Elections; 2024
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Vote for this guy: "I'm going to Court tomorrow to fight for my name and reputation against a corrupt and racist Attorney General, Letitia James, who campaigned on "getting Trump," and a Trump Hating Judge who is unfair, unhinged, and vicious in his PURSUIT of me," Trump said on Sunday night on his social media platform Truth Social.
The trial comes a week after the judge presiding over the case found Trump liable for fraud and will largely concern the penalties he must face.
James is seeking at least $250 million in fines, a permanent ban against Trump and his sons Donald Jr and Eric from running businesses in New York and a five-year restriction on commercial real estate activities by Trump and his flagship Trump Organization.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trumps-business-empire-peril-c
ivil-fraud-trial-opens-new-york-2023-10-02/
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Hail Caesar! Hail Trump - the American Caesar! I look forward to a Christian Caesar Ruling me. Nothing could possibly go wrong when a theocracy is ruling America. God is always Right.
‘Red Caesarism’ is rightwing code – and some Republicans are listening
The argument for a ‘red Caesar’ to rule US may seem esoteric but conservative thinktank behind idea has connections to Trump
The "New Right" now often discusses a Red Caesar, a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people. Not a Trumptard like "His People"? Too bad.
For the last three years, parts of the American right have advocated a theory called Caesarism as an authoritarian solution to the claimed collapse of the US republic.
Though on the surface this discussion might seem esoteric, experts who track extremism in the US say that due to their influence on the Republican party, the rightwing intellectuals who espouse these ideas about the attractions of autocracy present a profound threat to American democracy.
Their calls for a “red Caesar” are now only growing louder as Donald Trump has assumed dominant frontrunner status in the 2024 Republican nomination race. Trump has spoken openly of attacking the free press and has little regard for American constitutional norms should he win the White House again.
The idea that the US might be redeemed by a Caesar – an authoritarian, rightwing leader such as Trump – was first broached explicitly by Michael Anton, a Claremont senior fellow and Trump presidential adviser.
Anton has been an influential rightwing intellectual since in 2016 penning The Flight 93 Election, a rightwing essay in which he told conservatives who were squeamish about Trump “charge the cockpit or you die”, referencing one of the hijacked flights of 9/11.
He gave Caesarism a passing mention in that essay, but developed it further in his 2020 book, The Stakes, defining it as a “form of one-man rule: halfway … between monarchy and tyranny”.
Anton writes baldly that “the United States peaked around 1965”, and that Americans are ruled by “a network of unelected bureaucrats … corporate-tech-finance senior management, ‘experts’ who set the boundaries of acceptable opinion, and media figures who police those boundaries”.
His diagnosis of US social and cultural life unfolds under a series of subheadings that are almost comical in their disillusionment: “The universities have become evil”, “Our economy is fake”, “The people are corrupt”, “Our civilization has lost the will to live”.
Damon Linker, a senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and an author of several books on the American right, was early in noticing the extreme right’s drift towards Caesarism.
Linker told the Guardian that Anton and others in the Claremont milieu “have convinced themselves thoroughly that the current order is decadent, corrupt and far removed from the proper, admirable origins of American government”.
Linker said their current view is related to a long-held position among Claremont scholars that “democracy as they understand has been supplanted by bureaucrats and entrenched executive branch departments”.
“The fact that Trump lost in 2020 has just radicalized a lot of these people – it occurred to them that they might not win a proper election again,” he said.
“That would mean that – excuse the language – they’re shit out of luck unless there’s some other path to power. That’s where Caesarism comes in.”
The idea has been lodged in the broader sphere of conservative debate in rightwing writer Stephen Wolfe’s book The Case for Christian Nationalism, in which he proposes a “Christian prince” such as Trump whose rule would be “a measured and theocratic Caesarism”, and might perhaps be installed by “a just revolution” against secular rule.
More at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/01/red-caesar-authoritarian
ism-republicans-extreme-right
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And yet you remain completely oblivious to the destruction of society that Democrats are causing current-day.
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Hail Caesar! Hail Trump - the American Caesar! I look forward to a Christian Caesar Ruling me. Nothing could possibly go wrong when a theocracy is ruling America.
6ixStringJack:
And yet you remain completely oblivious to the destruction of society that Democrats are causing current-day.
Indeed.
SECOND, your faux-issues are tiresome.
What do you think about censorship to enforce BLM/ Critical Race Theory/ reparations; enforce irrational Covid policies, whip up anti-Russian hatred, and smother any questions about Biden corruption or Dem policies in general?
Encourage sexual mutilation (often regretted and not very helpful) in the name of "you can be whatever you want to be"?
Pit people against each other, impose authoritarian punishments for using the wrong pronoun, "microaggressing" in ways that only an overly sensitive person would notice, and illiberally enforcing the current narrative/"crisis du jour"?
Sorry dood, but your party is enforcing a religion if its own. So, yanno, fuck off.
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Nothing indicates Gavin Newsom's Presidential ambitions as much as this:
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Newsom Fills Feinstein's Empty Senate Seat With Wealthy Black Lesbian From Maryland
First of all, it's an insult to Californians. Apparently Newsom is willing to trash California's unique interests, and disregard HIS RESPONSIBILITY AS GOVERNOR, in order to court support from a "regionally distant area" in order to balance his national appeal.
Reading further, I find this his appointment heads EMILY'S List. EMILY'S List raises funds for female candidates, no matter how war-mongering or ludicrous. (When I saw, lo these many years ago, they supported Jane Harmon, I started trashing their appeal for $$)
So in addition to sucking up to Biden* during his visit here in an unseemly display of obsequiousness, he's spreading his tentacles across country
Thanks to his "sanctuary", "soft on crime", pro-reparations (for what? CA was never a slave state), "green energy" policies, California has become a clusterfuck. I can't imagine what would happen if he imposed his unrealistic, extremist ideology on the rest of the USA.
Voters of all political persuasions, beware.
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Quote:There is a movie that describes people who ascertain as you do. "Idiocracy" has jokes about your kind:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Indeed.
SECOND, your faux-issues are tiresome.
What do you think about censorship to enforce BLM/ Critical Race Theory/ reparations; enforce irrational Covid policies, whip up anti-Russian hatred, and smother any questions about Biden corruption or Dem policies in general?
Encourage sexual mutilation (often regretted and not very helpful) in the name of "you can be whatever you want to be"?
Pit people against each other, impose authoritarian punishments for using the wrong pronoun, "microaggressing" in ways that only an overly sensitive person would notice, and illiberally enforcing the current narrative/"crisis du jour"?
Sorry dood, but your party is enforcing a religion if its own. So, yanno, fuck off.
You think Einstein walked around thinking everyone was a bunch of dumb shits?
Yeah.
Now you know why he built that bomb.
Signym, in Idiocracy as in America, there is an overabundance, a vast majority of people like you and 6ix and Trump who are so pigheaded and stupid that only a nuke could change their minds. I haven't met you but people who I do know with your opinions are not prospering in America and they blame Democrats, not themselves for being stupid and pigheaded.
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SECOND, you don't have a "mind" to change. You're just an assortment of slogans and hate. 
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As I mentioned in another thread, the presence of RFK Jr in the race definitely disturbs calculations.
I assume that the candidates will be Newsom (D), RFK Jr (I) and Trump (R).
So the question is, will RFK Jr pull more votes from Newsom than from Trump?
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Quote:The people who work with Trump attest to his character:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
CNN asked John Kelly, chief of staff to Donald Trump in 2017-18, if he wanted to say anything more about his former boss in light of recent developments. He did:
What can I add that has not already been said? A person that thinks those who defend their country in uniform, or are shot down or seriously wounded in combat, or spend years being tortured as POWs are all ‘suckers’ because ‘there is nothing in it for them.’ A person who did not want to be seen in the presence of military amputees because ‘it doesn’t look good for me.’ A person who demonstrated open contempt for a Gold Star family — for all Gold Star families — on TV during the 2016 campaign, and rants that our most precious heroes who gave their lives in America’s defense are ‘losers’ and wouldn’t visit their graves in France.
A person who is not truthful regarding his position on the protection of unborn life, on women, on minorities, on evangelical Christians, on Jews, on working men and women. A person who has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason — in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person who has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law.
There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.
I wonder why more of Trump's opponents don't focus on this? Trump's casual contempt for those who serve and die in war isn't just revolting even for him, it's the kind of thing that might — might — influence the opinions of Trump's fans. At the very least, highlighting this stuff would force Trump to deny it. Even that's worth something.
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Electoral College
its to keep out the mob just in case a guy like Joe Exotic, convicted felon, businessman and media personality decides to run as a Democrat or changes his mind as independent candidate, Democratic National Convention Minyon Moore who worked for Bill and Hiaary Clinton
Maybe just Rearranging the deck chairs
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Former president Donald Trump, whose incendiary rhetoric has repeatedly incited violence, recently said Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the just-retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had committed “a treasonous act” for which “in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!”
While most Republicans may not agree, the silence is deafening.
Trump and his supporters have also suggested that if he regains the presidency, he will seek to gut checks on executive power, weaponize the Justice Department to pursue political opponents, eviscerate the civil service and attempt to put himself above the law. This is a man who has been indicted on a charge of a conspiracy to overturn an election and called for the “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
We should believe him when he tells us what he’ll do next.
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Former president Donald Trump, whose incendiary rhetoric has repeatedly incited violence, recently said Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the just-retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had committed “a treasonous act” for which “in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!”
While most Republicans may not agree, the silence is deafening.
Trump and his supporters have also suggested that if he regains the presidency, he will seek to gut checks on executive power, weaponize the Justice Department to pursue political opponents, eviscerate the civil service and attempt to put himself above the law. This is a man who has been indicted on a charge of a conspiracy to overturn an election and called for the “termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
We should believe him when he tells us what he’ll do next.
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The "Justice" Department is already extremely weaponized and full of Democrat shills.
And the constant incitement of violence, actual violence and rioting all come from the Left in the 2020s.
Trump is going to dismantle the entire thing.
Tick Tock
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The speaker of the house has been fired.
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Not something you should be celebrating, worm.
He was one of yours.
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Illegal Immigration Emerges as Democrats’ Achilles Heel
Immigration has emerged as a key wedge issue that may cost the Democrats the White House and their U.S. Senate Majority next fall.
