Elections; 2024
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That was nice of him to wish them all a Happy Easter.
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SECOND: You probably use LexisNexis, if you use anything. A subscription service.
It doesn't take brains or thought, just $.
But thanks for confirming why I shouldn't read your posts. I mean, who needs to read self-contradictory crap culled, undigested, from the Internet and crapped out immediately afterwards?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
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Maybe they don’t want four years of vengeance and retribution. Maybe they don’t want to hand Ukraine to a war criminal. Maybe they’re tired of being asked to believe he won by a landslide when they know he lost, or that he’s a stable genius when his own Vice President, cabinet secretaries, and chiefs of staff say he’s truly dangerous and incompetent.
Maybe they’re shocked he blocked the resources and legal fixes needed to solve the border crisis. He wants the crisis. He sees it as his ticket back to power. Power this time closer to the kind his friends Putin, Orban, and Kim Jong Un wield. Rule by fear.
Maybe they don’t see him as a good role model for their kids. Maybe they’re tired of being asked to buy Bibles and sneakers to pay his legal bills. (One judge found him guilty of rape, another of fraud, even as he fights multiple criminal indictments. Does anyone doubt he lied to the FBI about the documents he claimed not to have? Even for ex-presidents, lying to the FBI is a crime.)
Maybe, at least for some, the “show” is getting old.
https://andrewtobias.com/were-gonna-win-and-a-money-tip-not-to-miss/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Overturning Roe v Wade turned the Republican Party into the proverbial dog that caught the car. It’s suddenly relevant that a majority of House Republicans have backed a bill declaring that “life begins at conception” and that any fertilized embryo has the full rights of a legal person under the 14th Amendment. I’m not sure even die-hard anti-abortion people have fully thought through the implications for miscarriages. If a person drops dead in your house, the police and the coroner are going to have some questions about what happened — a person dying is a serious thing. And I think the idea of investigating miscarriages as potential homicides sends a chill down the spine of any halfway rational person.
Thus far, access to abortion overall has held up okay post-Dobbs, but that very well might not continue if Trump wins.
One big risk is that the judicial branch is likely to become extremely right-wing. You see right now a divide between the bulk of Republican Party elected officials, who are pushing fetal personhood, and the ones who actually need to run in tough races, who are desperate not to talk about this. You have to assume that many if not most of the judges Republicans put on the bench have the rough policy views of safe seat members rather than the cautious views of those in swing districts. And the whole point of the federal judiciary in the United States is that judges are insulated from electoral accountability and free to hand down whatever kind of nutty rulings they want.
The aim of personhood legislation is to establish the constitutional rights of embryos, but you don’t need a bill for that. You just need some judges to go along with you.
Right now, the Supreme Court is hearing a lawsuit that aims to yank mifepristone’s FDA approval. It seems like the current set of justices is disinclined to do that. But there are lots of courts in the country and there may be lots of vacancies. And, of course, a new administration will directly control the FDA and other federal agencies. Thus far, nobody has managed to conduct an actual interview with Trump in which they ask him about this stuff. But the risks if Trump wins are very real and very large, and he stands a very good chance of winning, notwithstanding the progressive turn on abortion public opinion.
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-new-politics-of-abortion-rights
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Life does begin at contraception. That's a fact.
Now, is it a good move to make legislation like this when Democrats are insane?
Probably ill advised.
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SECOND: You probably use LexisNexis, if you use anything. A subscription service.
It doesn't take brains or thought, just $.
But thanks for confirming why I shouldn't read your posts. I mean, who needs to read self-contradictory crap culled, undigested, from the Internet and crapped out immediately afterwards?
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A pro-Donald Trump rally went sideways, with the entire stage tipping over at one point, and the organizers blamed Democrats.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/oops-pro-trump-rally-organizer
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Ah, you poor victims.
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Opinion: Is a Biden comeback quietly underway?
Unless you are deeply immersed in politics, you likely missed a major development over the last three weeks: Since his State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden has seen a marked reversal of his fortunes.
Indeed, since Biden addressed the nation in early March, polling shows that Biden is gaining ground, as former President Donald Trump now leads Biden by only one percentage point according to the RealClearPolitics polling average — Trump’s smallest lead since January.
In the Quinnipiac poll released last week, Biden led by three points, 48 percent to 45 percent, bringing the total to 12 national polls showing Biden leading Trump since the SOTU, as Jessica Tarlov noted last week.
Moreover, Biden’s bounce is being seen not only in national polls but also in the battleground states that will determine the winner. In Wisconsin, Biden now leads Trump (46 percent to 45 percent), a 5-point swing in Biden’s favor since February, per the latest Bloomberg/Morning Consult Swing State Tracking poll.
In Pennsylvania Biden erased what was a 6-point lead for Trump in February, and the state is now tied at 45 percent apiece, according to the same poll.
And in Michigan — a state that has been at the center of Democratic angst due to Biden’s support for Israel and the state’s large Arab population — Trump’s 2-point lead in February is now a tie (45 percent each) per Bloomberg/Morning Consult.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-is-a-biden-comeback-qu
ietly-underway/ar-BB1kSH6T?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=eae13a318ad446a488bb8c057aef72f6&ei=121
Of course, Biden is now campaigning.
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Opinion: Is a Biden comeback quietly underway?
Unless you are deeply immersed in politics, you likely missed a major development over the last three weeks: Since his State of the Union speech, President Joe Biden has seen a marked reversal of his fortunes.
Indeed, since Biden addressed the nation in early March, polling shows that Biden is gaining ground, as former President Donald Trump now leads Biden by only one percentage point according to the RealClearPolitics polling average — Trump’s smallest lead since January.
In the Quinnipiac poll released last week, Biden led by three points, 48 percent to 45 percent, bringing the total to 12 national polls showing Biden leading Trump since the SOTU, as Jessica Tarlov noted last week.
Moreover, Biden’s bounce is being seen not only in national polls but also in the battleground states that will determine the winner. In Wisconsin, Biden now leads Trump (46 percent to 45 percent), a 5-point swing in Biden’s favor since February, per the latest Bloomberg/Morning Consult Swing State Tracking poll.
In Pennsylvania Biden erased what was a 6-point lead for Trump in February, and the state is now tied at 45 percent apiece, according to the same poll.
And in Michigan — a state that has been at the center of Democratic angst due to Biden’s support for Israel and the state’s large Arab population — Trump’s 2-point lead in February is now a tie (45 percent each) per Bloomberg/Morning Consult.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-is-a-biden-comeback-qu
ietly-underway/ar-BB1kSH6T?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=eae13a318ad446a488bb8c057aef72f6&ei=121
Of course, Biden is now campaigning.
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They're happy to mention the polling aggregate now because general election polling has seen a slight tick of 1% in Biden*'s favor, yet when they mention statewide polling it's back to cherry picking two separate polls for two different points they wanted to make with cherrypicked data.
Trump is still up on Biden* in every swing state, and he hasn't even bothered campaigning yet.
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Florida Supreme Court allows 6-week abortion ban to take effect, but voters will have the final say
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-supreme-court-allows-6
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Yup...
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Quote:Nobody but a fool would buy this stock. Trumptards are crazy:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Life does begin at contraception. That's a fact.
Now, is it a good move to make legislation like this when Democrats are insane?
Probably ill advised.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/01/truth-social-trum
p-media-results/
Former president Donald Trump’s social media company said Monday it lost more than $58 million last year, sending its stock plunging more than 21 percent only days after a highflying public debut set the company’s value at more than $8 billion.
Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that the company generated just over $4 million in revenue last year, including less than $1 million in the last quarter.
The nosediving share price of the company — which uses the stock ticker DJT, for Trump’s initials — fell to its lowest level since Trump Media went public last week and shaved more than a fifth of its market value in a single day. It also slashed the value of Trump’s 57 percent ownership in the company by roughly $1 billion, to $3.8 billion.
The new financial figures throw into stark relief the gap between Trump Media’s highly hyped investor-driven valuation on the public stock market and the reality of its business performance.
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/DJT:NASDAQ?authuser=0&window=
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Trump could use the company as a financial lifeline. Trump cannot sell his shares or use them as collateral for a loan for six months because of a provision in the company’s merger agreement, known as a lockup.
The company’s board could vote to waive that requirement but has yet to do so, the filings state. Cashing out early could sink the stock price further by flooding the market with shares and undermining investor confidence in Trump’s commitment to the brand, financial analysts said.
Trump, who invested no money in Trump Media, was given 78 million shares of the company last week and stands to earn tens of millions more over the next three years if the stock stays above $12 to $17, a filing shows.
Trump Media said in a filing that it expects to incur more “operating losses and negative cash flows” as it works to expand its user base but that it expects its growth will come from Truth Social’s “overall appeal.”
The company said in a filing that its management had “substantial doubt” as of the end of last year that it would have enough money to pay its debts as they come due. The company paid nearly $40 million in interest expenses last year and racked up about $16 million in operating losses.
Trump’s company unlocked nearly $300 million in investor funds last week when it finalized a merger deal with Digital World Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company that helped take Trump Media public.
Trump Media said in a filing that it aimed to spend some of that money toward “strategic investments” in marketing, advertising sales and other technology. About $18 million of it was also paid toward an SEC settlement announced last year.
The company has declined to share performance indicators like those common across the tech industry, such as its number of active users, and said it may continue to withhold such figures. Focusing on those numbers, the company said, “might not align with the best interests” of Trump Media or its shareholders.
