https://twitter.com/LukeBasham23/status/1494729949953069068
Feb 19 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple's App Store on Monday, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by Reuters, potentially marking the return of the former president to social media on the U.S. Presidents Day holiday.
In a series of posts late on Friday, a verified account for the network's chief product officer, listed as Billy B., answered questions on the app from people invited to use it during its test phase. One user asked him when the app, which has been available this week for beta testers, would be released to the public, according to screenshots viewed by Reuters.
"We're currently set for release in the Apple App store for Monday Feb. 21," the executive responded.
The chief product officer's other responses during Friday's question-and-answer session suggested the startup's features would resemble those of Twitter.
Asked whether users would be able to edit their "truths," the executive replied "not yet." The ability to edit posts after publication is something Twitter users have long sought.
The next significant feature released on the platform will be direct messages, or DMs, between users, the executive wrote.
The company is also considering allowing users to sign up to receive notifications when others post content, the executive said. He signaled that the ability to block other users would be an important component.
"There will always be block functionality in the app," he wrote.
Truth Social will issue a policy on verified accounts "in the coming weeks," the executive added.
For the new thread:
American democracy is pretty much dead now. Back when Drumpf was voted out it seemed there still was a sliver of a chance to avoid this downfall, but it was probably over the moment Ginsburg died.
Prepare to experience The Handmaid's Tale mixed with Idiocracy and fascism over the course of the next couple of decades. No subscription necessary.
https://twitter.com/LukeBasham23/status/1494729949953069068
do you think they will make it illegal to be woke
For the new thread:
American democracy is pretty much dead now. Back when Drumpf was voted out it seemed there still was a sliver of a chance to avoid this downfall, but it was probably over the moment Ginsburg died.
Prepare to experience The Handmaid's Tale mixed with Idiocracy and fascism over the course of the next couple of decades. No subscription necessary.
(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/776137560459444244/945423501458804807/image0.jpg)This one WEIRD TRICK around the First Amendment:
Time to execute Tucker :biden
It would be a bad take for a twitter rando, but this guy was a law professor at harvard :existential(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMIuoUJXoAE9jEt?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Multiple parents have contacted KFOR about a Valentine’s party for pre-teen girls in the metro.:american
Broyles is friends with the host of the party and was invited to the event, which included a sleepover and a movie, where several middle school girls were in attendance.
The parents in contact with KFOR say the evening started out fine but took a turn when Broyles began drinking wine and became more and more aggressive.
They say the more she drank, the uglier the situation became. The parents also allege she began insulting the children with profanities and at one point vomited into a hamper and on one girl’s shoes.
“It was like an attack,” said Sarah Matthews, a mother with a daughter at the party who said her daughter was verbally attacked. “Like personal, vicious attacks.”
Other mothers have also corroborated that same story, claiming that Broyles arrived at the Valentine’s sleepover at the invitation of the homeowner. Matthews said she dropped off her 12-year-old daughter with a group of girls. She said she never expected anything like this to happen though.
“Mama Bear starts coming out because you’re like, this is disgusting,” Matthews said.
Another mom spoke to us over the phone and said her daughter told her when Broyles arrived it wasn’t too bad at first. However, she said Broyles became more and more aggressive as she continued to drink. Matthews said her daughter gave her the details the next morning.
“She proceeded to tell me that Abby Broyles had been at the house and was very drunk and calling them all mfer’s, f’er this f’er that,” Matthews said. “[Broyles] called somebody acne f’er, somebody Hispanic f’er, called my daughter judgey f’er for not wanting to sleep with a blanket that she cleaned up wine with.”
From the Joe and Rumblar beat:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMLR8QGVcAEV4Aa?format=jpg&name=small)Quote from: https://kfor.com/news/local/u-s-house-candidate-accused-of-alcohol-fueled-profanities-toward-pre-teen-girls/Multiple parents have contacted KFOR about a Valentine’s party for pre-teen girls in the metro.:american
Broyles is friends with the host of the party and was invited to the event, which included a sleepover and a movie, where several middle school girls were in attendance.
The parents in contact with KFOR say the evening started out fine but took a turn when Broyles began drinking wine and became more and more aggressive.
They say the more she drank, the uglier the situation became. The parents also allege she began insulting the children with profanities and at one point vomited into a hamper and on one girl’s shoes.
