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Elections; 2024

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Sunday, July 7, 2024 8:38 AM

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


‘The Dred Scott of Our Time’

By Sean Wilentz | July 4, 2024

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/07/04/the-dred-scott-of-our-time/

The majority opinion in Trump v. United States, the most sweeping judicial reconstruction of the American presidency in history, secures the monumental historic disgrace of the John Roberts Court. Since last winter, the Supreme Court has intervened directly in the 2024 presidential campaign by effectively shielding Donald Trump from being tried on major federal charges before the November election. No previous Supreme Court has protected a political candidate in this way. Far more ominously, in March the Court in Trump v. Anderson openly nullified the section of the Fourteenth Amendment that bars insurrectionists from holding federal or state office, discarding basic lessons about threats to American democracy dating back to the Civil War. Now, in Trump v. United States, handed down on the last day of its 2023–2024 term, the Court has seized the opportunity to invent, with no textual basis, “at least presumptive” and quite possibly “absolute” presidential criminal immunity for official acts, a decision so broad that it essentially places the presidency above the law.

By throwing Trump’s federal indictments into doubt, Trump v. United States all but completes the former president’s immunization from legal accountability for the events of January 6, 2021, at least until after the election. But that is only the decision’s narrowest ambit. Its vague distinction between official and unofficial presidential acts gives any president carte blanche to commit crimes up to and including assassination and treason with virtual impunity from criminal prosecution, as long as he can justify those crimes as part of his “official” duties. In effect it invests the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, repudiating the foundational principle of the rule of law. Trump and his supporters have pledged to wield unfettered executive power and unleash a scorched-earth assault on the “deep state,” which is to say the existing constitutional and institutional order, if he is reelected. In the current crisis, that threat’s most powerful ally is the Supreme Court of the United States.

The Roberts Court has descended to a level of shame reserved until now for the Roger B. Taney Court that decided the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857. Just as that court’s majority sought to suppress the antislavery Republican Party and to help permanently secure the Slave Power’s control over American law and government, so the Roberts Court majority has sought, thus far successfully, to protect Trump from prosecution and to secure radical changes in American law friendly to MAGA authoritarianism. The Supreme Court has once again willfully placed itself at the center of a presidential election on which the future of American democracy turns.

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

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Sunday, July 7, 2024 8:51 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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No previous Supreme Court has protected a political candidate in this way.


The Supreme Court merely formalized what's been happening for decades.


Presidents have been getting a "pass" on clearly illegal behavior, including lying us into war, censoring communications, killing citizens without due process, condoning torture, spying on people en masse, waging lawfare against political opponents, puting the interests of corporations and bankers over those of Americans, while the equally corrupt Congress has been supine.

It's up to Congress to stop Presidential crimes.

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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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Sunday, July 7, 2024 9:27 AM

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


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

It's up to Congress to stop Presidential crimes.

Have you noticed that Congress has avoided since 1942 its core responsibility to declare war? That's in the Constitution but Congress hasn't been up to the task for 82 years despite all the undeclared wars America has been in.

It is NOT in the Constitution for Congress to be the jury for ex-presidents and their crimes. Since half of Congress will be politically related to the ex-president, making Congress the jury is nonsense, Signym. Why not go all the way and make 12 members of Trump's family the jury? Who can better impartially judge Trump than his family who have known him all their lives? That will serve justice! (NOT!)

About Declarations of War by Congress
https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/declarations-of-war.htm

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

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Sunday, July 7, 2024 9:28 AM

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"I'm a pretty conservative guy when it comes to national security. But I have to tell you that, you know, spending 33 years at CIA and watching literally hundreds of world leaders during that time, President Trump's personality traits deeply concerned me, what I believed to be deep narcissism, what I believed to be deep paranoia, what I believe to be a type of sadism where you—not sexually, of course, but a type of sadism where you, you know, are happy when your opponents have been injured in some way—I'm talking politically—that those were all traits that I saw in foreign leaders who did significant damage to their country and significant damage to the democracies of their country."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cia-official-january-6-jim-jorda
n-republicans-1921744


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

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Sunday, July 7, 2024 9:52 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters.

President Joe Biden walked before a row of flags and took his place at a lectern stamped with the presidential seal. A few feet in front of him, thin panes of teleprompter glass, programmed with prewritten remarks, were positioned to meet his stare as he spoke into a microphone that would carry his voice through a soundsystem. His White House press secretary looked on. So did several senior White House officials. Anxiety clung to the humid summer air. What the president was about to say might determine the future of his presidency and perhaps the Republic itself.

Yet this was not to be some grand pronouncement about war or peace or a shift in domestic policy. He was not delivering an official address or even a rally speech. He was not onstage in a stadium or auditorium or perched on a platform in a gilded government or hotel ballroom. He was not speaking to a crowd of thousands or even hundreds. There would be no video of his statement carried live to the world. There would be no photos. And there would be no published audio.

In a tent on the backyard patio of a private home in suburban New Jersey, the president was eye to eye with a small group of powerful Democrats and rich campaign donors, trying to reassure them that he was not about to drop dead or drop out of the presidential race.

The content of his speech would matter less than his perceived capacity to speak coherently at all, though much of what he would say would not be entirely decipherable. His words as always had a habit of sliding into a rhetorical pileup, an affliction that had worsened in the four years since he began running for president for the third time in 2020. He might begin a sentence loud and clear and then, midway through, sound as if he was trying to recite two or three lines all at once, his individual words and syllables dissolving into an incoherent gurgle.

...

Obsessive efforts to control Biden were not a new phenomenon. But whereas in the last campaign, the incredible stagecraft surrounding even the smallest Biden event — speaking to a few people at a union hall in rural Iowa, say, or in a barn in New Hampshire — seemed to be about avoiding the so-called gaffes that had become for him inevitable, the stagecraft of the 2024 campaign seems now to be about something else. The worry is not that Biden will say something overly candid, or say something he didn’t mean to say, but that he will communicate through his appearance that he is not really there.

The display early Saturday evening was the last of seven campaign events held across four states in the 48 hours that followed the first presidential debate.

Bet you didn't know THAT was going on, did you? Joe Bidens handlers weren't expending what little energy he has on reassuring the American voter, but on reassuring BIG DONORS.

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Just the day before, the Wall Street Journal had published a report that described how the president’s “frail” appearance and inconsistent “focus and performance” presented challenges on the world stage. At the G7 summit in Italy in June, Biden had the distinction of being the only world leader who did not attend a private dinner party where candid diplomatic talks would happen off-camera. At a European Union summit in Washington in October, Biden “struggled to follow the discussions” and “stumbled over his talking points” to such a degree that he required the intervention of Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
And we all remember Xi's visit to California, at Biden's press conference with Blinken nervously clasping his hands, how Blinken stilled in horror and dismay when Biden went off script (again) and called Xi a "dictator".


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Those who encountered the president in social settings sometimes left their interactions disturbed. Longtime friends of the Biden family, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, were shocked to find that the president did not remember their names. At a White House event last year, a guest recalled, with horror, realizing that the president would not be able to stay for the reception because, it was clear, he would not be able to make it through the reception. The guest wasn’t sure they could vote for Biden, since the guest was now open to an idea that they had previously dismissed as right-wing propaganda: The president may not really be the acting president after all.

Those who encountered the president in social settings sometimes left their interactions disturbed. Longtime friends of the Biden family, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, were shocked to find that the president did not remember their names. At a White House event last year, a guest recalled, with horror, realizing that the president would not be able to stay for the reception because, it was clear, he would not be able to make it through the reception. The guest wasn’t sure they could vote for Biden, since the guest was now open to an idea that they had previously dismissed as right-wing propaganda: The president may not really be the acting president after all.