According to a Harvard-Harris poll published earlier this month, 71% of registered voters think illegal immigration is getting worse. Democrats made up 37% of respondents to that poll, which means that a critical mass of President Biden’s base is dissatisfied with how his administration has handled the issue. Republicans comprised 36% of poll respondents, and 23% identified as independents. Of those who think illegal immigration is getting worse, 12% did not identify as Republicans or independents. Even more damning, however, is the number of Democrats who said illegal immigration is getting worse, which was over half at 53%.
Biden’s first term has been full of border blunders, from permitting the end of Title 42 to halting the construction of the wall on America’s southern border – even attacking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for both trying to create physical barriers along the border as well as shipping migrants out of his state.
The number of monthly encounters reported by Customs and Border Protection has steadily increased throughout the Biden presidency, to the extent that the Center for Immigration Studies stated that the most recently available August 2023 border numbers revealed a border in freefall.
MORE AT https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/10/03/illegal_immigration_emer
ges_as_democrats_achilles_heel_149838.html
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We already know who the Republican candidates are. But with Biden* in the WH ... and the DNC practice of running the current President as candidate ... the final DNC pick is a bit of a mystery.
I noticed that Hillary is making public appearances again, with that long interview on NPR. Last time, she got the candidacy bc she was the DNC rainmaker, bringing in hundreds of thousands of $ to DNC coffers. That's why the DNC squeezed Bernie out. So- hat in ring, again?
Newsom has been sucking up, hard, running a kind of 'shadow campaign', especially with his pick for "California" Senator. (What a joke! Californians should rebel.)
Even Biden* seems wider awake the past couple of weeks than the previous six months. Thye must have upped his dose of Aricept or given him speed. Or maybe both.
RFK Jr is still up in the air. Rumor has it that he's going to announce his run as an independent on Oct 9. I guess we'll have to wait until Oct 9 to find out.
Even Michele Obama's been mentioned.
NOBODY is talking about Camel-like Harris.
If I had to take a guess, right now I think the DNC is going to burn Biden out by flogging him thru the last year of his Presidency, but not choosing him as candidate. That way, they don't have to confront the issue of the VP being a grating imbecile, or Biden running against ... well, anybody. By scraping him off, they can scrape off his policies that led to a broken southern border, sharp decline in living standards, stagflation, crime, and "wokeness". Not to mention USA's/ NATO's likely crushing defeat in Ukraine.
The DNC's preferred candidate will have a fresh start to continue with DNC policies.
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They never planned this far ahead. They thought for sure by now that Trump would be way behind in the primary polls, and they certainly didn't imagine that he'd be winning in the General Election polls and betting odds against Biden* at this point.
They know they absolutely have to replace Biden* before the debates. Either that or they're going to be forced to cancel the debates altogether. They've rarely let the dude speak in public for 3 years, and when they do they give him cheat-sheet cards telling him when he's supposed to sit down or stand up and when to shake who's hand. Trump will shred Biden* on the debate stage.
Now they're actively trying to destroy Trump's life because the baseless arrests backfired on them, and Trump still isn't backing down. I hope that Trump is taking security seriously because the Democratic Party has no shortage of self-hating white college "educated" activists that would be happy to die for their cause in their cult.
I don't know who they're going to pick.
Honestly, the only person that they could pick that scares me is Michelle Obama.
If only 100 IQ or higher were allowed to vote, this wouldn't worry me at all, but here we are.
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Republicans held their first impeachment hearing of President Biden 7 days ago. Since then, we've learned:
• Trump Org is the Enron of real estate
• Trump disseminated nuclear secrets to a guy who built an empire out of cardboard boxes
• Rudy Giuliani owes 5x more to the IRS than Hunter Biden did and Hunter paid his off
• Bernie Kerik wants immunity to testify against Trump and Giuliani in Georgia
• John Kelly confirmed Trump hates our military
• George Santos's campaign treasurer pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the feds
• Matt Gaetz snorts Viagra and chases it with Red Bull while House Ethics is trying to have him expelled
• The leading candidates for replacing Kevin McCarthy are David Duke without the baggage and a guy who covered up child sex trafficking.
"Trump will be fine. He will be your next President." - 6ix
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Fuck off, idiot.
USA TODAY: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/10/05/how-worried-sh
ould-democrats-be-about-bidens-bad-polls-against-trump/70984891007/
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Time for Democrats to panic or close as expected?
Jefrey Pollock, a Democratic pollster, downplayed cause for concern for Biden and Democrats, arguing the polls reflect what should have been clear already: the country is deeply polarized and the 2024 election will be close even with Trump as the Republican nominee.
"I have no idea why any Democrat, or anybody in the country, would think that any poll would be any different than life and reality," Pollock said. "And life and reality right now is that we have an incredibly divided country that we know the election is going to be close no matter what."
He said anyone who thought that Trump's legal issues would mean an easy race for Biden and Democrats are "just living in fantasy land."
He's talking about you and Ted. Per a Democrat pollster, you're a couple of fucking idiots who have been living in fantasy land for years now.
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But pollster Frank Luntz said Democrats are right to panic.
"On a 0 to 10 scale, it's an 11," Luntz said. "With Donald Trump indicted so many times and in such legal trouble, for Joe Biden to be only tied, and in some polls trailing, is a shock to the system and they should be thankful that polling exists."
Luntz, who conducts regular focus groups with Republican primary voters, called Trump's polling against Biden "a nuclear red light flashing," arguing any other candidate with his same legal troubles would be out of the race.
"It says that voters are willing to forgive Trump for everything and it says voters are not willing to forgive Biden for anything," Luntz said. "What they cannot change, and will be getting increasingly worse, is the issue of Joe Biden's age."
These are YOUR guys and USA Today is a Leftist shitrag.
If they're admitting they're worried, your stupid ass definitely should be.
And instead of enjoying the 3 years your guy has been President*, all you did was obsess over Trump every single day. Might I suggest that you try to enjoy this last year before that slips away from you too.
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Republicans held their first impeachment hearing of President Biden 7 days ago. Since then, we've learned:
• Trump Org is the Enron of real estate
• Trump disseminated nuclear secrets to a guy who built an empire out of cardboard boxes
• Rudy Giuliani owes 5x more to the IRS than Hunter Biden did and Hunter paid his off
• Bernie Kerik wants immunity to testify against Trump and Giuliani in Georgia
• John Kelly confirmed Trump hates our military
• George Santos's campaign treasurer pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the feds
• Matt Gaetz snorts Viagra and chases it with Red Bull while House Ethics is trying to have him expelled
• The leading candidates for replacing Kevin McCarthy are David Duke without the baggage and a guy who covered up child sex trafficking.
"Trump will be fine. He will be your next President." - 6ix
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I gave Biden a suggestion about how he should deliver his speeches. How to counter republican lies. I won't say what my suggestion was unless I see him do it. I do not want the republicans to do it first.
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I gave Biden a suggestion about how he should deliver his speeches. How to counter republican lies. I won't say what my suggestion was unless I see him do it. I do not want the republicans to do it first.
Oh thank god! Ted is the savior of the Democratic Party!
He found the holy grail!!!!!
You'd better be grateful Second. Ted is your king now.
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Donald Trump Is a Man Without a Past
At least in the eyes of his supporters
“They believe him, because they believe in him,” Ruth Ben-Ghiat wrote in her 2020 book about authoritarian leaders. Trump “presented himself as a truth-teller,” he utilized “this mirage of him as the successful businessman who has what all other men want” — “all of which,” she told me this week, “are things that authoritarians have done for a hundred years.”
“Obviously George Orwell taught us about the ‘memory hole,’” said Jen Mercieca, the author of Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. “The memory hole is very effective — this idea that you can just discard unpleasant truths and make them go away. Human beings are very vulnerable to memory-shaping.”
Consider, for instance — well, Trump’s whole life. “Truthful hyperbole,” as he put it in 1987 in The Art of the Deal, the item for which he is maybe most known after the tower that bears his name — a book O’Brien once described as a “nonfiction work of fiction.” When his book Surviving at the Top came out in 1990, he was barely surviving, and he was nowhere at the top. He didn’t care. Time and time again, as Trump told his tale, failures weren’t failures, losses weren’t losses. Nothing but successes. Nothing but wins.
“Deny something enough, and people eventually will believe you,” said Jack O’Donnell, a former Trump casino executive. “Once they believe you, it is easy to rationalize the past.”
“You talk to voters, and unless they are just hardwired on anti-Trump stuff, they’re going to say he’s a massively successful businessman,” Republican strategist Doug Heye added, “and regardless of what a judge says, that will not be stripped away from his base voters’ minds.”
Trump’s supporters do not care what he did or what he said before. They like him still. They like him now. “It is amazing,” McIntosh told me in a text. “All attempts to undermine his conservative credentials on specific issues were ineffective,” the memo said. “Even when you show video to Republican primary voters with complete context of President Trump saying something otherwise objectionable to primary voters, they find a way to rationalize and dismiss it.”
“What I saw there that really stood out to me was that people dismissed any negative information about Donald Trump as just another attack on Donald Trump,” Mercieca told me. “So they want to believe that Donald Trump is their guy, and he’s a good guy, that he’s fighting for them and that no one else is, that everything is corrupt, and he’s the only one who will save them. That’s the message that he has always given them,” she said. “Every attack against him feeds the narrative that he has created.”
“Trump has made grievance politics his great strength,” Mike DuHaime, Chris Christie’s campaign manager, told me. “He has made himself a victim, and makes others feel like they are also victims, and therefore they must all stick together against the unseen oppressor.”
“Once they bond to him, then he has the victim narrative,” said Ben-Ghiat. “What these propagandists do so beautifully is they establish these narrative grooves, and then everything that happens, it’s like confirmation bias — it fulfills.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/04/trump-supporters-fra
ud-irrelevant-00119770
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Rapist Trump endorses sex crimes enabler Jim Jordan over white supremacist Steve Scalise for Speaker after sex trafficker Matt Gaetz ousted adulterer Kevin McCarthy who pledged his loyalty to insurrectionist Marjorie Greene.
This is the self-styled Party of Christian Values.
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Now now... That type of rhetoric is unbecoming of someone who is sure that their guy is going to win the election.
