Elections; 2024
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Quote:Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman, has repeated a discredited claim about Hillary Clinton that previously saw Gabbard lodge then drop a $50m defamation suit in a new book published as she seeks to be named Donald Trump’s running mate for US president.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The Party Of ‘Death To America’
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/05/07/the-party-of-death-to-america/Quote:
There was, if hazy memories recall correctly, a time when the Democratic Party was merely an alternative to the Republican Party and not a threat to the country. Those days are gone. Today’s Democrats are in the business of wracking, ruining and razing.
The Biden administration, says former Hawaiian Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, is “destroying the foundational, fundamental elements of our country and what it means to be an American.”
Speaking recently to Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report, Gabbard noted that “we have seen now consistently throughout his entire administration over these last three and a half years, consistently pushing policies that undermine our freedom, that make our country less safe and less secure, and that is very quickly unraveling and” wrecking the backbone of the country.
Though Gabbard left the party not even two years ago, what we’re seeing is not new. The political left, says author David Horowitz, has long been filled with radical activists who “cannot be negotiated with.”
“There is no living alongside it. Either Americans defeat the Neo-Nazi Left or the Neo-Nazi Left defeats America,” says Horowitz.
Yup.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/23/tulsi-gabbard-repeats-fa
lse-hillary-clinton-grooming-claim
6ix, you are as nutty as Tulsi. Related, David Horowitz is wackier than Tulsi: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/dav
id-horowitz
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Republicans Suddenly Face SURPRISING Challenge in Key Senate Race
Utah Senate Democratic candidate Caroline Gleich who is on a mission to flip Mitt Romney's seat blue
Check her out...
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Republicans Suddenly Face SURPRISING Challenge in Key Senate Race
Utah Senate Democratic candidate Caroline Gleich who is on a mission to flip Mitt Romney's seat blue
Check her out...
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Fuck Mitt Romney. I hope she wins and destroys his career.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman, has repeated a discredited claim about Hillary Clinton that previously saw Gabbard lodge then drop a $50m defamation suit in a new book published as she seeks to be named Donald Trump’s running mate for US president.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The Party Of ‘Death To America’
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/05/07/the-party-of-death-to-america/Quote:
There was, if hazy memories recall correctly, a time when the Democratic Party was merely an alternative to the Republican Party and not a threat to the country. Those days are gone. Today’s Democrats are in the business of wracking, ruining and razing.
The Biden administration, says former Hawaiian Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, is “destroying the foundational, fundamental elements of our country and what it means to be an American.”
Speaking recently to Dave Rubin of the Rubin Report, Gabbard noted that “we have seen now consistently throughout his entire administration over these last three and a half years, consistently pushing policies that undermine our freedom, that make our country less safe and less secure, and that is very quickly unraveling and” wrecking the backbone of the country.
Though Gabbard left the party not even two years ago, what we’re seeing is not new. The political left, says author David Horowitz, has long been filled with radical activists who “cannot be negotiated with.”
“There is no living alongside it. Either Americans defeat the Neo-Nazi Left or the Neo-Nazi Left defeats America,” says Horowitz.
Yup.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/23/tulsi-gabbard-repeats-fa
lse-hillary-clinton-grooming-claim
6ix, you are as nutty as Tulsi. Related, David Horowitz is wackier than Tulsi: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/dav
id-horowitz
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Blah, blah, blah.
I reject any opinion on anyone's character from the likes of you.
You are pure trash and your opinion on any topic is meaningless. You're just going to post something shortly that is mutually exclusive from any other points you tried to make today soon anyhow.
Your brain has been hollowed out and there's nothing in there but propaganda.
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New Data Should Have Team Biden Sweating
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2024/05/07/new-data-biden-losi
ng-ground-among-multiple-key-demographics-n2638696
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A recent analysis published by the left-leaning Brookings Institution -- which highlights Pew data -- demonstrates significant erosion within Joe Biden's 2020 victory coalition, across multiple key demographics. It cites "major shifts away from Biden have occurred among Black, Hispanic, and Asian voters. Surprisingly, Trump appears to have gained more ground among college-educated Black and Hispanic voters than with less educated members of these groups. Equally surprising: Up to now, Trump has increased his support more among women than men." All survey data should be considered with a large grain of salt with half a year still remaining before the election. Things can, and will, change as events develop and the campaign unfolds. But as I've noted on several previous occasions, most Americans hold highly developed opinions of the two major party frontrunners, each of whom is a president. Public opinion about this slog of a rematch has therefore been remarkably stable thus far. And the movement in support, compared to 2020, has been almost universally negative for the incumbent.
Uh oh...
Looks like the Democrat Party's racism of low expectations is going to be their own undoing.
Tick Tock
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Quote:Something odd is happening inside Tulsi. Either Tulsi betrayed the Democratic voters who elected her as a Democrat or she is lying to Trump in order to betray him as did Vice-President Mike Pence.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Blah, blah, blah.
I reject any opinion on anyone's character from the likes of you.
You are pure trash and your opinion on any topic is meaningless. You're just going to post something shortly that is mutually exclusive from any other points you tried to make today soon anyhow.
Your brain has been hollowed out and there's nothing in there but propaganda.
1) Former Hawaiian Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard says the Biden administration is “destroying the foundational, fundamental elements of our country and what it means to be an American.” (Biden is an ordinary Democrat. If Tulsi truthfully believes Biden is destroying America, she was faking when she ran as a Democrat and tricked the Democrats into voting for Tulsi.)
2) She seeks to be named Donald Trump’s running mate for US president.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/23/tulsi-gabbard-repeats-fa
lse-hillary-clinton-grooming-claim
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The heaviness of Stormy Daniels’ testimony was felt throughout the courtroom and throughout the day. When Eric Trump walked out during the morning break — before most of these fireworks had even happened — he looked absolutely ashen.
More about Trump sexually assaulting Stormy Daniels at Stormy Daniels’ Turn as a Witness Brings Home What This Trial Is About
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/stormy-daniels-testimony-a
wful-meaning.html
Imagine if this story had come out right after the Access Hollywood tape.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Something odd is happening inside Tulsi. Either Tulsi betrayed the Democratic voters who elected her as a Democrat or she is lying to Trump in order to betray him as did Vice-President Mike Pence.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Blah, blah, blah.
I reject any opinion on anyone's character from the likes of you.
You are pure trash and your opinion on any topic is meaningless. You're just going to post something shortly that is mutually exclusive from any other points you tried to make today soon anyhow.
Your brain has been hollowed out and there's nothing in there but propaganda.
1) Former Hawaiian Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard says the Biden administration is “destroying the foundational, fundamental elements of our country and what it means to be an American.” (Biden is an ordinary Democrat. If Tulsi truthfully believes Biden is destroying America, she was faking when she ran as a Democrat and tricked the Democrats into voting for Tulsi.)
2) She seeks to be named Donald Trump’s running mate for US president.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/23/tulsi-gabbard-repeats-fa
lse-hillary-clinton-grooming-claim
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Biden* is a NeoLib piece of shit and not far removed from GWB or Mitt Romney.
Until you can recognize and admit that, we have nothing further to talk about regarding the character of anyone.
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Originally posted by second:
The heaviness of Stormy Daniels’ testimony was felt throughout the courtroom and throughout the day. When Eric Trump walked out during the morning break — before most of these fireworks had even happened — he looked absolutely ashen.
More about Trump sexually assaulting Stormy Daniels at Stormy Daniels’ Turn as a Witness Brings Home What This Trial Is About
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/stormy-daniels-testimony-a
wful-meaning.html
Imagine if this story had come out right after the Access Hollywood tape.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Fuck that lying slut porn star.
On second thought, don't. Your dick would probably fall off in short order.
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Meet Allan Lichtman, the professor who predicted the president (and the last 9)
By Elizabeth Beyer | 3:00 p.m. ET, May 8, 2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/08/alla
n-lichtman-2024-election-professor-predicted-president/73613080007/
When I predicted Trump’s victory in 2016 – which you can imagine did not make me very popular in 90% Democratic Washington D.C. where I teach – Trump actually sent me a note on the Washington Post article where I predicted his win that said, “Congrats Professor, good call.”
He appreciated my call but he didn’t understand the meaning of the keys. The keys primarily probe the strength and performance of the White House party.
The big message: It is governance, not campaigning, that counts. Trump didn’t understand that. So when the pandemic hit, instead of dealing substantively with the pandemic like the keys would have indicated, he tried to talk his way out of it. Of course, it didn’t work; the economy tanked, and he lost two additional keys: The short- and long-term economy. That put him down six keys, enough to predict his defeat.
I’ve also said while I have no final prediction (until August) a lot would have to go wrong for Biden to lose.
Forget the polls, forget the pundits.
Polls six months, five months, even closer to the election have zero predictive value.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
Meet Allan Lichtman, the professor who predicted the president (and the last 9)
By Elizabeth Beyer | 3:00 p.m. ET, May 8, 2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/08/alla
n-lichtman-2024-election-professor-predicted-president/73613080007/
When I predicted Trump’s victory in 2016 – which you can imagine did not make me very popular in 90% Democratic Washington D.C. where I teach – Trump actually sent me a note on the Washington Post article where I predicted his win that said, “Congrats Professor, good call.”
He appreciated my call but he didn’t understand the meaning of the keys. The keys primarily probe the strength and performance of the White House party.
The big message: It is governance, not campaigning, that counts. Trump didn’t understand that. So when the pandemic hit, instead of dealing substantively with the pandemic like the keys would have indicated, he tried to talk his way out of it. Of course, it didn’t work; the economy tanked, and he lost two additional keys: The short- and long-term economy. That put him down six keys, enough to predict his defeat.
I’ve also said while I have no final prediction (until August) a lot would have to go wrong for Biden to lose.
Forget the polls, forget the pundits.
Polls six months, five months, even closer to the election have zero predictive value.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
We've already met.
That's an old article now... Just a rehash of the same article you posted on April 28th with the exact same quotes. Joe Biden* has already lost 7 of the keys.
Tick Tock
Here's my reply to the first time you posted this article 10 days ago that you didn't reply to.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack (April 28th):
Yeah. Trump's an incumbent too.
And there wasn't any serious competition against Biden* because the DNC wouldn't allow it. That's why you've got RFK running independent. They might have stopped talking about it for now, but remember only a month ago all the speculation that they're going to replace Biden* last minute. That still may happen too.
Here's the keys:
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1. Party mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the US House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections.
-1 Key: Democrats lost 9 seats to Republicans in 2022.
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2. Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
Neutral: DNC didn't allow anybody serious to run against Biden*. They let Crystal Lady run.
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3. Incumbency: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president.
Neutral: Both men are incumbents, and Joe Biden* has the lowest job approval of any president we have historical data for. By a long shot.
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4. Third party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign.
-1 Key: RFK
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5. Short-term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign.
Neutral: They've been lying about recession for over 2 years now, with the legacy media trying to tell us we're just imagining that the economy sucks.
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6. Long-term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms.
Neutral: It's easy to make massive gains on this when a global plandemic came about and made 2020's numbers look so bad by comparison. Most of those gains were just jobs that came back. People might be making a little bit more, but everything costs far more.
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7. Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.
