Elections; 2024
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Trump removed from Maine's 2024 ballot
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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday to remove Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot.
Maine’s Shenna Bellows.
Jared Golden, a Democratic congressman from Lewiston who voted to impeach Trump over the January 6th riots, quickly issued a statement:
We are a nation of laws, therefore until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed on the ballot. ... Is there any way this ends well? - Matt Taibbi
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Signym, you know that the 14th Amendment did NOT require a guilty verdict for any Confederate Rebel to keep all those asshole Rebels out of Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court. Nobody had to convince a jury that a Confederate rebel was, beyond a reasonable doubt, guilty of being an asshole and there is still no Constitutional requirement to convince a jury that Trump is an asshole. In other words, people who support Trump are adding words to the Constitution that are not in the 14th Amendment so that they can show they support Trump.
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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday to remove Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot.
Maine’s Shenna Bellows.
Jared Golden, a Democratic congressman from Lewiston who voted to impeach Trump over the January 6th riots, quickly issued a statement:
We are a nation of laws, therefore until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed on the ballot. ... Is there any way this ends well? - Matt Taibbi
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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
Trump is now 2-2 in the Insurrection Bowl
Maine and Colorado say Trump can't run for president while Michigan and California say he can. It needs a definitive national answer. Supreme Court, here we come.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday to remove Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot.
Maine’s Shenna Bellows.
Jared Golden, a Democratic congressman from Lewiston who voted to impeach Trump over the January 6th riots, quickly issued a statement:
We are a nation of laws, therefore until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed on the ballot. ... Is there any way this ends well? - Matt Taibbi
- SIGNYM
There is nothing in the constitution that even suggests he has to be convicted first. That said, the Colorado courts found he did incite an insurrection.
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Quote:There's something in our Constitution... perhaps you're not familiar with it, seeing as you apparently hate freedom ... that's called "due process". It's in the Fifth Amendment.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday to remove Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot.
Maine’s Shenna Bellows.
Jared Golden, a Democratic congressman from Lewiston who voted to impeach Trump over the January 6th riots, quickly issued a statement:
We are a nation of laws, therefore until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed on the ballot. ... Is there any way this ends well? - Matt Taibbi
THUGR: There is nothing in the constitution that even suggests he has to be convicted first.
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The term "innocent until proven guilty" is not in the U.S. Constitution.
The presumption of innocence is recognized as a due process right under the Fifth Amendment.
The prosecutor has the burden of proof to show you are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/criminal-defense/is-the-presumption-
of-innocence-in-the-consti.html
You CLAIM to love America but you'd trample the freedoms that make my country so great.
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That said, the Colorado courts found he did incite an insurrection.
The Chief Justice and two other Democrat judges found that Trump's Constitutional rights had been violated.
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Quote:There is a 126-page article about how that part of the Constitution works. Here are two pages:
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There is nothing in the constitution that even suggests he has to be convicted first. That said, the Colorado courts found he did incite an insurrection.
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The Sweep and Force of Section Three
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 172, Forthcoming
126 Pages Posted: 14 Aug 2023 Last revised: 19 Sep 2023
By William Baude, University of Chicago - Law School
Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of St. Thomas School of Law
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751
To be sure, Section Three clearly bears the hallmarks of its historical context. It is, for one thing, a radical rule. The sheer sweep of the disqualification from offices that it imposed on former Southern officeholders-turned-rebels was dramatic. Its operation was hugely disruptive of antebellum patterns of elite political leadership, apparently indifferent to inconvenience, and seemingly rather punitive in its consequences. Section Three is harsh. It is categorical. It is insistent. It seems to have been deliberately designed to turn the prior Southern political order upside down. As Eric Foner puts it, "Section 3 aimed to promote a sweeping transformation of Southern public life.”7
In these respects, the disqualification reflects and embodies the distinctive political impulses of the so-called Radical Republican Congress that proposed the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866. If its disqualification had radical policy consequences for the South, so be it.8 It was more important to strip insurrectionists and rebels of governing power completely, to remake Southern political society thoroughly, and to prevent Southern backsliding from the full consequences of Union victory entirely, than to be concerned about such things as seeming harshness, impracticality, or disruptiveness. Section Three is very much a creation and creature of its day.
Yet it is (or should be) basic constitutional law that it is the enduring text of the Constitution that supplies the governing rule, not the ostensible "purpose” or specific historical situation for which the text was written. Constitutional provisions, written into our fundamental law, live beyond the circumstances that prompted their adoption. And many such constitutional provisions are written in broad, or general, terms that obviously extend beyond the specific situation or situations that led to their enactment. Sometimes this is by design: the text’s drafters wrote a general rule, applicable to a broad class of circumstances, as a more general, "neutral,” way of addressing a class of situations of which the specific problem motivating the writing of the text might be just one instance. The thinking might be that if the principle giving rise to the text is a correct one, it should be correct in like circumstances, not just the one situation that provoked the rule’s adoption. And sometimes a text’s breadth and generality might not reflect conscious design: the text’s drafters wrote a general rule that unintentionally went further than the problem they had in mind. Put colloquially, the text sometimes “overshoots” its drafters’ intended purposes. (A text might undershoot the problem its framers had in mind to address, too—or achieve only part of its intended purpose, perhaps because of political compromise.)
The reason does not really matter. It is the rule as drafted and enacted in the written text that counts, whether it goes further than the purposes supposed to have inspired its adoption, or even whether it falls short of fully achieving those purposes. While evidence of intention, usage, purpose, and political context can assist in ascertaining the meaning of the enactment, it is that objective meaning that constitutes the law, not the ostensible purposes o
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Russian egg crisis: What’s behind price hikes?
In a recent Q&A session with Russian President Vladimir Putin at his end-of-year news conference, a woman had a simple request for the government: Bring down the price of eggs.
Her criticism prompted an apology from Putin, who said it was a “failure of the government’s work” that egg prices have soared 40% in 2023.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:There's something in our Constitution... perhaps you're not familiar with it, seeing as you apparently hate freedom ... that's called "due process". It's in the Fifth Amendment.
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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday to remove Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot.
Maine’s Shenna Bellows.
Jared Golden, a Democratic congressman from Lewiston who voted to impeach Trump over the January 6th riots, quickly issued a statement:
We are a nation of laws, therefore until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed on the ballot. ... Is there any way this ends well? - Matt Taibbi
THUGR: There is nothing in the constitution that even suggests he has to be convicted first.Quote:
The term "innocent until proven guilty" is not in the U.S. Constitution.
The presumption of innocence is recognized as a due process right under the Fifth Amendment.
The prosecutor has the burden of proof to show you are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/criminal-defense/is-the-presumption-
of-innocence-in-the-consti.html
You CLAIM to love America but you'd trample the freedoms that make my country so great.Quote:
That said, the Colorado courts found he did incite an insurrection.
The Chief Justice and two other Democrat judges found that Trump's Constitutional rights had been violated.
- SIGNYM
Quotes that reference your claims about the chief justice and others are needed comrade. They did not argue Trump did not incite an insurrection. So they agreed he did. They just said they did not know if they had the power to remove him from the ballet. Nothing about his rights being violated.
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Why Was It So Hard for Nikki Haley to Say ‘Slavery’? History Has the Answer
The presidential candidate’s recent comments about the Civil War helped spread a myth that has warped American history for over a century.
In William Faulkner’s novel, Sartoris, someone asks the title character, Colonel John Sartoris, why he had fought for the Confederacy so many decades before. “Damned if I ever did know,” replied the aging veteran, now a pillar of his community in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.
Of course, we know why Colonel Sartoris raised arms against the United States. So does anyone with a high school diploma — assuming they used up-to-date textbooks. And so did Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the Confederacy, who in 1861 famously asserted that the “cornerstone” of the new Southern nation rested “upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”
All of which makes it disappointing, though not surprising, that at this late date — almost 160 years after the Civil War — Nikki Haley, a leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination, shares Colonel Sartoris’ selective amnesia on the topic. When asked a softball question this week about the causes of the Civil War, Haley, a former South Carolina governor, flubbed the answer, calling it a “difficult” question and mumbling on about “basically how government was going to run — the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do.”
As Haley must know — after all, as governor of South Carolina, she presided over the removal of Confederate flags from the Statehouse — many Americans do question the fundamental fact that slavery precipitated the Civil War, and her equivocation played into a long-standing agenda to rewrite American history. Haley was effectively parroting the Lost Cause mythology, a revisionist school of thought born in the war’s immediate aftermath, which whitewashed the Confederacy’s cornerstone interest in raising arms to preserve slavery. Instead, a generation of Lost Cause mythologists chalked the war up to a battle over political abstractions like states’ rights.
With red states doing battle with American history, seeking to erase the legacy of violence and inequality that counterbalance the great good also inherent in our national story, it’s worth revisiting the rise of the Lost Cause, not just to remember how damaging it was, but to confront just how damaging it still is.
The Lost Cause painted a picture of Southern chivalry — mint juleps, magnolias and moonlight — that stood in sharp contrast with the North, a region marked by avarice, grinding capitalism and poverty. The rebellion, by this rendering, had been a legal response to the North’s assault on states’ rights — not a violent insurrection to preserve chattel slavery. Even Confederate veterans like Hunter McGuire knew that to admit the war had been about slavery would “hold us degraded rather than worthy of honor … our children, instead of revering their fathers will be secretly, if not openly, ashamed.”
More at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/12/28/nikki-haley-civil-wa
r-slavery-history-00133281
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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Trump supporters are nothing but fundamentalists
The congenital braggart who embodies what Christianity has traditionally called the seven deadly sins has come to seem the totem of faith for millions of Republican evangelicals.
By Gene Lyons | Dec 29, 2023, 6:00am CST
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/12/29/24017885/donald-tru
mp-fundamentalism-fascism-maga-supporters-adolf-hitler-george-orwell-gene-lyons
Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is fundamentalist at its core — with fundamentalism being understood as a psychological rather than a religious concept.
Pretty much every large-scale public movement, secular or sacred, has its share of extremists, and as the religious columnist Paul Prather has argued: “Remove the labels, close your eyes and quickly the fundamentalists in one group start sounding uncannily like the fundamentalists in all other groups, as if they were reading from the same script.”