“It was like an attack,” said Sarah Matthews, a mother with a daughter at the party who said her daughter was verbally attacked. “Like personal, vicious attacks.”
Other mothers have also corroborated that same story, claiming that Broyles arrived at the Valentine’s sleepover at the invitation of the homeowner. Matthews said she dropped off her 12-year-old daughter with a group of girls. She said she never expected anything like this to happen though.
“Mama Bear starts coming out because you’re like, this is disgusting,” Matthews said.
Another mom spoke to us over the phone and said her daughter told her when Broyles arrived it wasn’t too bad at first. However, she said Broyles became more and more aggressive as she continued to drink. Matthews said her daughter gave her the details the next morning.
“She proceeded to tell me that Abby Broyles had been at the house and was very drunk and calling them all mfer’s, f’er this f’er that,” Matthews said. “[Broyles] called somebody acne f’er, somebody Hispanic f’er, called my daughter judgey f’er for not wanting to sleep with a blanket that she cleaned up wine with.”
why is saying mean things about the president only disloyalty when it's directed at biden, but wasn't back when it was trump?You're seriously comparing open treason in wartime to quietly objecting to an illegitimate President installed by a foreign enemy against the people's wishes?
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1496591659940909065 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1496591659940909065)https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1496635293067264001
:doge
https://twitter.com/OfficialRizk/status/1496877449904226304
https://twitter.com/JustinPulitzer/status/1496709662602932224 (https://twitter.com/JustinPulitzer/status/1496709662602932224)Germans shouldn't have shut all their coal mines down.
https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1496848585882746881 (https://twitter.com/antoguerrera/status/1496848585882746881)
Trump was right about the EU reliance on Russian energy and a lack of investments in the military.
Even the Germans now realize the collosal mistake they made by not listening to Trump.
https://twitter.com/akk/status/1496805472493617152 (https://twitter.com/akk/status/1496805472493617152)
The call is now going out for the US to greatly increase their energy production to make the EU less reliant on Russian gas.
After all if the US uses more nuclear energy, more gas and other resources are left to be exported to Europe.
Of course Europe should also abandon their failed solar energy plans and wind turbines and start building nuclear plants again.
Australia has plenty of coal,
Coal miners make a fortune here. Especially if they have specialist skills.Australia has plenty of coal,
...but do you have enough convicts to extract it? :thinking
Trump, who was impeached for withholding nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine, said 'this deadly Ukraine situation would never have happened' if he were in office.
This just in, lying sack of shit is also worst armchair quarterback of all time.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-statement-ukraine-crisis-would-never-have-happened-if-president-2022-2QuoteTrump, who was impeached for withholding nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine, said 'this deadly Ukraine situation would never have happened' if he were in office.
“I sent her a white flag,” he said of former Chancellor Angela Merkel. “She said, ‘What is this?’ I said, ‘It’s a flag of surrender so you don’t have to go out and buy a new one.’”
“If you move against Ukraine while I’m president,” Trump is said to have told the Russian leader, “I will hit Moscow.”
Putin reportedly scoffed, “No way,” leading Trump to say, “All those beautiful golden turrets will be blown up.”
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1497621644180869124In fact Joe Biden is so weak that the Russian army is falling apart smh :tocry
:american
:lol
Things continue to go well in the GOP:this can't be real, I need video :biden
https://twitter.com/hannahgais/status/1497447150321549319
Things continue to go well in the GOP:this can't be real, I need video :biden
https://twitter.com/hannahgais/status/1497447150321549319
What the fuck is this half-time-show Doom Guy even railing against?https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1498038441564585986
lmao imagine putting this in your office and choosing to pose in front of it:
Doesn't the FCC solely operate under the 'obscenity' exclusion of the First Amendment? "I hate black people tv" may actually be considered under the profane clause? I'm thinking it's actually allowable, but I don't know for certain, actually.No, the FCC has power to regulate broadcast because the limited broadcast spectrum is "owned" by the public and absent this it cannot do anything. The FCC does not regulate cable and especially not cable content. There is no "approval to operate" the FCC has to grant or not grant for anyone's I Hate Black People cable network, it is literally not within their purview. Pam has apparently never read any legal precedents but feels confident enough that her feelings are reality to lecture others to do so.
PhD's in the soft sciences are much harder to achieve than JD's.
