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Elections; 2024

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Friday, November 29, 2024 5:52 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Anybody else starting to get the feeling that Trump has done more Presidential tasks in the last 24 days than Joe Biden* and his entire administration did in nearly 4 years?

He is also your current President.

Check your %SpO2 and blood glucose levels. You are hallucinating.

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



Nah. I just get my news outside of MSNBC, Vox, pedophile Vaush and Salon.

I wonder what Mother Goose has to say? Oh. Right. They went out of business years ago.


I wonder how you are going to possibly think for yourself anymore after all your "news" outlets shutter their doors.

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Friday, November 29, 2024 6:11 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Enough time has passed since I last tracked this, even if there's still not enough new votes counted to really justify it.

I shouldn't be surprised that the last few hundred thousand cheat votes they're pulling off of pallets in the blue states are breaking significantly harder for Harris than for Trump compared to the votes counted nationwide up through November 22nd.


POPULAR VOTE:

76,917,038 for Trump (50.0%) / 74,441,439 votes for Harris (48.4%).

Total votes counted: 151,358,477

Trump's lead: 2,475,599



COMPARED TO THE 2020 ELECTION:

The 2020 results were 74,223,369 for Trump and 81,282,916 votes for Biden*

The total EXACT vote count in 2020 was 155,506,285.


The total amount of votes less in 2024 compared to 2020 is down to only 4,147,808 now.

Trump now has 2,693,669 more votes than he did in 2020.

Harris now has 6,841,477 less votes than Biden* did in 2020.


Trump is less than 83,000 votes away from hitting 77 Million.


States with votes left to count (States below 99% according to Google's map)
Mississippi: 5% left
New York: 3% left
Oregon: 3% left


Google says that California is 99%. I don't know if I mentioned it a day or two ago when I noticed it.

I guess now is as good a time as any to run a little experiment....

9,249,261 votes for Harris

6,050,902 votes for Trump

I don't imagine they're still paying overtime on weekends to count this late. But we'll see if those numbers are the same late on Monday or if they're still increasing.

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Friday, November 29, 2024 6:25 PM

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Google says that California is 99%. I don't know if I mentioned it a day or two ago when I noticed it.

I guess now is as good a time as any to run a little experiment....

9,249,261 votes for Harris

6,050,902 votes for Trump

I don't imagine they're still paying overtime on weekends to count this late. But we'll see if those numbers are the same late on Monday or if they're still increasing.




So get this... Wanna know what the final numbers for the 2020 General Election were in California?

11,110,250 for Biden*

6,006,429 for Trump.



So that means that with most of the counting in California done, 1,860,989 less people voted for Harris than Biden*.

But look at those Trump numbers...

2024: 6,006,429
2020: 6,050,902

Statistically speaking, and relative to all of the wild variables that have popped up in these 4 short years, those numbers are identical.

Right now, Trump has 44,473 less votes than he had 4 years ago.


In other words, the amount of votes less that Harris got in 2024 compared to 2020 is 42 TIMES as many as the votes that Trump lost.

And the counting may not be done...

If that number were to shrink by half at the end of next week, and we gave Harris 4 times as many votes as Trump got(25k for Trump, 100k for Harris), Trump would be down by 22,000 votes and Harris would be down 1,761,000. Harris's loss of votes in California would then be 80 TIMES as many as Trump's.

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Saturday, November 30, 2024 1:59 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Looks like Joe Biden* is going to leave the white house with his lowest approval rating of 4 years.

Meanwhile, Trump's current approval rating is higher than it's been in 8 years.

Tick Tock



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Sunday, December 1, 2024 7:56 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like Joe Biden* is going to leave the white house with his lowest approval rating of 4 years.

Meanwhile, Trump's current approval rating is higher than it's been in 8 years.

Tick Tock

6ix, you Trumptards are so full of shit that it is coming out of your mouths and falling onto your keyboards. I swear that is the reason you dwell in the bottom 50% of American Society, where the angry poor white trash live and tell each other that they are superior beings worshiping Trump.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

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Sunday, December 1, 2024 7:57 AM

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The Kash Patel Principle

Trump’s choice for FBI director speaks volumes about his real second-term agenda

By Tom Nichols | November 30, 2024, 9:55 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/kash-patel-princi
ple/680838
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Trump has been releasing names of his nominees for the Cabinet and other senior posts in waves. In a Saturday night post on his social-media site, Truth Social, he announced that he is nominating Kash Patel, a former federal prosecutor, to serve as the director of the FBI. A Patel nomination to some position in the law enforcement or intelligence spheres has always been lurking out there as a possibility, and Trump may have held off announcing it until he felt he had drawn out enough outrage (and exhaustion) with his other nominations.

Patel’s nomination is shocking in many ways, not least because the FBI already has a director, Christopher Wray, who Trump appointed to a 10-year term only seven years ago and who he would have to fire almost immediately to make way for Patel.

For Trump, naming Patel to the post serves several purposes. First, Trump is taking his razor-thin election win as a mandate to rule as he pleases, and Patel is the perfect nominee to prove that he doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. Even knowing what they know, Americans chose to return him to office, and he has taken their decision as a license to do whatever he wants—including giving immense power to someone like Kash Patel.

Second, Trump wants to show that the objections of senior elected Republicans are of no consequence to him, and that he can politically flatten them at will. Some of his nominations seem like a trollish flex, a way to display his power by naming people to posts and daring others to stop him. Trump has always thought of the GOP as his fiefdom and GOP leaders as his vassals—and if the Senate folds on Patel and others, he may be proven right on both counts.

This approach backfired when Matt Gaetz’s nomination for attorney general flamed out quickly in the face of likely defeat in the Senate, but Trump seems confident he can get most of his other picks across the finish line, even nominees who would have stood little chance of confirmation in previous administrations. And Trump always keeps pushing limits: In place of Gaetz, he sent forward the more competent but equally committed MAGA loyalist Pam Bondi, who has aroused far less opposition.

Trump has made clear how much he hates the FBI, and he has convinced his MAGA base that it’s a nest of political corruption. In a stunning reversal of political polarity, a significant part of the law-and-order GOP now regards the men and women of federal law enforcement with contempt and paranoia. If Trump’s goal is to break the FBI and undermine its missions, Kash Patel is the perfect nominee. Some senior officials would likely resign rather than serve under Patel, which would probably suit Trump just fine.

Of course, this means the FBI would struggle to do the things it’s supposed to be doing, including fighting crime and conducting counter-intelligence work against America’s enemies. But it would become an excellent instrument of revenge against anyone Trump or Patel identifies as an internal enemy—which, in Trump’s world, is anyone who criticizes Donald Trump.

The Russians speak of the “power ministries,” the departments that have significant legal and coercive capacity. In the United States, those include the Justice Department, the Defense Department, the FBI, and the intelligence community. Trump has now named sycophants to lead each of these institutions, a move that eliminates important obstacles to his frequently expressed desires to use the armed forces, federal law-enforcement agents, intelligence professionals, and government lawyers as he chooses, unbounded by the law or the Constitution.

If you want to assemble the infrastructure of an authoritarian government, this is how you do it.

The early-20th-century Peruvian strongman Óscar R. Benavides once stated a simple principle that Trump now appears to be pursuing when he said: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” It falls now to the Republican members of the Senate to decide whether Trump can impose this formula on the United States.

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Sunday, December 1, 2024 7:58 AM

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Syria: Jihadis re-enter Aleppo in apparent collapse of Assad regime defenses

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Sunday, December 1, 2024 11:11 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Looks like Joe Biden* is going to leave the white house with his lowest approval rating of 4 years.