Trump Media’s wild booms and busts over the last week have driven some observers to regard it as a “meme stock,” whose value is derived less from its fundamentals and more from investors’ personal feelings about its namesake brand.
That separation of stock value from the company’s ability to make money could hurt it in the long run, said Jay Ritter, a University of Florida finance professor who predicted the share price would continue to decline.
“The stock will almost certainly remain extremely volatile, with both some big upswings and downswings on a daily basis,
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‘It should be a much bigger story’: Trump cabinet officials continue to come out against him
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Absolutely, MAGA is nothing more than a bunch of whiny pussies.
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She's so funny...
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She surrendered': GOP official suing Kari Lake for defamation speaks out
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Will MAGA Republicans Block Baltimore’s Rebuilding?
Soon after a huge container ship struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, bringing it down, President Biden pledged that the federal government would “pay the entire cost of reconstructing” the bridge. This would clearly be the right thing to do, not just to help the state of Maryland but also to limit the economic damage from a disaster that has blocked both a major road artery and a major port. Among other things, the Port of Baltimore plays a key role in both exports of coal and trade in farm and construction equipment, so the bridge disaster will have direct adverse effects on the heartland as well as the East Coast.
And if America were still the same country that enacted the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 — passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress and signed into law by a Republican president — which gave rise to our Interstate System, there would be little question that Congress would approve funding soon after it returns from Easter recess.
But we aren’t that country anymore. Biden will probably be able to get funds for rebuilding, but it’s by no means a sure thing.
The rise of MAGA Republicans is only part of the problem. I’ve seen several people citing the response to the 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minnesota as an example of what things were like in a better political era. Indeed, within days, Congress voted unanimously to provide $250 million in aid.
But that was a one-off. The Minnesota bridge collapse highlighted the decaying state of America’s infrastructure, and one might have expected the disaster to lead to real action, but it didn’t. President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress to approve broad increases in infrastructure spending and was able to sign a highway funding bill in 2015, but for the most part he was stymied by G.O.P. opposition. As president, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to revamp America’s infrastructure — “it’s infrastructure week” became a running joke — but never delivered.
Major action on infrastructure didn’t happen until late 2021 with the enactment of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — which, despite the name, received only 13 Republican votes in the House. And that was with Democrats in full control of Congress. It’s not foolish to worry that MAGA hard-liners will block aid to Maryland in much the same way that they’ve blocked aid to Ukraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/opinion/baltimore-bridge-republican
s.html
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Oh yeah, it's over.
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The open secret why Trump may lose 2024
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The Low-Key Republican Officials Quietly Dismantling All of Our Rights
By Dahlia Lithwick | April 01, 2024, 11:30 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/raga-republican-officials-
leonard-leo-supreme-court-mess.html
One of the greatest destabilizers of democracy that almost nobody knows about is a little tax-exempt group called RAGA, which stands for the Republican Attorneys General Association. It represents more than half the states’ chief legal officers, and its members are on the front lines of pretty much every single important legal movement in the country. Its moves and funding are directed, of course, by everyone’s favorite little Monopoly Man Money Guy, Leonard Leo. Yet the group receives almost no sustained public attention or accountability. Recently, Heidi Przybyla at Politico reported on how RAGA tried to run a D.C. official who had dared investigate Leo out of office. And once you actually train your focus on RAGA, they tend to pop up everywhere, over and over again. The group was behind amicus briefs in the outrageous social media case Murthy v. Missouri. They are driving the efforts to get around federal emergency treatment laws for abortion in the forthcoming EMTALA cases. They’re pushing for Texas-style S.B. 4 legislation in several states. And that doesn’t even get you to the whole raft of RAGA interventions when it came to trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick spoke with Lisa Graves, founder and executive director of True North Research, to try to shine a light on an obscure group that works hand in glove with Leo and dark-money interests to stymie democracy and roll back environmental protections, civil rights, reproductive rights, and other freedoms for the very citizens they are elected to serve.
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It's over...
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‘It should be a much bigger story’: Trump cabinet officials continue to come out against him
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper will not vote for Donald Trump in 2024.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4565533-esper-definitely-not-vot
ing-for-trump-leaves-door-open-for-biden/
“Because in my view, any elected leader needs to meet some basic criteria: They need to be able to put country over self; they need to have a certain amount of integrity and principle; they need to be able to reach across the aisle and bring people together and unite the country. Look, Donald Trump doesn’t meet those marks for me.”
“And yes, I do regard him as a threat to democracy, democracy as we know it, our institutions, our political culture, all those things that make America great and have defined us as, you know, the oldest democracy on this planet.”
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It's over...
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Yup. It already is, Ted.
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Former President Donald Trump raged against Sen. Bill Cassidy on Monday, calling the Louisiana Republican “one of the worst senators in the United States Senate.”
Trump who endorsed Cassidy in his 2020 re-election campaign, fumed over the senator’s 2021 vote to convict him at his impeachment trial for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol Building.
“A TOTAL FLAKE, Republican though he may be,” the presumptive GOP nominee for president wrote on Truth Social.
Cassidy was one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection.
“Cassidy is a total ‘stiff,’ but Louisiana didn’t need him to protect them, because they had ME, 100%!” Trump wrote. “Nevertheless, when the Democrats’ Impeachment Hoax started, this Lamebrain Senator actually voted against me.”
The former president noted that he’s “been too busy beating up the Communists, Fascists, and Lunatics who have weaponized our Government against Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME, to think much” about Cassidy.
Cassidy is one of 15 GOP senators who have yet to endorse Trump for president in 2024.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-rages-against-louisiana-
republican-one-of-the-worst-senators-in-the-united-states/ar-BB1kUkBV
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Concern has been raised over iHeartMedia, the broadcaster of the Verdict With Ted Cruz podcast, paying $630,850 to the Truth and Courage PAC which supports the Texas Senator.
Data from the Federal Election Commission shows iHeartMedia has donated a total of $630,850 to Truth and Courage PAC since March 2023, constituting around a third of its revenue since the beginning of that year. Critics are calling on Senate and federal election authorities to investigate this as a possible ethics violation while Cruz's team has said he has done nothing wrong.
In 2022, iHeartMedia acquired Verdict With Ted Cruz, a podcast the Texas Republican launched in 2020 to discuss Trump's first impeachment. Cruz's team has said he isn't paid by iHeartMedia for hosting duties. Because iHeartMedia employs lobbyists, it would be impermissible under Senate rules for Cruz to accept gifts except of "nominal value" from the company, especially given his position on the Senate Commerce Committee.
https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-payments-raise-alarm-bells-iheart-me
dia-1885862
My Senator is a crook? Tell me it isn't so! Rather than the law, let Texas Trumptards decide if Cruz is a crook. Trumptards already decided Trump is not a crook and the law has not even got Trump to trial. Cruz hasn't even been charged. The election will be long over before a prosecutor decides whether Cruz is crooked enough to be charged with a crime. Since Cruz has not been convicted, there is no reason not to vote for him.
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Trump on Easter Sunday fired off dozens of angry messages during a lengthy holiday rant on Truth Social. By Monday, Truth Social’s stock was in free fall after an SEC filing indicated a dire financial situation.
“On revenues of just $4 million, Truth Social lost $58 million,” Colbert said. “How could that be? They had such a solid business model: Old rapist yells at Easter.”
The notoriously thin-skinned Trump has thrown tantrums at late-night comics for joking about him but Colbert’s crack hits two areas he’s especially sensitive about: his money and his legal battles.
Trump is known to get especially angry when anyone implies he’s not as rich or successful as he’s claimed. He’s also currently suing ABC and host George Stephanopoulos for saying he was found “liable for rape” in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case.
The jury actually found him liable for sexual abuse, not rape. However, the judge has called the term “substantially true under common modern parlance,” just not in the narrower legal definition in New York.
https://www.aol.com/stephen-colbert-pokes-trump-2-083526888.html
"What is wrong with having a mentally ill rapist tax cheater as President? Nothing! He's me, only more famous!" - direct quote from every Trumptard.
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The former Trump aides who would rather not see him on the ballot
By Mariana Alfaro | April 2, 2024 at 5:30 a.m. EDT
Several former members of his administration have said they will not vote for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in November.
Former vice president Mike Pence
Former defense secretary Mark T. Esper
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham
Former deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews
Former White House counsel Ty Cobb
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin
Former national security adviser John Bolton
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney
Former attorney general William P. Barr
Former White House chief of staff John F. Kelly
Former vice president Mike Pence told Fox News in March that he would not endorse Donald Trump. Just days after Trump won enough delegates to secure the GOP nomination, his former vice president — in a remarkable break with tradition — said he would not endorse him.
“Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years, and that is why I cannot in good conscience endorse Donald Trump in this campaign,” Pence told Fox News host Martha MacCallum last month.
After a dutiful four years serving as Trump’s No. 2, Pence split with Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in which Pence was targeted by the mob of pro-Trump supporters who chanted “Hang Mike Pence.”
More at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/02/trump-aides-wont-vo
te-for-him/
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Obsessed.
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Quote:I know why Trumptards don't see Trump as a problem: they have at least as many problems as him, which makes Trump look like a picture of good mental health, comparatively. 6ix, how are your addictions, health problems caused by neglect and alcoholism, and your unemployability working for you? 6ix, is the government still paying you to be worthless and sickly? Trump is not gonna be able to fix that for you, by the way.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Obsessed.
