Elections; 2024
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Trump is up 0.5 points in the polling aggregate now.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-ele
ction-trump-vs-biden-7383.html
This is a +2.5 point raise since the last sham arrest.
Uh Oh!
CBS poll has Trump at +1.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/general-ele
ction-trump-vs-biden-7383.html#polls
91 sham felony charges aren't working out the way you planned, huh guys and gals?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yanno it's hard for me to be engaged in this thread. Most of the candidates are just meat puppets and Punch-n-Judy shows. Distractions to keep people off balance and derail push for REAL policy changes.
Biden* or Camel? Doesn't matter who you pick the policy stays the same.
At least we have Trump and RFK Jr running, tho. Now, if they can drag honest Congressional candidates after them, that would be great.
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Trump confuses Obama and Biden in speech, warns Biden will lead U.S. into 'World War II'
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The unchanging malleability of Donald Trump
Everyone should know his playbook by now. We should know that Trump will
1) flood the zone with things that are burbling on the right-wing fringe,
2) make sweeping promises without much follow-through and
3) reject any criticism out of hand, spinning it into a reason to praise himself.
And so it was with his interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday.
One of only a few interviews with a traditional news outlet since he announced his 2024 candidacy last November, the discussion began precisely as his 2015 announcement at Trump Tower had begun: He would make America great again in part by repelling the hordes of criminal immigrants flooding into the country.
“They come from prisons. They come from mental institutions, insane asylums,” he said as he was answering the first question from host Kristen Welker. “They say, ‘Sir, please don’t use that term,’ but it’s true.”
As was the case eight years ago, this is not generally true. Some of those seeking to enter the country may have criminal records or even mental illness, of course, but there’s no indication that this constitutes a significant component of those seeking asylum or work in the United States. It’s almost certainly true that the universe of people who have served in senior positions on Trump’s political campaigns is more densely populated with accused criminals than the pool of recent immigrants.
Welker didn’t push back on this claim, in large part because Trump quickly moved on to another bit of patter. Flooding the zone.
She did offer some resistance to his attempt to present the film “2000 Mules” as a legitimate indictment of the 2020 election. Created by Dinesh D’Souza, recipient of one of Trump’s first presidential pardons, the film’s allegations of drop-box-stuffing have been completely eviscerated. When Trump told Welker, for example, that “we have thousands of essentially motion pictures of people stuffing the ballot boxes,” he’s referring to a common belief about the movie that is entirely false. The movie shows only a few examples of someone casting more than one vote at a drop box; none has been shown to have been illegal. One clip, described in the film as committing a crime, was determined to have depicted a man legally adding the ballots of family members. That man is now suing D’Souza.
Welker rejected Trump’s assertion, eager to move on to a different subject. There was probably a way for someone well-versed in the arcana of the allegations to push back harder on Trump’s claims; it’s very safe to assume that his ability to defend the movie is untested and flimsy. But this would almost certainly have simply led to Trump shifting the goal posts somewhere else, until he made a claim that his interviewer didn’t rebut. Falsehoods and conspiracy theories will always find a sturdy enough foundation on which they can rest.
Once you hand Trump a megaphone, he’s going to do with it what he wants. He knows how to use it. This is why it’s better to pretape his interviews, allowing for obvious dishonesties such as the one about “2000 Mules” to be elided or presented with context. For whatever reason, despite taping the interview in advance, NBC chose not to make such edits.
Welker did present Trump with questions about his past actions and future plans. The results were unsatisfying.
Consider Trump’s answer to questions about his efforts to subvert the 2020 election. Welker noted that he’d been told by numerous people, including “the most senior lawyers in your own administration,” that the election was over and he’d lost. She asked why he instead turned to outside attorneys, referring to Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and others.
“You hire them, you never met these people. You get a recommendation,” Trump said. “They turn out to be RINOs” — Republicans in name only — “or they turn out to be not so good. In many cases, I didn’t respect them. But I did respect others. I respected many others that said the election was rigged.”
Later, she asked him if, should he win i
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Keep calling legitimate gripes with how the country is currently being run "right wing fringe" and see where it gets you next year.
I'll have my big 'ole bag of I Told You So's right here waiting for you.
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Quote:I know all about your gripes because I am surrounded by whiny East Texas Trumptards who wrecked their own lives but shifted the blame and responsibility to the "government".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep calling legitimate gripes with how the country is currently being run "right wing fringe" and see where it gets you next year.
I'll have my big 'ole bag of I Told You So's right here waiting for you.
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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On October 3, the Supreme Court will hear a case where the far-right United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declared an entire federal agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, unconstitutional.
In the unlikely event that the justices uphold this decision, a brief filed by the banking industry explains to the Supreme Court, the entire US mortgage market could seize up, as banks will have no idea what rules they need to comply with in order to issue loans.
