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There is strong evidence that the party of the president who nominated federal judges predicts their opinions.

https://angrybearblog.com/2024/02/the-facts-dont-care-about-your-honor
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Attempting to contradict strong evidence, a Reagan appointed judge wrote:

“Why does the media insist on identifying the president who appointed the federal judges who make a newsworthy decision? It feeds the misimpression that our courts are just partisan policy arms of the party of the president behind their nomination.”

The interesting thing is that judge presents no evidence and no hint of doubt. His e-mail is what (I think) lawyers call “conclusory”. His honor assumes a fact not in evidence. I don’t want to be rude but he reminds me of Samuel Alito. I think that judges are used to having authority and think that they (unlike lawyers) are free to assume facts not in evidence.

Now comes an intriguing study by a Harvard Law School professor that buttresses my point: If anything, it suggests we have underestimated the impact of party affiliation on judicial outcomes. Alma Cohen, whose training is as an economist, examined 630,000 federal appeals court cases from 1985 to 2020 and found that the impact of party affiliation went far beyond hot-button issues such as guns or abortion.

Rather, she wrote, “the political affiliations of panel judges can help predict outcomes in a broad set of cases that together represent over 90% of circuit court decisions.”

Trump Took Credit for Overturning Roe v. Wade (Trump justices' decisions were predictable before the case started because Trump picked the justices.)

Claim: During a Fox News town hall, former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed credit for overturning Roe v. Wade, saying, "For 54 years they were trying to get Roe v. Wade terminated, and I did it. And I'm proud to have done it."

Fact check by Snopes.com: Correct Attribution
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-roe-alabama-ivf/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Nazis support Trump.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreadin
g-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

Nazis appeared to find a friendly reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference this year.

Throughout the conference, racist extremists, some of whom had secured official CPAC badges, openly mingled with conference attendees and espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories.

The presence of these individuals has been a persistent issue at CPAC. In previous years, conference organizers have ejected well-known Nazis and white supremacists such as Nick Fuentes.

But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017.

At the Young Republican mixer Friday evening, a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed so-called “race science” and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

One member of the group, Greg Conte, who attended the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, said that his group showed up to talk to the media. He said that the group was prepared to be ejected if CPAC organizers were tipped off, but that never happened.

Another, Ryan Sanchez, who was previously part of the Nazi “Rise Above Movement,” took photos and videos of himself at the conference with an official badge and touted associations with Fuentes.

Other attendees in Sanchez’s company openly used the N-word.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Now comes an intriguing study by a Harvard Law School professor that buttresses my point: If anything, it suggests we have underestimated the impact of party affiliation on judicial outcomes. Alma Cohen, whose training is as an economist, examined 630,000 federal appeals court cases from 1985 to 2020 and found that the impact of party affiliation went far beyond hot-button issues such as guns or abortion.

Rather, she wrote, “the political affiliations of panel judges can help predict outcomes in a broad set of cases that together represent over 90% of circuit court decisions.”

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It's not surprising that you're impressed when a Harvard Law School professor came to the same conclusion that I had a very long time ago.



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Nazis support Trump.

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You think everybody is a Nazi, Reaverfan.

Go fuck yourself.

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You think everybody is a Nazi, Reaverfan.

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The deal is that you, Trump, and Trumptard in general are people who are in trouble. If life was going well for Trumptards, they would not be susceptible to Trump's ridiculous demagoguery, but when your life is going badly, Trump seems reasonable: “If Crooked Joe Biden and his thugs win in 2024, the worst is yet to come,” he said. “A country that will go and sink to levels that are unimaginable.”

“These are the stakes of this election. Our country is being destroyed, and the only thing standing between you and it’s obliteration is me.”

“A vote for Trump is your ticket back to freedom, it’s your passport out of tyranny and it’s your only escape from Joe Biden and his gang’s fast track to hell,” he continued.

“And in many ways, we’re living in hell right now because the fact is, Joe Biden is a threat to democracy – really is a threat to democracy.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/24/donald-trump-cpac-spee
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The reasons for Trumptards' personal troubles? It is obvious, except not to them, which is why they have so much trouble prospering in America. The obvious escapes their understanding so they blame Democrats, not themselves, for their own stupidity and lunacy. Who better to be their leader than the biggest, stupidest lunatic in America, Donald J Trump, with the most personal problems possible?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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You think everybody is a Nazi, Reaverfan.

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The deal is that you, Trump, and Trumptard in general are people who are in trouble.

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My life is fine.

Enjoy today. Back to the salt mines for you to do your wage-slave thing, working all day to pay off the interest for all that shit you bought that you didn't need and will never own.



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My life is fine.

Enjoy today. Back to the salt mines for you to do your wage-slave thing, working all day to pay off the interest for all that shit you bought that you didn't need and will never own.

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6ix, your life is fucked and you know it, loser. 40 percent of the Republicans in Saturday’s primary voted for Trump's opponent, a supposedly globalist Republican-in-name-only traitor to the cause. Biden won 96 percent of the vote in the South Carolina Democratic primary. I invite you to imagine the punditry had Biden ceded 40 percent to Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson — or even 10 percent.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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You're so jealous and salty, bitch.



Your life must be even worse than I already imagine it is.



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You're so jealous and salty, bitch.



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You are a stupid asshole, but that is also a long-standing policy position of Republican Presidents, including Trump:

The GOP’s history of endangering American and global security

By Walter Clemens | 02/25/24, 3:00 PM ET

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4487585-the-gops-history
-of-endangering-american-and-global-security/

Republicans have often acted like a wrecking ball to shatter American and global security. After WWI, Republicans spurned Wilson’s League of Nations, leaving Europe to deal with an angry and vengeful Germany. Their inward-looking trade policies in the 1920s helped bring on the Great Depression. Though Eisenhower sought peace with the USSR, his CIA caused enduring problems by helping to overthrow legitimate governments in Iran and Guatemala, and by trying and failing to do so in Cuba. When Hungarians revolted against Communist rule in 1956, Ike just watched Soviet tanks run them down.

To weaken Democrats in the 1968 elections, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger sabotaged a Vietnam peace deal negotiated in Paris. Having won the 1968 and 1972 elections, Nixon kept the war going and expanded it to Cambodia until American forces were compelled to depart Saigon in disgrace. In 1973, Nixon and Kissinger fostered a coup in Chile that replaced a leftist but popular government with a military dictatorship. A few years later, President Ronald Reagan broke U.S. and international law as he backed rebels fighting a leftist regime in Nicaragua.

The Berlin Wall fell during Reagan’s presidency, but he drove a spear into the prospects of containing the nuclear arms race with his “star wars” defense program. If the United States could build a barrier against Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Kremlin would keep working to improve its strategic missiles. Billions of dollars later, there is still no reliable defense against ICBMs, but George W. Bush killed serious arms limitation by withdrawing from the antimissile defense treaty signed by Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev in 1972. This is still an aggravation to U.S.-Russia relations in 2024.

The very worst blow to U.S. security was the “shock and awe” invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush in 2003. Its harmful consequences continue today — more than two decades of dangerous and fruitless American involvement in the unending chaos of the Middle East. Compounding these and other problems, the Bush administration “un-signed” U.S. adherence to the International Criminal Court. Bush also maintained U.S. refusal to align with most of humanity in joining the Law of the Sea, even though this neuters America’s ability to demand that others obey these international accords.

There was some hope for better Middle East relations when the United States and five partners negotiated the Iran nuclear deal in 2015, but this breakthrough was scuttled by Donald Trump, setting the stage for Tehran to become another nuclear-armed threat to world security. Trump also set back hopes for controlling global warming by withdrawing from the Paris climate accords.

Now most GOP politicians follow Trump’s zeal for scrapping the most successful alliance in history and cutting aid to the heroes blocking Russia’s dictator from further assaults on the free world. Reversing Teddy’s maxim, these politicians chatter loudly and carry no stick.

Walter Clemens is an associate at the Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and professor emeritus of Political Science at Boston University. He wrote “The Republican War on America: Dangers of Trump and Trumpism” (Westphalia 2023).

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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You're so jealous and salty, bitch.



Your life must be even worse than I already imagine it is.

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You are a stupid asshole

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Jealous. Salty. Bitch.

Have fun at work today.

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Trump always underperforms in the margin of victory

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Trumps professional liars, can't stop lying. Following all Trumps bullshit is so much fun. Especially since I called all this years ago.

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Key figure in fake elector's plot concealed damning tweets from prosecutors

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Trump always underperforms in the margin of victory

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Joe Biden* got 4 points less than the polling aggregate in 2020.

Joe Biden* was ahead of Trump every single day leading up to the 2020 election in the polling aggregate.

Joe Biden* has been behind Trump in the polls since September of 2023.

Joe Biden* is currently 2.1 points behind Trump in the polling aggregate today.

I'll let you ask somebody in your apartment complex to do the math for you.

Tick Tock



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Trump always underperforms in the margin of victory

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Joe Biden* got 4 points less than the polling aggregate in 2020.

Joe Biden* was ahead of Trump every single day leading up to the 2020 election in the polling aggregate.

Joe Biden* has been behind Trump in the polls since September of 2023.

Joe Biden* is currently 2.1 points behind Trump in the polling aggregate today.

I'll let you ask somebody in your apartment complex to do the math for you.

Tick Tock

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Psychopathic tendencies linked to a psychological predisposition towards populism

Populism is a political approach that seeks to champion the common people against a perceived elite or establishment that is considered corrupt or out of touch with the general population’s needs. At its core, populism divides society into two antagonistic groups: the pure people and the corrupt elite. Populism can manifest across the political spectrum, from left to right, and has been a driving force behind various political movements and leaders around the world, including Donald Trump in the United States.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/psychopathic-tendencies-linked-
to-a-psychological-predisposition-towards-populism/ar-BB1iVyZm

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Poor Jack; of course he will deny the validity of the study, or that it applies to him. However, his being uneducated will make any objection he may present meaningless. His being ignorant will prevent him from being able to make the connection between the study and how it exposes him.

As for those of us who’ve watched Jack fully embrace Trumps populist, anti-elitist message, while posting one hateful post after another, this study confirms our beliefs that Jack and yes comrade Signym, are very sick.


too sad...

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'White Rural Rage' looks at the most likely group to abandon democratic norms

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Fact Checking Donald Trump’s Claim About Opposing the Iraq War

He expressed support for an invasion in 2002.

By Alex Demas | Feb 26, 2024

Former President Donald Trump told jokes, discussed policy, and did a brief impression of President Joe Biden Saturday during his rambling 87-minute speech at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He also claimed that he opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

“Remember I used to say a long time ago, ‘Don’t go into Iraq. Don’t do it!’” Trump said to the crowd.