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Thursday, July 9, 2020
Trumpism in the United States since 2017 makes anyone who is paying attention rightfully alarmed at the future of democratic institutions in the US. Trump's attacks on the Federal courts, his efforts to remove or stifle internal government accountability processes, his explicit politics of division and white supremacy, his demonization of the press, his open admiration of autocrats in other parts of the world, and his celebration of the use of police violence and military force against peaceful protesters make the security of the institutions of liberal democracy increasingly at risk.
Most fundamentally Trump has worked systematically to undermine respect, adherence, and confidence with regard to the institutions of government, and has consistently cultivated his "base" of extremist supporters through a rhetoric of anti-government slogans and racist antagonism. The gun-toting demonstrators against governors who had established sensible policies of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic are the most recent example, and their Boogaloo networks of violent partisans deepen the threat. And only a tiny number of legislators from the president's party are willing to express their opposition to the key Trump messages.
There seems to be a significant percentage of the American citizenry that rejects the "political and overlapping consensus" that Rawls postulates. The postulate of the moral and political equality of all people is inconsistent with the racism and white supremacy that Trump has encouraged, and many of his followers are receptive to these values. And yet the worldview of white supremacy is completely incompatible with democracy. Further, the appeal of the language of division and hate finds a ready audience with many of his supporters; so extremist organizations are able to build support through racist appeals. It is difficult to see how to build a democratic consensus that incorporates the 30-40% of voters who support the right-wing extremist agenda.
https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2020/07/conditions-for-resil
ient-diverse.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I know why Trumptards don't see Trump as a problem: they have at least as many problems as him, which makes Trump look like a picture of good mental health, comparatively. How are your addictions, health problems caused by neglect and alcoholism, and your unemployability working for you, 6ix? Is the government still paying you to be worthless and sickly? Trump is not gonna be able to fix that for you, by the way.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Obsessed.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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I got plenty of legitimate gripes with Joe Biden*. You don't see me posting about him 4 times in one thread in a few hours every day though.
I see you're just as shitty a person as ever today. Have fun being angry at the world another day because you don't fit anywhere into it and you make no conscious effort to try.
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Quote:Every Trumptard I know puts forward that same argument. It is not believable because the Trumptards I know are completely to blame for their fucked-up lives, not the federal government, not Biden. 6ix, accept the truth: Trump is crazy and you and your family are born losers. Get a job, get an education, quite laying around the house working on wood trim, tell your 400-pound brother to lose weight, and fix up your fucked-up lives. No government can fix what is wrong. Fix yourself and STOP BLAMING EVERYBODY BUT YOURSELF for what happened to you.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I got plenty of legitimate gripes with Joe Biden*. You don't see me posting about him 4 times in one thread in a few hours every day though.
I see you're just as shitty a person as ever today. Have fun being angry at the world another day because you don't fit anywhere into it and you make no conscious effort to try.
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*yawn*
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Quote:6ix, there is nothing new about you being a lazy, stupid asshole. So are all Trumptards:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
*yawn*
Judge shopping ban lasted three weeks. Now it’s gone because Trumptards were too lazy and stupid to understand what is wrong with Judge shopping and the Democrats, lacking spine and wishing to be polite to goddamn retards, did not knock down the Trumptards and kick them in the head to help them understand.
Three weeks ago the Judicial Conference of the United States cracked down on the practice, but then they caved:
Following blowback from Senate Republicans and some conservative judges, judicial policymakers later clarified that the policy was discretionary, leaving it to each district court to decide how to implement it.
Discretionary. Hmmm. The Northern District of Texas is the most infamous destination for judge shoppers, so what are they going to do?
A federal court in Texas that has become a favored destination for conservatives suing to block President Joe Biden's agenda has decided not to follow a policy adopted by the judiciary's top policymaking body that aims to curtail the practice of "judge shopping."
Chief U.S. District Judge David Godbey of the Northern District of Texas announced the decision in a Friday letter.... In his letter, Godbey, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, said the judges in his district met on Wednesday. "The consensus was not to make any change to our case assignment process at this time," he said.
So there you have it. In less than three weeks, Republicans were able to effectively destroy a years-long effort to solve a widely recognized problem. It's sort of remarkable. Even among conservatives there's no real justification for judge shopping and they don't even bother to offer one. They just want the outcome they want and that's that.
https://jabberwocking.com/judge-shopping-ban-lasted-three-weeks-now-it
s-gone/
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
*yawn*
Judge shopping ban lasted three weeks. Now it’s gone because Trumptards were too lazy and stupid to understand what is wrong with Judge shopping and the Democrats, lacking spine and wishing to be polite to goddamn retards, did not knock down the Trumptards and kick them in the head to help them understand.
That's a huge amount of Tough Guy rhetoric that I'm quite sure you don't have the ability to back up outside of the fantasy world you've created for yourself online.
It is better you let all that out here instead of poisoning the wells of everyone around you.
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Quote:6ix, you are a fucking failure but you are not alone. So is Trump. He could have parked his billion-dollar inheritance at Berkshire Hathaway and would have $500 billion today. April 4, 1984, the price was $1,225 per share of BRK.A stock. Today it is $630,289 per share. All the business magazines were touting Warren Buffett and his company back in 1984. Trump could have invested, but no, he didn't. There is no mystery about how Buffett got rich since he published a yearly letter about how his company works. And there is no mystery about Trump cheating everybody he comes in contact with. There are books from 20 years ago about what a cheating, lying douche-bag Trump has always been.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's a huge amount of Tough Guy rhetoric that I'm quite sure you don't have the ability to back up outside of the fantasy world you've created for yourself online.
It is better you let all that out here instead of poisoning the wells of everyone around you.
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BRK.A:NYSE?authuser=0&window=
MAX&comparison=
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The truth about the Biden economy
It's best not to exaggerate in either direction
By Matthew Yglesias | Apr 02, 2024
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-truth-about-the-biden-economy
The American economy is in remarkably good shape, given the scale of the global economic disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath.
That’s not just spin. If you compare the American economy to that of other rich countries, and you can see we are doing a lot better.
You can also compare the American economy in 2024 to the forecasts issued by the Congressional Budget Office in January of 2020. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56020#section1 Real GDP — that’s with the inflation adjustment — is higher than they thought it would be. The biggest reason for that is that immigration has been higher than the CBO expected. But have those immigrants’ jobs come at the expense of Americans’ jobs? No. Before the pandemic, the CBO thought we would have a 4.4 percent unemployment rate this year and a 4.2 percent rate last year, and the actual numbers have been lower than that. They thought the prime-age labor force participation rate couldn’t break the 83 percent mark, but it has.
On the flip side, obviously inflation was greater than the CBO expected, and while inflation is now contained, that’s in part because interest rates are also higher than they thought they would be.
I think this is a good record, all things considered, because the pandemic did actually happen — production of certain things shut down for a while, patterns of consumption shifted around wildly, and all things considered you can’t address a problem like that at zero cost. And I’m glad that consumer sentiment popped a lot last week; it means the reality of the post-inflation economy is setting in. Last month, I scolded Debbie Downer Progressives who believe touting a glass half empty view of the economy will serve progressive causes, and I stand by that. But now that the mass public’s views are looking up, I do want to pull a slight hypocrisy and punch in the other direction.
When you do political messaging, you are trying to persuade swing voters, but in practice, your messages mostly persuade your own base. That’s just the way it works. So I think that as Democrats have talked up the Biden economy, they’ve talked their own elites into an excessively rosy picture of the situation.
That in turn is creating two distortions, one substantive and one political:
• The substantive distortion is the overstated idea that Biden has forged some glorious new path in which we have shed the dogmas of neoliberal economics and will march forward into a brave new future of industrial policy.
• The political distortion is the belief that if Biden loses, that loss will be totally unrelated to his objective domestic policy performance, and all of the lessons learned should be lessons about either the power of misinformation or else the perils of splitting your base over Israel.
The truth about the Biden economy is that it’s in remarkably good shape, given all that happened. But that’s not the same as saying that we are living through an unprecedented boom that the electorate is mysteriously failing to reward. Voters’ nostalgia for the economic conditions of the pre-pandemic era is perfectly reasonable.
The unreasonable part is believing that Donald Trump’s policies will bring it back.
The economy is fine
Something as complicated as “the economy” is hard to summarize, but if I had to pick one chart to summarize the recent economic evolution of the United States, I would take this one from Jason Furman that shows per person inflation-adjusted personal income. https://twitter.com/jasonfurman/status/1773724514071007355
Read more https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-truth-about-the-biden-economy
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The former Trump aides who would rather not see him on the ballot
By Mariana Alfaro | April 2, 2024 at 5:30 a.m. EDT
Several former members of his administration have said they will not vote for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in November.
Former vice president Mike Pence
Former defense secretary Mark T. Esper
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham
Former deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews
Former White House counsel Ty Cobb
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin
Former national security adviser John Bolton
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney
Former attorney general William P. Barr
Former White House chief of staff John F. Kelly
Former vice president Mike Pence told Fox News in March that he would not endorse Donald Trump. Just days after Trump won enough delegates to secure the GOP nomination, his former vice president — in a remarkable break with tradition — said he would not endorse him.
“Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years, and that is why I cannot in good conscience endorse Donald Trump in this campaign,” Pence told Fox News host Martha MacCallum last month.
After a dutiful four years serving as Trump’s No. 2, Pence split with Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in which Pence was targeted by the mob of pro-Trump supporters who chanted “Hang Mike Pence.”
More at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/02/trump-aides-wont-vo
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's a huge amount of Tough Guy rhetoric that I'm quite sure you don't have the ability to back up outside of the fantasy world you've created for yourself online.