U.S. oil price surges 11% to $106 a barrel, a 7-year high prompted by Russia’s assault on Ukraine
Curious how the Russian credit cards got turned off and suddenly the truckers are nowhere to be found
Curious how the Russian credit cards got turned off and suddenly the truckers are nowhere to be found
Just wait till you see the hit to Meta's ad revenues at the end of this quarter :whew
some posters like bionic were still on similac during bush jr :foxx
She isn't wrong and Trump would've done it or he would've taken out Putin like he blew up that guy from Iran.
from Barr book: Trump told his former attorney general the “secret of a really good tweet” was “just the right amount of crazy.”https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1499134259029843968 (https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1499134259029843968)
U.S. Rep. Van Taylor, R-Plano, has decided to end his reelection campaign after he was forced into a primary runoff amid 11th-hour allegations of infidelity.
Taylor made the stunning announcement Wednesday, hours after he finished his five-way primary with 49% of the vote, just missing the cutoff for winning the primary outright. The runner-up was former Collin County Judge Keith Self, who is now likely to become the next congressman for the 3rd District.
"About a year ago, I made a horrible mistake that has caused deep hurt and pain among those I love most in this world," Taylor wrote in an email to supporters. "I had an affair, it was wrong, and it was the greatest failure of my life. I want to apologize for the pain I have caused with my indiscretion, most of all to my wife Anne and our three daughters."
The day before the primary, the conservative outlet Breitbart News posted a story that Taylor had had a monthslong affair with a Plano woman, Tania Joya, who he had paid $5,000 to keep quiet. The publication reported that she provided it a phone screen shot purporting to be communications with Taylor and a bank record showing that she deposited $5,000 into her account. The Texas Tribune has not been able to independently verify the report.
Taylor is married with three children.
Joya is known as a former jihadist who was once married to a commander for the Islamic State. Tabloids have referred to her as “ISIS bride.”
Taylor expressed he wanted “a long slow rim job” while he had a drink. He then requested her to “deep throat” him “while you stroke my cock and I cum on your tonsils.”
Joya later informed American authorities on Georgelas, and afterward worked on counter-terrorism for three years “so we could drone him,” she said of Georgelas.
Taylor, a Plano Republican, was one of four Texas Republicans who rejected Donald Trump’s claims that Democrats stole the presidential election through fraud.
She isn't wrong and Trump would've done it or he would've taken out Putin like he blew up that guy from Iran.
Ah standard political scandalhttps://twitter.com/SpecialPuppy1/status/1499143042032353288
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/02/van-taylor-reelection/
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1499468473726119938Guess she's the arch duke in this drama
:american
EXCLUSIVE — At least two Iranians belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ covert-action Quds Force have been plotting to assassinate former national security adviser John Bolton, according to a Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the investigation.
The source tells the Washington Examiner that the department possesses indictable evidence against the Iranians but that Biden administration officials are resisting publicly indicting the men for fear that it could derail their drive for a nuclear deal with Iran, currently nearing completion in negotiations in Vienna, Austria. Biden’s hope is to resume the 2015 JCPOA Iran nuclear accord. Former President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the accord, and Iran suspended its compliance.
The Supreme Court should take another look at whether federal law grants social media sites like Facebook broad legal immunity when they are used to commit crimes, Justice Clarence Thomas said Monday.:camby Clarence, it's two sentences long, there's no ambiguity here, you're usually better than this when school children aren't involved, stop listening to your wife
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After she was rescued by law enforcement, she sued Facebook, but the Texas Supreme Court said a provision of a federal law, known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, gives social media sites and other internet providers immunity from lawsuits that arise from something posted by a user.
Thomas said that interpretation of the law is too broad and goes beyond what the statute actually says. Such an expansive reading, he said, results in courts dismissing claims against internet companies for failing to warn consumers of product defects or failing to take reasonable steps to protect users from the malicious activities of other users.
Thomas said it is hard to see why the law “should protect Facebook from liability for its own acts and omissions.”
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the Texas woman’s appeal, citing technical obstacles that prevented the court from having jurisdiction, and Thomas agreed the court should not have taken her specific case. But he said it “should address the proper scope of immunity” in an appropriate case.
Thomas has made similar comments in past cases and has also said social media companies should not be immune from lawsuits that argue they improperly restrict conservative viewpoints.