It’s another word for fanatic.
Most Trumpists call themselves “conservative,” which used to signify a belief in limited government, low taxes, free trade and freedom of conscience but which under Trump signals tribal loyalty and revenge.
This explains what some see as the central paradox of the MAGA movement: that a congenital braggart who embodies what Christianity has traditionally called the seven deadly sins — greed, lust, envy, sloth, gluttony, pride and wrath — has come to seem the totem of faith for millions of Republican evangelicals.
Trump spent Christmas Day typing up and posting laments and threats in ALL CAPS on his Truth Social, targeting “JOE BIDEN’S MISFITS & THUGS, LIKE DERANGED JACK SMITH.” They’re “COMING AFTER ME,” he warned, “AT LEVELS OF PERSECUTION NEVER SEEN BEFORE IN OUR COUNTRY??? ... looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!”
A bit lacking in the spirit of the holiday, some would say.
Not to mention he’s the world’s biggest crybaby.
But they would be wrong, the MAGA faithful would insist. George Orwell captured the essence of the whiny strongman in reviewing the British edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” way back in 1940, after the German dictator had driven Germany to war, but before it was clear he had doomed his country to catastrophe.
Hitler, Orwell wrote, “knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, [and] short working-hours ... they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades.”
Orwell understood fascism’s appeal to an aggrieved population. While European and North American democracies, he wrote, told people in effect that “‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them, ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.”
Orwell also understood the personal psychology of the crybaby conqueror: “The initial, personal cause of [Hitler’s] grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.”
Sound like anybody we know?
That said, I do believe Trump when he says he never read “Mein Kampf.” Too long, too many big words. Trump never learned anything from a book. He stole his whole act from 1950s professional wrestlers at Sunnyside Gardens in Queens, specifically from Dr. Jerry Graham, who swaggered around boasting that “I have the body men fear and women adore.”
The hairstyle, too — a bleached blond pompadour that taught a generation of wrestling fans how a “heel” behaved — that is, basically like a cartoon Nazi. Graham was a masterful showman who aroused thousands to frenzy with balsa wood chairs and fake blood capsules. He was as fat as Trump, too, although there was muscle under the lard.
Likewise, Trump needed no books to absorb the lesson that nonwhite immigrants are “vermin” poisoning the nation’s b
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Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows decided Thursday to remove Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot.
Maine’s Shenna Bellows.
Jared Golden, a Democratic congressman from Lewiston who voted to impeach Trump over the January 6th riots, quickly issued a statement:
We are a nation of laws, therefore until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed on the ballot. ... Is there any way this ends well? - Matt Taibbi
THUGR: There is nothing in the constitution that even suggests he has to be convicted first.
SIGNYM: There's something in our Constitution... perhaps you're not familiar with it, seeing as you apparently hate freedom ... that's called "due process". It's in the Fifth Amendment.Quote:
The term "innocent until proven guilty" is not in the U.S. Constitution.
The presumption of innocence is recognized as a due process right under the Fifth Amendment.
The prosecutor has the burden of proof to show you are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
https://www.lawinfo.com/resources/criminal-defense/is-the-presumption-
of-innocence-in-the-consti.html
You CLAIM to love America but you'd trample the freedoms that make my country so great.
THUGR: That said, the Colorado courts found he did incite an insurrection.
SIGNY: The Chief Justice and two other Democrat judges found that Trump's Constitutional rights had been violated.
THUGR: Quotes that reference your claims about the chief justice and others are needed comrade. They did not argue Trump did not incite an insurrection. So they agreed he did. They just said they did not know if they had the power to remove him from the ballet. Nothing about his rights being violated.
Says the guy who didn't provide a quote!
Or even a link.
If they don't have "the power", that is, the LEGAL AUTHORITY to remove him from the ballot, that means they acted outside of DUE PROCESS.
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Dem-appointed Colorado justice says Trump ballot ban undermines 'bedrock' of America in fiery dissent
The Colorado Supreme Court's decision to ban former President Trump from the state's primary ballot undermines a "bedrock principle" of American democracy, one of the court's Democrat-appointed justices wrote in a fiery dissent.
Justices Carlos Samour, Maria Berkenkotter and Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright all dissented, but Samour was particularly critical of the 4-3 ruling. Samour and Boatright were each appointed by Democratic former Gov. John Hickenlooper, while Berkenkotter was appointed by current Gov. Jared Polis, also a Democrat.
"The decision to bar former President Donald J. Trump — by all accounts the current leading Republican presidential candidate (and reportedly the current leading overall presidential candidate) — from Colorado's presidential primary ballot flies in the face of the DUE PROCESS doctrine," Samour wrote.
"Even IF we are convinced that a candidate committed horrible acts in the past — dare I say, engaged in insurrection — there must be procedural due process before we can declare that individual disqualified from holding public office," he wrote.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dem-appointed-colorado-justice
-says-trump-ballot-ban-undermines-bedrock-of-america-in-fiery-dissent/ar-AA1lNqTT
a) The dissenting justices aren't convinced Trump was guilty
b) And they're convinced the court acted outside of its legal authority.
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So, THUGR, I'm no Constitutional lawyer, but even I could see there's a big gaping hole in the Colorado decison, and it's all based on EXCESS PARTISANSHIP.
Try to shed your excesses, son. You'll be a better American.
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Oh, and next time you claim to post "facts", insinuate - or say outright - that I post "lies", or that I'm a "Russian troll", or bray that you "love America/freedom" ... remember this post where you went down in flames on all four counts.
Oh, and your knowledge of what makes America "America"?
Abysmal!
Maybe you should take a citizenship class!
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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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So, THUGR, I'm no Constitutional lawyer, but even I could see there's a big gaping hole in the Colorado decison, and it's all based on EXCESS PARTISANSHIP.
Try to shed your excesses, son. You'll be a better American.
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Oh, and next time you claim to post "facts", insinuate - or say outright - that I post "lies", or that I'm a "Russian troll", or bray that you "love America/freedom" ... remember this post where you went down in flames on all four counts.
Oh, and your knowledge of what makes America "America"?
Abysmal!
Maybe you should take a citizenship class!
SIGNYM
Always wrong signym is at it again.
too funny...
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Legal experts argue this is why Trump can't hold office again
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Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President.
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'Wake the hell up': Conservative goes on furious rant about the state of the GOP
During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday, former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) expressed his extreme dismay with the state of the Republican Party that he has abandoned as he fretted that Donald Trump may once again be elected.
Speaking with host Charles Coleman Jr, the conservative commentator finally exploded with, Wake the hell up, America!"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wake-the-hell-up-conservative-
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The GOP has moved away from you Bushite Neocon trash.
Good riddance to Joe Walsh.
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We Did It, Joe! Monthly Migrant Encounters Exceed 300,000 For First Time In US History
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-did-it-joe-illegal-migrant-enco
unters-exceed-300000-first-time-us-history
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MSNBC just giving Ted all the bad news for New Years.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/12/31/msnbcs_kornacki_pre
sident_biden_lowest_approval_rating_for_incumbent_facing_re-election_in_decades.html
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Disproven
My Unbiased Search for Voter Fraud for the Trump Campaign, the Data that Shows Why He Lost, and How We Can Improve Our Elections
By Ken Block
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Disproven/Ken-Block/97816376328
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Disproven
Nothing has been disproven.
En masse unsolicited mail-in fraud ballots are fraud.
Ballot harvesting and drop boxes with no checks is fraud.
How many people collecting thousands of ballots door to door do you suppose turned in all the Biden* fraud ballots and then spent the night having a bonfire at home burning all the Trump ballots they collected?
Now admit quietly to yourself that not only did that happen but that it's going to happen just as much the other way in the states that de-legitimatized the US voting system with "temporary" Covid rules and shit your panties.
I warned you to close that cheating apparatus. You didn't listen. Now it will be used against you just like I've been telling you that it would be.
At least in states that didn't require photo ID to vote it used to still take an effort to cheat. Now it's virtually effortless and practically impossible to get caught.
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A Far-Right Court Just Admitted a Truth That Abortion Foes Want to Hide
By Mark Joseph Stern | Jan 03, 2024, 3:14 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/supreme-court-abortion-cas
e-texas-dobbs.html
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it claimed to be removing the judiciary from the abortion debate. In reality, it simply gave the courts a macabre new task: deciding how far states can push a patient toward death before allowing her to undergo an emergency abortion. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit offered its own answer, declaring that Texas may prohibit hospitals from providing “stabilizing treatment” to pregnant patients by performing an abortion—withholding the procedure until their condition deteriorates to the point of grievous injury or near-certain death. The ruling proves what we already know: Roe’s demise has transformed the judiciary into a kind of death panel that holds the power to elevate the potential life of a fetus over the actual life of a patient.
If that description seems hyperbolic, consider the facts of Tuesday’s decision, Texas v. Becerra. It involves a clash between a federal law and Texas’ stringent abortion ban. Texas law reflects the anti-abortion movement’s fundamental hostility toward any health exceptions; it permits emergency abortions only when a patient is “at risk of death” or “substantial impairment of a major bodily function.” Any doctor who terminates a pregnancy before this point is subject to a 99-year prison term. The Texas Supreme Court affirmed the narrow scope of this exception last month when it forbade Kate Cox from terminating her pregnancy. Cox suffered “severe cramps, leaking fluid and elevated vital signs” due to an abnormality that rendered the fetus incompatible with life. Yet the court unanimously decreed that, until her symptoms grew considerably more dire, Cox was legally obligated to continue the failing pregnancy.
This draconian ban, and others like it, conflicts with a federal statute, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA. That law compels federally funded hospitals to provide “necessary stabilizing treatment” to any patient experiencing an “emergency medical condition.” It defines the term as any condition that “could reasonably be expected” to seriously jeopardize a patient’s health, bodily functions, or organs. In July 2022, President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services issued guidance noting that EMTALA applies when a pregnant patient requires an abortion for “stabilizing” care. It clarified that any stricter abortion laws must yield to EMTALA, granting red-state doctors permission to terminate a pregnancy well before a patient is dying.