Others told me the president was becoming increasingly hard to get ahold of, even as it related to official government business, the type of things any U.S. president would communicate about on a regular basis with high-level officials across the world. Biden instead was cocooned within mounting layers of bureaucracy, spoken for more than he was speaking or spoken to.

Saying hello to one Democratic megadonor and family friend at the White House recently, the president stared blankly and nodded his head. The First Lady intervened to whisper in her husband’s ear, telling him to say “hello” to the donor by name and to thank them for their recent generosity. The president repeated the words his wife had fed him. “It hasn’t been good for a long time but it’s gotten so, so much worse,” a witness to the exchange told me. “So much worse!”

Who was actually in charge? Nobody knew. But surely someone was in charge? And surely there must be a plan, since surely this situation could not endure? I heard these questions posed at cocktail parties on the coasts but also at MAGA rallies in Middle America. There emerged a comical overlap between the beliefs of the nation’s most elite liberal Biden supporters and the beliefs of the most rabid and conspiratorial supporters of former President Trump. Resistance or QAnon, they shared a grand theory of America in 2024: There has to be a secret group of high-level government leaders who control Biden and who will soon set into motion their plan to replace Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee. Nothing else made sense. They were in full agreement.


MORE AT https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/conspiracy-of-silence-to-prote
ct-joe-biden.html


This explains the asterisk I place after BIDEN*.

Not, as SECOND insinuates, bc I don't think Biden* won the election (altho I have my doubts about that too) but bc I think Biden's* underlings are running the show, using Biden* as a cover for their policies.

What concerns me now is what those people will do, now that their cover is blown.

Will they go "pedal to the medal" to implement as much of their policy as possible as quickly as possible, before their WH operation is folded?


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Sunday, July 7, 2024 1:06 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Donors bail from the Biden campaign

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Mega-Donors Cut Off Biden, Prepare PACs To Fund 'Mini-Primary' And New Candidate
Sunday, Jul 07, 2024 - 08:05 AM

On Saturday, a fifth Democratic member of Congress called for embattled, enfeebled President Biden to quit the 2024 presidential race. Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig also became the first incumbent in a tight race to do so, saying, "I do not believe that the President can effectively campaign and win against Donald Trump."

Coupled with reports that Senate intelligence committee chair Mark Warner is point man in a drive to organize Senate Democrats into a united front urging Biden to quit, the political pressure is clearly mounting. However, Biden is also under rapidly-rising pressure along a second front, as major Democratic donors are not only telling him to quit, but are closing their checkbooks -- or creatively using them to pave the way for a new candidate.

One of those deeply-disenchanted donors is Netflix co-founder
Reed Hastings, who gave more than $20 million to boost Democratic candidates in recent years, including upwards of $1.5 million for Biden's 2020 campaign. Last week, Hastings publicly called for Biden to quit. He reiterated that stance after watching Biden's terrible Friday interview with George Stephanopoulos, telling ABC News. "Biden is unfortunately in denial about his mental state. He needs to step aside to let a vigorous Democratic leader beat Trump."

Then there's Kase Capital Management portfolio manager Whitney Tilson, who told ABC, "[Biden]'s not in [a] condition to handle the rigors of the presidency for another four years...All of us are standing by to see what happens here. Even the wealthiest people have limitations to money." More bluntly, he took to Twitter to say, "Biden's campaign is a ghost. It's over."

Rather than simply moving to the sidelines, some mega-donors are engaging in creative political-financial engineering -- such as former Inuit and Paypal CEO Bill Harris, who donated $620,000 to the Biden Victory Fund in 2020 and told ABC that, given his performance in the debate and the Stephanopoulos interview, most observers would see Biden's departure as "inevitable." ... Harris is laying the financial groundwork for a Democratic "mini-primary" to choose Biden's replacement (Tony Avelar/Bloomberg via Forbes)

On Friday, Harris announced that his Democrats for the Next Generation PAC was committing to spend $2 million "to fund a series of debates among prominent candidates to become the Democratic nominee for president if Biden steps aside." Some are referring to the concept as a "mini-primary" -- and it's seen by many as a mechanism for ensuring that Kamala Harris isn't tapped merely by virtue of her title.

Bill Harris waved off Democrats' unease about a potentially messy and divisive process for picking a new candidate. “It’s not that we have to protect ourselves from chaos and drama,” Harris told the Washington Post. “We need drama and a little chaos. I think it can be refreshing and energizing.”

In addition to drama and chaos, there's some major branding confusion in the mix, as another group of deep-pocketed Democrats -- led by crypto billionaire Mike Novogratz and Hollywood moviemaker Andrew Jarecki -- is launching a nearly-identically-named "Next Generation PAC".

That group has even grander plans: raising up to $100 million for what might be characterized as a political escrow and incentive fund, designated to promote a successor 2024 Democratic standard-bearer. If Biden is on the November ballot, the fund would be redirected to promote down-ballot candidates -- and not Biden.

In the wake of Biden's debate disaster, the first notes of alarm among major Democratic benefactors came via anonymous quotes. Now, they're pouring out of the woodwork to publicly declare their convictions that Biden needs to step aside. A sampling:

Filmaker and heiress Abigail Disney said she's withholding planned donations to a Biden-backing constellation of groups that included the Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee, super PACs and nonprofits. "[They] will not receive another dime from me until they bite the bullet and replace Biden at the top of the ticket,” she told the Times.

Damon Lindelof, who created the "Lost" TV series, posted an opinion piece in Deadline calling for a donor "DEMbargo" targeting not only Biden but also other candidates -- to be called off only if Biden quits.

Los Angeles real estate billionaire Rick Caruso tweeted, "In this vital election, stepping aside is the right and honorable thing for President Biden to do."

Gideon Stein, chairman of AI advertising firm WriteLabel, is withholding $3.5 million in contributions pending Biden's ouster. He told the Times that he and almost every other big donor he's in contact with think "a new ticket is in the best interest of defeating Donald Trump.”


Amid all the angst, some wealthy donors are turning on each other. Many are angry with Hollywood tycoon and top Biden fundraiser Jeffrey Katzenberg, who's seen as having perpetrated a sort of fraud by concealing Biden's mental decline as he persuaded reluctant donors to give him their money. As one unnamed Hollywood figure and Democratic booster told the Financial Times:

“[Katzenberg] would say, ‘He’s fine, I was just with him. He had this famous quote for everybody, which was ‘I’m happy to put you in a room with him and you’ll see for yourself.’ But nobody did it.”


Ironically, the Katzenberg angle and the entire "Biden-is-sharp-as-a-tack" scam have the makings of a great Hollywood movie...that is, if Hollywood would allow some frank introspection



*******
And I will again ask the questions asked in the previous post


If Biden is unfit to run in a campaign, is he fit to be President?
And who's been running the country anyway?


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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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Sunday, July 7, 2024 1:53 PM

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"I'm a pretty conservative guy when it comes to national security. But I have to tell you that, you know, spending 33 years at CIA and watching literally hundreds of world leaders during that time, President Trump's personality traits deeply concerned me, what I believed to be deep narcissism, what I believed to be deep paranoia, what I believe to be a type of sadism where you—not sexually, of course, but a type of sadism where you, you know, are happy when your opponents have been injured in some way—I'm talking politically—that those were all traits that I saw in foreign leaders who did significant damage to their country and significant damage to the democracies of their country."

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cia-official-january-6-jim-jorda
n-republicans-1921744


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



Nobody needs another CIA spook lying to them about Trump again.