-1 Key: You bet he did. And none of it in a positive way. 10 Million illegal aliens taking over all of our big cities and counting. The Afghanistan Withdrawl deba
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Biden's Approval Rating Lower Than Bush, Obama, or Trump at This Point in His Term
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/05/08/tom_bevan_biden_app
roval_rating_lower_than_bush_obama_or_trump_was_at_this_point_in_his_term.html
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Nevada: Trump now leads by 4.5 percentage points. At this point in 2020, Nevada had no April or May polls. It had one poll from March, an Emerson survey, showing Biden up by 4 points. (In November 2020, Biden won Nevada by 2.4 points.)
Arizona: Trump now leads by 5.0 points. By this point in 2020, one poll, in April, showed Biden leading by 9 points—but the RCP running average by this point in 2020 had Biden up by 5.3 points. (Biden won Arizona by 0.3 points.)
Georgia: Trump now leads by 3.8 points. At this point in 2020, Georgia had no polls in April or May. A poll completed in early March from the University of Georgia showed Trump up by 8 points. (Biden won Georgia by less than 0.3 points.)
North Carolina: Trump now leads by 5.4 points. At this point in 2020, polling averages showed Trump up by less than a point. (Trump won North Carolina by 1.3 points.)
Michigan: Trump now leads by 1.2 points. At this point in 2020, Michigan had one recent poll, an April survey from Fox News, showing Biden leading by 8 points. (Biden won Michigan by 2.8 points.)
Wisconsin: Trump now leads by 1.8 points. In the first week of May 2020, a Wisconsin poll by Marquette University showed Biden leading by 3 points. (Biden won Wisconsin by 0.6 points.)
Pennsylvania: Trump now leads by 1.8 points. At this point in 2020, the RCP polling average showed Biden up by 4.5 points. (Biden won Pennsylvania by 1.2 points.)
Tick Tock
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The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.
By Anne Applebaum | May 6, 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-repu
blican-party-relations/678271/
Autocracies have come together, not around particular stories, but around a set of ideas, or rather in opposition to a set of ideas. Transparency, for example. And rule of law. And democracy. They have heard language about those ideas—which originate in the democratic world—coming from their own dissidents, and have concluded that they are dangerous to their regimes. Their own rhetoric makes this clear. In 2013, as Chinese President Xi Jinping was beginning his rise to power, an internal Chinese memo, known enigmatically as Document No. 9—or, more formally, as the Communiqué on the Current State of the Ideological Sphere—listed “seven perils” faced by the Chinese Communist Party. “Western constitutional democracy” led the list, followed by “universal human rights,” “media independence,” “judicial independence,” and “civic participation.” The document concluded that “Western forces hostile to China,” together with dissidents inside the country, “are still constantly infiltrating the ideological sphere,” and instructed party leaders to push back against these ideas wherever they found them, especially online, inside China and around the world.
Since at least 2004, the Russians have been focused on the same convergence of internal and external ideological threats. That was the year Ukrainians staged a popular revolt, known as the Orange Revolution—the name came from the orange T-shirts and flags of the protesters—against a clumsy attempt to steal a presidential election. The angry intervention of the Ukrainian public into what was meant to have been a carefully orchestrated victory for Viktor Yanukovych, a pro-Russian candidate directly supported by Putin himself, profoundly unnerved the Russians. This was especially the case because a similarly unruly protest movement in Georgia had brought a pro-European politician, Mikheil Saakashvili, to power the year before.
Shaken by those two events, Putin put the bogeyman of “color revolution” at the center of Russian propaganda. Civic protest movements are now always described as color revolutions in Russia, and as the work of outsiders. Popular opposition leaders are always said to be puppets of foreign governments. Anti-corruption and pro-democracy slogans are linked to chaos and instability wherever they are used, whether in Tunisia, Syria, or the United States. In 2011, a year of mass protest against a manipulated election in Russia itself, Putin bitterly described the Orange Revolution as a “well-tested scheme for destabilizing society,” and he accused the Russian opposition of “transferring this practice to Russian soil,” where he feared a similar popular uprising intended to remove him from power.
Putin was wrong—no “scheme” had been “transferred.” Public discontent in Russia simply had no way to express itself except through street protest, and Putin’s opponents had no legal means to remove him from power. Like so many other people around the world, they talked about democracy and human rights because they recognized that these concepts represented their best hope for achieving justice, and freedom from autocratic power. The protests that led to democratic transitions in the Philippines, Taiwan, South Africa, South Korea, and Mexico; the “people’s revolutions” that washed across Central and Eastern Europe in 1989; the Arab Spring in 2011; and, yes, the color revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia—all were begun by those who had suffered injustice at the hands of the state, and who seized on the language of freedom and democracy to propose an alternative.
This is the core problem for autocracies: The Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, and others all know that the language of transparency, accountability, justice, and democracy appeals to some of thei
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Originally posted by second:
The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.
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One could call this a secret authoritarian “plot” to preserve the ability to spread antidemocratic conspiracy theories, except that it’s not a secret. It’s all visible, right on the surface. Russia, China, and sometimes other state actors—Venezuela, Iran, Hungary—work with Americans to discredit democracy, to undermine the credibility of democratic leaders, to mock the rule of law. They do so with the goal of electing Trump, whose second presidency would damage the image of democracy around the world, as well as the stability of democracy in America, even further.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Bullshit. Go fuck yourself.
This right here is pure propaganda. It's a good thing these liberal shitrags are all going to go out of business soon.
Maybe you can get the psychiatric help you need after they do and you're not triggered everyday.
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Quote:Which Republicans refuse to commit to accept 2024 election results?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Bullshit. Go fuck yourself.
This right here is pure propaganda. It's a good thing these liberal shitrags are all going to go out of business soon.
Maybe you can get the psychiatric help you need after they do and you're not triggered everyday.
By Margie Cullen | May 9, 2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/09/top-
republicans-refuse-to-commit-to-accept-2024-election-results/73625475007/
When asked, the ones that answer rather than refuse to say, won't commit to accepting the outcome of the 2024 election. Democracy means only Republicans win. Hurrah! I applaud the Republicans for being "honest" as far as that word means something to them.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Which Republicans refuse to commit to accept 2024 election results?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Bullshit. Go fuck yourself.
This right here is pure propaganda. It's a good thing these liberal shitrags are all going to go out of business soon.
Maybe you can get the psychiatric help you need after they do and you're not triggered everyday.
By Margie Cullen | May 9, 2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/09/top-
republicans-refuse-to-commit-to-accept-2024-election-results/73625475007/
When asked, the ones that answer rather than refuse to say, won't commit to accepting the outcome of the 2024 election. Democracy means only Republicans win. Hurrah! I applaud the Republicans for being "honest" as far as that word means something to them.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tell me when Hilary Clinton finally admitted that 2016 wasn't rigged and show video proof of it.
I'm waiting.
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Biden claims inflation was 9% when he took office – it was 1.4%
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-falsely-claims-inflation-9-
when-took-office-1-4
Oops.
Truth does not matter to cultists.
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Quote:Don't feel like there is not a consolation prize for losers. After his loss, Trump can rule over the states that voted for him from his Southern White House in Florida which he calls Mar-a-Lago as did Jefferson Davis from his Southern White House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_of_the_Confederacy
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Biden claims inflation was 9% when he took office – it was 1.4%
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-falsely-claims-inflation-9-
when-took-office-1-4
Oops.
Truth does not matter to cultists.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Why Is A24 Burying Its New Documentary About January 6th, 2021?
The Sixth, from two Oscar winners, was released without fanfare. The movie itself suggests a surprising reason.
By Sam Adams | May 09, 2024, 11:00 AM
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/jan-6-documentary-a24-movie-prime-vi
deo-review.html
A24 released two movies last Friday. One, the buzzy horror movie I Saw the TV Glow, arrived in theaters after months of enthusiastic press, amid a flood of media appearances by its director and stars. The other, a documentary called The Sixth, appeared on digital platforms with little advance notice, and only a single review in a major outlet. Instead of glossy magazine profiles or a trip to the Criterion closet, Oscar-winning directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine got a Politico article wondering why the hottest distributor in town appeared to be “deep-sixing” a movie about one of the most significant political events of the 21st century: the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.
The Sixth is not the only recent A24 release to fly beneath the radar: In 2024 alone, it has released several documentaries straight or all but straight to streaming, including My Mercury, a portrait of conservationist Yves Chesselet, and Open Wide, about the controversial but TikTok-famous orthodontic procedure known as “mewing.” In the case of My Mercury, it took trade publications almost a week to even notice that it had started streaming without notice. A24 may be legendary for its ability to turn a movie like Love Lies Bleeding into a much-hyped must-see, but not everything released under its banner gets or lends itself to the same treatment.
The Fines told Politico’s Michael Schaffer that A24 promised them that The Sixth would start streaming on Prime Video the day of its release, an understanding they shared with the movie’s participants, including Rep. Jamie Raskin, who had been voting to certify the election results when rioters breached the Capitol, and photojournalist Mel D. Cole, who said he turned down interview requests from other filmmakers but had agreed to participate in this documentary because of A24’s cachet. “The Fines are great,” he told Schaffer, “but I didn’t know them.”
Instead of streaming for free on Prime to a potential audience in the tens of millions, The Sixth is currently a $19.99 digital purchase, and although it will be available for rental Thursday, neither price point is likely to reach even a fraction of the viewers—especially when so few of them even know that it’s there. Did the studio behind Civil War get cold feet when it came to the depiction of a nonfictional uprising, or did it simply make the calculation that the documentary wasn’t worth the expense of a theatrical release? The Sixth itself suggests a third, equally troubling possibility: One of the darkest days in American history has simply become too uncomfortable to talk about.
The subjects of The Sixth, who also include two Washington police officers, the then chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, and a congressional spokesperson, recall that day in harrowing detail. Combined with footage from security cameras, body cams, and the insurrectionists’ smartphones, their testimony brings the events of Jan. 6 to vivid and unshakable life. Police officer Daniel Hodges, whose gas mask was ripped from his face by rioters as his body was crushed in a doorway, says he came close to death on numerous occasions, and it’s hard to shake the notion that, as bad as things got, it’s a miracle they didn’t get much, much worse. But amid the sickening sensation of watching American democracy hold on by the thinnest of threads, there’s another feeling woven through their accounts, one it takes Cole, who spent months photographing Trump rallies before ending up in the crowd on Jan. 6, to put into words. “I felt embarrassed for all of us,” he says. “For all of America.”
That’s not all that Cole, who is one of three Black witnesses among The Sixth’s six subjects, felt. He describes outrage at watch
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Don't feel like there is not a consolation prize for losers. After his loss, Trump can rule over the states that voted for him from his Southern White House in Florida which he calls Mar-a-Lago as did Jefferson Davis from his Southern White House: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_of_the_Confederacy
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Biden claims inflation was 9% when he took office – it was 1.4%
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-falsely-claims-inflation-9-
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Oops.
Truth does not matter to cultists.
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Why Is A24 Burying Its New Documentary About January 6th, 2021?
The Sixth, from two Oscar winners, was released without fanfare. The movie itself suggests a surprising reason.
By Sam Adams | May 09, 2024, 11:00 AM
https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/jan-6-documentary-a24-movie-prime-vi
deo-review.html
A24 released two movies last Friday. One, the buzzy horror movie I Saw the TV Glow, arrived in theaters after months of enthusiastic press, amid a flood of media appearances by its director and stars. The other, a documentary called The Sixth, appeared on digital platforms with little advance notice, and only a single review in a major outlet. Instead of glossy magazine profiles or a trip to the Criterion closet, Oscar-winning directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine got a Politico article wondering why the hottest distributor in town appeared to be “deep-sixing” a movie about one of the most significant political events of the 21st century: the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.
