Elections; 2024
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Quote:Trump is a criminal. There are consequences for his rotten behavior. Being rotten has consequences for Trumptards, too. 6ix, you smoke, drink, layabout and you will die from the consequences. Tough shit, loser.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You worry about all of that a lot more than I do.
Got any more pirate links for us today, rich guy?
We don't care about your lies and we aren't going to be bullied by the likes of you anymore.
Meanwhile, enjoy today. Back to work for you tomorrow.
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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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They're all criminals, you simple-minded fuck.
You just look the other way by nature whenever people on your "side" are doing it.
It is impossible to have a real conversation with you. I don't know if it's severe autism or what's going on here, but you've got some real mental problems.
You need to get yourself some help.
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Politico: Disappointment and ‘depression': Biden’s biggest fundraisers watch their advantage vanish
Joe Biden’s allies are bracing after Donald Trump erased the president’s financial edge.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/23/biden-trump-finances-00164566
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Joe Biden’s campaign planned to bury Donald Trump in an avalanche of cash.
Instead, his allies are bracing for a slugfest without the benefit of a fatter wallet, as financial reports showed Trump outraising Biden in back-to-back months, hauling in huge sums after his 34 felony convictions and erasing Biden’s longstanding financial edge.
What did I fucking tell you idiots was going to happen if you did it. I was begging you to do it.
Also...
Trump leads the polling aggregate by 2.2 points now.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden-vs-kennedy-vs-west-vs-stein
On this day in 2020, Joe Biden* was leading Trump by 10.2 points.
You.
Are.
Fucked.
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Quote:Trumptards are fucking idiots. That is the polarizing issue in America. Once upon a time it was slave-owners were the fucking idiots in another polarizing era that WAS NOT SOLVED BY CONVERSATION.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It is impossible to have a real conversation with you. I don't know if it's severe autism or what's going on here, but you've got some real mental problems.
You need to get yourself some help.
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He will also be your next President.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards are fucking idiots. That is the polarizing issue in America.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It is impossible to have a real conversation with you. I don't know if it's severe autism or what's going on here, but you've got some real mental problems.
You need to get yourself some help.
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Hoooo boy. Somebody's getting mighty salty now that he's figuring out which way the wind is blowing.
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Once upon a time it was slave-owners were the fucking idiots in another polarizing era that WAS NOT SOLVED BY CONVERSATION.
Yup.
And Democrats were the slave owners.
Oops.
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Quote:I am well aware that modern-day Republicans in Texas switched political parties because I was there when the worst people in Texas voted for Nixon once the Democrats weren't racist enough. Nowadays, the Democrats are virulently anti-slavery and anti-racism while the Republicans support Civil War monuments celebrating Confederate generals who murdered abolitionists.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup.
And Democrats were the slave owners.
Oops.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Although Fauci recounts many insulting and profanity-laced conversations with Trump, he is so measured and respectful in his assessment of the former president that it’s almost comical.
“President Trump’s tendency to announce that he loved me and then scream at me on the phone,” he writes, “well, let’s just say I found this to be out of the ordinary.”
He could have unleashed well-deserved fury on the former president and his lackluster response to a disease that ended up killing more than a million Americans. Instead, he writes, so many deaths “should never have happened and likely would not have happened had the right tone been set by the highest levels of government for the promotion of proper public health principles and practices right from the start of the outbreak.”
In contrast, Trump’s vilification of Fauci has made him a predictable target of vitriol and worse. He recounts the vicious conspiracy theories that led to violent threats against him and necessitated round-the-clock security: He was a Hillary Clinton mole planted in the White House to destroy Trump. He was out to abolish the 2nd Amendment. His wife is the sister of Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. He tortured puppies for science. He was responsible for the very creation of SARS-CoV-2.
He was also baselessly accused of “crimes against humanity” and sexual assault. Republican congressional candidates vowed to put him in prison. Pro-Russia conspiracy peddlers said Moscow’s airstrikes in Ukraine were aimed at bioweapons labs where Fauci was developing a COVID-19 sequel.
“Welcome to my dystopian nightmare,” he writes.
The absurdity continues to this day, of course. This month, Fauci testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, whose MAGA Republican representatives seized the opportunity to beclown themselves as usual.
“You’re not a doctor,” spat Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Fauci — who has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science and 62 honorary doctorates and has written, cowritten or edited more than 1,400 scientific publications — didn’t respond.
He didn't have to. He’s been saving lives longer than she’s been alive.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/column-anthony-fauci-has-a-righ
t-to-savage-trump-his-memoir-takes-a-different-and-telling-approach/ar-BB1oJlJX
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I am well aware that modern-day Republicans in Texas switched political parties because I was there when the worst people in Texas voted for Nixon once the Democrats weren't racist enough. Nowadays, the Democrats are virulently anti-slavery and anti-racism while the Republicans support Civil War monuments celebrating Confederate generals who murdered abolitionists.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yup.
And Democrats were the slave owners.
Oops.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You are so full of shit it's coming out your ears, son.
You forgot anti-fascist. You're so anti-fascist that you employ fascists to combat your imaginary fascism.
Democrats are the party of LARPers and mental problems. When you're not pretending to be Che Guevera, your men are dressing up like women and demanding to be taken seriously.
But you are not serious people, and the days of you being taken seriously are over.
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Originally posted by second:
Although Fauci recounts many insulting and profanity-laced conversations with Trump, he is so measured and respectful in his assessment of the former president that it’s almost comical.
Fauci is afraid of going to prison for the rest of his life for crimes against humanity.
He'd better go find an island and hide there.
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Looks like the Trump conviction in the NY Kangaroo court was another bust, huh?
This far out and we've got a lot of fresh polling from after the fact.
Trump still maintains his polling advantage that he's had over Biden* since September of last year, and it slowly seems to be recovering from any minor dip this fake court verdict may have caused. (And, once again, Joe Biden* had a 10.2 point lead on Trump 4 years ago today).
Only 3 days to debate night...
Are the Democrats going to be smart and figure out a way for Joe* to back out before then, or are they going to put him in the lion's den?
Tick Tock
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Bill Barr Endorses Trump
https://angrybearblog.com/2024/06/barr-deciding-to-endorse-trump
"I think the real danger to the country — the real danger to democracy, as I say — is the progressive agenda. A continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide in my opinion."
Previously, Barr wrote a book called “One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General” denouncing Trump.
Barr on Trump, before yesterday: “If you believe in his policies, what he’s advertising is his policies, he’s the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them. He does not have the discipline, he does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system. It is a horror show when he is left to his own devices.”
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RCP Average
6/3 - 6/21 — — 46.1 45.2
Trump
+0.9
CBS News
6/17 - 6/21 1881 RV 3.4 50 49
Trump
+1
Rasmussen Reports
6/20 - 6/20 1000 LV 3.0 49 40
Trump
+9
FOX News
6/14 - 6/17 1095 RV 3.0 48 50
Biden
+2
Morning Consult
6/14 - 6/16 10132 RV 1.0 43 44
Biden
+1
NPR/PBS/Marist
6/10 - 6/12 1184 RV 3.8 49 49
Tie
Reuters/Ipsos
6/10 - 6/11 930 RV 3.0 41 39
Trump
+2
Daily Kos/Civiqs
6/8 - 6/11 1140 RV 3.1 45 45
Tie
Yahoo News
6/3 - 6/6 1239 RV — 44 46
Biden
+2
Emerson
6/4 - 6/5 1000 RV 3.0 46 45
Trump
+1
Check out Rasmussen; bullshit. Real Clear Politics is bought and paid for as well. They have Trump leading Biden 0.9 points. I don't think so.
Rasmussen Reports
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Pro-Trump extremists are sure he will win. That could be dangerous.
Analysts say Donald Trump’s most militant fans are threatening online but quiet on the ground, a posture that could change if the November election doesn’t go their way.
By Hannah Allam | June 24, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/24/trump-election-extr
emism-threats-violence/
Donald Trump has a history of fiery calls urging supporters to rise up, and his most militant fans often have obliged.
So it might seem counterintuitive that now, as Trump faces unprecedented legal problems and a close election in November, the nation is experiencing a lull in political unrest — in fact, one of the quietest periods that extremism researchers have recorded in recent years.
Chief among the factors explaining the lack of political violence, analysts say, is a simple one: Trump’s supporters believe he will win the presidency.
Trump himself has contributed to that certainty by insisting the only way he can lose is if the other side cheats. There’s little reason for pro-Trump extremist groups or radicalized MAGA fans to demonstrate when they foresee the presumptive Republican nominee coasting to victory over President Biden in five months and positioned to enact promised “retribution” against his enemies in seven, political violence trackers say.
Polling shows a tight race: Trump and Biden are roughly tied among registered voters nationally, with Trump tending to hold small leads in several of the all-important battleground states that Biden won four years ago.
But in the eyes of many Trump backers, he is almost certain to prevail if the vote is fair. Their confidence carries risk: Experts warn that should Trump lose, the gap between expectation and reality could make for a highly combustible period after the election.
“They’re assuming that Trump is going to win, and what’s jazzing them up right now is, ‘Then it’s going to be time for retribution,’” said Mary McCord, a former federal prosecutor who now leads the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, a Georgetown Law center focused on threats to U.S. security and democracy.
Should Trump lose, however, “it’s just going to be the same thing [as 2020],” she said. “‘This was rigged, they cheated, they stole this.’ That narrative is super dangerous.”
Given a national discourse rife with dehumanizing speech, and studies showing U.S. attitudes becoming more supportive of political violence, many extremism researchers fear the current lull is only a pause. Those fears are compounded, they add, by the hard right’s portrayal of Trump as not just a candidate but a savior, a messiah-like figure who represents their only hope of rescuing the republic from the “radical left.”
Supporters view the former president’s four criminal cases, including one that ended with 34 felony convictions last month, as “deep state” election interference. They printed his mug shot on T-shirts. They compared his indictments to the persecution of Christ. “Jesus went through a sham trial too, and I still follow Him,” reads one popular right-wing meme.
The religious-like fervor around Trump is dangerous, watchdog groups say, because it means a loss in November could turn him into a “martyr” that militant supporters then feel compelled to avenge.
Extremism monitors have warned for years that Trump’s incendiary rhetoric inspires real-world attacks. Assailants have invoked his name in dozens of violent episodes, and his “Stop the Steal” rallies in late 2020 and early 2021 after his election loss became magnets for members of the violent far-right groups that were instrumental in the Capitol attack.
Online chatter about “civil war” has surged when Trump has appeared threatened, from the FBI search of his Florida estate in 2022 to his convictions last month in a Manhattan court.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which monitors extremism, recorded around 9,300 online posts related to civil unrest within a day of Trump’s conviction, nearly the same number after th
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Originally posted by THG:
Check out Rasmussen; bullshit. Real Clear Politics is bought and paid for as well. They have Trump leading Biden 0.9 points. I don't think so.
Rasmussen Reports
6/20 - 6/20 1000 LV 3.0 49 40
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+9
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FiveThirtyEight's got Biden up 0.4 points without Rasmussen. Big fuckin' whoop, Ted.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/nati
onal/
Just in case you're too stupid to be aware of the Electoral College, these polls are talking about the popularity contest that has nothing to do with who gets elected.
And considering that there are 5 MILLION more Democrat voters than Republican voters in California alone, a 0.4 lead for Joe Biden* is a fucking travesty for you guys. Joe Biden* was up 10.2 points on Trump this week 4 years ago at Real Clear Politics. I'm sure he was up 12 points on Trump at FiveThirtyEight at the same time.
Trump is leading Biden in all the swing state polls, even at FiveThirtyEight, and he's even basically tied with Biden in both Virginia and Minnesota too. States where no Republican should ever even be close.
Joe Biden* is fuckin' toast.
Debate night is 3 nights away. I wonder if you're even going to post here on Friday or not.
I bet you don't.
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Bill Barr Endorses Trump
https://angrybearblog.com/2024/06/barr-deciding-to-endorse-trump
"I think the real danger to the country — the real danger to democracy, as I say — is the progressive agenda. A continuation of the Biden administration is national suicide in my opinion."
Previously, Barr wrote a book called “One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General” denouncing Trump.
Barr on Trump, before yesterday: “If you believe in his policies, what he’s advertising is his policies, he’s the last person who could actually execute them and achieve them. He does not have the discipline, he does not have the ability for strategic thinking and linear thinking or setting priorities or how to get things done in the system. It is a horror show when he is left to his own devices.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Yeah. Fuck Barr.
That fat, worthless, evil fuck.
You and Ted were on your knees slobbing on the dude's knob when he wrote that book.
So you're surprised he's doing this now?
If I were Trump I'd tell the world that I'd be wiping my ass with Barr's endorsement. Being the showman he is, he should even televise it.