Meanwhile, Trump's current approval rating is higher than it's been in 8 years.

Tick Tock

6ix, you Trumptards are so full of shit that it is coming out of your mouths and falling onto your keyboards. I swear that is the reason you dwell in the bottom 50% of American Society, where the angry poor white trash live and tell each other that they are superior beings worshiping Trump.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

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



November 2024 National Poll: Trump Favorability Jumps Post-Election; 2028 Election Kicks Off with Harris and Vance Leading Primaries

https://emersoncollegepolling.com/november-2024-national-poll-trump-fa
vorability-jumps-post-election-2028-election-kicks-off-with-harris-and-vance-leading-primaries
/


Also...

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/joe-biden

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump


I know it's rough dude. Facts always hurt your feelings.

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Sunday, December 1, 2024 1:15 PM

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I know it's rough dude. Facts always hurt your feelings.

Nothing hurts my feelings because I'm unlike a Trumptard. As for Trumptards, a word, a look, can enrage them for weeks while an actual setback, even a small one, can sink them into decades of alcoholism. They are fragile. They need a leader such as Trump to feel strong.

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Sunday, December 1, 2024 1:16 PM

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A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power.

By David Frum | 10:17 a.m. ET on December 1, 2024

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trumps-fbi-kash-p
atel/680840
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For more than four decades before Donald Trump assumed the presidency, the FBI director was a position above politics. A new president might choose a political ally as attorney general, but the FBI director was different. An FBI director appointed by Richard Nixon also served under Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. Carter’s choice remained on the job deep into Reagan’s second term, when Reagan moved him to head the CIA. Reagan’s FBI appointee served through the George H. W. Bush presidency and into the Bill Clinton administration. Clinton fired the inherited official—the first time a president ever fired an FBI director—only because the outgoing Bush administration had left behind a Department of Justice report accusing the director of ethical lapses. (Clinton tried to coax the tainted director into resigning of his own volition. Only after the coaxing failed did Clinton act.)

And so it continued into the 21st century. Except in a single case of serious scandal, Senate-confirmed FBI directors stayed in their post until they quit or until their 10-year term expired. Never, never, never was a Senate-confirmed FBI director fired so that the president could replace him with a loyalist. Republicans and Democrats alike agreed that there must be no return to the days when J. Edgar Hoover did special favors for presidents who perpetuated his power.

Even Donald Trump grudgingly submitted to this rule during his first term, as the Mueller Report later detailed. Trump wanted to fire FBI Director James Comey to shut down the investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia. Trump’s advisers convinced Trump that admitting his true motive would spark an enormous scandal. Instead, the new administration inveigled the deputy attorney general to write a letter offering a more neutral-seeming explanation: that Comey had mishandled the bureau’s investigation of Hillary Clinton. That deceptive rationalization—the Mueller Report authoritatively disproved the cover story—did not calm the uproar over Trump’s scheme to install a henchman as FBI director. At the time, even Trump supporters still professed that the FBI director must be more than a presidential yes-man. Things were quieted only when Trump chose a politically independent candidate to replace Comey: Christopher Wray, who holds the job to this day, retained through all four years of the Biden administration.

Yesterday, Trump announced on Truth Social that he intended to fire Wray to replace him with Kash Patel, a person notorious for his cringing deference to Trump’s wishes. How bad a choice is Patel? My colleague Elaina Plott Calabro reported that when President Trump “entertained naming Patel deputy director of the FBI, Attorney General Bill Barr confronted the White House chief of staff and said, ‘Over my dead body.’”

But before getting to Patel’s demerits, we should stay for a minute longer on the ominous danger of Trump’s wish to fire Wray.

FBI directors wield awesome powers over the liberties of Americans. The unwritten rule governing their appointment—no dismissal except for compelling cause—bulwarked American law and freedom for half a century. Even first-term Trump dared not openly defy it. But second-term Trump is opening with a bid to junk it altogether. Much of the reporting on Trump’s announcement reveals a society already bending to Trump’s will: Something that was regarded as outrageously unacceptable in 2017—treating an FBI director as just another Trump aide—has been semi-normalized even before President-Elect Trump takes office.

The firing of Wray is the real outrage. The obnoxious nomination of Patel slathers frosting and sprinkles on the outrage.

Maybe the Patel nomination will fail, as Trump’s attempt to install Matt Gaetz as attorney general failed. If Patel falters, maybe Trump will fall back on a somewhat more respectable candidate. That second candidate may be greeted with relief. But the essential harm will be done by the firing of Wray, not the hiring of Patel (or whoever ultimately gets the job). Already, not a month since the closest election by popular-vote margin in two generations, we are witnessing, throughout law-enforcement and the national-security agencies, a pattern of Trump’s trashing institutions and replacing them with whim. Trump is declaring his intention to reinvent the FBI as something it has never been before: an instrument of personal presidential power, which will investigate (or refrain from investigating) and lay charges (or refrain from laying charges) as the president wishes.

For secretary of defense, Trump has chosen an ideological crank whose own mother accused him in writing of repeatedly abusing women. (She subsequently disavowed the statements.) At the CIA, Trump wants a hyper-partisan who, as Trump’s first-term director of national intelligence, selectively declassified information to discredit Trump’s political opponents. For his second-term director of national intelligence, Trump wants a longtime apologist for Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria and Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine.

Merit, competence, integrity—none of that matters. Or rather, those good qualities seem to be active disqualifiers. Trump’s picks are selected for obedience only.

Now comes the great test: Is the American constitutional system as fragile as Trump hopes? Will Wray meekly accept termination or will he defend the bureau from Trump’s second and bolder attempt to pervert it? Will Senate Republicans ratify Trump’s attack on the separation of law enforcement from politics? Will federal courts grant warrants to an FBI that seeks warrants and makes arrests because the president told it to? Will the tiny Republican majority in the House endorse or resist Trump’s attempt to create a personal police force? Does enough of an independent press survive outside the control of Trump-friendly oligarchs to explain what is happening and why it matters? Will enough of the public care? Will enough of the public react?

The American people voted for cheaper eggs. They’re going to get only noise, conflict, and chaos. What Trump is trying will, if successful, be a constitutional scandal far greater than Watergate. If he succeeds, the seizure of power he unsuccessfully attempted in 2021 could be under way in 2025.

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

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Sunday, December 1, 2024 3:01 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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I know it's rough dude. Facts always hurt your feelings.

Nothing hurts my feelings because I'm unlike a Trumptard. As for Trumptards, a word, a look, can enrage them for weeks while an actual setback, even a small one, can sink them into decades of alcoholism. They are fragile. They need a leader such as Trump to feel strong.

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



So that just means you go out of your way to sound like a little bitch all the time.

Double sad.

It's nice to know that Democrat voters never do drugs or become alcoholics. You have even less to bitch about in life than the other half of the country and you're still pissed off and whining about shit 24/7/365 no matter who's in office.



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Sunday, December 1, 2024 3:02 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate

Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel threatens to turn the FBI into an instrument of personal presidential power.



We are very happy with that pick.

Keep on crying.



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Monday, December 2, 2024 7:45 PM

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Democrats will probably¹ pick up two seats in the House of Representatives and their nationwide vote share will be nearly identical to 2022. They received 48.54% of the vote compared to 48.60% two years ago.

This is something to account for in any narrative about the lessons Dems need to learn from their loss this year. If the public has really turned against them, whether because of immigration or wokeness or policy feebleness or working class angst, why didn't this show up in congressional races?