The only known instance of Trump directly addressing the question of his support for a potential invasion of Iraq occurred in a September 2002 interview with Howard Stern. Trump responded “Yeah, I guess so,” when asked by Stern whether he supported a possible invasion. “I wish the first time it was done correctly,” he added. Not surprising that in 2024 Trump is a lying sack of shit about a war.

https://thedispatch.com/article/fact-checking-donald-trumps-claim-abou
t-opposing-the-iraq-war/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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'White Rural Rage' looks at the most likely group to abandon democratic norms

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The Mystery of White Rural Rage

By Paul Krugman | Feb. 26, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/opinion/white-rural-voters.html

Will technological progress lead to mass unemployment? People have been asking that question for two centuries, and the actual answer has always ended up being no. Technology eliminates some jobs, but it has always generated enough new jobs to offset these losses, and there’s every reason to believe that it will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

But progress isn’t painless. Business types and some economists may talk glowingly about the virtues of “creative destruction,” but the process can be devastating, economically and socially, for those who find themselves on the destruction side of the equation. This is especially true when technological change undermines not just individual workers but also whole communities.

This isn’t a hypothetical proposition. It’s a big part of what has happened to rural America.

This process and its effects are laid out in devastating, terrifying and baffling detail in “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy,” a new book by Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman. I say “devastating” because the hardship of rural Americans is real, “terrifying” because the political backlash to this hardship poses a clear and present danger to our democracy, and “baffling” because at some level I still don’t get the politics.

Technology is the main driver of rural decline, Schaller and Waldman argue. Indeed, American farms produce more than five times as much as they did 75 years ago, but the agricultural work force declined by about two-thirds over the same period, thanks to machinery, improved seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. Coal production has been falling recently, but thanks partly to technologies like mountaintop removal, coal mining as a way of life largely disappeared long ago, with the number of miners falling 80 percent even as production roughly doubled.

The decline of small-town manufacturing is a more complicated story, and imports play a role, but it’s also mainly about technological change that favors metropolitan areas with large numbers of highly educated workers.

Technology, then, has made America as a whole richer, but it has reduced economic opportunities in rural areas. So why don’t rural workers go where the jobs are? Some have. But some cities have become unaffordable, in part because of restrictive zoning — one thing blue states get wrong — while many workers are also reluctant to leave their families and communities.

So shouldn’t we aid these communities? We do. Federal programs — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more — are available to all Americans, but are disproportionately financed from taxes paid by affluent urban areas. As a result there are huge de facto transfers of money from rich, urban states like New Jersey to poor, relatively rural states like West Virginia.

While these transfers somewhat mitigate the hardship facing rural America, they don’t restore the sense of dignity that has been lost along with rural jobs. And maybe that loss of dignity explains both white rural rage and why that rage is so misdirected — why it’s pretty clear that this November a majority of rural white Americans will again vote against Joe Biden, who as president has been trying to bring jobs to their communities, and for Donald Trump, a huckster from Queens who offers little other than validation for their resentment.

This feeling of a loss of dignity may be worsened because some rural Americans have long seen themselves as more industrious, more patriotic and maybe even morally superior to the denizens of big cities — an attitude still expressed in cultural artifacts like Jason Al

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Originally posted by THG:

Trump always underperforms in the margin of victory

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Joe Biden* got 4 points less than the polling aggregate in 2020.

Joe Biden* was ahead of Trump every single day leading up to the 2020 election in the polling aggregate.

Joe Biden* has been behind Trump in the polls since September of 2023.

Joe Biden* is currently 2.1 points behind Trump in the polling aggregate today.

I'll let you ask somebody in your apartment complex to do the math for you.

Tick Tock

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Psychopathic tendencies linked to a psychological predisposition towards populism

Populism is a political approach that seeks to champion the common people against a perceived elite or establishment that is considered corrupt or out of touch with the general population’s needs. At its core, populism divides society into two antagonistic groups: the pure people and the corrupt elite. Populism can manifest across the political spectrum, from left to right, and has been a driving force behind various political movements and leaders around the world, including Donald Trump in the United States.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/psychopathic-tendencies-linked-
to-a-psychological-predisposition-towards-populism/ar-BB1iVyZm

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Poor Jack; of course he will deny the validity of the study, or that it applies to him. However, his being uneducated will make any objection he may present meaningless. His being ignorant will prevent him from being able to make the connection between the study and how it exposes him.

As for those of us who’ve watched Jack fully embrace Trumps populist, anti-elitist message, while posting one hateful post after another, this study confirms our beliefs that Jack and yes comrade Signym, are very sick.


too sad...

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LOL

You're a fucking joke dude.

Keep living your shitty little meaningless life, slaving away to pay off interest on all the shit you didn't need and you'll never own and paying Bidenflation prices on that shitty little studio apartment of yours.

I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. You are so far beneath me.

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LOL

You're a fucking joke dude.

Keep living your shitty little meaningless life, slaving away to pay off interest on all the shit you didn't need and you'll never own and paying Bidenflation prices on that shitty little studio apartment of yours.

I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. You are so far beneath me.

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It never dawns on Trumptards that their lives are difficult for a reason, other than the false but reassuring belief that Democrats make the lives of Trumptards into a difficult and painful collision course with reality. If only all Democrats vanished, America would be a paradise for Trumptards. The truth is simpler: If only Trumptards weren't defective and inferior, they would prosper.

6ix gave two demonstrations of blaming Democrats in the last 24 hours:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65909
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=49739&mid=11885
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I went to CPAC as an anthropologist to understand Trump’s base - they believe, more than ever, he is a savior

By Alexander Hinton | February 26, 2024 8:40am EST

https://theconversation.com/i-went-to-cpac-as-an-anthropologist-to-und
erstand-trumps-base-they-believe-more-than-ever-he-is-a-savior-224205

What is happening in the hearts of former President Donald Trump’s supporters?

As an anthropologist who studies peace and conflict, I went to the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, to find out. I wanted to better understand the Make America Great Again faithful – and their die-hard support for Trump.

The event began on Feb. 21, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland, with Steve Bannon’s routine, untrue banter about how President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election, and it peaked with an angry speech from Trump three days later. In between, I sat among the MAGA masses listening to speaker after speaker express outrage about American decline – and their hope for Trump’s reelection.

Everywhere I turned, people wore MAGA regalia – hats, pins, logos and patches, many with Trump’s likeness. I spent breaks in the exhibition hall, which featured a Jan. 6 insurrection-themed pinball machine featuring “Stop the Steal,” “Political Prisoners” and “Babbitt Murder” rally modes and a bus emblazoned with Trump’s face. Admirers scribbled messages on the bus such as, “We have your back” and “You are anointed and appointed by God to be the President.”

Those on the left who dismiss the CPAC as a gathering of MAGA crazies and racists who support a wannabe dictator do not understand that, from this far-right perspective, there are compelling and even urgent reasons to support Trump. Indeed, they believe, as conservative politician Tulsi Gabbard stated in her CPAC speech on Feb. 22, that the left’s claims about Trump’s authoritarianism are “laughable.” This is because CPAC attendees falsely perceive President Joe Biden as the one who is attacking democracy.

Here are my top three takeaways from CPAC about Trump supporters’ current priorities and thinking.

1. There’s a Reagan dinner – but CPAC is Trump’s party

Former President Ronald Reagan runs in CPAC’s DNA. Reagan spoke at the inaugural CPAC in 1974 and went on to speak there a dozen more times.

In 2019, the conservative advocacy group the American Political Union, which hosts CPAC, published a book of Reagan’s speeches with commentary by conservative luminaries. In the preface, Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Political Union, says he often asks himself, “What would Reagan do?”

CPAC’s pomp gala, held Friday, is still called the “Ronald Reagan Dinner.” But Reagan is otherwise hardly mentioned at the conference.

Reagan’s ideas of American exceptionalism have been supplanted by Trump’s populist story of apocalyptic decline. Reagan’s folksy tone, relative moderation and clear quips are long gone, replaced by fury, grievance and mean-spirited barbs.

2. There’s a method to the madness

Many commentators and critics, including groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, view CPAC as a frightening or bizarre gathering of white nationalists who have a nativist agenda.

In 2021, commentators said the CPAC stage was shaped like a famous Nazi design called the Othala Rune, which is a hate symbol. Schlapp denied this claim and said that CPAC supports the Jewish community, but various commentators took note of the uncanny resemblance.

This year, CPAC refused to give press credentials to various media outlets, including The Washington Post, despite the organization’s emphasis on free speech.

Some speakers, including Trump, have been known to regularly voice support for white nationalism and right-wing extremism, including speakers who promote the false idea that there is a plot to replace the white population. I discuss this idea in my 2021 book, “It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US.”

Indeed, the U.S.-Mexico border was a constant topic at this year’s CPAC, which included controve

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White rural rage isn’t about economics
White Rural Rage book discussed

By Kevin Drum | Feb 26, 2024 at 9:47 PM

https://jabberwocking.com/white-rural-rage-isnt-about-economics/

Today Paul Krugman discusses a new book by Paul Waldman and Tom Schaller, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy. In particular, Krugman agrees that rural areas have hemorrhaged jobs, leaving behind a loss of purpose and dignity:

“This feeling of a loss of dignity may be worsened because some rural Americans have long seen themselves as more industrious, more patriotic and maybe even morally superior to the denizens of big cities.... In the crudest sense, rural and small-town America is supposed to be filled with hard-working people who adhere to traditional values, not like those degenerate urbanites on welfare, but the economic and social reality doesn’t match this self-image. Prime working-age men outside metropolitan areas are substantially less likely than their metropolitan counterparts to be employed — not because they’re lazy, but because the jobs just aren’t there.”

I'm once again prompted to point out that while this is true, it's not that true. For example, here's the share of full-time workers in urban and rural areas:


It's almost identical at every age level for both men and women. In both places, about 80% of men and 65% of women have full-time jobs.

Here's the overall labor force participation rate:


Among prime-age men, the participation rate is about 88% in cities and 85% in the country. The difference is even smaller among women.

Now, pay is considerably less in rural areas: the median income for men is about $52,000 compared to $60,000 in cities. However, when you account for the far lower cost of housing in rural areas, a lot of this difference goes away.

These figures are all from 2016, but I don't imagine they've changed a lot since then. More to the point, however, there's nothing new about this. Urban men earn about 15% more than rural men, but the Fed puts the overall urban/rural wage difference in recent years at about 20-23%:


So how does this compare to 40 years ago? In 1980, according to the Census Bureau, median household income was $19,043 in cities and $15,350 in rural areas. That's a difference of.......24%.


This is a lot of charts and tables to make two simple points. First, the economic difference between urban and rural households isn't as great as people make it out to be, especially when you account for the cost of living. Second, to the extent there really is a difference, it's been around for a long time. City dwellers have always made more money than folks in the country, so this can hardly be the cause of a sudden surge of white rural rage in the Trump era.

So what's really going on? I'd guess that part of the answer is economic, but not at the individual level. Main street shops have gone away. Rural hospitals have shut down. The nearest doctor may be 50 miles away. There's no access to broadband internet.

