Elections; 2024
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Originally posted by second:
Trump says: A tariff is a tax on a foreign country. A lot of people like to say it's a tax on us. No... It is a tax that doesn't affect our country. (See the video of Trump making this claim.)
3:57 PM Aug 17, 2024
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1824913358526833146
This brings up the eternal question: Is Trump lying or is he so stupid he believes this? I mean, who does he think collects tariffs?*
From whom?**
Does he think we send the bill to Xi Jinping, who then sends us a check?***
This is not one of those things where liberal and conservative economists disagree. It's just a boring bit of accounting. But Trump doesn't know this.
* Answer: Customs and Border Protection.
** Answer: Whoever is importing the goods. Eventually, consumers pay most or all of it in the form of higher prices.
*** Answer: No, that's not how it works.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Yet you're going to argue we should keep taxing Social Security.
Or that $15 Minimum Wage didn't raise the price of McDonald's meals to the point that it's a luxury item.
You are a muppet.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Raw data: Crime under five presidents
By Kevin Drum | August 17, 2024 – 6:19 pm
Change in Violent Crime Rate by administration
Source FBI
Clinton - down 33.2%
Bush - down 9.5%
Obama - down 13.3%
Trump - up .3%
Biden - down 18.9%
FBI’s Crime Data Explorer (CDE) at https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov
https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-crime-under-five-presidents/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
"Source: FBI"
Federal Boob Investigator
I could make a lot of fake graphs too if that's what I wanted to spend all day doing.
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Trump will be fine.
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Quote:6ix, what is your understanding of wages at Mcdonalds? The Federal minimum wage is still $7.25/hour in Texas but Mcdonald's pays more because there aren't enough fools who will accept $7.25. How much does a Mcdonalds Crew make in Texas? As of Aug 10, 2024, the average hourly pay for a Mcdonalds Crew in Texas is $11.42 an hour. While ZipRecruiter is seeing salaries as high as $16.35 and as low as $7.61, the majority of Mcdonalds Crew salaries currently range between $10.77 (25th percentile) to $14.09 (75th percentile) in Texas.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Trump says: A tariff is a tax on a foreign country. A lot of people like to say it's a tax on us. No... It is a tax that doesn't affect our country. (See the video of Trump making this claim.)
3:57 PM Aug 17, 2024
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1824913358526833146
This brings up the eternal question: Is Trump lying or is he so stupid he believes this? I mean, who does he think collects tariffs?*
From whom?**
Does he think we send the bill to Xi Jinping, who then sends us a check?***
This is not one of those things where liberal and conservative economists disagree. It's just a boring bit of accounting. But Trump doesn't know this.
* Answer: Customs and Border Protection.
** Answer: Whoever is importing the goods. Eventually, consumers pay most or all of it in the form of higher prices.
*** Answer: No, that's not how it works.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Yet you're going to argue we should keep taxing Social Security.
Or that $15 Minimum Wage didn't raise the price of McDonald's meals to the point that it's a luxury item.
You are a muppet.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Mcdonalds-Crew-Salary--in-Texas
6ixStringJack, since you know next to nothing about Mcdonald's wages you'll know even less about taxes but here is why taxes need to be collected at the present percent rather than reduced.
Donald Trump says he wants to eliminate income taxes on Social Security benefits. These taxes are currently deposited into the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, something that was put in place under Ronald Reagan in order to help Medicare and Social Security finances.
So what happens to Social Security and Medicare if this tax goes away? Here's an estimate from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
Under Trump's proposal, the Social Security Trust Fund becomes insolvent a year earlier and the Medicare Trust Fund becomes insolvent six years earlier. Now you know that Trump is a giant fuck up.
https://www.crfb.org/blogs/donald-trumps-suggestion-end-taxation-socia
l-security-benefits
The US national debt problem really is simple
This is a simplified version of a chart from the Center for American Progress:
See the original Figure 3 at
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primarily-respon
sible-for-the-increasing-debt-ratio/
If it weren't for Republican tax cuts, the national debt would be at 60% of GDP, a very non-scary level.
Our deficit problem is simple. General spending hasn't increased, so it's not to blame. Social Security and Medicare spending have increased, but there's not much to be done about that. It's demographics, and both programs are far too popular to be meaningfully cut. Likewise, the social safety net can be cut in only small ways.
There's only one way to rein in the deficit: higher taxes. But Republicans won't allow it—and until that changes there's nothing we can do. Ignore anyo
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.For more than 100 years, the FBI has been collecting crime data from local police departments across the country through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which has been the gold standard of national crime statistics.
By 2020, almost every law enforcement agency was included in the FBI’s database. Some agencies reported topline numbers, such as the total number of murders or car thefts, through the Summary Reporting System. Others reported granular incident data with details about each reported crime through the newer National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
Crime Data Gap
Then it all changed in 2021. In an effort to fully modernize the system, the FBI stopped taking data from the old summary system and only accepted data through the new system.Thousands of police agencies fell through the cracks because they didn’t catch up with the changes on time.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/07/13/fbi-crime-rates-data-gap
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But Lott said those statistics make up less than 45% of the violent crimes that are committed in the U.S. and only 32% of property crimes. Victims are not reporting incidents as often because they don't believe anyone will be punished, he said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fbi-stats-show-plunge-in-violent-
crime-but-theres-a-catch/ar-BB1o2rvq
Especially now.
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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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I see Second doing a whole lot of talking without saying anything again.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Quote:6ix, all the Trumptards who I have gotten a chance to see how much they pay are cheating on their income taxes. See the most famous example, Trump, who paid only $750 in 2015 and 2016.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I see Second doing a whole lot of talking without saying anything again.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+tax+cheat
6ix, I gave you the proof that Republican Presidents/Congressmen, when they alter the income tax code, caused the National Debt to increase mightily, which is to be expected when a political party is made up of income tax cheaters.
Tax cheats cost the U.S. $1 trillion per year, I.R.S. chief says.
https://www.google.com/search?q=trillion+dollars+in+unpaid+taxes+per+y
ear
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Unpacking the right's plot to wreck democracy — and why it might work
By Andrew O'Hehir | August 16, 2024 9:00AM (EDT)
If the title of Daley's new book, "Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections," suggests that it makes large claims, it definitely does. But it's not a tale of a secret, sinister conspiracy, and the chaotic events of Jan. 6, 2021, are only mentioned in passing.
Donald Trump was not the architect of the long-term antidemocratic strategy Daley outlines in this book, and was probably barely aware of it before he became its accidental beneficiary. The precarious and damaged condition of U.S. democracy — corrupted from top to bottom by corporate money, large-scale gerrymandering, aggressive voter suppression and the far-right conquest of the federal courts — did not happen by accident or result from a series of ad hoc political decisions. As Daley writes, it's "the product of a deliberate, long-term and extraordinarily patient strategy, some of it behind closed doors though much of it in plain sight."
Most of the major landmarks of this history are visible; engaged liberals and progressives largely understand the pernicious effects of the Supreme Court's decisions in the Citizens United and Shelby County cases, which opened the doors, respectively, to unlimited tides of dark money (now defined as free speech) and increasingly imaginative, if nominally colorblind, forms of racial disenfranchisement or vote suppression. But those court cases didn't emerge from nowhere, and it wasn't simply bad luck that they came before a court with an entrenched majority of Republican-appointed, Federalist Society-endorsed justices.
"Antidemocratic" is less the story of the damaging consequences of those decisions (among others) than the story of how and why they happened — and that story has never been told this thoroughly in a single volume. To boil the narrative down to its essentials, Daley demonstrates that leading conservatives of the 1970s, alienated and scandalized by the increasingly liberal tenure of political and legal reasoning in America, eventually realized they had to build an entire alternative system.
Arguing for their cherished culture-war positions on racial, sexual and religious issues piece by piece, before liberal judges or Democratic state legislatures, led only to defeat. What a few impressively farsighted right-wing thinkers conceived and then created — and it took liberals far too long to notice this — was a new intellectual and political apparatus that would produce well-trained, highly capable lawyers and judges devoted to reframing constitutional law around "originalism" and (as they saw it) redeeming the promise of a white-dominated, overtly Christian nation from the dangerous moral drift of cultural relativism and increasing diversity.
Founding fathers of that movement, like future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell and disgruntled ex-liberal lawyer Michael Horowitz, didn't have the word "woke" to rail against. But they were anti-woke before it was cool. Along with many of their ideological followers and fellow travelers, they created our current moment of American crisis, when getting the most votes on Election Day is only part of the story and the pathways to overturning or denying the people's verdict are legion. My former boss joined me recently to talk about some of the hair-raising possibilities raised by his new book.
This transcript has been edited for clarity and length.
Q: “Antidemocratic” is perfectly timed for this contentious election. I have a decent sense of where you fall on the ideological spectrum, and I would assume you agree with the premise that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have changed the dynamics of this election. But have they changed it enough to address the issues you talk about in this book?
A: I think that is the $100,000 question as we head into this election season. This is going to be a very tight and very
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This is worth repeating:
How Project 2025 turned into the GOP’s biggest political loser
https://www.notus.org/2024-election/how-project-2025-turned-into-the-g
ops-biggest-political-loser
There’s a good reason Donald Trump and his campaign are so desperate to distance themselves from the classified-sounding “Project 2025”: The Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a second Trump administration is politically radioactive.
A Democratic operative who has seen private polling on how a number of issues could move the 2024 presidential election — like health care, the economy and immigration — told NOTUS that, improbably, no issue was benefiting Democrats more than Project 2025. And, predictably, Democrats are capitalizing on the unpopular plan.
Democratic lawmakers and campaign operatives are trying to attach Trump and Republicans to Project 2025 at every opportunity, which, it turns out, hasn’t been too hard. According to Rep. Jared Huffman, the founder of the “Stop Project 2025 Task Force,” one of the reasons they’ve had such success connecting Trump to Heritage’s plan is because voters intuitively believe the former president would institute many of these proposals if he gets another chance in the White House.
“There’s no believability gap here,” Huffman told NOTUS. “People have seen enough of Donald Trump in his first presidency and of JD Vance and all of these extremists to know that they’re not kidding. This is not some hypothetical think tank document; this is actually their blueprint. It’s just not hard to convince people that’s the case.”
Huffman also said he’d seen polling on how effective the Democratic attacks on Project 2025 have been — and he suggested there was a simple reason the attacks were landing. “The heart of why Project 2025 is having such a profound impact is that it’s true. It’s just true,” he said.
The asymmetry of what Democrats have had to do to connect Republicans to Project 2025 — which isn’t much — compared to the lengths Trump and other GOP lawmakers have had to go to distance themselves from it is one of the reasons this has been such a political winner for Democrats.
More at https://www.notus.org/2024-election/how-project-2025-turned-into-the-g
ops-biggest-political-loser
Project 2025 Co-Author Lays Out "Radical Agenda" for Next Trump Term in Undercover Video
As Donald Trump tries to distance his campaign from Project 2025, those behind the right-wing policy blueprint to remake the U.S. government continue to brag in private about their close ties to the Republican presidential nominee and how they intend to push a radical right-wing agenda in a second Trump administration.
In July, Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought met with two people he believed to be relatives of a wealthy conservative donor interested in funding the effort. In fact, he was meeting with two reporters with the U.K.-based Centre for Climate Reporting as part of an undercover sting captured on video. Over the course of two hours, Vought described Trump's disavowal of Project 2025 as mere theater and laid out plans for mass deportations, restricting abortion, gutting independent government bureaucracies, using the military against racial justice protesters and more.
The secret plans are "designed to ensure that this kind of radical agenda that the conservative movement has in the U.S. can be implemented from day one," says Lawrence Carter, founder and director of the Centre for Climate Reporting and one of the reporters who spoke with Vought. "They want to make sure that the mistakes from the first Trump administration, as they see them, where not much got done, are avoided this time around."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Claims His Pre-Pandemic Economy Was ‘The Best.’ The Numbers Say Otherwise.
Donald Trump often claims the U.S. economy before COVID was the best ever. But a variety of measures show it’s actually better now.
By Jonathan Nicholson | Aug 17, 2024, 08:00 AM EDT
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-economy-before-pandemic-not-the-b
est_n_66bf8ffce4b031661caa93b4
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Far-right influencers turn against Trump campaign
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/far-right-influencers-turn-aga
inst-trump-campaign/ar-AA1oZNYu?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=24e5bfe75ba94d4fa694f7396540fff7&ei=18
They are upset because they know he is losing. They say he is losing. Too funny...
tick tock
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't care about your What If? scenarios.
Russia ain't shit.