It is better you let all that out here instead of poisoning the wells of everyone around you.
A failure with zero debt to anybody. A failure with zero interest payments to anyone. A failure with a paid for house and paid for car. A failure with countless tools that are all paid for.
Damn dude... I'm pretty sure that among all the other failures I pretty much am alone.
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He could have parked his billion-dollar inheritance at Berkshire Hathaway and would have $500 billion today. April 4, 1984, the price was $1,225 per share of BRK.A stock. Today it is $630,289 per share. All the business magazines were touting Warren Buffett and his company back in 1984. Trump could have invested, but no, he didn't. There is no mystery about how Buffett got rich since he published a yearly letter about how his company works. And there is no mystery about Trump cheating everybody he comes in contact with. There are books from 20 years ago about what a cheating, lying douche-bag Trump has always been.
I'm sure you bought bitcoin when it was $50 per share.
Damn dude! I could have been a multi-billionaire if I bought Apple before the iPhone came out.
What a stupid thing to say.
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So desperate. So full of lies...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/is-trump-really-making-big-gains-
with-black-and-latino-voters/ar-BB1kPcTx
Ed Kilgore is finally going insane.
This is going to be a fun election season.
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Quote:28.33 more years. That's the life expectancy of a 50-year-old white American male. 6ix, you will fall many years short of that because you are hopeless and not particularly lucky.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A failure with zero debt to anybody. A failure with zero interest payments to anyone. A failure with a paid for house and paid for car. A failure with countless tools that are all paid for.
Damn dude... I'm pretty sure that among all the other failures I pretty much am alone.
I'm sure you bought bitcoin when it was $50 per share.
Damn dude! I could have been a multi-billionaire if I bought Apple before the iPhone came out.
What a stupid thing to say.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
I have found that average Trumptards are hopeless cases who need/crave a strong leader to reassure them that they have not messed up their own lives. It is the Democrats' fault, not the Trumptard's, for a Trumptard's woes. 6ix, please don't stop smoking because you are special and tobacco doesn't cause cancer for the best people like you. Live long and prosper, Trumptards! (Parenthetically, Trumptards won't prosper because they are numbskulls who can neither understand that Trump is an incompetent businessman nor that they unconsciously joined their fate with an unwise demographic slice of Americans.)
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Your breakdown of people based off of their voting patterns is silly and ridiculous.
You're a headcase and you need help.
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Quote:I keep track of dead Trumptards. They are killing themselves early with bullets, drugs, tobacco, alcohol, obesity (that's a favorite way to kill themselves called "digging their own graves with their teeth") or just run-of-the-mill stupidity. Uniformly the Trumptards I know agree with Trump because they sense without comprehending why they die early.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your breakdown of people based off of their voting patterns is silly and ridiculous.
You're a headcase and you need help.
Trump: Just kill the Palestinians and get it over with
Trump spoke this morning about the war. Here's what he said:
You’ve got to get it over with, and you have to get back to normalcy. And I’m not sure that I’m loving the way they’re doing it, because you’ve got to have victory. You have to have a victory, and it’s taking a long time. And the other thing is I hate, they put out tapes all the time.... They’re releasing the most heinous, most horrible tapes of buildings falling down. And people are imagining there’s a lot of people in those buildings, or people in those buildings, and they don’t like it.... But they’ve got to finish what they started, and they’ve got to finish it fast, and we have to get on with life.
https://hughhewitt.com/former-president-donald-trump-on-israels-war-20
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Trump didn't even mention the aid workers who were killed. In fact, he didn't mention aid at all. He didn't mention civilians in any context whatsoever.
His only comment was that Israel needs to prosecute the war harder and stop letting people see the buildings they're destroying because it's bad PR. That's it.
Trump actively wants to kill more Gazans and he wants to kill them faster. His attitude toward Palestinians is simple: Starve them, kill them, whatever. Just get it over with.
6ixStringJack, Trump's solution to Gaza does not seem extreme to Trumptards because they, too, just want their lives to be over with. If Trumptards wanted long lives, they wouldn't live in their habitual manner.
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Why Some Billionaires Will Back Trump
It’s about taxes — and a false belief in their own impunity.
April 4, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET
Donald Trump’s campaign is reportedly strapped for cash. Small-dollar donations are running far behind their 2020 pace. Big Trump rallies aren’t yielding his biggest cash hauls. Some large-dollar donors are hesitant, in part because they worry (with good reason) that their money will be used not for the campaign but to pay his legal bills. So he has been wooing right-wing billionaires.
I have no idea how successful he’ll be, but it seems highly likely that at least some billionaires will provide substantial sums to a man who tried to overturn the last election and has been open about his authoritarian intentions — using the Justice Department to go after his political opponents, rounding up millions of undocumented immigrants and putting them into detention camps and more.
Which raises the question: Why would billionaires support such a person?
After all, it’s not as if they’ve been suffering under President Biden. Economists, myself included, often remind people that the stock market is not the economy. Low unemployment and rising real wages — both of which, by the way, the Biden economy has delivered, even if many people don’t believe it — have much more relevance to most people’s lives.
But stock prices are probably a much better indicator of how the very wealthy, who hold a lot of financial assets, are doing. And although in 2020 Trump predicted a stock crash if Biden won, the market has, in fact, been hitting record highs under the current administration.
Why, then, back a candidate who more or less promises to unleash social and political chaos?
One straightforward answer is that the wealthy will almost certainly pay lower taxes — and corporations will be less regulated — if Trump wins than if Biden stays in office.
If you believe, like some leftists, that Republicans and Democrats are basically the same — that both serve the interests of corporations and the elite — you’re wrong. The modern Democratic Party isn’t, despite what prominent Republicans say, Marxist or socialist. It does, however, have a track record of raising taxes on the wealthy to pay for social programs. Notably, the Affordable Care Act used new taxes on high-income individuals to pay for health care subsidies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/opinion/trump-billionaires.html
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Your breakdown of people based off of their voting patterns is silly and ridiculous.
You're a headcase and you need help.
You are an idiot. You are a sociopath. You are very likely a serial killer.
Nobody cares one little bit about your opinion on any issue.
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Quote:The Vicious Things Republicans Have Said About Palestinians Since October 7
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are an idiot. You are a sociopath. You are very likely a serial killer.
Nobody cares one little bit about your opinion on any issue.
"The costs of saying things that are undeniably and horrifically dehumanizing towards Palestinians are so low."
Michigan Republican Rep. Tim Walberg recently declared at a town hall that the U.S. “shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid,” in Gaza. Instead, he posed, “it should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”
After the shocking statement went viral, his office tried to soften the blow. It provided a full transcript of Walberg’s comments to CNN, which reported that Walberg had also said that a similar logic could be applied to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Defeat Putin quick. Instead [of] 80% in Ukraine being used for humanitarian purposes, it should be 80-100% to wipe out Russia, if that’s what we want to do.”
Walberg then attempted to walk the comment back in a statement, in which he said he was not suggesting that nukes be used to end either war. Yet there’s no denying that he invoked horrifying instances of the U.S. dropping atomic bombs in reference to Gaza — just the latest vicious, warmongering statement by a Republican lawmaker since October 7.
More at https://theintercept.com/2024/04/04/republicans-congress-palestine-isr
ael-double-standard/
6ixStringJack, I am around Trumptards all day long and they are out of their fucking minds. To them, it all seems normal, but it is not, and because it is not, Trumptards do NOT PROSPER in America. Being crazy is a handicap to getting ahead. No wonder Trumptards are always mad and gloomy about their future. Too bad. If they want a better life, stop with the crazy opinions loudly expressed around those who are not sympathetic toward retards and nutjobs. Trump is the Biggest Retard and Nutjob of living Presidents. See "Historical rankings of presidents of the United States"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the
_United_States#2022_Siena_College
Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Biden 14th greatest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/20/presidents-ranking-tru
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Many Democrats Are Worried Trump Will Beat Biden. This One Isn’t.
By Adam Nagourney | April 3, 2024
Adam Nagourney has been covering presidential campaigns since Michael Dukakis ran for president in 1988 — the same campaign in which Simon Rosenberg, the subject of this interview, began his long career in presidential politics.
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Simon Rosenberg has spent the past two years telling Democrats they need to calm down. His Biden-will-win prediction is his next big test.
Simon Rosenberg was right about the congressional elections of 2022. All the conventional wisdom — the polls, the punditry, the fretting by fellow Democrats — revolved around the expectation of a big red wave and a Democratic wipeout.
He disagreed. Democrats would surprise everyone, he said again and again: There would be no red wave. He was correct, of course, as he is quick to remind anyone listening.
These days, Mr. Rosenberg, 60, a Democratic strategist and consultant who dates his first involvement in presidential campaigns to Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988, is again pushing back against the polls and punditry and the Democratic doom and gloom. This time, he is predicting that President Biden will defeat Donald J. Trump in November.
In a world of Democratic bed-wetters, to reprise the phrase used by David Plouffe, a senior political adviser to Barack Obama, to describe Democratic fretters, Mr. Rosenberg is the voice of — well, whatever the opposite of bed-wetter is these days. He even has a Substack newsletter offering insights and daily reassurance to his worried readers — “Hopium Chronicles,” the name taken from what the pollster Nate Silver suggested he was ingesting back in 2022.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-president-is-kicking-ass
I talked to Mr. Rosenberg about what it feels like to be an outlier in his own party, and why he sleeps so well at night while so many of his fellow Democrats are plotting their moves to Paris after November. This conversation has been edited for clarity and length, and because Mr. Rosenberg — God love him — likes to talk about this subject. A lot.