There was an NBC show where they released something that blocked electricity from working we should do thathttps://twitter.com/DanielJBatt/status/1501014178085371910
There was an NBC show where they released something that blocked electricity from working we should do thatGiancarlo Esposito was in that playing Giancarlo Esposito
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1500236207934029829
:what
:spiders?
she wants us to fall in line and not ask any questions lol
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1501240536866435077
:american
In late October, for example, the House Oversight and Reform Committee called in the CEOs of Exxon, BP, Shell, and Chevron to explain what steps they are taking to produce less oil and gas, with Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) alleging that "the world can't wait" any longer. At the time, gas prices were hovering around a 10-year high.
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Some Democrats, such as Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.), have demanded that domestic oil companies dramatically curtail their domestic operations. At the same time, Khanna has called for the United States to end its dependency on oil imports from countries such as Russia.
In one exchange during the October hearing, Khanna pressed Shell president Gretchen Watkins on whether she agreed that "under the Paris agreement that … we need to have oil and gas production declining every year." After she answered that the company believes "that hydrocarbon demand needs to reduce if we're going to get to net zero [emissions] by 2050," Khanna demanded to know whether Shell will decrease its production by 2 percent each year, a figure initially offered by the company in 2019.
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Khanna also demanded to know whether Chevron CEO Michael Wirth was embarrassed that his company has increased production while "the European counterparts are going down." When Wirth said that global demand has increased, Khanna asked for a commitment to help "bring the actual demand of oil production down."
Rep. Robin Kelly (D., Ill.) continued Khanna's line of questioning Watkins, asking, "Will Shell commit to reducing gas production as part of its emissions reductions plans?"
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Democrats scheduled a followup hearing with oil executives for Tuesday, March 8. That hearing was subsequently canceled last-minute, with no explanation given.
The drag queen invited to perform for congressional Democrats during their policy retreat referred to President Joe Biden as "senile" and a "white supremacist" and called his voters "dim-witted.":usacry :fbm :usacry
Lady Bunny, an "iconic drag queen" scheduled to perform on Wednesday during the Democratic retreat in Philadelphia, has spent much of the last year criticizing virtually every aspect of Biden's agenda and some congressional Democrats as well. On Feb. 19, for example, Lady Bunny said Biden's "word, especially on foreign policy, is worth nothing."
On April 26, 2021, Bunny called Biden a "senile conservative" who has been "accused by 8 women" of sexual misconduct. Only someone in a "cult" would bother supporting him, Bunny wrote.
"Maybe the dim-witted (or well-off) boomers who voted for Biden will see who he is after he privatizes Medicare AND cuts their Social Security?" Bunny tweeted on March 3.
Bunny is scheduled to perform on the opening night of the Democratic Party's self-described "Issues Conference." Other events scheduled include "Understanding the Challenges of the She-cession" and "Cocktails, Canvases, and Connections," where Democratic lawmakers can "explore your artistic side by painting a one-of-a-kind masterpiece on canvas while enjoying some refreshments."
Biden's support for the 1994 Crime Bill, Bunny said on Jan. 30, 2022, has "many activists" claiming he's a "white supremacist." And his response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bunny said on Feb. 7, has been worse than his predecessor's.
"More died under Biden than Trump and that's after we had a vaccine," Bunny wrote in response to another Twitter user who claimed if Hillary Clinton was president, the United States would have fewer coronavirus deaths.
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Bunny's scheduled performance will be hosted by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D., N.Y.). In an interview last year with the New York Times, Maloney said his party's strategy to maintain their House majority is to get Biden "out there all around the country and do events in local media markets."
"Understanding the Challenges of the She-cession"
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1501904857749405699 (https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1501904857749405699)Both of these clips seem...benign...
:doge
CHINA INNOCENT
when Trump referred to COVID-19 as the “China virus,” he was secretly referring to the Ukrainian chy-na, and trying to tell the world that the virus was manufactured in Ukraine ...Literally can't argue with this. :trumps
Conspiracists found further “proof” of this theory when someone used Google Translate to figure out that in Ukrainian, “chy-na” means “price.” Combine that with the fact that Trump once said that China would “pay a big price” for spreading COVID-19
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1503453581051056129 (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1503453581051056129)She really is the dumbest of dumb fuck populists.