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Quote:A career criminal named Barr testified that Godfather Trump is a goofy jackass who couldn't competently plan a crime. Barr knows Trump, but unless you are Trumptard, you already knew Trump was a goofy jackass who was incompetent at planning ahead, which is why Trump has been in trouble with the law for decades. Trump never anticipates what will obviously go wrong with his stupid plans.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. Fuck Barr.
That fat, worthless, evil fuck.
You and Ted were on your knees slobbing on the dude's knob when he wrote that book.
So you're surprised he's doing this now?
If I were Trump I'd tell the world that I'd be wiping my ass with Barr's endorsement. Being the showman he is, he should even televise it.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:A career criminal named Barr testified that Godfather Trump is a goofy jackass who couldn't competently plan a crime. Barr knows Trump, but unless you are Trumptard, you already knew Trump was a goofy jackass who was incompetent at planning ahead, which is why Trump has been in trouble with the law for decades. Trump never anticipates what will obviously go wrong with his stupid plans.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yeah. Fuck Barr.
That fat, worthless, evil fuck.
You and Ted were on your knees slobbing on the dude's knob when he wrote that book.
So you're surprised he's doing this now?
If I were Trump I'd tell the world that I'd be wiping my ass with Barr's endorsement. Being the showman he is, he should even televise it.
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I just find it amusing that a guy who you will admit lied for a living says something you believe is true, to sell a book, and all of the sudden that's the one time he's told the truth in his life.
You are a clown.
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Quote:To everyone except Trumptards Trump is obviously out of his mind. Trumptards don't realize what is wrong with Trump because the same is wrong with them. Since they didn't inherit a $billion, they can't frictionlessly escape the consequences for being nutty.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I just find it amusing that a guy who you will admit lied for a living says something you believe is true, to sell a book, and all of the sudden that's the one time he's told the truth in his life.
You are a clown.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:To everyone except Trumptards Trump is obviously out of his mind. Trumptards don't realize what is wrong with Trump because the same is wrong with them. Since they didn't inherit a $billion, they can't frictionlessly escape the consequences for being nutty.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I just find it amusing that a guy who you will admit lied for a living says something you believe is true, to sell a book, and all of the sudden that's the one time he's told the truth in his life.
You are a clown.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You missed a comma between Trumptards and Trump.
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Quote:There is no pause, no gap, no separation between Trump Trumptard. They are a whole organism, not individuals. For an example of lacking individuality, every Trumptard plus Trump would insist that the national debt figures showing Trump having twice as large a debt increase compared to Biden are all lies:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You missed a comma between Trumptards and Trump.
National debt has for decades been a go-to issue Republicans try to use to persuade voters against supporting social programs — an issue that has crept back to the forefront with new reports that annual interest payments serving the national debt now exceed what the U.S. spends on its military.
But a new analysis reported by Axios makes it clear Republicans have their blame in the wrong place.
According to the report, former President Donald Trump's contribution to the national debt "was significantly higher, according to the fiscal watchdogs at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, thanks to both tax cuts and spending deals struck in his four years in the White House," reported Neil Irwin. In fact, Trump added almost double the amount President Joe Biden did:
"Trump added $8.4 trillion in borrowing over a ten-year window, CRFB finds in a report out this morning. Biden's figure clocks in at $4.3 trillion with seven months remaining in his term."
In fairness, both presidents had to contend with a massively expensive and short-notice public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, making both spend far in excess of what they would have otherwise. However, Irwin continued, "If you exclude COVID relief spending from the tally, the numbers are $4.8 trillion for Trump and $2.2 trillion for Biden."
A large portion of Trump's responsibility for the national debt comes from his 2017 legislation slashing taxes, which cut rates across the board and are projected to accrue almost entirely to corporations and the wealthiest earners.
"Deficit politics may return to the forefront of U.S. policy debates next year," noted the report. "Much of Trump's tax law is set to expire at the end of 2025, and the CBO has estimated that fully extending it would increase deficits by $4.6 trillion over the next decade."
https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/24/trump-biden-debt-deficits-election
https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-economy/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Aileen Cannon Taking Big Gamble in Donald Trump Case: Legal Analyst
Published Jun 25, 2024 at 5:47 AM EDT
The judge in Donald Trump's classified documents case will likely reap "large rewards" for delaying his case, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Attorney Harry Litman, host of the Talking Feds podcast, wrote that Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, is taking a big gamble on a Trump win in the 2024 presidential election.
Litman wrote that Cannon's favoritism and many delays will likely be rewarded by a new Trump presidency.
"The latest reporting on Cannon confirms that she is willing to invite the deep disrespect of the community that normally determines a judge's professional standing," Litman wrote.
"If Trump wins in November, she has every reason to expect the gamble to pay large rewards. If he loses, she has every reason to expect to go down with the ship. It's a risk she appears determined to run."
Litman was reacting to the three days that Cannon had set aside to hear defense motions in the case.
It began with a hearing on Friday on whether prosecutor Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel in Trump's federal cases was constitutional.
On Monday, she devoted the day to hearing whether Smith's funding was lawful and on Tuesday she will consider defense attempts to have key prosecution evidence removed in the case.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will entertain any far-fetched arguments from Trump's defense team delaying the trial start in the classified documents prosecution.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-aileen-cannon-classified-documen
ts-jack-smith-palm-beach-mar-lago-florida-1916935
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Look at you guys just begging for something else to save you.
Can't even wait until the day after debate night to start the begging, huh?
It would make no matter. Go ahead and force that case too, and see where it gets you.
Or don't listen to me. It's not like I haven't been right about everything that's happened so far.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:There is no pause, no gap, no separation between Trump Trumptard. They are a whole organism, not individuals.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You missed a comma between Trumptards and Trump.
That's rich. Coming from the Liberal Hivemind.
I don't need to read anything you or Ted say because it's simply parroting stuff I've already heard from CNN or MSNBC. You have no capability of independent thought.
In any event, you missed a comma between Trumptards and Trump.
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USA Today: Biden is a threat to free speech. Trump should call him on it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2024/06/25/biden-trump-debate-f
ree-speech/74170141007/
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We are now seeing what is arguably the most dangerous anti-free speech movement in our history. President Joe Biden is, in my view, the most anti-free speech president since Adams. Under his administration, we have seen a massive censorship system funded and directed by the government.
A federal judge described the system as "Orwellian" in its scope and impact.
Biden has repeatedly called for greater censorship and accused social media companies of “killing people” by not silencing more dissenting voices. Other Democrats such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have pushed for restrictions on "unacceptable" speech.
The Biden administration seeks to censor even true statements as disinformation.
For example, I testified before Congress last year on how Jen Easterly, who heads the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, extended her agency’s mandate over critical infrastructure to include “our cognitive infrastructure.” The resulting censorship efforts included combating “malinformation” – described as information “based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.”
The left has picked up the cudgels of censorship and blacklisting once used against them. During the McCarthy period, liberals were called "communist sympathizers." Now, conservative justices are called "insurrectionist sympathizers."
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By Andrew Tobias | June 25, 2024
A Contest Not Between Two Men, But Between Two Systems
One where, if you oppose the elected leader — be he Putin, Kim Jong Un, or Trump — you have to fear “retribution.” The other — loosely known as liberal democracy (small “L,” small “D”) — is where you don’t. That’s been the system I’ve enjoyed all my life and believed I always would. Yet Robert Kagan — Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart — argues that:
One of liberalism’s great weaknesses has always been the belief in its own inevitability.
Depending on the outcome 133 days from now, it will remain our system — or it won’t.
. . . The institutions that America’s founders created to safeguard liberal democratic government cannot survive when half the country does not believe in the core principles that undergird the American system of government. The presidential election of 2024, therefore, will not be the usual contest between Republicans and Democrats. It is a referendum on whether the liberal democracy born out of the Revolution should continue.
Today, tens of millions of Americans have risen in rebellion against that system. They have embraced Donald Trump as their leader because they believe he can deliver them from what they regard as the liberal oppression of American politics and society. If he wins, they will support whatever he does, including violating the Constitution to go after his enemies and political opponents, which he has promised to do. If he loses, they will reject the results and refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of the federal government, just as the South did in 1860. Either way, the American liberal political and social order will fracture, perhaps irrecoverably.
Although this crisis seems unprecedented, the struggle that is tearing the nation apart today is as old as the republic. The American Revolution did not just produce a new system of government dedicated to the protection of the rights of all individuals against government and community, the first of its kind in history. It also produced a reaction against those very liberal principles, by slaveholders and their white supporters, by religious movements, by those many Americans who have sought to preserve ancient, traditional hierarchies of peoples and beliefs against the leveling force of liberalism.
This struggle between liberalism and antiliberalism has shaped international politics for the last two centuries and dominates the international scene today. But the same struggle has also been fought within the American system since the time of the Revolution. The idea that all Americans share a commitment to the nation’s founding principles has always been a pleasing myth, or perhaps a noble lie. We prefer to believe we all share the same fundamental goals and only disagree on the means of achieving them. But, in fact, large numbers of Americans have always rejected the founders’ claim that all men are created equal, with “unalienable” rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and they have persistently struggled against the imposition of those liberal values on their lives. Great numbers of Americans, from the time of the Revolution onward, have wished to see America in ethno-religious terms, as fundamentally a white, Protestant nation whose character is an outgrowth of white, Christian, European civilization. Their goal has been to preserve a white, Christian supremacy, contrary to the founders’ vision, and they have tolerated the founders’ liberalism, and the workings of the democratic system, only when it has not undermined that cause. When it has, they have repeatedly rebelled against it.
A straight line runs from the slaveholding South in the early to mid-nineteenth century to the post-Reconstruction South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the second Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, to the Dixiecrats of the 1940s and ’50s, to Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society of the 1950s and ’60s, to the burgeoning Christian nationali
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That's both the long and the short of it.
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Quote:Trumptards confuse "want" and "should". Specifically for 6ix: he "wants" to get drunk but he "should" be a teetotaler. Since 6ix's "want" overruled/overpowered/controlled his "should", for many years 6ix was a drunk because his "want" was what he "should" do, at least in his mind. And then one day his "should" switched from being a drunk doing what he "wants" to being a teetotaler for inexplicable/poorly-articulated reasons.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If you vote Democrat it's because you are a mindless drone that wants to live under a heavy-handed, censorious regime of people that hate you.
That's both the long and the short of it.
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Want and should are pretty much identical for Trumptards. In contrast to Trumptards, successful people are firmly aware that their powerful wants tend to be unaligned with what they should be doing. Successful people tend to do as the should, not as they want. When they don't do as they should, they are aware they are going wrong. They do NOT become drunks because that is NOT what they should be doing with their lives. With Trumptards, they fuck up their lives by doing what they want and they get arrogantly argumentative (pissy) when made aware that they are fucking up.
From today, 6ix shows what prick he is by insisting his wants are far more important than what other people ought to be doing. 6ix wrote: "If you see somebody wearing a mask, punch them in the face for their own good"
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=66093
Why is 6ix like this? His explanation: "Seeing people walking around in stores with masks on is bringing up a lot of bad memories." Like a typical Trumptard, 6ix insists the world has to adjust to his "wants" or else he will have a mental breakdown. It is not funny how many Trumptards are always on the edge of cracking up/going berserk because the world defines what Trumptards ought to do different than what Trumptards want to do.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If you vote Democrat it's because you are a mindless drone that wants to live under a heavy-handed, censorious regime of people that hate you.
That's both the long and the short of it.
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Okay. Fine...
If you vote Democrat it's because you are a mindless drone that SHOULD live under a heavy-handed, censorious regime of people that hate you.
That's both the long and the short of it.
I fail to see how that's any better, asshole.
And as for my reasons for not drinking anymore? They'd only be inexplicable to the dumbest motherfucker on earth who saw what I did when I was drinking.
And let's not pretend that I have any problems with articulation. My writing ability is 10 times that of yours and I don't steal other people's work.
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Quote:Trump knows not the difference between want and ought. What he wants is to live a life straight from the Bible: headstrong, puffed up with pride, lover of money, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, rash, conceited. What Trump wants is everything he ought not do.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards confuse "want" and "should". Specifically for 6ix: he "wants" to get drunk but he "should" be a teetotaler. Since 6ix's "want" overruled/overpowered/controlled his "should", for many years 6ix was a drunk because his "want" was what he "should" do, at least in his mind. And then one day his "should" switched from being a drunk doing what he "wants" to being a teetotaler for inexplicable/poorly-articulated reasons.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If you vote Democrat it's because you are a mindless drone that wants to live under a heavy-handed, censorious regime of people that hate you.
That's both the long and the short of it.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Okay. Fine...
If you vote Democrat it's because you are a mindless drone that SHOULD live under a heavy-handed, censorious regime of people that hate you.
That's both the long and the short of it.
I fail to see how that's any better, asshole.
And as for my reasons for not drinking anymore? They'd only be inexplicable to the dumbest motherfucker on earth who saw what I did when I was drinking.
And let's not pretend that I have any problems with articulation. My writing ability is 10 times that of yours and I don't steal other people's work.