There are potential answers to this question. But it needs to at least be addressed.

¹Adam Gray is likely to win his razor-thin race in California's 13th district, which would give Democrats a two-seat pickup. But it's still too close to call for sure.

https://jabberwocking.com/wait-democrats-picked-up-two-seats-in-congre
ss-this-year
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Monday, December 2, 2024 7:47 PM

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Last week, Donald Trump tossed out a bombshell: he would impose massive tariff hikes against Canada and Mexico unless they addressed immigration and fentanyl to his liking. This produced a flurry of attention, including a phone call with Mexico's president and a visit from Canada's prime minister. Then the whole thing quickly disappeared.

This week Trump suddenly threatened to impose massive tariffs against BRIC countries if they tried to promote their currencies in foreign trade as a replacement for the dollar. This didn't even make sense, but it produced another satisfying round of attention and op-ed thumbsuckers.

This is likely to be a harbinger of the next four years. Trump will constantly toss out unexpected bits of lunacy and then he'll drop the whole thing and move on. I can hardly wait.

https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-and-the-bombshell-presidency/

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Monday, December 2, 2024 7:55 PM

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Democrats will probably¹ pick up two seats in the House of Representatives and their nationwide vote share will be nearly identical to 2022. They received 48.54% of the vote compared to 48.60% two years ago.

This is something to account for in any narrative about the lessons Dems need to learn from their loss this year. If the public has really turned against them, whether because of immigration or wokeness or policy feebleness or working class angst, why didn't this show up in congressional races?

There are potential answers to this question. But it needs to at least be addressed.

¹Adam Gray is likely to win his razor-thin race in California's 13th district, which would give Democrats a two-seat pickup. But it's still too close to call for sure.

https://jabberwocking.com/wait-democrats-picked-up-two-seats-in-congre
ss-this-year
/

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



As of Friday night, Kamala Harris had 6,841,477 less votes nationally than Joe Biden* had in 2020. Trump had 2,693,669 more votes than he had in 2020.


https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,_2020

Joe Biden* had 81,282,632 votes, or 51.3% of the national vote.

Donald Trump had 74,223,234 votes, or 46.9% of the national vote.



As of Friday night, Kamala Harris had 74,441,439 votes, or 48.4% of the national vote.

Donald Trump had 76,917,038 votes, or 50.0% of the national vote.



You were destroyed. The Democrats even lost nearly 2 million votes from the amount they got in California compared to 2020.

Stop wasting time reasoning away your failure and do some goddamned introspection for once.

Otherwise, your loss is going to be even bigger next time.


I've been right about pretty much everything so far, so maybe you want to ponder on that before you make some dumb shit reply saying something you've already said here a million times that everyone just ignores.

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Monday, December 2, 2024 11:11 PM

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I'd love to know the story about how each Media Outlet gets their numbers on the vote count and how they report them.

That is an interesting question on election day and through the first night, but I think it's even more interesting today.


I've been tracking that Google number on the Popular Vote count for weeks now. No specific reason why I used them. No reason to think not to use them. I'm sure it was a matter of convenience just because I could look that up and have it in front of my face whenever I thought of it. But once I picked them I had to stay with them for any sense of consistency.

I'd figure it didn't matter at this point. Why wouldn't everyone be working with the exact same numbers almost a month after the election.



I was telling my old man the numbers today, which at Google still have Trump at 76,939,059 votes, and he told me he was looking at CNN and they had Trump well over 77 Million already. These are the numbers as I write this.

And sure enough, sure enough, if you look at CNN right now they've got Trump at 77,149,725 votes. So Trump's already crossed that over there a while ago, and it looks as though Harris is only 280,000 votes away from 75 Million herself, when she's still 40k away from 74.5 Million yet on Google.


Just thought this was weird right now.

Where could any discrepancies lie anywhere that would have Google and CNN showing such different numbers this late in the counting?

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 2:46 PM

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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Has One Major Vulnerability

The legal ploy Trump is banking on to speed up mass deportations and why it might not work.

Dec 03, 2024 1:08 PM

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/trump-mass-deportation-pla
n-vulnerability.html


U.S. immigration courts have yearslong backlogs, so the need for hearings is likely to be a key choke point in Trump’s plan to rapidly deport millions.

Perhaps the administration will just ignore the hearing requirement, because it has no intention of operating a “precise, legal” deportation scheme. But the administration seems unlikely to disregard the law entirely. The people who will carry out mass deportations—everyone from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to sheriffs to lawyers and contractors—want to believe that they are upholding the law. Rather than direct them to defy it, Trump’s appointees will likely come up with arguments for why mass deportations are legal. When it comes to hearings, the goal will be to find a way around the need to go before an immigration judge, so that individuals can be removed from the country quickly (perhaps within hours of being apprehended) and with no real process.

The play, specifically, will be to vastly expand what’s known in immigration law as “expedited removal.” Hundreds of thousands of noncitizens arriving at the border are already deported every year through this “shadow removal” regime. Expedited removal has generally been limited to people arriving at the border or those present in the U.S. for fewer than 14 days who are apprehended within 100 miles of the border.

The administration could go to Congress and seek the resources to run a humane, efficient immigration system that complies with the Constitution and the nation’s international obligations. But it won’t do that . . .

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 5:48 PM

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Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan Has One Major Vulnerability

The legal ploy Trump is banking on to speed up mass deportations and why it might not work.



I'm very happy with this shift in your Legacy Media's tone.

At any other point in time in the last 8 years, all of these articles would have called Trump and his supporters racists, screaming "HOW DARE HE!!!!"

Now these amateur activists are just writing fanfic about an economy they could never understand since they haven't figured out how to balance their checkbooks.

They must have gotten that directive from on high to stop calling Trump and his supporters Nazis. It must have killed Gupta and Noll to write that article the way they were told to write it.



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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 5:49 PM

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They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't.

If you're here illegally, you're out the fucking door. Period. You and your illegal kids. No more anchor babies either.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 6:09 PM

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It looks as though the votes that CNN already had counted that Google didn't have counted have shown up today. Both sides have gotten quite a few more.

I'm glad I kept track of this because we can one day go back and see what the ratio of votes for Harris vs. votes for Trump were as the last 3 Million votes were counted. It's been INANELY lopsided in favor of Harris.

I mentioned when Harris hit 74 Million that it was possibly the last 1 Million barrier anyone would hit. With a huge head start, Trump eventually did get over the next 1 Million hump, but Harris has gotten so many in the mean time she's about to lap him and do it again.


POPULAR VOTE:

77,151,288 for Trump (49.9%) / 74,788,460 votes for Harris (48.4%).

Total votes counted: 151,939,748

Trump's lead: 2,362,828



COMPARED TO THE 2020 ELECTION:

The 2020 results were 74,223,369 for Trump and 81,282,916 votes for Biden*

The total EXACT vote count in 2020 was 155,506,285.


The total amount of votes less in 2024 compared to 2020 is down to only 4,147,808 now.

Trump now has 2,927,919 more votes than he did in 2020.

Harris now has 6,494,456 less votes than Biden* did in 2020.


States with votes left to count (States below 99% according to Google's map)
Mississippi: 5% left
Oregon: 3% left
New York: 2% left

Quote:

Google says that California is 99%. I don't know if I mentioned it a day or two ago when I noticed it.

I guess now is as good a time as any to run a little experiment....

9,249,261 votes for Harris

6,050,902 votes for Trump

I don't imagine they're still paying overtime on weekends to count this late. But we'll see if those numbers are the same late on Monday or if they're still increasing.



