Elections; 2024

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Monday, July 17, 2023 5:43 AM

Donald Trump brands US a 'third-world hellhole' run by 'perverts' and 'thugs'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-t
rump-florida-us-2024-b2376034.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Monday, July 17, 2023 9:08 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Donald Trump brands US a 'third-world hellhole' run by 'perverts' and 'thugs'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-t
rump-florida-us-2024-b2376034.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Biden* is a thug and Hunter is a pervert, and many areas of our once -liveable cities are indeed hellholes.

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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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Monday, July 17, 2023 6:28 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Biden* is a thug and Hunter is a pervert, and many areas of our once -liveable cities are indeed hellholes.

The creators of hellholes live in the city, the county, and the state and it is their responsibility to fix their problems, not the Federal government. But the problem makers think the White House, not themselves, must fix their problem, which is why there are unfixable problems, to begin with.

History explains insults from Trumptards such as Signym and 6ix: Abraham Lincoln probably would have loved the irony. The president so grandly memorialized in marble today was savagely maligned in his own time -- far more than any modern presidential candidate. "Filthy Story-Teller," he was branded during his reelection campaign in 1864. His opponents called him Ignoramus Abe, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, old scoundrel, perjurer, robber, swindler, tyrant, fiend and butcher. And those were just the insults from the North. The rebellious South, literally at war with Lincoln, had its own arsenal. No matter how nasty, how "negative" or personal the intensifying contest between President Clinton and Robert J. Dole may become, it almost certainly will not compare with the viciousness that defined Lincoln's presidential campaign and many others almost from the time the office first was contested. For all the complaints about modern campaigns, presidential races today are positively tame compared with the venom that was spewed almost from the beginning. By the end of George Washington's two-term presidency, partisan politics were emerging, and not even the revered father of the new country was immune from their blistering sting. "If ever a nation has been debauched by a man," wrote Benjamin Franklin Bache, Ben Franklin's grandson, "the American nation has been debauched by Washington." George-bashing by Bache and others was an inevitable result of budding political factionalism represented by Washington's heir apparent, Vice President John Adams, and his opponent in 1796, Thomas Jefferson. It was the dawn of a virulent American tradition.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1996/09/11/when-politics-was-re
ally-ugly/dd3cd4b8-5e85-44de-a795-36e211c1a032/

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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Monday, July 17, 2023 6:36 PM

The far right’s war on “woke” has real-world consequences for the military

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville has held up the confirmation of more than 260 generals for new command posts — including members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the head of the Marine Corps — over his objections to the Pentagon’s abortion policy.

Tuberville, a former football coach who is closely allied with former President Donald Trump, has refused to go forward with the routine confirmations and is essentially using defense policy as leverage to promote his cultural ideology. But the Department of Defense has repeatedly warned that holding up the confirmations is damaging the military’s chain of command at the highest levels.

Any senator can hold up these confirmations, even if the other 99 wish to move forward with them, because of the Senate concept of unanimous consent. The Senate has long relied on unanimous consent to promote military personnel through batch confirmations, but with Tuberville’s hold, the only way to move the confirmations forward would be to vote on them one by one, through regular order. Sen. Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the Associated Press that doing so would take up to 84 days with the chamber working regular, eight-hour days, or 27 days if they worked “around the clock.”

Tuberville’s hold, which could affect 650 military promotions by the year’s end, is based on a misrepresentation of how the Pentagon’s abortion policy works. And he isn’t the only Republican using legislation related to the military to force right-wing policies into defense policy.

More at https://www.vox.com/2023/7/16/23793775/republican-wokeness-pentagon-mi
litary-tuberville

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

THG

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 1:03 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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DeSantis Fires Roughly A Dozen Staffers With More On The Way

Sunday, Jul 16, 2023 - 03:35 PM

The 2024 presidential campaign of Ron DeSantis (R) has fired roughly a dozen staffers, with more 'expected in the coming weeks,' after the Florida governor has failed to gain ground on former President Donald Trump less than two months after he entered the race.