Texas promptly attacked the Biden administration’s guidance, filing a lawsuit in a division that ensured the case would land in front of one of conservatives’ favorite judges: James Wesley Hendrix, a far-right Trump appointee. The state argued that it has the right to force patients into more extreme medical distress before allowing them to terminate a pregnancy, and that EMTALA’s “stabilizing” standard does not apply to abortion. Predictably, Hendrix agreed.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/supreme-court-abortion-cas
e-texas-dobbs.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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You've abused the term "far-right" so much that it doesn't mean anything to anybody anymore.
Slate.com considers anybody right of Obama as far-right.
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Quote:Have you ever heard of the word "cult"? How about the "Jonestown Massacre"? You are in a cult, 6ix. Your cult leader is named Trump rather than Jones.
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You've abused the term "far-right" so much that it doesn't mean anything to anybody anymore.
Slate.com considers anybody right of Obama as far-right.
Retiring California lawmaker reflects on Jonestown and Trump
When Jackie Speier was a lawmaker in Sacramento, before mass shootings became a sad and sick part of everyday life, she helped push through the first state ban on military-style assault weapons.
During a scorching debate, an opponent challenged her, wondering whether she’d ever fired one of the weapons targeted for extinction.
Her response was swift and sharp: “No. But have you ever been shot by an assault weapon?”
She was at the Jonestown massacre in 1978 and on the floor of the House — literally — in 2021.
Jones, she noted, convinced hundreds of true believers “to follow him into the jungle of Guyana. Once there, they became somewhat enslaved by him, and in the end, they didn’t commit suicide. They were murdered.”
Trump, she said, “created this cult of personality that allowed him to then telegraph to his supporters to do things that were illegal, destructive, personally harmful.”
Speier was in the House chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, when it was overrun by violent, jacked-up Trump supporters seeking to overturn the 2020 election.
“I remember pressing my cheek to the floor and feeling how cold it was and this whole sense of resignation kind of came over me,” she said. “I thought, ‘This is it. I’m going to die here in what we think is this sanctuary of democracy’” after surviving Jonestown.
https://andrewtobias.com/comparing-trump-and-jones/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Have you ever heard of the word "cult"? How about the "Jonestown Massacre"?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You've abused the term "far-right" so much that it doesn't mean anything to anybody anymore.
Slate.com considers anybody right of Obama as far-right.
Yup. You are a cult member.
It's hard to tell exactly when you're directly plagiarizing somebody else or not when you write because you all say the same goddamned 10 things all the time.
You're just a piss-poor writer though, and when it appears that somebody beyond a 9th grade reading level wrote a post coming from your handle that's usually the tell.
I didn't read beyond those first two sentences, by the way.
Nobody gives a shit about your diseased cult's opinions anyhow.
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Quote:Two bullets in the back of your Nazi skull are understandable without a word to read, by the way.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I didn't read beyond those first two sentences, by the way.
Are Nazi Trumptards ready to die for what they believe in? The ones I know aren't:
Banality of Evil
The Polls Prove It: Many Republicans Love Fascism
By Brynn Tannehill | January 3, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/article/177796/polls-republicans-trump-maga-fa
scism
One party is dedicated to bringing about a dictatorship that plans to seize power for “a generation or two,” purging society of the enemies that are purportedly destroying the nation from within. The other party is a vaguely center-left coalition, too weak to bring about effective change because the country’s Constitution and societal fragmentation make it politically and legally impossible.
As bad as this is, I haven’t even gotten to the really depressing part. Most people assume that if fascism came to America, we would recognize it as individuals and refuse to go along with it. In reality, very few people are directly affected by living in an authoritarian country; life is mostly “boring and tolerable” for the majority. “Yes,” most people would say, “but if asked to do things I know were wrong, I would refuse to comply. Because I’m an American, and I know better.”
Except, we’re already testing this every day in red states, and failing miserably. Let’s discuss a scenario that is already happening frequently.
A woman goes into the E.R. She’s 18 weeks pregnant, her water broke, and she’s miscarrying. There’s no way to save the fetus. She’s likely to either bleed out or die of sepsis if left untreated. A doctor assesses her and quickly reaches this conclusion. But because there’s a heartbeat (for now), he can do nothing. The doctor calls hospital administrators. They pass it along to general counsel. Counsel comes back with the determination that there are greater civil and criminal liability risks if they perform a D&C than if the woman dies from lack of treatment. This is passed to the administrators, who passes it to the doctor, who tells the woman to go wait in the car until she’s nearly dead and then maybe he can treat her, if there isn’t a fetal heartbeat.
The doctor knows this is wrong at a fundamental level. The hospital administrators probably do as well. The woman is very likely to die, painfully and slowly, from gross neglect. But the doctor is just following orders from the administrators. The administrators are just following orders from counsel. Counsel is acting on the raw calculus that the state attorney general will never grant a life of the mother exception, and that there’s less risk if she dies in the parking lot than if she’s alive in the hospital. Neither the state legislators nor the attorney general can be held criminally or civilly liable for the suffering and death that they cause. Nor can the legislators ever be removed from office, because of gerrymandering.
Ultimately, when the power of the state comes to bear on people, including Americans, the vast majority will not do the right thing. Most (sane) people admire Martin Niemöller, but when confronted with the reality of how fascism corrupts ordinary men, almost no one emulates his willingness to do the right thing by defying the state. When Trump takes power and turns the full might of the government against anyone who might resist, the guardrails of individual conscience will evaporate faster than a snow flurry in hell.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-fi
rst-they-came-for-the-socialists
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I didn't read beyond those first two sentences, by the way.
Are Nazi Trumptards ready to die for what they believe in?
Are you?
I think a little soy filled pussy bitch like you speaks a huge game online when I'd knock you flat on your ass with an open fisted slap just for looking at me the wrong way in real life.
Careful there buddy. Your Reaverfan handle is bleeding into this one.
Don't make me get the rest of you banned from fff.net.
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I don't know how you do it SIX, but you REALLY get under SECOND'S skin. It must be a talent!
He's such douche. What will he do when NATO loses and Trump is elected? He's willing to threaten people with death. So, will he threaten suicide?
Goose sauce = gander sauce.
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Quote:Signym, I have always prospered regardless of what happens in the news. I have nothing to fear. I do not crave a strong leader such as Putin/Trump to protect me.
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I don't know how you do it SIX, but you REALLY get under SECOND'S skin. It must be a talent!
He's such douche. What will he do when NATO loses and Trump is elected? He's willing to threaten people with death. So, will he threaten suicide?
Goose sauce = gander sauce.
Here's another story that will get the usual response from 6ix: ("Trump will be fine") 6ix needs der Führer Trump to win. I don't need Biden to win but I do prefer seeing Nazis like Trump suffer and die in prison.
James Comer searched for China link to Biden — but Oversight found Trump instead
By Sarah K. Burris | January 4, 2024 12:55PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-foreign-money-2666871402/
The House Oversight and Reform Committee, under Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) leadership, has searched through the finances of President Joe Biden and the rest of his family looking for incriminating links to foreign entities. Now it turns out it was Donald Trump who had international business dealings while sitting in the White House.
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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I don't know how you do it SIX, but you REALLY get under SECOND'S skin. It must be a talent!
He's such douche. What will he do when NATO loses and Trump is elected? He's willing to threaten people with death. So, will he threaten suicide?
Goose sauce = gander sauce.
And he didn't even reply to me, hiding behind you instead.
I get the feeling that in his real life his mommy has never let anybody get away with talking to him the way that I talk to him.
I understand the sentiment. His malignant personality is repulsive, and I've never let anybody get away with saying anything 10% as nasty to me as the crap that comes from his little piggy brain.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Get ready for it Jack. Some attorneys Generals are going to block Trump from getting on the ballets in their states. According to the constitution, he is automatically disqualified from running after trying to overturn an election. He is also on video suggesting we suspend the constitution. Something he was sworn to protect.
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Guess I was right Jack. Look at the date I predicted this.
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I think this, and a few quotes from a thread that belongs here, back from when I cared what the M$M was publishing
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=63495
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The most serious and coordinated attempt was trying to smear Trump with some sort of Russian collusion charge. This went all the way back to MI6 and Christopher Steele, who wrote a fairy tale about "golden showers" and "kompromat" in order to surveill the Trump campaign. These (false) allegations were leaked to the press by our deep state, and recycled ad nuaseum thru the M$M and the Mueller "investigation" (who btw failed to interview any of the key players, like Assange, Steele, Mifsud etc). Let's not lose sight that this was precipitated by Hillary and Obama. Well, that failed (altho to this day there are still people who're suffering from paranoid PTSD because of this disinformation campaign)
And then there was the "Trump is a racist" campaign because he wanted to block people from wartorn jihadist-ridden nations, which couldn't validate identitification documents if their lives depended on it (which, often, it did). I think most people saw this step as a reasonable security measure, tho, so this died a quiet death.
The "racist" campaign was recycled ad naseum because Trump wanted to build a border wall, and the "resistance" was so overwrought about this issue they wound up supporting the "rights" of illegal immigrants over the rights of American citizens. Since most people really don't want to extend benefits (like free health care) to a flood of illegal migrants when all Americans don't have health care, this too died a quiet death.
Let's interpolate the Kavanuagh hearing, which may have started with a grain of truth (Kavanaugh got drunk when he was a student) but was whipped up into a froth of 99.9% hysteria. Also, let's interpolate the "Covington students assault native American" fiction, which got several M$M outlets sued.
Ukrainegate. The latest attempt to remove Trump. Like the Mueller "investigation" the House failed to interview ... or indeed, find .... any relevant eyewitnesses who could say the magic words "Trump told me". They managed to not even interview the person who started this all ... Eric Ciamarella ... but instead clung to the fiction that he deserves some sort of anonymity because ... whatever. Meanwhile, the transcript shows nothing like a "quid pro quo" and even the presumed victim -Zelenskiy - says there was no pressure. Altho I believe that the whole event, including the issues of Hunter Biden being part of a protection racket and Joe Biden getting Ukraine's Chief Procurator fired, deserves to be thoroughly investigated, this, too will die an ignominious death.