We've got people invading our borders and nobody wants to do anything about that.
America First. Everybody else last. Close the border from invasion and kick out all the invaders. Then and only then can we talk about Ukraine or Isreal or anybody else.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
OK school teacher want to be. Israel is not spelled Isreal. Also, your sentence structure here is incorrect. "I don't care about your What If? scenarios." The what and if should not be capitalized. And, you are not asking a question you are making a statement, so you should not use a question mark. Lastly, if scenarios is starting a new sentence as it does the way you use it, then it should be capitalized. You use a period after it. It cannot stand alone as a sentence.
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't care about your What If? scenarios.
Russia ain't shit.
We've got people invading our borders and nobody wants to do anything about that.
America First. Everybody else last. Close the border from invasion and kick out all the invaders. Then and only then can we talk about Ukraine or Isreal or anybody else.
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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
OK school teacher want to be. Israel is not spelled Isreal. Also, your sentence structure here is incorrect. "I don't care about your What If? scenarios." The what and if should not be capitalized. And, you are not asking a question you are making a statement, so you should not use a question mark. Lastly, if scenarios is starting a new sentence as it does the way you use it, then it should be capitalized. You use a period after it. It cannot stand alone as a sentence.
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I should have put quotes around "What If?", since it was a reference to the Marvel Comics.
We've already established in the tag section the last few days that you're a retiree with a college "education" who never learned how an apostrophe is used.
You are the last person in America, outside of 30 Million illegal alien invaders you voted for, who should be giving English lessons to anyone, Ted.
Oh... Fuck Isreal.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Quote:Why is 6ixStringJack like this? That question is a subset of the much larger question: Why are Trumptards, including Trump, malfunctioning? What is really going on inside their heads? 6ixStringJack revealed much about his major malfunctioning mind on Wednesday, August 7, 2024 10:04 PM at
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I should have put quotes around "What If?", since it was a reference to the Marvel Comics.
We've already established in the tag section the last few days that you're a retiree with a college "education" who never learned how an apostrophe is used.
You are the last person in America, outside of 30 Million illegal alien invaders you voted for, who should be giving English lessons to anyone, Ted.
Oh... Fuck Isreal.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I imagine your interactions don't have much to do with introversion as much as how "up" you are for it on any particular day.
I think it probably was introversion when I was younger and I cared far more about what other people thought of me than anybody ever should.
I just don't have the energy or desire to care too much about other people's opinions about anything more often than not. I think dumping that project is going to help open up some of those stores a bit. Although, during the handoff I mentioned just a few days ago I've unfortunately found one part in particular I cared about more than any other that I'm not going to be able to handoff immediately. And now I've done what I didn't want to do and I've gotten back in over my head trying to get it "perfect" before the hand off. It's the same as it ever was, the more I get done the more I find needs to be done.
So instead of mowing the lawn like I wanted to today, I've been sitting in front of my computer slaving away for the fifth out of five straight days in what might be the fifth of the next fifty days on something that really would be better to be working on during the winter when it's too cold to do anything else, or would have been better to be working on when it was oppressively hot and humid out rather than at the end of summer when it's going to start cooling down and I could be doing things that are more beneficial to my real-world self.
I just always have too many things to do and to think about to ever really be present in relationships, whether it be stuff like this project, or the million and one things I need to do to get this house into a proper home.
And that's on my good days when I'm super active. Can't forget about the times where I just waste weeks or months at a time doing practically nothing.
My buddy is always trying to get me to micro-dose on mushrooms. He thinks I need a "reset" and that it could be the cure for what ails me here. I dunno. It's super expensive, but he's offered to pay for it all for me. You know I don't like lab-created behavioral modification crap, but I'm pretty much on the fence about stuff like this too no matter how many times people like Joe Rogan say it's a good idea.
I did mushrooms twice in my mid 20's and tripped balls on them and neither time was a pleasant experience that I look back on fondly. Quite the opposite, actually. But my buddy says micro-dosing is nothing like that and if I even felt anything at all it would be pleasant.
A reset does sound nice though. Wouldn't it be nice to just wave a magic wand and all of the sudden have all the things that should be priority come into focus while being able to just let all the stuff that doesn't really matter go completely?
It would be sad thinking about what that might mean regarding m
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From the Front Page of today’s Houston Chronicle is reminder that for over a hundred years white people who would be voting for Trump if he ran for President a hundred years ago have been going crazy and murdering people who don’t look like them:
https://eedition.houstonchronicle.com/infinity/article_popover_share.a
spx?guid=9fa43a8f-04a3-4862-8673-097202f64a97&share=true
Search unearths more massacre remains
By Ken Miller
Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY — The latest search for the remains of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims has ended with three more sets containing gunshot wounds, investigators said. https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/
The three are among 11 sets of remains exhumed during the latest excavation in Oaklawn Cemetery, state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said Friday.
“Two of those gunshot victims display evidence of munitions from two different weapons,” Stackelbeck said. “The third individual who is a gunshot victim also displays evidence of burning.”
Forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield, who will remains on site to examine the remains, said one victim suffered bullet and shotgun wounds while the second was shot with two different caliber bullets.
The exhumed remains will be sent to Intermountain Forensics in Salt Lake City for DNA and genealogical testing in an effort to identify them.
The search ends just over a month after the first identification of remains previously exhumed during the search for massacre victims were identified as World War I veteran C.L. Daniel from Georgia.
The search is the fourth since Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum launched the project in 2018, and 47 remains have now been exhumed.
Bynum, who is not seeking reelection, said he hopes to see the search for victims continue.
“My hope is, regardless of who the next mayor is, that they see how important it is to see this investigation through,” Bynum said. “It’s all part of that sequence that is necessary for us to ultimately find people who were murdered and hidden over a century ago.”
Oklahoma, where the race-motivated massacre took place, was, is, and will always be Trumptard Country.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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It is not a surprise that Trump left Unpaid Invoices in Arizona
Angry Bear | August 18, 2024 7:30 am
https://angrybearblog.com/2024/08/what-a-surprise-unpaid-invoices-in-a
rizona
People flock to Trump venues where he stiffs the municipalities and leaves unpaid invoices. And this is OK for his followers?
Unpaid invoices could keep Trump rallies at smaller Arizona venues
By Camaron Stevenson, Copper Courier
After the Harris-Walz presidential campaign’s stadium-filled rally in Glendale, Arizona, last week, Trump supporters in the state may wonder when they’ll see a similar event for their candidate.
Problem is . . . that may not be possible.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has had massive rallies in Arizona during previous campaigns—15,000 people filled the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in 2020 and again at the Country Thunder Festival Grounds in 2022—but his financial circumstances have changed considerably in the time since, and a large-scale event may not be on the table for the former president and convicted felon.
Venues left unpaid
The Trump campaign hasn’t directly paid for a rally in Arizona since January 2020 and has left a trail of unpaid invoices in cities across the state. Initially, Trump wasn’t billed for his use of venues and city services like on-site law enforcement until after his rally. As a result, his campaign left unpaid invoices from 2016 and 2018 totaling roughly $150,000.
To this date, those bills are still unpaid.
“Arizonans expect and deserve leaders who honor their commitments, not someone who leaves them to pick up the tab,” said Arizona Democratic Party Chair Yolanda Bejarano.
“This is a reminder that Trump has always been about himself, not the hardworking people of our state.”
In a statement, the city of Mesa made it clear that, while Trump is personally under no legal obligation to reimburse the city, the additional cost was an unfortunate burden to saddle taxpayers with.
“The City of Mesa has never billed this White House nor any previous administration for costs associated with providing security for the president of the United States. We embrace that obligation,” the statement said.
“We believe the Trump 2020 campaign should reimburse our City for those taxpayer dollars, and we have invoiced the campaign accordingly.”
The next rally after he refused to pay Mesa was held at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where the Arizona Exposition and State Fair Board demanded the $27,000 be paid upfront. The campaign agreed, and that was the last time a Trump rally in Arizona was held—and paid for—by the campaign itself.
More at https://angrybearblog.com/2024/08/what-a-surprise-unpaid-invoices-in-a
rizona
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:
Why is 6ixStringJack like this? That question is a subset of the much larger question: Why are Trumptards, including Trump, malfunctioning?
Who's malfunctioning? I'm fine buddy.
How you enjoying your Sunday? Back to your Starbucks job tomorrow.
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Trump will be fine.
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From the Front Page of today’s Houston Chronicle is reminder that for over a hundred years white people who would be voting for Trump if he ran for President a hundred years ago have been going crazy and murdering people who don’t look like them:
"Mind reading" people who've been dead for 100 years?
Projecting that delusion into today?
Why does SECOND malfunction the way he does? (If he were drunk, that would explain a lot! If not, I guess he's just a delusional sociopath.)
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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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The problem, SIX, is that Trump is not his best advocate. He speaks off the cuff scattershot, makes random promises to toss out the the crowd. WYSIWYG. He's working against the entire establishment... the deep state, the DNC, the establishment media. Look at how they memory-holed the attempted assassination. What he needs to be is focused and incisive. But that's not what he is, thanks to galloping ADHD.
Kamala, if she was unscripted, would look worse than Trump. I heard her once, unscripted, saying how she felt about a judge being nominated for the Supreme Court, IIRC, and she used a word like "marvelous" or "amazing" or something like that, four or five times in one answer. Sounding, BTW, completely inauthentic.
I was horrified that someone so intellectually impoverished would be VP. Wish I could find that video again!
But YOU WILL NOT FIND HER IN A SINGLE UNSCRIPTED MOMENT.
And if you did, Trump unscripted is almost as bad as Kamala unscripted.
So it gets down to a person's record, and what we can glean from it of their plans for the USA.
HARDLY ANYBODY LOOKS THAT DEEP.
I favor Trump/ Vance bc the deep state globalists are so dead set against him. (I wish Vance was running TBH.) Plus, I know what Trump did and what he tried to do as President. (My big beef with him is on Israel and Iran.)
Trump, BTW, needs to shut up for a while. IMHO.
But I have great faith in our "interagency" and corrupt media to engineer an election win for Kamala*, who will be just another meat puppet. Look how far they kept Biden* fiction going. Hell, nobody is even asking NOW who's running the country!
If change is gonna come to the USA, it's going to need someone a lot more savvy than Trump. Someone like JFK or RFK, but with better security.
And if change doesn't come from within, it'll be imposed from without, and we're not going to like it. My guess is that'll start to be imposed some time in the next five years. So maybe it's better if Kamala* gets hit with a shit storm.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The problem, SIX, is that Trump is not his best advocate. He speaks off the cuff scattershot, makes random promises to toss out the the crowd. WYSIWYG. He's working against the entire establishment... the deep state, the DNC, the establishment media. Look at how they memory-holed the attempted assassination. What he needs to be is focused and incisive. But that's not what he is, thanks to galloping ADHD.
Kamala, if she was unscripted, would look worse than Trump. I heard her once, unscripted, saying how she felt about a judge being nominated for the Supreme Court, IIRC, and she used a word like "marvelous" or "amazing" or something like that, four or five times in one answer. Sounding, BTW, completely inauthentic.
I was horrified that someone so intellectually impoverished would be VP. Wish I could find that video again!
But YOU WILL NOT FIND HER IN A SINGLE UNSCRIPTED MOMENT.
And if you did, Trump unscripted is almost as bad as Kamala unscripted.
So it gets down to a person's record, and what we can glean from it of their plans for the USA.
HARDLY ANYBODY LOOKS THAT DEEP.
I favor Trump/ Vance bc the deep state globalists are so dead set against him. (I wish Vance was running TBH.) Plus, I know what Trump did and what he tried to do as President. (My big beef with him is on Israel and Iran.)
Trump, BTW, needs to shut up for a while. IMHO.
But I have great faith in our "interagency" and corrupt media to engineer an election win for Kamala*, who will be just another meat puppet. Look how far they kept Biden* fiction going. Hell, nobody is even asking NOW who's running the country!
If change is gonna come to the USA, it's going to need someone a lot more savvy than Trump. Someone like JFK or RFK, but with better security.
And if change doesn't come from within, it'll be imposed from without, and we're not going to like it. My guess is that'll start to be imposed some time in the next five years. So maybe it's better if Kamala* gets hit with a shit storm.
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4 more years of Democrats running things will be terrible for the economy and America in general. In one way that's a great thing because it makes everybody lean further and further socially to the right and back away from the Alt-Left. We've already seen a LOT of pushback against the worst Left policies that came out of 2020 and 2021 reset back to the middle in the last 4 years.