This kind of slow lifestyle deterioration is unquestionably discouraging, but it's not really the sort of thing that produces rage. That's more likely to come from cultural issues like abortion, immigration, race, gay and trans rights, and so forth. I'm still guessing a bit here, but in the past the cultural difference between urban and rural wasn't quite so stark. Mores were relatively conservative everywhere—in public, at least—and in any case, urban debauchery was a long way away. Today it's only as far away as your TV set, and urban culture overwhelms contemporary TV, especially among cable outlets.

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Yeah. You raped and murdered Laken Riley.


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Republicans can't stop swallowing Russian propaganda

By Matthew Yglesias | Feb 27, 2024

https://www.slowboring.com/p/republicans-cant-stop-swallowing

As recently as February 15, the House Oversight Committee listed as “key evidence” in its impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden an “FBI Form 1023 alleging then-Vice President Joe Biden engaged in a bribery and extortion scheme and ultimately received $5 million from a Burisma executive.” About a week later, that item was scrubbed from the evidence list without comment.

The reason it was scrubbed, of course, is that it turns out the Form 1023 in question was based on information provided by Alexander Smirnov, who was arrested and indicted for lying to federal officials. Now David Weiss, the Trump-appointed special counsel prosecuting Hunter Biden, says that not only was Smirnov lying to the FBI about this, but that his information was provided by individuals “associated with Russian intelligence.”

And what Republicans have not done, at all, is acknowledge in any way that this is a big deal.

To be clear, the president’s son does seem to genuinely be an all-around shady dude, a tax cheat who clearly traded on his father’s name. And equally clearly, the president loves his son, and even though it would have been more politically prudent to completely disavow him and freeze him out years ago, he didn’t want to do that. So it’s understandable that partisan Republicans would be eager to jump on any kind of negative information about Hunter in order to embarrass his dad.

The GOP has been divided on US policy toward Russia, even over the past two years, with a rising Trump-aligned pro-Russia group pitting itself against a traditional McConnell-aligned anti-Russia group. Yet the revelations about Smirnov have generated almost no reaction from either GOP faction, a sure sign that the conservative movement has essentially no antibodies against a takeover by Russia-directed propaganda. Even as traditional Republican Party Atlanticists have been making proclamations about Alexei Navalny’s assassination, there is zero willingness to confront the reality of what’s going on inside their movement.

Right now, the United States is teetering on the brink of a government shutdown because House Republicans can’t bring themselves to write some spending bills that correspond with the bipartisan agreement they already reached with Democrats. House Republicans are also blocking a bipartisan border security bill that the Senate wrote specifically because House Republicans demanded such a bill as a condition for providing aid to Ukraine and Israel. Republicans originally marketed this as a clever plan to damage Joe Biden politically, but it was handled so clumsily that it backfired.

Nevertheless, they’re still blocking both the bill itself and the Ukraine/Israel aid, which bipartisan Senate coalitions have now shown willingness to pass, either with the border bill or without it.

So, aside from obstruction, what have Republicans been doing with their time?

Well, a lot of it has been focused on Hunter Biden. An analysis of the House record provided to Slow Boring shows 70 hours of hearings related to Hunter Biden investigations, and 13 separate bills that include impeachment proceedings related to Hunter’s business activities.

Some of this is partisan opportunism, but a fair amount of it is that they have genuinely gotten their heads stuck up their own asses.

A decade ago, the United States was providing modest amounts of aid to Ukraine, and Republicans in congress were urging the Obama administration to do more. Also at that time, a bipartisan group of legislators was urging the US government to fight corruption in Ukraine by pushing then-President Petro Poroshenko to get rid of the country’s corrupt prosecutor general. America’s European allies also wanted this to happen, and then-VP Joe Biden — a foreign policy guy with deep relationships in Europe — was given the assignment. The prosecutor in question got fired. Then Trump became president with Russian assis

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You're a fucking joke dude.

Keep living your shitty little meaningless life, slaving away to pay off interest on all the shit you didn't need and you'll never own and paying Bidenflation prices on that shitty little studio apartment of yours.

I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. You are so far beneath me.

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It never dawns on Trumptards that their lives are difficult for a reason, other than the false but reassuring belief that Democrats make the lives of Trumptards into a difficult and painful collision course with reality. If only all Democrats vanished, America would be a paradise for Trumptards. The truth is simpler: If only Trumptards weren't defective and inferior, they would prosper.

6ix gave two demonstrations of blaming Democrats in the last 24 hours:
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You raped and murdered Laken Riley, Ted.

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Trump did it:
Former President responsible for Laken Riley's Death
https://www.newsweek.com/ex-trump-aide-casts-blame-donald-trump-laken-
riley-death-1873437

Trump does not want you to know this so do NOT click the link! Trump was sticking it to Venezuela's government by giving all Venezuelans a free pass into the USA, but that included murderers from Venezuela.

Personally, Trump does not think he can be held responsible for his actions because he is retarded, as are his Trumptards, a group of people who fervently believe they would be successful if only there weren't so many Americans who are much better people than Trumptards could imagine themselves being in their wildest dreams.

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 did it:
Former President responsible for Laken Riley's Death
https://www.newsweek.com/ex-trump-aide-casts-blame-donald-trump-laken-
riley-death-1873437

Trump does not want you to know this so do NOT click the link! Trump was sticking it to Venezuela's government by giving all Venezuelans a free pass into the USA, but that included murderers from Venezuela.

Personally, Trump does not think he can be held responsible for his actions because he is retarded, as are his Trumptards, a group of people who fervently believe they would be successful if only there weren't so many Americans who are much better people than Trumptards could imagine themselves being in their wildest dreams.

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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Finding more lies not to take the blame for your party's actions.

Ever since street-abortionist crackhead St. George Floyd died of an overdose, cops haven't been able to do their jobs, particularly in blue cities. Even when somebody does get arrested, as this murder and rapist did twice, Democrat DAs let them right back out on the street to murder and rape again.

Her blood is on your hands.

She's dead because of you.

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Finding more lies not to take the blame for your party's actions.

Ever since street-abortionist crackhead St. George Floyd died of an overdose, cops haven't been able to do their jobs, particularly in blue cities. Even when somebody does get arrested, as this murder and rapist did twice, Democrat DAs let them right back out on the street to murder and rape again.

Her blood is on your hands.

She's dead because of you.

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6ix, have you been practicing for a theatrical career? Life is all theater for Trumptards.

Immigrants, both legal and otherwise, commit crimes at lower rates than natives. Still, they do commit crimes, and if you force feed your audience hours of news about every crime, they'll naturally think that crime from illegal immigrants is out of control. It's all theater.

Meanwhile, in Georgia, Trumptard attorneys are still trying to disqualify Fani Willis from overseeing her voter fraud case against Donald Trump and others. It won't work, but everyone is paying attention because it's about sex and romantic relationships. In other words, it's all theater.

Up in Washington DC, Trumptards are trying to subpoena the tapes of Robert Hur's interview with Joe Biden. This is not because they expect to discover evidence Hur missed of Biden taking classified documents from the White House. It's because they hope to leak excerpts from the tapes that appear to show Biden stumbling over his answers. More theater.

The impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas? Theater.

The "Biden crime family"? Theater.

Razor wire in the Rio Grande? Theater.

Claiming to support IVF without being willing actually to do anything about it? Theater.

It's nothing but endless theater from Trumptards these days because they have nothing else left.

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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She's dead because of you and Ted and the people you vote for. She was raped before she died as well. That's the last thing she got to experience before she died.

And this is a lot bigger than her.

Because it's never going to stop.

You've fucking ruined this once great country. You're despicable. You're trash. You are cancer.



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She's dead because of you and Ted and the people you vote for. She was raped before she died as well. That's the last thing she got to experience before she died.

And this is a lot bigger than her.

Because it's never going to stop.

You've fucking ruined this once great country. You're despicable. You're trash. You are cancer.

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6ix, do you realize that being stupid and crazy has interfered with your prosperity? Probably not, because Trumptards tend to lack that insight. For example, see Alabama, one of the poorest states in the Union:

In our last episode, the Alabama Supreme Court effectively abolished in-vitro fertilization by ruling that frozen embryos are human beings, thus making the loss of any embryo a potential murder or manslaughter. Now, in our latest episode, the Alabama legislature is fighting back. Embryos are still human beings, as any God-fearing Alabamian knows, but new legislation says it doesn't matter:

No action, suit, or criminal prosecution shall be brought or maintained against any individual or entity providing goods or services related to in vitro fertilization.

This is really something. Doctors and organizations would be categorically immune to suits for anything related to IVF. They could accidentally cut off your balls or remove your uterus, and it would be tough luck.** Embezzlement? Why not! Credit card fraud? As long as you're overcharging for something related to IVF services, go right ahead.

I am not a lawyer. Maybe there's some principle of law I'm missing here. But that paragraph is basically the entirety of the legislation, and no exceptions are listed.

What's more, even as broad as this language is, it might not even work. The Supreme Court ruling relied on Alabama constitutional law and it's not clear if a mere statute could weaken rights derived from it.

These guys are nuts. And by "these guys" I mean pretty much the entire government of Alabama.

**No, this couldn't actually happen. But you get the idea.

https://jabberwocking.com/alabama-is-loco/

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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In the wake of Trump’s vow to repeal the ACA if elected, Larry Levitt at the Kaiser Family Foundation outlines the former president’s past and purported future healthcare agenda:

One of Trump’s biggest political failures as president was his inability to persuade Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). However, the Trump administration did make significant changes to the ACA, including repealing the individual mandate penalty, reducing federal funding for consumer assistance (navigators) by 84% and outreach by 90%, and expanding short-term insurance plans that can exclude coverage of preexisting conditions. And, the Trump administration supported an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit to overturn the ACA.

In one of the stranger policy twists, the Trump administration ended payments to ACA insurers to compensate them for a requirement to provide reduced cost sharing for low-income patients. At the time, Trump said this would cause Obamacare to be “dead” and “gone.” But, insurers responded by increasing premiums, which in turn increased federal premium subsidies and costs to the federal government, likely strengthening the ACA.

In the current campaign, Trump has vowed several times to try again to repeal and replace the ACA, saying he would create a plan with “much better health care.” (Trump is a hardcore liar.)

More at https://angrybearblog.com/2024/02/trump-administrations-impact-on-the-
aca-and-the-marketplace-part-1

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 United States hasn’t provided any ammunition to Ukraine since late December, shortly after Russia-aligned Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives blocked a vote on further aid.

After finally defeating, at incredible cost in people and equipment, the ammo-starved Ukrainian garrison in the ruins of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine two weeks ago, the Russian army in Ukraine is advancing against other Ukrainian garrisons that also are running out of ammo, thanks to those Republicans in the U.S. House.

The Ukrainian air force apparently aims to use its last few Patriot and NASAMS missiles to deplete the Russian air force and prevent future surges in bombing sorties. The Russian air force meanwhile aims to bomb more Ukrainian garrisons into submission, and help Russian ground troops to gain ground, before the Sukhoi squadrons are exhausted for a want of planes and experienced crews.

One man holds the power to upset this looming aerial impasse: Republican representative Mike Johnson, the speaker of the U.S. House, who alone brings bills to a vote.