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2 Timothy 3
New International Version
https://biblehub.com/niv/2_timothy/3.htm
Trump has been reading the Bible to find all the old ways. He does not want to skip any of the twists and turns in behavior. His life is straight out of a Bible parable.
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Donald Trump’s campaign is hard at work manufacturing a reason for him to skip Thursday’s presidential debate, and his latest tactic is the most ridiculous one yet.
Trump and his former White House doctor Representative Ronny Jackson, who reportedly kept the former president’s administration “awash in speed,” have repeatedly suggested that President Joe Biden will take performance-enhancing drugs before the debate, as part of their crusade to undermine the event and give Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Now they’ve elevated their conspiracy theory even further: Trump posted a letter to Truth Social on Monday that Jackson supposedly sent to the White House demanding Biden submit to a drug test before the debate.
“I demand that you submit to a clinically validated drug test in order to reassure the American people that you are mentally fit to serve as President and not relying on performance enhancing drugs to help you with your debate performance,” Jackson wrote. The pill-pushing Texas Republican demanded that the results of the president’s drug test be made public.
In his letter, Jackson echoed Trump’s and right-wing media’s insistence that Biden is suffering from cognitive decline, including a reference to a video of Biden that had been doctored to make him appear to wander away from a group at the G7 conference, and Robert Hur’s damning report casting public doubt on Biden’s memory. Hur’s characterization of their interview has been contested by the White House.
All of this concocted drama around drug use, as well as claims that CNN will host a biased debate, positively reek of desperation to get the former president out of Thursday night’s presidential showdown. It’s not surprising, as Trump is not suited to actual debate: His speech is often erratic and incoherent, and he’s prone to going off on tangents. Plus, Trump has historically taken a hit in the polls after debating with Democrats, in 2016, and again in 2020. While Trump loves to hype up a crowd, he’s just not that convincing when he’s sharing the stage.
It also appears that Jackson may soon want to focus on problems of his own. The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it will review a report from a congressional watchdog that discovered “substantial reason” to believe that Jackson had converted thousands of dollars of campaign money for his own personal use.
Jackson was demoted by the U.S. Navy in 2022 after the Pentagon inspector general found that he regularly drank on the job, berated his subordinates, and acted inappropriately. Last year, Jackson was filmed unleashing a profanity-laced tirade on a Department of Public Safety officer.
https://newrepublic.com/post/183061/panicking-trump-tries-another-get-
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If you vote Democrat it's because you are a mindless drone that wants to live under a heavy-handed, censorious regime of people that hate you.
That's both the long and the short of it.
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Okay. Fine...
If you vote Democrat it's because you are a mindless drone that SHOULD live under a heavy-handed, censorious regime of people that hate you.
That's both the long and the short of it.
I fail to see how that's any better, asshole.
And as for my reasons for not drinking anymore? They'd only be inexplicable to the dumbest motherfucker on earth who saw what I did when I was drinking.
And let's not pretend that I have any problems with articulation. My writing ability is 10 times that of yours and I don't steal other people's work.
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Shut the fuck up.
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Quote:Bible lessons come to life for tobacco using Trumptards dying of cancer. In His Infinite Wisdom, God created tobacco because He hates Trumptards.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
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Rewatching the 2020 Trump-Biden debates
Trump called the 2020 election rigged and didn’t commit to accepting the results
This exchange at the end of the first debate is probably the most overlooked and telling moment of any of the debates that year. Moderator Chris Wallace asks about election integrity and what each candidate would do to “reassure the American people that the next president will be the legitimate winner” of the election.
He begins by questioning Biden, who defends the integrity of in-person and mail-in voting, commits to accepting the results of the election — win or lose — and then knocks Trump:
“But by the way, if in fact [Trump] says, he’s not sure what he’s going to accept. Well, let me tell you something, it doesn’t matter, because if we get the votes, it’s going to be all over. He’s gonna go. He can’t stay in power. It won’t happen.”
We know now what happens next: Trump spends the rest of campaign season sowing doubts, declares victory on Election Night, claims the election was stolen, and then spends the next few months attempting to overturn the election results — culminating in the January 6 insurrection.
At the debate that September, Trump gave some clear warning signs. He claims that he wasn’t given a fair presidential transition in 2016 and 2017. He questions the credibility of mail-in ballots, repeating conspiracy theories about missing, lost, and fraudulent ballots. He declares there’s “going to be a fraud like you’ve never seen” and that “it’s a rigged election.”
And then he refuses to say if he will accept the results of the election. “If it’s a fair election I am 100 percent on board. But if I see tens of thousands of ballots being manipulated, I can’t go along with that.”
And nobody seems to bat an eye. Wallace, the moderator, did try to follow up earlier in the exchange to fact-check Trump’s claims about mail-in ballots and voter fraud, but he failed to press Trump on what he plans to do. Wallace instead seems to have been thinking about a 2000 presidential election scenario, where the Supreme Court essentially decides the victor. He asks Trump and Biden if the Court should settle electoral disputes.
Biden, meanwhile, dismisses Trump’s talk about accepting the election results:
“He has no idea what he’s talking about. Here’s the deal. The fact is, I will accept it, and he will too. You know why? Because once the winner is declared after all the ballots are counted, all the votes are counted, that’ll be the end of it. That’ll be the end of it.”
It wasn’t the end of it, but no one seems to have taken the possibility of a coup, overturned election, or insurrection seriously. None of this is mentioned at the second and final presidential debate a few weeks later.
More at https://www.vox.com/politics/356699/2020-debate-rewatch-2024-biden-tru
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
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God also created junk food because he hates fat Democrats.
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Quote:God could have adjusted the laws of physics to make TV broadcasting impossible but then Trumptards would not have been the butt of TV's jokes:
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God also created junk food because he hates fat Democrats.
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The whole time? 'The Boys' has been making fun of Trumptards the whole time?!
Why fans keep missing the point of 'The Boys'.
by Alex Abad-Santos | Jun 25, 2024, 7:00 AM CDT
Since the show’s inception in 2019, The Boys has been a superhero allegory about Trump, dangerous authoritarianism, political fanaticism, Nazis, and America’s sway toward fascism. Its showrunner, Eric Kripke, has said as much interview after interview: This is a show explicitly about the allure of Trump and a critique of corporate America. The only thing that’s seemingly different in this fourth season is that it skates so close to what’s happening in the US now: Homelander (Antony Starr), a Superman-like sociopath who functions as the Trump stand-in, is facing a criminal trial and is fanning the flames of a January 6-like insurrection.
These angry public admissions from conservatives that they've spent the previous seasons cheering on this horrible character — only to now realize they're the butt of the joke — have become bigger than the show itself. It’s a testament to our culture’s ever-diminishing media literacy.
This isn’t the first time in pop culture that a superhero satire has served as a warning about fascism and its biggest fans have whiffed on the point. That it keeps happening is a testament to how difficult it may be for all of us to not be lost in the allure of powerful people.
More at https://www.vox.com/culture/356474/boys-season-4-trump-woke-review
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A Republican’s IVF-Ban Amendment Is the Last Thing the GOP Needs Right Now
The “life begins at conception” true believer is serious—and he’s not alone.
By Jim Newell | June 26, 2024 4:12 PM
“While I feel for couples that are unable to have children, the practice of IVF is morally wrong, and I refuse to support any legislation that condones its use,” Rosendale said in a statement. “My amendment will strip funding for this practice, which is responsible for the destruction of life to the tune of hundreds of thousands of children a year. If you are opposed to abortion, you should be opposed to the practice of IVF, which destroys twice as much life as Planned Parenthood yearly.”
Did a Democrat pay him to say this? Unclear.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/ivf-rosendale-amendment-re
publicans-house-representatives-abortion.html
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Republicans in Congress have passed an appropriations bill that slashes funding for the Department of Justice because they're mad about its prosecution of Donald Trump. Seriously. They've also shoveled in a truckload of other ridiculous culture war proposals that won't pass but can be bragged about on Fox News. Whatever. But I want to know what's up with this:
Republicans plan to force votes on proposals including reducing to $1 the salaries of Lloyd Austin, the secretary of defense, and Alejandro Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, and cut off pay entirely for Antony Blinken, the secretary of state.
I know this is all for show, but why do Austin and Mayorkas get $1 and Blinken gets nothing? I thought they hated Mayorkas with the white heat of a giant sun? But he gets more lenient treatment.
What's up?
House G.O.P. Pushes Deep Cuts to Federal Law Enforcement
Republicans put forward a spending bill that would slash funding for federal law enforcement. However, they failed to find a way to defund the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/politics/gop-spending-cuts-law-e
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On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court inadvertently released a draft of its decision in Moyle v. United States, a major case about emergency abortions. The draft shows the court planning to punt the case, to help elect Trump, sending it back to the lower courts without any decision on the merits.
This outcome reeks of a cynical compromise, secured by the more tactical conservative justices, to push this explosive issue past this fall’s election. The Republican Party’s position — that states may force patients to the brink of death before allowing them to terminate a failing pregnancy — is politically toxic. A Supreme Court decision allowing states to impose such a draconian policy could hurt Republicans, and Donald Trump specifically, in November.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/supreme-court-leaked-abort
ion-draft-amy-coney-barrett-cynicism.html
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
God also created junk food because he hates fat Democrats.
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The whole time? 'The Boys' has been making fun of Trumptards the whole time?!
Why fans keep missing the point of 'The Boys'.
by Alex Abad-Santos | Jun 25, 2024, 7:00 AM CDT
Since the show’s inception in 2019, The Boys has been a superhero allegory about Trump, dangerous authoritarianism, political fanaticism, Nazis, and America’s sway toward fascism. Its showrunner, Eric Kripke, has said as much interview after interview: This is a show explicitly about the allure of Trump and a critique of corporate America. The only thing that’s seemingly different in this fourth season is that it skates so close to what’s happening in the US now: Homelander (Antony Starr), a Superman-like sociopath who functions as the Trump stand-in, is facing a criminal trial and is fanning the flames of a January 6-like insurrection.
These angry public admissions from conservatives that they've spent the previous seasons cheering on this horrible character — only to now realize they're the butt of the joke — have become bigger than the show itself. It’s a testament to our culture’s ever-diminishing media literacy.
This isn’t the first time in pop culture that a superhero satire has served as a warning about fascism and its biggest fans have whiffed on the point. That it keeps happening is a testament to how difficult it may be for all of us to not be lost in the allure of powerful people.
More at https://www.vox.com/culture/356474/boys-season-4-trump-woke-review
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
That's great. If they're coming out and saying it now, watch viewership fall to nothing and the show get cancelled. Season 3 was kind of trash compared to the first one anyhow and it's been falling off ever since they ended Season 1.
It's not as if they were subtle at all about it in the last 3 minutes of Season 3 and we hadn't already figured out where they were going with it 2 years ago.
*yawn*
Meanwhile, nobody has been cheering Homelander. He's the bad guy. In fact, he's the bad guy who runs all the other bad guys as they all cower in fear to him. We were rooting for THE BOYS, who have been spending 3 seasons trying to take him and Vought down.
Whoever wrote this article and just found out that The Boys was a TV show should probably watch the whole thing before writing about it instead of watching just the last couple of minutes on a youtube video and attributing the caricature the lefty showrunner presented as Trump voters on the show to actual people who don't vote the way you want them to.
The entire time most people were watching the show up until that point, we were all looking at Homelander, the other dirtbag super "heroes" and the Vought corporation as Democrat friendly. The media in that fictional universe sure backed all of them up, just like they back up Democrats 100% of the time in the real world. They, including Homelander, were also doing woke and "inclusive" commercials all the time at the direction of Vought.
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New York Times just put out a poll that has Trump up +4 points on Biden*. The last poll they had was in early April before the Kangaroo Court and NYT only had Trump up +1. Back in December, NYT had Biden* up +2 on Trump.
He's back up to +1.5 on the polling aggregate at RCP and +0.1 at FiveThirtyEight.
Biden* was up +9.5 points on this day in 2020.
Your boy is fucked.
Tomorrow is the big night.
Tick Tock
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That's great. If they're coming out and saying it now, watch viewership fall to nothing and the show get cancelled. Season 3 was kind of trash compared to the first one anyhow and it's been falling off ever since they ended Season 1.
It's not as if they were subtle at all about it in the last 3 minutes of Season 3 and we hadn't already figured out where they were going with it 2 years ago.
*yawn*
Meanwhile, nobody has been cheering Homelander. He's the bad guy. In fact, he's the bad guy who runs all the other bad guys as they all cower in fear to him. We were rooting for THE BOYS, who have been spending 3 seasons trying to take him and Vought down.
Whoever wrote this article and just found out that The Boys was a TV show should probably watch the whole thing before writing about it instead of watching just the last couple of minutes on a youtube video and attributing the caricature the lefty showrunner presented as Trump voters on the show to actual people who don't vote the way you want them to.