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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Sunday, July 7, 2024 1:58 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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But I have to tell you that, you know, spending 33 years at CIA and watching literally hundreds of world leaders during that time, President Trump's personality traits deeply concerned me, what I believed to be deep narcissism, what I believed to be deep paranoia, what I believe to be a type of sadism where you—not sexually, of course, but a type of sadism where you, you know, are happy when your opponents have been injured in some way—


What would he say about SECOND?

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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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Sunday, July 7, 2024 3:01 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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But I have to tell you that, you know, spending 33 years at CIA and watching literally hundreds of world leaders during that time, President Trump's personality traits deeply concerned me, what I believed to be deep narcissism, what I believed to be deep paranoia, what I believe to be a type of sadism where you—not sexually, of course, but a type of sadism where you, you know, are happy when your opponents have been injured in some way—


What would he say about SECOND?



Why should anybody care what he has to say about Trump or Second?

What about being in the CIA makes you qualified to dole out psychiatric diagnosis for people you've never met and certainly didn't attend to in a medical/professional setting?

Wishy called me a narcissist all the time. It's one of their go-to buzzwords when they're feeling nice and don't just come right out and call you a Nazi on that day.

Just because you're CIA that doesn't mean your opinions on other people are nothing more than dollar store diagnosis.

*yawn*.

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Trump will be fine.
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Monday, July 8, 2024 7:31 AM

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I was wrong about Biden. The worst feeling in the world

By Matthew Yglesias | Jul 08, 2024

https://www.slowboring.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-biden

But I’d still be a Democrat who cares about the interests of poor people and a woman’s right to choose and who thinks it’s a bad idea to enact budget-busting tax cuts for the rich. Indeed, I am still a Democrat today and I’ll vote for Biden over Trump any day of the week. Trump is a criminal and an insurrectionist, but I also just don’t agree with Republicans’ policy ideas. What I would like is for the Democrats to beat Trump.

This piece is already long, so I’ll write more about what I think Democrats’ options actually are in future pieces. For now, though, I’ll just say that I think the case for Biden over Trump remains strong, but the only people who are going to buy it are people who are comfortable with the idea of Kamala Harris taking over. Which just means that at this point, Harris would be a stronger nominee than Biden. The interesting question is whether there are even stronger options and how we would know. But people who are able to communicate with the president, with the president’s family, or with his inner circle of advisors should tell them clearly that the best way for the president to preserve his legacy as The Man Who Beat Trump is to let someone else do it in November.

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

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Monday, July 8, 2024 1:38 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


The analysis of a Democrat candidate has been sidetracked onto the question of "vigor". Or, more importantly, Joe or no Joe.

Anxiety is now so extreme that Dem voters will be diverted from issues, and they will be relieved just to have SOMEBODY firmly selected, WHOEVER IT IS.
AND WHATEVER THEIR RECORD.

I think this elaborate skit of "throwing Joe under the bus" could be just another manufactured "crisis" that will, once again, be used by TPTB to jam yet another meat puppet into office so policies can continue as usual.

No Dem will close the border.
No Dem will negotiate a security agreement with Russia.
No Dem will rein in government debt.
No Dem will end government censorship and propaganda by the media.
No Dem will try to unify Americans under commonsense policies and common identity.
It would be all bullshit, all the time.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme choses. (The more things change, the more they stay the same.)



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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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Monday, July 8, 2024 3:32 PM

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Originally posted by second:
I was wrong about Biden. The worst feeling in the world

By Matthew Yglesias | Jul 08, 2024

https://www.slowboring.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-biden

But I’d still be a Democrat who cares about the interests of poor people and a woman’s right to choose and who thinks it’s a bad idea to enact budget-busting tax cuts for the rich. Indeed, I am still a Democrat today and I’ll vote for Biden over Trump any day of the week. Trump is a criminal and an insurrectionist, but I also just don’t agree with Republicans’ policy ideas. What I would like is for the Democrats to beat Trump.

This piece is already long, so I’ll write more about what I think Democrats’ options actually are in future pieces. For now, though, I’ll just say that I think the case for Biden over Trump remains strong, but the only people who are going to buy it are people who are comfortable with the idea of Kamala Harris taking over. Which just means that at this point, Harris would be a stronger nominee than Biden. The interesting question is whether there are even stronger options and how we would know. But people who are able to communicate with the president, with the president’s family, or with his inner circle of advisors should tell them clearly that the best way for the president to preserve his legacy as The Man Who Beat Trump is to let someone else do it in November.

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



Translation: I'm an idiot who votes Democrat no matter how badly I get lied to, and it's really not my fault because I'm a really really good person who's better than anybody who would vote against who I vote for.

Get fucked, Matthew.

You were wrong about Biden*, but you're only recognizing that for the most superficial of reasons now that it's become the popular decision to do so.

You little fucking coward. You disgust me.

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Thursday, July 11, 2024 6:03 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union...



Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and gained weight, he aged prematurely. Also like them, his disabilities never led to his abdication.

By Brezhnev’s late sixties and early seventies, he was too ill to travel abroad or make public appearances. Indeed, his debility left the Soviet Union without a real leader for the final six or seven years of his tenure.

Brezhnev got away with it because the Soviet state-controlled media doctored photos and videos to attest to his supposedly vigorous health and constant hands-on involvement.

“Journalists” sent out false communiques. They spun narratives that Brezhnev was robust, hale, and working long hours on behalf of the Russian people. Any dissenting journalists who sought to report the true, sad state of affairs were in danger of losing their jobs, freedom—or even their lives.

Instead, the “reporters” of Pravda (“Truth”), the official print megaphone of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, wrote lies about Brezhnev’s busy workdays. Pravda’s handlers spun fables about the respect (and fear) the rest of the world held for such a dynamic leader—even as Brezhnev became an ill virtual recluse.

The cynical Russian people shrugged because they had long been accustomed to their lying media and the falsehoods they peddled. And besides, Brezhnev was a doctrinaire Stalinist communist. So his job was not to rock the boat or upset the Russian communist hierarchy.

Instead, he reigned over the penultimate Soviet “era of stagnation,” while an ossified communism increasingly destroyed all incentives and hope, leaving the Russian people poor, cynical, and helpless.

Something similar has happened to a calcified America under President Joe Biden. Like the late-stage Leonid Brezhnev, Biden is now a president in name only. He has outsourced his administration to a vestigial hard-left apparat from the Obama years.

Now, Biden can no longer even perform his assigned ceremonial tasks of putting a moderate veneer on radical, nihilist agendas that are stagnating the country.

Yet our Pravda journalists have sworn to the American people that, in private, the reclusive, three-day-a-week Biden outpaces the energy and drive of those half his age. Obsequious staffers plant stories in the Soviet-like ears of reporters about Biden’s singular dynamism.

Any dissenters are publicly demonized as peddlers of “cheap fakes.”

When Biden’s reclusiveness prompts too much gossip that he is near senile, he is wheeled out for a staged interview that must be edited before release. Or he answers questions secretly shown to him in advance.

On sporadic occasions where the state media and the Biden nomenklatura cannot control events—such as rare presidential debates or international summits—our Pravda media go into overdrive to convince the public that what they see and hear is not real.

In the end, Brezhnev could not even hobble to the May Day dais to celebrate communism’s national holiday.

He soon reached the point that his debilities were so manifest that even his hirelings and the media could not hide them. He then vanished from public view, leaving the Russian people with no idea as to who was running their communist nation.

Then one day, Soviet propagandists announced suddenly but matter-of-factly that the dynamic Brezhnev had died and that his successor, Yuri Andropov, was now brilliantly running the Soviet Union.

Biden, too, is at that point of stasis.