Good morning, Simon. And, first things first, thank you for doing this.
Any opportunity I have to talk about the good works of Joe Biden and the Democrats — how could I turn that down?
The idea of this interview is that, at a time when there is so much fretting in the Democratic world, you are not — and have never been — a bed-wetter. Can you explain why? This goes back to the midterm congressional elections in 2022, as I recall?
Yes. The argument I made then was threefold. One was that the Republicans did something unusual in 2022. Usually when a party loses elections, they run away from the politics that caused them to lose. And Republicans were running toward it. They were becoming ever more MAGA, even though MAGA had lost in 2018 and 2020.
Second, that Biden was actually a good president, and we’d have a strong case to make. And third, there’s been this huge increase in citizen engagement in the Democratic Party. We’ve been raising crazy amounts of money and have an unprecedented number of volunteers because of the fear of MAGA.
We were stronger and better than was the conventional wisdom. The constant mistake everyone’s been making since the spring of 2022 has been the overestimating of their strength and the underestimating of ours. We went into Election Day with there being this huge belief that the Democrats were going to get killed. I believed those three things were going to allow us to do better than people expected in 2022. And I have that basic view now about 2024.
Here we are almost two years later, and a lot of the same kinds of things are still happening — and Trump is a far weaker candidate in this election than he was in 2016. He’s more dangerous. He’s more extreme. His performance on the stump is far more errati
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The idea of this interview is that, at a time when there is so much fretting in the Democratic world, you are not — and have never been — a bed-wetter. Can you explain why? This goes back to the midterm congressional elections in 2022, as I recall?
Yes. The argument I made then was threefold. One was that the Republicans did something unusual in 2022. Usually when a party loses elections, they run away from the politics that caused them to lose. And Republicans were running toward it. They were becoming ever more MAGA, even though MAGA had lost in 2018 and 2020.
That's not what happened. The Uniparty Bushites like Mitt Romney and Karl Rove were still in control of the RNC and purposefully withheld any campaign finances from candidates they didn't approve of, and instead spent all that money pointlessly on races like in Alaska where the only two candidates running against each other were Republican. In a fight for their very life in the party, they were willing to sacrifice majorities in the Senate and House if it meant keeping good candidates out of office.
Ronna McDaniel was the one charged with keeping MAGA out of the NeoCon ruled Republican party. She was great at her job. And now she's gone.
The NeoCons are in their death throes. Karl Rove coming out and calling political hostages over the non-event on January 6th criminals are the last desperate attempt to maintain power. Good riddance.
And now you'll get to face what a Republican party that's actually trying to win an election cycle looks like. Also one that has embraced the mail-in-fraud-ballot system the Democrats have set up for them during Covid and weren't smart enough to remove for the 2024 Presidential Election. Those cheating apparatuses they put were left fully intact for Republicans now to come in and show the Democrats how to really cheat.
You should have buttoned all of that up while you could have like I told you to.
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Second, that Biden was actually a good president, and we’d have a strong case to make.
Now we're just outright bullshitting our way into pure fantasyland here.
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And third, there’s been this huge increase in citizen engagement in the Democratic Party. We’ve been raising crazy amounts of money and have an unprecedented number of volunteers because of the fear of MAGA.
That may be true, but what you might not have read is that the new RNC just raised a record amount of money in the last calendar month. The media has done their best not to talk about that problem at all.
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ETA: Regarding fundraising...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-campaign-rnc-triple-fundraising
-march-656-million-2024-04-03/
The election campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee said on Wednesday they raised over $65.6 million in March, more than three times the amount raised in February.
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Quote:And most significant for Trumptards is DJT stock! Trump now has $billions and $billions available for winning the White House. He can finance his and every other politician's reelection campaigns, far outspending the Democrats. There is precedence: DJT stock is like Trump Casino stock, which was another lucrative scam. This time, the scam is so much bigger, and the people buying DJT understand even less how a successful business works, which means Trump will be fine and he will be the next President. A knowledgeable fellow named 6ixStringJack said so.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
And third, there’s been this huge increase in citizen engagement in the Democratic Party. We’ve been raising crazy amounts of money and have an unprecedented number of volunteers because of the fear of MAGA.
That may be true, but what you might not have read is that the new RNC just raised a record amount of money in the last calendar month. The media has done their best not to talk about that problem at all.
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ETA: Regarding fundraising...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-campaign-rnc-triple-fundraising
-march-656-million-2024-04-03/
The election campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee said on Wednesday they raised over $65.6 million in March, more than three times the amount raised in February.
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+story+of+trump+casino+stock
Don't forget that Putin has pledged to support Trump in every way possible. To discerning voters, Russia's support is the gold standard for who should be President. Russia only wants what is best for America and what is best for both Russia and America is Trump as the next President. Believe me.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Putin+will+help+Trump
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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I'm not talking about DJT stock. You already know this because you knew my stance on that from another thread which you also replied to, so your reply about it here is completely disingenuous, let alone not even pertinent.
Bottom line... Don't worry about Trump's campaign finances. Trump certainly isn't.
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More like giant Democratic Machine isn't able to destroy the Constitution so they're forced to run on their performance which is why they're going to lose.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:And most significant for Trumptards is DJT stock! Trump now has $billions and $billions available for winning the White House. He can finance his and every other politician's reelection campaigns, far outspending the Democrats. There is precedence: DJT stock is like Trump Casino stock, which was another lucrative scam. This time, the scam is so much bigger, and the people buying DJT understand even less how a successful business works, which means Trump will be fine and he will be the next President. A knowledgeable fellow named 6ixStringJack said so.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
And third, there’s been this huge increase in citizen engagement in the Democratic Party. We’ve been raising crazy amounts of money and have an unprecedented number of volunteers because of the fear of MAGA.
That may be true, but what you might not have read is that the new RNC just raised a record amount of money in the last calendar month. The media has done their best not to talk about that problem at all.
Tick Tock
ETA: Regarding fundraising...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-campaign-rnc-triple-fundraising
-march-656-million-2024-04-03/
The election campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee said on Wednesday they raised over $65.6 million in March, more than three times the amount raised in February.
https://www.google.com/search?q=the+story+of+trump+casino+stock
Don't forget that Putin has pledged to support Trump in every way possible. To discerning voters, Russia's support is the gold standard for who should be President. Russia only wants what is best for America and what is best for both Russia and America is Trump as the next President. Believe me.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Putin+will+help+Trump
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm not talking about DJT stock. You already know this because you knew my stance on that from another thread which you also replied to, so your reply about it here is completely disingenuous, let alone not even pertinent.
Bottom line... Don't worry about Trump's campaign finances. Trump certainly isn't.
ABC News: Trump's Palm Beach fundraiser, joined by Melania Trump, rakes in $50 million
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-palm-beach-fundraiser-joined-me
lania-trump-rakes/story?id=108949489
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Earlier on Saturday, Biden took aim at Trump's fundraiser in a fundraising video on X, Instagram and Facebook thanking grassroots donors for their contributions to his campaign and criticizing Trump for attending a fundraiser for only wealthy donors.
"Folks, you know, Trump is down in Florida today raising money from a bunch of hedge fund billionaires," Biden said. "This campaign is Scranton vs. Palm Beach, this is a grassroots campaign of nurses and teachers and firefighters and cops versus Donald Trump and a couple of billionaires looking for a tax cut."
Tickets for Biden's fundraiser with Obama and Clinton last weekend went up to $500,000, lower than the tickets for Trump's fundraiser Saturday night, but the Biden campaign and the Democratic Party have accepted donations north of $800,000.
LOL...
Keep lying to the idiots. There's less of them than you think, and you've woken a lot of them out of their trance with the shit job you've been doing running the country.
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Trump is up 1.1 in the RCP Polling Aggregate today.
On this day in 2020, Joe Biden* was up 6.1 points.
On this day in 2016, Hilary Clinton was up 10.5 points.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden
And Trump has only just barely started campaigning and fundraising.
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On March 2nd Trump was up 2.3, Bidens gaining. Before November comes Trump will be saying, where did everybody go?
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On March 2nd Trump was up 2.3, Bidens gaining.
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It ebbs and flows the entire time. This is nothing new. Trump's lead on Biden* was 1.1 points from February 13th to February 17th as well.
What's different this time is that there wasn't one single day during the 2020 election cycle where Biden* wasn't leading Trump in the aggregate.
The last day that Biden* was leading Trump in this election cycle was September 11th of 2023. That's 199 straight days of Trump leading Biden* in the polling.
Trump's lead also increases nearly 2 points in a 5-way race, and his current lead in the Battleground states is +2.8.
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Trump is a true genius of foreign policy
Inside Donald Trump’s secret plan to end the Ukraine-Russia war
By Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, Michael Birnbaum | April 7, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/05/trump-ukraine-secre
t-plan/
Former president Donald Trump has privately said he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine by pressuring Ukraine to give up some territory, according to people familiar with the plan. Some foreign policy experts said Trump’s idea would reward Russian President Vladimir Putin and condone the violation of internationally recognized borders by force.
Trump’s proposal consists of pushing Ukraine to cede Crimea and the Donbas border region to Russia, according to people who discussed it with Trump or his advisers and spoke on the condition of anonymity because those conversations were confidential. That approach, which has not been previously reported, would dramatically reverse President Biden’s policy, which has emphasized curtailing Russian aggression and providing military aid to Ukraine.
