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Whatever dude. Didn't read.
Meanwhile... in reality.
Despite the constant fear of the fake pandemic, CNN can't even crack 1 million viewers anymore.
Bet they're regretting helping Biden* steal the election right about now.
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Quote:{Sarcasm On} Donald Trump, hero of the rule of law in Election 2020
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Whatever dude. Didn't read.
Bet they're regretting helping Biden* steal the election right about now.
Brit Hume cries foul:
This story never explains why the plan these officials threatened to resign over did not go forward. The answer is that Trump decided against it. It is not to his credit that he even considered it, but his rejection should be part of any story on it. https://t.co/omyOSJbkhu
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 7, 2021 {/Sarcasm Off} Brit Hume is an infamous apologist for Trump on Fox News, so unsurprisingly the story he tells is FAKE:
THE REAL STORY:
[On January 3] then-acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, his deputy Richard Donoghue, and a few other administration officials met in the Oval Office for a final confrontation on Trump’s plan to replace Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a little-known Justice Department official who had indicated he would publicly pursue Trump’s false claims of mass voter fraud.
....For three hours, the officials then debated Trump’s plan, and the insistence by Rosen and others that they would resign rather than go along with it.
During the meeting, Donoghue and another Justice Department official made clear that all of the Justice Department’s assistant attorneys general “would resign if Trump replaced Rosen with Clark,” the report says. “Donoghue added that the mass resignations likely would not end there, and that U.S. Attorneys and other DOJ officials might also resign en masse.”
....A key issue in the meeting was a letter that Clark and Trump wanted the Justice Department to send to Georgia officials warning of “irregularities” in voting....The Senate report says opposition to the idea came not only from the Justice Department but from the top White House lawyer, Pat Cipollone, who made clear that he and his deputy also would quit if Trump went through with his plan.
Yes, Trump "decided" against it after spending three hours trying to strong-arm the Justice Department into publicly lying about mass voter fraud. In the end, he "decided" against it only after the entire top level of the Justice Department threatened to publicly resign and were joined by Trump's own White House counsel.
That Trump. He's is quite the hero of the rule of law, isn't he?
https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-hero-of-the-rule-of-law/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Constitutional Reforms Come in Waves. We May Be Approaching One Now.
In U.S. history, previous periods of gridlock and partisanship eventually gave way to bursts of constitutional amendments. Periods of extreme political polarization, when the normal channels of legal change are blocked off due to partisan gridlock and regional divides, can usher in periods of constitutional reform to get the political system functioning again.
Our national charter has been reformed — and its principles renewed — in four waves of constitutional change that occurred during the most turbulent times in American history.
1) The first was from 1789 to 1804, when the founding generation added a dozen amendments in a 15-year period. Chief among them was the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments, adopted in a single bundle to reassure skeptics that a strong national government could be tempered with respect for individual liberty. They also adopted the 11th and 12th Amendments that, respectively, limited citizens’ lawsuits against states and fixed some defects in the Electoral College.
2) Then all was quiet on the constitutional front for 61 years, until after the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1870, Republican lawmakers used six years of supermajority control of Congress to drive a second era of amendments that abolished slavery, promised equal citizenship for 4 million newly freed African Americans and barred racial discrimination in voting. Taken together, these amendments laid a “second founding” for a nation sundered by war. They gave Congress robust new powers to remedy racial injustice while imposing meaningful limits on the excesses of state governments.
3) And then there was another four decades of polarization and gridlock, marked by the pervasive corruption and vast inequities of the Gilded Age. Eventually, the political pendulum swung and brought a progressive political coalition to power. At the prodding of social movements from the populists to the suffragists to the temperance warriors, lawmakers sought to reverse the extravagance of the previous era. Between 1909 and 1920, Progressive Era reformers added four amendments that authorized the income tax, provided for the popular election of senators, launched Prohibition and extended the franchise to women. The spectacular failure of the nationwide liquor ban notwithstanding (the 21st amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933), these amendments established the foundation for the modern U.S. government.
4) Finally, a fourth wave, inspired by the political activism of the 1960s’ civil rights era, added three voting rights amendments to the Constitution: presidential electors for the District of Columbia, abolition of the poll tax, and the lowering of the voting age to 18. A fourth amendment, the 25th, updated and clarified the rules of presidential and vice presidential succession amid the doomsday fears of the nuclear age. The last of this wave was the 26th Amendment, the voting age measure, ratified in 1971.
Today, we find ourselves five decades into the latest dry spell. After the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1980s, many progressives concluded that the Constitution’s arduous amending process is not worth the effort. For their part, conservative activists have launched campaigns to win a balanced budget amendment and other ideological policies, which has only bolstered a sense among many that it’s unwise and even dangerous to tinker with the framers’ handiwork.
But this sense of defeatism is not new. In 1904, the Washington Post dismissed reformers’ “amendatory schemes,” offering the hard-boiled take that “our fundamental law is practically unamendable by peaceful and regular methods.” And yet, just a half-decade later, that pessimistic prognosis was proven wrong when Congress proposed the first of the Progressive Era amendments.
The presence of certain factors that have prompted past generations of Americans to push for constitutional amendments suggests that a new wave may already be building. Discontent over controversial Supreme Court rul
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Second can't wait until the US abandons the Constitution.
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Quote:Since Trump stopped paying his income taxes, he should make it official by revising the Constitution and repealing the 16th Amendment -- Income Tax
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Second can't wait until the US abandons the Constitution.
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913. The 16th Amendment changed a portion of Article I, Section 9
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amen
dment-xvi
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The top 1% followed Trump's example and stopped paying income tax. What happened then?
This happened: America’s middle class now holds a smaller share of U.S. wealth than the top 1%.
The middle 60% of U.S. households by income -- a measure economists often use as a definition of the middle class -- saw their combined assets drop to 26.6% of national wealth as of June, the lowest in Federal Reserve data going back three decades.
While “middle class” has different meanings to different people, many economists use income to define the group. The 77.5 million families in the middle 60% make about $27,000 to $141,000 annually, based on Census Bureau data.
More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/top-1-of-u-s-earners-now-hold-mo
re-wealth-than-all-of-the-middle-class/ar-AAPhNyL
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Yeah? How much stupid shit did they buy?
I've got more money than I did 10 years ago and my paid-for-house is worth twice what it was when I bought it.
I've worked less than 4 years out of the last 10, and they were both part time jobs making just above minimum wage. And none of that money came from the stock market.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Since Trump...
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Second can't wait until the US abandons the Constitution.
Second can't wait until the US abandons the Constitution.
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Vaccinated People: "You need to get muh vaccination shots that don't work because I got muh vaccination shots that don't work and I'm afraid of people that didn't get muh vaccination shots that don't work because muh vaccination shots that don't work don't work."
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Quote:And what is the sum of your life? Zero. It is probably time for you to make your life-story the news as did this retired Postal Service worker:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah? How much stupid shit did they buy?
I've got more money than I did 10 years ago and my paid-for-house is worth twice what it was when I bought it.
I've worked less than 4 years out of the last 10, and they were both part time jobs making just above minimum wage. And none of that money came from the stock market.
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689821599/fbi-finds-no-motive-in-las-ve
gas-shooting-closes-investigation
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Remember when Jimmy Carter Banned All Muslim islamic immigration from Iran?
Afghan refugees are 'walking out' of US military bases before they are resettled
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10050423/Afghan-refugees-walk
ing-military-bases-resettled-amid-vetting-questions.html
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https://news.yahoo.com/cruz-gop-senators-press-biden-193435670.html
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