The entire time most people were watching the show up until that point, we were all looking at Homelander, the other dirtbag super "heroes" and the Vought corporation as Democrat friendly. The media in that fictional universe sure backed all of them up, just like they back up Democrats 100% of the time in the real world. They, including Homelander, were also doing woke and "inclusive" commercials all the time at the direction of Vought.
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Here you go. This is how they ended last season...
A little on the nose and disappointing, don't you think? I mean, if you're going to try to brainwash people to your side with propagandized entertainment, that takes a very subtle and gentile touch. Why let the cat out of the bag like that?
Thanks for showing us what you were really up to the whole time.
Hope you're proud of yourself and that pride keeps you warm at night when your show doesn't get renewed for Season 5.
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Aaaaaaaaaaand.... The reaction...
Good luck with that one, Jeff. You'd probably ought to babysit your showrunners after your colossal Lord of the Rings failure. Now they are destroying your most popular original IP.
And I'll be fair here. The show had always done a good job beating up both sides up until this point. If that's still the case and this is just bad fan reactions because of what the Lefty media who never watched an episode of the show before is saying about it now, maybe you'd better have somebody speak up and say something about it.
Otherwise... this show is dead.
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Quote:One day you will realize that Dark Matter, with multiple copies of the same guy, is about foolish Trumptards sabotaging their own lives. Star Joel Edgerton shouting and punching another Joel Edgerton externalizes how Trumptards ruin themselves psychologically when they are all alone. It is not the Democrats ruining Edgerton's life. It is Edgerton ruining himself. Trump can't fix it. You have to fix it yourself.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A little on the nose and disappointing, don't you think? I mean, if you're going to try to brainwash people to your side with propagandized entertainment, that takes a very subtle and gentile touch. Why let the cat out of the bag like that?
Thanks for showing us what you were really up to the whole time.
Hope you're proud of yourself and that pride keeps you warm at night when your show doesn't get renewed for Season 5.
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Why Republicans Are Far Too Confident About November
By David Faris | June 27, 2024 5:40 AM
Trump cannot push through his long-standing polling ceiling of around 47 percent. Partway through his third consecutive presidential election, with virtually universal name recognition, Trump has yet to crack 48 percent in the RealClearPolitics head-to-head polling average against any of his opponents. A more visceral representation of this ceiling is Trump’s actual showing in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, in which he received 46.1 percent and 46.8 percent of the vote, respectively. Trump has dominated the American political scene for nine years now, and it is highly unlikely that he is going to meaningfully improve on that number in November.
The two major parties have rarely renominated someone who has already lost a general election, but when they have, they have almost never done better the next time around, at least in terms of raw vote totals.
Republican Richard Nixon in 1968, Democrat Adlai Stevenson in 1956, Republican Thomas Dewey in 1948, and Democrat William Jennings Bryan in both 1900 and 1908 all received a smaller share of the popular vote when they were nominated again after suffering defeat in a previous general election. Bryan is also the only other person in American history to receive his party’s nomination a third time after twice losing the popular vote—merely one reason why it was bananas for GOP primary voters to pick Trump again. True, Nixon won the Electoral College, but—like Grover Cleveland before him in 1892—he triumphed largely because third-party candidates (most notably segregationist George Wallace) drew enough votes away from his opponent to prevail.
More about third party candidate RFK Jr. at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/presidential-debate-polls-
2024-trump-biden-election-538.html
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The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case has created an "enormous problem" ahead of the 2024 presidential election that, quite frankly, is depriving the American people of their right to have this trial resolved in advance of the election so that when people go to the polls, they know whether they're voting for a completely exonerated man who has been found innocent by a jury of his peers, or whether they're voting for a convicted felon who compromised our national security by keeping classified documents and defense information unlawfully at his Florida home.
https://www.newsweek.com/aileen-cannon-decision-creates-enormous-probl
emlegal-analyst-1917993
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Trump Campaign Slams 'Worthless' Nobel Prize Winning Economists
Jun 27, 2024 at 7:30 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-campaign-slams-nobel-prize-winning-econ
omists-ahead-biden-presidential-debate-1918096
16 Nobel Prize winners said in a letter that "Joe Biden's economic agenda is vastly superior to Donald Trump's." Trump's reply: "Believe me."
Scoop: 16 Nobel economists see Trump bombing the economy
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/25/nobel-prize-winners-biden-economy-tru
mp-inflation
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24777566-nobel-letter-final
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In totally normal news, a report reveals that GOP Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted at least $2.4 million in “gifts.”
NOT TO MENTION AN ADDITIONAL $1.8 MILLION IN "LIKELY" GIFTS!
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
In contrast, Thomas’ fellow justices over the same period accepted a total of just 93 gifts worth a combined value of only about $248,000, according to the nonprofit group.
Thomas’ fellow GOP justice Samuel Alito accounted for the lion’s share of that value. Fix the Court’s analysis found that Alito accepted 16 gifts worth a combined $170,095.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-millions-dollar
s-gifts-clarence-thomas.html
What did crooks Thomas and Alito do yesterday? 06/26/24 11:19 AM ET
Justice Samuel Alito railed against the White House in a dissenting Supreme Court opinion Wednesday, accusing the Biden administration of leading a “campaign to coerce Facebook” when it attempted to moderate misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. Joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Alito dissented from his six colleagues in the majority who tossed lawsuits challenging the communications.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4741030-alito-white-house
-social-media-dissent/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:One day you will realize that Dark Matter, with multiple copies of the same guy, is about foolish Trumptards sabotaging their own lives. Star Joel Edgerton shouting and punching another Joel Edgerton externalizes how Trumptards ruin themselves psychologically when they are all alone. It is not the Democrats ruining Edgerton's life. It is Edgerton ruining himself. Trump can't fix it. You have to fix it yourself.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A little on the nose and disappointing, don't you think? I mean, if you're going to try to brainwash people to your side with propagandized entertainment, that takes a very subtle and gentile touch. Why let the cat out of the bag like that?
Thanks for showing us what you were really up to the whole time.
Hope you're proud of yourself and that pride keeps you warm at night when your show doesn't get renewed for Season 5.
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No it's not, you fucking idiot.
You've made your entire life about Trump, therefore you see Trump in every mirror and under every rock.
Get some fucking help.
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In totally normal news, a report reveals that GOP Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted at least $2.4 million in “gifts.”
NOT TO MENTION AN ADDITIONAL $1.8 MILLION IN "LIKELY" GIFTS!
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
In contrast, Thomas’ fellow justices over the same period accepted a total of just 93 gifts worth a combined value of only about $248,000, according to the nonprofit group.
Thomas’ fellow GOP justice Samuel Alito accounted for the lion’s share of that value. Fix the Court’s analysis found that Alito accepted 16 gifts worth a combined $170,095.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-millions-dollar
s-gifts-clarence-thomas.html
What did crooks Thomas and Alito do yesterday? 06/26/24 11:19 AM ET
Justice Samuel Alito railed against the White House in a dissenting Supreme Court opinion Wednesday, accusing the Biden administration of leading a “campaign to coerce Facebook” when it attempted to moderate misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic on social media. Joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Alito dissented from his six colleagues in the majority who tossed lawsuits challenging the communications.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4741030-alito-white-house
-social-media-dissent/
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I've already debunked that bullshit weeks ago when you posted it.
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The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case has created an "enormous problem" ahead of the 2024 presidential election that, quite frankly, is depriving the American people of their right to have this trial resolved in advance of the election so that when people go to the polls, they know whether they're voting for a completely exonerated man who has been found innocent by a jury of his peers, or whether they're voting for a convicted felon who compromised our national security by keeping classified documents and defense information unlawfully at his Florida home.
https://www.newsweek.com/aileen-cannon-decision-creates-enormous-probl
emlegal-analyst-1917993
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Get fucked.
You just know how tonight is going to go and you're desperate.
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Why Republicans Are Far Too Confident About November
Trump is up 11 points on Joe* compared to where he was 4 years ago on the Popular Vote. Joe only won the Popular Vote by 3.7 points.
Trump is up on Joe* or tied in each of the 7 swing states that they've talked about for months and new states have been added where Biden* is up only within the margin of error.
I think it's Democrats that are far too confident about November.
I wonder what cheats they have in store that would make them confident with those numbers on top of a worsening economy and an ever-increasingly out of control border situation.
We'll see what happens after tonight.
Tick Tock
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Quote:6ixStringJack, your contribution to America's economy is approximately zero. That is typical for Trumptards. President Donald Trump carried 2,497 counties across the country that together generate 29% of the American economy, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution. President-elect Joe Biden won 477 counties that together generate 70% of U.S. GDP.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No it's not, you fucking idiot.
You've made your entire life about Trump, therefore you see Trump in every mirror and under every rock.
Get some fucking help.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/election-2020-democrats-republicans-ec
onomy.html
It is easy to find out why average Trumptards are worthless individuals by googling Which states have higher GDP? Democrats or Republicans? Not unrelated, Trump made his money by inheritance and by swindling, both his dead brother's family and renters in his buildings. He cheats on taxes, too. Trump is worthless like his Trumptards.
https://www.google.com/search?q=which+states+have+higher+gdp+democrats
+or+republicans
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On Thursday, the Trumptards on the Supreme Court gutted the ability of government agencies to enforce regulations against those who break the law. While the case, SEC v. Jarkesy, might sound dry, the decision is a big deal: It allows wrongdoers targeted by the Securities and Exchange Commission—as well as a bunch of other federal agencies—to demand a trial by jury in federal court, upending the usual adjudication process before administrative law judges. The federal government does not have anywhere close to enough resources and personnel to take every case to a jury when it seeks to impose civil penalties. So the decision will chill enforcement throughout the executive branch, allowing more white-collar criminals, polluters, abusive employers, and other malefactors to slip through the cracks. And it all started with a little-known hedge fund manager from Texas named George Jarkesy — a Republican activist and conservative radio host bankrolled by billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Cuban.
So who is the man whose case may have just kneecapped the executive branch in a decision that Justice Sonia Sotomayor bluntly characterized as “a power grab” by the judiciary?
Jarkesy managed the Houston-based hedge fund Patriot 28. He hosts a conservative radio show on which he has railed against government agencies like the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He also once argued that the Civil War was started because the North ran out of money. “They had taxed their people into oblivion. They had ran over their budgets, they were broke, and the South had money,” said Jarkesy. He was also no fan of former President Barack Obama, referring to him as “comrade Obama” and even writing a song called “The Bad Obama Blues,” where Jarkesy called him a liar and said, “the president spends like a maniac.”
More than a decade ago, the SEC fined Jarkesy for misleading investors. The agency alleged that Jarkesy’s fund “arbitrarily” inflated the value of certain holdings from 30 cents per share to $3.30 per share—“so that they could charge higher management fees.”
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/sec-supreme-court-case-geo
rge-jarkesy-elon-musk-mark-cuban.html
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What Kind of ‘Psycho’ Calls Dead Americans ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’?
By Adrienne LaFrance | June 28, 2024
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-kind-of-psycho-calls-dead-ameri
cans-losers-and-suckers/ar-BB1oZj3v
Perhaps you’ve noticed lately that Donald Trump, a man not known for subtlety, has been testing the limits of the Streisand effect. At one event after another—at a rally, then a fundraiser, in remarks on his social platform, and in at least one video that his campaign distributed online—Trump keeps reminding his supporters about his well-documented habit of disparaging America’s military service members as “dumb,” “losers,” and “suckers.” https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/14/turns-out-barbra-streisand-is-awar
e-of-the-streisand-effect-but-seems-confused-about-it/
“Think of it, from a practical standpoint,” Trump said before a crowd in Las Vegas earlier this month. “I’m standing there with generals and military people in a cemetery, and I look at them and say, ‘These people are suckers and losers.’ Now, think of it; unless you’re a psycho or a crazy person or a very stupid person, who would say that, anyway?”
As it happens, the American people have, by now, a very clear picture of the kind of person who would say such a thing.
Recall Trump’s infamous 2015 remarks about Senator John McCain, who was tortured during his five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam: “He’s not a war hero,” Trump insisted. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” Then there was the time in 2016 when Trump publicly mocked and belittled Khzir and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a fallen U.S. Army officer, Humayun Khan, who had been killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004. (Trump is “devoid of feeling the pain of a mother who has sacrificed her son,” Khzir said at the time.)
Then, in 2020, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported several instances in which Trump openly expressed disgust for America’s dead service members. There was the time in Arlington National Cemetery, on Memorial Day in 2017, when Trump was standing at the grave of Robert Kelly, a young Marine officer who had been killed in Afghanistan. Trump was visiting the cemetery with his then–Chief of Staff John Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general and father to Robert. As Goldberg first reported, “Trump, while standing by Robert Kelly’s grave, turned directly to his father and said, ‘I don’t get it. What was in it for them?’”