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Quote:If East Texas were all of America, Trump would receive 90% of the vote. The people I am surrounded by can see nothing particularly wrong with Trump's behavior or their own. I find it perfectly obvious why Trump's life is full of absurd drama, emotional crisis, and mental health issues but East Texans can't see that is unusual because their lives are similar, just not as publicized.
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Now now... That type of rhetoric is unbecoming of someone who is sure that their guy is going to win the election.
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Authoritarianism Expert Says Nikki Haley's Trump Comment Means 1 Chilling Thing
The GOP candidate's failure to condemn the former president's attack on retired Gen. Mark Milley is an ominous sign for America, explained Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
Authoritarianism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Sunday said Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s refusal to condemn Donald Trump’s violent rhetoric showed America is “living through real-time preparation for an authoritarian crackdown.”
Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told Kristen Walker of NBC’s “Meet The Press” that Trump’s floating of the idea of executing retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs, was “irresponsible.”
But Haley claimed it wasn’t enough to disqualify Trump from running for the White House again.
“Apparently the idea of executing Milley is now the Party Line,” Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University, commented on X, formerly Twitter.
“We are living through real-time preparation for an authoritarian crackdown,” she continued. “We are in a phase of ‘getting the public used to the idea of violence.’”
“Having authoritative voices like Haley endorse violence is key,” added the author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present.”
Trump’s attack on Milley prompted the top military leader to take “safety precautions” for himself and his family. The comment drew sparse criticism from conservatives, however.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ruth-ben-ghiat-nikki-haley-milley_n_652
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If East Texas were all of America, Trump would receive 90% of the vote. The people I am surrounded by can see nothing particularly wrong with Trump's behavior or their own. I find it perfectly obvious why Trump's life is full of absurd drama, emotional crisis, and mental health issues but East Texans can't see that is unusual because their lives are similar, just not as publicized.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Now now... That type of rhetoric is unbecoming of someone who is sure that their guy is going to win the election.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
A true fish out of water story.
The one about the lobotomized BlueAnon who was inflicted upon a bunch of normal folk.
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Quote:I think you are getting "average" confused with "normal", assuming those two words are interchangeable. The "average" East Texan is not "normal" which is why they have an endless series of troubles until death. Since your own life has been anything but "normal", even though it might be very much the same as "average" Trumptards', you don't understand.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A true fish out of water story.
The one about the lobotomized BlueAnon who was inflicted upon a bunch of normal folk.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I think you are getting "average" confused with "normal", assuming those two words are interchangeable. The "average" East Texan is not "normal" which is why they have an endless series of troubles until death. Since your own life has been anything but "normal", even though it might be very much the same as "average" Trumptards', you don't understand.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A true fish out of water story.
The one about the lobotomized BlueAnon who was inflicted upon a bunch of normal folk.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Have fun at work today, honey. Don't forget to take the trash out for Mom before you slink back down in your basement.
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Quote:My Mother died at 94 years old in 2013. Houses are NOT built with basements along the Texas Gulf Coast. My life became very peaceful and normal once I rejected the teachings of my parents, the Jehovah's Witnesses. I turned to pulverizing abnormal people rather than catering to their needs. It is better for me, but not at all Christian, when Trumptards suffer rather than my smooth-running life being disturbed by their abnormalities, mental issues, and grotesque inability to understand they are wackos who deserve the suffering they bring down upon themselves.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have fun at work today, honey. Don't forget to take the trash out for Mom before you slink back down in your basement.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have fun at work today, honey. Don't forget to take the trash out for Mom before you slink back down in your basement.
No she didn't. You graduated college 10 years ago and you live in her basement. She hates you, but won't tell you that because it breaks her heart knowing what a loser she raised. Your fat dad died of a massive heart attack when you were in grade school.
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Houses are NOT built with basements along the Texas Gulf Coast. My life became very peaceful and normal once I rejected the teachings of my parents, the Jehovah's Witnesses. I turned to pulverizing abnormal people rather than catering to their needs. It is better for me, but not at all Christian, when Trumptards suffer rather than my smooth-running life being disturbed by their abnormalities, mental issues, and grotesque inability to understand they are wackos who deserve the suffering they bring down upon themselves.
You couldn't pulverize a piece of bread with those wet noodles you call biceps, soyboy.
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As expected...
RFK Jr. Ditches Democrats To Pursue 2024 Presidential Bid As An Independent
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Something or Someone is Not Going to Save Us
As much as it pains me to say it (my personal urge toward salvationism is as strong as anybody else’s), nobody is coming to save us...
By Thom Hartmann, Oct 9, 2023, https://hartmannreport.com/p/something-or-someone-is-not-going-8d9
“Saved at the last minute” is pretty much the story of our culture.
It’s built into our major salvationist religions, particularly Christianity and Islam. Even when killed or facing death, Jesus and Muhammed managed to ascend to heaven at the last minute and claim eternal life.
By this worldview, no matter how terrible a life you’ve lived, if you say a handful of magic words at the last minute before you die, you’re guaranteed a spot in paradise. There’s always the last minute.
It’s at the core of most all of our fiction, and a good chunk of our nonfiction. In the old Greek dramas it was deus ex machina — the god in the machine — when Our Hero was finally trapped in an impossible situation but then a platform is cranked down from the ceiling of the amphitheater with a god on it, who waves his hand and makes everything okay again.
In our modern movies and novels, it’s the last-minute discovery of the cure, a take-down of the bad guy, or the discovery of the fatal chink in the aliens’ armor. It’s the miraculous oil that keeps the menorah burning bright through the crisis or the earthquake that brought down Jericho’s walls.
Even in the field of nonfiction, nearly every book — no matter how dire its topic — wraps up with a section or chapter that essentially offers the “here’s what you can do” solutions to everything from acne to climate change to the fascist takeover of America.
This belief that something or someone will ultimately save us no matter how badly we screw things up is why we’re procrastinating with climate change and fossil fuels. It’s why we’re hooked on lotteries. It’s presumably why Merrick Garland put off doing anything about Trump for two years, apparently thinking Congress would rid him of that “meddlesome priest.” It’s why we celebrate Jack Smith, our savior.
There are fundamental issues that brought us to the verge of fascism and we’re ignoring them every day:
— Income inequality and the role of tax cuts in it.
— Worker insecurity and the role of the GOP war on unions.
— A climate-change-driven refugee crisis on our Southern Border.
— Political bribery by our Predator Class and the corrupt Citizens United decision.
— Billionaires and foreign governments buying politicians.
— Media consolidation under the control of rightwing billionaire families.
— Corporate monopolies.
— Racism, homophobia, and misogyny.
We ignore them all because we believe “somebody will eventually save us” so we don’t need to do the hard work of putting our nation, our working class, and our democracy back together.
For most of my life, religious salvationists have disparaged those of us who consider ourselves both spiritual and religious but don’t buy the salvationist aspects of our monotheistic religions. They mistakenly reverse the arrow of causation, arguing that without religion there can be no morality when in fact religion plagiarized morality from every human society that has ever existed.
Genuine morality is deeply buried in our collective psyche, and doesn’t require a savior figure or grand discovery to bring it to the surface.
As much as it pains me to say it (my personal urge toward salvationism is as strong as anybody else’s), nobody is coming to save us.
Salvationists take that as a statement of resignation, of surrender to crises bigger than we are. I take it as both a challenge and an opportunity. By abandoning reliance on others for our salvation from climate change, income inequality, political corruption, and all the other ills of our modern society, we can then shift responsibility for our future to the people most capable of doing something about these problems: ourselves and the governments we can influence.
Joe Biden is not going to save us, and neither are Bernie Sanders or El
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Fuck Thom Hartmann.
Please. Somebody fuck Thom Hartmann. Dude only gets off watching his wife's black boyfriend railing her.
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Quote:6ix remains depraved. The USA has a history of depraved Americans imagining themselves as wholesome people.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Thom Hartmann.
Please. Somebody fuck Thom Hartmann. Dude only gets off watching his wife's black boyfriend railing her.
From the essay:
Abraham Lincoln faced fully half the nation in armed rebellion holding to a fascist notion of America as a permanent nation of slaveholders. (In case you are a believer in the Lost Cause, the slaveholders were depraved people. I run across numerous Trumptards in East Texas who still believe the wrong side won the Civil War. It requires a high level of depravity to defend naming schools and Junior Colleges after Robert E Lee, a traitor, but Trumptards have those high levels.)
In 1932, the Republican Great Depression was approaching its zenith; a third of Americans were out of work and hunger stalked the land. With just as much corrupt intent as we see today in Jim Jordan or Donald Trump, nakedly fascist politicians were preparing to carve the country up and split the spoils.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Joe Biden Says Americans ‘Likely’ Among Hostages Taken by Hamas During Surprise Attack
https://www.yahoo.com/news/entertainment/joe-biden-says-americans-like
ly-125607818.html
Israel-Gaza latest: Hamas warns citizens of Israeli city to leave - as Israel says its offensive 'won't be clean'
https://news.sky.com/story/israel-gaza-latest-hamas-warns-citizens-of-
israeli-city-to-leave-as-israel-says-its-offensive-wont-be-clean-12978800
Thai death toll in Israel rises to 18
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2661214/thai-death-toll-i
n-israel-rises-to-18
The confirmed Thai death toll from the Hamas attack on Israel has risen to 18
British and Cambodians either dead or missing
"Unacceptable": Emmanuel Macron After Iran Praises Hamas' Attack On Israel
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/irans-condoning-of-hamas-attacks-unacc
eptable-for-french-president-4467656
Ten Nepali students killed in Hamas attacks in Israel
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/ten-nepali-students-killed
-in-hamas-attacks-in-israel/article67398564.ece
Hamas Israel attacks: The international victims of the assault on Israel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67054825
Israeli air strikes pound Gaza as death toll climbs on both sides
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/israeli-air-strikes-pound-
gaza-as-death-toll-climbs-on-both-sides/article67397137.ece
Israel-Gaza Conflict: President Biden Condemns Surprise Attack In Israel
Biden talks
As Israel mourns the loss of lives, more testimonials, images, and stories emerge.
Here are photos captured this morning by the "South First Responders" in Kibbutz Re'em.
https://twitter.com/SachaRoytman/status/1711626803486368245
When terrorists infiltrated the community, residents attempted to flee. The terrorists systematically targeted vehicles to ensure no survivors remained.