But unlike Democrats I don't wish for pain upon people to get taught a lesson. The amount of underprivileged that will suffer greatly before white college "educated" liberals feel real pain is not worth the tradeoff.
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Published Aug 18, 2024 at 11:45 AM EDT
"The telltale sign that somebody knows right from wrong is not suffering from a severe mental disease or defect that makes it impossible for them to distinguish right from wrong, it's that they tried to get away with their crimes. And Donald Trump has been trying to get away with his crimes every second, every minute of every day since he committed his many crimes."
"Is he a narcissist, does he have personality disorders? All day long. Is any of that the kind of severe mental disease or defect that would give rise to an insanity defense? Absolutely not."
"That's where I land as a former career prosecutor having handled insanity cases. Donald Trump will never, never have a successful insanity defense."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-would-fail-insanity-defense-all-
his-trials-legal-analyst-1940786
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Trump can't even eat pizza right.
https://img.myconfinedspace.com/2024/08/15/what-are-you-going-to-hold-
on-after/
Trump supporters wearing ‘dictator’ apparel
https://img.myconfinedspace.com/2024/08/15/trump-supporters-wearing-di
ctator-apparel/
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You're so brainfucked you're not even human anymore.
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Quote:You Trumptards are all the same, which makes it no surprise that you all suffer about the same fates. Your weird beliefs that the economy has been destroyed are true, for you. You think it has been destroyed because you destroyed your little quarter acre of it by setting your life on fire. In the last 4 years I have seen many Trumptards make every mistake possible. And they create a disaster for themselves. Good! I hope in the next 10 years the Trumptards further impoverish themselves with their horrifyingly stupid financial decisions. See Trump for examples of stupid financial decisions, lost court cases, fines, etc.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You're so brainfucked you're not even human anymore.
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The election is extremely close
Harris is winning — but her strategy still seems a little complacent
By Matthew Yglesias | Aug 19, 2024
https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-election-is-extremely-close
Kamala Harris has pulled off a virtuosic political performance this summer. In the immediate aftermath of Joe Biden’s debate fiasco, the Democratic Party was paralyzed by two conflicting convictions: One was that if Biden was not the nominee it had to be Harris, and the other was that Harris would be a terrible candidate.
I wrote last December that Harris would plausibly be a stronger choice than Biden and in July that she was clearly the stronger candidate. Still, relative to my expectations, she has over-performed. In a matter of weeks, she’s managed to:
• Wrap up intra-party support with striking speed (not so surprising, this is the political skill she’s always shown)
• Neutralize an emerging Donald Trump financial advantage, which is consistent with her past record, but still impressive
• Immediately address her most glaring potential weaknesses
• Launch several strong biographical ads
• Not only dig out of Biden’s post-debate polling hole (easy though still important), but break out a polling lead
Going back to before the debate, Democrats spent the winter of 2023-2024 in a weird amount of denial about the fact that Biden was on track to lose the election.
Under Harris, that is no longer true. If you were asked to bet on who would win the election if it were held tomorrow, Harris is clearly the right choice. People who are, in fact, gambling on the outcome in November are betting that Harris will probably win. Nate Silver’s state-by-state rundown of the transformation is stunning. Before the swap, Trump was more likely to win Virginia than to lose Florida, while Harris is now more likely to win Texas than to lose Minnesota.
Still, heading into the convention, I think it’s important to be realistic about these odds. As impressive as the turnaround has been, we’re talking about a situation in which Silver thinks she has a 57 percent chance of winning the election. On Polymarket she’s a bit weaker at 54 percent. On PredictIt, she’s a bit stronger at 58 percent.
These are good numbers (above fifty percent!) but not great numbers like the ones Biden was putting up during the summer of 2020. She could still easily lose the race, and there are a lot of known potential pitfalls. The 2020 DNC was strange primarily because of Covid, but I also thought it was full of odd programming decisions — a little complacent, self-indulgent, and self-congratulatory from a party that knew it was on track for victory and lost discipline. I’m hoping we see a convention that is laser-focused on persuadable voters — on retaining Romney-Biden voters and regaining Obama-Trump voters — rather than on placating intra-party dissent. Trump is really bad, and I’d really like to see him lose, ideally quite badly, in a way that helps us turn the page on this era of American politics.
Much more at https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-election-is-extremely-close
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Trump supporters are doing this:
Red Flag Gun Laws Under Fire
Laws meant to keep firearms away from unstable people are under attack by Second Amendment radicals. An investigation by The Trace and Rolling Stone exposes the ugly campaign to undermine a bipartisan compromise to stop mass shootings.
By Mike Spies | Aug 15, 2024
https://www.thetrace.org/2024/08/red-flag-second-amendment-foundation-
willey/
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Trump supporters are doing this:
Biden committed ‘impeachable conduct,’ ‘defrauded United States to enrich his family’: House GOP report
House Oversight, Judiciary, Ways and Means committees have led impeachment inquiry against Biden
By Brooke Singman Fox News | August 19, 2024 5:00am EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-committed-impeachable-conduct-d
efrauded-united-states-enrich-his-family-house-gop-report
If you believe Trump supporters are truth-tellers then you have no alternative but to support Biden being removed from office. But if you have my long experience with Trump supporters who are lying sacks of shit, you might have doubts that they are telling the truth about Biden.
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Trump supporters say Harris is a communist because of this:
Harris’s price-gouging proposal looks pretty modest
Author Kevin Drum | August 18, 2024 – 5:51 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/harriss-price-gouging-proposal-looks-pretty-
modest/
There's nothing about price controls here, and not even much suggestion of anti-gouging action outside of natural disasters (and even then, only if it's gratuitous gouging, not price hikes due to higher wholesale costs). This may or may not be a good idea, but it's surprisingly modest given the ruckus it produced in the press.
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Trump supporters say Harris is a communist because of this:
Harris’s price-gouging proposal looks pretty modest
Author Kevin Drum | August 18, 2024 – 5:51 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/harriss-price-gouging-proposal-looks-pretty-
modest/
There's nothing about price controls here, and not even much suggestion of anti-gouging action outside of natural disasters (and even then, only if it's gratuitous gouging, not price hikes due to higher wholesale costs). This may or may not be a good idea, but it's surprisingly modest given the ruckus it produced in the press.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Half of that press was "Opinion" pieces in lefty news outlets like NYT and WaPo. If you didn't know, the "Opinion" section is where lefty news outlets like the NYT and WaPo tell the truth.
But good to know that she's just lying to low-info/low-IQ Democrat voters and promising them things she won't ever deliver on.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You Trumptards are all the same, which makes it no surprise that you all suffer about the same fates. Your weird beliefs that the economy has been destroyed are true, for you. You think it has been destroyed because you destroyed your little quarter acre of it by setting your life on fire. In the last 4 years I have seen many Trumptards make every mistake possible. And they create a disaster for themselves. Good! I hope in the next 10 years the Trumptards further impoverish themselves with their horrifyingly stupid financial decisions. See Trump for examples of stupid financial decisions, lost court cases, fines, etc.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You're so brainfucked you're not even human anymore.
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I'm sitting on a big fat stack of cash with no bills or debt.
Have fun at work today, honey.
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This Day In History: August 19, 2020: Biden +7.4 | August 19, 2016: Clinton +6.0
Biden only won by +4.2 and Clinton lost.
And that's just the popularity contest that includes a surplus 8 Million + votes in California, Illinois and New York.
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Abnormally quiet in here today...
DNC isn't going as well as you'd hoped?
Look on the bright side. Kamala finally got more Democrats to show up for something than the headcount at any given Trump rally.
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Republicans Carry Around Cups of Fake J.D. Vance Semen
Republican Supporters We're Carrying J.D. Vance's Seed ... Take That Tim Walz!!!
8/18/2024 4:26 PM PT
https://www.tmz.com/2024/08/18/republicans-jd-vance-carry-fake-cups-se
men/
Republicans are shooting off at Tim Walz, trying to clown the Democratic VP nominee for using IVF by carrying around cups of fake semen ... yeah, we're serious.
Pictures have hit the internet of people outfitted in MAGA merch -- pictures of Donald Trump, bald eagles and American flags plastered on the chest -- and, in their hands their holding sperm sample cups with J.D. Vance's face stickered on the front.
Babe wake up, MAGA is carrying around JD Vance jizz cups. https://x.com/Esqueer_/status/1825147908561289276
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) August 18, 2024 @Esqueer_
Next to his face the cups read, "J.D. Vance Full Family Kit" ... basically saying the senator from Ohio has some strong swimmers -- after all, he's already got three children.
As for why these supporters are schlepping around the cups -- complete with a opaque white substance we're trying hard not to think about, just BTW . . .
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Republicans Carry Around Cups of Fake J.D. Vance Semen
Republican Supporters We're Carrying J.D. Vance's Seed ... Take That Tim Walz!!!
8/18/2024 4:26 PM PT
https://www.tmz.com/2024/08/18/republicans-jd-vance-carry-fake-cups-se
men/
Republicans are shooting off at Tim Walz, trying to clown the Democratic VP nominee for using IVF by carrying around cups of fake semen ... yeah, we're serious.
Pictures have hit the internet of people outfitted in MAGA merch -- pictures of Donald Trump, bald eagles and American flags plastered on the chest -- and, in their hands their holding sperm sample cups with J.D. Vance's face stickered on the front.
Babe wake up, MAGA is carrying around JD Vance jizz cups. https://x.com/Esqueer_/status/1825147908561289276
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) August 18, 2024 @Esqueer_
Next to his face the cups read, "J.D. Vance Full Family Kit" ... basically saying the senator from Ohio has some strong swimmers -- after all, he's already got three children.
As for why these supporters are schlepping around the cups -- complete with a opaque white substance we're trying hard not to think about, just BTW . . .
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
100% sure this was college "educated" white boy Kamala voters LARPing.
Meanwhile, what's your idiot up to tonight?
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Quote:Donald Trump says that our supply chains are "still crashed." https://x.com/Acyn/status/1825622839741001902 That's just normal Trump idiocy, of course, but it got me curious: how are our supply chains doing these days? So I checked in on our old friend from the New York Fed, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index. Here it is through July:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meanwhile, what's your idiot up to tonight?
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It's right at zero, just as normal as can be.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/gscpi#/interactive
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I asked what your idiot was up to tonight.
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Quote:At a fundamental level, you don't know what "idiotic" means, 6ix. Democrats versus Trumptards is not a philosophical difference of opinions. You Trumptards have lost the meaning of everything and, not surprising, it shows in how difficult life is for Trumptards compared to other Americans. Trump's talk about a destroyed American economy is not true for ordinary Americans, but is true for Trumptards who don't understand the economy. Trumptards misunderstand everything. Trumptards are deeply confused about simple things, which is one reason why 6ix has written "Fuck Ukraine" and "Nobody cares" many times. 6ix, you are a lost soul if you can't even understand which side is evil in that war.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Donald Trump
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meanwhile, what's your idiot up to tonight?
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A historic example would be the Confederates. They demonstrated the same quirky and deranged mental processes as today's Trumptards. The Confederates could not see anything wrong with slavery, but they did see abolitionists as evil. The Confederates didn't see anything wrong with overthrowing the government, but they did see Lincoln and the Union Army as evil for stopping their treason. The Confederates did not see their evil lives as evil, but they saw good lives as evil. The Confederates misunderstood everything.
It is a historic fact that once the Union stopped the Confederates from their most blatantly evil ways, the ex-Confederates lived in poverty compared to normal Americans for a hundred years because the ex-Confederates didn't know how to behave in a way that fits the country they live in. Their minds remained quirky and deranged in most things that were even slightly complicated, including farming, running a business decently or raising children who aren't crazy like Mommy and Daddy. Trumptards, including Trump, don't know how to behave decently, same as the ex-Confederates. That's why Trump has to lie and cheat on his taxes to get ahead because he does not know how to behave. That's why 6ixStringJack had to withdraw from society and live in relative poverty compared to normal Americans. He does not know how to behave and does not want to learn.
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What are Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices doing?
Defining Corruption Down
by Barry Goldman | Aug 20, 2024 5:00AM
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/08/defining-corruption-down
.html
Robert McDonnell was the Governor of Virginia in 2014 when the federal government indicted him and his wife on bribery charges. A Virginia businessman named Jonnie Williams provided the McDonnells with over $175,000 in “loans, gifts and other benefits.” In exchange, the Governor “arranged meetings, hosted events, and contacted other government officials” in an effort to advance the fortunes of Anatabloc, a nutritional supplement manufactured by Williams’ company.