The deep state's/ globalists' biggest and best-organized plan (RUSSIA!RUSSIA!) failed, and the rest amounts to nothing more than picking up adventitious clods of shit and throwing them against the wall to see what sticks. But FOR SURE they won't give up, now that campaign season is open for Trump.
So, what next?
...
I don't believe that Trump has been successful. What he is is sand in the gears of the transnationals and the globalist elites. He's been able to thwart their rapacious one-worldism and has (so far) kept us out of any NEW wars, but he has not been able to reverse the interventionist efforts, and will not be able to remake the American economy.
Also, not a huge fan of his support for Israel and his visceral hatred of Iran, or his constantly appointing deep-staters, liberal interventionists, and neconons to his security team. People (here) often mistake my refusal to get on their anti-Trump crazy-train as support for Trump. For me, Trump was a PROTEST VOTE. I was hoping he would do a few things (so far about 50% accomplished) but if all he is is a loose cannon and a vengeful poke in the eye of the globalists, I'm happy.NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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Get ready for it Jack. Some attorneys Generals are going to block Trump from getting on the ballets in their states. According to the constitution, he is automatically disqualified from running after trying to overturn an election. He is also on video suggesting we suspend the constitution. Something he was sworn to protect.
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Guess I was right Jack. Look at the date I predicted this.
T
Nobody cares about your TDS dude. And let's not kid ourselves here. YOU didn't come up with anything. That's what Mika and Morning Joe told you to think.
While you're busy checking dates, when you said this bullshit was going to happen, I begged for it to happen.
Then you dumbshit brainlets actually destroyed Democracy by trying it, all in states that no Republican was ever going to win in the first place.
Personally, I hope it doesn't go to the Supreme Court and 10 dogshit deep blue states like New York, Illinois and California all ban Trump from the ballot and you still get to watch as Trump wins the electoral college in November in a landslide.
Hopefully then you'll all finally make good on your promises and secede from the Union and you can all go broke and turn into 3rd world countries on your own dime. Make sure to take in as many million illegal alien invaders as you'd like when that happens too.
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The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign.
The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up Trump's appeal of a case from Colorado stemming from his role in the events that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-supreme-court-will-decide-
if-trump-can-be-kept-off-2024-presidential-ballots/ar-AA1mwT4x?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5e2d5813be6f4d5895582cc4af102e62&ei=13
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The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign.
The justices acknowledged the need to reach a decision quickly, as voters will soon begin casting presidential primary ballots across the country. The court agreed to take up Trump's appeal of a case from Colorado stemming from his role in the events that culminated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-supreme-court-will-decide-
if-trump-can-be-kept-off-2024-presidential-ballots/ar-AA1mwT4x?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5e2d5813be6f4d5895582cc4af102e62&ei=13
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LOL
Tick Tock, indeed.
Once it goes to the Supreme Court they're going to overturn it, dummy.
The reason I didn't want this to happen is because all you fucking babies do is cry when you don't get your way and the ONLY outcome to this is that Trump gets reinstated on all the ballots and then I get to sit and listen to you bitch and moan about how our Supreme Court is not legitimate.
Don't believe me? Take a step outside of yourself for 5 minutes come February when you find yourself doing exactly what I just said you were going to do after you let the Media fill your head with that nonsense.
The only way that gets avoided is if all 9 Justices do the right thing and vote to overturn it, but that ain't never happening with Diversity Hire Wakanda Forever who can't tell you what a woman is without a Biologist present.
You just lost this one, dumbfuck.
What's next on your Anti-Democratic agenda?
Think fast. Time is running out.
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Oh... and while you're doing that, I want you to think LONG and HARD about this one thing...
We know that YOU personally believe that Trump is guilty of insurrection, but in a parallel universe where our Supreme Court allowed states to take anybody they wanted off ballots on a partisan basis for alleged crimes that they've never actually been convicted of in any court of law in the United States, let alone tried for, how long do you think it would take for them to just decide the guy who you were going to vote for was a criminal without a trial and prevent you from voting for them?
Shut the rest of the fucking noise in the world out and just sit with that question in your brain tonight and really think deep on it, and think about whether an America that allows this is even the America you thought you knew and loved.
My hope is that you finally come to your senses and start demanding better of your Party Affiliation. They've skated by for the last 3 horrible years because you hate Trump so much you'll let them get away with anything. There is currently ZERO LIMITS on what you'll allow them to do or not do.
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An abortion rights petition had more than a hundred thousand signatures than it needed to get onto the ballot in Florida. So, It will be on the ballet.
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An abortion rights petition had more than a hundred thousand signatures than it needed to get onto the ballot in Florida. So, It will be on the ballet.
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If I haven't already made myself VERY clear, Theodore, allow me to do it now.
REPUBLICANS SHOULD DROP THE ABORTION FIGHT 100%.
It is not an important issue in the 2020s, and certainly nothing to be losing elections over.
The single reason that Democrats have never and will never pass laws to make sure that abortion is always a right for selfish sluts is because it is always their reliable go-to issue when they have absolutely nothing else to campaign on.
Let it go, Republicans. I know that most of you Baphomet worshiping Satanists don't really give one single fuck about babies being murdered anyhow.
And to all you Christians (or any other religions out there) that believe in God or whatever, if God doesn't approve, they'll all get what they deserve eventually. Get off your crosses and let God sort 'em out.
Shut the fuck up. Let the Democrats have this one once and for all and we never have to hear about it again.
If it weren't for the abortion issue, the only thing Democrats can run on is a 7-year cultivated collective hatered for Trump and anyone who votes for him.
They have no record to run on. Nobody beleives anything they have to say about how great everything is right now when everything in their lives tells them the exact opposite of what the Democrat party and the media says. So they hardly even bother to lie to us anymore.
Fuck the Pro Life movement. Burn it to the ground.
We've got far more important shit to deal with at the moment.
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Originally posted by THG:
An abortion rights petition had more than a hundred thousand signatures than it needed to get onto the ballot in Florida. So, It will be on the ballet.
tick tock...
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If I haven't already made myself VERY clear, Theodore, allow me to do it now.
REPUBLICANS SHOULD DROP THE ABORTION FIGHT 100%.
They can't and so they won't. And everyplace it made it to the ballet, it destroyed the Republicans. Even in the reddest states.
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'More time fighting than governing': House Republicans are 'quitting in droves'
On Friday, January 5, the news broke that yet another Republican is leaving the U.S. House of Representatives: Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado). The Denver Post's Seth Klamann tweeted that Lamborn is "not running for reelection," and that "all three Republican-held Colorado congressional seats will all be up for grabs in November."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/more-time-fighting-than-govern
ing-house-republicans-are-quitting-in-droves/ar-AA1mwuFK?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=06edfe9291294cd2b5ca1767fa255c4f&ei=65
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It's Colorado. It's moot.
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Trump Claims Civil War Could Have Been ‘Negotiated’ Instead Of Fought—But Doesn’t Explain How
By James Farrell | Jan 6, 2024, 05:00pm EST
Topline: Former President Donald Trump said that negotiations could have prevented the Civil War while speaking at a campaign event in Iowa on Saturday, as the more than 150-year-old conflict remains an unexpected talking point along the Republican primary campaign trail. He claimed that had it been negotiated, “you probably wouldn’t know who Abraham Lincoln was,” but “that would’ve been OK.”
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“I know it very well, I know the whole process that they went through and they just couldn’t get along,” Trump said. “That would have been something that could have been negotiated and they wouldn’t have had that problem. But it was a hell of a time.”
Tangent
Trump also mentioned President Xi Jinping of China during the speech, saying: “He controls 1.4 billion people ruthlessly. Ruthlessly. No games, right? They said, ‘is President Xi of China a brilliant man?’ I said, ‘yes he is.’ He’s a brilliant man.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesfarrell/2024/01/06/trump-claims-civi
l-war-could-have-been-negotiated-instead-of-fought-but-doesnt-explain-how/?sh=71f3498a4425
I really despise guys who think they can solve problems ("Only I can fix it." - D. Trump) by running their mouths nonstop.
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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Trump also mentioned President Xi Jinping of China during the speech, saying: “He controls 1.4 billion people ruthlessly. Ruthlessly. No games, right? They said, ‘is President Xi of China a brilliant man?’ I said, ‘yes he is.’ He’s a brilliant man.”
Hannibal Lecter was a brilliant man too.
I'm sure nobody would want him babysitting their kids though.
I know it's hard, but even when you're going to just consume everything the media prints out of context to frame their narrative, try to use some critical thinking. Everybody knows that Xi is a lot of things, but being a dummy isn't one of them.
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USA TODAY: Polls show Latinos back Trump over Biden in 2024. And immigration isn't the reason.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/polls-show-latinos-back-trump-o
ver-biden-in-2024-and-immigration-isnt-the-reason/ar-AA1mvkN2
Uh oh! Lefty USA Today admitting that in their recent polling and CNBC's lefty polling that Trump has a 5 point lead with Latinos.
That didn't work out as planned, huh Democrats?
You thought that was bad, Ted? Look at what the freakin' Daily Beast says today...
DAILY BEAST: How Mass Immigration Hurts Black Americans
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-mass-immigration-hurts-blac
k-americans/ar-AA1mzuL5?cvid=bc7f20defa1d4618a4c2932e17dd0c52&ei=7
I guess the Daily Beast is a bunch of Nazis now, huh?
It must be true since you called me a Nazi for saying the exact same things that they're saying right now.
Your party in its current state is a failure. They will be purged in November.
Tick Tock
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Quote:6ix, you are selling a fantasy. Trump's true life history has given the world warning about what he will do but his Trumptards are reinterpreting reality and Trump's words and deeds in the most imaginary ways to make Trump appear good. Sorrowfully for Trumptards, it will end badly for Trump and them, but it is kind of like the long delay between smoking cigarettes and death. The package warns that "Smoking Kills" but since it does not kill instantaneously, they optimistically ignore the warnings about tobacco, Trump, everything. They want to be free and they can't exercise their unlimited freedumb if they heed warnings. Instead, they ignore the warnings, live free, die young and poor. It's not a wise way to live, but that's how more than half carry on in life.