The U.S. Senate already has approved $60 billion in fresh aid to Ukraine, aid that surely would include huge consignments of air-defense missiles. Johnson could put that aid to a vote today. Everyone agrees it would pass with a bipartisan majority.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/27/10-shot-down-jets-in-
10-days-russias-aerial-surge-in-ukraine-is-getting-more-of-its-pilots-killed/?sh=4a752f975b21

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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She's dead because of you and Ted and the people you vote for. She was raped before she died as well. That's the last thing she got to experience before she died.

And this is a lot bigger than her.

Because it's never going to stop.

You've fucking ruined this once great country. You're despicable. You're trash. You are cancer.

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6ix, do you realize that being stupid and crazy has interfered with your prosperity?

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This ain't about me. I'm doing fine.

Women can't go jogging alone anymore though. That ended in the 2020's. How regressive.

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Women can't go jogging alone anymore though. That ended in the 2020's. How regressive.

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I constantly hear that same "I'm doing fine" sentiment from grubby Trumptards who are NOT doing fine, but they are too silly to know the vast difference between how they laboriously live and how successful people easily live and prosper.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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This ain't about me. I'm doing fine.

Women can't go jogging alone anymore though. That ended in the 2020's. How regressive.

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I constantly hear that same "I'm doing fine" sentiment from grubby Trumptards who are NOT doing fine, but they are too silly to know the vast difference between how they laboriously live and how successful people easily live and prosper.

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Former President Donald Trump forgot the name of his wife and possibly confused her with one of his former staffers during a recent speech according to some media reports. What happened and what it means may surprise you.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-recent-gaffe-set-off-a
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Yup...

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Sure he did.

Why do you even care, Ted? Your guy has done this 10,000 times since before he even took office.

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Biden Brags He Could Let Migrants Shoot Someone On Fifth Avenue And Not Lose Any Votes

https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-brags-he-could-let-migrants-shoot-so
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In deep blue cities, this is True.

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Trump Vs. Biden: Extremism Emerges As Top Voter Concern, Giving One Candidate A Slight Edge, Poll Shows

As the November elections approach, a recent poll reveals that political extremism and threats to democracy are the primary concerns for US voters, surpassing the economy and immigration. The poll also suggests a slight advantage for President Joe Biden over Donald Trump in addressing these issues.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vs-biden-extremism-emerg
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As I've said, people are starting to pay attention.

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Former President Donald Trump forgot the name of his wife and possibly confused her with one of his former staffers during a recent speech according to some media reports. What happened and what it means may surprise you.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-recent-gaffe-set-off-a
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Have you raped and killed any more college girls today, Ted?

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Rep. Hillary Scholten, who sat beside VP Harris during her roundtable on reproductive rights in Michigan

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Yup.

November's coming quick, Ted.

Joe Biden*'s going to be out on his ass soon.

Tick Tock

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'These aren't good numbers': Warning signs emerge for Trump after Michigan

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Those numbers are fine. Lots of Democrats voted for Nikki Haley.

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Increasingly, Republicans are siding with Russia. With Putin.

This 90-second clip goes a long way to explaining why.

The Prime Minister of Australia recounts watching Trump's interactions with Putin as "really creepy", Trump "is in awe of Putin".

“When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occassions, he’s like the 12-year old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero!’ It’s really creepy.” @TurnbullMalcolm , 29th Prime Minister of Australia.

https://twitter.com/ResoluteSquare/status/1762577455678660653

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Why Is Trump Trying to Make Ukraine Lose?

The former president isn’t in office—but is still dictating U.S. policy.

By Anne Applebaum | February 29, 2024, 6:15 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/one-global-issue-tru
mp-cares-about/677592/

Nearly half a year has passed since the White House asked Congress for another round of American aid for Ukraine. Since that time, at least three different legislative efforts to provide weapons, ammunition, and support for the Ukrainian army have failed.

Kevin McCarthy, the former House speaker, was supposed to make sure that the money was made available. But in the course of trying, he lost his job.

The Senate negotiated a border compromise (including measures border guards said were urgently needed) that was supposed to pass alongside aid to Ukraine. But Senate Republicans who had supported that effort suddenly changed their minds and blocked the legislation.

Finally, the Senate passed another bill, including aid for Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel, and the civilians of Gaza, and sent it to the House. But in order to avoid having to vote on that legislation, the current House speaker, Mike Johnson, sent the House on vacation for two weeks. That bill still hangs in limbo. A majority is prepared to pass it, and would do so if a vote were held. Johnson is maneuvering to prevent that from happening.

Maybe the extraordinary nature of the current moment is hard to see from inside the United States, where so many other stories are competing for attention. But from the outside—from Warsaw, where I live part-time; from Munich, where I attended a major annual security conference earlier this month; from London, Berlin, and other allied capitals—nobody doubts that these circumstances are unprecedented. Donald Trump, who is not the president, is using a minority of Republicans to block aid to Ukraine, to undermine the actual president’s foreign policy, and to weaken American power and credibility.

For outsiders, this reality is mind-boggling, difficult to comprehend and impossible to understand. In the week that the border compromise failed, I happened to meet a senior European Union official visiting Washington. He asked me if congressional Republicans realized that a Russian victory in Ukraine would discredit the United States, weaken American alliances in Europe and Asia, embolden China, encourage Iran, and increase the likelihood of invasions of South Korea or Taiwan. Don’t they realize? Yes, I told him, they realize. Johnson himself said, in February 2022, that a failure to respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine “empowers other dictators, other terrorists and tyrants around the world … If they perceive that America is weak or unable to act decisively, then it invites aggression in many different ways.” But now the speaker is so frightened by Trump that he no longer cares. Or perhaps he is so afraid of losing his seat that he can’t afford to care. My European colleague shook his head, not because he didn’t believe me, but because it was so hard for him to hear.

Since then, I’ve had a version of that conversation with many other Europeans, in Munich and elsewhere, and indeed many Americans. Intellectually, they understand that the Republican minority is blocking this money on behalf of Trump. They watched first McCarthy, then Johnson, fly to Mar-a-Lago to take instructions. They know that Senator Lindsey Graham, a prominent figure at the Munich Security Conference for decades, backed out abruptly this year after talking with Trump. They see that Donald Trump Jr. routinely attacks legislators who vote for aid to Ukraine, suggesting that they be primaried. The ex-president’s son has also said the U.S. should “cut off the money” to Ukrainians, because “it’s the only way to get them to the table.” In other words, it’s the only way to make Ukraine lose.

Many also understand that Trump is less interested in “fixing the border,” the project he forced the Sena

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Republicans used to back Ukraine. Then came middle fingers in Alabama.

By Danielle Paquette | February 29, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/29/ukraine-support-alaba
ma-political-divide/

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — In the early days, long before Russia’s war entered its third year, drivers honked and smiled when Natalia Reznick stood by the roadside holding her handmade sign: “Support Ukraine.”

Then one afternoon in November (2023), a man lowered his truck window and flipped her off.

She might have dismissed that as a fluke if, a few weeks later, another man hadn’t approached her booth in a Trader Joe’s parking lot and asked, “Haven’t we given you enough money?”

“The hostility shocked me,” recalled Reznick, 44, whose late father was Ukrainian. “I felt it then — the shift.”

She had been trying to collect a couple hundred dollars for food and medicine — food and medicine! Yet somewhere along the way, even a stay-at-home mom’s little charity effort outside a northern Alabama grocery store became mired in another American culture clash.

To many Republicans here and across the country, “Support Ukraine” is now a liberal cause — a costly diversion from more pressing domestic issues, such as securing the southern border. Some think European allies should bear the responsibility for stopping Vladimir Putin’s takeover, casting Kyiv’s potential ruin as not America’s problem. Others suspect aid funds might be landing in the wrong pockets. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) claimed this month, without evidence, that U.S. tax dollars meant to help Ukrainian forces have vanished in an “enormous theft.” Then he slammed Ukraine as “one of the most blatantly, notoriously corrupt places in the world.”

It’s a far cry from the display of unity two years ago, when Putin launched his invasion and politicians from both sides of the aisle scrambled to arm Kyiv, Reznick thought. Billions of aid dollars flowed through her city, Huntsville, a defense industry hub with an Army base one local official called the “center of gravity for supporting the Ukrainians.”

Plenty of conservatives in this community, a purple dot in a sea of bright red, are proud of that distinction. The president of the county’s GOP men’s club, for instance, describes himself as a “Mitt Romney Republican” and openly blasts Putin an enemy of freedom.

The mood among the MAGA devotees, however, has lately veered toward mistrust, said Reznick, a Democrat. Her circle, she acknowledges, is a “progressive bubble,” but still, she had never dreamed of being confronted outside a Trader Joe’s or anywhere else in Huntsville.

She could understand why her neighbors wouldn’t want to spend money on a war overseas. She could understand heartbreak over this nation’s woes. But the nastiness? The way Tuberville had insulted an already battered Ukraine?

“It’s unbelievable,” she said.

By all accounts, her dad’s home country was losing ground to Russia and dangerously short on gear needed to fight back.

Tuberville was one of the two Republican senators from Alabama blocking that gear. They had opposed the latest foreign aid package that includes $61 billion for Ukraine, which was ultimately able to pass the Senate with bipartisan support, Reznick had noted with relief, yet now looked doomed to languish in the House.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has refused to bring the package up for a vote until “we take care of our own first,” raising concerns that it could be held up through spring, if it survives the congressional standoff at all.

Such resistance has become increasingly popular among right-leaning voters, according to a December poll from the Pew Research Center: Nearly half of Republicans said the United States, Kyiv’s single largest de

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After 12 Republican Governors Rejected Program For Free Lunches For Poor Kids, A Few Have Second Thoughts

A bipartisan initiative to provide essential nutrition to underprivileged children in the summer months has been met with resistance from over a dozen Republican governors. However, the mounting pressure on these governors to reconsider their stance has signaled a potential shift in the situation.

Known as Summer EBT, the program seeks to alleviate food insecurity among children by offering pre-loaded cards that grant easier access to food supplies when schools are closed. This marks a significant expansion of federal nutrition programs, and the Biden administration estimates that it could benefit approximately 30 million eligible schoolchildren in the summer.

Despite its potential impact, 15 states, all led by Republican governors, initially declined to participate due to concerns about costs and ideological opposition to expanding federal benefits. This decision has sparked outrage among anti-hunger organizations, advocates for rural communities, educators and local youths and has led to vigorous efforts to persuade these governors to reconsider their positions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-12-republican-governors-
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A bipartisan initiative to provide essential nutrition to underprivileged children in the summer months has been met with resistance from over a dozen Republican governors. However, the mounting pressure on these governors to reconsider their stance has signaled a potential shift in the situation.

Known as Summer EBT, the program seeks to alleviate food insecurity among children by offering pre-loaded cards that grant easier access to food supplies when schools are closed. This marks a significant expansion of federal nutrition programs, and the Biden administration estimates that it could benefit approximately 30 million eligible schoolchildren in the summer.