He cannot do press conferences, town halls, debates, or real interviews. To do so would confirm to the public the truth: that Biden is too cognitively challenged to continue his presidency.

And yet the cloistered Biden can no longer hide during a campaign season with his accustomed three-day workweek.

The media has done its best to continue its Orwellian ruse.

They claim that Trump interrupted Biden (he did not) in the recent debate and that he lied (if so, not as much as did Biden). Sometimes, the press corps just blurts out that an inert, left-wing Biden is still preferable to a dynamic, conservative Trump.

What is next for our increasingly Soviet state?

We will continue to be lectured on the vigor of Biden—until one day we aren’t, when Biden either steps down—or worse.

Then, our Pravda will likely present the new official narrative.

They will convince us that his successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, is an underappreciated genius whose past portfolios led to solving the border crisis and renewing American dominance in space.

One day, the same reporters who swore Biden was a virtual Socrates behind closed doors and then suddenly just confessed he was not when their lies were no longer operative will sing the praises of our new comrade leader—the brilliant, accomplished, eloquent, and articulate Kamala Harris.


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Who Is Favored To Win The 2024 Presidential Election?
538 uses polling, economic and demographic data to explore likely election outcomes.

Trump wins 51 times out of 100
in our simulations of the 2024 presidential election.

Biden wins 49 times out of 100.

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What the Democrats doubting Biden have in common

They're more moderate, while his backers are progressive and racially diverse.

By Nathaniel Rakich via five thirty eight

July 10, 2024, 2:09 PM

https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-doubting-biden-common/story?id=11
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A clear pattern emerges for Democrats who have expressed concerns about Biden's candidacy. This group is significantly more moderate than the Democratic caucus as a whole; their average DW-NOMINATE score is -0.319. (DW-NOMINATE is a measure of ideology based on roll-call votes, where 1 represents the most conservative and -1 represents the most liberal. The average Democratic member of Congress has a DW-NOMINATE score of -0.376.)

Biden doubters also hail disproportionately from swing states or districts. Thirteen out of 37 represent places that Biden lost in 2020 or won by fewer than 10 percentage points. This makes sense when you think about it: The reelection of representatives like Rep. Susan Wild could hinge on how well the Democratic presidential nominee does in their districts, and they may fear that Biden will drag them down with him if he loses big. And for others on this list, such as Sen. Jon Tester, expressing concerns about Biden's age could be part of an overall strategy to distance themselves from a president who will probably lose in their home constituency.

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"Vice President Tulsi Gabbard"

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Much as I would love to see thta, it's wishful thinking...

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If it wasn’t evident going into yesterday that President Joe Biden was going to need to step aside, all doubts should now be out of the way.

For his opening act on Thursday, Biden made his way out of bed and to the NATO summit across town, all for the honor of stepping on stage and referring to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy — whom U.S. taxpayers have gifted hundreds of billions of dollars at Biden’s direction to fight Russia — as “President Putin”. To refer to Zelenskiy as Putin, and at a NATO event nonetheless, is about as big of a f*ck up as you can possibly make given the world’s geopolitical climate right now.

This would have been like introducing President George W. Bush throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium after 9/11 as “President Osama Bin Laden”.


And if you weren’t in stitches after his first set, Biden returned later in the evening for an encore at the much heralded ‘Big Boy’ press conference he had been scheduled to give in order to show the world, to quote the movie Big Daddy, that he could “wipe his own ass”.

But instead of instilling confidence in the nation, Biden coughed, mumbled and stumbled his way through about an hour’s worth of prepared remarks and softball questions.

At one point, he referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”.

Sadly, Biden is slurring his words far more noticeably each day. Even for a skeptic of Biden’s, I had to sigh and turn the press conference off before it finished, writing on X last night: “He is cooked. This has to be the end.”

In other words, even for us conservatives, libertarians and critics of the Biden administration, it’s just getting difficult to watch. Each day jokes about elder abuse look closer and closer to reality, and the humor of a massive clusterf*ck in the Democratic political arena is eroded away by the blossoming realization that it’s simply depressing to watch a human being — somebody’s son, father and husband — deteriorate publicly, without dignity, and surrounded by people too cowardly to do the right thing for him.

Parkinson's?

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The gaffes last night quickly shot down what little chance Biden had of trying to stay in the race, in my opinion. I know it’s technically “up to him” but the powers that be couldn’t have scripted a worse outcome than him calling Zelenskiy “Putin” and then calling Harris “Trump”. Biden’s goose is cooked, mark my words.

This means, as I pointed out days ago, the Democrats are likely going to promote Vice President Airhead to the potential nominee spot, despite her outright horrific polling in the 2020 primaries and the fact that for the most part it appears the country still finds her detestable.

And while the Trump campaign has publicly stated they are happy to sit back and watch the Democrats self-immolate, I also believe they are holding off on announcing their Vice President pick until the Democratic nominee is solidified. There’s going to be a significant amount of strategy that goes into Trump’s VP pick: pick someone innocuous because you’re leading or continue on offense? Target minority demographics with a person of color or pick the best person for the job? Find someone who can be as aggressive as Trump or settle for someone who knows how to play the role of second fiddle? I played out a number of these scenarios last month.

Without trying to answer all of these questions, I’m certain I can answer one: if Kamala Harris winds up as the Democratic nominee, Trump must pick Tulsi Gabbard as his Vice President. There is no better option.

Not only is Tulsi world famous for having already beat Kamala to a pulp during the 2020 primary debates… [link]

…but she’s also is extraordinarily intelligent and well spoken…[link]

…and happens to be an active member of the U.S. military and a woman. She didn’t have to do any “favors” to make her way in the political world, she has had the courage to stand up to the most terrifying political force, the Clintons, in 2019 accurately calling Hillary the “personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long”.

Additionally, Tulsi’s long held non-interventionist foreign policy ideas fall in line with Trump’s policy of “let’s just use some common sense and get these global conflicts settled and stop the killing, regardless of who is deemed the ‘winner’”. She has made it clear that avoiding World War 3 is far more important to her than prolonging wars and changing regimes overseas. While Nikki Haley’s lobbyists may not like this, it’s what’s best for the nation.

If you’re a Trump strategist, you have to know that Tulsi not only immediately throws a wet blanket over all the independents who would vote for Kamala because she’s a woman, but in my opinion would also be a perfect compliment for Trump’s style. Tulsi could soften Trump’s image up a bit — she is rife with charming moments — but could also help hold the ‘edge’ Trump conducts business, especially foreign policy business, with. At the end of the day Tulsi went to boot camp and, let’s be honest, could probably kick Kamala Harris’ ass in a fight.

But, like Trump, I’m sure she’d rather just emanate ‘peace through strength’. And you can say what you want about that strategy, but it kept us out of wars and kept the world at peace for the 4 years Trump was in office. It’s tough to argue with those results. Aloha, Tulsi!



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Who would expect that "America's Mayor" is crooked? Anyone who knows Trumptards but isn't one themselves.

A New York judge dismissed Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy case on Friday, clearing the way for two Georgia election workers to try and recover nearly $150m Giuliani was ordered to pay them for defaming them after the 2020 election.

The ruling by US bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane comes after lawyers for the two women, Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shaye Moss, as well as other creditors accused Giuliani of concealing information about his finances. The judge also prevented Giuliani from refiling for bankruptcy within one year.

“Since day one, Giuliani has regarded this case and the bankruptcy process as a joke, hiding behind the façade of an elderly, doddering man who cannot even remember the address for his second multimillion-dollar home and claims impending homelessness if he must sell that second multimillion-dollar home,” lawyers for creditors wrote in a filing earlier this month.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/12/udy-giuliani-b
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Trump wants a VP that won't say Trump lost. Tulsi is that vapid VP!