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Trump also mentioned President Xi Jinping of China during the speech, saying: “He controls 1.4 billion people ruthlessly. Ruthlessly. No games, right? They said, ‘is President Xi of China a brilliant man?’ I said, ‘yes he is.’ He’s a brilliant man.”
Hannibal Lecter was a brilliant man too.
I'm sure nobody would want him babysitting their kids though.
I know it's hard, but even when you're going to just consume everything the media prints out of context to frame their narrative, try to use some critical thinking. Everybody knows that Xi is a lot of things, but being a dummy isn't one of them.
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The more I hear of Vivek, the better I like him.
Except his prejudice towards Israel and against Muslims.
Oh well.
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The more I hear of Vivek, the better I like him.
Except his prejudice towards Israel and against Muslims.
Oh well.
SIGNYM
Who would have figured, signym likes the shyster.
Too funny...
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you are selling a fantasy. Trump's true life history has given the world warning about what he will do but his Trumptards are reinterpreting reality and Trump's words and deeds in the most imaginary ways to make Trump appear good. Sorrowfully for Trumptards, it will end badly for Trump and them, but it is kind of like the long delay between smoking cigarettes and death. The package warns that "Smoking Kills" but since it does not kill instantaneously, they optimistically ignore the warnings about tobacco, Trump, everything. They want to be free and they can't exercise their unlimited freedumb if they heed warnings. Instead, they ignore the warnings, live free, die young and poor. It's not a wise way to live, but that's how more than half carry on in life.
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Trump also mentioned President Xi Jinping of China during the speech, saying: “He controls 1.4 billion people ruthlessly. Ruthlessly. No games, right? They said, ‘is President Xi of China a brilliant man?’ I said, ‘yes he is.’ He’s a brilliant man.”
Hannibal Lecter was a brilliant man too.
I'm sure nobody would want him babysitting their kids though.
I know it's hard, but even when you're going to just consume everything the media prints out of context to frame their narrative, try to use some critical thinking. Everybody knows that Xi is a lot of things, but being a dummy isn't one of them.
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Biden* and the Democrats are done in November.
Why don't you just sit back and try to enjoy the next 11 months before they slip away from you instead of taking shots at me everyday.
You're so full of hate.
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CNN: Biden’s plea to save democracy faces harsh democratic reality
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/politics/biden-democracy-january-6-what
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The hard democratic truth is Trump could win
Hehe... Trump will win. Swallow that pill now.
NEWSWEEK: Donald Trump Poised to Win More Black Votes Than Any Republican in History
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-black-votes-presidential-election-repub
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According to national and swing state polls reviewed by Bloomberg, the former president and GOP front runner has between 14 percent and 30 percent of the Black vote share as the country heads into an election year.
This is far beyond the 8 percent of the Black vote the Pew Research Center said the Republican won in the 2020 presidential election and more than any Republican candidate before him.
Yup. Just one of the many, many, many reasons why Trump wins in November.
DeSantis: Do Republicans Want The 2024 Election To Be About January 6 And Trump's Criminal Cases?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/01/07/desantis_do_republi
cans_want_the_2024_election_to_be_about_january_6_and_trumps_criminal_cases.html
That's not what it's about at all, Ron.
Go. Fuck. Yourself.
All you had to do was wait 4 years and the job was yours.
After what you pulled this last year, I will never vote for you. You don't have a chance to ever be President of the United States anymore.
In fact, I'm doubting whether or not you can even manage to keep your current job.
I have no idea who was whispering in your ear that now was your time, but they led you so far astray it's almost inconceivable and the fact that you listened to that voice when I know that you knew better just goes to prove that you never really had it in you in the first place.
You fucked up big time, and there's no coming back from it now.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Pulls Out of Troubled Fundraiser
Afundraiser for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – having falsely been billed as an event attended by a world-renowned tenor and several high-profile celebrities – won't include the candidate himself, the independent presidential hopeful's campaign said Monday.
A super PAC backing Kennedy, who is the son of the slain former Democratic presidential candidate of the same name, promoted a Jan. 22 fundraiser in Indian Wells, California. The promotion on social media said singer Andrea Bocelli would perform and that actor Martin Sheen, Grammy Award-winning singer Dionne Warwick and former prizefighter Mike Tyson would be there as "well-wishers."
That seemed to come as a surprise to the high-profile alleged invitees. Warwick said she didn't know anything about the event, meant to also serve as a celebration of Kennedy's 70th birthday, and "certainly won't be there."
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Sheen, through the social media account of several of his former "West Wing" costars, said he "wholeheartedly support[s] President Joe Biden and the Democratic ticket in 2024." Bocelli's representative told Rolling Stone the tenor would not be there. His performance schedule does not even have Bocelli coming to the United States until mid-February.
Kennedy's campaign last week said they didn't have anything to do with the event, saying it was put together by the PAC, American Values 2024.
And Monday, the candidate himself joined the list of will-not-attends.
"Mr. Kennedy will not be attending the PAC event in Indian Wells on Jan. 22nd," his campaign said in an email.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-pulls-out-
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He tried to pull a Trump.
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Trump’s leads over Biden in key swing states narrow: Survey
The poll found that the margins between Trump and Biden grew closer in Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, but that the former president still maintains an edge in all six states surveyed. Neither candidate received more than 50 percent of support in any state, signaling that the swing states remain divided on who they will likely support in the general election.
The closest battleground state appears to be Pennsylvania, with Trump holding just a 1-point lead over Biden. Trump secured 40 percent of support in the state, while Biden had 39 percent. Trump’s lead in Pennsylvania has diminished since November, according to the poll, when he had a 7-point lead over Biden.
Trump’s lead over Biden in Arizona dropped from 7 points in November to 6 points in the new poll. He now has 41 percent support in the state, the poll found.
The poll found Trump has an 8-point lead over Biden in Georgia, which is slightly down from the 10-point lead recorded in the previous poll. His lead also diminished in North Carolina, where he now only leads by 4 percentage points, compared to his 9-point lead in November. The North Carolina poll shows Trump with 37 percent of support and Biden with 33 percent.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-leads-over-biden-in-ke
y-swing-states-narrow-survey/ar-AA1mEdku?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=99595833e86849599b81ab64dd1ec1d1&ei=28
I told you people were going to start paying attention and sentiment would change. Well, people's views and attitudes are changing.
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Trump’s statements are loaded with cruelty, self-interest, and abandonment of allies. He used his most violent followers to override the voters’ will in a failed attempt to keep himself in power.
Many of the exclusive details come from the questioning of Trump's former deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, who first started working for Trump as a teenager three decades ago and is now a paid senior adviser to Trump's reelection campaign. Scavino wouldn't speak with the House select committee that conducted its own probe related to Jan. 6, but -- after a judge overruled claims of executive privilege last year -- he did speak with Smith's team, and key portions of what he said were described to ABC News.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-probe-uncovers-new-details-t
rumps-inaction/story?id=106131854
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Trump and Republican politicians want you to pay high interest rates so that he can be elected.
Don’t Be Surprised if Trump Starts Attacking the Federal Reserve
Jan. 8, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET
Why? Because there are very good reasons for the Federal Reserve, which controls short-term interest rates — that’s how it makes monetary policy — to start reversing the sharp rate hikes it carried out beginning in March 2022. There’s a vigorous debate about whether those rate hikes were excessive, which I’m not going to litigate here. Whatever you think about past policy, the case for cuts going forward is very strong, and I hope the Fed will act on that case.
What I don’t know is whether the Fed is ready for the political firestorm it’s about to face, and whether it will stand up to the pressure to keep rates too high for too long. Because it’s a safe prediction that Donald Trump and his supporters will scream that the coming rate cuts are part of a deep-state conspiracy to re-elect President Biden.
Let’s talk first about the economics, which should — but might not — be the only thing guiding the Fed’s decisions.
The Fed raised rates in an attempt to rein in inflation, which was running hot at the time — its preferred measure of underlying inflation was running far above its target rate of 2 percent. It kept raising rates until the middle of 2023, trying to cool off the economy and ensure that inflation came down.
As it turns out, the economy still hasn’t cooled much, at least by the usual measures; the unemployment rate remains near a 50-year low. But inflation has plunged. Over the past six months, the core personal consumption expenditures deflator — try saying that five times fast — has risen at an annual rate of only 1.9 percent, below the Fed’s target, and more complex measures are close to 2 percent. Basically, the war on inflation is more or less over, and we won.
So why keep interest rates this high? Right now the labor market looks a lot like it did on the eve of the pandemic, with both unemployment and other measures of market heat, like the rate at which workers are quitting, similar to what they were in late 2019. The Fed is projecting higher inflation over the next year than it was in 2019, but only slightly higher.
Back then, however, the federal funds rate — the interest rate the Fed controls — was 1.75 percent. Now it’s 5.5 percent. It’s really hard to come up with a good reason it should stay that high.
True, high rates haven’t produced a recession — yet. But there are hints of economic weakness, and the Fed is supposed to try to get ahead of the curve. So it’s time to start cutting rates.
But rate cuts will have political implications. They will be good for Biden, although not exactly for the reasons you might think.
I don’t know what the unemployment rate or the rate of economic growth will be in November, but because monetary policy works with a lag, what the Fed does in the next few months won’t have much effect on these numbers.
Biden, however, is already presiding over a very good economy by normal standards, with solid job growth and plunging inflation. What he needs is for more Americans to accept the good news. And Fed rate cuts will help him with that. They will signal to the public that inflation really is under control; they will lead, other things being equal, to higher stock prices and lower mortgage rates.
So we can expect howls from Trump and his allies that politics, not economics, is driving the coming rate cuts — even though Trump himself appointed Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chair.
Why do we know this will happen? Partly because paranoia is MAGAworld’s normal condition: It sees sinister conspiracies everywhere.
Beyond that, Trump and his allies constantly engage in projection, assuming that their opponents are doing or will do what they themselves would do or have done, like weaponizing the Justice Department for Trump’s own political ends.