Blood stains are widespread, even on baby seats. The brutality of Hamas terrorists is evident as they indiscriminately targeted everyone, without distinguishing between soldiers and civilians, men, women, or children.
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As expected...
RFK Jr. Ditches Democrats To Pursue 2024 Presidential Bid As An Independent
He's a nut job comrade just like you. Hey, thank god Biden did not dismantle the FBI with all that's going on in Israel aye?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix remains depraved. The USA has a history of depraved Americans imagining themselves as wholesome people.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck Thom Hartmann.
Please. Somebody fuck Thom Hartmann. Dude only gets off watching his wife's black boyfriend railing her.
OK pedo.
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RFK Jr. Ditches Democrats To Pursue 2024 Presidential Bid As An Independent
He's a nut job comrade just like you. Hey, thank god Biden did not dismantle the FBI with all that's going on in Israel aye?
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Betting odds on Trump just keep going up.
What about the 14th Amendment?
Hmmmmmmm...
A Google search for "14th Amendment" today doesn't have a single mention of Trump on the front page. That's a far cry from a few weeks ago. Google trying to hide the past, as per usual.
Now... Put "14th Amendment" "Trump", and you see all the hits from September. The only assholes who have even wrote anything on this after NPR's article on September 25th is, of course, Vox, who wrote an article about it only 4 days ago.
And amazingly (boy, I didn't see this coming), Vox is actually the source that tells you fucking idiots why it's not going to save you.
https://www.vox.com/politics/23880607/trump-14th-amendment-lawsuits-fe
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Should Donald Trump even be allowed on the ballot in 2024?
Some of the country’s most prominent legal experts, and a small number of activists and politicians, argue he shouldn’t — and some have filed lawsuits trying to strike Trump’s name from ballots.
Yet most in the Democratic Party are keeping a wary distance from the effort. And other experts argue that such actions, intended to save American democracy, might in fact imperil it even further.
The argument for disqualifying Trump hinges on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, and its proponents argue that its plain language disqualifies Trump, who they say engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the Constitution, from holding office again.
Some go so far as to argue that secretaries of state should simply declare Trump ineligible and take him off their ballots — but so far, none have been willing to do so. Instead, then, the hunt is on to find a judge who will do it.
To be clear: It seems extremely unlikely that Trump actually will be disqualified, since the Supreme Court will get the final say over any challenge, and they’ll likely nix this whole endeavor.
Read that underlined part, you dumb shits. Over and over again until it sinks in.
How is it that the morons at Vox finally figured this out months after I told you two goons that is what would happen and you still think that any of the shit Democrats have been pulling is going to go anywhere?
Nah bitch. If Democrats are going to win, they're going to have to win by actually serving the American Public. And for 3 years now, they've done an increasingly shit job at that.
Vox even goes on to further impress by showing just the tiniest bit of foresight...
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A Trump win in 2024 would be deeply dangerous for American democracy. Yet taking away voters’ option to choose him would pose its own perils. It would inevitably be seen as blatant election theft by much of the country — which would trigger responses, both from Republicans in office and Trump supporters on the ground, that could degrade democracy even more severely.
Now you're getting it, bitches.
You think that you can just pull whatever bullshit you want to win elections or destroy political opponents over and over and over and over and over again because you think that you're always right?
Well that's going to fuck you in the asses proper when the tables are turned, innit?
You goons at Vox must be pissing in your boots right now about that inevitable future being much closer around the corner than you thought just a few weeks ago to be putting an article like this out there.
Tough shit for you. You were warned. And it's already too late for that. The tables are already turning, and the destruction of Democracy that you've engaged in so far in order to "save Democracy" is about to be turned on you, full force.
And the first item on the docket going forward is to weaponize the very en masse mail-in/drop-box ballot fraud you enacted during Covid and never bothered closing up. Because you lack any critical thinking skills or the ability of foresight.
2024 is going to be a Democrat bloodbath.
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Why Trump and the GOP are burning the entire system down
By Thom Hartmann | Oct 11, 2023
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/why-trump-and-the-gop-are-bu
rning-the-entire-system-down/
Today’s Republican Party is dedicated to destroying what they call the “deep state” and the rest of us call the American government. From Trump followers in MAGA hats at rallies to Republican US Senators, they’ll all tell you this without a moment’s hesitation.
Steve Bannon even proclaimed it as the main goal of the Trump presidency in their first months in the White House, saying Trump’s goal was the “deconstruction of the administrative state.”
Talking about government regulations that protect the environment, punish companies and con men who rip off consumers, and provide for a safe workplace, Bannon said in March, 2017:
“That’s all gonna be deconstructed and I think that that’s why this regulatory thing is so important.”
In this, the GOP, Putin, and fossil fuel billionaires are all working toward the same goal: to do away with or at least fatally weaken the institutions of our government that prevent the morbidly rich and wannabee strongman autocrats from taking over America.
They’re doing this because they don’t believe democracy is a good or even viable idea. Seven thousand years of the history of civilization, they’ll tell you, show that the one constant has been autocracy and strongman rule. Democracy is merely an experiment to protect the weak and “average” people from predation by the “supermen” among us, and that, they argue, violates the basic laws of nature.
For democracy to work in human societies isn’t some magic or organic thing; it depends on institutions and systems to function and remain free of corruption.
Without those administrative state functions, countries and states devolve into Third World status with corrupt leaders who steal everything that’s not nailed down, hand government and business functions off to their cronies, and suppress dissent or calls for democracy with violence and prisons.
The transformation of America from a modern “social democracy” with strong protections for the environment and the working class into strongman rule is exactly what Trump, Putin, and some of the billionaires who own the GOP want. Being answerable to the people is bothersome and inconvenient for them.
Conservative thinkers from Plato to William F. Buckley to Russell Kirk have denigrated democracy, claiming that it’s merely “mob rule.” Rightwing billionaires look over their shoulders at the teeming masses and shudder, remembering a time in America when the top income tax bracket was 90 percent for the morbidly rich and 50 percent for the most profitable corporations.
It was also a time of the greatest prosperity for the American middle-class, the highest levels of social mobility, and the strongest social cohesion.
Rather than submit to such “onerous” taxation, regardless of the social benefits it conferred, they’d rather burn the entire system down.
Special Prosecutor Jack Smith recently said of Trump:
“Like his previous public disinformation campaign regarding the 2020 presidential election, the defendant’s recent extrajudicial statements are intended to undermine public confidence in an institution — the judicial system — and to undermine confidence in and intimidate individuals — the court, the jury pool, witnesses and prosecutors.”
While most people believe Trump is ranting about our justice system to deflect attention from his many crimes, in fact he’s all-in on the program to Putin-ize America.
He knows — from his own experience in the White House — that the main barriers to a president declaring himself the king of America with rule-by-decree are the systems of checks-and-balances built into every modern democracy.
It was exactly those systems — legislative, judicial, and administrative — that Putin in Russia and Orbán in Hungary corrupted and then seized control over to achieve and maintain their iron-fisted rule.
Similarly, the next steps in the GOP’s
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Ain't nobody buying it anymore, buddy.
Sleepy Joe* woke up all the normies with his economy. Democrats are finished.
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Steve Scalise is a veteran of House GOP leadership. Now he hopes to be speaker
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/06/politics/steve-scalise-profile-house-sp
eaker-race/index.html
Scalise over Jordan 113 to 99. Pretty close. There is one more vote bc Scalise needs to be approved with 217 votes.
Scalise represents everything wrong with establishment Republicans: an anti-human, big business suck up and warhawk who never met a Pentagon request he didn't like.
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Trump tells court he had no duty to 'support' the Constitution as president
Trump's lawyers are arguing that the specific language of the Constitution only applies to people in offices who are bound to "support" the Constitution — and the presidency is not one of those offices.
"The Presidential oath, which the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment surely knew, requires the President to swear to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution — not to 'support' the Constitution," said the filing by Trump's attorneys. "Because the framers chose to define the group of people subject to Section Three by an oath to 'support' the Constitution of the United States, and not by an oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution, the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never intended for it to apply to the President."
The former president has already tried to remove the 14th Amendment case to federal court, but this motion was denied.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/11/2198852/-Previous-Guy-the-
framers-of-the-14th-Amendment-never-intended-for-it-to-apply-to-the-President
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Scalise Faces Uphill Battle For Speaker Amid Divided Republican Caucus
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scalise-faces-uphill-battle-speake
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Scalise drops out.
Also...
Cenk from The Young Turks is running in the primary against Biden* because he knows that Joe Biden* can't win.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article280424689.ht
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Bypass Paywall: https://archive.ph/7O6hp
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"[Biden] is not going to win," Uygur said during the announcement. "It should not have been me, it should have been somebody else, but unfortunately it was not anyone else. There's only four months left. We must change course. He has at best a 10 percent chance of winning. I'm running as a proxy. I am running to win. But I am also running as a proxy for any other candidate."
The Democrat party is falling apart at the seams.
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Quote:Cenk Uygur knows nothing, nothing at all: Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Cenk Uygur immigrated to the U.S. at 8 years old. He believes that the Constitution's "Natural Born Citizen" clause will not prevent him in his effort, believing that he can win the battle in the Supreme Court.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Cenk from The Young Turks is running in the primary against Biden* because he knows that Joe Biden* can't win.
Does anyone remember Ralph Nader? When Cenk Uygur decides the Green Party needs him more than the Democrats, he will be Nader Redux.
The Nader Effect. Feb 23, 2004 — In the 2000 presidential election in Florida, Nader won 97,488 votes, while Al Gore lost the state (and, therefore, the presidency) by 537 votes.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-nader-effect/
Ralph Nader Still Refuses to Admit He Elected Bush
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/06/ralph-nader-still-wont-admit-h
e-elected-bush.html
After 23 years, Nader still can't admit he made Bush the President. Nader absolutely has faith in what he did. Cenk Uygur already is psychologically positioned perfectly to not understand what he is doing. I love it when people devise clever explanations for why nothing can be their fault, which is why the man-made world runs so very smoothly.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Cenk from The Young Turks is running in the primary against Biden* because he knows that Joe Biden* can't win.
You won't get any argument about that from me.
I love seeing him say Fuck Joe Biden* like the rest of us though.
The Democrat party is done. Watching it finally fracture and crumble to the ground while they eat each other over the next 13 months is going to be priceless.