As he seeks a return to power, the presumptive Republican nominee has frequently boasted that he could negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours if elected, even before taking office. But he has repeatedly declined to specify publicly how he would quickly settle a war that has raged for more than two years and killed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians.
Trump-aligned foreign-policy thinkers have emphasized addressing threats to U.S. interests from China and seeking ways to reverse Russia’s increasing dependence on China for military, industrial and economic assistance. They have also embraced limiting NATO expansion.
Privately, Trump has said that he thinks both Russia and Ukraine “want to save face, they want a way out,” and that people in parts of Ukraine would be okay with being part of Russia, according to a person who has discussed the matter directly with Trump.
Accepting Russian control over parts of Ukraine would expand the reach of Putin’s dictatorship after what has been the biggest land war in Europe since World War II. Some of Trump’s supporters have been trying to persuade him against such an outcome.
“I’ve been spending 100 percent of my time talking to Trump about Ukraine,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a onetime Trump critic turned ally. “He has to pay a price. He can’t win at the end of this,” Graham added, speaking of Putin.
Russia has previously declared it was annexing Ukrainian land beyond the Donbas region and Crimea and Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said he would not accept surrendering any territory. Exchanging territory for a cease-fire would put Ukraine in a worse position without assurances that Russia would not rearm and resume hostilities, as it has in the past, said Emma Ashford, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan think tank. “That is a terrible deal,” she said of Trump’s proposal.
The Trump campaign declined to directly address questions for this article. “Any speculation about President Trump’s plan is coming from unnamed and uninformed sources who have no idea what is going on or what will happen,” campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “President Trump is the only one talking about stopping the killing.”
Biden said in his State of the Union address that Putin is “on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond,” and that Ukraine is trying to defend itself. The president has outlined a long-term plan of support for Ukraine that would build up its military capabilities this year so that it is in a better place to go on the offensive next year. But U.S. aid is already in jeopardy as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) faces a revolt from Republican hard-liners who are digging in against any more funding and clamoring to oust him.
Out of office, Trump has pressured congressional Republicans to resist additional American support for Ukraine’s war effort and a return to the White House would significantly exp
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Keep your dumb Russia/Ukraine shit in the dumb Russia/Ukraine threads where it belongs.
Joe Biden* owns that clusterfuck.
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Quote:Trump was impeached over withholding aid to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine smearing Biden's election campaign. The president of Ukraine, both back then and nowadays, refused to do Trump's dirty work and Trump has held a grudge since then. Trump is still withholding aid to Ukraine, but this time he has a more compelling reason. Putin wants Trump to help Russia by harming Ukraine or else Putin will release Trump's IRS records that the IRS cannot legally share with the public. Trump, as you may not be aware, does not pay all his taxes. He doesn't want the proof widely known. Trump will make a fine President because he will lower taxes and decrease the number of IRS auditors exclusively working on the tax returns of rich scofflaws such as Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep your dumb Russia/Ukraine shit in the dumb Russia/Ukraine threads where it belongs.
Joe Biden* owns that clusterfuck.
I see good reasons to vote for Trump and return the Senate to Republican control.
FACT SHEET: Extreme MAGA Congressional Republicans Propose Handouts to Rich and Tax Hikes for Working Families
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/03/2
7/fact-sheet-extreme-maga-congressional-republicans-propose-handouts-to-rich-and-tax-hikes-for-working-families/
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The above post is pure bullshit and propaganda from a mindless tool.
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Quote:Just in the past few days, Donald Trump has said the following:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The above post is pure bullshit and propaganda from a mindless tool.
• Billionaires can trust him to keep their taxes low.
• Joe Biden was probably jacked on cocaine during his State of the Union address.
• Ukraine should just give Russia the territory it wants.
• I'm gonna keep smearing the judge's daughter even if I go to jail for it.
• On Monday I'm going to betray all the pro-lifers who have supported me. But they should vote for me anyway.
• We need more immigrants from nice countries like Denmark.
Remember back during the Trump presidency, when every day was like this? You can't wait for life to be like that again, can you?
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Remember back during the Trump presidency, when every day was like this? You can't wait for life to be like that again, can you?
It never stopped for you, dummy.
Over 3 years of Joe Biden* in office and you haven't gone a single day here without saying Trump's name. Not one.
It doesn't even matter who wins in November. You're going to spend the next 4 years after that obsessing over Trump either way.
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Quote:Truthfully, there is nothing wrong with Trump that isn't wrong with his Trumptards. An excess quantity of Trumptards is bad in any situation, task, or organization. Trumptards pollute/contaminate/spoil/degrade companies and countries. That is the true problem connected with Trump. His Trumptards are deadly plutonium sending rays of their stupidity & mental illness in all directions. They are radioactively deadly. 6ix, I am not surprised that your solution to world problems is to kill everybody. See http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65972
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Remember back during the Trump presidency, when every day was like this? You can't wait for life to be like that again, can you?
It never stopped for you, dummy.
Over 3 years of Joe Biden* in office and you haven't gone a single day here without saying Trump's name. Not one.
It doesn't even matter who wins in November. You're going to spend the next 4 years after that obsessing over Trump either way.
6ix, you sense at some unconscious level that you and your Trumptard friends are a problem that needs solving. Unlike you, I am very conscious, because I work around Trumptards, that you people are a problem needing a Final Solution.
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Quote:Why do Trumptards frequently screw-up their lives in the same way Trump screws up? Because the Dunning-Kruger effect makes it difficult to impossible for them to understand what they are doing wrong.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Remember back during the Trump presidency, when every day was like this? You can't wait for life to be like that again, can you?
It never stopped for you, dummy.
Over 3 years of Joe Biden* in office and you haven't gone a single day here without saying Trump's name. Not one.
It doesn't even matter who wins in November. You're going to spend the next 4 years after that obsessing over Trump either way.
There was a surge of interest in the Dunning-Kruger effect during the Trump administration.
What’s Behind the Confidence of the Incompetent? This Suddenly Popular Psychological Phenomenon.
By Angela Fritz
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/what-s-behind-the-confidence-of-the
-incompetent-this-suddenly-popular-psychological-phenomenon
You may have witnessed this scene at work, while socializing with friends or over a holiday dinner with extended family: Someone who has very little knowledge in a subject claims to know a lot. That person might even boast about being an expert.
This phenomenon has a name: the Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s not a disease, syndrome or mental illness; it is present in everybody to some extent, and it’s been around as long as human cognition, though only recently has it been studied and documented in social psychology.
In their 1999 paper, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, David Dunning and Justin Kruger put data to what has been known by philosophers since Socrates, who supposedly said something along the lines of “the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.” Charles Darwin followed that up in 1871 with “ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
Put simply, incompetent people think they know more than they really do, and they tend to be more boastful about it.
To test Darwin’s theory, the researchers quizzed people on several topics, such as grammar, logical reasoning and humor. After each test, they asked the participants how they thought they did. Specifically, participants were asked how many of the other quiz-takers they beat.
Dunning was shocked by the results, even though it confirmed his hypothesis. Time after time, no matter the subject, the people who did poorly on the tests ranked their competence much higher. On average, test takers who scored as low as the 10th percentile ranked themselves near the 70th percentile. Those least likely to know what they were talking about believed they knew as much as the experts.
Dunning and Kruger’s results have been replicated in at least a dozen different domains: math skills, wine tasting, chess, medical knowledge among surgeons and firearm safety among hunters.
During the 2016 election and in the months after the presidential inauguration, interest in the Dunning-Kruger effect surged. Google searches for “dunning kruger” peaked in May 2017, according to Google Trends, and has remained high since then. Attention spent on the Dunning-Kruger Effect Wikipedia entry has skyrocketed since late 2015.
There’s also “much more research activity” about the effect right now than immediately after it was published, Dunning said. Typically, interest in a research topic spikes in the five years following a groundbreaking study, then fades.
“Obviously it has to do with Trump and the various treatments that people have given him,” Dunning said, “So yeah, a lot of it is political. People trying to understand the other side. We have a massive rise in partisanship and it’s become more vicious and extreme, so people are reaching for explanations."
Even though former President Trump’s statements are rife with errors, falsehoods or inaccuracies, he expresses great confidence in his aptitude. He says he does not read extensively becau
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There are powerful groups within Trump’s coalition — both his base of supporters and his stable of former and current advisers — who care a lot about abortion. And contraception. And gender identity. And marriage.
They’re likely to have an outsize influence on policy in a second Trump term, in part because Trump has few social policy positions of his own.
Understanding them is key to predicting how he and his surrogates might govern in 2025, if they get the chance.
Radical social conservatives could define Trump’s second term. From a “Department of Life” to a “future regime” led by Christian men, their ideas could have an outsize influence on Trump’s policies.
More at https://www.vox.com/policy/24122099/trump-second-term-project-2025-chr
istian-nationalists
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Roe v Wade, mifepristone, the morning after pill; people understanding the pill and even condoms will be next.
Trump has suggested cuts to SSI and Medicare while doing away with the Affordable Care Act. It's long been over folks. All that's left is showing up to vote.
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Do Voters Care About Policy Even a Little?
Joe Biden turned one of the highest-polling ideas in politics into reality. Few voters have even noticed.
By Rogé Karma | April 4, 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/joe-biden-drug-pr
ices/677961/
Suppose the president asked you to design the ideal piece of legislation—the perfect mix of good politics and good policy. You’d probably want to pick something that saves people a lot of money. You’d want it to fix a problem that people have been mad about for a long time, in an area that voters say they care about a lot—such as, say, health care. You’d want it to appeal to voters across the political spectrum. And you’d want it to be a policy that polls well.