Mr. and Mrs. McDonnell were convicted and sentenced to prison terms of two years and one year respectively. McDonnell appealed, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. He petitioned the Supreme Court, they granted certiorari, and we have the case of United States v. McDonnell.
I don’t want to be accused of spinning the facts here, so I’ll take my language directly from the Court’s decision. Here are two examples of the conduct at issue:
Governor McDonnell’s wife, Maureen McDonnell, offered to seat Williams next to the Governor at a political rally. Shortly before the event, Williams took Mrs. McDonnell on a shopping trip and bought her $20,000 worth of designer clothing. The McDonnells later had Williams over for dinner at the Governor’s Mansion, where they discussed research studies on Anatabloc.
At a subsequent meeting at the Governor’s Mansion, Mrs. McDonnell admired Williams’s Rolex and mentioned that she wanted to get one for Governor McDonnell. Williams asked if Mrs. McDonnell wanted him to purchase a Rolex for the Governor, and Mrs. McDonnell responded, “Yes, that would be nice.” Williams did so, and Mrs. McDonnell later gave the Rolex to Governor McDonnell as a Christmas present.
There is no dispute that McDonnell “arranged meetings, hosted events, and contacted other government officials” on behalf of Williams and Anatabloc. The question the court addressed was whether those were “official acts.” Here is more from the Court’s opinion:
[T]he federal bribery statute… makes it a crime for “a public official or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly” to demand, seek, receive, accept, or agree “to receive or accept anything of value” in return for being “influenced in the performance of any official act.” An “official act” is defined as “any decision or action on any question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy, which may at any time be pending, or which may by law be brought before any public official, in such official’s official capacity, or in such official’s place of trust or profit.”
So let’s review. Williams wants to see universities in Virginia conduct trials of Anatabloc so he can get FDA approval to market it as a drug. He takes the Governor’s wife out and buys her $20,000 worth of clothes and a Rolex. The Governor invites him to the Mansion and also invites top health officials from his administration and executives from Virginia universities involved in drug research. What do you think is happening?
Exactly. Textbook public corruption is happening. And that’s what the District Court and the Court of Appeals thought too. But the Supreme Court found otherwise. According to the court, arranging meetings, hosting events, and contacting other government officials is just what public officials do. Without more, the court said, those are not “official acts.”
The decision contains a lot of what purports to be textual analysis and there is the invocation of the Latin maxim noscitor a sociius to establish that introducing people at a dinner at the Governor’s Mansion is not “any decision or action on any question, matter, cause, suit, proceeding or controversy, which may at any time be pending” because, um, reasons. Then there is this:
[C]onscientious public officials arrange meetings for constituents, contact other officials on their behalf, and include them in events all the time.
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Since SECOND has gone off-topic, I feel free to do the same...
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House Concludes Biden "Actively Participated" In Impeachable Offenses - Except It's Too Late To Impeach Him
Monday, Aug 19, 2024 - 12:02 PM
The GOP-led House committees who have been investigating the Biden family shook their fist at the sky on Monday, announcing in a 291-page report that the president engaged in impeachable conduct by helping to enrich his family with millions of dollars through various business schemes to trade on the family name - and then defrauded voters by lying to cover it up, Just the News reports.
The House Oversight, Ways and Means and Judiciary Committees said they believe the evidence from their nine-month investigation establishes that Biden abused his office and violated his oaths under the Constitution, according to the 291-page report reviewed by Just the News.
Obviously this would have been infinitely more helpful even a few months ago when there was time for the GOP-controlled House to take action (particularly before the DOJ concluded that Biden is too senile to prosecute), but hey - better late than never
...
Beyond Biden’s conduct as vice president, the report argued the Justice Department during his presidency deviated from normal practices in order to provide favorable treatment to Hunter Biden, throwing up roadblocks in the investigation and preventing attorneys from pursuing certain avenues of inquiry, as two IRS whistleblowers testified to the House Ways and Means Committee. -Just the News.
Says much about Biden* corruption. And Repub and DOJ [and FBI] corruption too.
We'd be better off if DC, Langley, and the Pentagon took a 50-year hiatus. Since they can't do the job of running and defending the country decently they should give someone else a chance.
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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."
Or, any verification or thought.
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Quote:Signym, the topic is always the same: Signym, 6ixStringJack, Trumptards, and Trump himself are lunatics who cannot adjust to America as it is. Instead, they want their insane asylum behavior to rule over America. Look at your signature, Signym, and make a persuasive argument you are NOT crazy. By the way, Kissinger never said what your signature claims, he said the exact opposite, and "second" can actually do what Signym thinks is impossible. It is easy for people who aren't overly articulate dumbbells like Signym.
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Since SECOND has gone off-topic, I feel free to do the same...
Says much about Biden* corruption. And Repub and DOJ [and FBI] corruption too.
We'd be better off if DC, Langley, and the Pentagon took a 50-year hiatus. Since they can't do the job of running and defending the country decently they should give someone else a chance.
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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.
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:At a fundamental level, you don't know what "idiotic" means, 6ix. Democrats versus Trumptards is not a philosophical difference of opinions. You Trumptards have lost the meaning of everything and, not surprising, it shows in how difficult life is for Trumptards compared to other Americans. Trump's talk about a destroyed American economy is not true for ordinary Americans, but is true for Trumptards who don't understand the economy. Trumptards misunderstand everything. Trumptards are deeply confused about simple things, which is one reason why 6ix has written "Fuck Ukraine" and "Nobody cares" many times. 6ix, you are a lost soul if you can't even understand which side is evil in that war.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Donald Trump
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Meanwhile, what's your idiot up to tonight?
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I asked what your idiot was up to tonight.
Stop quoting me and replying with unrelated stuff.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
A historic example would be the Confederates. They demonstrated the same quirky and deranged mental processes as today's Trumptards. The Confederates could not see anything wrong with slavery, but they did see abolitionists as evil. The Confederates didn't see anything wrong with overthrowing the government, but they did see Lincoln and the Union Army as evil for stopping their treason. The Confederates did not see their evil lives as evil, but they saw good lives as evil. The Confederates misunderstood everything.
It is a historic fact that once the Union stopped the Confederates from their most blatantly evil ways, the ex-Confederates lived in poverty compared to normal Americans for a hundred years because the ex-Confederates didn't know how to behave in a way that fits the country they live in. Their minds remained quirky and deranged in most things that were even slightly complicated, including farming, running a business decently or raising children who aren't crazy like Mommy and Daddy. Trumptards, including Trump, don't know how to behave decently, same as the ex-Confederates. That's why Trump has to lie and cheat on his taxes to get ahead because he does not know how to behave. That's why 6ixStringJack had to withdraw from society and live in relative poverty compared to normal Americans. He does not know how to behave and does not want to learn.
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Hear Hear...
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Crews add new fencing around United Center after breach during DNC protest
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protests-dnc-crews-add-new-fencin
g-around-united-center-after-breach-during-protest-democratic-national-convention/15208089/
DNC's pro-Palestinian protests draw thousands in Chicago
https://www.reuters.com/world/pro-palestinian-protests-loom-ahead-firs
t-day-democratic-convention-2024-08-19/
Some protesters tear down security fence as thousands march outside Democratic National Convention
https://apnews.com/article/protest-democratic-convention-chicago-war-8
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Quote:I thought the topic was RUSSIA!RUSSIA!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Since SECOND has gone off-topic, I feel free to do the same...
House Concludes Biden "Actively Participated" In Impeachable Offenses - Except It's Too Late To Impeach Him
Monday, Aug 19, 2024 - 12:02 PM
The GOP-led House committees who have been investigating the Biden family shook their fist at the sky on Monday, announcing in a 291-page report that the president engaged in impeachable conduct by helping to enrich his family with millions of dollars through various business schemes to trade on the family name - and then defrauded voters by lying to cover it up, Just the News reports.
The House Oversight, Ways and Means and Judiciary Committees said they believe the evidence from their nine-month investigation establishes that Biden abused his office and violated his oaths under the Constitution, according to the 291-page report reviewed by Just the News.
Obviously this would have been infinitely more helpful even a few months ago when there was time for the GOP-controlled House to take action (particularly before the DOJ concluded that Biden is too senile to prosecute), but hey - better late than never
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Beyond Biden’s conduct as vice president, the report argued the Justice Department during his presidency deviated from normal practices in order to provide favorable treatment to Hunter Biden, throwing up roadblocks in the investigation and preventing attorneys from pursuing certain avenues of inquiry, as two IRS whistleblowers testified to the House Ways and Means Committee. -Just the News.
Says much about Biden* corruption. And Repub and DOJ [and FBI] corruption too.
We'd be better off if DC, Langley, and the Pentagon took a 50-year hiatus. Since they can't do the job of running and defending the country decently they should give someone else a chance.
SECOND: Signym, the topic is always the same: Signym, 6ixStringJack, Trumptards, and Trump ...
Or is it CLIMATE EXTINCTION?
Or maybe you're hopping onboard Kamala's JOY train?
Er...no. I don't see you posting anything positive about Kamala.
I wonder why.
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House Concludes Biden "Actively Participated" In Impeachable Offenses - Except It's Too Late To Impeach Him
Monday, Aug 19, 2024 - 12:02 PM
The GOP-led House committees who have been investigating the Biden family shook their fist at the sky on Monday, announcing in a 291-page report that the president engaged in impeachable conduct by helping to enrich his family with millions of dollars through various business schemes to trade on the family name - and then defrauded voters by lying to cover it up, Just the News reports.
Signym, you ignorant ****. They found no evidence stupid. And if you would like me to prove that here respond to this post by saying so. Because if you want proof I can post video after video of the Democrats pleading with the Republicans to impeach going back forever. Again because, the whole thing was a hoax too fool stupid ignorant people. Of course that would mean you. Do me a favor. Dare me to post a dozen videos of the Democrats saying if you have anything impeach or let's end this hoax.
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All you need to do is listen to, or read, the direct testimony of Tony Bobulinski, Hunters former business partner https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/02/13/who-is-tony-bobuli
nski-hunter-bidens-business-partner-testifies-in-biden-impeachment-inquiry/ referencing emails, chats, meetings etc, and delve into Hunter's laptop. Yanno, the one that caused 51 "intelligence" officers to metaphorically stand shoulder to shoulder and declare as "Russian disinfo".
There's plenty of evidence, it was ignored or buried, and memory-holed.
Republicans probably have their own nefarious reasons for not pursuing this. I imagine they, too, were in on the grift, possibly on the MIC side.
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Quote:I'm going to make a sweeping statement based only on my experience with a few thousand Trumptards in Texas: Trumptards have difficult personal lives because they have defective personalities. They deserve their troubles and suffering. But Trumptards think they don't. See how they responded to Trump's conviction for how Trumptards deny their leader Trump is as highly defective as they are:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Trump felony conviction talking points from the GOP – an incomplete list
1 The judge was corrupt and the trial was rigged.
Americans will lose faith in the rule of law! At least, if we have anything to say about it!
2 If they can do it to Trump, they can do it to anyone.
Who among us has not falsified business records in an attempt to influence the outcome of an election? You might as well criminalized breathing!
3 What about Unrelated Things.
I've heard that other crimes are frequently committed in the city of New York! Why isn't the DA investigating that?
4 No laws were broken.
If arranging a complicated hush money scheme through a fixer in order to win the presidency is wrong I don't want to be right!
5 Joe Biden orchestrated everything.
He is senile and incompetent and also the secret mastermind manipulating the levers of power to persecute Donald Trump!
6 This will set a dangerous precedent.
What will happen to this country if it becomes normal to demand your political rivals get locked up? I shudder to even think of it!
7 This is good, actually.
The jurors have just guaranteed that Donald Trump will be the next president! Nothing provides a political boost like 34 felony convictions!
8 Revenge is a dish best served at any temperature.
There will be riots! And bloodshed! Our enemies will suffer a terrible retribution! Because of our great respect for the rule of law!
https://prospect.org/power/2024-06-04-this-modern-world/
Trump tries to move past his guilty verdict by attacking the criminal justice system
https://apnews.com/article/trump-2024-campaign-trial-4629840240cb308c5
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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That's all you ever do.
Ignored.
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On this day in history, August 20th:
National00000000Harris +1.5000Biden +7.40000Clinton +5.7
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +1.0000Biden +6.50000Clinton +9.4
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +5.70000Clinton +9.2
Michigan00000000Harris +2.0000Biden +6.70000Clinton +8.0
Arizona000000000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +2.00000Trump00 +0.3
Nevada0000000000Trump0 +1.3000--000000000000Clinton +2.3
North Carolina00Trump0 +1.2000Trump +0.60000Clinton +2.0
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.0000Trump +1.10000Clinton +0.3
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Have SECOND or THUGR posted anything about positive about Kamal yet?