Tulsi Gabbard was asked about Donald Trump's ongoing election denialism. Maher said it was a good question for Gabbard, who supports Trump's presidential ambitions.

"Trump did not admit he lost the election in 2020... You have to say, 'I lost,' because that makes the system work."

Gabbard's response, however, called Biden "insane" and called out the current president's claim that climate change is the biggest "existential threat" to Americans.

She said the "true existential threat" is that we are close to a nuclear war. (With whom? And why?)

"You haven't answered, and I want you to," Maher said. He then asked her again about if Gabbard should support someone who can't admit he lost the election.

"What you've heard from Trump is the same thing you've heard from Hillary Clinton," Gabbard said.

"That's over there, Tulsi," Maher said Friday evening, before reading a statement on the security of the 2020 election.

Gabbard said Trump has vowed to accept the results "if it's a free and fair election."

"I just read it to you! This was a free and fair one, so he obviously doesn't admit that he's lost when it's free and fair," Maher said, asking, "Why would it be different this time?"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-just-read-it-to-you-bill-mah
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It wasn't a free and fair election. You changed the voting laws in all the swing states over Covid panic and had harvesters out there burning Trump ballots and stuffing the ballot boxes all over the cities with the Biden* votes.

Any of the states that didn't close that up and still allow it will now be used by Republicans for cheating as well. Let's see which party can cheat better.

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MSNBC Panel: Worried Biden Is Getting Information About His Political Prospects That's Not Based In Reality

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/07/11/msnbc_panel_worried
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Awwwwwww... They all look so crestfallen. :(



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Trump insisted Biden had raised the price of bacon four-fold. “We don’t eat bacon anymore,” Trump said. Check price and production of bacon:




This might be the most trivial Trump falsehood ever, but that's sort of the point. He'll literally make up anything.

The price of bacon is up a mere 14% since Trump left office, and if you adjust for wages it's cheaper than when Trump left office. Meanwhile, total bacon production is 13% higher than it was when Trump left office. For better or worse, the American love affair with bacon is far from over.

Why would anyone make up lies as frivolous as this? Because Trump lives in a fantasy world where everything has to be the worst ever in history unless he was personally involved with it. His brain is so badly beyond repair that I suspect he literally can't help himself, and he's surrounded by sycophants who will never confront him with the truth. This is not a man fit to be president of the United States.

https://jabberwocking.com/yes-donald-trump-even-lies-about-bacon/

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Remember when we used to ask important questions instead of blathering about bacon???

WHOSE FINGER ON THE BUTTON?






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Tulsi Gabbard: Lift. Run. Shoot.



KEEP HAMMERING: EXTENDED INTERVIEW
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Having watched/listened to hundreds of hours of Tulsi Gabbard over the years, I’ve noticed a few things.

First, she’s not a natural public speaker, nor is she really comfortable in front of the camera. So, she has worked very hard on crafting a public persona which is not easy for her to slip into but which is also authentically her.

Because she is uncomfortable, that face begins to slip after a while…. about an hour. I always get the sense that there is a ‘macho military’ version of Gabbard lurking just below the surface, that swears like a mafia don and prays like a priest. And every once in a while it leaks out.

But it will never do so in a six-minute segment on Fox News.

You’ve got to get past that fatigue barrier.

The reason I bring all of this up is because Gabbard was recently on the Keep Hammering Collective podcast with Cameron Hanes for nearly two hours.

She did that podcast after spending the day with him doing his triathalon he calls Lift, Run, Shoot which I suggest you watch the video of, especially if your name is Donald Trump...

So, I say, turn about is fair play. Biden was Obama’s insurance policy, make Gabbard Trump’s. Because, if there is one person of all the people on the short list to be Trump’s VP that Davos et.al. do not want to see on the ticket it is Tulsi Gabbard.

Because she really is that person who walked away from power, has a strong moral center, and is authentically motivated by service. And that motivation, coupled with their previous shots against her, like they’ve done with Trump, should scare them maybe more than he does.

Remember, Trump’s ultimately a deal-maker. Is Gabbard? Open question.

This is why every trial balloon imaginable has gone up in the past three months for the usual suspects like Skeletor Scott, his separated at birth brotha Tim, Little Marco, Tom Cotton Pickin’ Neocon, etc… They are trying to move Trump to tick boxes rather than choose the whole person.

The only person other than Gabbard that gets their globalist goat more is Gen. Mike Flynn.

But, really, go watch the real Gabbard emerge in the 2nd half of the Cameron Hanes podcast. She knows who they are. She told them to “GFY,” but has too many manners to say it publicly.

Beneath that calm demeanor is someone deeply angry.

Even if she tries to hide the real fire in her belly while she’s auditioning for the role.

And, lastly, she understands the threats and dangers to civilization itself these people represent.

Because Gabbard is the real deal, folks.

I thought it before. I know it now.

You can’t fake what she has. And that’s an insurance policy whose payout is more than even the ghouls at Globalist Central can afford.







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"I Was Shot": Trump Responds After Assassination Attempt; Shooter Dead; Secret Service Reportedly Ignored Warnings

The moment it happened

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1812250005987844593/mediaViewer?curren
tTweet=1812250005987844593¤tTweetUser=nicksortor


One Trump supporter told the BBC that he and others saw the shooter before the assassination attempt, alerted police and the secret service, and was ignored...

https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/1812265909727396107/mediaViewer?cur
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"I Was Shot": Trump Responds After Assassination Attempt; Shooter Dead; Secret Service Reportedly Ignored Warnings

The moment it happened

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1812250005987844593/mediaViewer?curren
tTweet=1812250005987844593¤tTweetUser=nicksortor


One Trump supporter told the BBC that he and others saw the shooter before the assassination attempt, alerted police and the secret service, and was ignored...

https://x.com/SharpFootball/status/1812265909727396107/mediaViewer?cur
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They might as well shut it all down. This election is over.



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He was shot by a far-right republican.

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They might as well shut it all down. This election is over.

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The Christian Nationalists plan on stealing the election for Trump. They cannot be stopped because God is on their side:

A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump.

These previously unreported plans are the work of a group named Ziklag, a little-known charity whose donors have included some of the wealthiest conservative Christian families in the nation, including the billionaire Uihlein family, who made a fortune in office supplies, the Greens, who run Hobby Lobby, and the Wallers, who own the Jockey apparel corporation. Recipients of Ziklag’s largesse include Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the Christian legal group that led the overturning of Roe v. Wade, plus the national pro-Trump group Turning Point USA and a constellation of right-of-center advocacy groups.

ProPublica and Documented obtained thousands of Ziklag’s members-only email newsletters, internal videos, strategy documents and fundraising pitches, none of which has been previously made public. They reveal the group’s 2024 plans and its long-term goal to underpin every major sphere of influence in American society with Christianity. In the Bible, the city of Ziklag was where David and his soldiers found refuge during their war with King Saul.

“We are in a spiritual battle and locked in a terrible conflict with the powers of darkness,” says a strategy document that lays out Ziklag’s 30-year vision to “redirect the trajectory of American culture toward Christ by bringing back Biblical structure, order and truth to our Nation.”

Much more at https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-char
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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

"I Was Shot": Trump Responds After Assassination Attempt; Shooter Dead; Secret Service Reportedly Ignored Warnings






He was shot by a far-right republican.

T




I'm sure he was, Ted. I'm sure he was.

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Nah...

He looks like one of yours, Ted.





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Kyle Mann, the Babylon Bee’s editor-in-chief, added, “When you call your political opponent Hitler for 4 years, don’t act surprised when you inspire your followers to try to kill him.”