It's simple, really.
Because nobody wants to see that propaganda trash and the heads at A24 know that they don't want to put off their actual paying audience by promoting it.
Enjoy watching your pirated copy you didn't pay for and you didn't pay taxes on.
Fuck Sean Fine. Fuck Andrea Nix. Fuck the Oscar committee who hates America.
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Quote:I know all the secrets of my local Trumptards. It is not a surprise to anyone except to Trumptards that their lives are overstuffed with difficulties because they are the kind who misunderstand themselves, the kind that don't know of the strong as steel connection between personal hardship and being defective. Trump cannot bless them with his grace because he is also defective. Check out his criminal trials for how Trump badly behaves when he thinks he is unobserved.
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It's simple, really.
Because nobody wants to see that propaganda trash and the heads at A24 know that they don't want to put off their actual paying audience by promoting it.
Enjoy watching your pirated copy you didn't pay for and you didn't pay taxes on.
Fuck Sean Fine. Fuck Andrea Nix. Fuck the Oscar committee who hates America.
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Quote:Trump is on trial for something he denies doing, which is pretty typical of Trumptards. Do something then claim it didn't happen is standard operating procedure for them. For example of secrets that Trumptards don't want known, there is Trump's sex life revealed under testimony. Trump says he never had sex with Stormy Daniels, but he refuses to testify under oath to the truth of his thousands of times denying doing what he did. Doing it got Trump indicted. Trumptards sympathize with his lying since they do it constantly. I see them doing it every damn day, all day long, about all things. That is the perfect excuse for them to vote for Trump.
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2024 Election: A Certain Fatalism Sets In
Political pros start to ask if there’s anything President Biden can do to pull out a victory in November.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/2024-election-a-certain-fatalism-sets-in-
biden-political-pros-1821a34a?mod=opinion_lead_pos9
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Six months to election day and things feel sort of fatalistic. There seems little to discover and nothing new to say about each of the candidates. It’s not going to dawn on you suddenly that Joe Biden is too old and infirm or Donald Trump too crazy. You’ve factored that in. You know what you think of both and have a sense of what compromises you’ll make within yourself to vote for either.
Voters can still be nudged, it’s not over, but Mr. Trump is ahead in most if not all of the battleground states, and I’m struck by the number of political operatives, veterans and thinkers now asking, honestly, if there is anything the president can do to pull it out.
Someone will suggest a “Sister Souljah moment” in which the president distances himself from the cultural left. Then they’ll shake their heads: too late, and who would believe it?
Haha...
Everything I told you goons was going to happen is happening.
The Democrat Party is destroying itself because it lost its identity and stands for nothing.
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Trump requests $1 billion donation from oil execs in exchange for rolling back environmental regulations
Former President Donald J. Trump told a group of oil executives and lobbyists gathered at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort last month that they should donate $1 billion to his presidential campaign because, if elected, he would roll back environmental rules that he said hampered their industry, according to two people who were there.
About 20 people attended an April 11 event billed as an “energy round table” at Mr. Trump’s private club, according to those people, who asked not to be identified in order to discuss the private event. Attendees included executives from ExxonMobil, EQT Corporation and the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for the oil industry.
The event was organized by the oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who has for years helped to shape Republican energy policies. It was first reported by The Washington Post.
Mr. Trump has publicly railed for months against President Biden’s energy and environmental agenda, as Mr. Biden has raced to restore and strengthen dozens of climate and conservation rules that Mr. Trump had weakened or erased while in office. In particular, Mr. Trump has promised to eliminate Mr. Biden’s new climate rules intended to accelerate the nation’s transition to electric vehicles, and to push a “drill, baby, drill” agenda aimed at opening up more public lands to oil and gas exploration.
Mr. Biden has called climate change an existential threat and has moved to cut the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet and supercharging storms, heat waves and drought.
Over a dinner of chopped steak, Mr. Trump repeated his public promises to delete Mr. Biden’s pollution controls, telling the attendees that they should donate heavily to help him beat Mr. Biden because his policies would help their industries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/climate/trump-oil-gas-mar-a-lago.ht
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Oil industry writes executive orders for Trump to sign
The U.S. oil industry is drawing up ready-to-sign executive orders for Donald Trump aimed at pushing natural gas exports, cutting drilling costs and increasing offshore oil leases in case he wins a second term, according to energy executives with direct knowledge of the work.
The effort stems from the industry’s skepticism that the Trump campaign will be able to focus on energy issues as Election Day draws closer — and worries that the former president is too distracted to prepare a quick reversal of the Biden administration’s green policies. Oil executives also worry that a second Trump administration won’t attract staff skillful enough to roll back President Joe Biden’s regulations or craft new ones favoring the industry, these people added.
Six energy industry lawyers and lobbyists interviewed by POLITICO described the effort to craft executive orders and other policy paperwork that they see as more effective than anything a second Trump administration could devise on its own. Those include a quick reversal of Biden’s pause on new natural gas export permits and preparations for wider and cheaper access to federal lands and waters for drilling.
The initiative is just one example of the efforts underway from multiple advocacy groups with strong policy agendas — including abortion-rights opponents — to fill in the gaps for Trump’s potential return to the White House. The presumptive Republican nominee has been a vocal supporter of the oil and gas industry, but the companies often chafed at the effects of his policies as president, including his trade wars and the legal challenges that thwarted some of his pro-fossil-fuel actions.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/oil-industry-orders-trump-day
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Trump requests $1 billion donation from oil execs in exchange for rolling back environmental regulations
Former President Donald J. Trump told a group of oil executives and lobbyists gathered at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort last month that they should donate $1 billion to his presidential campaign because, if elected, he would roll back environmental rules that he said hampered their industry, according to two people who were there.
About 20 people attended an April 11 event billed as an “energy round table” at Mr. Trump’s private club, according to those people, who asked not to be identified in order to discuss the private event. Attendees included executives from ExxonMobil, EQT Corporation and the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for the oil industry.
The event was organized by the oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who has for years helped to shape Republican energy policies. It was first reported by The Washington Post.
Mr. Trump has publicly railed for months against President Biden’s energy and environmental agenda, as Mr. Biden has raced to restore and strengthen dozens of climate and conservation rules that Mr. Trump had weakened or erased while in office. In particular, Mr. Trump has promised to eliminate Mr. Biden’s new climate rules intended to accelerate the nation’s transition to electric vehicles, and to push a “drill, baby, drill” agenda aimed at opening up more public lands to oil and gas exploration.
Mr. Biden has called climate change an existential threat and has moved to cut the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet and supercharging storms, heat waves and drought.
Over a dinner of chopped steak, Mr. Trump repeated his public promises to delete Mr. Biden’s pollution controls, telling the attendees that they should donate heavily to help him beat Mr. Biden because his policies would help their industries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/climate/trump-oil-gas-mar-a-lago.ht
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According to two people who were there, Second was regularly raped as a child at family parties by his uncle on his mother's side. Not only were his parents aware of it, but they were also said to be taking payments from her brother to look the other way, according to these people, who asked not to be identified in order to discuss the private event.
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Quote:This election was never about different values clashing. It's always been about Trump and Trumptards being defective people. 6ix, it is so predictable that you are unbothered by Trump requesting a $1 billion bribe and that you would lie. You are the epitome of a Trump voter. It is why your life is tragic: dishonesty, sickness, loneliness, poverty, futility, and an early grave. Kind of makes me cheerful knowing that the Life gives your kind what you deserve, as it gives me blessings. The Universe is fair and balanced.
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According to two people who were there, Second was regularly raped as a child at family parties by his uncle on his mother's side. Not only were his parents aware of it, but they were also said to be taking payments from her brother to look the other way, according to these people, who asked not to be identified in order to discuss the private event.
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Trump requests $1 billion donation from oil execs in exchange for rolling back environmental regulations
Former President Donald J. Trump told a group of oil executives and lobbyists gathered at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort last month that they should donate $1 billion to his presidential campaign because, if elected, he would roll back environmental rules that he said hampered their industry, according to two people who were there.
About 20 people attended an April 11 event billed as an “energy round table” at Mr. Trump’s private club, according to those people, who asked not to be identified in order to discuss the private event. Attendees included executives from ExxonMobil, EQT Corporation and the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies for the oil industry.
The event was organized by the oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who has for years helped to shape Republican energy policies. It was first reported by The Washington Post.
Mr. Trump has publicly railed for months against President Biden’s energy and environmental agenda, as Mr. Biden has raced to restore and strengthen dozens of climate and conservation rules that Mr. Trump had weakened or erased while in office. In particular, Mr. Trump has promised to eliminate Mr. Biden’s new climate rules intended to accelerate the nation’s transition to electric vehicles, and to push a “drill, baby, drill” agenda aimed at opening up more public lands to oil and gas exploration.
Mr. Biden has called climate change an existential threat and has moved to cut the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet and supercharging storms, heat waves and drought.
Over a dinner of chopped steak, Mr. Trump repeated his public promises to delete Mr. Biden’s pollution controls, telling the attendees that they should donate heavily to help him beat Mr. Biden because his policies would help their industries.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:This election was never about different values clashing. It's always been about Trump and Trumptards being defective people. 6ix, it is so predictable that you are unbothered by Trump requesting a $1 billion bribe and that you would lie. You are the epitome of a Trump voter. It is why your life is tragic: dishonesty, sickness, loneliness, poverty, futility, and an early grave. Kind of makes me cheerful knowing that the Life gives your kind what you deserve, as it gives me blessings. The Universe is fair and balanced.
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According to two people who were there, Second was regularly raped as a child at family parties by his uncle on his mother's side. Not only were his parents aware of it, but they were also said to be taking payments from her brother to look the other way, according to these people, who asked not to be identified in order to discuss the private event.
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You have no idea how sparkly clean your brain is from all that brainwashing.
Your ability to think critically has been completely destroyed.
You're simply a button to be pressed. A tool to be operated.
The lights are on, but nobody's home.
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New York Times: President Biden Just Made His Biggest Blunder
https://dnyuz.com/2024/05/09/president-biden-just-made-his-biggest-blu
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It’s a political gift to Donald Trump.
If you folks at the New York Times had been paying attention the last 3.5 years, nearly everything that Joe Biden* has said or done since Inauguration Day has been a political gift to Trump.
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Quote:Jim Mattis, onetime secretary of defense for the Trump administration, described the former president as “a madman in a circular room screaming.”
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You have no idea how sparkly clean your brain is from all that brainwashing.
Your ability to think critically has been completely destroyed.
You're simply a button to be pressed. A tool to be operated.
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Mr Mattis spent 43 years in the Marine Corps, and rose to commander at US Central Command before retiring in 2013 as a four-star general.
He joined the Trump administration as defense secretary in 2017 but lasted only a year, resigning over the president’s decision to remove US forces from Syria.
According to The Atlantic he told Mr Trump: “You’re going to have to get the next secretary of defense to lose to ISIS. I’m not going to do it.”
In 2020, Mr Mattis also penned a letter to The Atlantic denouncing Mr Trump’s presidency.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try,” Mr Mattis wrote.
“Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.”
In his 2020 book Rage, journalist Bob Woodward wrote that General Mattis said Mr Trump was “unfit” and “dangerous” as president and had “no moral compass”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-t
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Quote:Trump succeeded at normalizing the abnormal, and too often journalists have gone along with it. But please.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have no idea how sparkly clean your brain is from all that brainwashing.