And when it comes to interest rate policy, Trump has a track record of doing exactly what I’m sure he wi
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The Breakdown of the Republican Coalition (Trump's Fault?)
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Trump's Disqualification: How We Got Here
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Trump is not disqualified, nor will he be disqualified.
Trump will be fine. He will also be your next President.
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Then why do Democrat politicians always incite violence and why do they let Leftist Progressives riot on the streets all the time?
Fuck you, Ted.
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Mayorkas: Border Numbers Are Historic, But "This Is Something That Is Not Specific To The United States"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/01/04/mayorkas_border_num
bers_are_historic_but_this_is_something_that_is_not_specific_to_the_united_states.html
So the fuck what, cocksucker.
Your job is AMERICA and you've failed your fucking job for 3 years.
You belong in prison.
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Quote:Huh. THUGR doesn't have an answer to that question either.
Originally posted by THG:
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SIX: Then why do Democrat politicians always incite violence and why do they let Leftist Progressives riot on the streets all the time?
Fuck you, Ted.
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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Trump’s right that Lincoln could have compromised. The results would have been unthinkable.
By Joshua Zeitz | 01/10/2024 01:36 PM EST
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/10/trump-civil-war-nego
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Former President Donald Trump thinks history could have been different, if only Abraham Lincoln had read The Art of the Deal. “The Civil War was so fascinating, so horrible,” he said last weekend. “So many mistakes were made. See, there was something I think could have been negotiated, to be honest with you. I think you could have negotiated that. All the people died, so many people died. You know, that was the disaster.”
As if the cake even needed icing, Trump added: “Abraham Lincoln, of course, if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn’t even know who Abraham Lincoln was.”
Longtime readers, hold onto your hats. I’m going to do something that even I never imagined. I’m going to agree with Donald Trump. Sort of.
Set aside, for a moment, the awful moral and humanistic implications of Trump’s wish that Lincoln had bargained away the freedom of four million enslaved people for a tenuous peace. Also, the risible implication that he, Donald Trump, could have managed the secession crisis better than Lincoln.
All of that notwithstanding, compromise was possible, and a lot of respectable voices in 1860 and 1861 called for it. Some historians — small in number, but still reputable — have made a similar case over the years.
The awfulness in Trump’s argument isn’t that it’s wrong. It’s that it might be right. To understand how, it’s important first to assess the compromise that was on the table — an option that Lincoln rejected — and the catastrophic counterfactual history that would follow had he taken the deal.
More about the compromises Lincoln rejected but Trump would have accepted at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/10/trump-civil-war-nego
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The moment the South threatened disunion, many antislavery politicians got wobbly in the knees. John Nicolay, the president-elect’s secretary, would long remember that his boss “bluntly replied” that “This is the same old trick by which the South breaks down every Northern victory. Even if I were personally willing to barter away the moral principle involved in this contest, for the commercial gain of a new submission to the South, I would go to Washington without the countenance of the men who supported me and were my friends before the election.”
A group of veteran political leaders gathered in Washington as an unofficial “peace convention” to consider a range of measures intended to appease the Deep South. One proposal, offered by Kentucky Sen. John Crittenden, would have extended the Missouri Compromise line across the continent and protected the institution of slavery in perpetuity through an irrevocable constitutional amendment; another would have required the Northern states to abrogate their “personal liberty laws,” meant to protect free Black Americans from capture under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Hey. Maybe you can tell us why Mayor Eric Adams has "negotiated" closing public schools and forcing kids to learn remotely so he can house a bunch of criminal male illegal alien invaders of fighting age in your kids' school on taxpayer dime instead of shipping them back to whatever shithole they came from or putting bullets in their heads.
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Former President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim federal immunity in a defamation lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll were thwarted once again as a federal appeals court declined to reconsider his case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a concise one-page order, chose not to rehear Trump’s appeal before its full 13-judge bench, leaving the Supreme Court as his final potential avenue for appeal.
The 2nd Circuit denied Trump’s requests on Wednesday, following standard procedure. Trump now has the option to appeal to the Supreme Court, although there is no guarantee that they will accept the case.
In a separate case, Trump is arguing for presidential immunity from prosecution in federal court in Washington, D.C., regarding criminal charges related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The argument is currently being considered by the federal appeals court in D.C.
Why not vote for crooked Trump? He's immune!
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Hey. Maybe you can tell us why Mayor Eric Adams has "negotiated" closing public schools and forcing kids to learn remotely so he can house a bunch of criminal male illegal alien invaders of fighting age in your kids' school on taxpayer dime instead of shipping them back to whatever shithole they came from or putting bullets in their heads.
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NYC decision to move migrants from tent shelter to a school amid storm draws fire
Nearly 2,000 asylum-seekers were bused to a Brooklyn high school to ride out the storm, drawing complaints from some parents, politicians and immigration advocates.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nyc-decision-move-migrants-tent-s
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Trump Dreams of Economic Disaster
By Paul Krugman | Jan. 11, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/opinion/trump-biden-economy.html
Did Donald Trump just say that he’s hoping for an economic crash? Not exactly. But what he did say was arguably even worse, especially once you put it in context.
And Trump’s evident panic over recent good economic news deepens what is, for me, the biggest conundrum of American politics: Why have so many people joined — and stayed in — a personality cult built around a man who poses an existential threat to our nation’s democracy and is also personally a complete blowhard?
So what did Trump actually say on Monday? Strictly speaking, he didn’t call for a crash, he predicted one, positing that the economy is running on “fumes” — and that he hopes the inevitable crash will happen this year, “because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover.”
If you think about it, this isn’t at all what a man who believes himself to be a brilliant economic manager and supposedly cares about the nation’s welfare should say. What he should have said instead is something like this: My opponent’s policies have set us on the path to disaster, but I hope the disaster doesn’t come until I’m in office — because I don’t want the American people to suffer unnecessarily, and, because I’m a very stable genius, I alone can fix it.
But no, Trump says he wants the disaster to happen on someone else’s watch, specifically and openly so that he won’t have to bear the responsibility.
Speaking of which, when did Trump start predicting economic disaster under President Biden? The answer is before the 2020 election. In October 2020, for example, he asserted that a Biden win would “unleash an economic disaster of epic proportions.”
Now, everyone who makes economic predictions gets some of them wrong. I personally predicted a recession if Trump won in 2016, partly because markets seemed to believe that a Trump victory would be bad for the economy. But I retracted that call just three days after the election, acknowledging that I had briefly succumbed to motivated reasoning.
Trump, by contrast, has been predicting disaster under Biden for more than three years, without ever admitting that his predictions haven’t come true. What we’ve gotten from Trump instead is a series of desperate false claims about the state of the economy. No, the price of bacon isn’t “up five times” under Biden.
Some of these false claims fall into the category of: Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes? Last month, for example, Trump declared that gas costs “$5, $6, $7 and even $8 a gallon,” when there are big signs all around the country advertising gas prices a bit over $3.
Maybe he doesn’t get out much.
What Trump surely does do, though, is watch a lot of TV, which means that he’s aware that the stock market has gone up a lot lately. This clearly troubles him. Indeed, he’s apparently so rattled by stock gains under Biden that in a recent speech he managed both to dismiss those gains as irrelevant — just “making rich people richer” — and to claim credit for them: “The stock market is good because a lot of people think we’re going to win the election.”
If this sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Here we have a guy who spent much of his time in office bragging about a rising stock market suddenly declaring that stock gains are bad when someone else is in power, while insisting that he deserves credit for good things (or are they bad things?) that happen when he isn’t even running the country.
Does this matter? Trump may want an economic crash, but he doesn’t have any tools I’m aware of that could produce one. But as I wrote the other day, there’s a risk that pressure from Trump and his allies will lead the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates too high for too long.
Practical concerns aside, however, Trump’s flailing on the economy and the stock market deepens the mystery of his political appeal.
I hate saying this, but I do understand why millions of people are drawn to Trump’s
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The Case for Donald Trump
By Bret Stephens | Jan 11, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/opinion/columnists/donald-trump-ele
ction.html
Begin with fundamentals. Trump got three big things right — or at least more right than wrong.
1) Arguably the single most important geopolitical fact of the century is the mass migration of people from south to north and east to west, causing tectonic demographic, cultural, economic, and ultimately political shifts. Trump understood this from the start of his presidential candidacy in 2015, the same year Europe was overwhelmed by a largely uncontrolled migration from the Middle East and Africa. As he said the following year, “A nation without borders is not a nation at all. We must have a wall. The rule of law matters!”
Many of Trump’s opponents refuse to see virtually unchecked migration as a problem for the West at all. Some of them see it as an opportunity to demonstrate their humanitarianism. Others look at it as an inexhaustible source of cheap labor. They also have the habit of denouncing those who disagree with them as racists. But enforcing control at the border — whether through a wall, a fence, or some other mechanism — isn’t racism. It’s a basic requirement of statehood and peoplehood, which any nation has an obligation to protect and cherish.
Only now, as the consequences of Biden’s lackadaisical approach to mass migration have become depressingly obvious on the sidewalks and in the shelters and public schools of liberal cities like New York and Chicago, are Trump’s opponents on this issue beginning to see the point. Public services paid by taxes exist for people who live here, not just anyone who makes his way into the country by violating its laws. A job market is structured by rules and regulations, not just an endless supply of desperate laborers prepared to work longer for less. A national culture is sustained by common memories, ideals, laws and a language — which newcomers should honor, adopt and learn as a requirement of entry. It isn’t just a giant arrival gate for anyone and everyone who wants to take advantage of American abundance and generosity.
It said something about the self-deluded state of Western politics when Trump came on the scene that his assertion of the obvious was treated as a moral scandal, at least by the stratum of society that had the least to lose from mass migration. To millions of other Americans, his message, however crudely he may have expressed it, sounded like plain common sense.
2) The second big thing Trump got right was about the broad direction of the country. Trump rode a wave of pessimism to the White House — pessimism his detractors did not share because he was speaking about, and to, an America they either didn’t see or understood only as a caricature. But just as with this year, when liberal elites insist that things are going well while overwhelming majorities of Americans say they are not, Trump’s unflattering view captured the mood of the country.