Current vote count in California:

9,270,804 votes for Harris

6,076,584 votes for Trump


Not much... but they're still counting.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 9:47 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I'm very happy with this shift in your Legacy Media's tone.

At any other point in time in the last 8 years, all of these articles would have called Trump and his supporters racists, screaming "HOW DARE HE!!!!"

Now these amateur activists are just writing fanfic about an economy they could never understand since they haven't figured out how to balance their checkbooks.

They must have gotten that directive from on high to stop calling Trump and his supporters Nazis. It must have killed Gupta and Noll to write that article the way they were told to write it.

6ixStringJack, you are full of bullshit. So is Senator Mike Lee of Utah, who goes on and on with a bullshit explanation of Social Security:

Last night, Sen. Mike Lee wrote a blueprint for destroying Social Security.

Lee’s thread was quickly amplified by Elon Musk, who Donald Trump has put in charge of slashing our earned benefits. I’m sure you know Lee’s blueprint is bullshit and that Social Security is a social insurance plan which is paid for the way all such programs are paid for.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/12/03/here-comes-the-third-rail/

Here is Senator Mike Lee's thread:

1. Of all the deceptive sales techniques the U.S. government has used on the American people, one of them—the Social Security Act—gets far too little attention. Buckle up because this is a wild ride.

2. In 1935, the American people were sold a bill of goods. They were told, “Pay into this system, and it’ll be YOUR money for retirement.” Sounds great, right?

3. But here’s where it gets juicy, in a really ugly way. Two years later, when the Supreme Court was considering the constitutionality of the Social Security Act, the government did a complete 180.

4. The government—through Assistant Attorney General Robert Jackson—argued in essence, “Oh no, this isn’t YOUR money at all. This is a TAX, and we can do whatever we want with it.” Classic bait and switch.

5. Let’s not forget the ruling in Helvering v. Davis, where the Supreme Court upheld the Social Security Act by embracing the government’s argument / admission that what people pay into Social Security is tax revenue—available to be used as Congress may direct—and not at all money belonging to those who paid it.

6. So, to summarize: the proponents of the Social Security Act told American workers that what they paid into the system would remain *their* money, not the government’s—to get Congress to pass it—and then told the courts the exact opposite when defending the Act’s constitutionality. The Supreme Court accepted the government’s argument, to the great detriment of the American people.

7. Now, let’s talk about what happens to “your money” once it’s in the government’s hands. Spoiler alert: it’s not managed like your IRA or 401(k).

8. First of all, this money doesn’t sit in a nice, individual account with your name on it. No, it goes into a huge account called the “Social Security Trust Fund.”

9. But here’s the kicker—the government routinely raids this fund. Yes, you heard that right. They take “your money” and use it for whatever the current Congress deems “necessary.”

10. Every few years, there’s talk in Congress about “saving Social Security.” I’ve introduced and cosponsored a number of measures over the years that would fix it. But most in Congress show little desire to fix it, and are instead constantly looking for ways to “borrow” from it—with no plan to put it back.

11. And the returns? Forget about compound interest or stock market gains. Your “investment” in Social Security can give you a return lower than inflation.

12. If you had put the same amount into literally ANYTHING else—a mutual fund, real estate, even a savings account—you’d be better off by the time you reached retirement age, even if the government kept some of it!

13. Do the math: with Social Security, you’re looking at a return that’s pathetic compared to market averages. It’s not even an investment; it’s a tax.

14. And let’s talk about how this system is set up to fail. The demographic shift? More retirees, fewer workers. It’s almost fair to compare it to a Ponzi scheme that’s running out of new investors.

15. Every dollar you pay into Social Security, only to see it gobbled up by the government itself, is a dollar you can’t invest in your own future. It’s government dependency at its worst.

16. Remember, this isn’t just about retirement. It’s about independence, about controlling your own destiny. With Social Security, you control nothing.

17. The government promises you security but gives you dependency. It promises ownership but gives you a tax receipt.

18. And don’t get me started on the management. The Social Security Administration is a bureaucratic behemoth, not exactly known for its efficiency or innovation.

19. If you think your money is safe there, you’re in for a rude awakening. The mismanagement, the waste, the deception—it’s all on display.

20. So, what’s the solution? We need real, genuine reform. Within the Social Security system, Americans should be able to invest in their own future, and not be shackled by the worst parts of this outdated, mismanaged system.

21. It’s time we acknowledge the truth: Social Security as it now exists isn’t a retirement plan; it’s a tax plan with retirement benefits as an afterthought.

22. We were sold a dream, but received a nightmare. It’s time for a wake-up call. We need real reform.

23. It’s time for Americans to know the true history of the Social Security Act. The more people learn the truth, the more they’ll start demanding answers, options, and real reform from Congress. Please help spread the word.

24. The history of the Social Security Act—which sadly must include the deceptive manner in which it was sold to the American people—is yet another reason why America’s century-long era of progressive government must be brought to a close.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 10:03 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I'm very happy with this shift in your Legacy Media's tone.

At any other point in time in the last 8 years, all of these articles would have called Trump and his supporters racists, screaming "HOW DARE HE!!!!"

Now these amateur activists are just writing fanfic about an economy they could never understand since they haven't figured out how to balance their checkbooks.

They must have gotten that directive from on high to stop calling Trump and his supporters Nazis. It must have killed Gupta and Noll to write that article the way they were told to write it.

6ixStringJack, you are full of bullshit.



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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 11:27 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
6ixStringJack, you are full of bullshit.



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Do you remember writing this?
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't.

If you're here illegally, you're out the fucking door. Period. You and your illegal kids. No more anchor babies either.

A no bullshit answer would be: They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't. If you're here illegally, you're loaded onto a cattle truck, along with your babies, and sent to the concentration camp, the gas chamber, and then deposed of by cremation. Does that sound too Nazi? Nazis weren't bullshitters like you are, 6ixStringJack. Oh, you will do something more polite like put them on buses for Canada and Mexico? Are you sure Canada and Mexico will let those buses in?

I know how to persuade the Canadians and Mexicans: threaten them. Bomb them if necessary. If that doesn't work, tell them the buses' next stop is at the gas chamber. Maybe that will open the border for deportation to Canada and Mexico.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 11:33 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
6ixStringJack, you are full of bullshit.



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Do you remember writing this?
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't.

If you're here illegally, you're out the fucking door. Period. You and your illegal kids. No more anchor babies either.




Yes I do.

Quote:

A no bullshit answer would be: They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't. If you're here illegally, you're loaded onto a cattle truck, along with your babies, and sent to the concentration camp, the gas chamber, and then deposed of by cremation. Does that sound too Nazi? Nazis weren't bullshitters like you are, 6ixStringJack. Oh, you will do something more polite like put them on buses for Canada and Mexico? Are you sure Canada and Mexico will let those buses in?


No. That's the answer a psychopath who's convinced it's Joe Biden*'s duty to assassinate Trump on Inauguration Day would say.

I don't give one single shit if Canada or Mexico won't let the busses in. They'll get out of the way if those busses are coming at them 60MPH.



Once Trump cuts off any Federal funding for states harboring them, most of the illegal invaders will be leaving on their own and even Democrat politicians will be helping get them out.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024 11:40 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It looks as though the votes that CNN already had counted that Google didn't have counted have shown up today. Both sides have gotten quite a few more.