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-halts-trump-hitler-ads-after
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Quote:

Kyle Mann, the Babylon Bee’s editor-in-chief, added, “When you call your political opponent Hitler for 4 years, don’t act surprised when you inspire your followers to try to kill him.”


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-halts-trump-hitler-ads-after
-assassination-attempt


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Yup. I think Joy Reid and Jake Tapper should be fired immediately from MSNBC and CNN. Rachel Maddow as well. Then move on to round two of firing. Not layoffs. Contract destroying firing that will leave them with zero severance and benefits.

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America’s Democracy Was Never That Healthy
Since its founding, the country has been in a perpetual state of division.

The Problems With U.S. Democracy Can Be Traced Back to America's Founding

By Nick Bryant | July 14, 2024

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/07/14/american-politics-history-revolut
ionary-war-polarization-trump-biden/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921


The advice I used to impart to young correspondents arriving at the BBC’s bureau in Washington was to remember that the United States had fought a civil war in the mid-19th century and was still arguing over the terms of a fractious peace.

Much like the modern-day phrase “sorry but not sorry,” which is used sarcastically to indicate a lack of remorse, the brief ceremony at Virginia’s Appomattox Court House in April 1865, which brought the armed fighting to an end, was a surrender but not a surrender. White supremacists in the states of the old Confederacy wanted still to reign supreme. Little over a decade later, following the collapse of Reconstruction—an attempt to make good for African Americans the promise of emancipation—enslavement was replaced by segregation. Across the American South, Jim Crow was in the chair.

Now, though, I would amend my advice. I would urge young reporters to reach back even further into history. The roots of modern-day polarization, and even the origins of former President Donald Trump, can be located in the country’s troubled birth. Division has always been the default setting. Victory over the British Redcoats at the Battle of Yorktown paved the way for independence but did not mean U.S. nationhood was a given.

Between the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783 and the start of the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787, it seemed as if the states might enter into two or three confederations rather than a singular nation as the former British colonies struggled to overcome their antagonisms. “No morn ever dawned more favourable than ours did,” a melancholic George Washington wrote to James Madison in November 1786, “and no day was ever more clouded than the present!”

The Constitution that Washington pushed for, and which was eventually hammered out in Philadelphia, was in many ways an agreement to keep on disagreeing. Compromises that prolonged and protected the institution of slavery—a Faustian bargain that became the price of national unity—created a fault line that was always likely to rupture and explode. It rumbles to this day. Even a Black presidency could not repair the breach.

So many contemporary problems can be traced back to those founding days. U.S. democracy has become so diseased because for most of the country’s history, it has not been that healthy. “We the People,” the rousing words that opened the preamble to the Constitution, was not conceived of as an inclusive statement or catchall for mass democracy. Rather, this ill-defined term referred to what in modern terminology might be called the body politic. Much of the deliberations in Philadelphia focused on how that body politic should be restrained in an intricately designed straitjacket, hence the creation of countermajoritarian mechanisms such as the Electoral College and Senate.

To describe the outcome as an experiment in “democracy” is misleading: The Founding Fathers did not care for the word, which is nowhere to be found either in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. When the country’s second president, John Adams, used the term “democratical,” it was intended as a slur. The fear of what some of the founders called an “excess of democracy” explains the thinking behind a quote from Adams that has resurfaced during the Trump years: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Adams’s fear was not of unchecked presidential power, the meaning projected onto the quote in relation to Trump. More worrying for him was unchecked people power.

The right to vote was never specifically enshrined in the Constitution, an omission that continues to astound many Americans. To this day, there is no positive affirmation of the right to vote. It is framed negatively—it should not be denied, rather than it should be granted. With good reason, voting is often called the missing right.

Not until the mid-1960s, with the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, did the United States finally achieve what could truly be described as universal suffrage. In the South, Black people could finally cast ballots without being subjected to humiliating “literacy tests,” where they would be asked unanswerable questions such as how to interpret arcane clauses of state constitutions.

No sooner had this landmark legislation become law, however, than efforts to reverse it cranked into gear. So began what has turned out to be a decades-long campaign of de-democratization. It was spearheaded by the Republican Party, which needed to restrict minority voting rights because the demographic trend lines, and the transition toward a minority-majority nation, were thought to favor the Democrats.

These efforts were aided to a disconcerting degree by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court, with rulings that drastically weakened the provisions of the Voting Rights Act. For example, in 2013, Shelby County v. Holder gutted the act’s all-important Section 5, which forced jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination to “preclear” with the Justice Department any proposed voting changes. In a 5-4 judgment, the conservative justices decided that preclearance was now obsolete because voter registration had shown such dramatic improvements. Yet as the liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointed out in an unusually strong dissenting opinion, ending preclearance was akin to “throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

The insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, then, should not be seen in isolation. It was the culmination of a prolonged assault on democracy that predated the rise of Trump. The attack continued, moreover, after the insurrectionists had been dispersed and the floors of Congress scrubbed clean of excrement. That night, 147 Republicans returned to the chambers to cast votes to challenge or overturn Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

Political violence is a core part of the U.S. story, although much of this history has often been buried and concealed. At the end of the 1960s, a commission appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate why the United States was so prone to political assassination concluded that the country suffered from “a kind of historical amnesia or selective recollection that masks unpleasant traumas of the past.” It also noted that “the revolutionary doctrine that our Declaration of Independence proudly proclaims is mistakenly cited as a model for legitimate violence.”

Indeed, the Jan. 6 insurrection showed how political violence is still seen as legitimate and even rendered glorious. Many of the insurrectionists chanted “1776” as they stormed the Capitol. “We’re walking down the same exact path as the Founding Fathers,” claimed Stewart Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper with a Yale University law degree. (Rhodes helped establish the Oath Keepers, a militia group launched on April 19, 2009, the anniversary of when rebels and Redcoats first exchanged fire.) The day before the insurrection, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene described it as “our 1776 moment.”

Many far-right extremists are inspired by words from Thomas Jefferson that, unlike the poetry of his Declaration of Independence, never made it into high school textbooks or onto the teleprompters of modern-day presidents. “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical,” Jefferson wrote in 1787, a quote that has now become a far-right meme. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots” is another of Jefferson’s sayings that has been co-opted by modern-day militias.

Often I recall the day of Biden’s inauguration, which took place on a platform that only two weeks earlier had been used as a staging post for the insurrection. It was festooned with red, white, and blue bunting, but it still felt like a crime scene that should have been sequestered with yellow tape. As I made my way to my camera position on the press stand, I noticed that technicians were testing the giant teleprompter in front of the presidential podium. And I recognized the words on the screen: “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.”

The teleprompter had been loaded with the 272 words of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in November 1863. Maybe it was some kind of sick joke. A rogue technician, perhaps, with a dark sense of humor. But these passages from the country’s most celebrated sermon could hardly be described as out of place. The question at the heart of the speech, and which had also been posed at the country’s founding, was being asked anew: Can this nation long endure?

My sense—my ardent hope—is that the conditions do not yet exist for all-out armed conflict, a second civil war, partly because the United States has accumulated so much muscle memory in coping with its perpetual state of division. But nor do the conditions exist for reconciliation and rapprochement. Nowhere near. So the United States occupies a strange betwixt and between: close to abyss, but a step or two back from the edge. Going to hell, as the wit Andy Rooney once observed, without ever getting there.

The U.S. historian Richard Hofstadter, famed for identifying what he called the “paranoid style in American politics,” put it well: “The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.” The fact that Hofstadter published those words at the start of the 1970s speaks to how the United States remains stuck in a rut—revisiting the same arguments, going over the same ground. Americans remain tethered to their contested past. The news cycle is the historical cycle in microcosm. As Lincoln put it in his message to Congress in December 1862: “We cannot escape history.”