Your ability to think critically has been completely destroyed.
You're simply a button to be pressed. A tool to be operated.
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THIS IS A PORN STAR TESTIFYING ABOUT AN ALLEGED AFFAIR WITH A FORMER PRESIDENT IN A CRIMINAL TRIAL. The first criminal trial a former president has ever faced. A former president who is the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2024. And it’s only one of four criminal trials Trump is facing. This is not normal
This is not normal. This is not normal at all. It’s weird. It’s downright bizarre, like something out of an alternate universe. And journalists need to start acting like it is.
Just as importantly, so do their audiences.
Let’s take a step back for a moment here. Six months out from the 2024 presidential election you have the presumptive Republican nominee inside of a courtroom listening to the testimony of an adult film star in which she is alleging that Donald Trump engaged in an extra-marital affair just four months after his son, Barron, was born. This is hitting at the heart of the creditably of not Stormy Daniels, but of the defendant, Donald Trump.
Trump has been found in contempt of court 10 times. Has there ever been anyone since, I don’t know, a Roman emperor, who so blatantly demonstrates that they don't believe the rules apply to them?
https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2024/05/07/donald-
trump-criminal-trials-too-strange/73605934007/
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On Wednesday, House Speaker Johnson was pushing the new Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. But it has been illegal since the 1920s for non-citizens to vote in federal elections. Congress in 1996 codified registering to vote for a federal election by a non-citizen as a federal crime eligible for prison time and fines.
Johnson repeatedly cited the immigration crisis at the southern border while talking about alleged voter fraud.
He was immediately exasperated when pressed for proof. And then he just gave up the game.
"We all know intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections," Johnson said. "But it's not been something that is easily provable."
Let's translate "intuitively" to the real world: The House speaker was pushing a lie.
The Brennan Center and the Cato Institute have both studied non-citizen voting in federal elections and found it to be "vanishingly rare" and certainly not a factor that could "actually shift the outcome of elections."
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/analysis-nonci
tizen-voting-vanishingly-rare
https://www.cato.org/blog/noncitizens-dont-illegally-vote-detectable-n
umbers
Here's what they didn't discuss at Mar-a-Lago last month or the Capitol on Wednesday: Trump and Johnson in February persuaded Republicans in Congress to abandon a bipartisan deal on immigration reform crafted by Sen. James Lankford, a conservative from Oklahoma.
Trump's reasoning was that he didn't want Biden to score a legislative win in an election year on an issue that Trump could keep criticizing him about.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/05/10/trump-repu
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I agree. This is all unprecedented. Democrats have literally gone insane.
That's okay though. They won't be anyone's problem for much longer.
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Democrats and the Legacy Media really appear to be freaking out about what I've said from the beginning. They're only now realizing that they're not going to be able to put Trump in prison and they're actually going to have to run on their own merits... which means they have nothing to run on at all except for the abortion issue.
These next 6 months should be fun. Don't forget your popcorn.
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Quote:Au contraire. The Trumptards I know live difficult lives. Trump's life has been one crisis after another for the last forty years. He is on trial because he is unstable. He is not balanced. He has endless problems, as do his Trumptards, because they are poorly behaved individuals.
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I agree. This is all unprecedented. Democrats have literally gone insane.
That's okay though. They won't be anyone's problem for much longer.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Au contraire. The Trumptards I know live difficult lives. Trump's life has been one crisis after another for the last forty years. He is on trial because he is unstable. He is not balanced. He has endless problems, as do his Trumptards, because they are poorly behaved individuals.
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I agree. This is all unprecedented. Democrats have literally gone insane.
That's okay though. They won't be anyone's problem for much longer.
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Shut the fuck up dude. We've heard your dumb shit a million times already and it's no more true today than it was the first time somebody told you to think that.
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Democrats and the Legacy Media really appear to be freaking out about what I've said from the beginning. They're only now realizing that they're not going to be able to put Trump in prison and they're actually going to have to run on their own merits... which means they have nothing to run on at all except for the abortion issue.
These next 6 months should be fun. Don't forget your popcorn.
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!Trump's life has been one crisis after another for the last forty years. He is on trial because he is unstable. He is not balanced. He has endless problems, as do his Trumptards, because they are poorly behaved individuals.
Trump, by my observation, has galloping adult ADHD, with a little ODD thrown in.
Obama was a smarmy tool of the CIA and incited numerous wars and regime changes.
Biden & Co are good-old fashioned grifters and influence peddlers. But Biden, personally, is beyond forgetful at this point.
Hillary? A blatant psychopath. (Kind of like you, SECOND, except way more successful.)
Out of all of them, Trump is probably the best choice.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.
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Quote:Why does misfortune follow stupid and crazy people? "I'm a stable genius," said Trump and yet his life has been full of strife since 1968. He is neither smart nor sane but Trumptards aren't either.
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Shut the fuck up dude. We've heard your dumb shit a million times already and it's no more true today than it was the first time somebody told you to think that.
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Was Trump really a top student at Wharton? Not so much.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/02/trump-academics-at-wharton
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The former president’s shakedown of oil executives may not have been illegal, but it is undeniably scandalous.
By David A. Graham | May 9, 2024, 12:09 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/trumps-legal-corrupt
-offer-oil-executives/678333/
One of the few ways in which Donald Trump has improved American politics is in making explicit what was once veiled in implication or euphemism. During the 2016 election, for example, he said what everyone knew but no politicians would acknowledge: That wealthy donors bought access and fealty with their contributions.
These blunt statements have endeared him to supporters who see Trump as a rare figure willing to speak about how special interests and corporations conspire with politicians to screw over ordinary Americans. And because he is a billionaire, they see him as immune to these pressures, wealthy enough to not be beholden in the same way as typical politicians.
That brings us to a Washington Post article this morning. At a Mar-a-Lago meeting in April, oil executives complained that despite them having poured hundreds of millions into lobbying the government, the Biden administration had pursued stronger environmental regulations. “Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House,” the Post reports. In exchange, Trump vowed to roll back current regulations and freeze future ones. He told them that, given the savings, a billion bucks would be a “deal” for them.
What Trump was offering is entirely legal and absolutely corrupt. (Or to borrow a phrase: very legal and very uncool.) Thanks to Trump’s bluntness, there can be no hair-splitting about what’s going on here, and that’s good for public understanding. Trump asked special interests for an eye-popping fee in exchange explicit favors. Trump and the oil companies might argue (dubiously) that their preferred regime would actually be better for consumers, but they are cutting “the people” out of the discussion entirely, subverting democracy. The deal is getting done between Trump and the suits, behind closed doors. It’s a good reminder that Trump’s claim to being an outsider is a sham.
American politics would be healthier if all politicians were so transparent about such deals (though, of course, it would be better were they not making such deals at all). Everyone might “know” that politicians are cutting deals for powerful interests, but they seldom know what exactly those deals are, so it’s hard for them to take it into account when voting. (This is one reason the federal indictment of Senator Bob Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat, is so riveting: The alleged trades are all laid out so plainly.)
Trump, however, has said he’s different. Many people took his frankness about how the system works to mean that he wouldn’t act the same way as the politicians he excoriated. What this report shows is that he’s no different. Trump was describing transactionalism, not critiquing it, and the idea that Donald Trump would ever object to transactionalism is absurd. He’s a grandee in good standing of the Leopards Eating Faces Party.
In fact, he’s arguably worse. An ordinary politician might have approached this situation with a touch more finesse. First, he’d listen to the executives’ concerns. Then, he’d lay out his agenda on energy. Finally, a campaign aide would hit the executives up for donations. That offers a little bit of deniability, which in turns gives a politician in office some wiggle room. It’s not like donors can call him up and say, You made an explicit promise to do this for me! That would be unseemly. If the oil suits produce $1 billion and Trump wins, however, they can do exactly that, since he’s offered an explicit quid pro quo. Not only is he just as beholden to special interests as anyone else, here he’s going out of his way to make himself beholden.
One final tawdry thing about Trump’s offer is the implicit threat it contains. If the
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Why does misfortune follow stupid and crazy people? "I'm a stable genius," said Trump and yet his life has been full of strife since 1968. He is neither smart nor sane but Trumptards aren't either.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up dude. We've heard your dumb shit a million times already and it's no more true today than it was the first time somebody told you to think that.
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Was Trump really a top student at Wharton? Not so much.
https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/02/trump-academics-at-wharton
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Misfortune follows everyone.
You'd do best to remember that or you're liable to be blindsided when it comes for you.
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Trump's life has been one crisis after another for the last forty years. He is on trial because he is unstable. He is not balanced. He has endless problems, as do his Trumptards, because they are poorly behaved individuals.
Trump, by my observation, has galloping adult ADHD, with a little ODD thrown in.
Obama was a smarmy tool of the CIA and incited numerous wars and regime changes.
Biden & Co are good-old fashioned grifters and influence peddlers. But Biden, personally, is beyond forgetful at this point.
Hillary? A blatant psychopath. (Kind of like you, SECOND, except way more successful.)
Out of all of them, Trump is probably the best choice.
You favor Trump because you are a Polish Russian Collaborator.
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Quote:You believe that Trump doesn't deserve the misfortunes that have befallen him, don't you? In your heart you know it is the Democrats' fault that Trump is on trial. It certainly couldn't be because of Trump's rotten behavior. Also, smoking does not cause death. People who don't smoke also die. Those smokers who die? It was NOT caused by their behavior. To say that their death was caused by their smoking is tantamount to blaming the victim. Just kidding. The truth is that smoking kills and cheating/lying/incompetence/stupidity/thievery/rape is why Trump is in court and should not be President.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Misfortune follows everyone.
You'd do best to remember that or you're liable to be blindsided when it comes for you.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You believe that Trump doesn't deserve the misfortunes that have befallen him, don't you? In your heart you know it is the Democrats' fault that Trump is on trial. It certainly couldn't be because of Trump's rotten behavior. Also, smoking does not cause death. People who don't smoke also die. Those smokers who die? It was NOT caused by their behavior. To say that their death was caused by their smoking is tantamount to blaming the victim. Just kidding. The truth is that smoking kills and cheating/lying/incompetence/stupidity/thievery/rape is why Trump is in court and should not be President.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Misfortune follows everyone.
You'd do best to remember that or you're liable to be blindsided when it comes for you.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
I've never said that Trump was an angel. But find me a politician on either side and I'll show you a criminal. Trump's just a target by the Uniparty and their Media Arm. It could have been anybody they were doing all of this to if they got out of line.
Misfortune comes for everyone. If it hasn't come for you yet, it will.
Tick Tock
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Quote:6ix, your sentences are the words of someone who seeks out failure. Everything ends with death, so 6ix gives up early to hurry the process. Turn it around and it becomes 6ix gave up struggling against adversity so that life could end with an early death. A humorist made 6ix's sentiment into a comic:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I've never said that Trump was an angel. But find me a politician on either side and I'll show you a criminal. Trump's just a target by the Uniparty and their Media Arm. It could have been anybody they were doing all of this to if they got out of line.
Misfortune comes for everyone. If it hasn't come for you yet, it will.
Tick Tock
Exigology (noun): A statement whose converse is its own explanation. Examples:
Politicians never do what my group wants, so I never vote.
I’m terrible at this, so I’m not even gonna try.
Life is short, so I’m eating as many bacon salad sandwiches as possible.