I'm glad I kept track of this because we can one day go back and see what the ratio of votes for Harris vs. votes for Trump were as the last 3 Million votes were counted. It's been INANELY lopsided in favor of Harris.

I mentioned when Harris hit 74 Million that it was possibly the last 1 Million barrier anyone would hit. With a huge head start, Trump eventually did get over the next 1 Million hump, but Harris has gotten so many in the mean time she's about to lap him and do it again.


POPULAR VOTE:

77,151,288 for Trump (49.9%) / 74,788,460 votes for Harris (48.4%).

Total votes counted: 151,939,748

Trump's lead: 2,362,828



Holy shit they are not even pretending to hide the fact they're counting all the fabricated votes for Harris right now.

74,898,009 votes for Harris (48.4%) / 77,193,105 votes for Trump (49.9%)


Just since writing this last update only a few hours earlier today, they've given less than 42,000 for Trump and Harris has gotten an additional 120,000 votes. There is not a single district in the entire country that gave Harris this much of an advantage.

Looks like they're going to magically push her over 75 Million before the mail-in fraud ballots are finished.






Go back and look at the history of the last few weeks and see for yourself.

Once the votes are finally finished, I'll go back and lay out the details.

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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 6:08 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
A no bullshit answer would be: They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't. If you're here illegally, you're loaded onto a cattle truck, along with your babies, and sent to the concentration camp, the gas chamber, and then deposed of by cremation. Does that sound too Nazi? Nazis weren't bullshitters like you are, 6ixStringJack. Oh, you will do something more polite like put them on buses for Canada and Mexico? Are you sure Canada and Mexico will let those buses in?



No. That's the answer a psychopath who's convinced it's Joe Biden*'s duty to assassinate Trump on Inauguration Day would say.

I don't give one single shit if Canada or Mexico won't let the busses in. They'll get out of the way if those busses are coming at them 60MPH.



Once Trump cuts off any Federal funding for states harboring them, most of the illegal invaders will be leaving on their own and even Democrat politicians will be helping get them out.

President James Buchanan could hear and see the future Confederate hierarchy plot the overthrow of the USA because the plotters were Congressmen in Washington, DC. But Buchanan did nothing and for that very reason Buchanan is rated the worst President by historians. President Joseph Biden can hear and see plotters to overthrow the USA because the plotters are, again, in Washington, DC. But Biden is doing nothing. I rate Biden as one of the worst presidents if he continues doing nothing.

As for 6ixStringJack's and Trump's schemes to dump 21 million (11 million?) deportees in Canada and Mexico, well, you two haven't gotten Canada's and Mexico's cooperation. Maybe buying cooperation with threats of 100% tariffs on Canada and Mexico is not as stupid as ramming busloads of deportees through the border into Canada and Mexico, but it is still laughable. Maybe Trump should follow the simple and direct Nazi plan and build gas chambers and crematoriums to rid a country of undesirables? I will sell Trump the natural gas for the incinerators as a way to educate the typical American voter who is so stupid that it will require Trump to go full Hitler for those voters to understand that Trump is pure evil in the shape of a fat, funny-looking loudmouth.

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Most recent surveys consider James Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, the worst president for his leadership during the build-up to the Civil War. Several rank Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson last for blocking civil rights for freed slaves and undermining Reconstruction. Donald Trump has consistently polled among the bottom four and twice in last place due to breaking longstanding norms such as the peaceful transition of power, an American precedent not broken since Washington first set it. The scandal-ridden presidency of Warren G. Harding also frequently lands in the bottom four.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the
_United_States


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If Trump will be destroying people, why NOT make a profit?

Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

By Matt Sledge | December 4, 2024, 6:04 a.m.

https://theintercept.com/2024/12/04/trump-mass-deportation-private-equ
ity-prisons
/


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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 7:38 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
A no bullshit answer would be: They don't get hearings. Not anymore they don't. If you're here illegally, you're loaded onto a cattle truck, along with your babies, and sent to the concentration camp, the gas chamber, and then deposed of by cremation. Does that sound too Nazi? Nazis weren't bullshitters like you are, 6ixStringJack. Oh, you will do something more polite like put them on buses for Canada and Mexico? Are you sure Canada and Mexico will let those buses in?



No. That's the answer a psychopath who's convinced it's Joe Biden*'s duty to assassinate Trump on Inauguration Day would say.

I don't give one single shit if Canada or Mexico won't let the busses in. They'll get out of the way if those busses are coming at them 60MPH.



Once Trump cuts off any Federal funding for states harboring them, most of the illegal invaders will be leaving on their own and even Democrat politicians will be helping get them out.

President James Buchanan could hear and see the future Confederate hierarchy plot the overthrow of the USA because the plotters were Congressmen in Washington, DC. But Buchanan did nothing and for that very reason Buchanan is rated the worst President by historians. President Joseph Biden can hear and see plotters to overthrow the USA because the plotters are, again, in Washington, DC. But Biden is doing nothing. I rate Biden as one of the worst presidents if he continues doing nothing.

As for 6ixStringJack's and Trump's schemes to dump 21 million (11 million?) deportees in Canada and Mexico, well, you two haven't gotten Canada's and Mexico's cooperation. Maybe buying cooperation with threats of 100% tariffs on Canada and Mexico is not as stupid as ramming busloads of deportees through the border into Canada and Mexico, but it is still laughable. Maybe Trump should follow the simple and direct Nazi plan and build gas chambers and crematoriums to rid a country of undesirables? I will sell Trump the natural gas for the incinerators as a way to educate the typical American voter who is so stupid that it will require Trump to go full Hitler for those voters to understand that Trump is pure evil in the shape of a fat, funny-looking loudmouth.

Quote:

Most recent surveys consider James Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, the worst president for his leadership during the build-up to the Civil War. Several rank Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson last for blocking civil rights for freed slaves and undermining Reconstruction. Donald Trump has consistently polled among the bottom four and twice in last place due to breaking longstanding norms such as the peaceful transition of power, an American precedent not broken since Washington first set it. The scandal-ridden presidency of Warren G. Harding also frequently lands in the bottom four.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the
_United_States


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Are you talking about evil shit again?

I don't read it anymore.

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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 7:39 AM

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Quote:

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If Trump will be destroying people, why NOT make a profit?

Guess Who Profits From Trump’s Deportation Plan? Private Equity Firms.

Private equity firms play a key role in America’s prison system. If Trump carries out his plans for mass deportations, they stand to benefit.

By Matt Sledge | December 4, 2024, 6:04 a.m.

https://theintercept.com/2024/12/04/trump-mass-deportation-private-equ
ity-prisons
/


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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 10:47 AM

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Are you talking about evil shit again?

I don't read it anymore.

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Think of all the money he could save if Trump publicly kills a few hundred. The rest would get the message and voluntarily deport themselves. Obviously, American citizens who aren't Trumptards would get the same message.



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Trump will be left with a 217-215 majority in the House of Representatives for some of the key first months of Trump's term.

Party-line bills routinely failed on the floor and Republicans struggled to muster the votes for key legislation funding the government, raising the debt ceiling and providing urgent foreign aid to U.S. allies.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/04/house-republican-majority-democrats-c
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It's got to suck that you woke up on November 6th and realized that nobody takes anything you say seriously.

You've noticed the change in the media.

Who are you going to for your news now that none of the news outlets are saying anything you want to hear anymore? We already know what clickbait farms that Ted has fled to.



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It's got to suck that you woke up on November 6th and realized that nobody takes anything you say seriously.

You've noticed the change in the media.

Who are you going to for your news now that none of the news outlets are saying anything you want to hear anymore? We already know what clickbait farms that Ted has fled to.