:derp
@BadLegalTakes
twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1503467489572921346I made this happen.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1503453581051056129 (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1503453581051056129)She really is the dumbest of dumb fuck populists.
:derp
Empty sloganeering on Twatter is all she has.
I know warmongering, chest-thumping american media blah blah blah, but I find it really hard to feel bad for russians right now and clearly I am in a super-majority
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1503769130515636229
:hmm
https://twitter.com/dylanmatt/status/1504148689396412419
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The King is Back:
https://twitter.com/DodgersFanPG/status/1504500689665413124
https://twitter.com/schwartzbCNBC/status/1504156347130077190
Andrew Cuomo said Thursday he’s open to running for New York governor again -- and would consider creating his own political party to do so.:dead
The three-term Democrat, who resigned in August amid a sexual-harassment scandal, delivered his second public address in as many weeks, this time to a group of clergy packed into a small storefront pentecostal church in the Bronx.
Asked if he’s planning a run for governor, Cuomo said, “I’m open to all options.” When asked whether he’d consider creating his own political party to do so, Cuomo said, “I’ve done it before. My father’s done it before.”
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Cuomo’s late father Mario, meanwhile, ran on the Liberal Party ballot line in his 1977 bid for New York City mayor, after losing the Democratic primary to Edward Koch. Cuomo got 41% of the vote in the general election but lost to Koch, who got 50%.
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1503858442892627974
:american
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https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1504271777131896834
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WASHINGTON — The Senate’s unanimous passage of a bill to make daylight saving time permanent stunned many Americans, not least of which the senators themselves.
In a twist the Founding Fathers likely did not anticipate, quirky Senate conventions and a decision by staff in Sen. Tom Cotton’s office may result in an overhaul in the nation’s time zones.
Reporters and politicos were caught off guard Tuesday afternoon when the Sunshine Protection Act sailed through the Senate without issue, with no senators speaking up to object to it passing by unanimous consent. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, serving as Senate chair overseeing the motion at the time, broke composure, burst into a grin, and whispered, “Yes!”
“I was surprised that someone didn’t object,” she told BuzzFeed News the next day, while noting that Arizona does not change its clocks, “because we’re smart.”
Any single senator could have blocked the daylight saving bill from passing but many didn’t know it was even happening. Sen. Rick Scott, a permanent daylight saving time proponent who signed a similar bill into law when he was governor of Florida, said he would have gone to give a speech on the Senate floor if he had known. Asked to re-create his reaction to the news, Sen. Chris Coons issued a series of shocked stammers that is impossible to phonetically translate.
One Senate source with knowledge of the situation said Sen. Tom Cotton vehemently opposes making daylight saving time permanent.
“No comment,” Cotton told BuzzFeed News when asked if he opposed the bill.
The source said that Cotton would have objected to the unanimous consent request, but his staff never told him it was happening.
“No comment,” Cotton told BuzzFeed News when asked why he didn’t object to the bill.
Other senators, it seems, were not told by their staff that the request was happening.:american
Coons is one of them. He said that he and some other senators reacted to the news by asking Rubio if they’d given everyone a heads up, and were told yes.
“It’s literally an issue my staff and I had never discussed, and they made an assumption that I don’t really care about daylight saving time,” Coons said. “And I don’t know if I do! I’ve never taken five minutes to stop and think about it.”
During a hotline, a senator’s legislative director typically vets the request. But sometimes those staff will decide an issue is too benign or obviously doomed to bother their boss with. “A lot of things try to get hotlined every day,” said Sen. Dan Sullivan (who, when asked if he knew the move was coming, did not explicitly answer but said, “you know, it wasn’t, like, my highest priority in the US Senate”).
I love her more every day:...and people were worried that Biden had dementia.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1505964846172491780
CUOMO/WEINER 2024
"America's Comeback"
She’s just quoting Interstellar. Blame Nolan’s writing.
Interstellar is a great movie thoA bit too self-indulgent for my tastes
Wasnt Nintex telling us about these Gitmo trials
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1507107449710559243
Vote Republican. Progressivism doesn't work. Go woke go broke, literally.
Leftism is trash and doesn't work.
Vote Republican. Progressivism doesn't work. Go woke go broke, literally.Leftism is trash and doesn't work.
OK. This isn't your personal blog and the same "points" don't need to keep coming up over and over again.