And this case, known as CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association, is one of at least six cases the Court will most likely decide this term where Fifth Circuit judges issued legally indefensible decisions that will have calamitous results if they are not reversed. That court, which is dominated by the most reactionary Trump appointees and similarly minded judges, has become the forum of choice for litigants pushing preposterous legal arguments that are unlikely to fly elsewhere, even in a very conservative judiciary.
By next June, the Supreme Court is likely to toss out a Fifth Circuit decision nuking the federal government’s power to prevent companies from defrauding investors. It is also likely to reverse a Fifth Circuit decision holding that people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders — meaning that a court has determined that they are a violent threat to their romantic partner or their partner’s child — have a constitutional right to possess a gun.
And, on top of these three cases, which the Court has already agreed to hear in its upcoming term, it will also likely take up three other cases where the Fifth Circuit took leave of its senses. These include Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, which attempts to ban the abortion medication mifepristone; Doe v. Mckesson, which effectively strips political organizers of their First Amendment right to organize a protest; and NetChoice v. Paxton, which allows Texas’s GOP-controlled legislature to seize control of content moderation at social media sites like Twitter or YouTube.
At least for now, in other words, the Court’s upcoming term could potentially be very different from the two that proceeded it, where the Court’s GOP-appointed majority seemed to be on a mission to seek out longstanding precedents that are out of favor within the Republican Party, and destroy them. Those decisions appear to have emboldened the most reactionary voices within the judiciary, leaving the justices with a whole lot of messes to clean up.
Which is not to say that Democrats will have much to celebrate when the justices leave town again next June. Many of the Fifth Circuit’s decisions are so poorly reasoned, and so destructive of the interests of the United States, that it would be genuinely shocking if a majority of the justices sign onto them. The Supreme Court will deserve no credit for moderation simply for reversing these decisions.
That is, if it does reverse them. The Supreme Court is still dominated by conservative Republicans, three of whom were appointed by Donald Trump. So there’s always some risk that a majority of the justices will accept even the most outlandish arguments by their fellow Republican appointees on the Fifth Circuit.
Meanwhile, the Court will hear at least one case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, involving a legal doctrine reviled by the conservative Federalist Society. Loper Bright asks the justices to overrule something known as the “Chevron doctrine,” which limits the power of the federal judiciary (which is currently controlled by the Republican Party) to overrule decisions made by the executive branch (which is currently led by a Democrat).
Additionally, the Court will hear cases that could weaken many civil rights laws, and that could invigorate racial gerrymandering. And it’s likely that the Court will take up one or more cases involving state laws that target transgender youth before the upcoming term is complete.
Even so, it’s hard to miss just how much the Fifth Circuit looms over the justices’ upcoming term. And, whi
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I know all about your gripes because I am surrounded by whiny East Texas Trumptards who wrecked their own lives but shifted the blame and responsibility to the "government".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep calling legitimate gripes with how the country is currently being run "right wing fringe" and see where it gets you next year.
I'll have my big 'ole bag of I Told You So's right here waiting for you.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Shut up, bitch.
November 2024 is going to be a Democrat bloodbath.
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Quote:Trump does not take one position on abortion, imagining flexibility makes him more desirable. It doesn't, except with fools and Trumptards. Here are some excerpts from his musings on abortion:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, bitch.
November 2024 is going to be a Democrat bloodbath.
five months, six months, seven months, eight months, nine months
five, six, seven, eight, nine months
four and five and six months.
you're going to come up with a number of weeks or months
people are starting to think of 15 weeks
DeSanctus is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban
six months, seven months, eight months
a number of weeks or months or however you want to define it
the number of weeks is much more important
something will happen with the number of weeks
Mike Pence said something about 15 weeks too
now all of a sudden he's saying 15 weeks
It's going to be a number of weeks
There is a number, and there’s a number that's going to be agreed to
you will win on this issue when you come up with the right number of weeks
the seventh month or the ninth month or after birth
Trump is obsessed with the notion that he can get the whole country together on abortion by choosing just the right number of weeks when it becomes illegal. Needless to say, there are a limited number of choices here, from 0 to 39, nearly all of which have been discussed at one point or another. And guess what? There's no agreement!
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-september-17-2023-n1
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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He should just come out and say that he doesn't give a shit.
I don't. Most of the country doesn't.
Democrats want to murder babies after their born in current year. They are monsters.
I don't agree with zero abortions under any circumstance either. Fuck those Bible Bouncing Republicans who are just as crooked as the Democrats are.
This is just another example of two sides of extremists having the narrative on yet another topic. Most real people land somewhere in the middle.
The Abortion topic isn't going to save your party when nobody can afford housing.
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