News Flash: Trump is incompetent. But so are his Trumptards in ordinary life. And making him President doesn't fix any Trumptard's problems. Their lives were as screwed up after four years of Trump as they were before Trump. I expect the future for Trumptards will look the same as their past: staying close to the bottom of the social hierarchy, but happy because Trump is President, not Hillary, not Joe.

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6ix, you are no longer Angry poor white trash, but now Happy poor white trash. The anger comes years later when you learn that Mister Only-I-Can-Fix-It Trump can't fix it.

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Another nomination from Donald Trump:

President-elect Donald J. Trump will nominate Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who led two private missions to orbit on SpaceX rockets, as the next NASA administrator.

Mr. Isaacman, the chief executive of the payment processing company Shift4 Payments, is a close associate of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, and, if confirmed to the post by the Senate, would bring the perspective of an outsider to the space agency and its $25 billion budget.

Being rich enough to afford vanity trips to space hardly qualifies you to lead NASA. And being a buddy of Elon Musk is a massive conflict of interest for running an agency that Elon Musk does a lot of business with.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/jared-isaacman-trump-nasa.h
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6ix, you are no longer Angry poor white trash, but now Happy poor white trash. The anger comes years later when you learn that Mister Only-I-Can-Fix-It Trump can't fix it.

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Yup. Bought my house free and clear and zero debt to anyone. Just like all us white trash.




You didn't answer the question. Where are you going to get your news now that your "news" agencies are no longer putting out stories you want to read?

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Anybody else starting to get the feeling that Trump has done more Presidential tasks in the last 24 days than Joe Biden* and his entire administration did in nearly 4 years?

He is also your current President.

Check your %SpO2 and blood glucose levels. You are hallucinating.

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Nah. I just get my news outside of MSNBC, Vox, pedophile Vaush and Salon.

I wonder what Mother Goose has to say? Oh. Right. They went out of business years ago.


I wonder how you are going to possibly think for yourself anymore after all your "news" outlets shutter their doors.

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Axios noticed it, and is a part of it themselves.

Trump's shadow presidency clouds Biden*'s final weeks

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/04/trump-shadow-presidency-biden-transit
ion


Biden* who?

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The damage Biden has done

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3249497/damage-joe-biden
-has-done
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SPOILER ALERT: More voters now identify as Independent as ever. For the first time in history, the Democrat party has fallen to 3rd place by Party ID.

And until 2024, it had been 10 straight elections where the Democrat Party had the highest Party ID.

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“To provide a sense of scale of the size of this shift, a comparison of 37% of the 2020 presidential turnout to 31% of the 2024 turnout shows there were over 10 million fewer self-identified Democrats voting in this last election,” Winston writes. “Independents went the other direction, going from 27% in 2020 to 34% in 2024, which resulted in an increase in self-identified independents of about 10 million.”

What does it mean? The simplest explanation is that Biden and his fellow Democrats made the party so unattractive that millions of self-identified Democrats decided to call themselves independents instead. That doesn’t mean they won’t call themselves Democrats again in the future. But it does suggest that they were deeply unhappy with the Democratic Party in 2024.



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Nobel Prize winner Simon Johnson believes Trump can do what Biden could not.
We will see if that is true on Jan 21, 2025. Or, maybe, Johnson should not have won the prize.

Ending Putin's Ukraine War Is 'Straightforward' for Trump: Nobel Laureate

Dec 04, 2024 at 12:39 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-ukraine-plan-straightforward-nobel-priz
e-winner-1995598


Trump's desire to "confront China economically and strategically" would be strengthened by first "crushing Russia," claiming that this would "boost US prestige around the world and strengthen Trump's hand in dealing with China on other issues."

"Trump still could score a quick and impressive win against China by turning Russia entirely out of Ukraine and restoring the pre-invasion borders."

"It would also be straightforward," they added, citing Russia's heavy dependence on oil exports. "Trump can cut Russian net revenue from these exports to essentially zero from his first day. Without this revenue, the Russian war machine will grind to a halt."

"On his first day in office, Trump can announce that he will impose heavy US sanctions on any company that pays more than $15 per barrel for Russian oil (and on anyone who participates in any transaction above that level)," they wrote on Tuesday. "Any country that is deemed not to be fully cooperative with this policy should expect to face punitive tariffs."

Simon Johnson received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to the field of political economy and his work on economic institutions.

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Wednesday, December 4, 2024 9:22 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It looks as though the votes that CNN already had counted that Google didn't have counted have shown up today. Both sides have gotten quite a few more.

I'm glad I kept track of this because we can one day go back and see what the ratio of votes for Harris vs. votes for Trump were as the last 3 Million votes were counted. It's been INANELY lopsided in favor of Harris.

I mentioned when Harris hit 74 Million that it was possibly the last 1 Million barrier anyone would hit. With a huge head start, Trump eventually did get over the next 1 Million hump, but Harris has gotten so many in the mean time she's about to lap him and do it again.


POPULAR VOTE:

77,151,288 for Trump (49.9%) / 74,788,460 votes for Harris (48.4%).

Total votes counted: 151,939,748

Trump's lead: 2,362,828



Holy shit they are not even pretending to hide the fact they're counting all the fabricated votes for Harris right now.

74,898,009 votes for Harris (48.4%) / 77,193,105 votes for Trump (49.9%)


Just since writing this last update only a few hours earlier today, they've given less than 42,000 for Trump and Harris has gotten an additional 120,000 votes. There is not a single district in the entire country that gave Harris this much of an advantage.

Looks like they're going to magically push her over 75 Million before the mail-in fraud ballots are finished.






Go back and look at the history of the last few weeks and see for yourself.

Once the votes are finally finished, I'll go back and lay out the details.

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I can't wait until we're done counting and I can make an actual graph out of this data showing just how much the vote counting swung in Harris' favor after they started counting the pallets of mail-in fraud ballots.

Looks like Harris should cross 75 Million easily now.

If you look back to the night she crossed 74 Million I thought that might be the last Million barrier crossed on either side, even though Trump wasn't that far away from hitting 77 Million.

Since then, Trump got his 77 Million, but Harris is just about to lap him and hit 75 Million in the same time.



Current Popular Vote count on Google:

77,234,090 for Trump (49.9%) / 74,936,918 (48.4%)

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Republicans just won a permanent Senate majority

By Ilani Nurick, opinion contributor - 12/05/24 1:00 PM ET
Ilani Nurick is pursuing a juris doctorate at Yale Law School.

https://thehill.com/opinion/5022750-democratic-party-senate-loss/

Kamala Harris’s defeat was damaging to the left. But her loss overshadows the true scope of the damage wrought on the Democratic Party: the permanent loss of the Senate.

Democrats have lost the Senate before, but this loss is different from 2014. This time, it may well be for good. For the first time in a century, there is not one Democratic senator from a reliably red state.

We have entered an era of one-party rule — at least where the Senate is concerned.

Today, the Senate map mirrors the national electoral divide. Democratic senators in blue states, Republican senators in red states, and swing states up for grabs. That’s grim news for Democrats. Simply put, there are more red states than blue states.

For decades, Democrats relied on popular Democratic senators in deep-red states — for example, Tom Daschle in South Dakota (lost in 2004), Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas (lost in 2010), Mary Landrieu in Louisiana (lost in 2014), Claire McCaskill in Missouri (lost in 2018), and Jon Tester in Montana (lost in 2024). In recent years, these red-state Democrats were critical to holding the Democratic majority.