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It's a circular firing squad!
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Scalise Faces Uphill Battle For Speaker Amid Divided Republican Caucus
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scalise-faces-uphill-battle-speake
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Zerohedge? I don't follow Russian propaganda.
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Scalise Faces Uphill Battle For Speaker Amid Divided Republican Caucus
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scalise-faces-uphill-battle-speake
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Zerohedge? I don't follow Russian propaganda.
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Your head is so full of propaganda that there isn't room for anything else, Theodore.
Meanwhile, what was the point of this post. Scalise already dropped out of his bid for speakership, dummy.
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Lawfare against Trump: Judge-shopping
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Federal Court Asked To Address 14th Amendment Effort To Bar Trump
Friday, Oct 13, 2023 - 11:00 AM
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
Legal academics are divided on the new popular theory that former President Donald Trump can be removed from ballots under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
While I respect many of the academics who view this as a credible interpretation, I have long opposed it as textually and historically flawed. In addition to some exaggerated claims of precedent, I view the theory as one of the most dangerous in my lifetime. One thing, however, we agree upon: it is time for the federal courts to rule on this theory to bring clarity to the election. That may now occur in West Virginia where Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wants a federal court to throw out a lawsuit attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in the state.
What is most striking about the filing is the accusation of judge-shopping by advocates like John Anthony Castro in seeking to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in the state.
I have previously addressed the constitutional basis for this claim. It is, in my view, wildly out of sync with the purpose of the amendment, which followed an actual rebellion, the Civil War.
The 14th Amendment bars those who took the oath and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” It then adds that that disqualification can extend to those who have “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”
The “disqualification clause” was written after the 39th Congress convened in December 1865 when many members were shocked to see Alexander Stephens, the Confederate vice president, waiting to take a seat with an array of other former Confederate senators and military officers.
Justice Edwin Reade of the North Carolina Supreme Court later explained, “[t]he idea [was] that one who had taken an oath to support the Constitution and violated it, ought to be excluded from taking it again.”
According to these experts, Jan. 6 was an “insurrection” and Trump gave “aid and comfort” to those who engaged in it by spreading election fraud claims and not immediately denouncing the violence.
Polls have shown that most of the public view Jan. 6 for what it was: a protest that became a riot. One year after the riot, CBS News mostly downplayed and ignored the result of its own poll showing that 76 percent viewed it for what it was, as a “protest gone too far.” The view that it was an actual “insurrection” was far less settled, with almost half rejecting the claim, a division breaking along partisan lines.
Nevertheless, Democrats have claimed that the 14th Amendment prevents Trump from running because he supported an “insurrection or rebellion.”
They have argued that this long dormant clause can be used to block not just Trump but 120 Republicans in Congress from running for office.
The lawsuit could offer a long needed judicial review and an avenue to the Supreme Court for a final ruling. Yet, what was most notable was this paragraph in the filing on the motives and means used by Castro:
“Plaintiff John Anthony Castro filed this lawsuit as part of a multi-state litigation effort that he dubs “Operation Deadlock.” John Anthony Castro (@realJohnACastro), X (Sept. 20, 2023, 2:17 PM), https://bit.ly/48GyE9y. Castro’s supposed operation involves filing suit after suit— roughly two dozen so far —seeking to disqualify President Donald Trump from running for election again. Castro will then “sidelin[e] and neutraliz[e] the influence of conservative judges” by “nonsuit[ing] those cases” that are not assigned to “Obama-appointed or Clinton appointed judges.” Katherine Fung, Donald Trump’s Lawyers Get Stretched Even Thinner, NEWSWEEK (Sept. 19, 2023, 11:22 AM), https://bit.ly/3S2a25B; see, e.g., Notice of Dismissal, Castro v. Henderson, No. 2:23-cv-00617 (D. Utah Sept. 27, 2023), ECF No. 14 (Castro dismissing his suit after it was reassigned to a judge appointed by President Trump); but see, e.g., In re
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Republicans have to ask for help from Democrats to elect a Speaker of the House. As long as Democrats cast all their votes for their own leader — which is traditional — Republican candidates need 217 votes to win the Speaker of the House. But if Ds vote present, a Republican can win with only a majority of Republican votes. Alternatively, a "Gang of 217" Ds and Rs could get together and agree on a compromise candidate.
Until something like this happens the House is paralyzed. Without a speaker, they can't vote on anything — not budgets, not so much as a post office renaming.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Until something like this happens the House is paralyzed. Without a speaker, they can't vote on anything — not budgets, not so much as a post office renaming.
Perfect.
We should have this all the time. Forever.
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AP: Most say Biden has acted either illegally or unethically in his son’s business dealings
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Ethical concerns are casting a shadow over President Joe Biden as he seeks reelection amid investigations into his son Hunter and an impeachment inquiry, with a poll showing that 35% of U.S. adults believe the president himself has done something illegal.
An additional 33% say they think the Democratic president behaved unethically, but not illegally. And 30% say Joe Biden did nothing wrong, according to the poll. The results of the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reflect both a vast political divide and skepticism about the morality of government leaders.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-hunter-ethics-illegal-poll-survey
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https://apnorc.org/projects/most-say-biden-has-acted-either-illegally-
or-unethically-in-his-sons-business-dealings/
CBS NEWS: New poll suggests President Biden may have Pennsylvania problem for 2024
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President Joe Biden made another visit to Philadelphia on Friday, a place that he comes to frequently and a state that's vital to his reelection in 2024. But with just under 13 months until the presidential race, new polling shows the president may have a Pennsylvania problem.
The president's trip to Philly on Friday was at least his 15th since he's taken office, but the latest polling shows that Pennsylvanians are looking for more from the commander-in-chief.
"It looks better and better for Donald Trump here," Jim Schultz, former White House counsel for former President Donald Trump, "but there's a lot of game to be played between now and then."
A Quinnipiac poll released last week shows Biden narrowly trailing Trump in a hypothetical matchup in the commonwealth. The same poll found Biden's favorability rating among Pennsylvanians sits at just 39%.
Trump is up in both Michigan and Pennsylvania:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/michiganandpen
nsylvania.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/biden-trump-pennsylvania-202
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Fran Lebowitz on Trump: "No one in New York thinks he's a New Yorker"
Q: I read an interview you did with W in 2016 where you said, I don't believe Donald Trump will become president because I don't believe there are that many morons in the United States.
There are, turns out.
Q: Turns out there are.
There's three events in my lifetime that I remember every second of the event from the time it occurred. One is the assassination of John F. Kennedy. One is September 11. And the third is the night Donald Trump was elected. Because first of all, yes, I spent the year prior to the election going around the country telling thousands of people, “Zero. He has zero chance.” I said that because I believed it. It never occurred to me. It was a joke. I was really shocked.
For at least three or four months after that election, every time I walked out of my apartment, people screamed at me. "You were wrong. You were wrong." I know, I'm sorry. Believe me, I'm sorry. I was sorry I was wrong. I was sorry what that meant that I was wrong. Truthfully, if you've only been wrong one time in your life, that was not the time to be wrong. So, no, I did not believe that there were that many people who would [vote for him].
A friend of mine right before the election said he could win. I said, "That is just absurd." She said, "You don't understand this country because you don't watch reality television." I said, "That's ridiculous." I'd heard of [Trump's] television show, but I never saw it. That's true. But I never saw any reality television. I knew that a lot of people like reality television, but I didn't know they thought it was reality. It's called reality television, not reality. Right?
As you know, New York City voted for Hillary Clinton nine to one. Even the Upper East Side voted for Hillary Clinton, even though they always vote Republican on the Upper East Side in presidential elections because no taxes on capital, but they didn't vote for Donald Trump.
Of all the horrible things about Donald Trump, one of the things that most bothers me, and perhaps you, is that people outside New York think he's a New Yorker. No one in New York thinks he's a New Yorker. It's the most insulting thing to me. I always say, “No one in New York thinks he's a New Yorker.” And no one in New York even thought he was a real estate developer. The truth is that in New York, the real real estate developers looked down on him. Can you imagine a level of moral squalor so profound that real estate agents look down on you? And they were right. It was a shocking thing. Really shocking.
Are you going to ask me if he's going to win this time?
Q: I am afraid to ask you now, Fran.
I don't think so. I really don't think so. The problem, of course, is the electoral college. If it wasn't for the electoral college, there'd never be a Republican president. Twice in my life — which is long, but it's not a thousand years — twice in my life, the presidency was won by someone who lost a popular vote, both times Republicans, George W. Bush and Donald Trump.
In other democracies, the popular vote is called “the vote.” The electoral college, both times this happened, people that I know who are non-American say, "What does this mean?" When I explain it, they go, "Oh, so it doesn't work." I go, "No, it works perfectly. It does exactly what it was meant to do." It overweights the rural vote, the Southern vote and that far Western vote. Every state has two senators. Fewer than 600,000 people live in Wyoming; they have two senators. That many people live in my building. My building should have a senator.
It is absolutely not representative. These people represent acreage because when you look at these maps, Wyoming is gigantic. You can't believe it, but there's no one there. It's just empty. That's the way they can win, but otherwise
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Cope more, bitch.
Trump will be your next President.
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Quote:Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Tell that to your 450-pound brother and Fatso Trump, 6ix. Or your drunk past self.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Cope more, bitch.
Trump will be your next President.
Study uncovers a nuanced link between obesity rates and support for Donald Trump in 2016
by Eric W. Dolan | October 16, 2023 in Political Psychology
https://www.psypost.org/2023/10/study-uncovers-nuanced-link-between-ob
esity-rates-and-support-for-donald-trump-in-2016-214039
In a study published in the American Journal of Health Behavior, researchers found a nuanced connection between obesity and voting behavior in the 2016 presidential election. Counties with increasing obesity rates initially showed rising support for Donald Trump until a threshold, after which support began to decline. This suggests a complex, non-linear relationship between local obesity prevalence and political voting patterns.
Obesity has become a major public health issue in the United States. The prevalence of obesity has been increasing significantly, and it is associated with various chronic diseases and substantial healthcare costs.
The condition has become a political issue with two predominant standpoints: the “personal-responsibility” perspective and the “environmental” perspective. These perspectives have different policy implications and are associated with different political parties.