In 2017, the demographer Nicholas Eberstadt joined this pessimistic perception with comprehensive data in an influential essay for Commentary. He noted persistently sluggish economic growth and a plunging labor-force participation rate that had never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis. There was a rising death rate among middle-aged white people and declining life expectancy at birth, in part because of sharply rising deaths from suicide, alcoholism or drug addiction. More than 12 percent of all adult males had a felony conviction on their record, leaving them in the shadowlands of American life. And there was a palpable sense of economic decline, with fewer and fewer younger Americans having any hope of matching their parents’ incomes at the same stages of life.
Far too little has changed since then. Labor-force participation remains essentially where it was in the last days of the Obama administration. Deaths of despair keep rising. The cost of living has risen sharply, and while the price of ordinary goods may finally be coming down, rents h
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“Late Night” host Seth Meyers on Wednesday highlighted how Republican attitudes to the Constitution flipped following Donald Trump’s rise to power.
Meyers aired a montage of conservatives and even then-GOP candidate Trump himself in 2016 vowing to “bring the Constitution back” amid right-wing claims that then-President Barack Obama was acting like a dictator.
“Republicans used to pretend they cared about the Constitution,” noted Meyers, but “abandoned all that” with the emergence of Trump.
Meyers then aired a second supercut of Trump declaring multiple times and in various ways how he had the “absolute right” and “total authority” to do pretty much anything he wanted as POTUS.
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Seth Meyer pretending to care about the Constitution and pretending that Democrats give a single fuck about the Constitution is the only joke he's ever told in his life.
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Quote:I stopped wondering why failures shout the loudest that they have a constitutional right to be an asshole.
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Seth Meyer pretending to care about the Constitution and pretending that Democrats give a single fuck about the Constitution is the only joke he's ever told in his life.
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Seth Meyer pretending to care about the Constitution and pretending that Democrats give a single fuck about the Constitution is the only joke he's ever told in his life.
And I laugh every time you try to call me a failure.
You need me to be a failure because your warped world view depends on it.
Sorry not sorry I can't oblige you.
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Quote:Every person I know who voted for Trump will tell me with great pride that they are better than average. Smarter. Genetically superior. Patriotic. Endowed with commonsense. I stopped wondering why, with all those outstanding attributes, their lives have had so many sorrows that leave them infuriated at the unfairness of how they are treated at present. By voting for Trump, they are certain they will get treated as they think they have always deserved. Because I know them, I'm already certain they have always been treated the way they deserve.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And I laugh every time you try to call me a failure.
You need me to be a failure because your warped world view depends on it.
Sorry not sorry I can't oblige you.
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So sad. So pathetic.
You think way too much about me buddy. The second I finish replying to another of your dumbshit posts and put my computer in sleep mode I don't think about you at all.
You are meaningless. You are nothing. You are a waste of carbon.
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Quote:To finish construction jobs, I have to deal with people like Trump and his Trumptards. Your psyches are fragile and your feelings of adequacy sink when criticized. You come to work hungover or you return from lunch drunk. Your wives and children don't give you the love you think you deserve. It is more tricky handling Trumptards than a class of well-adjusted kindergartners because Trumptards need major adjusting.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So sad. So pathetic.
You think way too much about me buddy. The second I finish replying to another of your dumbshit posts and put my computer in sleep mode I don't think about you at all.
You are meaningless. You are nothing. You are a waste of carbon.
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Kari Lake’s Arizona Fundraising Efforts Are Flopping
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kari-lake-s-arizona-fundraisin
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Another election denier bites the dust.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:To finish construction jobs, I have to deal with people like Trump and his Trumptards. Your psyches are fragile and your feelings of adequacy sink when criticized. You come to work hungover or you return from lunch drunk. Your wives and children don't give you the love you think you deserve. It is more tricky handling Trumptards than a class of well-adjusted kindergartners because Trumptards need major adjusting.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So sad. So pathetic.
You think way too much about me buddy. The second I finish replying to another of your dumbshit posts and put my computer in sleep mode I don't think about you at all.
You are meaningless. You are nothing. You are a waste of carbon.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Hey second, remember how you drove Jack crazy because you would click on, reply with a quote, and then change the subject on him? Your reply would have nothing to do with what he posted and it drove him up a wall.
That was a hoot.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:To finish construction jobs, I have to deal with people like Trump and his Trumptards. Your psyches are fragile and your feelings of adequacy sink when criticized. You come to work hungover or you return from lunch drunk. Your wives and children don't give you the love you think you deserve. It is more tricky handling Trumptards than a class of well-adjusted kindergartners because Trumptards need major adjusting.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So sad. So pathetic.
You think way too much about me buddy. The second I finish replying to another of your dumbshit posts and put my computer in sleep mode I don't think about you at all.
You are meaningless. You are nothing. You are a waste of carbon.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
You don't own a construction company. You don't own a company. You're in debt up to your eyeballs and you're drowning at sea.
I just came back in from shoveling my walk and using my $1000 snowblower on my driveway that could fit 26 cars. Not because I had anywhere to go, since I'm retired and I own everything I have free and clear... just because.
Now I might take a nap. Or maybe work on my house. Or maybe watch some youtube.
I'll probably take a nap.
Have fun thanklessly slaving away all day today, wage slave.
You are the envy of no one.
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Trump’s latest about-face: He now says 2020 election was ‘long over’
In the months after the 2020 election, Donald Trump leaned on his campaign to launch ad blitzes and legal challenges to the results, insisting to his supporters that the election was “a long way from over.” He even told state and federal courts he was suing in his capacity as a political candidate.
Now, in a bid to derail criminal charges, he’s saying the opposite. At least six times in the past two weeks, Trump has declared that the election was “long over” by the time he began pushing state officials and then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn his defeat.
It’s a new piece of rhetoric that’s meant to bolster Trump’s assertion of “presidential immunity” from his criminal charges for interfering with the transfer of power. He wasn’t a candidate anymore, Trump’s new theory goes, so he must have been doing his job as president to ensure elections are fair.
But there’s a problem: It flies in the face of the legal arguments Trump made three years ago, during his frenetic push to subvert the election results. Even after the votes had been counted and certified, Trump filed lawsuits contesting the results — and he claimed he was doing so not as the outgoing president, but as a candidate.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-latest-about-face-he-n
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Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we do deceive.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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'Tuned out': Expert says voters switching off because they can't believe GOP is for real
Voters are still having a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that the Republican Party is really going to nominate former President Donald Trump for the presidency again, according to an analyst.
Trump, who was impeached twice during his lone term in office and who is now facing 91 felony charges in four separate jurisdictions, is the overwhelming favorite to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, despite a better-than-average likelihood that he will be a convicted criminal by the time the election rolls around.
CNN reports that internal research from President Joe Biden's campaign shows that it's currently having trouble attracting undecided voters at the moment — simply because those voters don't really think Trump will once again be their sole major-party alternative.
One senior campaign official who spoke with CNN said that these voters at the moment are politically disengaged and still believe they will have a different Republican to pick from in 2024.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tuned-out-expert-says-voters-s
witching-off-because-they-can-t-believe-gop-is-for-real/ar-AA1mSLcV?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=78171e8235e64161d6fd84ba9487e10c&ei=14
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Swing state Republican parties are engulfed in turmoil ahead of key 2024 races
Republican parties in three battleground states are navigating turbulence that has many in the GOP concerned that the discord and dysfunction will jeopardize their candidates up and down the ballot in critical races this fall.
In Michigan, Nevada and Florida — three states that will feature competitive presidential and Senate contests — state parties have been gripped with leadership strife in recent weeks. In Florida, the GOP chairman was ousted after facing a rape accusation. In Nevada, the top two state party officials have been indicted for their alleged role as “fake electors” for former President Donald Trump after he lost the 2020 election there.
Nowhere has the chaos been more pronounced than Michigan, though, where rivalrous factions can’t agree on who’s in charge.
A large group of Michigan state GOP committee members voted last week to remove Kristina Karamo as chairwoman, asserting that she was leading the party toward bankruptcy and failing to live up to promises of transparency and reform. The party’s No. 2 official then declared herself acting chair. Karamo rejected the vote, arguing that the process was illegitimate and a violation of state party bylaws. Karamo has called her own meeting for Saturday.
“I’m the chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and that will not change,” Karamo said this week in an interview with NBC News. “Now, per the bylaws, there is a process to remove people, and if that process is lawfully filed, then, yes, I will accept the results. But none of this has occurred.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/swing-state-republican-parties
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'Tuned out': Expert says voters switching off because they can't believe GOP is for real
Voters are still having a hard time wrapping their heads around the fact that the Republican Party is really going to nominate former President Donald Trump for the presidency again, according to an analyst.
That so-called "analyst" should probably be fired.
You idiots knew that Trump was being nominated months ago, and if you didn't you're even dumber than you look.
Just wait until the debates happen and President Trump embarrasses swiss cheese brain President Roomba and makes him cry on stage.
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You dumb motherfuckers might lose New York in November.
Even if you don't, you're doing so bad there that you're going to have to spend a shit ton of money campaigning there when it should have been a Democrat party lock.
Keep pulling kids out of schools so you can house all those battle-aged male illegal invaders on the taxpayer dime and then wonder why everybody is moving out of the city and the state.
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Should Trump win, the story is just beginning
By Steve Schmidt | Jan 11, 2024
On Monday, with Donald Trump sitting in court, his lawyer said Trump, if president, had the constitutional power to order the US military to commit political assassinations. Mark the moment. It took 3,125 days between Donald Trump’s descent down the escalator in Trump Tower until the quiet part was said out loud. Trump is surrounded by people who would kill for power, and kill with power.
Just this week, Trump confidant Roger Stone was caught on tape provoking his security chief, a rogue NYC cop, to assassinate Congressman Eric Swalwell or Jerry Nadler, or both. Stephen Miller, who is speculated about as a potential Trump attorney general, wanted the US military to murder defenseless migrants at sea. He also claimed that cities were turning into war zones during Black Lives Matter protests. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time, Mark Milley, turned towards Miller in the Oval Office and said, “Shut the f@#k up, Stephen.”