Seems like not much enthusiasm on their part.
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I haven't heard one positive word out of either of them that wasn't straight up the exact same propaganda that I read off of headlines at RCP every morning since the day I sobered up.
And right now it's "Trump's going down!". With no actual reason behind why they think Kamala is going to win or should win.
The party of "Joy" seems to be catering to the most joyless individuals in the country.
I wonder what Joy Ried and Joy Behar are up to today?
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Quote:Which is why terrible things happen to 6ixStringJack and Trump. Trumptards can get away with it, most of the time, because America is tolerant of deviants and lets them suffer the consequences of being stupid, whether it is from smoking, drinking, or being unemployable because of that stupidity. In America, you are free to be the biggest failure you can be. Or the biggest success. You are even free in America to be a failure while insisting you are a success. See Trump for an entire life of touting his fictional "successes".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's all you ever do.
Ignored.
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What Barack Obama’s DNC speech was actually about
Beneath the campaign rhetoric, Obama offered a strikingly philosophical defense of American liberalism.
by Zack Beauchamp | Aug 21, 2024, 12:45 AM CDT
https://www.vox.com/politics/367911/barack-obama-democratic-convention
-speech-2024
Living this liberal vision, for Obama, means accepting the diversity inherent to a large society made up of people with all sorts of beliefs and worldviews: recognizing that “our fellow citizens deserve the same grace we hope they’ll extend to us.” It means understanding “true freedom” as something that gives all of us the right “to make decisions about our own life [and] requires us to recognize that other people have the right to make decisions that are different than ours.” And it means seeing democracy as more than “just a bunch of abstract principles and a bunch of dusty laws in a book somewhere,” but rather “the values we live by.”
This, to be clear, is not a case that Trump is un-American and thus will definitely lose: Obama took great pains to emphasize that the race was still close and could go either way. Rather, Obama is saying that what Trump stands for contradicts many of the values that Americans claim to hold dear — our core sense of what our country is about and what it stands for. That America’s truest identity is liberal, and that this identity can transcend those things that divide us.
I want to agree with that. But as I argue in my recent book, (The Reactionary Spirit - How America's Most Insidious Political Tradition Swept the World) there is a deeply illiberal strain in American politics — an ideology born out of the essential contradiction between America’s state liberal ideals and the reality of chattel slavery at its founding.
This tradition, like Trump, rejects core liberal-democratic ideals about equality. It is no more and no less American than our loftier stated ideals; both represent authentic aspects of America’s identity, and both have triumphed at different times throughout our country’s history.
The question, then, is not whether American liberalism can reassert its naturally dominant place. It is whether the America that Obama believes in will triumph in this round of a centuries-old struggle against an authoritarian twin.
FULL SPEECH: Barack Obama’s full speech at the DNC
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Trump is determined to create all-out chaos 'if he loses'
Asked if he would accept the election results, Trump said, "If, for some reason, I lose — and I think if I lose, this country will go into a tailspin, the likes of which it's never seen before, the likes of 1929."
Trump has repeatedly dodged the question of accepting the 2024 election results, even after being asked three times during his debate with President Biden. Trump and his allies working as election officials in key states are prepared to create major chaos if Harris wins.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-determined-to-create-all
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Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot.
West expressed ambivalence about Republican efforts to help him, which would benefit Donald Trump by siphoning away voters who would support the Democratic nominee otherwise.
The work by the GOP attorneys appears to be part of a broader effort by conservative activists and Republican-aligned operatives across the country to push West’s candidacy and subvert the integrity of the ballot in the months leading up to November’s presidential election.
https://apnews.com/article/republican-lawyers-cornel-west-arizona-88cd
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Which is why terrible things happen to 6ixStringJack and Trump. Trumptards can get away with it, most of the time, because America is tolerant of deviants and lets them suffer the consequences of being stupid, whether it is from smoking, drinking, or being unemployable because of that stupidity. In America, you are free to be the biggest failure you can be. Or the biggest success. You are even free in America to be a failure while insisting you are a success. See Trump for an entire life of touting his fictional "successes".
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
That's all you ever do.
Ignored.
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Trump will be fine.
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Yes. We've already established that not one single person who ever voted Democrat has ever had a cigarette, drank alcohol or been without a job for longer than 6 months in their life.
Get fucked, retard.
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Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot.
West expressed ambivalence about Republican efforts to help him, which would benefit Donald Trump by siphoning away voters who would support the Democratic nominee otherwise.
The work by the GOP attorneys appears to be part of a broader effort by conservative activists and Republican-aligned operatives across the country to push West’s candidacy and subvert the integrity of the ballot in the months leading up to November’s presidential election.
https://apnews.com/article/republican-lawyers-cornel-west-arizona-88cd
1b4f698715a3071a93b5e1526074
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The republicans need to block Americans from voting. They cannot win in a, straight forward election. The different ways they've come up with to do that are running out.
America is changing. A new generation is stepping up to effect that change. The republicans are like the boy with his finger in a dyke. The dyke, dam, is cracking all around them.
tick tock
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Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot.
West expressed ambivalence about Republican efforts to help him, which would benefit Donald Trump by siphoning away voters who would support the Democratic nominee otherwise.
The work by the GOP attorneys appears to be part of a broader effort by conservative activists and Republican-aligned operatives across the country to push West’s candidacy and subvert the integrity of the ballot in the months leading up to November’s presidential election.
https://apnews.com/article/republican-lawyers-cornel-west-arizona-88cd
1b4f698715a3071a93b5e1526074
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
The republicans need to block Americans from voting. They cannot win in a, straight forward election. The different ways they've come up with to do that are running out.
America is changing. A new generation is stepping up to effect that change. The republicans are like the boy with his finger in a dyke. The dyke, dam, is cracking all around them.
tick tock
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No article about how Democrats are trying to keep the Green Party off of the ballot in Wisconsin, huh?
Here you go:
Democrats try to block Green Party Candidate from Wisconsin's 2024 presidential ballot
An employee of the Democratic National Committee has filed a complaint seeking to remove Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein from the 2024 ballot in Wisconsin, arguing the party does not have anyone legally qualified in the state who can nominate a slate of presidential electors.
https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/democrats-try-to-block-green-party-
candidate-from-wisconsins-2024-presidential-ballot/
Shut the fuck up.
Both of you.
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Biden DOJ Asks SCOTUS To Keep Arizona From Requiring Proof Of Citizenship For 2024 Election
https://thefederalist.com/2024/08/20/biden-doj-asks-scotus-to-squash-a
rizonas-proof-of-citizenship-voter-requirements-for-2024-election/
Keep telling us that Democrats aren't allowing illegals to vote.
That's all you can do is cheat.
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'No morals': Trump WH staffer spills secrets and backs Harris
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Wow. That picture is racist as shit. You know a white college "educated" dude drew that.
I'm more black than Harris is, yet the artist decided to make her nose 1/5th of her face and gave her those big Kool-Aid sippin' lips.
And it looks like Walz really wants to get his nose right up in those THICC ass cheeks that she doesn't have in real life either. A self insert? Or is he saying that Walz is a degenerate?
You people are unbelievable.
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US Jobs Revised Down By 818,000 In Election Year Shocker, Second Worst Revision In US History
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-jobs-revised-down-818000-election
-year-shocker-second-worst-revision-us-history
Something for Kamala* to fix.
Would she?
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Biden Approved Secret Nuclear War Strategy Focused On Simultaneous Conflicts
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/08/20/biden-approved-nuclear-strategy-to
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Does Kamala even know about this?
Any plans to renegotiate nuclear treaties?
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Quote:There are millions of para-Democrats and semi-Democrats who are ruining their own lives by smoking, drinking, drugging, fornicating, adultery and being super-gluttonous because they are piggish fools. The government doesn't stop them beyond placing warnings on packs of cigarettes and cases of beer. There will be horrifying consequences for being that stupid and lacking self-control. On the Trumptard side, all the Trumptards I know are giving the maximum effort to ruining themselves with their foolish drive to maximize the freedom to be a total asshole. See that fat blob Trump for an example. If tub-of-lard Trump makes it to 83 years old, finishing a term in the White House, I'll be surprised. If Trump was Canadian, he might make it, but fat-ass Americans tend to drop dead in their 70's or earlier, keeping down the cost of Social Security and Medicare. The life expectancy for Canada in 2023 was 82.96 years, a 0.18% increase from 2022. In America, its 74.8. Trump is past his expiration date.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yes. We've already established that not one single person who ever voted Democrat has ever had a cigarette, drank alcohol or been without a job for longer than 6 months in their life.
Get fucked, retard.
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Trump will be fine.
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https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Yes. We've already established that not one single person who ever voted Democrat has ever had a cigarette, drank alcohol or been without a job for longer than 6 months in their life.
Get fucked, retard.
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Trump will be fine.
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A thousand pardons, Your Holiness. They're not good salt of the earth Democrats like you are.
Whatever you say, Estus Pirkle.
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Quote:Rush Limbaugh was dead by 70 because of his disgraceful health habits. To Rush, freedom meant doing what pleased himself. 6ixStringJack is worse behaved than Rush because he doesn't have to pull himself together for a radio show and 6ix doesn't have Rush's resources to keep him alive. 6ix will be dead at a younger age than Rush. Maybe 6ix won't even live to be as old as Matthew Perry, another with disgraceful health habits and strong belief in the freedom to do what is pleasurable, who died at 54.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A thousand pardons, Your Holiness. They're not good salt of the earth Democrats like you are.
Whatever you say, Estus Pirkle.
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Republicans are defecting from Trump’s MAGA army in droves
“After January 6, after Donald Trump has refused for four years to acknowledge that he lost, and his threats against democracy — I think it’s important to turn the page.”
“There is only one political party and one candidate for the presidency that can claim the mantle of defender and protector of America’s democracy, the Constitution, and the rule of law,” Luttig wrote in a statement. “I will unhesitatingly vote for the Democratic Party’s candidate …Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris.”
Then there’s the far right, terminally online influencers who make up the beating heart of the MAGA movement. Those mostly young political movers include figures like neo–Nazi Nick Fuentes, who was once friendly enough with Trump to score a dinner invitation to Mar-a-Lago. Now Fuentes is casting doubt on the former president, saying he predicts a “catastrophic loss” for Trump and the GOP in November.
Likewise for long-time Trump ally and right-wing performance artist Laura Loomer, who rose to fame in part by riding Trump’s media coattails. “Have you noticed how weak so many of the Trump surrogates sound on TV?” Loomer asked in a post on X. “Needs to change FAST because we can’t talk about a stolen election for another four years.”
All of that criticism from former Trump loyalists has other MAGA culture warriors weaving conspiracy theories to explain away Trump’s weakness. Far-right podcaster Brenden Dilley used his platform to accuse Fuentes of being — of all possible things — a secret Democratic operative paid by the Harris campaign. The mind truly reels at the thought.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4837058-harris-rise-gop-trump-wea
kness/
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Donald Trump Interview Goes Off The Rails During Cocaine-Focused Tangent
The politician dove deep into comedian Theo Von's former drug habit during a wild sit down.
By Kelby Vera | Aug 21, 2024, 04:03 PM EDT
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-theo-von-cocaine-podcast_n
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Rush Limbaugh was dead by 70 because of his disgraceful health habits. To Rush, freedom meant doing what pleased himself. 6ixStringJack is worse behaved than Rush because he doesn't have to pull himself together for a radio show and 6ix doesn't have Rush's resources to keep him alive. 6ix will be dead at a younger age than Rush. Maybe 6ix won't even live to be as old as Matthew Perry, another with disgraceful health habits and strong belief in the freedom to do what is pleasurable, who died at 54.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
A thousand pardons, Your Holiness. They're not good salt of the earth Democrats like you are.
Whatever you say, Estus Pirkle.
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Trump will be fine.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Do you ever listen to yourself?
If you do, you'd be the only person who ever did.
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Originally posted by SECOND; Rush Limbaugh ... blah blah blah ... Matthew Perry, another with disgraceful health habits and strong belief in the freedom to do what is pleasurable, who died at 54.
According to this, Matt Perry was a Hollywood liberal.
https://hollowverse.com/matthew-perry
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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."
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Quote:Trump would be dead now from Covid-19 if he had not been President:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you ever listen to yourself?
If you do, you'd be the only person who ever did.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Read Inside the extraordinary effort to save Trump's Life
Trump catches Covid and almost dies
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+catches+Covid+and+almost+dies
6ixStringJack, I still remember you claiming nobody died from Covid-19. I remember you say some extraordinarily stupid things about vaccinations.