You would, in other words, want something like letting Medicare negotiate prescription-drug prices. This would make drugs much more affordable for senior citizens—who vote like crazy—and, depending on the poll, it draws support from 80 to 90 percent of voters. The idea has been championed by both Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin. Turn it into reality, and surely you’d see parades in your honor in retirement communities across the country.
Except Joe Biden did turn that idea into reality, and he seems to have gotten approximately zero credit for it. Tucked into the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was a series of measures to drastically lower prescription-drug costs for seniors, including by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. And yet Biden trails Donald Trump in most election polls and has one of the lowest approval ratings of any president in modern American history.
In that respect, drug pricing is a microcosm of Biden’s predicament—and a challenge to conventional theories of politics, in which voters reward politicians for successful legislation. Practically nothing is more popular than lowering drug prices, and yet the popularity hasn’t materialized. Which raises an uncomfortable question: Politically speaking, does policy matter at all?
High drug prices are not a fact of nature. In 2018, the average list price of a month’s worth of insulin was $12 in Canada, $11 in Germany, and $7 in Australia. In the U.S., it was $99. America today spends more than seven times per person on retail prescription drugs than it did in 1980, and more than one in four adults taking prescription drugs in the U.S. report difficulty affording them.
Short of direct price caps, the most obvious way to address the problem is to let Medicare—which, with 65 million members, is the nation’s largest insurer—negotiate prices with drug manufacturers. Just about every other rich country does a version of this, which is partly why Americans pay nearly three times more for prescription drugs than Europeans and Canadians do. Price negotiation would slash costs for Medicare beneficiaries, while cutting annual federal spending by tens of billions of dollars.
The pharmaceutical industry argues that lower prices will leave companies with less money to invest in inventing new, life-saving medicines. But the Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that even if drug companies’ profits dropped 15 to 25 percent as a result of price negotiation, that would prevent only 1 percent of all new drugs from coming to market over the next decade.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel: Big Pharma’s go-to defense of soaring drug prices doesn’t add up
Medicare drug-price negotiation has nonetheless had a tortured three-decade journey to becoming law. Bill Clinton made it a central plank of his push to overhaul the American health-care system, an effort that went down in flames after a massive opposition campaign by all corners of the health-care industry. Barack Obama campaigned on the idea but quickly abandoned it in order to win drug companies’ support for the Affordable Care Act. In 2016, even Donald Trump promised to “negotiate like crazy” on drug prices, but he never did.
Joe Biden accomplished what none of his predecessors could. The Inflation Reduction Act is best known for its clean-energy investments, but it also e
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Biden has 7 months to get his message out; and he will. In that same 7 months Trump will be reminding the voter he is 
bat shit crazy. That he is out to take over, overthrow, the country.
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Biden has 7 months to allow the American voter to learn this.
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“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic presidents.”
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/mar/21/simon-rosenberg/have
-96-of-jobs-created-over-35-years-emerged-unde/
If this becomes a mainstream topic during this election it will be devastating for the GOP. This makes me feel, hmmmm, happy.
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Biden should fully expect to be criminally tried if Trump wins
Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, says:
Axios has a story up, headlined, “Trump, GOP plot 2025 criminal probe of Bidens.” I generally favor leaving former presidents alone, but, as I’ve noted before, it’s hard to see how one side can violate this norm and not expect the precedent to be turned against it.
A "norm"? Is he kidding? Bill Clinton lost his law license and then was disbarred by the Supreme Court after he left office. This was a direct result of the jihad against Clinton led by Ken Starr and the Republican Party.
Richard Nixon was most certainly criminally responsible for his part in Watergate, but he was pardoned by a fellow Republican.
On the other hand, Democrats left George Bush Sr. alone despite considerable evidence about his role in the Iran-Contra affair. They left George Bush Jr. alone despite considerable evidence of his role in torturing prisoners and other war crimes.
The only norm that's been broken over the past few years is (a) the norm that former presidents obey the law just like anyone else, and (b) the fact that it's a Republican being prosecuted this time.
I mean, put aside all the other cases and just consider the classified documents case. It's open and shut. It's not that Trump took some documents when he left office, it's the fact that he repeatedly and persistently refused to give them back even after being ordered to. There's a "norm" that ex-presidents don't do that. What possible choice did Jack Smith have except to charge Trump?
The E. Jean Carroll case had nothing to do with Democrats and was decided unanimously by a jury of 12. The business fraud case was likewise a state trial that had nothing to do with Democrats and will ultimately be decided on appeal. And the Georgia case—well, we'll see what happens with that. But the probability of criminal conduct on Trump's part is pretty strong. In the end, a jury will decide.
As for the January 6 case, it's based on the "norm" that presidents not incite riots at the Capitol in order to prevent Congress from certifying election results they don't like. Here's what Lowry had to say about it at the time:
The rioters themselves bear ultimate responsibility for their acts, but Trump egged them on. He fed them poisonous lies about the election.... He encouraged them to come to Washington and said they wouldn’t stand for his “landslide” victory getting taken away.... He whipped them up on Wednesday...and urged them to march on the Capitol... When the mob overwhelmed security and made its way on the Senate and House floors, sending Vice President Pence and lawmakers fleeing, Trump tweeted about how he’d been wronged by Pence’s entirely correct view that he lacks the power as vice president to unilaterally declare him the victor.
This is what Trump is on trial for.
Needless to say, the difference with the Bidens is that Hunter is already being tried and Joe hasn't done anything wrong. I realize that's a technicality in Republican-land, but for the rest of us it's a pretty big difference.
https://jabberwocking.com/national-review-editor-biden-should-fully-ex
pect-to-be-criminally-tried-if-trump-wins/
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Biden should fully expect to be criminally tried if Trump wins
As he should be.
*ahem*... WHEN Trump wins.
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Originally posted by THG:
“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic presidents.”
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/mar/21/simon-rosenberg/have
-96-of-jobs-created-over-35-years-emerged-unde/
If this becomes a mainstream topic during this election it will be devastating for the GOP. This makes me feel, hmmmm, happy.
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I don't know why it makes you happy, Theodore.
It's a boldfaced lie that only dummies believe in. It ain't going to pull in a single vote from the middle, so by all means scream that lie from the tops of the highest mountain cliffs if you desire.
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Quote:There have already been 2023 criminal probes of Biden by a partisan Republican Congress. It has not produced criminal charges because they can't find any actual evidence. This does not get easier when you have to make the charges in a court of law. There was also the Durham probe that doesn't get called a probe of the Bidens only because it couldn't get close enough to Biden to look like one.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Biden should fully expect to be criminally tried if Trump wins
As he should be.
*ahem*... WHEN Trump wins.
The courts are generally not favorable to Republicans when it comes to criminal trials because the courts require evidence and punish lying, and that crimps the style of the Trumptards.
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Quote:Trump started at 145,612,000 jobs and ended at 142,669,000.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't know why it makes you happy, Theodore.
It's a boldfaced lie that only dummies believe in. It ain't going to pull in a single vote from the middle, so by all means scream that lie from the tops of the highest mountain cliffs if you desire.
That is millions of jobs lost.
Biden started at 142,669,000 jobs. Wiki shows 156,419,000 (for August 2023).
That is millions of jobs gained.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_te
rms
There were 157,232,000 jobs in the US in December 2023 according to the CES survey of employers. The CPS survey of households showed 161,183,000 employed persons for the month.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+jobs+are+there+in+us%3F
Those more recent numbers make Trump look even worse at job creation.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump started at 145,612,000 jobs and ended at 142,669,000.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't know why it makes you happy, Theodore.
It's a boldfaced lie that only dummies believe in. It ain't going to pull in a single vote from the middle, so by all means scream that lie from the tops of the highest mountain cliffs if you desire.
That is millions of jobs lost.
That was Democrat ran shithole states putting everyone out of work because of a cold.
Trump doesn't count those losses and Biden* doesn't get those gains either.
Everybody knows this. I suspect that even chronic Democrat voters like you two know it deep down too though you'd never admit it.
Oh... and Biden* putting 10 Million illegal aliens that he shipped in the country with helicopters in the dead of night to work doesn't count either.
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This fuckin' con man...
Biden to Unveil Latest Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/04/08/biden_to_unveil_
latest_student_loan_forgiveness_plan_150764.html
Fool you once, shame on Joe Biden* and the Democrats.
Fool you twice, shame on you.
None of you dumb motherfuckers are going to get any college relief. You don't deserve any of that money anyhow, and you're among the most upwardly mobile and mostly white kids born with silver spoons up your asses anyhow.
Get fucked.
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Quote:Unlike the typical Trumptards I am surrounded by in Texas, 6ix and Signym will explain in detail what is happening inside their heads. This pleases me because in Texas I was frequently baffled by the Trumptards' decision-making and the always sad and sometimes disastrous results that followed. What I needed was a mind reader. 6ix and Signym are better than a third party who reads Trumptard minds. 6ix and Signym explain how they came to their decisions. I'm not baffled anymore. I now have impeccable insight: Trumptards are boneheads. I don't need a mind reader to know that, now.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That was Democrat ran shithole states putting everyone out of work because of a cold.
Trump doesn't count those losses and Biden* doesn't get those gains either.
Everybody knows this. I suspect that even chronic Democrat voters like you two know it deep down too though you'd never admit it.
Oh... and Biden* putting 10 Million illegal aliens that he shipped in the country with helicopters in the dead of night to work doesn't count either.