Despite its potential impact, 15 states, all led by Republican governors, initially declined to participate due to concerns about costs and ideological opposition to expanding federal benefits. This decision has sparked outrage among anti-hunger organizations, advocates for rural communities, educators and local youths and has led to vigorous efforts to persuade these governors to reconsider their positions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-12-republican-governors-
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“The Republican Party is dying as Trump and his supporters take it over . . .”

By Heather Cox Richardson | Feb 28, 2024

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-28-2024

Behind the horse race–type coverage of the contest for presidential nominations, a major realignment is underway in United States politics. The Republican Party is dying as Trump and his supporters take it over, but there is a larger story behind that crash. This moment looks much like the other times in our history when a formerly stable two-party system has fallen apart and Americans reevaluated what they want out of their government.

Trump’s takeover of the party has been clear at the state level, where during his term he worked to install loyalists in leadership positions. From there, they have pushed the Big Lie that he won the 2020 election and have continued to advance his claims to power.

The growing radicalism of the party has also been clear in Congress, where Trump loyalists refuse to permit legislation that does not reflect their demands and where, after they threw House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) out of office—dumping a speaker midterm for the first time in history—Trump lieutenant Jim Jordan (R-OH) threatened holdouts to vote him in as speaker. Jordan failed, but the speaker Republican representatives did choose, Mike Johnson (R-LA), is himself a Trump loyalist, just one who had made fewer enemies than Jordan.

The radicalization of the House conference has led 21 members of the party who gravitate toward actual lawmaking to announce they are not running for reelection. Many of them are from safe Republican districts, meaning they will almost certainly be replaced by radicals.

The Senate has tended to hang back from this radicalization, but in a dramatic illustration of Trump’s takeover of the party, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell today announced he would step down from his leadership position in November. McConnell is the leading symbol of the pre-Trump party, a man whose determination to cut taxes and regulation led him to manipulate the rules of the Senate and silence warnings that Russian disinformation was polluting the 2016 campaign so long as it meant keeping a Democrat out of the White House and Republicans in control of the Senate.

The extremist House Freedom Caucus promptly tweeted: “Our thoughts are with our Democrat colleagues in the Senate on the retirement of their Co-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (D-Ukraine). No need to wait till November…Senate Republicans should IMMEDIATELY elect a *Republican* Minority Leader.”

Trump has also taken control of the Republican National Committee (RNC) itself. On Monday, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel announced that she is resigning on March 8. Trump picked McDaniel himself in 2016 but has come to blame her both for the party’s continued underperformance since 2016 and for its current lack of money.

Now Trump has made it clear he wants even closer loyalists at the top of the party, including his own daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. She has suggested she is open to using RNC money exclusively for Trump. This might be what has prompted the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity to pull support from Nikki Haley in order to invest in downballot races.

But the party that is consolidating around Trump is alienating a majority of Americans. It has abandoned the principles that the party embraced from 1980 until 2016. In that era, Republicans called for a government that cut taxes and regulations with the idea that consolidating wealth at the top of the economy would enable businessmen to invest far more effectively in new development than they could if the government interfered, and the economy would boom. They also embraced global leadership through the expansion of capitalism and a strong military to protect it.

Under Trump, though, the party has turned away from global leadership to the idea that strong countries can do what they like to their neighbors, and from small government to big government that imposes religious rules. Far from protec

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Until now Republicans have starved the IRS so thoroughly they didn't even have the staff to ask tax cheaters to fill out a 1040.

One thing nonfilers haven’t had to fear, until recently, was hearing about their shortcomings from the IRS. The agency generally knows who should be filing a return but hasn’t had the staff to handle correspondence with these taxpayers, so it greatly cut back sending out notices, Werfel said.

The first batch of more than 25,000 letters will go out to taxpayers with more than $1 million in income, followed by more than 100,000 letters to people with incomes between $400,000 and $1 million. The notice says to file your return immediately or to explain either why you are late or don’t have to file.

GOP lawmakers are still trying to claw back IRS funding, and the agency is likely to lose $20 billion of the $80 billion it received. On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Marjorie Rollinson to be the IRS’s top lawyer, and just six of the 49 Republicans voted for her.

The IRS program to pursue nonfilers has only run sporadically since 2016, due to budget cuts

https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/irs-targets-high-earners-wh
o-dont-file-tax-returns-3a984c1b?st=xt7rps230rrok38&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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What I learned when I read 887 pages of plans for Trump’s second term

By Carlos Lozada | February 29, 2024

https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2024/02/29/what-i-learned-when-i-read
-887-pages-of-plans-for-trumps-second-term/

Every new administration that wins power away from the opposing party contends that whatever its predecessors did was terrible and that victory constitutes a popular mandate to fix or get rid of it all. Elections have consequences, politicians love to remind us, and a big one entails trying to change everything, right away.

It is possible to read “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” — an 887-page document proposing to remake the executive branch, department by department, agency by agency, office by office — as one more go-round in this Washington tradition. With contributions by dozens of conservative thinkers and activists under the leadership of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, the book announces itself as part of a “unified effort to be ready for the next conservative administration to govern at 12:00 noon, Jan. 20, 2025.” There is much work ahead, it states, “just to undo the significant damage that will have been done during the Biden years.”
https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadersh
ip_FULL.pdf

The book has not been blessed by Donald Trump or his campaign, and the authors emphasize that they want to help the next conservative president, “whoever he or she may be.” But with so many former Trump officials among its contributors, so much praise for him throughout its pages (he is mentioned some 300 times, compared with once for Nikki Haley) and such clear affinity between Trump’s impulses and the document’s proposals, it is easy to imagine “Mandate for Leadership” wielding influence in a second Trump term. It is an off-the-shelf governing plan for a leader who took office last time with no clear plan and no real ability to govern. This book attempts to supply him with both.

There is plenty here that one would expect from a contemporary conservative agenda: calls for lower corporate taxes and against abortion rights; criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and the “climate fanaticism” of the Biden administration; and plans to militarize the southern border and target the “administrative state,” which is depicted here as a powerful and unmanageable federal bureaucracy bent on left-wing social engineering. Yet what is most striking about the book is not the specific policy agenda it outlines but how far the authors are willing to go in pursuit of that agenda and how reckless their assumptions are about law, power and public service.

“Mandate for Leadership,” which was edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation, is not about anything as simplistic as being dictator for a day but about consolidating authority and eroding accountability for the long haul. It calls for a relentless politicizing of the federal government, with presidential appointees overpowering career officials at every turn and agencies and offices abolished on overtly ideological grounds. Though it assures readers that the president and his or her subordinates “must be committed to the Constitution and the rule of law,” it portrays the president as the personal embodiment of popular will and treats the law as an impediment to conservative governance. It elevates the role of religious beliefs in government affairs and regards the powers of Congress and the judiciary with dismissiveness.

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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Those who earn less than $400,000 and haven’t filed aren’t off the hook. Taxpayers are responsible for declaring all of their income, calculating their tax liability correctly and filing a tax return on time. By not filing, some lower-income taxpayers miss out on refunds.

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Those are the only people the IRS are going after.

Not that you'd know, but there's no such thing as somebody who makes over $400k and doesn't file a tax return. They might try to pull some shady accounting, but there is ZERO ROI for a person making nearly half a million dollars a year to not file a tax return at all. They have FAR too much to lose and the IRS can go back 7 years and audit you whenever it feels like doing so.

Yours is a very simple mind.

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Those are the only people the IRS are going after.

Not that you'd know, but there's no such thing as somebody who makes over $400k and doesn't file a tax return. They might try to pull some shady accounting, but there is ZERO ROI for a person making nearly half a million dollars a year to not file a tax return at all. They have FAR too much to lose and the IRS can go back 7 years and audit you whenever it feels like doing so.

Yours is a very simple mind.

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You are a jackass, 6ixStringJack, believing the propaganda that rich tax cheats such as Trump want you to believe. But you believed Trump paid his taxes because he said he did, which means you are extra stupid. His fictional losses are whatever amount he wants and his taxes are set by himself, and continues to be fiction until a judge goes over his accounting. And then Trump goes to the Supreme Court over his taxes.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns-relea
sed/index.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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Those are the only people the IRS are going after.

Not that you'd know, but there's no such thing as somebody who makes over $400k and doesn't file a tax return. They might try to pull some shady accounting, but there is ZERO ROI for a person making nearly half a million dollars a year to not file a tax return at all. They have FAR too much to lose and the IRS can go back 7 years and audit you whenever it feels like doing so.

Yours is a very simple mind.

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You are a jackass, 6ixStringJack, believing the propaganda that rich tax cheats such as Trump want you to believe. But you believed Trump paid his taxes because he said he did, which means you are extra stupid. His fictional losses are whatever amount he wants and his taxes are set by himself, and continues to be fiction until a judge goes over his accounting. And then Trump goes to the Supreme Court over his taxes.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns-relea
sed/index.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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Read what I said again, then try again. You stupid fuck.

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6ix, I know all about Trumptards. You are a bunch of tax cheaters. Cheating and getting upset when called out for cheating is Trumptard standard practice.

Hunter Biden’s opening statement, where he calls out Republicans running for office in 2024 for their cheating/lying/stupidity:

https://andrewtobias.com/the-hunter-biden-transcript/

I am here today to provide the committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business, not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions, domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist, never.

You read this fact in the many letters that have been sent to you over the last year as part of your so-called impeachment investigation. You heard this fact when I said it weeks ago standing outside of this building. You heard this fact from a parade of other witnesses, former colleagues, and business partners of mine, including my uncle, who has testified before you in similar proceedings. And now, today, you hear this fact directly from me.

For more than a year, your committees have hunted me in your partisan political pursuit of my dad. You have trafficked in innuendo, distortion, and sensationalism, all the while ignoring the clear and convincing evidence staring you in the face: You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn’t any.

You have built your entire partisan house of cards on lies told by the likes of Gal Luft, Tony Bobulinski, Alexander Smirnov, and Jason Galanis. Luft, who is a fugitive, has been indicted for his lies and other crimes; Smirnov, who has made you dupes in carrying out a Russian disinformation campaign waged against my father, has been indicted for his lies; Bobulinski, who has been exposed for the many false statements he has made; and Galanis, who is serving 14 years in prison for fraud.

Rather than follow the facts as they’ve been laid out before you in bank records, financial statements, correspondence, and other witness testimony, you continue your frantic search to prove the lies you and those you rely upon keep peddling.

Yes, they are lies. To be clear, I have made mistakes in my life, and I have squandered opportunities and privileges that were afforded to me. I know that. I am responsible for that. And I am making amends for that. But my mistakes and my shortcomings are my own and not my father’s, who has done nothing but devote his entire life to public service and trying to make this country a better place to live.

During my battle with addiction, my father was there for me. He helped save my life. His love and support made it possible for me to get sober, stay sober, and rebuild my life as a father, a son, a husband, and a brother. What he got in return for being a loving, supportive parent is a barrage of hate-filled conspiracy theories that hatched this sham impeachment inquiry and continue to fuel unrelenting personal attacks against him and me.