Your days will be cut short because of your negligence.
6ixStringJack, why were all your teeth pulled? Was it clean living? Or were you just stupid like a Trumptard? Your brother had to tell you about how ill you were from diabetes because you are stupid. Your brother is dumber than normal but still smarter than you or a Trumptard.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Reportedly, I am Trumptard. Texans don't know I never voted for Trump and I am not telling them.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND; Rush Limbaugh ... blah blah blah ... Matthew Perry, another with disgraceful health habits and strong belief in the freedom to do what is pleasurable, who died at 54.
According to this, Matt Perry was a Hollywood liberal.
https://hollowverse.com/matthew-perry
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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.
Californians didn't know everything Matt Perry did in private or who he voted for. Californians only knew what Perry wanted them to know. If Perry was really open about who he was, he would have tweeted: "I just got a huge injection of ketamine and now I am going to float in the pool, face up, and hallucinate for a while because my life is a constant search for pleasure and escape from being a responsible adult. (See Trump for another famous example.) If I drown, this was my last tweet. I regret only that I was not more selfish/foolish/lazy in life." Trump could send that same tweet, but instead of mentioning ketamine, Trump seeks the admiration of crowds for his high.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Here's a reminder of why lots of people are afraid of Trump's authoritarian streak:
• He tried to overthrow the 2020 election violently.
• He often speaks admiringly of foreign dictators.
• He has explicitly promised to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies.
• He wants to eliminate big chunks of the civil service so he can appoint his own loyalists instead.
• He writes about "rooting out" all the vermin who don't support him.
• He laughs about being a dictator on "day one" and then stopping.
These aren't merely points of ordinary partisan disagreement. They are the signs of a man who will at least try to bring down the rule of law for his own aggrandizement. He may not succeed, but it won't be for lack of desire.
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:Trump would be dead now from Covid-19 if he had not been President:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Do you ever listen to yourself?
If you do, you'd be the only person who ever did.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Read Inside the extraordinary effort to save Trump's Life
Trump catches Covid and almost dies
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+catches+Covid+and+almost+dies
6ixStringJack, I still remember you claiming nobody died from Covid-19. I remember you say some extraordinarily stupid things about vaccinations.
Your days will be cut short because of your negligence.
6ixStringJack, why were all your teeth pulled? Was it clean living? Or were you just stupid like a Trumptard? Your brother had to tell you about how ill you were from diabetes because you are stupid. Your brother is dumber than normal but still smarter than you or a Trumptard.
Now you're just making stuff up.
Why don't you just shut the fuck up for once, cunt.
You have no audience. Nobody here gives one single shit about your opinion. You should be very familiar with that feeling since nobody in your real life does either.
Everybody you have ever met hates you.
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RFK Jr. expected to drop out of race by end of week, plans to endorse Trump: Sources
https://abcnews.go.com/US/rfk-jr-plans-drop-presidential-race-end-week
/story?id=113028999
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Kennedy told ABC News regarding the Democratic convention and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, "I think it was a coronation, it's not democracy. Nobody voted. Who chose Kamala? It wasn't voters."
"She went in four weeks from being the worst liability for the Democratic Party to the second coming of Christ without giving one interview, without showing up for a debate, without a single policy that anyone thinks isn't ridiculous," he said. "It's not democracy."
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Harris is now three points ahead
By Kevin Drum | August 21, 2024 – 9:44 pm
Here's the latest YouGov breakdown of the presidential race:
Kamala Harris started out three points behind Trump and is now three points ahead.
I should note that I routinely show the YouGov poll for a couple of reasons. The first is that it's a pretty good poll: reliable, weekly, and with good crosstabs. The second is that by tying myself to a single poll I avoid cherry picking the polls that are most favorable each week and thereby fooling myself about how well things are going. It's a discipline thing.
And for those who are going to insist that only state polls matter, that's not really right. State polls are certainly useful, but they also tend to be smallish and error prone. And while it's true that we don't elect presidents via a national popular vote, the states do generally follow the national vote. If Harris gets to a five-point lead, it will be very unlikely that she loses the electoral vote. That's the target.
https://jabberwocking.com/harris-is-now-three-points-ahead/
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Quote:Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936, spoke at Madison Square Garden:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Why don't you just shut the fuck up for once, cunt.
You have no audience. Nobody here gives one single shit about your opinion. You should be very familiar with that feeling since nobody in your real life does either.
Everybody you have ever met hates you.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.
The American people know from a four-year record that today there is only one entrance to the White House—by the front door. Since March 4, 1933, there has been only one pass-key to the White House. I have carried that key in my pocket. It is there tonight. So long as I am President, it will remain in my pocket.
Those who used to have pass-keys are not happy. Some of them are desperate. Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current pay-envelope campaign against America's working people. Only reckless men, heedless of consequences, would risk the disruption of the hope for a new peace between worker and employer by returning to the tactics of the labor spy.
Here is an amazing paradox! The very employers and politicians and publishers who talk most loudly of class antagonism and the destruction of the American system now undermine that system by this attempt to coerce the votes of the wage earners of this country. It is the 1936 version of the old threat to close down the factory or the office if a particular candidate does not win. It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.
Every message in a pay envelope, even if it is the truth, is a command to vote according to the will of the employer. But this propaganda is worse—it is deceit.
They tell the worker his wage will be reduced by a contribution to some vague form of old-age insurance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every dollar of premium he pays for that insurance, the employer pays another dollar. That omission is deceit.
They carefully conceal from him the fact that under the federal law, he receives another insurance policy to help him if he loses his job, and that the premium of that policy is paid 100 percent by the employer and not one cent by the worker. They do not tell him that the insurance policy that is bought for him is far more favorable to him than any policy that any private insurance company could afford to issue. That omission is deceit.
They imply to him that he pays all the cost of both forms of insurance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every dollar put up by him his employer puts up three dollars — three for one. And that omission is deceit.
But they are guilty of more than deceit. When they imply that the reserves thus created against both these policies will be stolen by some future Congress, diverted to some wholly foreign purpose, they attack the integrity and honor of American Government itself. Those who suggest that, are already aliens to the spirit of American democracy. Let them emigrate and try their lot under some foreign flag in which they have more confidence.
Much more at https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-madison-square-garde
n-new-york-city-1
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936, spoke at Madison Square Garden:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Why don't you just shut the fuck up for once, cunt.
You have no audience. Nobody here gives one single shit about your opinion. You should be very familiar with that feeling since nobody in your real life does either.
Everybody you have ever met hates you.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.
You are no F.D.R., son.
You're just a little miserable internet troll who says all the terrible shit that you need to get out of your system online because everybody in real life has turned their back on you. You're nothing but poison in a meat sack.
It makes one wonder what your obsession with living long is all about then. Why bother? All you do is spread hate and misery everywhere you go.
Go have a drink or two dozen.
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Quote:FDR was attacking deceitful people like 6ixStringJack. 6ix and similar people of FDR's time hated FDR for calling them liars and deceitful. They did not limit their hatred to just FDR. All Democrats were hated by them. When Trump is caught lying, he angrily makes a false counterclaim that he is telling the truth and that the "real" liars are those who show Trump lied. Trump is a silly person, but so are his Trumptards. When I was about 10, I stopped wondering why bad things happen to people who are very similar to today's Trumptards. It seems obvious why their lives are hard, but not obvious to them. Instead of blaming themselves and fixing themselves, they blame the Democrats, as they did back in FDR's time.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are no F.D.R., son.
You're just a little miserable internet troll who says all the terrible shit that you need to get out of your system online because everybody in real life has turned their back on you. You're nothing but poison in a meat sack.
It makes one wonder what your obsession with living long is all about then. Why bother? All you do is spread hate and misery everywhere you go.
Go have a drink or two dozen.
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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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Other than defeating Democrats on Election Day and cutting taxes, there isn’t a lot that Republicans agree on these days. There are huge divides over trade and economic policy and more fundamental disagreements over the role America should play in global security. On character, the rule of law and more, the divide in the party is there for all the world to see.
Perhaps the best example of this absurd level of public disarray on the right in the Trump era is the 2018 government shutdown. Even though it controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency, the party ended up stumbling into a government shutdown after the midterm elections. It’s the only government shutdown to take place at a time when the government was not divided by party.
For those of us who have been covering politics since before the turn of the century, it’s a striking change in how both parties behave. It was the Republicans who always had an order to how they did things; it was always someone’s “turn” to be the nominee — whether Ronald Reagan in ’80 or George H.W. Bush in ’88 or Bob Dole in ’96 or John McCain in ’08, each of them having previously run for president and lost. The party was bigger than any one person; sure, Reagan was a North Star, but he was never bigger than the institution of the GOP. Neither was Dole or either Bush or McCain. It wasn’t until Trump that the party began to organize itself more as a cult-of-personality party, rather than an institution.
To Trump’s credit in 2016, he did make time to honor “Mr. Republican” Dole at his convention, but only after Dole pledged to support him. Trump holds very little reverence for the GOP’s past. He has actually said he believes he’s more popular and more influential than Abraham Lincoln, the party’s first president — and if that’s his mindset, why would he want to glorify the past accomplishments of either a Bush or a Reagan? “The party of Lincoln” isn’t a phrase Trump wants to hear uttered. He’d prefer “the party of Trump.”
More at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/chuck-todd-democratic-party
-flexes-institutional-strength-rcna167414
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Donald Trump: ‘I Hate My Opponent’
He’s ready to go personal in next month’s debate against Harris. Advisers are urging restraint.
By Marc A. Caputo | Aug 22, 2024
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-trump-i-hate-my-opponent-harris-de
bate-prep
Donald Trump has no plans to heed the advice of his aides and limit himself to policy contrasts when he debates Kamala Harris. He wants to make it personal.
“This is just the way I am. I hate my opponent. I hate my opponents,” Trump told a confidant who advised the former president to consider backing away from calling the vice president “stupid” or “dumb” at their high-profile standoff in a few weeks, which he has done repeatedly.
Trump explained to the confidant that he’s treating Harris the same way he did Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. “Hillary, Joe, Kamala. It doesn’t matter. I just hate them.”
To another adviser, Trump was blunt about taking on Harris: “I’m going to be mean.”
Trump’s desire to stay personal and vicious comes as some aides and advisers have grown fearful that such an approach could very well play into the vice president’s hands. Harris has structured her campaign on the Obama-esque pledge to move beyond the politics of division, and polls indicate it has so far resonated with voters.
The clashing of these styles will come to a head on September 10, when Harris and Trump are scheduled for a debate on ABC.
The fate of Trump’s campaign could depend on just how tough and personal he’ll be onstage during that debate, and how Harris responds to his attacks.
Trump’s early discussions about how to approach his debate with Harris—shared with The Bulwark on condition of anonymity by those who have spoken to him—mark a shift from his successful June 27 debate against Biden.
In that encounter, Trump was determined to remain calm, wary of repeating the missteps he made in their 2020 debate when he repeatedly talked over Biden and the moderator, Chris Wallace.
Trump succeeded, perhaps too well. Biden imploded so badly that twenty-four days later he quit the race under pressure from Democrats. That led to Harris’s ascension and reshaped the race to such a degree she’s now marginally leading, deeply angering Trump who saw his hopes of an easy win evaporate.
Trump advisers recognize that he’s committed to being aggressive and personal, and, as such, they are not attempting to sell him on the virtue of being Mr. Nice Guy at the September standoff. But some want him to tone down the assaults on Harris’s intelligence because it could turn off swing voters and set the bar exceedingly low for the vice president.
“If Harris is an idiot and she holds her own, then you could have two idiots on stage,” a Trump insider fretted. “Call her ideas stupid. Don’t call her stupid.”
Marc Short, a former top Trump administration official who prepared Vice President Mike Pence for his 2020 debate against Harris, said Pence made sure to not make it personal.
“You can’t get around the fact that having a white male debate a minority female creates a different dynamic,” said Short. “And you’re always sensitive to the media saying you’re ‘mansplaining’ if you get into a conversation in which you appear to try to put down your opponent. That’s always delicate. Trump doesn’t do delicate well.”
Another reason Pence focused on policy, Short said, was that the team had read in contemporaneous press accounts that Harris “doesn’t always prepare, she missed a lot of opportunities. Ask Tulsi Gabbard.”
Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, damaged Harris in a presidential primary debate in 2020 by attacking her record as a prosecutor. Gabbard is now a Trump supporter and is helping with his debate prep, alongside Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was instrumental in Trump’s preparations against Biden.