More examples at https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-12-14
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I Think I Know What Donald Trump Is Feeling in Court
As much as he’s trying to avoid it, the emotion is inevitable.
By Susan Matthews | May 12, 2024, 7:00 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/donald-trump-in-court-sham
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The thing about Trump’s demeanor in the courtroom that did surprise me: He looked like he was trying to disappear. As soon as I put my binoculars up to look at the TV that was broadcasting his face to the room (yes, this is what all those reporters are doing in there), I could see that the tension that was notable in his chin and mouth when he was walking by me—tension that has shown up in so many of the courtroom sketches, where he often looks frowny and toad-like—was even more intense once he was sitting up at his seat. It’s like the face that Dorothy makes when she clenches her eyes shut and clicks her ruby red slippers to transport herself home.
This frowny face seemed to intensify around certain details: any time Stormy Daniels was talking, basically, but particularly about sex—and every time the Access Hollywood tape came up. Years ago, before Trump won the presidency and probably right around the time the hush-money deal that has landed him in this courtroom was taking place, I wrote about one of the main topics of those panicked days—whether or not Trump might actually be mentally ill, afflicted, most likely, with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (and whether this might be a thing to disqualify him from the presidency, which—hah!). I wrote:
He lives in an alternative reality, one in which the widespread backlash against him simply doesn’t exist. What could make someone so disturbingly unaware? So confident in his right to the presidency? Could it be that he is actually unable to grasp objective truth? Might he actually be mentally ill?
After going through a lot of evidence that the man is a narcissist—more of which has accumulated in the intervening years–I concluded my assessment by noting that the real problem with trying to figure out how mentally ill Donald Trump is is that Donald Trump doesn’t care how mentally ill Donald Trump is. He’s certainly pathological, but he is not bothered by it:
I think the privilege into which Trump was born has exempted him from the operating rules of civilized society. Whether he’s bragging about sexual assault, denying reality during the debates, or promising to reject the democratic process itself if it does not happen to favor him, the thread that connects them all is privilege. The impunity he has enjoyed is chilling, and so is his blithe certainty that it will always be there for him.
This is so interesting now: his courtroom feels like maybe the only time in his life where Trump has not gotten to enjoy the impunity he has grown so used to and where he is forced to actually face the consequences of his actions. He has to show up every day, and he has to walk down the center of the aisle like all other criminal defendants do, as much as he tries to make it a show. He must adhere to the gag order enforced by the judge, unless he wants to risk jail. He has to sit there within direct earshot as witness after witness testifies over loudspeakers about his alleged criminality (and to his being a sex pest, to put it mildly). And in a few weeks, when a verdict is reached, if it’s a guilty one, he’ll have to face a judge’s sentence and whatever that might mean for his freedom.
I understand how he feels, because when I had to stand up and answer to the judge for my stupid little crime I also wanted to disappear. I wanted it not to be what was really happening. Unfortunately for Trump, this may be the only time where he can’t just will these bad things away. But no one can make him open those blue eyes and face it either.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, your sentences are the words of someone who seeks out failure. Everything ends with death, so 6ix gives up early to hurry the process. Turn it around and it becomes 6ix gave up struggling against adversity so that life could end with an early death. A humorist made 6ix's sentiment into a comic:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I've never said that Trump was an angel. But find me a politician on either side and I'll show you a criminal. Trump's just a target by the Uniparty and their Media Arm. It could have been anybody they were doing all of this to if they got out of line.
Misfortune comes for everyone. If it hasn't come for you yet, it will.
Tick Tock
Exigology (noun): A statement whose converse is its own explanation. Examples:
Politicians never do what my group wants, so I never vote.
I’m terrible at this, so I’m not even gonna try.
Life is short, so I’m eating as many bacon salad sandwiches as possible.
More examples at https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-12-14
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
If any of that were true I wouldn't have an A1C that's better than 75% of adults without Diabetes.
But nice try though.
I'm simply making a comment about how ridiculous you sound to anybody reading your constant insistence that anybody who votes Democrat doesn't make any poor choices in life, doesn't suffer from any vices or adversity and never gets sick or dies.
I don't need to post a link to any cartoons on this. Your Second persona here is nothing but a caricature of what aliens would think a human being would behave like if the only things they'd seen from us were MSNBC broadcasts, BuzzFeed videos and cringe Lefty TikTok videos.
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Quote:I did NOT insist that Democrats are flawless. I did insist that Trumptards are crooks.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm simply making a comment about how ridiculous you sound to anybody reading your constant insistence that anybody who votes Democrat doesn't make any poor choices in life, doesn't suffer from any vices or adversity and never gets sick or dies.
For an example of crookedness from yesterday, something that would end a Democratic Presidential candidate's possibility of winning votes from law-abiding Democratic voters, but is no problem for Trump because his voters are all crooks like him:
IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million
The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower.
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica | May 11, 10 A.M. EDT
Former President Donald Trump used a dubious accounting maneuver to claim improper tax breaks from his troubled Chicago tower, according to an IRS inquiry uncovered by ProPublica and The New York Times. Losing a years-long audit battle over the claim could mean a tax bill of more than $100 million.
The 92-story, glass-sheathed skyscraper along the Chicago River is the tallest and, at least for now, the last major construction project by Trump. Through a combination of cost overruns and the bad luck of opening in the teeth of the Great Recession, it was also a vast money loser.
If the IRS prevails, Trump’s tax returns would look very different, especially those from 2011 to 2017. During those years, he reported $184 million in income from “The Apprentice” and agreements to license his name, along with $219 million from canceled debts. But he paid only $643,431 in income taxes thanks to huge losses on his businesses, including the Chicago tower. The revisions sought by the IRS would require amending his tax returns to remove $146 million in losses and add as much as $218 million in income from condominium sales. That shift of up to $364 million could swing those years out of the red and well into positive territory, creating a tax bill that could easily exceed $100 million.
The only public sign of the Chicago audit came in December 2022, when a congressional Joint Committee on Taxation report on IRS efforts to audit Trump made an unexplained reference to the section of tax law at issue in the Chicago case. It confirmed that the audit was still underway and could affect Trump’s tax returns from several years.
More at https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I did NOT insist that Democrats are flawless.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I'm simply making a comment about how ridiculous you sound to anybody reading your constant insistence that anybody who votes Democrat doesn't make any poor choices in life, doesn't suffer from any vices or adversity and never gets sick or dies.
Oh yes you did. Many, many, many countless times.
I'll be sure to point it out to you the next time you do it, since there is zero chance that you're going to stop now and it could be as soon as tomorrow that you do it again.
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Quote:Back when I first started as a construction engineer, I was told to keep a notebook for jotting down my words spoken to people like you, 6ix. Several times the contents of that notebook were entered as evidence when angry poor white trash such as yourself went to their union to complain that they were never warned before being fired to stop being a stupid, incompetent asshole on the job. Since then I realized that all Trumptards are assholes like you are, the guy who is defrauding the government out of benefits because he won't work and Trump who won't pay all his taxes.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh yes you did. Many, many, many countless times.
I'll be sure to point it out to you the next time you do it, since there is zero chance that you're going to stop now and it could be as soon as tomorrow that you do it again.
I am not saying that no Democrats cheat on their taxes. I am saying that Trumptards are not upset by Trump cheating on his taxes because Trumptards cheat and lie frequently just like their leader. Trump is a role model for Trumptards, which is why law-abiding Democrats feel all Trumptards are assholes who deserve/earn/warrant the misfortunes that happen to them. It is justice that Trump has legal problems going back for decades, but it is not fair that he can purchase his way out of receiving justice by paying $millions per week to lawyers.
IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Back when I first started as a construction engineer, I was told to keep a notebook for jotting down my words spoken to people like you, 6ix. Several times the contents of that notebook were entered as evidence when angry poor white trash such as yourself went to their union to complain that they were never warned before being fired to stop being a stupid, incompetent asshole on the job. Since then I realized that all Trumptards are assholes like you are, the guy who is defrauding the government out of benefits because he won't work and Trump who won't pay all his taxes.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh yes you did. Many, many, many countless times.
I'll be sure to point it out to you the next time you do it, since there is zero chance that you're going to stop now and it could be as soon as tomorrow that you do it again.
I am not saying that no Democrats cheat on their taxes. I am saying that Trumptards are not upset by Trump cheating on his taxes because Trumptards cheat and lie frequently just like their leader. Trump is a role model for Trumptards, which is why law-abiding Democrats feel all Trumptards are assholes who deserve/earn/warrant the misfortunes that happen to them. It is justice that Trump has legal problems going back for decades, but it is not fair that he can purchase his way out of receiving justice by paying $millions per week to lawyers.
IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Don't care about reading more lies out of you.
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The latest NYT polling for battleground states was so bad for Biden* that intern rapist and murderer Joe Scarborough had a good cry about it and said that NYT has always been biased for Trump and nobody believes those poll results.
Some of those swing states aren't even swing states anymore. Looks as though others that were just assumed safely Democrat might turn into swing states too.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls/election
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FT-Michigan Ross poll: Biden’s election hopes fall as prices rise again
https://www.ft.com/content/ee56a06d-c734-4fec-96fe-c53db3131255?segmen
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The recent uptick in US inflation appears to have reversed any progress President Joe Biden has made in convincing voters he can do a better job of managing the economy than Donald Trump.
The poll, conducted between May 2 and May 6, finds that — after a slight uplift in April — Biden’s approval ratings on the economy fell back to levels that will make for depressing reading among the White House’s incumbents. That comes after price data showed US inflation might prove stickier than anticipated at the start of the year.
The findings add to the sense that the Biden administration’s messaging on the economy — much of which has been focused on gains US workers have seen to their wages — is not convincing voters.
Voters dislike Bidenomics
While economists and investors are trumpeting the stellar performance of US growth over the past 18 months, voters are not.
The poll shows 71 per cent of the 1,000 respondents believe economic conditions are negative. The figure is in line with earlier months, signalling that it has little to do with the news that growth slowed to an annualised rate of 1.6 per cent, down from 3.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year.
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New York Magazine: No, Your Pet Issue Is Not Making Biden Lose
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The American political landscape in 2024 seems like a very simple story that people continue to overcomplicate. There was a large, global surge in prices in 2021 and 2022 as the economy restarted following the COVID-19 pandemic. That inflation surge left Joe Biden, like leaders in almost every major democracy, deeply unpopular. Biden, like his global peers, has yet to recover.
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Is it possible that Biden’s standing can recover as the economy returns to health and the inflation surge recedes further into the past? Sure. But as every month goes by, that prospect gets a bit less likely, and it grows increasingly probable that we will look back and conclude that Biden’s defeat was preordained.
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Biden’s Approval Is Low, Except Compared With Everyone Else
By Paul Krugman | May 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/opinion/biden-approval.html
Q. What do you call someone who speaks only one language?
A. An American.
It’s an old joke, but it still works. In fact, I’m monolingual myself, even though my academic work was largely focused on international trade and finance. In my defense, the great bulk of global economic research is published in English; and in general, Americans’ lack of language skills is less important than their insularity, their relative unfamiliarity with what happens and how things work in other nations.
Other countries, especially wealthy ones that more or less match the United States in technological development and general ability to get things done, are a sort of mirror that helps us see ourselves more clearly. Yet many Americans, even supposedly knowledgeable commentators, often seem unaware of both the ways other nations are similar to us and the ways they are different.
In particular, with the looming election on everyone’s mind, how many are aware that President Biden is among the more popular — well, less unpopular — leaders in the Western world?