While health disparities have been studied as a political outcome, the reverse relationship, i.e., how health behaviors or conditions influence political behavior, has not been extensively explored. Researchers Ruopeng An and Mengmeng Ji aimed to fill this gap in the literature.
To investigate the link between voting behavior during the 2016 presidential election and obesity rates, the researchers retrieved county-level 2016 presidential election data from the New York Times database. This data included the percentage of votes for the Republican Party presidential candidate (Donald Trump), the percentage of votes for the Democratic Party presidential candidate (Hillary Clinton), and the total number of votes in each county.
To ensure the accuracy of their election data, the researchers compared it with data from two other major election datasets maintained by The Guardian and Ballotpedia.org. They found that the state-specific percentage of votes for the Republican and Democratic candidates agreed across all three databases.
Data on county-level prevalence of adult obesity in 2013 were obtained from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s County Data Indicators (CDIs). This data was based on the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), an annual survey that collects information on health-related behaviors, chronic conditions, and preventive services.
To account for potential influences, they controlled a wide range of county-level sociodemographic factors, such as age groups, racial and ethnic composition, education, income, poverty rates, unemployment, metropolitan status, and total population.
The researchers used a spatial modeling approach called a spatial autoregressive regression (SAR) to examine the relationship between obesity rates and voting patterns. This approach allowed them to account for the spatial clustering of data, which is often seen in political behaviors. They analyzed information from 3,111 U.S. counties, excluding Alaska due to data limitations.
Contrary to previous studies that had suggested a linear relationship between obesity rates and votes for the Republican Party candidate, this research uncovered a non-linear, or more complex, connection.
The study found that as the obesity rate in a county increased from around 12% to approximately 34%, there was a steady rise in votes for the Republican Party presidential candidate. However, this trend plateaued when obesity rates reached about 36.1%.
Beyond this point, as obesity rates continued to rise, the vote margin for the Republican Party ca
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Left attacks itself
the islamic vs Jew fights on the streets on NYC and Florida
Socialists are unhappy with Cortez, bartender AOC
AOC backs US funding of Israeli missile defense
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/19/zblj-o19.html
Also some Venezuela stuff
AOC slams sanctions against Venezuela and deportation flights
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/06/alexandria-ocasio-cort
ez-us-sanctions-venezuela-deportations
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said US measures to pressure Maduro’s government contribute to exodus of people from that country
AOC decries ‘bigotry and callousness’ of pro-Palestinian rally in New York
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/10/aoc-palestinian-rally-
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Cope more, bitch.
Trump will be your next President.
Awwwwwwww. Somebody's fee fees got hurt?
I'm here for the Democrats eating each other just like I told you they would.
The question isn't whether Trump will be our next President or not anymore. That's already settled.
The real question is will there even be a Democrat party anymore by November of 2024.
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How the 2024 Race Is Shaping Up for Trump and Biden in 7 Key States
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-the-2024-race-is-shaping-u
p-for-trump-and-biden-in-7-key-states/ar-AA1iv4pR
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Trump is leading Biden in head-to-head races in five of the seven swing states: Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Biden leads in Nevada, and it’s a tie in Michigan.
Making matters worse for Biden: They’re all states he won in 2020, except for North Carolina. All of Trump’s leads are within the margin of error for those states, but his cumulative advantage across the seven swing states is a significant 4-point lead — outside the poll’s 1-point margin of error.
Making matters EVEN WORSE for Biden* is what the article isn't telling you. Joe Biden* was polled as winning by much larger than he actually did in all of those states except for North Carolina in 2020.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/trump-vs-biden-top-battleg
round-states/
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/trump-vs-bi
den-top-battleground-states-2020-vs-2016/
You're fucked, dummies.
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Texas Republicans backing away from MAGA group that's 'infested' with Hitler fans
Ameeting between white supremacist Nick Fuentes and a prominent Republican donor has blown up into civil war among Texas conservative groups.
The Holocaust-denying Fuentes took an hours-long meeting earlier this month with GOP donor Jonathan Strickland, then-president of the ultraconservative Defend Texas Liberty PAC, and the fallout from that confab exposed growing concerns about extremism within GOP ranks, reported The Daily Beast.
“Among the concerns were a [Young Republicans of Texas] leader who ‘openly affiliates with antisemites’ online, as well as another prominent member who ‘is a public supporter of Adolf Hitler,’” reported Amanda Moore, who went undercover in the MAGA movement for a year.
The Texas Young Republican Federation (TYRF) voted in August to disassociate from the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) over alleged troll actions by RPT chair Matt Rinaldi, and some smaller groups broke away from TYRF and formed the ultra-MAGA Young Republicans of Texas (YRT).
Related video: Conservative PAC leader’s meeting with white supremacist Nick Fuentes leads to condemnations, escalates GOP Texas’s State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) voted last month to partner with the newly former YRT in spite of concerns about neo-Nazis within their ranks, and Texas attorney general Ken Paxton even praised the hard-right group as “the newest generation of Young Republicans" – but the Fuentes meeting with Strickland had raised concerns about GOP leaders in the state.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-republicans-backing-away
-from-maga-group-that-s-infested-with-hitler-fans/ar-AA1izgan?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c4ac7b25a2124f67a631b815e1e9006f&ei=258
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Texas Republicans backing away from MAGA group that's 'infested' with Hitler fans
The media is just trying to fill your mind with nonsense as the Hitler fans on your side including Nanci Pelosi defend Hamas, you dumb fuckin' tool.
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Quote:You’re Not Imagining It: Support for Political Violence Is Growing
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The media is just trying to fill your mind with nonsense as the Hitler fans on your side including Nanci Pelosi defend Hamas, you dumb fuckin' tool.
Donald Trump’s vitriol is having an impact.
“For 30 years, I’ve studied political violence in many different countries around the world—Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan. Now, in the last few years, the United States,” Robert Pape said. He’s a professor of political science and the director of the University of Chicago project on security and threats. I asked him if, even after all these years, he ever finds himself shocked by something a politician might say.
“Almost in every speech from Donald Trump, there are things that will give me pause,” Pape said.
The former president has been fluent in outrageous language well before he ever entered politics. As a first-time candidate in 2016, and then president, Trump was constantly testing the limits of acceptable speech. Trump’s language by itself can be disturbing. But it’s not only the talk that’s raising alarms. We’re seeing an actual spike in acts of political violence taking place in the U.S.
A Reuters investigation from August found that attacks began to go up in 2016, after Trump first got into politics. Some of these incidents never received national media attention — like the Trump supporter in Ohio who killed his neighbor last year because he was a Democrat. Others were unavoidable. The mass shooter in Buffalo who targeted Black shoppers, leaving 10 dead in 2022. The home invasion and violent attack at Nancy Pelosi’s house in San Francisco.
What’s alarming is that, in recent weeks, Trump has cranked up the language to a new, even more incendiary level.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/donald-trump-violent-rheto
ric-violence-fear-2024.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The media is just trying to fill your mind with nonsense as the Hitler fans on your side including Nanci Pelosi defend Hamas, you dumb fuckin' tool.
Donald Trump’s vitriol is having an impact.
Uh huh...
Fuck off, tool.
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Quote:Every Trumptard uses your trick of blaming Democrats for what the Trumptard did. A Trumptard gets fired? The Trumptard claims it was not because the Trumptard was lazy, dishonest, and undisciplined but because the Boss didn't like him. The Trumptard gets divorced? The Trumptard claims it is not because he cheated on his wife and ignores or beats his children but because his wife doesn't like him, the exemplary husband and father. To be a Trumptard is to be self-deluding.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck off, tool.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The above is just another very stupid response from a very stupid person.
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Quote:6ix, I was looking at a comic for people who sleep away life, such as yourself: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sleep
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The above is just another very stupid response from a very stupid person.
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6ix, you are living the story of Narada and Krishna.
For centuries, saints have been criticized for calling this world unreal or Maya. Advaita Vedanta always maintained that when they called the world unreal, it did not mean the world did not exist. It simply meant that your experience of the world was a hallucination because an untrained mind could never look past the predictions created by the brain to see the world as it exists.
https://medium.com/sd-wisdom-at-work/narada-and-the-power-of-maya-9b9f
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6ix, Trump will not be President, but that shouldn't make any difference because his failure to be elected, or his success, won't really make any difference to the life of a Trumptard. Your Trumpy life will not improve until you fix yourself. Trump can't help you and he can't hold you back.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Trump, soon...
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Prediction, Biden wins
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Go ahead and make a bet on that, dummy. Maybe you'll win some money.
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Quote:I swear that Trumptards do not have different values than Democrats. What Trumptards do have are different hallucinations about reality. Democrats make the same class of mistakes about reality by living in a dream where they can persuade/reward/teach Trumptards to achieve better lives by telling them to stop smoking, eat less, read a library book, etc. That cannot succeed because Trumptards think that Democrats are the only real obstacle to a better life for Trumptards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Go ahead and make a bet on that, dummy. Maybe you'll win some money.
I am in the third group which knows as a fact that Trumptards are the only real obstacle to a Trumptard living better. No amount of teaching, rewarding, or persuading will change a Trumptard. If Trumptards would individually fix what is wrong with themselves, they would achieve the American Dream. Since Trumptards aren't introspective about their defective habits, the American Dream will be denied to them, since they have absolute certainty that nothing needs fixing inside their heads. It is always somebody else, usually a Democrat, who needs fixing, never themselves . . .
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I swear that Trumptards do not have different values than Democrats. What Trumptards do have are different hallucinations about reality. Democrats make the same class of mistakes about reality by living in a dream where they can persuade/reward/teach Trumptards to achieve better lives by telling them to stop smoking, eat less, read a library book, etc. That cannot succeed because Trumptards think that Democrats are the only real obstacle to a better life for Trumptards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Go ahead and make a bet on that, dummy. Maybe you'll win some money.
I am in the third group which knows as a fact that Trumptards are the only real obstacle to a Trumptard living better. No amount of teaching, rewarding, or persuading will change a Trumptard. If Trumptards would individually fix what is wrong with themselves, they would achieve the American Dream. Since Trumptards aren't introspective about their defective habits, the American Dream will be denied to them, since they have absolute certainty that nothing needs fixing inside their heads. It is always somebody else, usually a Democrat, who needs fixing, never themselves . . .