Over the last year, Republicans have taken my communications out of context, relied on documents that have been altered, and cherry-picked snippets of financial or other records to misrepresent what really happened. Examples of this include a few references to my family in emails or texts that I sent when I was in the darkest days of my addiction. If you try to do that today, my answers will reveal your tactics and demonstrate the truth that my father was never involved in any of my businesses.

My testimony today should put an end to this baseless and destructive political charade. You have wasted valuable time and resources attacking me and my family for your own political gain when you should be fixing the real problems in this country that desperately need your attention. Thank you.

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Mr. Swalwell: At any time your father was in government, did he ever operate a hotel?

The Witness: No, he has never operated a hotel.

Mr. Swalwell: So he’s never operated a hotel where foreign nationals spent millions at that hotel while he was in office?

The Witness: No, he has not.

Mr. Swalwell: Did your father ever employ in the Oval Office any direct family member to also work in the Oval Office?

The Witness: My father has never employed any direct family members, to my knowledge.

Mr. Swalwell: While your father was president, did anyone in the family receive 41 trademarks from China?

The Witness: No.

Mr. Swalwell: As President and leader of the party, has your father ever tried to install as chairperson of the party a daughter-in-law or anyone else in the family?

The Witness: No. And I don’t think that anyone in my family would be crazy enough to want to be chairperson of the DNC.

Mr. Swalwell: Has your father ever in his time as an adult been fined $355 million by any State that he worked in?

The Witness: No he has not, thank God.

Mr. Swalwell: Anyone in your family ever strike a multi-billion-dollar deal with the Saudi government while your father was in office?

The Witness: No.

Mr. Swalwell: That’s all I’ve got.

The Witness: Thank you.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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The big take-away from his 7 hours of closed-door testimony is that whatever you may think of Hunter Biden — and of his father for loving his troubled son — there is “no there there.”

Whereas, if you read Volume I and Volume II of the Mueller report, it’s virtually all there — except for the parts missing because of obstruction of justice so egregious that more than 1,000 former Republican and Democratic federal prosecutors deemed it unquestionably indictable. Watch! (2 minutes).
https://twitter.com/protctdemocracy/status/1134089330576777216

Shamefully, only one Republican, Mitt Romney, voted to convict Trump the first time around.

His second impeachment came a lot closer — 57-43 — but failed to reach the required two-thirds because Mitch McConnell would go only so far as to call Trump “morally and practically” responsible for the January 6 mayhem . . . but argued that punishment should be meted out by the criminal justice system, not the Senate.

The evidence of his guilt was on TV for all the world to see.

https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume1.pdf
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume2.pdf

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Those are the only people the IRS are going after.

Not that you'd know, but there's no such thing as somebody who makes over $400k and doesn't file a tax return. They might try to pull some shady accounting, but there is ZERO ROI for a person making nearly half a million dollars a year to not file a tax return at all. They have FAR too much to lose and the IRS can go back 7 years and audit you whenever it feels like doing so.

Yours is a very simple mind.

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You are a jackass, 6ixStringJack, believing the propaganda that rich tax cheats such as Trump want you to believe. But you believed Trump paid his taxes because he said he did, which means you are extra stupid. His fictional losses are whatever amount he wants and his taxes are set by himself, and continues to be fiction until a judge goes over his accounting. And then Trump goes to the Supreme Court over his taxes.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/politics/donald-trump-tax-returns-relea
sed/index.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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Read what I said again, then try again. You stupid fuck.

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6ix, I know all about Trumptards. You are a bunch of tax cheaters. Cheating and getting upset when called out for cheating is Trumptard standard practice.

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Once again, you're changing the subject.

Stay on topic moron, or shut the fuck up.

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Once again, you're changing the subject.

Stay on topic moron, or shut the fuck up.

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The subject is that Trumptards are attracted by degenerate Trump's stories. Trump's life is a historic mess and his followers are more messed up than he is.

6ix, read the full definition of degenerate, a word that fits Trump and his Trumptards:
https://www.google.com/search?q=degenerate
Be sure to click on "See More". You will read about how fitting the word degenerate is to describe Trumptards.

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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I'm done playing stupid games with you this morning.

Go be a waste of carbon in somebody else's life today.

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Betting Odds hit 17 points in favor of Trump for the first time today.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting-odds/2024/presiden
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Betting Odds hit 17 points in favor of Trump for the first time today.

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I bet you are full of shit, 6ix. But what's news about that, Trumptard?

Oct. 3, 2023, 8:22 AM CDT -
Trump's former Chief of Staff John Kelly confirms that Trump called American service members "suckers" and "losers," refused to visit their graves and that he didn't want to be seen with amputee veterans because "it doesn't look good for me."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trum
p-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543

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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Betting Odds hit 17 points in favor of Trump for the first time today.

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I bet you are full of shit, 6ix.

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Well. You lose then.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting-odds/2024/presiden
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It's been fun. Better luck next time.





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New York Times: Voters Doubt Biden’s Leadership and Favor Trump

https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2024%2F03%2F02%
2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fbiden-trump-times-siena-poll.html

Gee... You don't say.

The longer I stick around the more I'm right about pretty much everything. It took NYT over 3 years to figure out what I knew from day one, but they're run by a bunch of braindead Leftists with agendas, so it's amazing it happened at all.



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Biden and Trump are in a dead heat

Kevin Drum / Mar 2, 2024 at 7:10 PM

https://jabberwocking.com/biden-and-trump-are-in-a-dead-heat/

I rely frequently on the YouGov polls done for the Economist. There are two reasons for this. First, they have an excellent reputation for accuracy. Second, they routinely make crosstabs available, which helps a lot if you want to dig past the simple topline numbers. Here's their latest poll of Trump vs. Biden:
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_XLG2Z6p.
pdf


Nationally, they have Trump and Biden in a dead heat, with nearly identical in-party support for both. The two also have nearly identical approval ratings.

Most of the crosstabs look reasonable with one exception: Black voters. I'm not sure what's going on here, but short of an electoral cataclysm there's no way Biden gets only 71% of the Black vote. It will almost certainly end up at 90% or so, which adds a couple of points to his overall total.

NOTE: This is a poll of all registered voters. A poll of likely voters might look a little different.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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No. They're not.

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I rely frequently on the YouGov polls done for the Economist.

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That's called cherry picking, and it looks REALLY bad for Biden* when you have to cherry pick a poll that shows that they're tied.


What Kevin Drum isn't telling you is that leading up to the 2020 election there was not a single day that Biden* wasn't up on Trump in the polling aggregate by at least 4 points. (It was exactly 4 points on January 24th, 2020). A majority of the time Biden* was up on Trump by at least 8 points, with a great deal of that time being over 10 points and almost as much as 12 points.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2020/trump-vs
-biden

On March 3rd, 2020, Joe Biden* was up on Trump 5.4 points. On March 3rd, 2024, Joe Biden* is trailing Trump by 2.2 points. That's a 7.6 point difference.

Though there was a brief period of 2 days where the polls were tied for Joe Biden* and Trump in October, the last day that Joe Biden* had a lead on Trump was September 11th, 2023, and Trump has been up on Joe Biden* by as much as 4.3 points since that day.


Also, at the end of 2020 right before the election, the polling aggregate showed Joe Biden* was up 7.2 points on Trump. But on election night Joe Biden* only won by 4.5 points, which was a 2.7 point error in Joe Biden*'s favor.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2020/trump-vs
-biden

If even half of that error still exists currently, Trump would beat Biden* by 3.5 points if the election were held today.

And this is all for nothing more than bragging rights on the Popular Vote. That's right... Trump may actually win the Popular vote this year, according to the polls.



The actual election is going to be determined by 7 states, and it's not looking good at all for Biden*.

Arizona (Trump +5.5): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/arizona/
trump-vs-biden

Nevada (Trump +7.7): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/nevada/t
rump-vs-biden

Wisconsin (Trump +1.0): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/wisconsi
n/trump-vs-biden

Michigan (Trump +3.6): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/michigan
/trump-vs-biden

Pennsylvania (Biden +0.8): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/pennsylv
ania/trump-vs-biden

North Carolina (Trump +5.7): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/north-ca
rolina/trump-vs-biden

Georgia (Trump +6.5): https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/georgia/
trump-vs-biden

Biden* is only slightly up on 1 of the 7 states in the polls, currently, and not even by a single point. 4 of the states Trump is up so high that it's well outside of any margin of error. And the 3.6 points that Trump is up in Michigan is basically a lock if the election were held today as well.

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Most of the crosstabs look reasonable with one exception: Black voters. I'm not sure what's going on here, but short of an electoral cataclysm there's no way Biden gets only 71% of the Black vote. It will almost certainly end up at 90% or so, which adds a couple of points to his overall total.

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Incorrect. Joe Biden* will not end up with 90% of the black vote. The reason that this perplexes you, Kevin, is because you only get your news from one side and they don't like telling you the truth above telling you what you want to hear. Joe Biden*'s border issue is hitting the black community far harder than anybody else, particularly in the big blue cities.

You'd best prepare yourself for that electoral cataclysm. But don't blame the blacks when it happens to you. They were trying to warn you all along, but you ignored them like you've always done and you continue to do.

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Surprise, Surprise: Trump Now Wants an Even More Extreme Abortion Ban
https://newrepublic.com/post/179468/trump-more-extreme-abortion-ban
Trump is now talking about banning abortion after 15 weeks. Just two weeks ago, Trump suggested a 16-week federal abortion ban. So it’s possible — likely, even — Trump will keep reducing what he considers a reasonable number of weeks to allow abortions until he’s reached zero.

The anti-abortion playbook for restricting birth control

By Rachel M. Cohen | Mar 3, 2024

https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-con
traception-ivf

Randall Terry, who founded the group Operation Rescue — known for blockading and protesting abortion clinics and patients — once laid out the logic against birth control plainly: “Any drug or device that prevents us from having children” is “anti-child,” he said. “How do we expect to defeat child-killing in the world when we cannot defeat child-rejection in our own midst?”

The political playbook for attacking birth control shares some similarities with the playbook for attacking abortion — a slow and steady chipping away of rights and access. Both efforts rely on measures like slashing funding for low-income patients, enacting parental consent laws to restrict minors’ use, and empowering ideologically supportive lawmakers and judges who push friendly legal frameworks.

But the major difference between pushing to restrict abortion access and pushing to restrict birth control is that leaders are typically much quieter about their goals for the latter, aware that open discussion will prompt fierce backlash. They typically try to paint those who suggest they’d take aim at contraception as alarmists and conspiracists.

When Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to codify access to birth control following the overturn of Roe, for example, they were met with emphatic performances of exasperation.

“This bill is completely unnecessary. In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited,” declared Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack during debate on the House floor. “The liberal majority is clearly trying to stoke fears and mislead the American people.”

Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers — including Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Mike Braun — have recently declared that Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided. Griswold relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned Roe, and in his concurring Dobbs v. Jackson opinion in 2022, Justice Clarence Thomas encouraged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” Griswold and other privacy-related decisions. Former Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters went so far as to pledge to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Griswold” should be overturned.

Leaders more than occasionally reveal their underlying beliefs. Recent statements, as well as recent actions from reproductive rights opponents, have sent clear reminders about how some influential activists really think about contraception: that it’s just another form of abortion.

Activists aim to blur the line between birth control and abortion.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Better rail hard on that abortion issue.

It's all you got left.



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Better rail hard on that abortion issue.

It's all you got left.

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There is also the issue of who Trumptards are. Do you want to vote for the candidate preferred by Nazis, racists, gun nuts, anti-abortionists, angry poor white trash, etc? Vote for Trump!

What attracts Trumptards to Trump? This comic answers that question:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/post-2

"I feel like more comics need to use the word salience."

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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President Biden told the New Yorker's Evan Osnos that he doesn't think former President Trump will concede if he loses in November.

"Losers who are losers are never graceful," Biden says in the 14,000-word profile, "The Last Campaign," which the magazine posted Monday morning. "I just think that he'll do anything to try to win. If — and when — I win, I think he'll contest it. No matter what the result is."

During the interview, Biden tossed a white note card on the Resolute Desk. The card was filled with quotes by Trump: threatening "termination" of parts of the Constitution, talking of being a dictator on "Day 1," and describing immigrants as "poisoning the blood of our country."

"What the hell?!" Biden says.

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/04/biden-trump-2024-election-concede

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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It's just started. We have 9 months to go.

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Donald Trump confused Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally in Virginia, triggering further questions about the age of the likely Republican presidential nominee who has made a string of such gaffes. Trump said: 'Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word'. The crowd reportedly went silent as Trump referenced Obama, who left office more than seven years ago.

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'He looks lost': Trump has gaffe-filled weekend on the campaign trail

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It is not just the #1 Trumptard Donald Trump. The #2 Trumptard, Elon Musk, has misplaced his mind.

Why Elon Musk Is the Second Most Important Person in MAGA

By David French | March 3, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/opinion/musk-x-maga-trump.html

One of the most remarkable developments of the new century has been the concentration of right-wing power and adulation in two men. Donald Trump is the obvious one, the unquestioned king of the American right. But easier to miss if you’re outside the MAGA world is the central importance of Elon Musk.

We’re familiar with Trump’s arc, of course. But why is Musk so important to the right? Why is a reported illicit drug user and unmarried father of 11 children by three women, a man whose social media site, X, is overrun with hatred and pornography, celebrated across the length and breadth of the new right, including parts of the Christian right?

The answer is that if Trump is MAGA’s champion, Musk is its gatekeeper. He doesn’t just use his immense reach (he has 174 million followers on X) to fight the left; he owns the right wing’s public square. This is because outside of X, the public isn’t reading the right. And as a result, X now shapes the right as much as even Fox News.

On Feb. 22, a website called The Righting released an analysis using Comscore data to compare web traffic at top right-wing sites from January 2020 to January 2024. The findings are surprising: Right-wing media appears to be struggling even more than mainstream media. Of the top right-wing sites in 2020, only Newsmax gained audience over the past four years. Every other right-wing site lost visitors, and most lost a staggering percentage of them.

For example, The Righting reports that The Washington Examiner lost 66 percent of its visitors. The Washington Times lost 82 percent. Breitbart lost 87 percent and The Daily Wire 73 percent. Aside from Newsmax and Fox News (which lost only 24 percent of its visitors), every other right-wing site has lost at least half its visitors in four years. Some have lost so many that The Righting could no longer measure their reader numbers.

In fact, the loss is so profound that there are individual articles and columns in The New York Times that get more visitors than all of the content that many of these sites post for an entire month. As a practical matter, this means that social media — and principally Musk’s X — becomes the central way in which many right-wing figures reach the public.

There are several consequences of this reality. It’s altering the way the right speaks. People will be naturally prone to focus most of their efforts on the medium through which they interact with the most people. A vast majority of people who interact with my work, for example, do so by reading my pieces, not by viewing my social media posts. My written work is the central focus of my professional life, while my social media posts are essentially an afterthought.

But what if that balance is reversed? It bends a person (or a movement) around the attitudes of social media and away from the kinds of arguments that require the length of a column or essay. Social media creates not a marketplace of ideas so much as a gallery of takes, where you can spend hours doomscrolling through short videos and snappy retorts.

That’s how a movement transfers its allegiance from the ideas of a man like William F. Buckley Jr. to an X influencer like @Catturd2 and his 2.4 million followers. It’s one reason a person like Tucker Carlson devolves from an interesting, idiosyncratic writer and thinker to an online shock jock and outrage merchant.

This transformation has the effect of further radicalizing the right. There’s a “Can you top this?” dynamic to posting that pushes people to extremes. In the offline world, paranoia is a liability. It inhibits you from seeing the world clearly. In parts of the online world, you’re considered a rub

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Donald Trump confused Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally in Virginia, triggering further questions about the age of the likely Republican presidential nominee who has made a string of such gaffes. Trump said: 'Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word'. The crowd reportedly went silent as Trump referenced Obama, who left office more than seven years ago.

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He's referencing to the crowd that it's really been Barack Obama's 3rd term that we've been living through.

I've seen lefties take clips of Trump making fun of President Roomba getting lost on stage and pretending like it was Trump himself who was lost on stage too.

You're such a fucking moron, Ted.


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He's referencing to the crowd that it's really been Barack Obama's 3rd term that we've been living through.

I've seen lefties take clips of Trump making fun of President Roomba getting lost on stage and pretending like it was Trump himself who was lost on stage too.

You're such a fucking moron, Ted.

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Trump has stumbled through life for decades and he has a thousand lost lawsuits to prove it. Who'd admire his life, other than Trumptards who see themselves in him?

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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It is not just the #1 Trumptard Donald Trump. The #2 Trumptard, Elon Musk, has misplaced his mind.

Why Elon Musk Is the Second Most Important Person in MAGA

By David French | March 3, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/opinion/musk-x-maga-trump.html

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Yes yes, hands down without a doubt. Musk is losing it to the point of being traitorous.

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Fmr. RNC Chair Taunts Trump: "We're Coming For You"

MSNBC political commentator Michael Steele, former chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), responded to former President Donald Trump‘s claims that the GOP is “maybe 100%” MAGA and “getting rid of the Romneys of the world.”

[Trump has called Utah Senator Mitt Romney (a vocal critic of Trump) a Republican in Name Only (RINO) and successfully urged RNC chair Ronna McDaniel to resign.]

On MSNBC Weekend, Steele looked into the camera and said: “Game on, Trump,” and accused the GOP frontrunner of being “the biggest RINO.”

(Note: Trump has changed his political party affiliation five times since 1987 before returning to the Republican Party in 2012.)

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The truth behind Trump and his smiling black supporters – they’re fake

Donald Trump supporters are targeting black voters with disinformation, including AI-generated fake images of the former president, campaigners have warned.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-truth-behind-trump-and-his
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Donald Trump supporters are targeting black voters with disinformation, including AI-generated fake images of the former president, campaigners have warned.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-truth-behind-trump-and-his
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Sure thing Ted.

We'll see how AI generated they are when they vote for Trump in November.

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Why Elon Musk Is the Second Most Important Person in MAGA

By David French | March 3, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/opinion/musk-x-maga-trump.html

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Yes yes, hands down without a doubt. Musk is losing it to the point of being traitorous.

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TRANSLATION: Everybody who doesn't agree with me politically is a traitor to America.

Get fucked, Ted.

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Biden's Disapproval Rating Soars To 59%, Trump's Lead Biggest Yet

In the latest New York Times/Siena Poll Trump has his biggest lead over Biden ever. And Biden’s disapproval rating is a whopping 59 percent. I list 18 key points from the poll.

The Big Change

Nate Cohn, New York Times chief political analyst notes The Big Change Between the 2020 and 2024 Races: Biden Is Unpopular.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/upshot/poll-biden-trump-2024.html
That’s a free link for interested readers.

President Biden is not winning, at least not now. Polls show him trailing in states worth well over 270 electoral votes, and this morning he lags Donald J. Trump in our newest New York Times/Siena College national poll by five percentage points among registered voters, 48 percent to 43 percent.

That’s the largest lead Mr. Trump has ever had in a Times/Siena national poll. In fact, it’s the largest lead Mr. Trump has held in a Times/Siena or Times/CBS poll since first running for president in 2015.

Why is President Biden losing? There are many possible reasons, including his age, the war in Gaza, the border and lingering concerns over inflation. But ultimately, they add up to something very simple: Mr. Biden is very unpopular. He’s so unpopular that he’s now even less popular than Mr. Trump, who remains every bit as unpopular as he was four years ago.

Many voters will apparently agonize between two candidates they dislike. It’s exactly what Democrats sought to avoid when they nominated Mr. Biden in 2020. It’s what Democrats largely avoided in the 2018 and 2022 midterm elections, when they mostly nominated acceptable candidates or ran incumbents against right-wing opponents. And it’s exactly what led to the election of Mr. Trump in 2016.

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Remember Hillary?
"We came, we saw, he died? *giggle*"?
"Sexist, racist, homophobes ... basket of deplorables"?
Squeezing Bernie out of the race?
Hallucinating on stage at the DNC convention?
RUSSIA!TRUMP! COLLUSION!

Eeewww!
One of the most unpalatable candidates ever to be fielded by the DNC.

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Double Haters

Overall, 19 percent of registered voters in the Times/Siena survey have an unfavorable view of both candidates — a group sometimes referred to as “double haters.” These voters say they backed Mr. Biden by a three-to-one margin among those who voted in 2020, but now he holds the support of less than half. Every vote counts, but these voters will undoubtedly be pivotal in deciding the November election.

The double haters might ultimately return to Mr. Biden’s side. There are still eight months left until November, and it’s not as if these voters like Mr. Trump. If they do come back to Mr. Biden, perhaps their return will have seemed inevitable in retrospect.

Poll Results

In a second post, the New York Times goes over the Poll Results.

With eight months left until the November election, Mr. Biden’s 43 percent support lags behind Mr. Trump’s 48 percent in the national survey of registered voters.

Eighteen Key Points

* Only one in four voters think the country is moving in the right direction.

* More than twice as many voters believe Mr. Biden’s policies have personally hurt them as believe his policies have helped them.

* A majority of voters think the economy is in poor condition.

* The share of voters who strongly disapprove of Mr. Biden’s handling of his job has reached 47 percent, higher than in Times/Siena polls at any point in his presidency.

* About as many Democratic primary voters said Mr. Biden should not be the nominee in 2024 as said he should be — with opposition strongest among voters younger than 45 years old.

* Mr. Trump is winning 97 percent of those who say they voted for him four years ago, and virtually none of his past supporters said they are casting a ballot for Mr. Biden.

* Mr. Biden is winning only 83 percent of his 2020 voters, with 10 percent saying they now back Mr. Trump.