I’ll come back to that surprising fact, and what it tells us, in a minute. First, let’s talk about some other international comparisons that seem relevant to the current situation.
Although we hear politicians on the campaign trail trying to make hay with the old Reagan-era question — Are you better off than you were four years ago? — there’s a lot of amnesia about what was actually happening in 2020, namely a deadly, terrifying pandemic. To some extent, I guess, people treat Covid-19 as an act of God, beyond the reach of politicians.
But that isn’t really true. No matter what we did, many people were going to die — but the death toll was affected by politics, perhaps especially by the way vaccines became a front in the culture war. And America had a really bad pandemic, even compared with its peers. U.S. life expectancy was already lagging behind comparable countries’ by 2019, but the gap widened after Covid-19 struck.
On the other hand, the U.S. economy experienced an exceptionally strong bounce back from the pandemic recession. Even after adjusting for inflation, U.S. gross domestic product per capita is up 7 percent since the eve of the pandemic, greatly exceeding growth in other major wealthy economies. This would seem on the face of it to say something good about Biden’s economic policies.
But public perception of our economic performance is strongly colored by rising prices. Inflation — the rate at which prices are rising — has subsided a lot, but prices haven’t and won’t come down. And there have been huge recriminations against policymakers, both the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve, either for supposedly causing the bout of inflation or at any rate failing to prevent it.
Here, however, is a case where the similarities between the wealthiest nations are more revealing than their differences. Inflation surged almost everywhere after the pandemic. And if you take care to compare “apples to Äpfel” — to use the same consumer price measures — inflation has been remarkably similar in different countries. Since the eve of the pandemic, the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices has risen 19.6 percent in the United States and 19.8 percent in the euro area. This strongly suggests that pandemic-related disruptions, rather than national policies, were inflation’s main driver.
Still, inflation rankles voters. Even when income growth exceeds inflation, as it has in the United States, people tend to feel that they earned their higher wages only to have them snatched away by higher prices. And this is probably the most important reason that, according to tracking polls conducted by Morning Consult, every single leader of a Group of 7 nation is underwater, with more voters disapproving than approving of their leadership.
So who’s the winner of this unpopularity contes
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Poor Paul...
Hopelessly addicted to the Copeium.
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Quote:A reminder that punishment for Trump will arrive very, very slowly. These guys couldn't afford $1 million per week lawyers, did not appoint the judges, and there is no uncertainty that what was done was wrong, but it still took 6 years to bring them to justice.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Poor Paul...
Hopelessly addicted to the Copeium.
Updated 7:16 PM CDT, May 13, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors, according to court papers filed Monday.
The plea deals for Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and Sean McKinnon were disclosed nearly six years after the 89-year-old gangster was beaten to death in his cell at a troubled West Virginia prison.
https://apnews.com/article/whitey-bulger-prison-killing-plea-change-8f
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Originally posted by second:Quote:A reminder that punishment for Trump will arrive very, very slowly. These guys couldn't afford $1 million per week lawyers, did not appoint the judges, and there is no uncertainty that what was done was wrong, but it still took 6 years to bring them to justice.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Poor Paul...
Hopelessly addicted to the Copeium.
Updated 7:16 PM CDT, May 13, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors, according to court papers filed Monday.
The plea deals for Fotios “Freddy” Geas, Paul J. DeCologero and Sean McKinnon were disclosed nearly six years after the 89-year-old gangster was beaten to death in his cell at a troubled West Virginia prison.
https://apnews.com/article/whitey-bulger-prison-killing-plea-change-8f
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Once again, your reply has nothing at all to do with anything I said. Nothing to do with anything crybaby Paul said either.
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Quote:Once again you remind me that you can't make a connection between what you do and what happens to you. That is why when unfortunate things happen to you, or Trump, you and he are left with the absolute conviction that nothing is your fault or his.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Once again, your reply has nothing at all to do with anything I said. Nothing to do with anything crybaby Paul said either.
Many believe that the New York “business records” charges now playing out in court would not have been brought against anyone but Trump.
And that’s probably true.
But there’s a reason.
It’s that mischaracterizing a hush-money payment as a legal expense to spare embarrassment — or even to cheat on taxes — is not something of great consequence . . . whereas doing it to become President of the Unted States and change the course of history is — and something no one but Trump has ever done.
Yes, it would have been better if Al Capone had been tried for murder instead of tax evasion.
So, too, if Trump could be timely tried for lying to the FBI about documents he claimed not to have had and then worked to conceal.
Better still, if he could be timely tried for attempting to overturn an American election.
He seems clearly guilty of both.
But given that he appointed judges (one in Florida, three to the Supreme Court) seemingly intent on dragging those cases out long enough for him to shut them down once reelected, we have to take what we can get — if we get anything at all. (It’s not easy to get all 12 jurors to agree; and not enough if only 11 do.)
https://andrewtobias.com/empowering-the-sensible-center-no-one-but-tru
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Once again you remind me that you can't make a connection between what you do and what happens to you. That is why when unfortunate things happen to you, or Trump, you and he are left with the absolute conviction that nothing is your fault or his.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Once again, your reply has nothing at all to do with anything I said. Nothing to do with anything crybaby Paul said either.
Get fucked.
I've taken blame for all the stuff that I've done to myself. Your little assessment here is just as incorrect as your flawed judgement about everyone else around you.
And this has nothing to do with the fact that you quote me 6 times per day but NEVER follow up that quote with anything even vaguely connected to the quoted post.
At this point I think you're just too stupid to understand what a quote feature is for.
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Quote:I'm pretty sure that you and Trump fucked yourselves real good with your poor behavior, lack of self-control, crookedness and general laziness reinforced with your little harangues that you two are right and the rest of the world is wrong about Trump and you.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Get fucked.
I've taken blame for all the stuff that I've done to myself. Your little assessment here is just as incorrect as your flawed judgement about everyone else around you.
And this has nothing to do with the fact that you quote me 6 times per day but NEVER follow up that quote with anything even vaguely connected to the quoted post.
At this point I think you're just too stupid to understand what a quote feature is for.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Get fucked.
I've taken blame for all the stuff that I've done to myself. Your little assessment here is just as incorrect as your flawed judgement about everyone else around you.
And this has nothing to do with the fact that you quote me 6 times per day but NEVER follow up that quote with anything even vaguely connected to the quoted post.
At this point I think you're just too stupid to understand what a quote feature is for.
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Nobody thinks about me at all, buddy, let alone the rest of the world.
The very same could be said about you and everybody you've ever known.
Meanwhile, who's fucked? I discovered the cheat codes and I live life on easy mode. You're the guy who walks around everyday with a massive chip on his shoulder always ready for a fight.
Get yourself some help.
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Quote:6ix, you, Trump, and all Trumptards I know are worthless people. That's not the opinion they have of themselves, but that's precisely why they are worthless. They are smug about how well they are performing in life. Their performance is inadequate, but they won't/can't understand why they aren't successful, except at accomplishing almost nothing with little effort. They are human zeros who feel they deserve respect and power over others. They deserve to be kicked in the teeth for what they are.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody thinks about me at all, buddy, let alone the rest of the world.
The very same could be said about you and everybody you've ever known.
Meanwhile, who's fucked? I discovered the cheat codes and I live life on easy mode. You're the guy who walks around everyday with a massive chip on his shoulder always ready for a fight.
Get yourself some help.
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Trump’s Government-in-Waiting Shared Their Plans for the Death Penalty. It’s Terrifying.
By Austin Sarat | May 14, 2024 at 9:09 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/project-2025-death-penalty
-trump-biden-wake-up-call.html
The next administration “should also pursue the death penalty for applicable crimes—particularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children—until Congress says otherwise through legislation.”
That the Supreme Court has in the past ruled that the death penalty should not be used for crimes that do not involve the death of the victim, such as child rape, seems not to matter to Project 2025. Perhaps the authors of “Mandate for Leadership” think that the current Supreme Court would take a different view.
And, with Trump, the authors of Project 2025’s death penalty plan know they will have a very receptive audience. In fact, he has long loved the death penalty.
That love affair goes back at least to 1989 when, as the Washington Post notes, “Trump, then a celebrity real estate developer, took out full-page advertisements … to call for a return to the death penalty after a female jogger was beaten and raped in Central Park. Five black and Hispanic teenagers were arrested and convicted in the case, spending years in prison. The ‘Central Park Five’ were later exonerated.”
He said at the time, “I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes.” Since then, as the Post observes, “Trump has weighed in … on a number of other cases,” using Twitter to make his pro–death penalty feelings known.
During his time as a candidate for president and then during his term in the Oval Office, he has frequently talked about, and talked up, the death penalty. He has embraced it as a sign of his toughness and masculinity and a blunt instrument of public policy.
He has long wanted to expand the range of offenses for which someone could get a death sentence. In 2018, Trump proposed executing drug dealers.
He also claimed that leaders in China and Singapore had told him that the death penalty was an effective method for dealing with drug problems.
In the waning months of Trump’s presidency, his administration went on a killing spree, reviving long-dormant federal executions. It put 13 people to death in a span of six months.
Along the way, the Trump administration dramatically expanded the federal government’s ability to carry out the death penalty by issuing a rule allowing it to hang, electrocute, gas, or shoot individuals it did not want to kill by lethal injection.
Since he left office, Trump has continued to embrace capital punishment. In 2022, he used speeches delivered in Las Vegas and at the America First Policy Institute to bemoan this country’s crime problem and again offer the death penalty as a surefire way to deal with it. “To put it simply, we are a nation in decline,” he said in Vegas. “The streets are flowing with the blood of innocent crime victims. … We need to end the crime wave immediately.”
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you, Trump, and all Trumptards I know are worthless people. That's not the opinion they have of themselves, but that's precisely why they are worthless. They are smug about how well they are performing in life. Their performance is inadequate, but they won't/can't understand why they aren't successful, except at accomplishing almost nothing with little effort. They are human zeros who feel they deserve respect and power over others. They deserve to be kicked in the teeth for what they are.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody thinks about me at all, buddy, let alone the rest of the world.
The very same could be said about you and everybody you've ever known.
Meanwhile, who's fucked? I discovered the cheat codes and I live life on easy mode. You're the guy who walks around everyday with a massive chip on his shoulder always ready for a fight.
Get yourself some help.
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Everything I have, I own. The one thing I don't have is debt.
I don't worry about anything. I need for nothing. I have some great friends and some close family relationships. And I've got more free time than anybody.
I'm just fine buddy. You worry about you and maybe you can figure out why everybody you know hates being in your presence.
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Your friends are not a representative sample of public opinion
It’s not just Republicans who are at risk of epistemic closure.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/your-friends-are-not-a-representative
Don't bother Nate. They've all had the critical thinking code stripped from their brains.
It will be impossible to soften the blow of a Joe Biden* defeat now because this upcoming election is what their entire lives revolve around right now and even though it's proven that they're lied to every day by the Media when everything they say is going to happen doesn't happen, they gladly keep lapping up the next thing that's going to save them from Trump because it's the only thing they want to believe in.
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A second Trump presidency could have dire implications for European security.
Trump’s defenders argue that he is bluffing to pressure Europe into spending more on defense. But former U.S. officials who worked closely with Trump on NATO during his tenure, including one of us (Hooker), are convinced he will withdraw from the alliance if he is reelected. Trump hugely resents the more moderate advisers who kept him in check during his first term. If he reaches the White House in 2025, the guardrails will be off.