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Your "teaching" is the brainwashing you got, idiot. There isn't a single thing I could learn from a piece of shit like you.
The fact that you think half the country doesn't have any vices because they vote Democrat is the only thing anybody needs to know about you to know that you're a brainwashed cultist.
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Quote:Does it ever cross your mind that a Trumptard's life is difficult because of their unfortunate personality traits? The more bad traits, the worse will be an American's life, whether D, R, or Independent.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your "teaching" is the brainwashing you got, idiot. There isn't a single thing I could learn from a piece of shit like you.
The fact that you think half the country doesn't have any vices because they vote Democrat is the only thing anybody needs to know about you to know that you're a brainwashed cultist.
As far as I know, Trumptards can't have that idea in their head for more than a minute before they drive it out with shouts about nothing being their fault, nothing at all. It is all the fault of Democrats and RINOs. So many Americans refuse to acknowledge how much damage they do to themselves. They won't fix anything about themselves. No bad trait needs immediate correction for most Americans and that attitude causes their daily silliness and their long-term failures.
Inside the Feud Between Donald Trump and the Reagan Library
“The legacy of Reagan, fair or unfair, right or wrong, was ‘shining city on a hill’ — upbeat and positive and have a beer with Tip O’Neill,” the adviser to a board member stated. The same person added, “And Trump is Voldemort. He was the opposite. He wanted to burn everything to the ground, attack people.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/22/ronald-reagan-librar
y-donald-trump-feud-00116983
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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SECOND, you post as if you'll live forever. It'll be shock when you realize you're drawing your last few breaths, but by then it'll be too late, for you.
And now, in REAL NEWS
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Tom Emmer Becomes Next House Speaker Nominee
But many day he lacks the 217 votes to become Speaker. Both the Repub and Dem parties are fractured. In fact, even the deep state is fractured. But in the stew that is DC/ Pentagon/ Langley/ thinktankistan/ MIC etc etc, most everyone is ideologically driven, hardly a realist among them.
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Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your "teaching" is the brainwashing you got, idiot. There isn't a single thing I could learn from a piece of shit like you.
The fact that you think half the country doesn't have any vices because they vote Democrat is the only thing anybody needs to know about you to know that you're a brainwashed cultist.
My life is infinitely easier than yours will ever be.
How was work today, honey? Did you remember to take the trash out for your Mom?
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Jack lives on government handouts. That being the case, he can't possibly own a house.
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Jack lives on government handouts. That being the case, he can't possibly own a house.
Even if it were true that I was on government handouts, you're wrong, just like you always are.
Equity in your home and your car are not considered assets when government money is calculated. In fact, when government benefits are calculated, they take into consideration both your monthly mortgage payments, your property tax bill and your utility bills to raise your benefits.
This is why you see people walking into grocery stores from their brand new Cadillacs and slapping down that EBT card for a shopping cart full of free food.
Whenever I do work part time, I qualify for EIC come tax time. It's just not much at all because I'm all alone in this house without kids. Otherwise, if I were like some of the single moms I worked with that had 3 and 4 kids, I'd be getting $9,000 to $12,000 per year in EIC instead of $200 to $300.
I live in Indiana. You can't even get food stamps here if you're a single person without kids and you're between 18 and 54 years old.
I just don't spend any money on bullshit and I don't have any big bills because everything I have is owned free and clear. I've spent less than $125 in interest payments my entire life and made 50 times that back on credit cards with tax-free sign-up bonuses and cash back rewards. You've probably made 10 times as much as I have in my life and you have fuck all to show for it.
I get why you can't grasp this though. You're a stupid cash-cow consumer pig, destined to slave away to pay off loans for the rest of your life.
Have fun at work tomorrow bitch.
I'll be napping.
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Quote:You won't understand not being afraid to die, would you? Trumptards are fearful but that is not a good strategy . . . unless you see yourself as a fat rodent in a barn full of thin and hungry cats:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you post as if you'll live forever. It'll be shock when you realize you're drawing your last few breaths, but by then it'll be too late, for you.
Why Do People Think Crime Is Worse Than It Actually Is?
In 2022, according to F.B.I. numbers, there were 370 violent crimes reported for every 100,000 Americans. Even allowing for some underreporting, this likely means there was less than one violent crime for every 200 people. So the great majority of Americans haven’t been victims lately, or probably ever. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate
-in-the-usa-since-1990/
What this implies is that public views about crime needn’t have much to do with personal experience. They may instead be shaped by impressions people pick up from media, both news and social, and from politicians.
In other words, perceptions about crime are like perceptions about the economy — perhaps more so: They don’t necessarily bear much relationship to reality.
Now, sometimes popular impressions are more or less right. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, when Hollywood was producing vigilante thrillers like “Death Wish” and dystopian sagas like “Escape From New York,” violent crime really was surging.
However, violent crime began falling rapidly in the early 1990s, for reasons that remain unclear. Whatever the source of the good news, there were two remarkable things about this decline. First, it was truly epic; as someone who has lived in New York since 2015 but visited it many times over previous decades, I can attest that the city feels infinitely safer than it did in the bad old days. Second, most Americans didn’t notice.
Donald Trump devoted his 2017 inaugural address to the theme of “American carnage” — a supposed wave of violence sweeping our cities. At the time, actual urban violence was near a generational low point. But his rhetoric nonetheless resonated with many Americans. After all, throughout the epic decline in crime, voters kept telling pollsters that crime was rising nationally (although they were more sanguine about crime in their own areas, about which they may have had more personal knowledge):
And like views about the economy, perceptions about crime have a strong partisan element, with Republicans generally more likely to say that crime is rising, especially when a Democrat is president.
In 2020 and 2021, it briefly looked as if Trump’s dark vision might retroactively be coming true. There was in fact a surge in crime beginning in 2020, especially in murders.
Unlike the somewhat mysterious decline in crime in previous decades, this crime wave wasn’t too hard to explain. The Covid-19 pandemic led to a lot of isolation and disruption, plus a lot of psychological stress, making it plausible that some Americans became disconnected from the social bonds that usually keep most of us law-abiding.
The big question was whether the post-Covid surge in crime would, like the post-Covid surge in inflation, prove transitory. Would crime keep rising, or would it subside back to relatively low levels?
Well, the answer appears to be in, and it’s encouraging. Murders dropped significantly in 2022, and so far seem to be falling even faster this year. Take the example of New York City, which had 319 murders in 2019 — down from 2,262 in 1990! — but saw that total rise to 488 in 2021. If trends this year continue, the number of murders in 2023 will probably be under 400, much of the way back to the low crime rates of the 2010s. https://jasher.substack.com/p/murder-fell-6-percent-in-2022-and
I should acknowledge that while violent crime is clearly on the downswing, some forms of property crime are still running high. Many pharmacies in New York and other cities, concerned about theft, now keep their products locked
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Have fun at work tomorrow bitch.
I'll be napping.
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” — Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-rebuked-for-call-to-termin
ate-constitution-over-2020-election-results
Former Republican strategist raises alarms about GOP in 'The Conspiracy to End America'
Stuart Stevens has spent the majority of his decades-long career getting Republicans elected to political office. But his latest book is a warning to the country about the current state of the GOP and its threat to America’s democracy. Amna Nawas spoke with Stevens about the book titled, "The Conspiracy to End America: Five Ways My Old Party Is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy."
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Had you asked me that morning if Republicans would accept defeat if Joe Biden won by over 8 million votes and north of 300 electoral college votes, my answer would have been simple: What else could they do? They wouldn’t like it, but when you walk off the field of the Super Bowl, the score is the score. Endless hours would be spent by the despondent losing fans analyzing what could have been done differently, but none of it would matter. The final scoreboard was never wrong.
I should have known better. Any faint hope I had that the Republican Party might seize on a Trump defeat as an impetus to self-correct was quickly destroyed. I watched Republican senators and congressmen I’d help elect, men and women I knew to be sane and decent, refuse to acknowledge what grade-school children knew to be true: Donald Trump had lost the 2020 race. When I spoke to a few, I heard variations of “We’re just humoring him. What harm can it do?”
Soon their answer would come as they ran for their lives from domestic terrorists their leader had called to action and their complicity had emboldened.
Download Stuart Stevens’ free books from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Stuart+Stevens+America
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You won't understand not being afraid to die, would you? Trumptards are fearful but that is not a good strategy . . . unless you see yourself as a fat rodent in a barn full of thin and hungry cats:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SECOND, you post as if you'll live forever. It'll be shock when you realize you're drawing your last few breaths, but by then it'll be too late, for you.
Then Second completely moves his own goalposts again.
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Trump Scrambles to Return More Than $200 Million in Donor Money as His 'Truth' Network Fails Amid Legal Battles
The litigations stacking up on Donald Trump’s doorstep are starting to have a significant impact on his businesses. Some of his donors and investors are rethinking their commitment and withdrawing initially invested funds.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trump-scrambles-to-return-mo
re-than-200-million-in-donor-money-as-his-truth-network-fails-amid-legal-battles/ss-AA1iOVnV?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=73d03114dda7428d9742f08d794403ad&ei=63
Oh no trolls, oh no. Too funny...
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Yep...
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Petition to remove Trump from Minnesota ballot heads to court
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The Whig Party of the 19th century collapsed in spectacular fashion due to its internal divisions over slavery. Like the Whigs, Republicans today seem divided among those who wish to govern and those who wish merely to make noise. If the Republicans of today remain deadlocked, they will suffer a similar fate. A failure to reach a majority consensus signals the doom of an American political party.
https://www.rawstory.com/house-republican-chaos-2666052999/
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More Texas counties are trying to prevent people from using roads to get an abortion
Mark Lee Dickson, a Texas pastor who has led the efforts, praised the vote.
"Guys, I long for the day (when), coast to coast, abortion is considered a great moral, social and political wrong and is outlawed in every single state," Dickson told commissioners.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/nation-world/government-politics/texas-a
bortion-travel-ban/article_f27056ab-d7c5-50bb-b66d-4fc75179b349.html
It is another story about Trumptards being enormous assholes.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Petition to remove Trump from Minnesota ballot heads to court
Please do it. Don't back off. Make it happen.
Joe Biden* loses 1,000 times out of 1,000 if they strip Trump off the ballot of a single state.
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Meanwhile, in clown world...
