached about 36.1%.
Beyond this point, as obesity rates continued to rise, the vote margin for the Republican Party ca
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