* Among the likely electorate, M

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Hillary Clinton: The Election Is Between One Candidate Who Is Old But Effective And One That Is Old But Barely Makes Sense

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/03/04/hillary_clinton_ele
ction_between_one_candidate_who_is_old_but_effective_and_one_that_is_old_but_barely_makes_sense.html

I agree, Hilary. Joe Biden* is just the worst.



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Trump Claims 82% of People Believe in 'Rigged Election'

Published Mar 04, 2024 at 9:04 AM EST

"Did you ever notice they go after the people that want to find out where the cheating was and, by the way, 82 percent of the country understands that it was a rigged election, OK? You can't have a country with that.

"A poll came out, 82 percent, but they go after the people, they don't go after the people that rigged the election, they go after the people that looking, they're looking for the people that rigged the election.

"And that's the people they go after. They got away with something; they're never going to get away with it again."

The Facts

No evidence supports this claim.

Trump has made multiple provably false claims throughout his Republican presidential primary campaign. In an interview aired on February 29, the former president told Fox News' Sean Hannity that some abortions are carried out after a baby is born.

In February, he also falsely alleged that Joe Biden boasted about serving in the military and had been a pilot.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-trump-claims-82-believe-rigged-ele
ction-1875537

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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President Biden recently went to New York to appear on “Late Night With Seth Myers.” On the show he was the same guy whom those of us who’ve spoken with him have seen: not a spring chicken, obviously, but lucid, well informed and moderately funny. The contrast couldn’t be greater with Donald Trump, whose ranting has become increasingly incoherent; after mixing up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi a few weeks back, he has now once again appeared to confuse Biden with Barack Obama.

But not to worry: Trump recently assured an audience, “There’s no cognitive problem. If there was, I’d know about it.”

Oh?

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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Newsweek: All of Democrats sham cases have fallen apart and now they're going to have to run on their own abysmal record.

https://www.newsweek.com/fani-willis-ethics-hearing-nathan-wade-187585
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That was your "best" case. And diversity hire Girl Boss was fucking the help that she paid 10 times as much as more competent lawyers with actual experience trying felony cases.

November will be here quick.

Tick Tock

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Originally posted by second:
President Biden recently went to New York to appear on “Late Night With Seth Myers.” On the show he was the same guy whom those of us who’ve spoken with him have seen: not a spring chicken, obviously, but lucid, well informed and moderately funny. The contrast couldn’t be greater with Donald Trump, whose ranting has become increasingly incoherent; after mixing up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi a few weeks back, he has now once again appeared to confuse Biden with Barack Obama.

But not to worry: Trump recently assured an audience, “There’s no cognitive problem. If there was, I’d know about it.”

Oh?

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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Once again, he didn't mix them up.

Your media goons are taking clips out of context and presenting you with lies to regurgitate because they know you're stupid and you won't look into it at all.

The world is laughing at you.



P.S. You stole your thought of the day from Paul Krugman again, huh?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/opinion/trump-biden.html

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President Biden recently went to New York to appear on “Late Night With Seth Myers.” On the show he was the same guy whom those of us who’ve spoken with him have seen: not a spring chicken, obviously, but lucid, well informed and moderately funny. The contrast couldn’t be greater with Donald Trump, whose ranting has become increasingly incoherent; after mixing up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi a few weeks back, he has now once again appeared to confuse Biden with Barack Obama.

But not to worry: Trump recently assured an audience, “There’s no cognitive problem. If there was, I’d know about it.”

Oh.

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Word for word too...

You can find much better people to plagiarize than that sorry little dwarf. He's also a mental midget.

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WSJ: Panic Time for Democrats

Biden is losing to Trump in every poll as Super Tuesday arrives.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/panic-time-for-democrats-trump-biden-elec
tion-polls-08ef51ef?mod=opinion_feat1_editorials_pos1

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Four major polls rolled out in the past few days, and Mr. Biden is losing to Donald Trump in all of them. He’s down two points in a head-to-head matchup in the Wall Street Journal and Fox News surveys, more if you include third- or fourth-party candidates. He’s down five points in the Siena-New York Times poll, and he’s getting crushed in the swing states in the Bloomberg News survey.

Worse is the public mood. A quarter or less of Americans think the country is moving in the right direction, and they think Mr. Biden’s Presidency has done more harm than good. They think Mr. Biden is too old to be President, and they view Mr. Trump’s Presidency far more favorably than they do Mr. Biden’s.

Most important, Mr. Biden is viewed even more unfavorably than Mr. Trump in the polls (59% to 57% unfavorable in the Fox survey, which is Mr. Biden’s best showing). This is hard to do considering that Mr. Trump never cracked 50% approval in the Gallup poll during his Presidency. In the 2020 campaign, Mr. Biden never trailed Mr. Trump in polling averages.

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Yup.

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6ixStringJack always does the same two things: accuse Krugman, the Nobel Prize winner in economics, of being stupid compared to genius Trump and plagiarism. 6ix is a Trumptard, which is synonymous with "an asshole". There are approximately 85 million Trumptards in America, which is why America has an excess of assholes problem. It is not only Trumptards' political opinions that mark them. It is also their work life, home life, investment decisions, psychiatric disorders, obesity, drunkenness, etc. -- their whole gambet of life marks them as assholes.

Here is the whole Opinion | Donald Trump Is Running Against Dystopian Fantasies

By Paul Krugman | March 4, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/opinion/trump-biden.html

President Biden recently went to New York to appear on “Late Night With Seth Myers.” On the show he was the same guy whom those of us who’ve spoken with him have seen: not a spring chicken, obviously, but lucid, well informed and moderately funny. The contrast couldn’t be greater with Donald Trump, whose ranting has become increasingly incoherent; after mixing up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi a few weeks back, he has now once again appeared to confuse Biden with Barack Obama.

But not to worry: Trump recently assured an audience, “There’s no cognitive problem. If there was, I’d know about it.”

Oh.

Republicans aren’t going to acknowledge either Biden’s lucidity or Trump’s increasingly more noticeable lack thereof. But the reaction to the “Late Night” appearance that I found most revealing wasn’t about presidential age; it was about what happened next. Biden and Myers went for ice cream after the show, and Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama fired off a post on social media hoping Biden enjoyed his ice cream “while the rest of the city is afraid of crime and migrants.”

Reporters and readers were quick to point out that according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2021 Alabama had a homicide rate more than three times as high as that of New York State, and, as Bloomberg’s Justin Fox notes, New York City is among the safest big cities in America. Tuberville has become known for getting crossed up on the issues, but his comment illustrated two larger aspects of our politics.

First, there’s a striking double standard in the ways politicians are allowed to talk about different regions of America. Voters from rural states often complain about not getting enough respect, but can you imagine the reaction if, say, the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, were to describe Alabama — which in 2021 had an extraordinarily high rate of firearm mortality — as a place where everyone runs around shooting one another and themselves?

Second, and more important, I’m always struck by the extent to which today’s right-wing politics is driven by a grim, dystopian image of America, especially American cities, that just isn’t grounded in reality.

A lot of this seems to reflect perceptions that congealed long ago and haven’t been updated to reflect the ways in which urban America has changed for the better. New York really was a dangerous place a few decades back: There were 2,262 murders in 1990. Last year, however, with the pandemic-era bump in crime rapidly receding, there were only 391 — still too many — and early indications are that violent crime is continuing to fall.

Nationally, violent crime, at least according to the F.B.I., is approaching a 50-year low.

Those are official statistics, but what about personal experience? I remember New York in the bad old days, and it’s nothing like that now. Polling on crime is remarkable, especially when broken down by partisan affiliation: According to Gallup, 78 percent of Republicans say that crime is an extremely or very serious problem for the nation, but only 16 percent say it’s a serious problem where they live. That’s not because Republicans live in safer places: Only 15 percent of Democrats say that local crime is a serious problem.

Crime isn’t the only subject where Republican

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The Real Reason Trump Loves Putin

A new book explores the American right’s tendency to admire and want to emulate foreign dictators.

By Franklin Foer | March 1, 2024

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/jacob-heilbrunn-amer
ica-last-trump-putin/677609/

For nearly the entirety of the past decade, a question has stalked, and sometimes consumed, American politics: Why do Donald Trump and his acolytes heap such reverent praise on Vladimir Putin? The question is born of disbelief. Adoration of the Russian leader, who murders his domestic opponents, kidnaps thousands of Ukrainian children, and interferes in American presidential elections, is so hard to comprehend that it seems only plausibly explained by venal motives—thus the search to find the supposed kompromat the Kremlin lords over Trump or compromising business deals that Trump has pursued in Moscow.

But there’s a deeper, more nefarious truth about people on the right’s baffling unwillingness to criticize the Kremlin: They actually share its worldview. Putin worship isn’t even an aberration in the history of conservatism, merely the latest instance of a long tradition of admiring foreign dictators. Over the past century, without ever really blushing, the American right has similarly celebrated the likes of Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, and just about every Latin American military junta that called itself anti-communist.

The right hails these dictators as ideological comrades in the war to preserve traditional society, the values of order and patriarchy, against the assault of the decadent left. Unlike conservative politicians in the United States, these foreign leaders don’t even need to bother with mouthing encomiums to concepts like tolerance, freedom, and democracy. They can deliver reactionary politics in the unvarnished form that some hard-liners on the American right have always hoped would take root in their own country. As the journalist Jacob Heilbrunn argues in America Last, his history of conservatives’ romance with dictators, “Conservatives have searched for a paradise abroad that can serve as a model at home.”

Heilbrunn makes the interesting decision to begin his history on the eve of World War I. A primary villain in these chapters is the newspaper columnist H. L. Mencken, perhaps the most celebrated curmudgeon in the history of American letters. Walter Lippmann called him “the most powerful influence on this whole generation of educated people.” A conservative movement as such did not exist in the earliest decades of the 20th century, just a constellation of reactionary intellectuals and their wealthy patrons who nodded in agreement, nostalgic for the antebellum South and a world before mass suffrage. Mencken, the most eloquent of the reactionaries, put their cantankerous thoughts into ornate, often quite funny prose.

Mencken believed fervently in the superiority of German civilization—and in the leadership of its racist, war-mongering monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm. This reverence stemmed from ancestral pride; Mencken’s paternal grandfather came from Saxony. But his affection for Germany also grew from his disdain of American democracy, which he believed ceded control of society to mediocre politicians. By contrast, he liked that Germany was “governed by an oligarchy of its best men.” Just before America officially entered World War I, he submitted an article to The Atlantic in which he imagined that Germany might one day conquer the United States and create a new utopia on its shores. Ellery Sedgwick, then the editor of this magazine, had the good sense to reject it. “I have no desire to foment treason,” Sedgwick wrote him.

At the height of the war, Mencken worried that he might be persecuted for propagandizing for an enemy regime, so much so that he buried the German keepsakes he collected and a diary from his wartime visit to the country in his Baltimore backyard. But in the years that followed the conflict, he returned to extolling the virtues of Wilhelmine autocracy.

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