Joe Biden* strips himself off the New Hampshire primary ballot.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-new-hampshire-primary-ballot/
You stupid fuck. You were warned about that months ago. You had plenty of time to avoid this.
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Meanwhile, in clown world...
Joe Biden* strips himself off the New Hampshire primary ballot.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-new-hampshire-primary-ballot/
You stupid fuck. You were warned about that months ago. You had plenty of time to avoid this.
Here's the deal, Theodore.
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But the Biden team doesn't seem worried.
Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez wrote in her letter to New Hampshire Democrats, "The president looks forward to having his name on New Hampshire's general election ballot as the nominee of the Democratic Party after officially securing the nomination at the 2024 Democratic National Convention where he will tirelessly campaign to earn every single vote in the Granite State next November.
New Hampshire state Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley tweeted in response to the president's decision, "The reality is that Joe Biden will win the NH FITN Primary in January, win renomination in Chicago and will be re-elected next November."
The Biden* team has nothing to worry about. That's why they didn't give a fuck about this.
Do you even understand how Primaries work, Ted?
For both parties, they work very much like the Electoral College in the General Election does. We the People go out and vote in the primaries, then the parties tell us that our opinion is duly noted and the delegates vote for the nomination.
Those delegates are supposed to vote for the will of the people, but if Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley's tweet above is correct and "Joe Biden* wins the NH First in the Nation Primary in Janurary", they're now put in the position of putting on full display that they don't have to vote along with the will of The People at the ballot because they will go ahead and give the nomination to Joe Biden* even though he wasn't on the NH ballot.
In any event, because Joe Biden* was just itching to make South Carolina the FITN Primary over New Hampshire against all better judgement, he just shot himself in the foot. Now the Legacy Media can't make a big deal when Republicans do the exact same thing for Trump in Minnesota or any other Democrat ran shithole state that tries to take him off the Primary Ballot.
Now, you have nothing at all to gain by stripping Trump from a primary ballot and everything to lose. All that stripping Trump off a primary ballot in a state Trump was never going to win in the first place is going to do is make people in other states go out in force for Trump.
So please. Do it. Stop talking about it and do it.
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The new Speaker of the House is Rep. Mike Johnson. He says:
Women have abortions after a baby is born
Trump won the 2020 election
Jan. 6th was a "legitimate protest"
Covid was a hoax and vaccines are dangerous
Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme"
Cut Medicare
Climate change is a hoax
https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1717146576597000274
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The new Speaker of the House is Rep. Mike Johnson. He says:
Women have abortions after a baby is born
Trump won the 2020 election
Jan. 6th was a "legitimate protest"
Covid was a hoax and vaccines are dangerous
Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme"
Cut Medicare
Climate change is a hoax
https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1717146576597000274
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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He's one of your guys. Uniparty trash.
They couldn't give any more money to Ukraine or Israel without a speaker, so I imagine they were threatened by Uniparty RINOs that enough of them were going to defect and vote for Hakeem Jeffries if they didn't all go along with Johnson on this vote because at the end of the day the only thing important to the bought and paid for Uniparty shills on both sides is funding war.
I'm sure there's a deal in place that they're just going to kick him right back out in a few months after the wars are funded and a new budget agreement is reached. This Johnson guy will be a non-issue long before election day.
You can put that in the predictions thread, Jaynez.
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Quote:Clarence Thomas never paid for his luxury motor home
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
He's one of your guys. Uniparty trash.
In 1999 Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas bought a luxury motor home for $267,000. It was financed by a loan from his friend Anthony Welters, a health insurance millionaire.
In interviews, Welters said the loan had been "satisfied" in 2008 but declined to say just what that meant. So the Senate Finance Committee subpoenaed him to get the details. It turns out that Thomas was required only to make interest payments on the loan. The New York Times tells the rest of the story:
The principal amount borrowed would come due in a balloon payment on the loan’s maturity date, in December 2004....But in 2004, when the principal came due, Justice Thomas did not make good on his debt, according to records obtained by the committee and cited in their report. Instead, Mr. Welters granted him a 10-year extension, with the same interest-only terms....Then, in late 2008, Mr. Welters simply forgave the balance of the loan, according to the committee’s report.
As usual this has tax implications but isn't necessarily an ethics violation because the Supreme Court has virtually no ethics rules. A Supreme Court justice can essentially accept a gift of half a million dollars¹ and not bother disclosing it.
¹This is adjusted for inflation, naturally.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/clarence-thomas-rv-loan
-senate-inquiry.html
6ix, every Trumptard I know is a fucking scumbag. Some hide that fact better than others, but if I look, there it is because decent people would not vote for Trump, who also has a long and detailed record of being a scumbag, a record that other scumbags ignore/discount because their personal life is worse or no better than Trump's. Why are Trumptards' lives full of sound and fury? Then I remember that scumbaggery causes their personal dramas.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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He might not be as backward as an islamic but
New House Speaker Mike Johnson is a Bible-Science guy who once funded a Noah's Ark theme park
Atheists at the Creation Museum
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He might not be as backward as an islamic but
New House Speaker Mike Johnson is a Bible-Science guy who once funded a Noah's Ark theme park
Yeah. I barely know anything about him, but the little I've heard I don't like at all. Sounds like somebody GWB would have approved of.
Like I said before, I don't expect him to be in that seat for very long. But TPTB threatened the GOP members that weren't going to vote for any Uniparty warmongerer that enough of the GOP members were going to vote for Hakeem Jeffries next vote if they didn't play ball and get somebody in there who would approve more funding to Ukraine and Israel immediately and raise that debt ceiling before the government shut down.
Expect Mike Johnson to be booted from that seat by sometime in January at the latest.
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6ix, every Trumptard I know is a fucking scumbag. Some hide that fact better than others, but if I look, there it is because decent people would not vote for Trump, who also has a long and detailed record of being a scumbag, a record that other scumbags ignore/discount because their personal life is worse or no better than Trump's. Why are Trumptards' lives full of sound and fury? Then I remember that scumbaggery causes their personal dramas.
Fuck off, gutter trash.
Nobody cares about the opinions about the biggest asshole in the RWED.
Here's your detailed record:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65116
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Quote:The new Speaker of the House has a detailed record, too. You probably should look into it. He will attempt to end the programs you depend upon. See your comment from yesterday: "It was a ton of work for my Dad to get that taken care of, and after my dad passes on it's going to be my responsibility to make sure he's taken care of since none of my other brothers are going to do it and the Government is going to spend the rest of his life trying to kick him off of the assistance." - http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65794&mid=11829
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck off, gutter trash.
Nobody cares about the opinions about the biggest asshole in the RWED.
Here's your detailed record:
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Until his sudden elevation to speaker, Johnson was a relatively little-known figure. But he did serve for a time as chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a group that devises policy proposals. And now that Johnson has become the face of his party, people really should look at the budget proposal the committee released for 2020 under his chairmanship. https://mikejohnson.house.gov/sites/mikejohnson.house.gov/files/final%
20rsc%20fy%202020%20for%20print.pdf
If you read that proposal carefully, getting past the often mealy-mouthed language, you realize that it calls for the evisceration of the U.S. social safety net — not just programs for the poor, but also policies that form the bedrock of financial stability for the American middle class.
Start with Social Security, where the budget calls for raising the retirement age — already set to rise to 67 — to 69 or 70, with possible further increases as life expectancy rises.
On the surface, this might sound plausible. Until Covid produced a huge drop, average U.S. life expectancy at age 65 was steadily rising over time. But there is a huge and growing gap between the number of years affluent Americans can expect to live and life expectancy for lower-income groups, including not just the poor but also much of the working class. So raising the retirement age would fall hard on less fortunate Americans — precisely the people who depend most on Social Security.
Then there’s Medicare, for which the budget proposes increasing the eligibility age “so it is aligned with the normal retirement age for Social Security and then indexing this age to life expectancy.” Translation: Raise the Medicare age from 65 to 70, then keep raising it.
Wait, there’s more. Most nonelderly Americans receive health insurance through their employers. But this system depends greatly on policies that the study committee proposed eliminating. You see, benefits don’t count as taxable income — but in order to maintain this tax advantage, companies (roughly speaking) must cover all their employees, as opposed to offering benefits only to highly compensated individuals.
The committee budget would eliminate this incentive for broad coverage by limiting the tax deduction for employer benefits and offering the same deduction for insurance purchased by individuals. As a result, some employers would probably just give their top earners cash, which they could use to buy expensive individual plans, while dropping coverage for the rest of their workers.
Oh, and it goes almost without saying that the budget would impose savage cuts — $3 trillion over a decade — on Medicaid, children’s health coverage and subsidies that help lower-income Americans afford insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
How many Americans would lose health insurance under these proposals? Back in 2017 the Congressional Budget Office estimated that Donald Trump’s attempt to repeal Obamacare would cause 23 million Americans to lose coverage. The Republican Study Committee’s proposals are far more draconian and far-reaching, so the losses would presumably be much bigger.
So Mike Johnson is on record advocating policies on retirement, health care and other areas I don’t have space to get into, like food stamps, that would basically end American society
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The new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, wants to make America a Christian theocracy
The Speaker of the House represents a movement that is actively seeking to institutionalize the religious beliefs of evangelical Christians into law.
In interviews he has spoken of the fact that “We don’t live in a democracy” we live in a “Biblical republic.” He asserts this was because the founders sought to follow a “biblical admonition”. In the same set of remarks he described democracy derisively as “two wolves and a lamb deciding what is for dinner.”
Thomas Jefferson said he viewed with “solemn reverence that act of the whole of the American people” which established “a wall of separation between church and state.” George Washington approved a treaty that explicitly stated, “The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” The very First Amendment in America’s Bill of Rights states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” The principal author of the Constitution, James Madison, in his treatise, “Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments,” described 15 reasons why the U.S. government must avoid backing any religion.
Men like Johnson and other members of that movement, a group that includes members of the U.S. Supreme Court and important leaders in the GOP like former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, represent one of the threats those who founded this country most feared. They had learned the lessons of centuries of suffering and horror that were imposed upon the world by theocrats who claimed to be the representatives of the Almighty on earth.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/heres-why-mike-johnson-is-more-dangerous
-than-donald-trump
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The new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, wants to make America a Christian theocracy
He also wants to do away with government programs and policies that allow Jack to eat. So he isn't happy.
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