See how they buckle to the briars of broad opinions. Feel the wind of a waved hand, clogged up nose sniffing such a stench in the bowels of their sundered septum as an opinion that happens to be opposite of what you agree with an articulated in an aggressive manner, the same way they put their narrative all over everything.
See? They are fine with endless posts of one perspective.A plurality, if not majority, of posts in this thread are probably by me and Nintex breh. Neither of us vote Democratic in United States elections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziEfOkp6Kkw
Scoop: Jen Psaki planning to leave White House this spring for MSNBC gig
Me and filler are waiting for her only fans gig :hmphPM me when she launches.
The cross pollination and inter changeability between journalists and political media advisors is an indication of the decline in journalistic standards and ethics.Who wants a surprise?QuoteScoop: Jen Psaki planning to leave White House this spring for MSNBC gig
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Gross. I don't think press secretaries should be able to work for any news outlet, but there should at least be a year moratorium or something. All the Trump people left and immediately got jobs at Fox or Newsmax. Shit is unethical, imo.
they also suckJen can Psaki my dick for sure
they also suckJen can Psaki my dick for sure
She's actually been in negotiations with multiple news networks for almost a year now. They love the Psaki Bombs and can't wait to replace Maddow with them.Who wants a surprise?QuoteScoop: Jen Psaki planning to leave White House this spring for MSNBC gig
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Gross. I don't think press secretaries should be able to work for any news outlet, but there should at least be a year moratorium or something. All the Trump people left and immediately got jobs at Fox or Newsmax. Shit is unethical, imo.
Republican Ralph Shortey, a former Oklahoma state senator, Trump’s Oklahoma campaign chair to plead guilt to child sex trafficking
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-s-oklahoma-campaign-chair-plead-guilt-child-sex-trafficking-n822461?fbclid=IwAR142W77Q5Dan71BsxC_5uH8h1BBA4EGyqP_VMsrx7lSvoPX9Njjvt0oHK0
Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges of structuring bank withdrawals after prosecutors alleged Hastert had molested at least four boys as young as 14 and attempted to compensate his victims and subsequently conceal the transactions. Hastert eventually admitted that he sexually abused the boys whom he had coached decades earlier, and was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html
Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on February 11, 2018 he was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/05/03/former-judge-tim-nolan-could-sentenced-today-more-drama-could-get-way/577947002/
Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. In November 2017, he pleaded guilty to one count of child sex trafficking in exchange for the dropping of the other charges.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/20/former-oklahoma-state-senator-admits-to-child-sex-trafficking-while-in-office/
Republican Minnesota State Representative Jim Knoblach Drops Out Of Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her For More Than Ten Years 22 Sep 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/22/lawmaker-quits-race-after-daughter-says-he-molested-her-more-than-decade/?utm_term=.8ac8527c7f43
Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=28587
Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
http://www.lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl/
Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334
Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo
Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giordano
Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
http://archive.easyreadernews.com/archives/news2001/0621/rb%20Shortridge.php
Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, a notable racist, had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond
Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/nyregion/embroiled-first-selectman-takes-leave.html
Republican Congressman Donald “Buz” Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/25/us/teen-ager-in-ohio-testifies-to-sex-with-a-congressman.html
Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2003/04/24/gop-activist-admits-to-child-porn/5af2adf0-bec8-4a10-b061-014de679422a/?utm_term=.d7ebcbf4f92b
Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
http://www.thenewblackmagazine.com/view.aspx?index=437
Republican activist Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child.
https://www.westword.com/news/randy-ankeney-suit-that-could-free-thousands-of-prisoners-headed-to-state-supreme-court-6054115
Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crane
Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html
Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman
Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971
Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug LSD.
https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same
Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media.
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html
Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him.
http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex
Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.
https://www.houstonpress.com/news/jon-matthews-conservative-talk-show-host-and-sex-offender-pulled-from-kpfts-prison-show-6740755
Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
https://culteducation.com/group/1255-false-memories/6514-man-in-notorious-sex-case-finishes-term.html
Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
https://www.semissourian.com/story/57773.html
Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same
Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children).
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2002/6/21/23202/Tennessee-Legislator-Commits-Suicide.aspx
Republican Kentucky state Representative & pastor Dan Johnson, who committed suicide after an exposé revealed his serial lies, suspected arson, criminal church, racism, accused rape of a teen, and more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Johnson_%28Kentucky_politician%29
I'm furious.Hi furious, I'm benji.