During a trip to France the following year, faced with the prospect of visiting another cemetery, this time to pay respects to service members killed in World War I, Trump complained: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” (Trump’s loyalists have attempted to redirect attention to the weather that day, arguing that it really was too rainy for a visit.) And, as Goldberg first reported, “in a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ‘suckers’ for getting killed.”
In subsequent reporting, including his 2023 profile of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, Goldberg uncovered additional incidents in which Trump disparaged American service members. At one military ceremony, for example, a wounded Army captain who’d completed five combat tours and lost a leg in an IED attack nearly tumbled over. Others, including then–Vice President Mike Pence, rushed to help the man. But Trump complained to Milley in a voice loud enough for several people to hear: “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.”
Trump has spent years attempting to deny these incidents—all while experienced journalists writing for multiple news organizations have corroborated The Atlantic’s initial reporting. But recently, Trump has become newly preoccupied with Goldberg (whom Trump mentioned by name and described as a “horrible radical left lunatic” at a rally last month) and with his reporting on Trump’s disdain for the Americans who vol
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The one who made it all up. Most likely a journalist at NYT.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No it's not, you fucking idiot.
You've made your entire life about Trump, therefore you see Trump in every mirror and under every rock.
Get some fucking help.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/election-2020-democrats-republicans-ec
onomy.html
It is easy to find out why average Trumptards are worthless individuals by googling Which states have higher GDP? Democrats or Republicans? Not unrelated, Trump made his money by inheritance and by swindling, both his dead brother's family and renters in his buildings. He cheats on taxes, too. Trump is worthless like his Trumptards.
https://www.google.com/search?q=which+states+have+higher+gdp+democrats
+or+republicans
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I made most of the money I needed for the rest of my life by the time I was 32 years old.
I'm not going to apologize for being great with money, nor will I apologize for not being a mindless consumer like most of the rest of you are.
And I'm certainly not going to apologize for not slaving away for the rest of my life to live in one of our overtaxed, Democrat run shithole cities that are unaffordable to live in either. I moved out of Illinois and Wisconsin expressly for the purpose of avoiding the insane property and sales taxes that apparently go toward nothing. Have fun stepping over geeked out bums, illegal aliens and human shit on the way to work on Monday.
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NY Times Editorial Board Urges Biden To Quit Race - Did Trump Administer Premature Kill Shot?
Saturday, Jun 29, 2024 - 06:55 AM
Thursday night's presidential debate mortally wounded President Biden's political career, and now the New York Times has hammered a significant nail in the coffin -- publishing an editorial bluntly declaring that "the greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election."
With this development, Biden's departure from November ballots is taking on an air of inevitability. At the same time, Team Trump is reckoning with what may have been a strategic error -- enabling a premature kill shot that could leave Trump facing a worse matchup.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ny-times-editorial-board-urges-bid
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Americans Dread Vote Between Two Unpopular Candidates
Additionally, as Statista's Felix Richter notes, the debate was also unique in that it featured two candidates that are viewed as unfit for the job by large parts of the American public, albeit for very different reasons. While President Biden is widely viewed as too old for a second term (and apparently proved that view correct last night), former President Trump is the first convicted felon to run for the country’s highest office.
As a result of this unusual match-up, many voters feel like they’re caught between a rock and a hard place, as they have serious reservations about both candidates.
According to a recent poll by The Economist and YouGov, Biden and Trump are seen unfavorably by almost 60 percent of Americans, with a shocking 44 and 47 percent holding very unfavorable views of the incumbent and his challenger, respectively.
Of course, those numbers are largely driven by the extreme polarization of today’s political landscape, resulting in 92 percent of likely Democratic voters seeing Trump unfavorably and 94 percent of likely Republican voters holding a negative view of Biden, but there are reservations about their own candidate on both sides of the political spectrum as well...
ELECTION DREAD
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https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/americans-dread-vote-between-two-unp
opular-candidates
"Independents", who are in reality undecideds, dread voting the most.
When people are in that highly charged emotional state, they make highly emotional decisions, usually to relieve their amped up anxiety.
If Biden bails and the DNC springs a new candidate into place, that candidate - whoever he or she is- will provide a relief valve for all of that FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) and those emotional undecideds will squirt is that direction, making an emotional decision simply to relieve extreme anxiety.
The Trump campaign will have to relieve that anxiety by making him seem a focused, honest, and stable candidate, and Trump ... is not the guy to do that. He plays to his audience, or who he THINKS is his audience, and blurts out ridiculous promises. But by hook or crook, he needs to woo those undecideds.
His campaign will also have to create a lot of FUD around whoever is the chosen replacement, whether its Kamala or Newsom or Whitmer, or someone else.
EDITED TO ADD: This was from the CNN Camp cowards thread.
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What Biden owes his country if he stays in
By E.J. Dionne Jr. | June 30, 2024 6:14 a.m.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/30/biden-debate-democr
atic-party-2024/
President Biden’s lieutenants want to write off his dismal debate performance on Thursday as one bad night and are calling on Democrats to buck up and fight. But many in the party (and more in the world of commentary) think Biden should drop out and open the way for a new nominee, lest the president’s weakness open the door wide to the disastrous return of Donald Trump.
Neither view fully grasps the depth of the mess Democrats, and the country, are in. Biden defenders underestimate the potential long-term damage of the president’s debate performance, which was designed to show that the 81-year-old was up to the job and did just the opposite. But those who’d like to hurtle full speed ahead to an open convention vastly underestimate how hard it will be to pull off.
The voices most certain that Biden should leave the race include many who said long ago that Biden should not to run again. They feel vindication. Alas for Biden, they have reason to. The people most shocked by Thursday (and I’m one of them) were those who felt he was up for one more campaign and had proven his mettle in his State of the Union address and other outings.
It turned out that a debate is not like a prepared speech or the occasional interview. Biden had trouble landing even easy punches or executing well-prepared attack lines coherently. Heck, sometimes he struggled to finish sentences. This was not like the debate losses of former presidents Barack Obama or George W. Bush.
The cascade of demands on Biden to hang it up was thus inevitable, and his team would be foolish to resort to catcalls against hand wringers and nervous nellies. People cannot unsee what they have already seen. Biden needs to own just how damaging that performance was.
But romanticizing a magical solution to the problem the party faces is a mistake, too. If Biden withdrew, the party would face two core decisions: first, whether to nominate Vice President Harris, and if not, whom it should pick from a list of hopefuls who could easily run to a dozen alternatives.
Unless Harris decided to stay on as the vice-presidential candidate, the up-or-down decision on her future would be deeply divisive. And a free-for-all compressed into a short period would limit the amount of vetting a nominee would go through and could reopen ideological conflicts that Biden was largely able to pacify. (These are Democrats, after all.) Sure, it could be exciting. It could also be chaotic.
It also doesn’t help Democrats to say that it’s Republicans who should look at Trump’s debate performance — his cascade of blatant lies, his refusal to answer questions, his plain lack of patriotism — and demand that he withdraw. Of course they should. But they won’t. The point is to defeat Trump.
So what should be done? I’m with those saying Biden needs a painful reckoning with himself over whether his best contribution to history now is to soldier on, or to help a leader from the next generation see his fight for the soul of America though. Biden has a formidable legacy rooted in a presidency characterized by responsibility, decency and real accomplishment. If his staying in the race allows Trump back into power, Biden will destroy that legacy.
But with Biden apparently determined to tough it out — the campaign put out a list of politicians reaffirming their support Saturday afternoon — the president’s future will be settled by the polls. If they show the debate caused Biden real damage, pressure on him to drop out will move from private alarm to public demands. If the numbers don’t change much, he’ll likely get through this.
If he does, he owes those who support him a clear strategy for undoing Thursday’s damage. He needs to do a series of televised interviews, including many in less than friendly settings. He’ll have to step up his campaign appearances, offering more speeches along the lines of his energeti
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Neither view fully grasps the depth of the mess Democrats, and the country, are in.
Biden* and Democrats are the mess that the country are in.
It's about to be cleaned up.
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We're only about 2 weeks away now from 10 straight months of Trump dominating Biden* in the polls.
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The DNC can't force Biden out. Biden has to agree to go.
And the only person who can convince him to go is his wife, Jill.
And Jill probably isn't thinking of the good of the country, or even the good of her husband, she's probably thinking...
Jail time for our son
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Originally posted by THG (June 24th):
Check out Rasmussen; bullshit. Real Clear Politics is bought and paid for as well. They have Trump leading Biden 0.9 points. I don't think so.
RCP has Trump up by +2.0 on the aggregate in a 2-way race; +2.9 in a 5-way race.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden-vs-kennedy-vs-west-vs-stein
FiveThirtyEight has Trump up by +1.4.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/nati
onal/
On June 25th, Biden* was up on Trump +0.2 at FiveThirtyEight.
On June 27th, before the debate, Trump was up +0.2 on Biden*.
I didn't expect to see any bumps this early, particularly at FiveThirtyEight. I wonder how much that Trump lead will expand by mid-July.
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Your Grandkids Won’t Save You (Hunter Biden's children have worse judgment than Hunter)
The youngest Bidens have an earnest yet terrible idea for how to salvage his campaign.
By Luke Winkie | July 01, 2024 6:02 PM
The president has apparently been ambling around Camp David with his extended family, wondering what went so wrong. Biden is aware that he appeared to be phasing in and out of reality on CNN’s dais, and his clan has offered a variety of suggestions about how to move forward. An idea, as reported by the New York Times, came from one of the president’s seven grandchildren. In order for Biden to remind the country that he is awake, lucid, and capable of walking from one end of the room to the other, perhaps he should break bread with Instagram influencers — maybe by doing the “Savage” dance on TikTok or some such thing.
More at https://slate.com/life/2024/07/biden-campaign-debate-grandchildren-tik
tok-instagram.html
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Donald Trump may never see the inside of a criminal courtroom again.
The Supreme Court’s sweeping ruling that Trump — and all presidents — are immune from prosecution for their “official” actions immediately gutted some of the central allegations that special counsel Jack Smith leveled against Trump a year ago, when he charged the former president with conspiring to subvert the 2020 election. And it may eventually sink the rest of them, too.
Constitutional experts digesting the breathtaking scope of the opinion, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts over a vociferous dissent by the court’s liberal justices, said there’s still a narrow window for Trump to face trial, but it almost certainly can’t happen before the 2024 election. And if Trump wins that election, he’s expected to immediately unravel the case by ordering the Justice Department to drop the charges — or perhaps even by attempting to pardon himself.
The partial win for Trump comes as his separate federal prosecution in Florida — for hoarding classified documents after leaving office — appears to be languishing under the slow pace of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon, a Trump appointee, appears poised to push the trial well past the 2024 election.
And Trump’s criminal case in Georgia for allegedly seeking to corrupt that state’s election results in 2020, brought by local prosecutors, has been paused by a state appeals court amid a bid to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from the case.
In Manhattan, Trump was convicted in May of 34 felonies stemming from a scheme to conceal hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. He will be sentenced on July 11, though he’s unlikely to receive jail time for those charges because they are low-level felonies. In contrast, the grave felony charges in all three of Trump’s other cases would likely carry substantial prison time if Trump were ever brought to trial and convicted.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/01/supreme-court-immunity-trump-
case-election-00166057
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Your Grandkids Won’t Save You (Hunter Biden's children have worse judgment than Hunter)
The youngest Bidens have an earnest yet terrible idea for how to salvage his campaign.
By Luke Winkie | July 01, 2024 6:02 PM
The president has apparently been ambling around Camp David with his extended family, wondering what went so wrong. Biden is aware that he appeared to be phasing in and out of reality on CNN’s dais, and his clan has offered a variety of suggestions about how to move forward. An idea, as reported by the New York Times, came from one of the president’s seven grandchildren. In order for Biden to remind the country that he is awake, lucid, and capable of walking from one end of the room to the other, perhaps he should break bread with Instagram influencers — maybe by doing the “Savage” dance on TikTok or some such thing.
More at https://slate.com/life/2024/07/biden-campaign-debate-grandchildren-tik
tok-instagram.html
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Yes. Please. Make this a thing that happens.
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Donald Trump may never see the inside of a criminal courtroom again.
The Supreme Court’s sweeping ruling that Trump — and all presidents — are immune from prosecution for their “official” actions immediately gutted some of the central allegations that special counsel Jack Smith leveled against Trump a year ago, when he charged the former president with conspiring to subvert the 2020 election. And it may eventually sink the rest of them, too.
Constitutional experts digesting the breathtaking scope of the opinion, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts over a vociferous dissent by the court’s liberal justices, said there’s still a narrow window for Trump to face trial, but it almost certainly can’t happen before the 2024 election. And if Trump wins that election, he’s expected to immediately unravel the case by ordering the Justice Department to drop the charges — or perhaps even by attempting to pardon himself.