The U.S. Congress is concerned, too. It recently enacted legislation to prohibit a president from withdrawing from NATO unless Congress approves, either by a two-thirds vote in the Senate or an act of both houses of Congress. But Trump could circumvent this prohibition. He has already raised doubts about his willingness to honor NATO’s Article 5 mutual defense clause. By withholding funding, recalling U.S. troops and commanders from Europe, and blocking important decisions in the North Atlantic Council (NATO’s top deliberative body), Trump could dramatically weaken the alliance without formally leaving it.
NATO Cannot Survive Without America
If Trump Pulls Out, the Alliance Would Likely Fall Apart
By Hans Binnendijk, R. D. Hooker, Jr., and Alexander Vershbow | May 13, 2024
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/nato-cannot-survive-without-america
6ix, I expect you to approve of Trump withdrawing from NATO, mostly because you know nothing true about why NATO exists, other than Russian falsehoods about NATO being the source of all evil and an unnecessary expense for the USA. The Russians are very concerned that the USA not spend too much on the defense of Europe. The Russians only want to help the USA to balance its Federal budget. They have no ulterior motives at all.
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The Republican 6-week abortion ban is really a 4-week abortion ban
A trio of academic researchers are concerned that most Americans don't know how pregnancies are dated. It turns out I didn't know either. I've always assumed that pregnancy is dated from conception and lasts about 39 weeks.
Nope. Pregnancies are dated from the start of the mother's last menstrual period, which is usually about two weeks before conception. The average gestation lasts a hair over 38 weeks, for a total of 40.
Does this matter? The authors suggest it does because it means "6-week" abortion bans are actually 4-week bans dated from conception — when it's unlikely a woman even knows she's pregnant. So it's an important distinction.
I suppose. My own take is that the whole point of a 6-week ban is to seem a little less extreme than the zealots while still effectively prohibiting all abortions. So it's not as if the dating distinction is just an innocent mistake that needs explanation. It's all part of the Republicans' plan.
https://theconversation.com/confusion-over-how-pregnancy-dates-are-mea
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Guess it's time to start fucking dildos then.
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6ix, I expect you to approve of Trump withdrawing from NATO, mostly because you know nothing true about why NATO exists, other than Russian falsehoods about NATO being the source of all evil and an unnecessary expense for the USA. The Russians are very concerned that the USA not spend too much on the defense of Europe. The Russians only want to help the USA to balance its Federal budget. They have no ulterior motives at all.
Fuck NATO. Fuck your brainwashed, programmed response.
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Joe Biden* has just made a terrible mistake and set a date for 2 debates, where he will be annihilated on live TV before millions.
I dunno, Don.... Trap?
TRAP!
Wear a Kevlar vest and a helmet. The only way they're agreeing with allowing you to debate Biden* is if they have a plan to incapacitate you or have you outright murdered.
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Supreme Court restores Louisiana voting map with majority-Black district
The Supreme Court restored a congressional voting map in Louisiana on Wednesday that includes an additional majority-Black district, handing a victory to Black voters and Democrats less than six months before the November election.
The 5-3 order was in response to emergency appeals filed after a federal three-judge panel in Louisiana threw out the recently redrawn map last month, ruling it was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-restores-louisia
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Supreme Court restores Louisiana voting map with majority-Black district
The Supreme Court restored a congressional voting map in Louisiana on Wednesday that includes an additional majority-Black district, handing a victory to Black voters and Democrats less than six months before the November election.
The 5-3 order was in response to emergency appeals filed after a federal three-judge panel in Louisiana threw out the recently redrawn map last month, ruling it was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-restores-louisia
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That's cool.
Black people aren't voting for Joe Biden* anyhow. And it's not as if Louisiana would be at play for Democrats even if they did.
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The New York Trump Case Is Kind of Perfect. The case embodies the defendant.
Not all that long ago, I thought that the trial currently being held in The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump would be the last one I’d want to see as the first one tried against the former president. It seemed the least serious of the cases against him. Here’s a man who tried to overthrow American democracy by launching a coup to stay in power. A man who allegedly stole dozens of boxes of classified national-security documents from the White House, some containing secrets about other countries’ nuclear-weapons capabilities, then lied about the documents, concealed them, and obstructed a federal investigation about them.
I thought I would have strongly preferred the cases about those matters to have gone first, particularly the secret-documents case, which substantively would be a lock, were it not for the judge overseeing it. But I feel the need to admit error. The truth is, I’ve come around to the view that People v. Trump is, in at least some ways, the perfect case to put Trump in the dock for the first time, and—I hope, but we’ll see—perhaps prison.
Because this case really captures Donald Trump. The legal commentariat have been engaged in an odd debate about what to call it. “The Stormy Daniels case.” “The hush-money case.” “The porn-star-hush-money case.” (Personally, that’s always been my favorite, and I think it sounds even better in German—Pornostarschweigegeldrechtsfall.) The more legally precise would like it to be known as “the New York business-records-falsification case,” because that’s what the New York penal code says it is. Some high-minded people I know prefer “the New York election-interference prosecution,” because it involves the concealment of a matter that might well have affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential race.
All these locutions work, but what the case is really about is Trump’s modus operandi—lying. He’s a matryoshka doll of mendacity. He lies, usually lies some more, and then often lies about the lies he’s previously told. He told at least 30,573 lies while president, by The Washington Post’s count. He lies almost whenever he opens his mouth, even when truth would better serve him. To be sure, his other criminal cases involve lies—lies about the 2016 election, lies about the military secrets he stole. But the alleged lies in People v. Trump strike at the core of his moral putrescence—and Trump knows it. They are lies allegedly meant to cover up a tawdry man’s tawdry behavior. The case truly embodies Donald Trump. And for that reason, I think, it deeply disturbs him.
More at https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/05/stormy-daniels-on
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The New York Trump Case Is Kind of Perfect.
Sure.
We'll put that on your tombstone when your brain explodes after Trump gets reelected.
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As usual, this defendant just couldn’t help himself. The prosecution was entitled to put on evidence of the sex to establish Trump’s motive for the payoff and cover-up. The defendant could have had his lawyers not dispute the point, even stipulate to it. What’s the harm? His political supporters stand by him even though he’s already a civilly adjudicated sex offender, so why would they care one whit about what he did consensually for a couple of minutes with an adult-film actor once upon a time in Stateline, Nevada? Had he not insisted on contesting the point, Daniels might not have had to testify, or at least she might have been on and off the stand in a flash. Because, again, what ultimately matters in the case happened mostly in New York City in 2016.
Trump’s insistence on pointlessly contesting Daniels’s veracity entitled the prosecution to draw her account out even more than it otherwise could have—not only to establish a record on why Trump would have been motivated to hush Daniels up (because sex), but to bolster her credibility with detail of her recollection (about sex). As Justice Juan Merchan later told the defense counsel in denying their motion for a mistrial:
"Your denial [of a sexual encounter] puts the jury in a position of having to choose who they believe: Donald Trump, who denies there was an encounter, or Stormy Daniels, who claims there was."
"Although the People do not have to prove that a sexual encounter actually did occur, they do have the right to rehabilitate Ms. Daniels’ credibility and to corroborate her story, which was immediately attacked [by the defense] on opening statements."
"The more specificity Ms. Daniels can provide about the encounter, the more the jury can weigh to determine whether the encounter did occur and, if so, whether they choose to credit Ms. Daniels’ story."
The result, thanks to the defendant, was the introduction of more evidence that made him look like a duplicitous clod.
More at https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/05/stormy-daniels-on
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In defense of Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson assails U.S. government in an attack on the judicial system
The Associated Press reports:
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the hush money case against Donald Trump Tuesday as an illegitimate “sham,” becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court, embrace the former president’s claims of political persecution and attack the U.S. system of justice.
It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying Trump’s defense and turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy.
Johnson, who is second in line for the presidency, called the court system “corrupt.”
Outside the New York courthouse, he decried “this ridiculous prosecution that is not about justice.” He said, “It’s all about politics.”
The speaker is leading a growing list of Republican lawmakers who are criticizing the American judicial system as they rally to Trump’s side, appearing at the courthouse to defend the party’s presumptive presidential nominee. Trump is accused of having arranged secret payments to a porn actress to hide negative stories during his successful 2016 campaign for president.
With Trump stuck in court and barred by a judge’s gag order from criticizing witnesses or certain elements of the case, Johnson and the lawmakers are taking it upon themselves to attack the proceedings, now in a fourth week of witness testimony. They’re using the trial as a de facto campaign stop as they work to return the former president to the White House.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-speaker-mike-johnson-court-09a
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It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying Trump’s defense and turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy.
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Quote:I swear to God that Trumptards (and even ordinary Republicans) have very peculiar ideas about being responsible for your own behavior and accepting punishment when you have misbehaved. By that I mean Trump is not responsible for his own behavior and therefore he shouldn't be punished because he could not help being who he is: a goddamn asshole.
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Romney Says He’d ‘Have Immediately Pardoned’ Trump If He Were Biden
Romney, who voted to convict Trump in both impeachments, said Biden should pardon his opponent so the country doesn’t have to go through the prosecution of an ex-president.
Published May 15, 2024 6:40PM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitt-romney-says-hed-have-immediately-pa
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Romney claimed that if Lyndon B. Johnson were still president, “he’d have been all over that prosecutor” and threatened to drive him out of office if he went forward with the trial.
“But I’m pretty sure you support having separate but equal branches of government,” Ruhle retorted.
“I do, but I also— let me tell you, I mean—you may disagree with this, but had I been President Biden, when the Justice Department brought out indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him. I’d have pardoned President Trump,” Romney stated.
“Why? Well, because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned the little guy,” he continued. “And, number two, it’s not going to get resolved before the election. It’s not going to have an impact before the election. And, frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president.”
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When even a Mormon like Romney calls for pardoning a crook like Trump, I can see why Republican behavior is uniformly reprehensible. You Trumptards refuse to hold yourself to any kind standards once you get caught. You start whining that it is unfair and beg for mercy rather than admit you are wrong and accepting your punishment.
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Well fine then, just pout.
Maybe had you listened to me when I said that Trump would be fine instead of your lying Legacy Media, you wouldn't be in such a bad mood right now.
Biden* is on his way out the door buddy.
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In defense of Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson assails U.S. government in an attack on the judicial system
The Associated Press reports:
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the hush money case against Donald Trump Tuesday as an illegitimate “sham,” becoming the highest-ranking Republican to show up at court, embrace the former president’s claims of political persecution and attack the U.S. system of justice.
It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker amplifying Trump’s defense and turning the Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy.
Johnson, who is second in line for the presidency, called the court system “corrupt.”
Outside the New York courthouse, he decried “this ridiculous prosecution that is not about justice.” He said, “It’s all about politics.”
The speaker is leading a growing list of Republican lawmakers who are criticizing the American judicial system as they rally to Trump’s side, appearing at the courthouse to defend the party’s presumptive presidential nominee. Trump is accused of having arranged secret payments to a porn actress to hide negative stories during his successful 2016 campaign for president.
With Trump stuck in court and barred by a judge’s gag order from criticizing witnesses or certain elements of the case, Johnson and the lawmakers are taking it upon themselves to attack the proceedings, now in a fourth week of witness testimony. They’re using the trial as a de facto campaign stop as they work to return the former president to the White House.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-speaker-mike-johnson-court-09a
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Very important post TWO. Johnson is number three in the country and he was up to his neck in the coup. Very important post, very dangerous times for America.