So even if the United States does not descend into civil war, it is hard to envision it ever reaching a state of civil peace. The forever war will continue: America’s unending conflict with itself.

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Kyle Mann, the Babylon Bee’s editor-in-chief, added, “When you call your political opponent Hitler for 4 years, don’t act surprised when you inspire your followers to try to kill him.”


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-halts-trump-hitler-ads-after
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Signym, make a list of things that prove Trump is not evil:

Trump's tax cheating is not evil.

Trump's rapist history is not evil.

Trump's cheating his contractors is not evil.

Trump's declaration that he will be a dictator seeking revenge is not evil.

Trump's claim he won in 2020 when he actually lost is not evil.

There are many more things that Signym has to declare are not evil because Trump did those things. Try googling What is the worst things Trump has done?
https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+the+worst+things+Trump+has+don
e


Here are few top 10 lists on Trump:

The 10 Worst Things Trump Did in 2020
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-10-worst-things-trump-did-in-2020/

Chronicling Trump’s 10 worst abuses of power
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/politics/trump-worst-abuses-of-power/in
dex.html


Top Trumps: the 10 worst things the former president said this year
Hard to keep track of all the racist, unhinged, authoritarian comments by the former president? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/27/worst-things-that-trum
p-has-said


With all the evil activities that Trump has participated in and the evil words spewing from his mouth and his gluttony, it is a wonder that he is alive.

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Monday, July 15, 2024 11:39 AM

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Fuck off with your lies and propaganda.

Nobody takes anything you say seriously because all of your sources were the very same ones telling everybody that Joe Biden* still had his wits about him the last 4 years.

Your beliefs are a joke. Your sources are a joke. You are a joke.

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Monday, July 15, 2024 12:04 PM

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Please, dear god, someone mercifully drag Joe offstage

Quote:

"We Settle Our Differences At The Battle Box" - Biden Oval Office Speech Marred By Latest Huge Gaffe

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-settle-our-differences-battle-b
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Monday, July 15, 2024 12:56 PM

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Did you see yesterday where he almost said we need to Make America Great Again before somebody shocked him with his collar and then he ended up just trailing off with that thought.

He got all the way to "Great" before somebody zapped him.



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By David Faris | July 15, 2024 3:00 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/trump-assassination-attemp
t-political-violence-democracy-threats.html


The shooting is already feeding Trump's martyrdom complex and the cult of personality that has arisen around him. He could, in theory, try to bring the country together this week at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. But we know he won’t because his campaign — indeed his entire political career — thrives on anger, fear, and chaos. He alone can fix it, he will almost certainly say again, even though he has spent years slyly glorifying or joking about violence against his political adversaries. Without chaos, he is nothing but an aging showman.

Once the tenuous bonds that hold individuals and groups together in a society are broken, they are difficult to repair. Widespread communal violence traumatizes those who survive the maelstrom, and each act of inhumanity makes restoring the trust required to operate a democratic political system more challenging. As Kirsten Dunst’s war reporter remarks in Alex Garland’s Civil War, “Every time I survived a war zone, I thought I was sending a warning home: Don’t do this. But here we are.”

Here we are indeed. The United States lacks some of the obvious precursors for widespread political violence of the kind that can lead to civil war. There are not large gangs of rival militias or would-be state-makers competing for power in the streets. Despite all the Second Civil War talk and secessionist cosplaying, there has not been incessant violence between either Democrats and Republicans, nor anything like meaningful threats between “red” and “blue” states. Very few people actually want to break up the country, and even fewer really want to fight each other in the streets.

But there are worrying signals. In 2020 the United States failed to transfer power peacefully between political parties for the first time since the Civil War. The outgoing president whipped up a mob of furious supporters, sharing a delusion about a stolen election, who then swarmed the U.S. Capitol, many of them hoping to harm members of Congress and disrupt the certification of the election. The attack left several people dead. That man, the subject of Saturday’s assassination attempt, refused in 2016 and 2020 to say he would accept the results of the election, and he refuses to do so today. He has made common cause with other dictators, courted and flattered them, and plainly wishes to emulate them. He has convinced tens of millions of rank-and-file Republicans that the president is a fraud who stole the 2020 election. He has threatened, in word and deed, to further erode the nation’s beleaguered democracy.

The American political system failed comprehensively to head off this threat. Senate Republicans declined to convict him after his second impeachment, the justice system moved molasses-like, allowing Trump and his allies time to regroup, and the Supreme Court disgracefully thwarted every conceivable avenue to hold him accountable. Those who want to avoid a descent into Lebanon-style chaos must now work together to finish the job that America’s political institutions could not—peacefully, at the ballot box, while standing up for the core values of liberal democracy.

Anything else is madness. And you truly do not want to experience where that madness leads.

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Monday, July 15, 2024 5:47 PM

SIGNYM

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The shooting is already feeding Trump's martyrdom complex and the cult of personality that has arisen around him...


Well, first of all, this is mind reading. I don't know that Trump feels like a martyr, and neither does the dickwad who wrote this.

But, yanno, if he DID feel like a martyr it might have to do with being endlessly and maliciously painted as a "racist", a "Putin puppet", a "threat to democracy", "Hitler", "tyrant" etc.

And being endlessly hounded thru two impeachments and multiple trials on exaggerated or made-up charges.

And who could forget calls to stop Trump pretty much by any means necessary.

And... being shot at.

So, yanno, if he DID feel like a martyr, maybe the answer is to stop persecuting him, and conduct political rivalry fair and square.

Like, maybe by coming up with policies that reflect the interests of the average American, and not the uberwealthy and deepstate wonks.

But that would be too fucking obvious.

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

The shooting is already feeding Trump's martyrdom complex and the cult of personality that has arisen around him...


Well, first of all, this is mind reading. I don't know that Trump feels like a martyr, and neither does the dickwad who wrote this.

But, yanno, if he DID feel like a martyr it might have to do with being endlessly and maliciously painted as a "racist", a "Putin puppet", a "threat to democracy", "Hitler", "tyrant" etc.

Why don't you google Trump martyr ? Trump does have a martyr complex.
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+martyr

And why don't you google Trump refuses to concede that he lost the election ?
Trump is a threat to democracy because he won't concede that he lost an election.

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Monday, July 15, 2024 7:42 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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The shooting is already feeding Trump's martyrdom complex and the cult of personality that has arisen around him...


Well, first of all, this is mind reading. I don't know that Trump feels like a martyr, and neither does the dickwad who wrote this.

But, yanno, if he DID feel like a martyr it might have to do with being endlessly and maliciously painted as a "racist", a "Putin puppet", a "threat to democracy", "Hitler", "tyrant" etc.

Why don't you google Trump martyr ? Trump does have a martyr complex.
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+martyr

And why don't you google Trump refuses to concede that he lost the election ?
Trump is a threat to democracy because he won't concede that he lost an election.

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




At this point, idiot, Trump IS a martyr. You may have been able to deny that by lying about the fact that everything the Joe Biden* administration has done to him already put him into martyr territory, but Saturday changed everything.

Trump did win the election. Democrats changed the entire rules surrounding elections in a few key states and sent their ballot harvesters out to burn all the Trump votes and stuff the ballot boxes with all the Biden* votes they collected.

Any state where they were foolish enough not to change those laws back are going to be lost to Democrats when Republicans do it better.



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Monday, July 15, 2024 7:51 PM

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I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I'M not sure he lost the election.