I'm furious.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLzvh6UVEAY_Dzv?format=jpg&name=medium)The good news is that she's polling at less than 4%. (She's included in "Other" in polls and they collectively get 4% or less.)
http://kandisstaylor.com/endorsements/
:american
Previously on The Bire USA Politics thread:Quote from: benjipwns, http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=47891.msg3026052#msg3026052(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLzvh6UVEAY_Dzv?format=jpg&name=medium)
She has a PhD.
Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March, slightly hotter than expected and the highest since 1981
Headline CPI in March rose by 8.5% from a year ago, the fastest annual gain since December 1981 and one-tenth of a percentage point above the estimate.
Real worker earnings fell by another 0.8% during the month as the cost of living outpaced otherwise strong pay gains.
Still, due to the surge in inflation, real earnings, despite rising 5.6% from a year ago, weren’t keeping pace with the cost of living. Real average hourly earnings posted a seasonally adjusted 0.8% decline for the month, according to a separate Bureau of Labor Statistics report.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQTU4ojX0AY55lK?format=png&name=small)But what about covert Twitter? :thinking
:o :o :omg
How is that not a joke account :lolShe locked down last night but she was back this morning:
Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public libraryThis legitimately pissed me off. A few years ago, this would've been an onion article or something
Conservatives are teaming with politicians to remove books and gut library boards
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/public-libraries-books-censorship/
All is going according to plan in America.
In its recently passed $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, Congress included just $75 million for election security. That’s a fraction of what lawmakers authorized in 2020 and an amount experts say is nowhere near sufficient to address the needs ahead of the next election.
At the center of this failure is the Brennan Center, an influential liberal think tank and advocacy organization. Based in New York City, the Brennan Center rarely gets public scrutiny, but it plays an outsize role in the strategic direction of the movement pushing for voting rights and election reform. That flows partly from its massive war chest, which has skyrocketed over the last decade: Between 2010 and 2020, its net earnings grew from $196,000 to $58 million. Its assets jumped from $8 million to $90 million.
That financial firepower, coupled with the credibility in Washington that it has built over the years, gives the Brennan Center effective veto power over the voting rights advocacy coalition it leads. In Congress, revisions to election and voting laws are often met with the question, “What does the Brennan Center think?”
This made the Brennan Center’s decision to pull back on the effort to fund elections all the more consequential. Its political attention and lobbying shifted to passing the Freedom to Vote Act, the Democrats’ comprehensive voting rights bill that would, among other things, expand voter registration, ban partisan gerrymandering, weaken state-level voter ID requirements, and restore preclearance, a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Brennan Center played a key role in crafting the omnibus legislation, including its earlier iterations like the “For the People Act.”
In a letter sent to congressional leadership in late July, a coalition of 19 national advocacy groups, including the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Mi Familia Vota, urged Congress to allocate $20 billion for election infrastructure, citing the hundreds of local election officials, mayors, and secretaries of state who had begged for that amount earlier in the month. “As the individuals and leaders closest to the administration of fair and secure elections, they have collectively called for federal support in meeting the immense needs they face,” the national groups wrote. “We write to add our voices to that important ask.”
The Brennan Center declined to sign.
“It was one of the most jaw-dropping moments of my professional life,” said one election reform lobbyist whose organization signed the letter and who requested anonymity to describe the coalition’s private discussions.
Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center, said his organization “felt that the dollar amount that the letter was asking for did not make sense based on our expertise and research and policy analysis … that it was too much,” though he could not say what a better figure would be. “My colleagues on this who are aligned certainly thought it was too much, and we thought the dollar amount was too high to be asking for at that time,” he added.
The timing of the ask also didn’t strike them as appropriate, Waldman said. “It was in the heat of the fight for the [For the People] Act, which we regard as the most important voting rights legislation in half a century. … I thought that [the request] was a distraction and a detour from the very hard fight needed to pass voting rights legislation.”
His comments about the size of the request for election funding reflected a departure from the Brennan Center’s previous public statements, a fact noticed by both this reporter and the organization’s press shop. The following day, a Brennan Center spokesperson, Alexandra Ringe, who had been listening in on our interview, called to ask if I would consider taking Waldman’s statements about the size of the election funding request off the record, saying they would not go over well with their coalition partners. I declined.