The partial win for Trump comes as his separate federal prosecution in Florida — for hoarding classified documents after leaving office — appears to be languishing under the slow pace of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon, a Trump appointee, appears poised to push the trial well past the 2024 election.
And Trump’s criminal case in Georgia for allegedly seeking to corrupt that state’s election results in 2020, brought by local prosecutors, has been paused by a state appeals court amid a bid to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from the case.
In Manhattan, Trump was convicted in May of 34 felonies stemming from a scheme to conceal hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. He will be sentenced on July 11, though he’s unlikely to receive jail time for those charges because they are low-level felonies. In contrast, the grave felony charges in all three of Trump’s other cases would likely carry substantial prison time if Trump were ever brought to trial and convicted.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/01/supreme-court-immunity-trump-
case-election-00166057
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Must be rough, buddy. I know how sure you were that Trump was going down before the election.
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6 Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Decision on Trump and Presidential Immunity
By Elie Honig, a former federal and state prosecutor and a contributor to CAFE
Supreme Court
We now have the Supreme Court’s immunity decision and — wow.
In large part, it’s what we expected and forecast in this space. But the Court’s opinion expands presidential power (and bolsters Trump’s legal defenses) substantially more than anybody reasonably predicted.
There’s a lot here, so let’s break down today’s decision. Here are the biggest takeaways.
Criminal immunity exists. This is, in itself, a headline. We’ve recognized civil immunity — protecting federal officials from lawsuits for their official, on-the-job actions — since the 1982 Supreme Court decision Nixon v. Fitzgerald. But, until today, it remained an open question whether there even was such a thing as criminal immunity. Now we know: There is.
Criminal immunity is not “blanket” or “absolute” — but it’s pretty darn broad. This has mostly been a problem of nomenclature. It’s easy to scoff at a claim that a president is immune (absolutely!) for everything he does from the moment he takes the oath of office at noon on January 20 until his term ends four years later. But, in reality, Trump’s team made no such argument to the Supreme Court, though it did (unwisely) float it below. Rather, his team argued for a more limited form of criminal immunity, which the Supreme Court has now accepted and then some. He’s immune, in many circumstances (more on this in a moment) — but no president or former president has all-encompassing, “blanket” coverage.
It all depends on whether the president’s actions were official or unofficial. As expected, and roughly parallel with civil immunity, a president is criminally immune for official acts taken within the scope of the job. But there are two crucial kickers here.
First, the Court will construe the job description quite broadly in the president’s favor. According to the decision, the boss is immune for anything within “the ‘outer perimeter’ of the President’s official responsibilities, covering actions so long as they are ‘not manifestly or palpably beyond his authority.”
Second, while a president cannot be indicted for his official acts, a prosecutor cannot even introduce evidence of any official act as part of a prosecution. So, for example, in DOJ special counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election subversion case, the Court made clear that Trump’s contacts with the Justice Department (to try to arm-twist prosecutors to investigate and find election fraud) are within the scope of the job and cannot play any part in Smith’s presentation of evidence of the jury, even if necessary to explain the entire sequence of events in a coherent manner.
A president (probably) cannot order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival and get away with it. As we discussed in a recent column, the SEAL Team Six hypothetical — and Trump’s claim that he could be indicted only if he was first impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate — oversimplified and distorted the actual legal issue at hand. I wrote then, “Count on the Supreme Court blowing past the impeachment argument and rejecting it out of hand. But that won’t end the inquiry. Look for the Court to consider, and potentially to create, a criminal-immunity test based roughly on whether conduct falls within or beyond the president’s official job responsibilities.” That’s essentially what has now happened.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor argues that the Court’s ruling would permit a president to order an assassination without consequences, but I respectfully dissent from that dissent. I don’t see any way a court concludes that such a plot would be an “official act” within the scope of the job. I might be wrong; we don’t know. Justice Sotomayor is right to at least highlight the dilemma.
This trial wil
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Presidential official duties:
The powers and responsibilities of the office, as defined in Article II of the U.S. Constitution, include appointing high-ranking officials of executive agencies and departments and members of the federal judiciary (subject to confirmation by the U.S. Senate), serving as commander in chief of the U.S. military, making treaties with foreign governments, and signing or vetoing legislation passed by Congress.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/presidents-of-the-United-States-22268
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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:The probability that Trump wins is still only 50/50. 6ix has always placed the probability at 100%, but it is not.
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Must be rough, buddy. I know how sure you were that Trump was going down before the election.
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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
Website 538 doesn't break out the probability that Trump wins all of Texas' electoral votes, but I'd guess it is 100% because the vast majority of Texans are angry poor white trash. They don't see themselves as trash, but then they don't see that they have difficult lives because of their health problems caused by smoking, drinking, overeating, recreational drug use and they have financial problems caused by overspending and inability to hold a job and they have family problems caused by their lack of self-control. Trashy people always are convinced that the President caused their problems and could solve the problems. It is never trashy people causing their own problems, at least in their own minds.
There is an article describing what has gone wrong in some Americans' minds:
People need this ‘essential’ cognitive ability—and fewer have it than ever before, says psychologist: ‘It’s a major concern’
Published Wed, Jun 26 2024, 9:47 AM EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/26/technology-reliance-causes-loss-of-cog
nitive-ability-psychologist.html
“We are at risk of losing this essential capability that I call receptivity,” says Davis. “It’s the ability to have good judgment, to have insight about people, and it’s a major concern.” “It’s a cognitive ability that you need to actually exercise in order to not lose it.”
I not sorry to say that Trumptards lost the cognitive ability and they aren't getting it back even if Trump wins.
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How white victimhood is shaping a second Trump term
Conservative elites are doubling down on white identity politics.
By Zack Beauchamp | Jul 2, 2024, 10:21 AM CDT
A new book on “anti-white racism” — The Unprotected Class, by Claremont Institute fellow Jeremy Carl — illustrates this trend clearly.
Carl got friendly interviews on Donald Trump Jr.’s web show and on Fox News during primetime.
Carl’s book centers on the claim that “anti-white racism is the most predominant and politically powerful form of racism in America today.” What mainstream scholars of race call “white privilege” is, in his view, a series of “informal evanescent cultural legacies.” By contrast, anti-white discrimination “is increasingly legal and formal.”
This discrimination is, for Carl, primarily the product of a pernicious ideology popular among elites (nonwhite and white alike). “Anti-white racism is the all-but-official ideology of our ruling regime,” he writes — and they have acted in such a way as to ensure that whites are increasingly shunted to the bottom of America’s social hierarchy.
Carl’s arguments for this view resemble a funhouse mirror version of American racial history: roughly the same series of events, but with the roles of victim and perpetrator reversed.
Conservatives have complained about “reverse racism” for decades. What’s new is not just the aggressiveness of Carl’s claims and others like them, but their direct connection to radical policy proposals — and the fact that people in positions of power appear to be listening.
Close Trump allies are planning a second-term overhaul of anti-discrimination law, one that would “dramatically change the government's interpretation of Civil Rights-era laws to focus on ‘anti-white racism’ rather than discrimination against people of color.”
More at https://www.vox.com/politics/357963/republicans-white-identity-politic
s-newsletter
Download Jeremy Carl’s The Unprotected Class for free from the mirrors at https://libgen.is//search.php?req=Jeremy+Carl+The+Unprotected+Class
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Must be rough, buddy. I know how sure you were that Trump was going down before the election.
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Yes. It is. Barring any insane actions on the part of somebody like you, and you know exactly what I'm talking about, it's a 100% chance that Trump wins the election in November.
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New CNN Poll has Trump up +6 points today. CNN starting to look like Rasmussen here.
On RCP, Trump is now up +2.7 points in a 2 way race:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden
... and Trump is now up +3.9 points in a 5 way race:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden-vs-kennedy-vs-west-vs-stein
We're now flirting with "outside the margin of error" for Trump if RFK, Jill Stein and Cornell West don't all drop out.
And remember kids... This is just the popular vote contest. Things look far worse for Biden* and Democrats if you look at the battleground states.
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How white victimhood is shaping a second Trump term
The racists at Vox probably shouldn't have spent the last 8 years writing nothing but their pro-racism propaganda.
That shit is coming home to roost. People don't abide Democrats' bullshit when they're putting groceries on their credit cards.
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Quote:Since before you were born I have heard these same sentiments from those who feel discriminated against in favor of nonwhites. WRONG! They are stupid, lazy, white assholes. That is the true reason their lives are not going as well as they imagine deserving. And so they vote for Trump who is the only President who will fix the injustices inflected on angry poor white trash such as yourself, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
How white victimhood is shaping a second Trump term
The racists at Vox probably shouldn't have spent the last 8 years writing nothing but their pro-racism propaganda.
That shit is coming home to roost. People don't abide Democrats' bullshit when they're putting groceries on their credit cards.
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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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The Supreme Court Assumes Joe Biden Won’t Abuse Its Horrific Immunity Ruling
By Samuel W. Buell and Darrell A.H. Miller | July 02, 2024 12:13 PM
Ironically, the court’s ruling depends entirely on the assumption of the good behavior of the current president, Joe Biden. It’s as if the Supreme Court cannot imagine that Joe Biden would — for example — instruct the Justice Department to arrest members of the Supreme Court for corruption and then crow triumphantly about it on social media.
For any criminally inclined chief executive, the court put the cherry on top of the sundae by directing lower courts to interpret the scope of “official duty” very broadly and stating that, no matter the charged crime, a trial court may not allow a jury to even hear of a president’s criminal actions if they fall within the broad and indeterminate category of “official” conduct.
The court has written an opinion for a president who respects limits. It’s a tacit recognition that the current occupant of the White House will not abuse his power to remain in power.
Trump has loudly advertised his authoritarian ambitions. He has said that he will be a dictator, but only on Day 1. He has promised to turn the entire executive branch into his instrument of personal vengeance. Once respectable right-leaning think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, with their 2025 plan, are creating both the administrative infrastructure and (more importantly) lists of personnel to populate a one-party dictatorship.
Because the difference between a president and a despot now is almost entirely dependent on the character of the person in the Oval Office, the Supreme Court has crystalized the choice this election — American democracy and the rule of law are on the ballot come November.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/supreme-court-immunity-con
gress-president-trump-dictator.html
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Precedent? We don’t need no stinkin’ precedent.
Stare decisis has really taken a beating over the past few years. Here's a non-comprehensive list of longstanding precedents the Supreme Court has tossed aside recently:
• Loper Bright overturned Chevron, a 40-year-old precedent.
• Dobbs overturned Roe v. Wade, a 50-year-old precedent.
• Shelby County overturned key parts of the Civil Rights Act, a 50-year-old law.
• Students for Fair Admissions overturned affirmative action, a 60-year-old practice.
• Corner Post overturned the statute of limitations for contesting administrative rules, a 75-year-old precedent.
• Jarkesy overturned the SEC's use of internal tribunals, a 90-year-old precedent.
It's odd that a supposedly conservative court has been so eager to make so many radical changes to settled law, no?
https://jabberwocking.com/precedent-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-precedent/
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The Assassination Hypothetical Isn’t Even the Scariest Part of the Supreme Court Immunity Ruling
By Frank Bowman | July 02, 2024 4:38 PM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/trump-2024-supreme-court-i
mmunity-ruling-be-afraid.html
Much has been made of the fact that, under Roberts’ opinion, a president who ordered the military to assassinate a political rival would enjoy at least presumptive immunity for their official acts. But this lurid hypothetical, though an accurate description of Roberts’ new rule, can too easily be dismissed as paranoid hyperventilation. Far more troubling is that Roberts’ construct of presumptive presidential immunity for all official acts plus absolute presidential immunity for any pardon grant opens the door to a regime of impunity for presidentially sanctioned crime and oppression by the entire executive branch:
1) Following an offer from the president’s son of a lucrative private-sector job, the head of the National Park Service illegally grants the president’s family and favored political supporters control of all lodging and concessions in the parks. Son and NPS head — pardoned.
2) In response to pressure from the chair of the president’s national political party, the head of the Bureau of Land Management adopts a policy that only companies headed by presidential donors will receive oil leases on federal land. Party chair and BLM chief — pardoned.
3) Border Patrol officers, at the president’s direction, set up mass open-air detention camps for undocumented immigrants in which the inhabitants are provided insufficient food and only tarps for shelter, are given no medical care and no access to courts to contest the legality of their detention, and are beaten senseless if they protest. Pardoned.
4) National Guardsmen, ordered by the president to peaceful demonstrations against administration policies and told to “rough ’em up,” maim, and kill protesters. Pardoned.