“Tulsi knows how to outflank Kamala, and she just knows what it’s like to be on the big stage,” said one Trump adviser.
“Gaetz helped a ton. He is the best at this by far,” another adviser said. “He’s good at one-liners. He k
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'Kamala Harris can't solve a problem cause she is the problem': Trump jabs at Democrats' nominee (The Economic Times)
Aug 21, 2024 #economictimes #latestnews #businessnews
Former US President Donald Trump visited a Michigan town on Tuesday (August 20), one month after white supremacists rallied there, sparking renewed criticism from Democrats who accuse his campaign of stirring up racial tensions for political gain. The campaign stop is one of a number Trump is holding this week as Democrats meet in Chicago to formally choose Vice President Harris as their nominee in the Nov. 5 election.
Trump said, “We're here today to talk about how we are going to stop the Kamala crime wave that is going on at levels that nobody has ever seen before. And she is, as you know, the most radical left person ever even thought of for a high office, certainly for the office of president… Since comrade Kamala Harris took office, her administration's crime statistics show she's presided over a 43% increase in violent crime. These are all government numbers, 43% increase in violent crime… They lied last night about things that nobody's ever seen. They lied about soldiers at a gravesite. They lied about Charlottesville. They lied about inflation.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Every time SECOND gets personal you know he's got nothing. All he's trying to do is drag everyone off topic.
Originally posted by second:Quote:FDR was attacking deceitful people like 6ixStringJack. 6ix and similar people of FDR's time hated FDR for calling them liars and deceitful. They did not limit their hatred to just FDR. All Democrats were hated by them. When Trump is caught lying, he angrily makes a false counterclaim that he is telling the truth and that the "real" liars are those who show Trump lied. Trump is a silly person, but so are his Trumptards. When I was about 10, I stopped wondering why bad things happen to people who are very similar to today's Trumptards. It seems obvious why their lives are hard, but not obvious to them. Instead of blaming themselves and fixing themselves, they blame the Democrats, as they did back in FDR's time.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You are no F.D.R., son.
You're just a little miserable internet troll who says all the terrible shit that you need to get out of your system online because everybody in real life has turned their back on you. You're nothing but poison in a meat sack.
It makes one wonder what your obsession with living long is all about then. Why bother? All you do is spread hate and misery everywhere you go.
Go have a drink or two dozen.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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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 fundamental problem with the world is that a large percentage of humans are out of the minds. You can tell who the crazies are because they have the most problems adjusting to the world. For example, see Trump, whose maladjustment keeps lawyers very busy in court, while costing Trump $1 million per week:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Every time SECOND gets personal you know he's got nothing. All he's trying to do is drag everyone off topic.
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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.
Are Trump's lawyers paid a million dollars per week?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Are+trump%27s+lawyers+paid+a+million+d
ollars+per+week
Mar 21, 2024 — Former President Donald Trump has paid his lawyers nearly $50 million since March 2023 as he nears the one-year mark since his first criminal indictment.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/03/21/trump-lawyers-pai
d-nearly-50-million-from-political-pac-since-first-indictment/
How Trump Paid $100 Million in Legal Fees
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000009385516/trump-legal-
fees.html
Voters who do not see what is wrong with Trump, but instead insist Trump is right and the justice system is wrong, are crazy voters. Their craziness causes their problems adjusting to reality, same as Trump has problems. What explains the attraction between crazy voters with troubled lives and crazy Trump with his numerous troubles? Birds of a feather flock together.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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‘I Have No Idea’: Trump Says No One Knows What ‘Net Zero’ Emissions Means During ‘Intellectual’ Speech on the Economy
By Alex Griffing | Aug 14th, 2024, 6:01 pm
“You know what? Net zero. They have no idea what it means. By the way, it’s net zero. What does that mean? Nobody knows what it means. We’re going to go to a net zero policy. What does that mean? I have no idea,” Trump told his Asheville, North Carolina audience.
“We’re talking about a thing called the economy. They wanted to do a speech on the economy. A lot of people are very devastated by what’s happened with inflation and all of the other things,” Trump began, adding:
“So we’re doing this as an intellectual speech. You’re all intellectuals today. Today we’re doing it, and we’re doing it, right now. And it’s, very important, they say, is the most important subject. I think crime is right there. I think the border is right there for personally, we have a lot of important subjects because our country has become a third world nation.
We literally are a third world nation. We’re a banana republic in so many ways, and we’re not going to let that happen because we’re starting a free fall. But from today and from the day I take the oath of office, we will rapidly drive prices down.”
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/i-have-no-idea-trump-says-no-one-kno
ws-what-net-zero-emissions-means-during-intellectual-speech-on-the-economy/
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Trump’s Made-Up ‘Kamala Crime Wave’
By Paul Krugman | Aug. 22, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/22/opinion/kamala-harris-trump-crime.h
tml
I was mugged in Cambridge, Mass., back in 1979. I wasn’t hurt; I matter-of-factly handed over my wallet, and that was that. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t rattled, and from then on I was a bit more careful about where I walked, especially after dark.
I tell this story now only to say that I’m old enough to remember from personal experience what it was like when many of America’s cities really were dangerous — and I don’t need official crime statistics to know that they’re much safer now. I live in New York these days, and I never hesitate to strike out on foot or, say, take the subway home from a late-night concert at the Bowery Ballroom.
As it happens, though, the official numbers match my perception. In 2023, there were 83 percent fewer robberies in New York than in 1990. Murder declined by roughly the same percentage. Oh, and homicides have fallen substantially since 2021 despite a large influx of migrants. Violent crime trends at a national level haven’t been quite as pronounced, but overall the murder rate in 2023 was far lower than it was in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.
Which brings us, of course, to Donald Trump.
The Republican National Convention devoted a whole day to the theme “Make America Safe Again.” On Tuesday, as part of his effort at counterprogramming as the Democrats formally nominate Kamala Harris, Trump held an event near Detroit that was supposed to be devoted to crime and safety, in which he asserted that we’re in the midst of a “Kamala crime wave,” with crime at levels “nobody has ever seen before.” In big cities “almost all run by Democrats,” he claimed, “you can’t walk across the street to get a loaf of bread. You get shot. You get mugged. You get raped.”
Astoundingly false claims, even for him.
Also on Tuesday, The Detroit News reported that the Trump campaign had agreed to participate in an interview, but “after the newspaper began asking about the Michigan crime data before the event, a campaign aide said the presidential candidate no longer had time for an interview.”
It’s not hard to see why. Detroit’s homicide rate is much higher than that in New York, which despite its reputation is remarkably safe. But the homicide rate in Detroit was lower in 2021 and 2022 than it was in 2020, and it dropped sharply in 2023. Clearly, Trump would have found a data-driven discussion awkward.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Here is Donald Trump in North Carolina:
“Remember when Biden sent Kamala to Europe to stop the war in Ukraine. She met with Putin, and then three days later, he attacked.... She met with Putin to tell him, "Don’t do it." And three days later, he attacked.”
This is not the usual kind of falsehood, which has some small kernel of truth. It's got nothing. Harris didn't meet with Putin and didn't tell him "Don't do it." It just flat didn't happen, and neither did anything else even remotely close.
So where did Trump get it? I suppose it was the same place where he discovered that Harris's huge crowds were an AI invention. Or that a technical and long-planned annual revision of employment figures was really Joe Biden "fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics to hide the true extent of the Economic Ruin they have inflicted upon America."
He's just literally making stuff up these days based (apparently) on the unhinged Twitter posts that he inhales every night. He is really and truly losing it in the face of a campaign he doesn't know how to fight.
https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-is-still-losing-his-mind/#comme
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And the NYT, WaPo and the other usual suspects will drop something like this in the middle of an account of this rally that desperately attempts to clean it all up to sound like he was almost coherent and at least semi-sane: "Trump additionally claimed, without evidence, that Harris met with Putin shortly before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent it. Ms. Harris' campaign states that she has never met Putin and there is no record that the two have ever met." That's about it. And they'll never really mention it again, even if it is incorporated into Trump’s daily airing of grievances. Barely a one-day story--like Trump's $10 million Egyptian bribe or Jared Kushner's $2 billion Saudi gratuity.
$10 million bribe story
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-egypt-payments-2016-presidential
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$2 billion bribe story
https://www.newsweek.com/jared-kushner-addresses-2-billion-given-saudi
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump tells rally crowd he’ll try to overturn election if he loses
By Maya Boddie | August 23, 2024
https://www.alternet.org/trump-north-carolina-rally/
During an in-depth interview with TIME earlier this year, former President Donald Trump warned that he just might attempt to overturn another presidential election if he doesn't win.
"If we don’t win, you know, it depends," the MAGA leader said. "It always depends on the fairness of the election."
Trump presented a similar warning to a North Carolina crowd this week.
He said: "Our primary focus is not to get out the vote, it is to make sure they don't cheat. Because we have all the votes we'll need."
Trump is not being subtle. He's never subtle. He's telling us out in the open that if he loses the election, he'll say it was fraud. He'll try to take power anyhow like in 2020.
A longtime Republican operative said:
“Why is the RNC building out hundreds of thousands of people for an 'election integrity project' instead of hundreds of thousands of precinct captains and GOTV [get out the vote] people focused on actually convincing and turning out voters? It’s because it’s much easier to yell 'rigged' when he inevitably loses another f---ing winnable race because he has no idea how to make a case for his own vision.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Tim Walz and JD Vance are having the argument that matters
By Matt Bai
You can see why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate, and why Democrats have fallen in love with him. The guy delivers a stemwinder in the tradition of the great plains populists, full of passion and humor and plain-spoken defiance.
But let me tell you something: Nobody delivers a speech that good unless he’s got a clear intellectual argument behind it and a burning conviction that he’s right. And that’s why the contrast between Walz and JD Vance might be the most interesting of the campaign.
We’ve seen Donald Trump meander and contradict his way through endless stretches at a lectern. You’ll soon see Harris capably work her way through an amalgamation of platitudes and applause lines.
But in the contrasting rhetoric of Walz and Vance, in particular, we get a much sharper sense of what’s really being litigated in this election: two sharply contrasting views of what being American actually means.
The most important passage in Vance’s convention speech last month was the one where he described the country as something physical, rather than an abstraction. “America is not just an idea,” Vance said. “It is a group of people with a shared history and a common future. It is in short, a nation.”
Literally speaking, this is not debatable; America exists, it is a nation and it has a history. But Vance isn’t being literal. He is articulating the central idea that animates all forms of nationalism (including the white variety), as well as the Trump movement. He is arguing that there is such thing as a common American culture, with its own language (English), its own religious ethos (Judeo-Christian) and its own concept of family (heterosexual, with naturally conceived children).
Of course there’s room for immigration and racial diversity in Vance’s worldview; his own wife is of Indian descent. But in his view of America, the outsider becomes American by adopting a set of cultural norms — living here “on our terms,” as he put it in his speech. In this way, he sees America as no different, really, from France or Russia or any other country with common ethnic heritage. The price of admission is cultural conformity.
What Walz articulates — about as clearly as anyone has in the party since Barack Obama arrived on the scene 20 years ago — is a competing view that says, no, actually America is very much an idea. Alone among nations, we have from the very start been a collection of immigrants and outsiders, bound together not by any common origin or culture, but rather by a common set of laws and values and institutions — what Abraham Lincoln called our “political religion.” (This is the liberal version of “American Exceptionalism” — the thing that makes us different from everyplace else.)
In the America Walz described in his convention speech, it doesn’t matter what language you speak at home or what god (if any) you worship, or whether you have kids (naturally or otherwise). Because as long as you believe in the American promise of liberty and adhere to its laws, you’re just as American as anyone else, and anybody who doesn’t like it should “mind their own damn business.”
Community, in Walz’s telling, isn’t defined by somebody’s idea of cultural norms, but rather by your connection to your neighbors. If you’re willing to help out with a stranded car or a bake sale, then he doesn’t care if you’re an atheist or a cat-owner (or, God forbid, both).
In a campaign season that may already feel small and shallow, this is a very big disagreement, and I would argue that it’s more important than any one policy having to do with the price of groceries or the tax code. It is an argument that will shape the way we govern ourselves for years to come — whether we conceive of American liberty as something that exists chiefly to protect White, Christian Americans from having their culture trampled, or whether we understand liberty to mean the freedom to choose whatever culture you like, as long as you respect the Constituti
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Have you seen Vance get interviewed by Alt-Left news outlets?
He's going to destroy Walz in their debate.