The validation of votes, the security of the vote counting, was so loosey -goosey I don't see how some states could certify the vote.

I would need to see a forensic audit of some counties' procedures and data to decide, on the basis of evidence, whether any particular vote was valid. This has not been done, except in Maricopa County, and I'm satisfied with that result.

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Monday, July 15, 2024 7:54 PM

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I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

KNOW A HERO WHEN I SEE ONE

The Washington Post names me along with @elonmusk
as one of several businessmen who are using their “megaphones” to spread “narratives” about the assassination attempt on President Trump.

I’m not sure what “narratives” they’re referring to, but I know what I saw, and I know what the crowd in Butler witnessed live.

At it turns out, my father-in-law lives in Pennsylvania and he was at the rally on Saturday. When the shots rang out and Trump went down, he said pandemonium broke out around him. Everyone feared the worst.

But then Trump rose. Covered in his own blood, resisting the secret service’s efforts to whisk him away to safety, Trump raised his fist defiantly, and the crowd could see him say: “Fight. Fight. Fight.”

Immediately the fear of the crowd dissipated, the chaotic uncertainty lifted, and it was replaced with steely resolve. The crowd responded back as one: “USA, USA, USA!”

This is not a “narrative.” It is the truth. Trump stood defiant in the face of an assassin’s bullet. There is no way to fake courage like that.

It was more important for Trump to let the crowd know that he was unbowed and unbroken than to be taken to safety.

Donald Trump has already been in the fight of his life for months, as vindictive Democrats seek to imprison him, but on this day he came within inches of losing it. He has risked everything for this country.

It is now up to us, the American people, to show him that he does not stand alone. Let us reject the lies, the hoaxes, the hate and the division that the media has spread about this brave man, and support his resounding victory in November.


https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/1812681510438486422


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Trump did win the election.

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'M not sure he lost the election.

The validation of votes, the security of the vote counting, was so loosey -goosey I don't see how some states could certify the vote.

I would need to see a forensic audit of some counties' procedures and data to decide, on the basis of evidence, whether any particular vote was valid. This has not been done, except in Maricopa County, and I'm satisfied with those result.

Trump denied he lost and Signym denies he lost and 6ix denies Trump lost. All of you are threats to democracy because you all deny the results of elections.

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'M not sure he lost the election.

The validation of votes, the security of the vote counting, was so loosey -goosey I don't see how some states could certify the vote.

I would need to see a forensic audit of some counties' procedures and data to decide, on the basis of evidence, whether any particular vote was valid. This has not been done, except in Maricopa County, and I'm satisfied with those result.

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None of that even matters, Sigs.

The one thing that nobody, including Trump, has brought up is the fact that with anybody able to go door to door to collect other people's votes, that leaves the door wide open to untraceable vulnerabilities.

Unless you had body cameras on these ballot harvesters 24/7 from the moment they started until the day they were finished, there's no way you could catch somebody just putting any vote for Trump in the shredder before turning all the Joe Biden* votes in. And even if you did have a bodycam on them 24/7, it wouldn't mean anything. While they were out harvesting the next batch, they could have friends and family separating the votes they'd already collected back home.

The same thing could have, and likely did happen to some degree by ballot harvesters who were working for Trump and/or republicans. But they weren't only ill equipped to work that as well as the Democrats were able to, and they spent all their time arguing that only in person voting should be allowed instead of just playing the game by the Democrats' new rules, when we were already well beyond that ever happening in the 2020 election.

2024 is a new year. A new election.

Nobody is crying over 2020. We're just looking at that sham election in 2020 realistically and we can make a promise that it won't be repeated. In fact, it might go so poorly for them come this November that the Democrats become the party that starts demanding voter ID for elections.

Hopefully the Republicans haven't changed their mind on the issue by that point and we can finally lock up the elections and make every vote legitimate.


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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

2024 is a new year. A new election.

Nobody is crying over 2020. We're just looking at that sham election in 2020 realistically and we can make a promise that it won't be repeated.


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Not a surprise that in your mind Trump can't lose. 6ix, you are threat to Democracy because you won't accept election results unless Trump wins.

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Monday, July 15, 2024 8:13 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

2024 is a new year. A new election.

Nobody is crying over 2020. We're just looking at that sham election in 2020 realistically and we can make a promise that it won't be repeated.


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Not a surprise that in your mind Trump can't lose. 6ix, you are threat to Democracy because you won't accept election results unless Trump wins.

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You forgot to include the entire explanation how the Democrats cheated the 2020 election.

Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

None of that even matters, Sigs.

The one thing that nobody, including Trump, has brought up is the fact that with anybody able to go door to door to collect other people's votes, that leaves the door wide open to untraceable vulnerabilities.

Unless you had body cameras on these ballot harvesters 24/7 from the moment they started until the day they were finished, there's no way you could catch somebody just putting any vote for Trump in the shredder before turning all the Joe Biden* votes in. And even if you did have a bodycam on them 24/7, it wouldn't mean anything. While they were out harvesting the next batch, they could have friends and family separating the votes they'd already collected back home.

The same thing could have, and likely did happen to some degree by ballot harvesters who were working for Trump and/or republicans. But they weren't only ill equipped to work that as well as the Democrats were able to, and they spent all their time arguing that only in person voting should be allowed instead of just playing the game by the Democrats' new rules, when we were already well beyond that ever happening in the 2020 election.

2024 is a new year. A new election.

Nobody is crying over 2020. We're just looking at that sham election in 2020 realistically and we can make a promise that it won't be repeated. In fact, it might go so poorly for them come this November that the Democrats become the party that starts demanding voter ID for elections.

Hopefully the Republicans haven't changed their mind on the issue by that point and we can finally lock up the elections and make every vote legitimate.



Until you have a valid response to that, which there is no valid response, you can just go right ahead and shut the fuck up for me now.



You are the threat to Democracy by your enabling of your own party to change the rules as they go along.

I warned you that you should try to get your party to close those Covid voting loopholes. They closed none of them. Now they're going to pay the price.

The problem with Democrats is they can't play chess. Everything is about instant gratification with Democrats, so they are only capable of thinking one move into the future.

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You forgot to include the entire explanation how the Democrats cheated the 2020 election.

Your entire explanation is fiction. 6ix, you are a threat to Democracy because of your imaginary stories that "prove" Trump won in your mind. Trump can't lose. It is in your signature:
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You forgot to include the entire explanation how the Democrats cheated the 2020 election.

Your entire explanation is fiction.



No. It's not.

There is zero evidence you could EVER possibly provide to debunk it.

I'm sure some Republicans tried to take advantage of these Democrat related loopholes as well, but most of them were still arguing for in-person voting on election day only while the Democrats were out in full force cheating.

This year, both sides are going to cheat in the states that allow it.

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6ix, you are a threat to Democracy because of your imaginary stories that "prove" Trump won in your mind.


It's not imaginary. If you open the door up for wide-open, untracable cheating, people are going to cheat.

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Trump can't lose. It is in your signature:
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.



No. That's just me making another correct prediction.

I understand your confusion on the issue though, since time has proven that you've never been correct about anything you've ever said.



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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

You forgot to include the entire explanation how the Democrats cheated the 2020 election.

Your entire explanation is fiction.



No. It's not.

There is zero evidence you could EVER possibly provide to debunk it.

Firefly depends on the "existence" of (1) artificial gravity and (2) a unique arrangement of 5 main stars plus dozens of planets in Joss Whedon's imagination. There is no possible way for me to debunk (1) or (2), proving to 6ix that neither can exist outside Joss' mind. Also impossible is debunking 6ix's fiction about the election, proving that the fictional election story could not exist, except in 6ix's imagination.



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