In every such case, the president who ordered, sanctioned, or benefited from the crime would enjoy at least presumptive immunity under the court’s new rules for any official acts taken in conjunction with the criminal act. His family, political allies, and criminal subordinates would receive the complete immunity afforded by a pardon. And the president would have absolute immunity for pardoning his relatives and minions. Impunity from the law is the defining feature of autocracies and kleptocracies around the world. The Supreme Court just welcomed impunity to America.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Since before you were born I have heard these same sentiments from those who feel discriminated against in favor of nonwhites. WRONG! They are stupid, lazy, white assholes. That is the true reason their lives are not going as well as they imagine deserving. And so they vote for Trump who is the only President who will fix the injustices inflected on angry poor white trash such as yourself, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
How white victimhood is shaping a second Trump term
The racists at Vox probably shouldn't have spent the last 8 years writing nothing but their pro-racism propaganda.
That shit is coming home to roost. People don't abide Democrats' bullshit when they're putting groceries on their credit cards.
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He will also be your next President.
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You're 30 years old and you still live in your mom's basement.
You don't know shit.
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Who Pays Tariffs? And How Do We Know? Trump’s Tax Plan
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/opinion/tariffs-trump-china-taxes.h
tml
Imagine yourself as a small-business owner who produces something — say, plastic lawn ornaments — for American consumers. (One of my uncles actually was in that business.) Then for some reason, politicians propose imposing a tax of 25 percent or more on all sales of pink flamingos, garden gnomes, etc.
What will you do if that tax comes into effect? Will you pass the tax increase on to your customers, or will you try to keep consumer prices unchanged and absorb the tax yourself?
Well, you’ll certainly tell politicians that your customers will end up paying, and you’ll probably be telling the truth. Your costs, in effect, will increase, and your profit margin probably isn’t high enough to absorb the tax, even if you wanted to.
Now change the story a bit: You’re not an American small-business owner; you’re a Chinese company selling stuff to the United States — and the tax in question is a tariff, a charge levied on goods imported from China. Why should the answer be any different? Normally, we’d expect the tariff to be passed on to U.S. consumers.
Donald Trump, however, loves tariffs and insists that they are paid by foreigners. So leading Republicans, who increasingly seem to be using George Orwell’s “1984” as an instruction manual — whatever the leader says is true — have taken to claiming that tariffs (and only tariffs) are a tax on business that doesn’t hurt consumers. “The notion that tariffs are a tax on U.S. consumers is a lie pushed by outsourcers and the Chinese Communist Party,” a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee recently declared.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-17/trump-s-promised-ta
riffs-will-push-up-costs-for-american-households?sref=qzusa8bC
But how do we know that consumers really do pay for tariffs? I just tried to convince you with a thought experiment; I could also point to the fact that a vast majority of economists believe that tariffs are primarily paid by consumers.
https://www.kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/china-us-trade-war/
But not everyone finds thought experiments persuasive, and many people distrust economists. So can I offer any more direct evidence?
Why, yes, I can, thanks to a guy named Donald Trump, who imposed some high tariffs on China in 2018 and 2019, giving us an opportunity to see what happened to prices — basically what economists would call a natural experiment. There have been some careful statistical analyses of the effects of the Trump tariffs, listed in the Quick Hits below. But I thought it might also be helpful to offer a quick and dirty overview.
Here, courtesy of Chad Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (now the chief economist of the State Department), is the recent history of U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods and vice versa:
A chart showing U.S.-China tariff rates toward each other and the rest of the world.
Credit...Peterson Institute for International Economics
The average U.S. tariff on imports from China rose in 2018 and ’19 to about 21 percent, from about 3 percent, an increase of 18 percentage points. The only way that could not have raised prices for American consumers would have been for Chinese companies to have cut their U.S. prices by a similar amount. But they didn’t: The average price of imports from China fell only around 2 percent, and even that small decline might have been a continuation of a long-term trend of falling Chinese export prices:
A chart showing a price index for Chinese imports over time.
Credit...FRED
So we have an 18-point rise in tariffs offset by only a 2 percent decline in Chinese prices net of tariffs. That s
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Supreme Court guts federal agency power after Texas billionaire showers justice with gifts
Conservative business people have spent billions promoting and nurturing today's Supreme Court majority, and the investment is paying off.
By Chris Tomlinson | July 2, 2024
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article
/chevron-supreme-court-texas-crow-thomas-19549205.php
Texas billionaire Harlan Crow certainly got his money’s worth from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Thomas flip-flopped last week and joined the court’s majority in gutting the power of federal agencies, empowering federal judges and loosening protections for U.S. citizens. Americans will miss the “deep state” when it’s gone, and corporations run roughshod over the environment, public health and safety.
Last week, the Supreme Court overturned one of the most cited precedents of the previous 40 years, a doctrine called “Chevron deference.” In an air pollution case involving the oil giant, a unanimous court said judges considering scientific questions should defer to expert regulators when a law passed by Congress is vague.
In 1984, the court recognized that Congress cannot anticipate every potential application of a law. The court said federal judges had no business second-guessing agency experts if the regulation wasn’t arbitrary, capricious or manifestly contrary to the statute.
Government agencies responsible for consumer, environmental and public safety have relied on the doctrine to keep the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and others up to date.
Chevron deference was one of the most important principles in U.S. jurisprudence, cited by 17,000 lower court decisions and 70 Supreme Court decisions, including some written by Thomas. In 2005, he wrote a landmark decision, National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, addressing an agency’s application of a 1934 law to regulate cable companies.
“Chevron requires a federal court to accept the agency’s construction of the statute, even if the agency’s reading differs from what the court believes is the best statutory interpretation,” Thomas wrote. Judges should not rewrite regulations, he said.
Conservatives and corporate executives have long campaigned to overturn the doctrine. They complained it gave too much power to government bureaucrats, whom former President Donald Trump and others call the “deep state.”
Crow co-founded the Club for Growth in 1999 to promote limited government and overturn Chevron. In 2010, he gave the justice’s wife, Ginni Thomas, $500,000 to start Liberty Consulting, a firm that handles anonymous political donations.
Since then, critics have blasted Thomas for failing to report Crow’s generous gifts of private jet travel and luxury vacations and help pay off Thomas’ $267,000 RV. In 2018, Thomas secretly joined Crow at a Koch political network conference, all expenses paid, where overturning Chevron was on the agenda.
Crow’s decades of grooming Thomas paid off. In 2020, Thomas renounced his Brand X opinion and joined Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision last week ending Chevron deference.
Conservatives celebrated and promised to use Loper Bright Enterprise v. Raimondo to dismantle as many consumer and environmental protections as possible.
“For too long, the administrative state has recklessly and arrogantly usurped power from the American people and their elected representatives to force big government power grabs that stifle economic growth and make a mockery of the separation of powers,” Club for Growth PAC President David McIntosh said in a statement. “Now more than ever, conservatives must unite to win in 2024 to ensure that radical liberals cannot pack the Supreme Court with progressive zealots who will snatch back this hard won victory for freedom.”
Texas energy companies stand to benefit more than most. Fossil fuel power plants, oil and gas drillers, and pipeline operators will challenge dozens of EPA regulations covering greenhouse gas emissio
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On FiveThirtyEight, Trump is now up +2.1 points on Biden*.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/nati
onal/
On RCP, Trump is now up +2.4 points in a 2 way race:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden
... and Trump is now up +4.0 points in a 5 way race:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden-vs-kennedy-vs-west-vs-stein
We're now flirting with "outside the margin of error" for Trump if RFK, Jill Stein and Cornell West don't all drop out.
And remember kids... This is just the popular vote contest. Things look far worse for Biden* and Democrats if you look at the battleground states.
Also today... Kamala Harris just vaulted over Joe Biden* in the betting odds.
Joe Biden* is under 10% now.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
Dem Donor: 'Comatose Biden' Is Better Than Kamala
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/03/2024/on-private-call-democrats-w
eigh-comatose-or-dead-biden-and-alternatives
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A new NYT/Sienna poll just dropped. It's got Trump up +6 points.
RCP aggregate now has Trump at +2.9 in a 2-way and +4.2 points in a 5-way.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden
FiveThirtyEight now has Trump up +2.3 points.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/nati
onal/
Nate Silver remains fully in denial and continues to debase whatever credibility he has left by claiming that Trump only wins 53 out of 100 times now.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
Sure thing Nate. We'll see what that number looks like by the end of next week, shall we?
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Nate Silver remains fully in denial and continues to debase whatever credibility he has left by claiming that Trump only wins 53 out of 100 times now.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
Sure thing Nate. We'll see what that number looks like by the end of next week, shall we?
The answer is probably no, but was anybody other than me ever interested in finding out how Nate Silver's coin-flipping machine works since becoming aware of it?
https://abcnews.go.com/538/538s-2024-presidential-election-forecast-wo
rks/story?id=110867585
All I see here is "NEW, NEW, NEW".
Nate probably has nothing important riding on this tool if it ends up being a failure, but in the event that it ended up being astonishingly accurate then he's be back in the spotlight.
They're certainly not promoting the tool or making a big deal out of it anywhere. I wouldn't even be aware of this "forecast" if it wasn't posted here in a cope thread as proof that the election is still a coin flip.
Nothing in that entire methodology explanation leads me to believe that any of them have a clue if it's going to be accurate. It's in beta testing mode. It's never predicted an election before.
And I'm no scientist, but they don't appear to be conducting this with a constant in place. "Let's just move all of these things at one time and see what happens. It's telling us right now that the election is still a coin-toss, so yeah! It's working!"
...
Think about what you post, Second.
You'd have to first be aware that methodology exists (which I believe you do), and then you'd have to make an active effort to find the explanation of the methodology behind the data presented to you and digest at least part of it. It doesn't even require much more than skimming the data provided here for you to have figured out quickly that this feature of FiveThirtyEight is in a very experimental stage and that it was basically meaningless until proven.
At this point, I think it's nothing more than a reckless propaganda tool that's spitting out data that the creator of the feedback loop wanted to hear.
I'd say the same if it were saying Trump had a 90% chance of winning right now. Although, admittedly, I probably wouldn't have had the inclination to look into the methodology of the "tool" had that been the case.
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The point still stands, but on second thought I'd totally look into the methodology of a poll that would show Trump winning 90% of the time too. Being that kind of outlier at this point would make Rasmussen Reports look like a Liberal polling outfit in comparison. You'd have to know what it was about.... right?
I highly recommend to anybody who reads this that they look into methodology for polling. Not all the polls... Just start by looking at one. Any reputable poll will provide this to you. Maybe one day you get a easy morning and you're sipping on your coffee and reading your morning news and you just decide then that you're interested in knowing more about how they get they truth that they're telling you is the truth.
It's interesting to see how different outfits conduct their business and come up with dramatically different results.
I think at this point the numbers are practically based off of nothing based in reality and that they just somehow will these numbers into existence by getting everyone to repeat them to each other. A sort of low-level, low energy mass-psychosis. Or mass-hypnosis or... I don't know. Something.....
Then somewhere along the lines they got us to all compartmentalize ourselves and each other into little tiny boxes to keep us nice and separated from each other and each other's thoughts like we're bait in a very neatly sorted tackle box. Now we just listen to "our" numbers and reject everyone else's numbers because we're the ones who are righteous and those that don't think like us are the scum of the earth.
The country will be split 50/50 forever. It's great for ratings. It's great for everything.
The perfect methodology is the one that is predictive of the Desired Outcome 100% of the time. They're not there yet. But they'll get their one day. Who needs a magic 8 ball when you already know what the outcome of every meaningful decision is going to be because you control it.
50/50 splits on everything all the time and we've just reduced the entire human race to binary code.
Old lines in the sand appear to have been growing into fortress walls without many of us noticing it.
We keep this up, we're all going to mentally Berlin Wall ourselves from each other for good.
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Trump’s Plan to Weaken the Dollar Makes No Sense
The policy would directly counter the one thing he claims to be fighting against.
By Keith Johnson | July 3, 2024
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/07/03/trump-economy-dollar-inflation-el
ection/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921
Among the many disruptive economic policies former U.S. President Donald Trump is promising to pursue if he returns to the White House next year—a list that includes massive tax increases on imports, a global trade war, and an exploding budget deficit—his insistence on a weaker U.S. dollar stands out as bizarre, if not downright counterproductive.
For decades, Trump has clamored for a weaker dollar, first as a heavily indebted real-estate developer, then as a presidential candidate, then as president, and now again as a candidate for reelection. Trump’s weak-dollar push has gained support from key figures such as Robert Lighthizer, his former trade czar, who may well play a pivotal role in a second Trump administration.
Their reasoning is wonderfully simple: The dollar, they argue, is overvalued compared to currencies used by trade rivals such as China, Japan, and Europe. A weaker dollar would make imports that much more expensive for Americans and make U.S. exports that much more attractive on global markets. Voilà—a simple tweak to start balancing an out-of-balance trade deficit that for some reason is their bête noire.
The problem—there are many, but more on that later—is that pursuing such a policy would run directly counter to the one thing that Trump claims to be fighting against, and which seems to still worry Americans the most: high prices.
“It makes no sense to run against high inflation, and then advocate lower interest rates, higher tariffs, and a weaker dollar, all of which will add to inflation,” said Maurice Obstfeld, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). “It just makes no sense.”