The final nationalization of the Senate in 2024 with the ousting of Tester and Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and the retirement of Joe Manchin in West Virginia, shifts the path to a Democratic Senate majority entirely to blue and purple states. This makes the Democrats’ task nearly impossible.


Republicans, in contrast, can compete in many more states. Even if Democrats sweep every swing state contest (and oust Susan Collins in Maine), they can win at most 52 seats in the Senate. That includes both seats in North Carolina. If Republicans were to win all the Senate seats in all of those same swing states, they would control 62 seats.

Considering that only a third of swing state seats will ever be up for election any given cycle, the odds of Democrats winning all 14 races are almost a statistical impossibility. Susan Collins’s hold on blue Maine makes the task even tougher.

There is a historical analog to this emerging phenomenon: the Permanent Democratic Congress. From 1954 through 1994, Democrats controlled the House for 40 out of 40 years, and 58 out of 62 years until 1994. Only recently have we entered an era of congressional oscillation between parties, an era that came to an end this November.

This new permanent Republican Senate has three profound consequences for the Democratic Party and the institution of the Senate.

First, any incoming Democratic president will enter the White House with a severe handicap, limiting the enactment of broad campaign promises. Instead of enjoying a mandate reflected by majorities in Congress, the far likelier scenario is a Democratic president immediately vying against a confident and combative Republican Senate. Any partisan campaign promise — from a public option to progressive tax reform — is dead on arrival. The same hostility President Obama faced after losing the Senate in 2014 will be the presumptive landscape.

The implications for effective governance are severe: structural reforms would be almost unattainable, further entrenching the perception of dysfunction in Washington. For the Democratic Party, the consequences are graver: this hyper-gridlock would be inextricably linked to Democratic presidencies, deepening voter disillusionment during their time in power.

Republicans no longer have any incentive to confirm Democratic judicial nominees, knowing a Republican-controlled Senate can outwait a Democratic president.


The precedent for this is very recent: Merrick Garland. Republicans opted not to vote on a lame duck Democratic president’s nominee to the Supreme Court, betting on the chance to confirm a Republican nominee instead. Now, it’s more than a gamble; it’s a near certainty. With the presidency likely to continue teetering between the parties, Republicans only need to hold out until the next Republican presidency. As long as the current political geography remains, there is no risk of a new Democratic president backed by a Democratic Senate to swiftly fill judicial vacancies.

Under this new norm, Republicans can mold the judiciary in their ideological image, without fear that Democrats will rebalance it. If a vacancy does open on the Supreme Court during a Democratic presidency, Republicans wouldn’t need to rush to fill it: they would maintain a comfortable conservative majority even with the vacancy, albeit 5-3 instead of 6-3. If Republicans continue this stonewalling during Democratic presidencies, with their new permanent hold on the Senate, the Supreme Court’s conservative 6-3 majority may become 7-2, 8-1, and eventually 9-0.

The filibuster derives its power from the majority party’s recognition that someday soon, they will likely find themselves in the minority. When that day comes, the filibuster will be a valuable asset ensuring the minority’s perspective is heard.

But the filibuster’s threat and power hinge on the shared belief that each party will eventually rotate in and out of the majority. In the new age ushered in by the 2024 elections, Republicans have little reason to believe Democrats will take the Senate back anytime soon.

Without any realistic fear of losing their majority, Republicans have no further use for the filibuster. Rather than serving as a safeguard, it now only stands in their way. It no longer provides commensurate prospective protection. Both parties have already weakened the filibuster through the Nuclear Option when it suited their needs and the benefits outweighed the backlash.

Given this and President-elect Trump’s firm grip on the GOP and his eagerness to push through his agenda, the filibuster’s days are numbered.

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

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Thursday, December 5, 2024 5:58 PM

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Yup. You lost Joe Donnelly in Indiana after he came out against Brett Kavanaugh.

#MeToo cost you the Senate permanently. Nice job.

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Originally posted by second:

Without any realistic fear of losing their majority, Republicans have no further use for the filibuster. Rather than serving as a safeguard, it now only stands in their way. It no longer provides commensurate prospective protection. Both parties have already weakened the filibuster through the Nuclear Option when it suited their needs and the benefits outweighed the backlash.



You want me to dig up all the times you and Ted were cheerleading the prospect of removing the filibuster when Dems were in control and how I warned you that this wouldn't always be the case?

AREN'T YOU FUCKING GLAD DEMOCRATS DIDN'T DO THIS NOW?

I sure hope Republicans think about the future and how bad that could be for them if they did it now. That's only something you do when you're sure that you're going to be in power forever. And an opinion article from a no-name of your opposition saying that you're going to be in power forever doesn't qualify for reality.



In any event, maybe you'll stop trying to force men who should be in a loony bin from whipping out their dicks in front of women and young girls. Especially in all of the red states that severely outnumber the blue states.

Everything you do is unpopular with the majority. Maybe stop fucking around with everyone's lives and trying to force the rest of the country to become California and maybe you can win the Senate back one day.


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Thursday, December 5, 2024 7:41 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I sure hope Republicans think about the future and how bad that could be for them if they did it now. That's only something you do when you're sure that you're going to be in power forever. And an opinion article from a no-name of your opposition saying that you're going to be in power forever doesn't qualify for reality.



In any event, maybe you'll stop trying to force men who should be in a loony bin from whipping out their dicks in front of women and young girls. Especially in all of the red states that severely outnumber the blue states.

Everything you do is unpopular with the majority. Maybe stop fucking around with everyone's lives and trying to force the rest of the country to become California and maybe you can win the Senate back one day.


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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.

The filibuster exists only to avoid making decisions in the Senate. Not making decisions is fatal in the military, for a very real example. Oh dear, the American generals can't decide whether to attack or retreat, and so the enemy wins. You think that is over dramatizing the situation? Not so.

The Senate has refused to pass a Declaration of War since the last one in 1942, but the American Army has been in numerous wars since then and pretty much lost every damn one of them. Since there was NO Declaration of War, the generals and Presidents were free to dither back and forth between attack and retreat and running around in circles while screaming and shouting. And that is why the United States keeps losing war after war. The Senate won't even commit to Declaring War on a piece of paper, so why would the United States actually win a war that nobody in the Senate will put their signature to a document demanding a victory?

By the way, the Constitution requires a Declaration of War by Congress, but Congress has stopped obeying the Constitution. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/war_powers

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

Lists of Wars in the 21st Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
#21st-century_wars


To summarize, the filibuster has always been a bad idea that the Senate has used to avoid making life-and-death decisions.

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

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Thursday, December 5, 2024 8:33 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

I sure hope Republicans think about the future and how bad that could be for them if they did it now. That's only something you do when you're sure that you're going to be in power forever. And an opinion article from a no-name of your opposition saying that you're going to be in power forever doesn't qualify for reality.



In any event, maybe you'll stop trying to force men who should be in a loony bin from whipping out their dicks in front of women and young girls. Especially in all of the red states that severely outnumber the blue states.

Everything you do is unpopular with the majority. Maybe stop fucking around with everyone's lives and trying to force the rest of the country to become California and maybe you can win the Senate back one day.


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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.

The filibuster exists only to avoid making decisions in the Senate. Not making decisions is fatal in the military, for a very real example. Oh dear, the American generals can't decide whether to attack or retreat, and so the enemy wins. You think that is over dramatizing the situation? Not so.