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Quote:Between the tip-top Republicans' refusal to punish bad behavior by Trump and the lowest echelon of Trumptards being unable even to recognize bad behavior by Trump or by themselves, the USA will be seeing more and more bad behavior from Trump and his kind of people.
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Very important post TWO. Johnson is number three in the country and he was up to his neck in the coup. Very important post, very dangerous times for America.
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You boys had better get your bags packed.
Looking forward to you crying for 4 years straight.
Oh... What am I talking about? You boys never stopped crying.
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Is Common Sense Realism Making a Comeback?
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/is-common-sense-realism-making-a-co
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One of the largest political rallies ever held in the state of New Jersey took place in Wildwood on Saturday. Between 80,000 and 100,000 people are reported to have shown up for Donald Trump’s rally. Whatever one may think of Donald Trump, the sky-high attendance at his rally in this blue state enclave is a sure sign that average Americans are fed up with the Biden administration and with the Beltway Bolsheviks who advise and support him.
Joe Biden* can't even get 20 people in a room together.
You guys are fucked in November.
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Boy... The Legacy Media wrapped up this week freaking out.
Gonna have to pay the makeup artists double time to hide all those bags under their eyes on Monday.
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Trump demands that Joe Biden* is screened for drugs immediately before the 1st debate.
Good for you, Don. We don't want our presidents juicing on Adderall and Adrenochrome anymore.
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USA TODAY: Biden's poll numbers are awful. America, brace for a Trump victory in November.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/05/17/trump-wins
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Archived Link to avoid paywall: https://archive.ph/qrtd9
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Biden is probably going to lose this election.
Many of us realize that already, I suspect, but grief is a process. Anti-Trumpers who are momentarily stuck in denial still have more than five months to reach the acceptance stage, and naturally some are in no hurry to get there.
Hehe. Oh, I'm braced for it alright.
I find it quite amusing the author refers to Trump as a sore-loser man-baby, yet they feel the need to go on and subject the reader with 46 paragraphs of crying after making the statement.
Don't worry about what Trump voters are going to do if Trump doesn't win. Worry about what the people you've been lying to for 3.5 years are going to do if Biden doesn't win.
I applaud your effort now to break it to them easy and tell them to get ready for the defeat now, but they're not even going to read this article. You've cultivated a cult, Mr. Nick Catoggio. Right now you're Leah Ramini turning on Scientology.
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Even conservative economists agree: We should have higher taxes on the rich
Tyler Cowen points today to a new paper that investigates whether economists tend to talk their own book. That is, do they generally come to conclusions that fit their political leanings?
The answer, unsurprisingly, is yes, and I doubt that we need to bother with any more research on this subject. Tyler particularly directs our attention to this:
For example, we find that going from the most left-wing authored estimate of the taxable top income elasticity to the most right-wing authored estimate decreases the optimal tax rate from 84% to 58%.
https://academic.oup.com/ej/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ej/ue
ae026/7659819?login=false
That's a big difference. But it's notable that even the furthest-right economists can't manage to twist the evidence any further than a 58% optimal tax rate. That's a very high top tax rate by their standards.
Now, I assume that "optimal" in this context means "the rate that raises the most money"—not the rate that's fairest or most efficient. Still, this indicates that in terms of revenue raising, top rates should be at least 58% and probably closer to 70%. In other words, about what we had before Ronald Reagan wrecked the public fisc for good.
FYI:
In 2024, the top tax rate of 37% applies to those earning over $609,350 for individual single filers, up from $578,125 last year.
https://www.google.com/search?q=top+tax+rate+2024
The top tax rate for long-term capital gains is 20% for those earning over $518,901 for individual single filers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=long+term+capital+gains
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Texas governor pardons racist murderer
You remember Daniel Perry, don't you? He's the guy in Texas who developed a hatred of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 and wrote to friends about how he planned to kill a few of them. Eventually, he did. He deliberately drove his car into a crowd of BLM protesters, claimed that one of them had maybe raised a rifle in his direction, and then gunned him down before plowing through the rest of the crowd to make his escape.
A jury — in Texas — unanimously convicted him of murder and sentenced him to 25 years in prison, but right-wingers were outraged and Gov. Greg Abbott promised to pardon him just as soon as he could.
That turned out to be yesterday, and Abbott has followed through. Perry is a free man because it's now legal in Texas to kill protesters if they annoy you a lot. This is disgusting beyond words. Perry's act was a brutal, cold-blooded, violent crime motivated by a long history of outspoken racism, but because he was acting out a conservative anti-BLM fantasy Abbott set him free. I'd say it's unbelievable, but these days that's not true. It's all too believable from a modern Republican.
https://x.com/SawyerHackett/status/1791196932754272376
https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Daniel_Perry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Garrett_Foster
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:
Texas governor pardons racist murderer
You remember Daniel Perry, don't you? He's the guy in Texas who developed a hatred of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 and wrote to friends about how he planned to kill a few of them. Eventually, he did. He deliberately drove his car into a crowd of BLM protesters, claimed that one of them had maybe raised a rifle in his direction, and then gunned him down before plowing through the rest of the crowd to make his escape.
A jury — in Texas — unanimously convicted him of murder and sentenced him to 25 years in prison, but right-wingers were outraged and Gov. Greg Abbott promised to pardon him just as soon as he could.
That turned out to be yesterday, and Abbott has followed through. Perry is a free man because it's now legal in Texas to kill protesters if they annoy you a lot. This is disgusting beyond words. Perry's act was a brutal, cold-blooded, violent crime motivated by a long history of outspoken racism, but because he was acting out a conservative anti-BLM fantasy Abbott set him free. I'd say it's unbelievable, but these days that's not true. It's all too believable from a modern Republican.
https://x.com/SawyerHackett/status/1791196932754272376
https://historica.fandom.com/wiki/Daniel_Perry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Garrett_Foster
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You didn't give a shit when a black dude killed a dozen white people including children at a Christmas parade a few years back. And I can guaranty you that nobody made claims that the people in that parade were dangerous and it wouldn't have been taken seriously by anyone if they tried to make the argument as kids were dying in the hospital on life support as your Lefty Media covered it up.
SPOILER ALERT: Nobody gives a shit about this either.
FUCK BLM.
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Quote:6ix, I am not changing the subject, which is that all Trumptards I know think of themselves as strong, self-controlled, sane, honest, etc. all the admirable qualities that Trumptards don't possess. Every emergency (be it a shooting, a riot, a protest march, or just a news story about violence) reveals the Trumptards running in circles screaming/shouting and pooping in their pants because fear overrules them ("Fear is the mind-killer" - Dune quote). Fearful people are strongly attracted to Trump as their protection against a cruel and dangerous world.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You didn't give a shit when a black dude killed a dozen white people including children at a Christmas parade a few years back. And I can guaranty you that nobody made claims that the people in that parade were dangerous and it wouldn't have been taken seriously by anyone if they tried to make the argument as kids were dying in the hospital on life support as your Lefty Media covered it up.
SPOILER ALERT: Nobody gives a shit about this either.
FUCK BLM.
Everybody understood that withdrawing from Afghanistan was dangerous
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan during the American military’s 2021 withdrawal repeatedly warned Washington that security would get “very bad, very fast” after troops departed, but the Biden administration still failed to grasp the danger in keeping its embassy open with only nominal protection, he told lawmakers investigating the war’s deadly endgame.
Again? Aside from a lone suicide bomber, the withdrawal went well after a single half day of chaos at the start. The embassy, in particular, was fine, and performed heroically throughout the entire time—something the State Department has long deserved more credit for. In the end, we evacuated more than 100,000 people under the most stressful conditions imaginable.
The Biden administration deserves credit for staying the course and finally getting us out of Afghanistan. The military deserves credit for implementing a massive evacuation plan and executing it well. The State Department deserves credit for staying open at the airport and risking their lives to process papers for a huge number of evacuees.
Republicans in Congress, by contrast, deserve nothing but jeers for continuing to try to find somebody to blame for those CNN pictures on August 16 that lasted for a grand total of about four hours. As usual, they should be ashamed of themselves, but they aren't.
https://jabberwocking.com/everybody-understood-that-withdrawing-from-a
fghanistan-was-dangerous/
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Trump says he will break the simplest rule in the Constitution and also says he won't break it. Nobody knows which Trump is real. He wants to keep you uncertain. Elect him and find out in 2028 if Trump will run again.
Former President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he could be considered a three-term president if he clinches a win next November.
Presidents are restricted to just two terms of office under the 22nd Amendment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4673353-trump-suggests-he-could-
be-a-three-term-president-if-he-wins-election/
Quote:https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-x
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, I am not changing the subject, which is that all Trumptards I know think of themselves as strong, self-controlled, sane, honest, etc. all the admirable qualities that Trumptards don't possess. Every emergency (be it a shooting, a riot, a protest march, or just a news story about violence) reveals the Trumptards running in circles screaming/shouting and pooping in their pants because fear overrules them ("Fear is the mind-killer" - Dune quote). Fearful people are strongly attracted to Trump as their protection against a cruel and dangerous world.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You didn't give a shit when a black dude killed a dozen white people including children at a Christmas parade a few years back. And I can guaranty you that nobody made claims that the people in that parade were dangerous and it wouldn't have been taken seriously by anyone if they tried to make the argument as kids were dying in the hospital on life support as your Lefty Media covered it up.
SPOILER ALERT: Nobody gives a shit about this either.
FUCK BLM.
Everybody understood that withdrawing from Afghanistan was dangerous
The top U.S. general in Afghanistan during the American military’s 2021 withdrawal repeatedly warned Washington that security would get “very bad, very fast” after troops departed, but the Biden administration still failed to grasp the danger in keeping its embassy open with only nominal protection, he told lawmakers investigating the war’s deadly endgame.
Again? Aside from a lone suicide bomber, the withdrawal went well after a single half day of chaos at the start. The embassy, in particular, was fine, and performed heroically throughout the entire time—something the State Department has long deserved more credit for. In the end, we evacuated more than 100,000 people under the most stressful conditions imaginable.
The Biden administration deserves credit for staying the course and finally getting us out of Afghanistan. The military deserves credit for implementing a massive evacuation plan and executing it well. The State Department deserves credit for staying open at the airport and risking their lives to process papers for a huge number of evacuees.
Republicans in Congress, by contrast, deserve nothing but jeers for continuing to try to find somebody to blame for those CNN pictures on August 16 that lasted for a grand total of about four hours. As usual, they should be ashamed of themselves, but they aren't.
https://jabberwocking.com/everybody-understood-that-withdrawing-from-a
fghanistan-was-dangerous/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You did change the subject, and you're an idiot.
I gave you an equal argument. You've never once said a single thing about the Wisconsin Christmas Massacre, and now when presented another opportunity you still haven't.
Fuck you. Fuck Democrats. Fuck the Legacy Media. Fuck the con artists running BLM.
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump says he will break the simplest rule in the Constitution and also says he won't break it. Nobody knows which Trump is real. He wants to keep you uncertain. Elect him and find out in 2028 if Trump will run again.
Former President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that he could be considered a three-term president if he clinches a win next November.
Presidents are restricted to just two terms of office under the 22nd Amendment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4673353-trump-suggests-he-could-
be-a-three-term-president-if-he-wins-election/Quote:https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-x
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You should probably read the entire article before you post it, dummy.
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