Or, as researchers at the Brookings Institution put it when Trump toyed with the same idea when he was president: “If the objective of the U.S. administration is to worsen their trade deficit, only temporary devalue the U.S. real effective exchange rate, boost the trade balances of U.S. trading partners, support China’s economy and undervalue China’s real effective exchange rate, provide only a temporary sugar-hit to the U.S. economy, worsen global currency misalignments and provoke retaliation from their trading partners, then this policy will achieve those objectives.”
First, though, Trump and company do have a point. The U.S. dollar is a bit overvalued compared to other major currencies, no matter how you look at it—even if it tripped on the carpet Wednesday over some disappointing economic news. The IMF figured it was about 6 percent to 12 percent overvalued the last time it looked, in 2019, and big rivals such as the Chinese renminbi and Japanese yen are relatively cheap by comparison. (The yen is near 40-year lows to the dollar.)
The bigger question is why. U.S. interest rates are still on the high side to tame inflation, which explains why the yen is tanking. But a lot has to do with the fact that the U.S. dollar is the world’s reserve currency. This means that foreign central banks buy and hold dollars, like everyone else in the global economy, which props up their value. U.S. securities, such as government debt, remain the absolute safe haven for investors in times of trouble, even when those troubles emanate, like during the 2008-09 financial crisis, from the United States. That demand props up the dollar. Massive fiscal deficits in the United States, such as that caused by Trump’s $1.9 trillion tax cut, require foreign funding to finance. That demand props up the dollar.
But the problems with pursuing a weak-dollar policy remain legion, even if the policy were actually workable.
For starters, a weaker dollar would neither put a governor on U.S. imports nor turbocharge U.S. exports, which is the explicit goal of
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Yanno, insted of bickering over who is worse, this is where Dems should come up with a candidate who is BETTER.
Not "at least walking and talking" but actually BETTER.
Isn't that how competition is supposed to work?
But they haven't and they won't.
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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."
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Yanno, insted of bickering over who is worse, this is where Dems should come up with a candidate who is BETTER.
Not "at least walking and talking" but actually BETTER.
Isn't that how competition is supposed to work?
But they haven't and they won't.
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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.
They can't do that. Look at all the articles. They know they have nobody else.
Joe Biden* was Democrats only shot in 2020 and nothing has changed since then.
I'd argue the only person they have to run that has a chance of beating Trump would be Michelle Obama. But she supposedly doesn't want the job, and even though you know she'd get a ton of votes from dummies, they'd just be putting back another puppet in the white house. This time Barack would have direct control over her strings instead of having Jill Biden* doing the puppetry for him.
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'Sharp And Focused But Sometimes Confused': AP Gaslights With New 'Fiery But Mostly Peaceful' Propaganda
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sharp-and-focused-sometimes-confus
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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."
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Thursday's dark comedy started with an appearance on Philadelphia's WURD radio, which features a format categorized as "urban talk." Having already boasted about appointing the first black woman to the Supreme Court and selecting the first black woman as vice president, Biden short-circuited and said, "I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president...the first black woman to serve with a black president.”
https // www.zerohedge.com/political/incoherence-day-bidens-fourth-filled-flubs
-ahead-primetime-interview-tonight
Yanno, I know what he means. Communication is difficult for him. As is walking and staying focused and awake. Poor guy. Can't we just let him retire in peace, without turning this into a media circus and him into a clown?
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Watch: Prominent Democrat megadonor Ari Emanuel unleashes on Biden; "We're In F**k City"
https //x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1808574996115341724/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1808574996115341724¤tTweetUser=KanekoaTheGreat
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Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings: Biden needs to step aside to “allow a vigorous democratic leader to beat Trump and keep us safe and prosperous.” Hastings and his wife have donated more than $20 million to Democrats in recent years.
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Opinion: It’s Time For The Biden Campaign To Embrace AI
Joe Biden is old and has had a lifelong stutter. He acknowledged in a fiery rally following his debate performance: “I might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to.” This has impeded his ability to communicate with mass audiences with consistent success. AI augmentations and video renderings could serve to smooth out these bumps while allowing the Biden campaign to effectively disseminate true information about the state of our democracy and the Biden administration’s accomplishments.
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Reasonably, some may challenge the use of AI as dishonest and deceptive, but the current information ecosystem is arguably no better. It may even be worse. Media outlets like the New York Post have engaged in sharing deceptively cropped viral clips of the president, dubbed ‘cheapfakes,’ to make him appear confused or weak.
https // www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-joe-biden-campaign-ai_n_668482b9e4b038b
abc7d56f2#:~:text=AI%2Dgenerated%20content%20can%20be,opportunity%20for%20more%20effective%20communication.
So, Team Biden should make deepfakes, to slam true unedited videos as cheapfakes?
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To Government: Rep. Goldman Insists That The Country Is Safe In The Hands Of Others
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, wrote "The President [of the Galaxy] in particular is very much a figurehead - he wields no real power whatsoever. […] His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.”
This week, Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) seemed to be taking the Hitchhiker’s Guide as a guide for government.
When asked about the alarming physical and mental decline of President Joe Biden, Goldman insisted that it really does not matter in responding to a call for Biden’s removal under the 25th Amendment. Goldman insisted the Republic is safe because it is in the hands of great people around him.
It is an argument that flips the 25th Amendment on its head and embraces the idea of a figurehead president.
Goldman brushed away the growing calls for President Biden to step aside as incapable of running for another four years. Indeed, some are calling for an investigation into whether he can carry out the duties of his office until J
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RCP now has Trump at +3.3 in a 2-way Race and +5.5 in a 5-way race.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs
-biden-vs-kennedy-vs-west-vs-stein
FiveThirtyEight has Trump up +2.5.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/nati
onal/
Betting Odds have Trump at 56% and Joe Biden* at 11.5%.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
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Trump is also now up by +2.0 to as much as +6.0 points in every one of the original 7 Swing State polling aggregates.
Beyond those, Trump now trails Biden* by only 2.2 points in Virginia, and 3.0 points in both Minnesota and New Hampshire.
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I still can't believe it...
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In a bizarre op-ed, Huffington Post writer Kaivan Shroff suggested that the President Joe Biden and his campaign should consider using artificial intelligence to dupe the American people into voting for him.
Joe Biden does his daily workout. / IMAGE: Fotor AI (Editor's note: this photo has been generated using artificial intelligence and is not actually Joe Biden.)
Shroff began by noting that “the stakes” of the election “cannot be overstated” because the future of democracy “hangs in the balance,” rhetoric which, he assured the reader, “is not hyperbolic.”
Note: Generated using AI and not Joe Biden
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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."
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I still can't believe it...
Trump Claims To Know Nothing About Far-Right Plan Pushed By His Own Aides
“I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” he wrote on Truth Social on Friday. “Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
Project 2025 was created by the Heritage Foundation and is backed by dozens of other arch-conservative groups.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-project-2025-comments_n_66
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Project 2025: The Trump presidency wish list, explained
By Mike Wendling, BBC News
“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” (I for one feel very reassured by the phrase “bloodless if the left allows it to be” since Trumptards cannot lie, cheat, or steal.)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do
Hitler tweets “I know nothing about ‘The Final Solution’ Project. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/final-solution-overv
iew
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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In a bizarre op-ed, Huffington Post writer Kaivan Shroff suggested that the President Joe Biden and his campaign should consider using artificial intelligence to dupe the American people into voting for him.
Joe Biden does his daily workout. / IMAGE: Fotor AI (Editor's note: this photo has been generated using artificial intelligence and is not actually Joe Biden.)
Shroff began by noting that “the stakes” of the election “cannot be overstated” because the future of democracy “hangs in the balance,” rhetoric which, he assured the reader, “is not hyperbolic.”
Note: Generated using AI and not Joe Biden
They've been using AI the whole time Sigs. The media's put deep fakes out there of Joe* giving speeches that we know it's not possible for him to have given.
So now they're going to pretend they need to *start* doing it?
Okay.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I still can't believe it...
Trump Claims To Know Nothing About Far-Right Plan Pushed By His Own Aides
“I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal,” he wrote on Truth Social on Friday. “Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them.”
Project 2025 was created by the Heritage Foundation and is backed by dozens of other arch-conservative groups.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-project-2025-comments_n_66
885179e4b0c732b46239e0
Project 2025: The Trump presidency wish list, explained
By Mike Wendling, BBC News
“We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” (I for one feel very reassured by the phrase “bloodless if the left allows it to be” since Trumptards cannot lie, cheat, or steal.)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do
Hitler tweets “I know nothing about ‘The Final Solution’ Project. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they’re saying and some of the things they’re saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.”
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/final-solution-overv
iew
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Nobody has any idea what the fuck you're even talking about dude.
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puppet Joe ventriloquism
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Parkinson's Specialist Met With White House At Least 9 Times Since July 2023
That would explain the stiffness, raspy voice, fatigue etc.
The sad thing about Parkinson's is that you can be entirely aware and cogent, it's voluntary movement that's interfered with. It is partly corrected by L-dopamine, but you need increasing doses, and eventually wind up hallucinating and in a paranoid state.
As time goes on you can't swallow properly and wind up aspirating (breathing in) your mush. Most Parkinson's patients die of pneumonia.
If Biden has Parkinson's it's a sad way to go.
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Quote:That is one of the identifying characteristics of Trumptards: they don't know what their enemies are talking about. That is the reason I switched tactics with real-life Trumptards to brutal methods that force them to either understand or suffer. Too bad that the internet does not deliver physical pain, only words. Trumptard Supreme Court Justices need the pain to enlighten them about the meaning of their wordy decisions such as the 119 pages of Trump v. United States https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody has any idea what the fuck you're even talking about dude.
"No one is above the Law," assured John Roberts to get his current job.
If you've ever wondered what the word of a Supreme Court Justice is worth ....
"I believe that no one is above the law under our system and that includes the president." ~ now-Chief Justice John Roberts in his 2005 confirmation hearing
"No person in this country, no matter how high or powerful, is above the law." ~ Justice Samuel Alito, in his 2006 confirmation hearing
"We're all equal before the law...The foundation of our Constitution was that... the presidency would not be a monarchy...[T]he president is not above the law, no one is above the law." ~ Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Senate in 2018
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/7/2/2250847/--No-one-is-above-the-
Law-assured-John-Roberts-in-order-to-get-his-current-Job
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:That is one of the identifying characteristics of Trumptards: they don't know what their enemies are talking about.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody has any idea what the fuck you're even talking about dude.
You're mistaken. You're not my enemy.
You're just a retard.
The second I walk away from my computer, I've already forgotten about you for the day.
I know you wouldn't understand that since you obsess over me everyday.
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Quote:All the Trumptards I know are ruining their owns lives. Most of them aren't as determined as 6ixStringJack at destroying themselves. They haven't permanently quit work and withdrawn into their homes as 6ixStringJack has, but they sure as hell are doing some serious damage to themselves. The uppermost echelon of the Trumptards have an actual plan (Project 2025) to destroy America. There are hundreds of pages of detail about what the Trumptards will do once they have power. Trump is disavowing the Project because he realizes that if his plans of raping America are known and believed ahead of actually implementing the plan, he won't be elected. Trump well knows that most Americans are too lazy to read the plan https://www.project2025.org/ but Trump learned from history to deny what he obviously is doing. He knows that if the Final Solution had been leaked to the German press before Hitler was elected, and the Germans had bothered to read the Final Solution, he won't have been elected. Most Germans did not bother reading Mein Kampf, but a plausibly deniable version of the Final Solution was in that book.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:That is one of the identifying characteristics of Trumptards: they don't know what their enemies are talking about.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody has any idea what the fuck you're even talking about dude.
You're mistaken. You're not my enemy.
You're just a retard.
The second I walk away from my computer, I've already forgotten about you for the day.
I know you wouldn't understand that since you obsess over me everyday.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+disavows+project+2025
Your average Trumptard doesn't see anything sinister about Project 2025 words blaming all problems on liberals but then your average Nazi did not see anything sinister about Mein Kampf blaming all of Germany's problems on Jews in government, business, banking, and entertainment.
About Project 2025 https://www.project2025.org/about/about-project-2025/
Building now for a conservative victory through policy, personnel, and training.
The actions of liberal politicians in Washington have created a desperate need and unique opportunity for conservatives to start undoing the damage the Left has wrought and build a better country for all Americans in 2025.
It is not enough for conservatives to win elections. If we are going to rescue the country from the grip of the radical Left, we need both a governing agenda and the right people in place, ready to carry this agenda out on day one of the next conservative administration.
This is the goal of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project. The project will build on four pillars that will, collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative administration: a policy agenda, personnel, training, and a 180-day playbook.
The project is the effort of a broad coalition of conservative organizations that have come together to ensure a successful administration begins in January 2025. With the right conservative policy recommendations and properly vetted and trained personnel to implement them, we will take back our government.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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