The Senate has refused to pass a Declaration of War since the last one in 1942, but the American Army has been in numerous wars since then and pretty much lost every damn one of them. Since there was NO Declaration of War, the generals and Presidents were free to dither back and forth between attack and retreat and running around in circles while screaming and shouting. And that is why the United States keeps losing war after war. The Senate won't even commit to Declaring War on a piece of paper, so why would the United States actually win a war that nobody in the Senate will put their signature to a document demanding a victory?

By the way, the Constitution requires a Declaration of War by Congress, but Congress has stopped obeying the Constitution. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/war_powers

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

Lists of Wars in the 21st Century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
#21st-century_wars


To summarize, the filibuster has always been a bad idea that the Senate has used to avoid making life-and-death decisions.

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




Until Biden*, in the last 24 years Trump was the only President that didn't start another unconstitutional war.

Maybe if the Biden* administration didn't fuck up Ukraine and the Middle East so much that might have meant something in the end.

It certainly meant nothing at all once Joe Biden* gave the directive to Ukraine to fire US missiles at Russia last month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-at
acms-missiles.html


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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Until Biden*, in the last 24 years Trump was the only President that didn't start another unconstitutional war.

Maybe if the Biden* administration didn't fuck up Ukraine and the Middle East so much that might have meant something in the end.

It certainly meant nothing at all once Joe Biden* gave the directive to Ukraine to fire US missiles at Russia last month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-at
acms-missiles.html


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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.

The wiki article shows a dozen wars you never heard about that Trump let run out of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
#21st-century_wars


Since Congress had not made a declaration of war for any of those wars, Trump could have instantly ended all the wars, but he didn't. Trump let the wars pointlessly run on and on and he let his generals run around in circles, accomplishing nothing. Oddly, the Senate has never had a problem ignoring what was happening.

If a Senator opposed a wacko war, and Trump accidentally stumbled into a "victory" (note the quotation marks around "victory" ) the Senator would look bad for not supporting the troops.

The reverse situation, a Senator supporting a wacko war and Trump stumbling into a defeat (note the lack of quotation marks around defeat) the Senator, again, looks bad for sending troops to die in vain.

Either supporting or opposing wacko wars can make a Senator look bad. That's why the Senate has NOT passed a Declaration of War since 1942, despite that being the most important responsibility the Senate has.

The Senate's filibuster has the same motivation as the Senate never declaring war. A filibuster allows Senators to not make a decision about some minor policy (minor compared to war) in the same way as the no declaration of wars allows Senators to not decide either for or against going to war. The Senators push their Constitutional responsibility to make decisions onto the President which is about the worst possible way to run a country, by moving all policy decisions into the wrong department. The worst run countries in history have the top guy, a Hitler or a Chairman Mao or a Stalin, making the biggest decisions that kill millions all by himself.

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

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Friday, December 6, 2024 1:16 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Until Biden*, in the last 24 years Trump was the only President that didn't start another unconstitutional war.

Maybe if the Biden* administration didn't fuck up Ukraine and the Middle East so much that might have meant something in the end.

It certainly meant nothing at all once Joe Biden* gave the directive to Ukraine to fire US missiles at Russia last month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-at
acms-missiles.html


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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.

The wiki article shows a dozen wars you never heard about that Trump let run out of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
#21st-century_wars




It's a list of a dozen wars that ain't any of our business and I give zero fucks about.

The only reason anybody gives a fuck about Ukraine is because we've got so much taxpayer dollars invested in it. You dumb assholes are in the vast minority in December of 2024.

Nobody ever gave one single actual fuck about Ukraine. 2 months after that started they all proved that by taking their Ukraine flags out of their bios and never bringing it up again because it wasn't cool to talk about anymore.



I don't begrudge Biden at all for not ending the conflict. It wasn't any of Biden's fucking business in the first place. Yanno... if you pretend that he and his family haven't been doing shady shit in the Ukraine for over a decade now.

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Friday, December 6, 2024 1:18 AM

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And I really don't understand what you're going on about right now.

Are you actually campaigning for Republicans to remove the filibuster in the Senate?

That's what it looks like you're doing when you post 3 articles in a row calling it shit.


You sure you don't want to think about that and maybe sleep on it for a night or two before you put what you think is your two cents in on the issue?

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And I really don't understand what you're going on about right now.

Are you actually campaigning for Republicans to remove the filibuster in the Senate?

That's what it looks like you're doing when you post 3 articles in a row calling it shit.


You sure you don't want to think about that and maybe sleep on it for a night or two before you put what you think is your two cents in on the issue?

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6ix, you are very smart. Yes, I do want the filibuster ended. I do want the Senate to make decisions, which it avoids because there is a filibuster.

The malfunctions of the Federal government arise because Congress refuses to do its job, with the biggest and most obvious refusal being the Senate refusing to make Declarations of War. (The Pentagon gets a big budget from the Senate because it is careful to distribute its bases and weapons contracts across 50 states, which is the Pentagon's way of bribing Senators to vote for overly expensive weapons without voting for war.)

The President definitely should NOT be starting wars, but Presidents have, and the Senate should be removing such Presidents from power, which it has NOT been doing because the Senate is full of irresponsible individuals who are simultaneously greedy for Pentagon spending in their states. Sending aid to Ukraine is a perfect way to increase military spending in the states without taking any responsibility for winning a war. It’s a win/win for Senators who want money for their states but don’t want responsibility for results in a war. Since Trump is Putin’s buddy, he doesn’t want Putin to lose, which means Ukraine will no-longer be a conduit for the Pentagon transferring money to Republican Senators’ states.

The Federal government has been kept half-way running by having the President personally making decisions that should have been made by Congress. Another absurdity that is caused by the irresponsibility of elected Senators is the Supreme Court has started making decisions that should only be made by Congress.

And the silliest thing going on in Washington DC is the idea that Only-I-Can-Fix-It from foolish people who worship Presidents. The real examples of Hitler, Chairman Mao, and Stalin should make sane people afraid of Only-I-Can-Fix-It Trump making all decisions. Countries like China, Russia and the USA have drifted into one super-powerful man making all decisions. That is an insane way to run a government.

A government ends up being the expression of the peculiarities of one man, and when that man falls ill (see Biden followed by Trump) or even dies (see JFK followed by LBJ), the government becomes the playground for the peculiarities and emotional illness of the next super-powerful man (see Richard Nixon's mental breakdown).

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

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You can stop filing tax returns after Trump is President

Thu, Dec 5 2024, 5:10 PM EST

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/05/irs-crackdown-on-wealthy-americans-fac
es-roadblocks-.html


A quirk in federal tax law is incentivizing wealthy people who want to avoid paying taxes to simply not file their returns. That’s because it’s a felony to file false tax returns but only a misdemeanor not to file a return at all.

And due to limited IRS and Department of Justice resources to pursue misdemeanor violations, a person who does not file a return is unlikely to face prosecution. As a result, many millionaires could simply be taking their chances, betting that they will face few consequences for not filing their tax returns.

In early 2024, the IRS began an effort to contact people it calls “high income non-filers” and urge them to file returns to the tax agency.... Notices were mailed in February in 125,000 cases targeting wealthy taxpayers who had not filed tax returns since 2017.

I'll bet it will get easier pretty soon as Donald Trump and his handpicked IRS commissioner ease up on those pesky new Democratic rules aimed at collecting more unpaid taxes from the rich. They'll probably reallocate the agents to go after people who cheat the feds out of $50 on their EITC returns.

Also, it sure seems like someone should have told Hunter Biden about this. If he had not filed his 2018 return (he did not file in 2017) the case against him would have been entirely misdemeanors.

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