DNC/central committee dems are afraid of RFK, so they attack him

GOP/central committee repubs are afraid of Trump, so they attack HIM.

What they don't realize is that being attacked by TPTB is, to some voters, a badge of honor and validation of the candidates' vote-worthiness.

Seriously, central committees, get a grip.

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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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THG

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 2:33 AM

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Tuesday, July 18, 2023 8:11 AM

The weather is one of the most important political issues. If the GOP wins control of the White House and Congress next year, it will dismantle the green energy subsidies enacted by the Biden administration that lead to a major reduction in emissions.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 8:29 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by THG
CHRIS CHRISTIE LAUNCHES SCATHING ATTACK..

Exactly as I posted.

And you think what Chris Christie says is important to me? Dood, not pledged to the GOP and Christie can flush himself for all I care.

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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

SECOND

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 4:57 PM

The revolutionary Republicans who are determined to establish a Judeo-Christian theocracy in Tennessee

Is Tennessee a Democracy?

by Anne Applebaum

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/tennessee-republican
-partisanship-one-party-state/674732/

What happened when a Republican supermajority gained control—and wasn’t satisfied

Drive along the outer rim of the exurbs north of Nashville, past structures that might be barns or might be wedding venues, around developments called Vineyard Grove or New Hope Village, and eventually you will arrive at what is meant to be the new headquarters of the election commission of Sumner County, Tennessee. A featureless one-story brick warehouse with some makeshift offices attached, it has just enough space for the tiny handful of election-commission employees, the 275 voting machines that they recently purchased, and maybe some of the maintenance workers who used to share rooms with them, back when the agency was still in the basement of the county-administration building.

Dusty picnic tables crowd against the wall. An elementary school stands a few hundred yards away. Nothing about this building or its location screams “controversy.” But when Sumner County’s local elections brought a faction that calls itself the Constitutional Republicans to power last year, that is what it nevertheless became.

To fully grasp this story, you need to understand that the standard forms of American political polarization don’t exist in Sumner, a rural but rapidly suburbanizing county where Democrats are not part of the equation at all. None has won any county office for more than two decades. Instead, the main opponents of the Constitutional Republicans, who won 14 out of 17 seats on the county commission (following a general election in which only 15 percent of eligible voters cast ballots), are the ordinary Republicans—or, as their opponents would call them, RINOs (“Republicans in name only”). The Constitutional Republicans’ website explains that RINOs are different from themselves: “They raise taxes, they vote to silence the citizens, they won’t protect private property rights. They often partner with Democrats to defeat true Constitutional Republicans like us.”

Upon taking over the county commission, the Constitutional Republicans issued a document formally declaring that their activities will be “reflective of Judeo-Christian values inherent in the nation’s founding.” They also shut down the HR department, tried to privatize a public historic building, and refused to pay for the election commission’s move to the brick building, although it had been agreed on by the previous administration. The old offices—three basement rooms that recently flooded—were too small to store the new voting machines, and also insecure. The entrance to the basement stood right beside a cashier’s window where dozens of people were lined up to pay taxes on the day I visited. The county commissioners are unmoved by those arguments. “If we don’t fund it, you don’t get to do it,” Jeremy Mansfield, one of the Constitutional Republicans on the county commission, told the election commission at one public meeting about the move last fall. At a meeting in June, another county commissioner, angered because the new voting machines had been delivered to the new building, said that although he would “hate to pull the ace card,” the commission could always “declare this property surplus, and sell it.” That would leave the election commission, and its machines, with nowhere to go.

The building seems a small thing to get worked up about. But Facebook posts and videos of public meetings, all available online—the Constitutional Republicans are very transparent—make clear that this is not a trivial jurisdictional dispute and these are not petty people. They have ambitions and interests that extend well beyond their county. Their Facebook page reacted to the news of Donald Trump’s latest indictment by declaring, “The Biden family is an organized crime family,” and “Our justice system is rigged against Trump.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 9:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Is Tennessee a Democracy?

A question that Democrats always ask when they don't like the results of elections after people wake up and vote against their policies that ruin lives.

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