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Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head blocking out the sun, plunging US into darkness
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald
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Biden mocks Trump looking at 2017 solar eclipse with PSA: ‘Don’t be silly, folks’
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Unlike the typical Trumptards I am surrounded by in Texas, 6ix and Signym will explain in detail what is happening inside their heads. This pleases me because in Texas I was frequently baffled by the Trumptards' decision-making and the always sad and sometimes disastrous results that followed. What I needed was a mind reader. 6ix and Signym are better than a third party who reads Trumptard minds. 6ix and Signym explain how they came to their decisions. I'm not baffled anymore. I now have impeccable insight: Trumptards are boneheads. I don't need a mind reader to know that, now.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That was Democrat ran shithole states putting everyone out of work because of a cold.
Trump doesn't count those losses and Biden* doesn't get those gains either.
Everybody knows this. I suspect that even chronic Democrat voters like you two know it deep down too though you'd never admit it.
Oh... and Biden* putting 10 Million illegal aliens that he shipped in the country with helicopters in the dead of night to work doesn't count either.
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Ha! That's rich.
You couldn't match me in the morning before my first coffee if you were hopped up on the same Adderall and Methamphetamine cocktail they feed to Biden* in his ice cream cone before the SOTU.
I invite you to prove me wrong and write a paragraph or two that would be considered an interesting read by anybody that isn't plagiarized from Kevin Drum or Paul Krugman. Or anybody else for that matter... since you know I was able to find that obscure book that you ripped off too. It's very easy to tell when you are trying to pass off somebody else's words as your own because, if I'm being generous, you have a 8th grade writing level for starters, and your only four topics of interest are Trump, Texas Republicans, how perfect your fake internet persona is and posting pirate links to copyrighted material that anybody smart enough to figure out how to fog up a mirror with their own breath can find with a simple Google search.
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Quote:Trumptards can not be convinced they are wrong which is the reason they have troubled lives until they die early for something they did wrong. Still smoking, 6ix? Nobody but you can stop you from killing yourself.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I invite you to prove me wrong . . .
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The only thing Trump touched in the 2016 Republican platform — the only thing that mattered to him — was the provision expressing support for Ukraine. Isn’t that odd?
Trump disclaimed any knowledge of this, blaming it on his campaign manager, Paul Manafort. But even if that were true (the way it was true, say, that E. Jean Carroll was not his type), isn’t it odd Manafort, with his ties to Russia, was selected as his campaign manager? Or that, even after having been convicted and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, he would again be under consideration for a role in Trump’s campaign?
Do the kids who support Trump (or their parents) think that just because they won’t read the 199 pages of the Mueller report connecting Trump to Russia, or the subsequent 182 pages detailing his multiple indictable obstructions of justice that prevented even more damning information from coming out . . . Trump isn’t a Putin ally?
https://andrewtobias.com/hey-kids/
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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The damage Trump does is blah blah blah to Jack. It's not that for the rest of us.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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The damage Trump does is blah blah blah to Jack. It's not that for the rest of us.
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'Donald Trump did this': Biden ad blames Trump for state-level abortion bans
I can't do anything about your lack of intelligence and how easy that makes you to manipulate, son.
I don't know what to tell you.
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CBS News: Half of Americans struggling to afford housing
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/help-paying-mortgage-rent-homeowners-rent
ers/
Median monthly mortgage payment by year in the US.
2023 $2,268
2021 $1,525
2019 $1,242
2017 $1,250
2015 $1,122
2013 $1,037
2011 $927
That's an increase of $1,341 per month in 12 years.
$130 of that increase came while Trump was President. $1,211 of it were during Biden* and Obama's administrations.
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Quote:6ix, do you want Washington to provide your housing for free, except for what you pay for federal income tax? Because that will never happen.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
CBS News: Half of Americans struggling to afford housing
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/help-paying-mortgage-rent-homeowners-rent
ers/
Median monthly mortgage payment by year in the US.
2023 $2,268
2021 $1,525
2019 $1,242
2017 $1,250
2015 $1,122
2013 $1,037
2011 $927
That's an increase of $1,341 per month in 12 years.
$130 of that increase came while Trump was President. $1,211 of it were during Biden* and Obama's administrations.
The U.S. has a median annual household income of $74,755, according to the 2022 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The median family can afford $2,268 per month. But the angry poor white trash who vote for Trump can't. It is tough for losers but what do you expect winners to do? Subsidize the poor white trash Trump voters? That will never happen.
Map Reveals States Where People Earn Most, Least Money
Published Apr 04, 2024 at 11:31 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/map-states-rich-poor-earn-money-1886945
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, do you want Washington to provide your housing for free, except for what you pay for federal income tax? Because that will never happen.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
CBS News: Half of Americans struggling to afford housing
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/help-paying-mortgage-rent-homeowners-rent
ers/
Median monthly mortgage payment by year in the US.
2023 $2,268
2021 $1,525
2019 $1,242
2017 $1,250
2015 $1,122
2013 $1,037
2011 $927
That's an increase of $1,341 per month in 12 years.
$130 of that increase came while Trump was President. $1,211 of it were during Biden* and Obama's administrations.
The U.S. has a median annual household income of $74,755, according to the 2022 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. The median family can afford $2,268 per month. But the angry poor white trash who vote for Trump can't. It is tough for losers but what do you expect winners to do? Subsidize the poor white trash Trump voters? That will never happen.
Map Reveals States Where People Earn Most, Least Money
Published Apr 04, 2024 at 11:31 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/map-states-rich-poor-earn-money-1886945
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So so true...
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Trump just lost Arizona due to abortion ruling today in that state.
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Biden is still climbing in the polls. Real Clear Politics has Trumps lead down to 0.3, when in February Trump led by 4.3. Since February, Trump dropped and Biden gained 4 points.
tick tock
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Might as well just call Arizona for Biden now; why wait.
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BREAKING NEWS: Gov. Katie Hobbs Reacts To Arizona Supreme Court’s Near-Total Abortion Ban
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Quote:I was thinking that 6ixStringJack would insist that the President controls how many houses are built and what the mortgages will be priced at, but 6ix has not. If Congress passed a law, the President could have such sweeping powers. There are two examples of Congress giving superpowers to the President: 1) The New Deal and 2) The Recovery Act of 2009.
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So so true...
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Lifetimes have passed since The New Deal and yet I have never known a Trumptard who understood it. Instead, they foam at the mouth like ex-President Herbert Hoover did about the New Deal being Communism or Socialism or whatever. Hoover even set up the Hoover Institution to house the "scholars" who ranted and raved against the New Deal. The Trumptards are still trying to wreck Social Security because it is a "Ponzi Scheme" in their retarded minds.
The Recovery Act of 2009 is another one of those Democrat programs that Trumptards are unable to understand. Google how much did it cost to rescue the economy in 2009?
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+did+it+cost+to+rescue+the+eco
nomy+in+2009
It is possible to pass The Housing Act of 2025 specifically designed to reduce the cost but I'm certain that nearly every Trumptard voter and Republican Congressman would be against it. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was passed along party lines, but that is because Trumptards are stupid and proud of it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_o
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Quote:I was thinking that 6ixStringJack would insist that the President controls how many houses are built and what the mortgages will be priced at, but 6ix has not. If Congress passed a law, the President could have such sweeping powers. There are two examples of Congress giving superpowers to the President: 1) The New Deal and 2) The Recovery Act of 2009.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
So so true...
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Lifetimes have passed since The New Deal and yet I have never known a Trumptard who understood it. Instead, they foam at the mouth like ex-President Herbert Hoover did about the New Deal being Communism or Socialism or whatever. Hoover even set up the Hoover Institution to house the "scholars" who ranted and raved against the New Deal. The Trumptards are still trying to wreck Social Security because it is a "Ponzi Scheme" in their retarded minds.
The Recovery Act of 2009 is another one of those Democrat programs that Trumptards are unable to understand. Google how much did it cost to rescue the economy in 2009?
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+did+it+cost+to+rescue+the+eco
nomy+in+2009
It is possible to pass The Housing Act of 2025 specifically designed to reduce the cost but I'm certain that nearly every Trumptard voter and Republican Congressman would be against it. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was passed along party lines, but that is because Trumptards are stupid and proud of it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_o
f_2009
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Agreed SECOND; and I'll add the reason Jack doesn't get into the weeds concerning Trump, but does criticize Biden, is because Biden is trying to build something and Trumps' cult want everything destroyed. They hate because they, as you've said, are losers.
Some of it because they can't get girls. Some of it is because they've been told since childhood, being a white male means you are the root of everyone's problem and you are toxic. It's very complicated. Trump voters are riding a tsunami of hate.
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Quote:This may sound like Yoda describing the dark side of the Force but from decades of experience this fits them perfectly: A Trumptard's stupidity begets their loser status. Being a loser begets a Trumptard's hate toward winners. Today the Trumptards of America got even stupider on orders from Trump:
Originally posted by THG:
It's very complicated. Trump voters are riding a tsunami of hate.
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If abortion is murder, you'd think Trumptards would be opposed to permitting murder in half the country. And until yesterday, they were. But maximum leader Trump has spoken, and anyway, haven't we always been at war with Eurasia?
It's a miracle! Suddenly conservatives no longer believe in a national abortion ban. It should be up to each state:
Fox’s stars are rallying behind Trump’s abortion message.
The network is a pro-Trump propaganda outlet first and foremost, not an ideologically conservative one. https://t.co/7Y4QZGQEJr
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 9, 2024
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