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On this day in history, August 23rd:
National00000000Harris +1.5000Biden +7.80000Clinton +5.5
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Wisconsin0000000Harris +1.0000Biden +4.60000Clinton +11.5
Pennsylvania0000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +5.70000Clinton +9.2
Ohio000000000000Trump0 +8.5000Biden +2.30000Clinton +4.8
Michigan00000000Harris +2.0000Biden +7.00000Clinton +8.0
Arizona000000000Trump0 +0.2000Biden +2.20000Trump00 +0.3
Nevada0000000000Trump0 +1.4000--000000000000Clinton +2.3
North Carolina00Trump0 +0.9000Trump +0.50000Clinton +1.8
Georgia000000000Trump0 +1.0000Trump +1.10000Clinton +1.0
Florida000000000Trump0 +6.3000Biden +4.80000Clinton +4.5
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RFK Jr. endorses Trump and suspends presidential campaign
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-ends-presidential-bid/
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Salon: The DNC did not unify Democrats. Donald Trump did that
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/23/the-dnc-did-not-unify-democrats-donal
d-did-that-long-before/
You can keep lying and saying that Democrats are united all you want, but you've lost the Latino vote and you're losing the black vote. And Rashida Talib was nothing close to resembling "Joyful" when it was her turn to speak at the DNC.
You white college "educated" liberals really need to step outside of your retarded echo chambers and talk to people you pretend you don't think are beneath you.
Maybe you'll be forced to when Salon.com goes out of business, and you're stuck working a job in retail Mrs. Parton.
SPOILER ALERT: This isn't the 1990's anymore and as a white lady you're going to be in the minority among your peers when that day comes.
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C L R James Foresaw the Crisis of US Democracy
The brilliant thinker is remembered as an admirer of the US but he also warned of its dark political future
By Harvey Neptune | 16 August 2024
https://aeon.co/essays/c-l-r-james-foresaw-the-crisis-of-us-liberal-de
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James’s basic contention in American Civilization was that a critical mass of the population had become so desperately distressed by the failure of the promises of liberal democracy that they were prepared to give up on it and, instead, to live vicariously through violently amoral political heroes, e.g. Trump. ‘The great masses of the American people no longer fear power,’ wrote James near the end of the manuscript. ‘They are ready to allocate today power to anyone who seems ready to do their bidding.’ This popular disenchantment with liberalism and the accompanying vulnerability to totalitarian leadership manifested in the entertainment industry, according to James. In films, novels, magazines and comics, he identified a contemporary archive of the cultural politics of totalitarianism – not a source of special affection for the modern republic (James actually trashed much of US popular culture as ‘ephemeral vulgarity on a colossal scale’). For him, moreover, the dire US situation was not exceptional but simply a richer symptomatic case of a modern derangement.
American Civilization sounded an alert that liberal democracy had arrived at a moment of palpable historic crisis. By the mid-20th century, hope in the idea of Americanism as heroic individual freedom was exhausted. Disenchantment with the nationalist liberal creed had been growing over the course of the 19th century, according to James, especially with the rise of corporate capital in the Gilded Age. With the Great Depression, however, its fate was sealed. For the masses of Americans, the ‘struggle for happiness’, once real, had become futile. ‘The worker during the last twenty years no longer has any illusions that by energy and ability and thrift or any of the virtues of Horatio Alger, he can rise to anything,’ observed James. Instead, the average American felt demoralised and objectified, not unlike another ‘piece of production as is a bolt of steel, a pot of paint or a mule which drags a load of corn’. Their dreams and aspirations lay strangled by the undemocratic organisation of economic life, which, under corporate capital, ‘imposed a mechanized way of life at work, mechanized forms of living, a mechanized totality which from morning till night, week after week, day after day, crushed the very individuality which tradition nourishes and the abundance of mass-produced goods encourages.’ What most struck James about the masses of working people in the US was the ‘bitterness, the frustration, the accumulated anger’ that lurked within them. He saw in them the kind of despair and alienation that stalked interwar Europe.
Although these despairing masses had not yet gone the barbarous route of totalitarianism, James found ominous signs in the kind of fictions they chose for entertainment. In the films, books, magazines and comics patronised by the US working classes, he diagnosed a desire for a new kind of fundamentally and violently undemocratic hero. The public were entertaining themselves with stories of protagonists with ‘totalitarian tendencies’. In his view, it was their way of negotiating the tensions between the promise of individual freedom and the reality of ‘the endless frustration of being merely a cog in a great machine’. Here was the analytical climax to American Civilization: a critical examination of ‘what is so lightly called the “entertainment industry”’ as an expression of the deepest feelings of the people. James justified this approach by pointing out that the products of the business had to appeal to the audience, that they ‘must satisfy the mass’ or, at the least, must not offend them. The people were not ‘passive recipients of what the purveyors of popular art give to them,’ James insisted. Granting more agency to cons
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How Kamala Made Trump the Incumbent
August 23, 2024 12:46 p.m.
This morning on Twitter, Tim Murtaugh, a former Trump campaign spokesman, concluded a tweet attacking Harris by writing: “Her whole vacant message sounds like it’s from a party that’s out of power. But they’re her messes.” Through the spittle and frustration you can see him making a point which quite understandably has Trump’s campaign angry and bewildered. Harris has made Trump into the incumbent with her as the challenger running on a campaign message to turn the page. Whether this is fair or true or any number of other descriptors you might come up with, there’s little doubt that it is an accurate description of the campaign we are in the midst of. The Trump campaign itself is telling us this, almost in spite of itself.
A month ago the Trump campaign ran a four-day convention aimed at a man who has now retired from politics. The central theme of their convention was Trump’s miraculous deliverance from an attempted assassination which barely anyone can even remember. For both those reasons, Trump gained zero forward momentum from his convention and was basically idling in neutral when the Harris juggernaut hit them. The Harris campaign has moved so fast that Trump’s hasn’t been able to reposition or retool or reconceptualize the race before she’s off to the next thing.
Harris’ campaign has essentially redefined the last eight years as the Trump Era, the first four years dominated by Trump’s malignant degeneracy and the second by the looming fear of Trump’s return.
But there’s another paradoxical way that Trump himself laid the groundwork for this campaign, and made it possible for Harris to turn his own political heft against him. The centerpiece of Trump’s post-presidency is the wicked conceit that he never stopped being president at all. At the most basic level he never admitted that he lost the 2020 campaign. His most ardent supporters believe he is the legitimate president and some of the most febrile actually believe in a funhouse mirror, QAnony way that he still holds secret reins of power. But much of it is more immediate and open. He still calls himself president. He demands and universally receives that billing from his followers. He moves through the country with the trappings and insignia of the presidency. He continues to meet with foreign heads of state, not as an elder statesman but as though he never left office. He even argues that national secrets and presidential documents are his personal property. This has been an open, weird and much-discussed feature of Trump’s post-presidency since the first weeks after leaving office. If Trump and his toadies are now complaining that Harris is treating him like the incumbent it is because in ways vast and small he has acted like one and demanded to be treated like one for almost four years. She’s taken his most perverse and vainglorious conceit and turned it into a massive liability.
The policy agenda matches this. A challenger talks about a new future. Trump hasn’t done that at all. In a way that’s natural and inevitable. At its most innocent MAGA sees the Biden presidency as an illegitimate interregnum and Trump’s second term as a restoration. But it goes beyond that. Trump’s entire platform is retribution — retribution for his 2020 defeat, which he lacks the character to recognize, and retribution for what he considers his mistreatment during his term as president. While Project 2025 really was authored by Trump’s top advisors as a second-term guide to governing, most of the stuff in it Trump couldn’t give a crap about. The parts he really cares about are the parts that allow him to take revenge on those he blames for his first-term ego injuries and to coerce fealty more effectively in his return to power. Most of us have been horrified by this possibility. We’ve recognized the severe threat it represents to the American republic. But at the most basic level it’s about the past, relitigating, being mad about, wanting to fix things that ha
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How Kamala Made Trump the Incumbent
The MEDIA made Trump the Incumbent, and they were able to do so because they speak to low IQ cultists.
Period.
Politico: Democratic pollsters have a warning about Kamala Harris’ lead
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/22/democrat-pollsters-kamala-har
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So now that Kamala Harris has caught Trump in the polls in her first month as a candidate, it’s left Democrats wondering: How real is her surge?
Here at the Democratic convention this week, some in the party’s professional class are trying to tamp down the exuberance. Officials with the top pro-Harris super PAC said their polling “is much less rosy” than public surveys. Other Democratic pollsters noted that — even if their polling is right — Trump still maintains a lot of advantages.
Yup.
The article linked from the underlined in the 2nd paragraph above...
Reuters: Harris super PAC founder says public polls are too optimistic
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/harris-super-pac-founder-says-public-
polls-are-too-optimistic-2024-08-19/
And don't forget...
1) Polling for both Biden* and Clinton fell sharply from their highs against Trump between the end of summer and election day in the last two cycles.
2) Polling for both Biden* and Clinton were much higher than reality in both cases on election day.
Let's see how big of a buffer Harris has from any DNC sugar high bump if any before her polling starts trending downward again.
Tick Tock
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RFK Jr. Was My Drug Dealer
Kennedy’s endorsement of Donald Trump raises an awkward question.
Kurt Andersen | August 23, 2024, 4:04 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/rfk-jr-endorse-tr
ump-execute-drug-dealers/679597/
The leading third-party candidate for president—an environmental lawyer and activist, a son and nephew of legendary liberal Democratic politicians—just quit the race and announced that he is joining the campaign of the most anti-environment president and presidential nominee in recent history, the leader of a Republican Party he has turned into a right-wing, anti-democratic, protofascist personality cult.
I could go on and on and on, cataloging the contradictions and abandonment of principle, all gobsmacking.
But Donald Trump and Bobby Kennedy—as I’ve referred to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since we met freshman year at Harvard—have always had many features in common as well. Both are entitled playboy sons of northeastern wealth; both (in Michelle Obama’s words) were “afforded the grace of failing forward” as misbehaving, underachieving adolescents admitted to Ivy League colleges thanks to “the affirmative action of generational wealth”; both were reckless lifelong adolescents, both attention-craving philanderers and liars, both jerks. And Kennedy’s hour-long speech today was nearly as meandering and filled with lies as any average hour of Trump.
On the subject of reckless-adolescent entitlement, I’ve got one Bobby Kennedy anecdote to tell. But it’s actually relevant to his endorsement of Donald Trump for president and his apparent expectation of joining a second Trump administration.
In Kennedy’s speech today, he spoke at length about federal pharmaceutical regulation and programs addressing chronic disease. “I’m going to change that,” he said, promising to “staff” the health agencies very differently. “Within four years, America will be a healthy country … if President Trump is elected and honors his word.” Trump, he added, “has told me that he wants this to be his legacy.”
My Bobby Kennedy story involves pharmaceuticals—not the legal, lifesaving kind, such as the vaccines he’s made a career of lying about, but the recreational kind.
As a candidate, Kennedy got a very sympathetic pass on his years of drug use because he’s an addict, having used heroin from ages 15 to 29. He quit when he was arrested after overdosing on a flight from Minneapolis to the Black Hills and found by police in South Dakota to be carrying heroin; he pleaded guilty and received only probation. Kennedy, as Joe Hagan wrote in a recent Vanity Fair profile, “has made his history of addiction part of his campaign narrative.”
As a teenager in Nebraska, I’d smoked cannabis and dropped acid before I got to Harvard in 1972. Sometime during my freshman year, I tried cocaine, enjoyed it, and later decided to procure a gram for myself. A friend told me about a kid in our class who was selling coke.
The dealer was Bobby Kennedy. I’d never met him. I got in touch; he said sure, come over to his room in Hurlbut, his dorm, where I’d never been, a five-minute walk. His roommate, whom I knew, was the future journalist Peter Kaplan—with whom I, like Kennedy, remained friends for the rest of his life. He left as I arrived. I wondered whether he always did that when Bobby had customers.
“Hi. Bobby,” Kennedy introduced himself. Another kid, tall, lanky, and handsome, was in the room. “This is my brother Joe.” That is, Joseph P. Kennedy II, two years older, the future six-term Massachusetts congressman.
Bobby Kennedy wasn’t famous, but he was the most famous person I’d ever met.
He poured out a line for me to sample, and handed me an inch-and-a-half length of plastic drinking straw. I snorted. We chatted for a minute. I paid him, I believe, $40 in cash. It was a lot of money, the equivalent of $300 today. But cocaine bought from a Kennedy accompanied by a Kennedy brother—the moment of glamour seemed worth it.
Back in my dorm room 10 minutes later, I got a phone call.
“Hello?
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