Here is the undelivered resignation letter General Mark Milley wrote for delivery to Donald Trump. I hope you will read it. Very slowly. I also hope you will share it with people who might be persuadable in the months ahead. His words matter.
Quote:https://steveschmidt.substack.com/p/should-trump-win-the-story-is-just
“The events of the last couple weeks have caused me to do deep soul-searching, and I can no longer faithfully support and execute your orders as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is my belief that you were doing great and irreparable harm to my country. I believe that you have made a concerted effort over time to politicize the United States military. I thought that I could change that. I’ve come to the realization that I cannot, and I need to step aside and let someone else try to do that.
“Second, you are using the military to create fear in the minds of the people—and we are trying to protect the American people. I cannot stand idly by and participate in that attack, verbally or otherwise, on the American people. The American people trust their military and they trust us to protect them against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and our military will do just that. We will not turn our back on the American people.
“Third, I swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States and embodied within that Constitution is the idea that says that all men and women are created equal. All men and women are created equal, no matter who you are, whether you are white or Black, Asian, Indian, no matter the color of your skin, no matter if you’re gay, straight or something in between. It doesn’t matter if you’re Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jew, or choose not to believe. None of that matters. It doesn’t matter what country you came from, what your last name is—what matters is we’re Americans. We’re all Americans. That under these colors of red, white, and blue—the colors that my parents fought for in World War II—means something around the world. It’s obvious to me that you don’t think of those colors the same way I do. It’s obvious to me that you don’t hold those values dear and the cause that I serve.
“And lastly it is my deeply held belief that you’re ruining the international order, and causing significant damage to our country overseas, that was fought for so hard by the Greatest Generation that they instituted in 1945. Between 1914 and 1945, 150 million people were slaughtered in the conduct of war. They were slaughtered because of tyrannies and dictatorships. That generation, like every generation, has fought against that, has fought against fascism, has fought against Nazism, has fought against extremism. It’s now obvious to me that you don’t understand that world order. You don’t understand what the war was all about. In fact, you subscribe to many of the principles that we fought against. And I cannot be a party to that. It is with deep regret that I hereby submit my letter of resignation.”
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Michael Rappaport fans (I know, that idea is funny) attacked and firebombed by Antifa outside a comedy club before his show that they failed to cancel.
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-agitators-try-to-shut-down-michae
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Four days earlier...
Michael Rapaport Slams Hollywood for Not Speaking About Oct. 7 Hostages at Golden Globes: “Not One Person Said One Thing”
The actor said he was "embarrassed" and apologized on behalf of his profession.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/michael-rapaport-h
ollywood-golden-globes-israel-hostages-1235784135/
You fuckin' Democrat degenerates are all going down.
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Quote:Your story says it was a firecracker, not a firebomb. Big difference. You know what is also a big difference? Rapaport versus Reality. Here is Rapaport:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Michael Rappaport fans (I know, that idea is funny) attacked and firebombed by Antifa outside a comedy club before his show that they failed to cancel.
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-agitators-try-to-shut-down-michae
l-rapaports-portland-comedy-show-over-pro-israel-stance
You fuckin' Democrat degenerates are all going down.
MichaelRapaport @MichaelRapaport
Only ISRAEL would have to defend itself in the International Court Of Jerkoffs while 133 Hostages are still in captivity.
https://twitter.com/MichaelRapaport/status/1745936962098282668
Here is Reality:
Daily death rate in Gaza higher than any other major 21st Century conflict - Oxfam
Israeli military killing 250 Palestinians per day with many more lives at risk from hunger, disease and cold
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/daily-death-rate-gaza-higher-a
ny-other-major-21st-century-conflict-oxfam
6ixStringJack, can you see the difference between Rapaport and Reality?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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I'm no Rappaport fan, and I'm no fan of Israel either, buddy.
This is between all of you dildos.
Who's going to vote for Dementia Hitler in November and who isn't? You're not getting both the Israel loving Rappaport crowd and the Islam loving Antifa/BLM crowd this time.
Who knows? Maybe your guy gets neither of them.
Case in point...
Pro-Palestinian protesters chant ‘f–k Joe Biden,’ damage fence outside White House
https://nypost.com/2024/01/13/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-chant-an
ti-biden-slogans-outside-white-house/
Yeah. Fuck Joe Biden* is right.
Not for the reason you anti-American goons hate him, but I suppose we can agree to disagree for now as long as you stay the fuck off my lawn.
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Quote:I've noticed that many Americans overreact to everything. It is not a new phenomenon. Here's a version from around 1970, 54 years ago:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm no Rappaport fan, and I'm no fan of Israel either, buddy.
This is between all of you dildos.
Who's going to vote for Dementia Hitler in November and who isn't? You're not getting both the Israel loving Rappaport crowd and the Islam loving Antifa/BLM crowd this time.
Who knows? Maybe your guy gets neither of them.
Case in point...
Pro-Palestinian protesters chant ‘f–k Joe Biden,’ damage fence outside White House
https://nypost.com/2024/01/13/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-chant-an
ti-biden-slogans-outside-white-house/
Yeah. Fuck Joe Biden* is right.
Not for the reason you anti-American goons hate him, but I suppose we can agree to disagree for now as long as you stay the fuck off my lawn.
Respect for elders and the five-and-dime are shrinking into the past, and in the Rexall we sell condoms out in the open. Saturday night specials, gangs, nobody's safe, women demanding equal pay, Black Power, inflation over 6%. Vietnam, Russia, MAD, long hair and LSD. If the Arabs decide to embargo oil and take out our automobiles we'll never get through it. Once we would.
I don't think the over-reactors can calm down, except when over-liquored. Alcohol has that effect on the overly excitable, helping them to get through their endless series of stressful days. Others calm down by over-eating. Still others by dreaming of Trump ruling America. These strategies are for losers.
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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Don't worry buddy. We'll remember all the dumb shit that you say and throw it right back in your stupid little face in November.
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Three Scenarios to Replace Joe Biden on the Ballot: Any Chance of Them Happening?
https://themessenger.com/opinion/democratic-convention-replace-joe-bid
en-michelle-obama-gavin-newsom-kamala-harris
The Messenger doesn't think any of these things are going to happen, and on top of that they think that any one of them actually happening will be very bad news for Democrats.
You idiots are stuck with Joe Biden*.
And the media can lie and say nobody wants a Trump vs. Biden* rematch all they want, but the only people not looking forward to that are the ones that are going to be forced to vote Biden* or stay at home.
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Quote:Should Trump win, your problems will not be solved because you will still be you, the source of your problems. But if you want to keep believing that your troubles are external, go ahead and believe Trump will transfer funds from Ukraine to support you. While you are playing make-believe, Trump will also cause your teeth to grow back and your diabetes to be cured. Once he is President, he can make your dreams come true. (NOT so, but believing will make you feel better. Place your faith in the unseen for things which are not seen are eternal. II Corinthians 4:18 )
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Don't worry buddy. We'll remember all the dumb shit that you say and throw it right back in your stupid little face in November.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Grover Cleveland, the former president who did what Trump is trying to do
Sunday, Jan 14, 2024
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-the-former-president-wh
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On George Washington’s birthday in 1892, former President Grover Cleveland urged graduating students at the University of Michigan to “take with you … a strong and abiding faith in the value and potency of a good conscience and a pure heart. Never yield one iota to those who teach that these are weak and childish things, not needed in the struggle of manhood with the stern realities of life.”
The speech embracing Washington’s virtues was “perhaps the most unusual kickoff to a presidential campaign in American history,” wrote Cleveland biographer Troy Senik.
Nine months later, Cleveland won the presidency for the second time, becoming the only person in American history to serve non-consecutive terms in the White House. It is a feat former President Donald Trump is trying to duplicate this year.
Cleveland overcame scandal in his first run for president when he had to admit to having possibly fathered a child out of wedlock — his opponents derisively chanted, “Ma, ma, where’s my Pa?”
But his travails pale in comparison to Trump’s 91 felony charges — and Cleveland’s speech saluting homely American virtues is worlds away from the 2024 Republican frontrunner’s repeated focus on his own grievances, spoken as he travels from primary appearances to courtrooms. And, of course, Cleveland didn’t refuse to accept that he lost his bid for reelection — in 1888 to Benjamin Harrison — as Trump has, claiming without evidence that the 2020 election was a fraud.
Violence and immunity
In the world of legal developments swirling around Trump last week, the most significant was the DC Circuit Court’s oral arguments over his claim to immunity from criminal prosecution under nearly all circumstances.
Right out of the gate, Judge Florence Pan, who emerged as the panel’s most incisive questioner, presented Trump’s counsel John Sauer with a hypothetical that exposed the unthinkable consequences of Trump’s extreme position: Could a president who used his official authority to order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival ever be prosecuted?
The question answers itself, and Sauer couldn’t square his client’s immunity claim with that and other confounding hypotheticals about extreme presidential action — an ominous sign for how Trump’s appeal will ultimately fare.
Placing presidents above the law — by making them immune from criminal accountability — gets separation of powers backward and upends the rule of law.
The SEAL Team Six hypothetical “resonated because it aligns with the Trump we have all come to know: a politician who has encouraged, promoted, justified and even praised political violence, as long as he sees it as a sign of support for him,” Frida Ghitis observed. “And it resonated because Trump is once again sending very clear signals that he endorses and even encourages political violence to support his cause.” He is calling those imprisoned for the Capitol riot “hostages,” rather than people convicted of crimes, Ghitis noted.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Don't worry buddy. We'll remember all the dumb shit that you say and throw it right back in your stupid little face in November.
What problems are those?
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Latest favorability poll by ABC "News" has Trump at 35 Favorable, 56 Unfavorable.
But it also has Joe Biden* at 33 Favorable and 57 Unfavorable.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/biden_favorableunfavora
ble-6677.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorableunfavora
ble-5493.html
Trump's aggregate average is 39.9 Favorable and 55.3 Unfavorable.
Biden*'s aggregate average is 38.9 Favorable and 55.6 Unfavorable.
Watch those Trump numbers start climbing after Trump wins Iowa handily tomorrow and crushes all of those NeoCon Nikkibots.
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