Elections; 2024
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Tomorrow Night. . .
by A.T. on AUGUST 22, 2023
... you’ll have the choice of watching the first Republican debate or else Trump being interviewed by Tucker Carlson.
Carlson, you may recall, texted colleagues such things as:
• “I hate him passionately.”
• “He’s a demonic force, a destroyer.”
• “All [his businesses] fail. What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that.”
• “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.”
For your pre-game entertainment, I commend to you 21 Minutes of Tucker Carlson on Comedy Central.
I cede the balance of my time.
https://andrewtobias.com/tomorrow-night/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Republican scandals: A brief refresher
Just in case anyone could use a refresher, here are the most recent six "scandals" that have preoccupied Republicans during the last two Democratic administrations:
1 Benghazi
2 IRS tea party targeting
3 Hillary's email
4 Durham investigation
5 Afghanistan withdrawal
6 Hunter Biden
And here's how they turned out:
1 Benghazi (2012-14): There was no "stand down" order and no denial of air support. Nobody lied about the cause of the enemy attack. Administration statements were generally accurate given what was known at the time they were made. The "Innocence of Muslims" video really did play a role in the attacks. Security at the consulate was sufficient, and in any case was provided mostly by the CIA, not State. There was no cover-up related to security. The attack was primarily opportunistic, not planned, and was carried out by a mixed group. There was no incompetence on the part of Hillary Clinton or the State Department.
Two years after the attack, all of this was finally acknowledged by Republicans when the House Select Intelligence Committee—controlled by Republicans—issued its final report. Their exoneration of the White House was sweeping and nearly absolute.
2 IRS (2013): Initially it looked like the IRS was targeting tea party groups over their tax-exempt status. However, that was because the initial demand from Republicans was solely for records of conservative groups. It took several years, but when a broader record search was done it turned out that there had been no partisan intent and liberal groups had actually been targeted far more than conservative groups.
3 Hillary's email (2015-16): In the end, the final FBI report showed that Hillary had done nothing seriously wrong. She used a single account hosted on a private server for both work and personal emails, which was probably a mistake in judgment but not done with any intent to withhold anything. There is no evidence that any foreign adversary hacked the server. She turned over all official emails when requested. Before she handed them over her lawyers culled out personal emails, and there's no evidence that any work emails were deleted in the process. Extensive evidence makes it all but impossible that this happened. Her personal server was eventually wiped clean, but this was part of a routine change in record retention policy that was botched by her hosting service. During her time as Secretary of State, she sent and received only three classified emails, all of them trivial. After the fact, State and CIA argued over some other emails—almost none of them initiated by Hillary—with CIA concluding that they should have been classified. Hillary did nothing wrong except for relying on State's classification in real-time. The FBI's report is an almost complete exoneration of Hillary.
4 Durham investigation (2019-23): John Durham was appointed in hopes of demonstrating that the FBI's investigation of Donald Trump's ties to Russia was unfounded and illegal. However, despite continual leaks and feverish indictments insinuating otherwise, Durham never found anything of the sort. In the end, he indicted only three people, all on trivial charges, and even so managed to lose two at trial and win only a plea deal on the third. We know now that, in fact, Trump's presidential campaign did have links to the Russian government. The FBI did have a perfectly sensible reason to open an investigation into this. Vladimir Putin did try to interfere with the election in Trump's favor. There were never any intelligence operations targeting Trump. There were no illegal actions by the Hillary Clinton campaign. And several members of Durham's team did quit because of disagreements with him over prosecutorial ethics. Every leak from Durham produced excited reports from Fox News, but by the time he was finished, he had produced nothing.
5 Afghanistan (2021): Joe Biden didn't set the date of withdrawa
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The 14th Amendment to the rescue
by Bill Press, opinion contributor - 08/22/23
From coast to coast, Republican politicians are breathing a sigh of relief. Even though most of them won’t say it publicly, it’s no secret that, privately, many Republicans don’t really want former President Trump to be their party’s nominee in 2024. They’re just hoping he’ll somehow go away.
Why? Because they know they can’t win with him at the top of the ticket. He’s got too much baggage. As commentator Keith Boykin adds it up, that includes (so far): 91 criminal charges; 26 sexual assault allegations; six bankruptcies; five draft deferments; two impeachments; one convicted company; one fake university shut down; one fake charity shut down; a $25 million fraud settlement; a $5 million sexual abuse verdict; and a $2 million charity abuse judgment.
But for Republicans the dilemma has been, short of a prison term, how were they going to move beyond Trump without totally alienating his loyal base — or, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis calls them, Trump’s “listless vessels”? For months, they’ve been secretly looking for some way to dump Trump without leaving any fingerprints of their own.
Suddenly — notice the big smiles on their faces — they’ve found the answer. It’s their own “deus ex machina.” Now riding to the rescue of Republicans as the way to sideline Trump once and for all is the 14th Amendment.
More at https://thehill.com/opinion/4163774-press-the-14th-amendment-to-the-re
scue/
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Good to hear.
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BREAKING: New lawsuit could FLIP THE HOUSE to the Democrats
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New Trump poll proves Obama and Clinton were right: The GOP base are deplorable, bitter clingers
"Hurt dogs sure do holler." That was the saying that came to mind in 2008 when then-candidate for president Barack Obama drew outrage from Republicans because he described their voters as "bitter" people who "cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them." The phrase came to mind again in 2016, when Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton used the memorable phrase "basket of deplorables" to describe supporters of Donald Trump. Since a cardinal rule of politics is "insult your opponent, but never their voters," the mainstream media picked up and amplified the umbrage-taking from Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-trump-poll-proves-obama-an
d-clinton-were-right-the-gop-base-are-deplorable-bitter-clingers/ar-AA1fBIuO?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f1a25bd5d8bd49dc961a0351731df4df&ei=71
Of course
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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.
tick tock tick tock
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
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.
Uh huh. If it happens, only in deep Blue states that he was never going to win in the first place.
Go ahead and do it. Watch what happens everywhere else.
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According to the constitution, he is automatically disqualified from running after trying to overturn an election.
Nope. Just another lie that your Media is telling you now. How many times have you heard "the walls are closing in on Trump", Ted? How many times do you have to hear it before even you don't believe it anymore.
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He is also on video suggesting we suspend the constitution. Something he was sworn to protect.
And once again, no link provided.
Video or it never happened.
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