In a subsequent email, Ringe wrote that Waldman had “misremembered the decision-making related to the sign-on letter” and that fear of distracting from the Freedom to Vote Act was the sole factor in the Brennan Center’s decision not to sign. Waldman himself followed up to say that he had misspoken in our previous conversation, reiterating that the organization chose not to sign the letter “because of our concerns … that it would distract from the final push for voting rights legislation.”
The Election Infrastructure Initiative, a project of the Center for Tech and Civic Life and the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, puts the tab to fully modernize U.S. elections at $53 billion over the next 10 years. The initiative has called on Congress to allocate less than half of that, $20 billion. That ask has been endorsed in letters by secretaries of state, mayors, and election administrators. In a February poll by Data for Progress, nearly three-quarters of respondents supported congressional spending to upgrade state and local voting equipment and security systems.
Many local election leaders have struggled to understand why the Brennan Center — a group with the ear of influential Democrats in Congress — dropped prioritization of election funding over the last year, particularly after helping elevate their concerns during the pandemic. Moreover, while the Freedom to Vote Act would push many election reforms that are needed and overdue, those changes would not come cheap. Advocates worried that chaos could come from a slew of new unfunded mandates.
Jessica Huseman, one of the country’s leading voting rights journalists, detailed many of these concerns publicly last spring in a Daily Beast op-ed. The For the People Act “was written with apparently no consultation with election administrators, and it shows,” Huseman wrote, noting that it was packed with deadlines and obligations that would be impossible for election officials to meet. “The sections of the bill related to voting systems … show remarkably little understanding of the problems the authors apply alarmingly prescriptive solutions to.”
The Brennan Center quickly issued a defense of the bill it had helped draft, publishing a response to Huseman’s piece on its website. The center defended the amount authorized in funding for upgrades and maintenance. But “there have been millions in authorized funding that has never been appropriated,” Huseman, who currently serves as editorial director of Votebeat, told me. “Looking specifically to voting, the funding promised in the Help America Vote Act took 15 years to actually become appropriated, even though the states were on the hook for the requirements long before this. This is the origin of the anxiety for state election administrators, and I think it’s a well-founded concern.”
“Brennan Center gets way over their skis on election policy,” said one national election reformer who has partnered with the organization on research and requested anonymity because their organization shares some of the same funders as the Brennan Center. “They’ve been great [at] fleshing out the more liberal position on voting rights, but when it comes to election administration … they are not that connected to the election officials community … and they haven’t really wrestled with the implications of what they advocate for.”
“The charitable answer is they didn’t want to have a fight about money until after the bill had passed, but you can easily pass the bill and not win the money,” said the election lobbyist, who was shocked that the center didn’t join the July letter.
Throughout July, as Senate Democrats prepared their $3.5 trillion social spending request, lawmakers assured state and local election officials that their proposal would include billions for election funding. A Politico story published just four days before the package was unveiled confirmed that lawmakers were eyeing as much as $15 to $20 billion for that purpose and felt confident that they could deliver, even as their voting rights bill remained stalled.
But at the eleventh hour the funding was pulled, at the urging of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who had “abruptly” changed her mind, as Huseman reported in a detailed ticktock of the negotiations. Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., the author of the For the People Act, had convinced Pelosi that authorizing election funding would reduce their leverage to pass his bill, the same argument the Brennan Center used to justify not signing the coalition letter.
Leading negotiations in the Senate, Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., was angry. She felt blindsided by Pelosi’s move, per Huseman’s sources, even as spokespersons for both House leaders defended the last-minute cuts. The spokespersons told Huseman that election funding would require more “safeguards” to ensure it couldn’t be used for voter suppression, but top federal elections experts say there is no history of misspending those funds. “After all,” Huseman wrote, “it costs far less money to close polling locations and remove drop boxes, and state legislatures across the country have been doing this without any additional spending since the 2020 election.” (Klobuchar, Pelosi, and Sarbanes did not return The Intercept’s requests for comment for this story.)
“All of the money that’s been released has been for specific purposes,” Kathleen Hale, a political scientist who directs the Election Administration Initiative at Auburn University, told The Intercept. “It’s all been audited; I’ve been doing this for the last 15 years, and there’s absolutely nothing going on like that.”
While it was becoming too late in the negotiations process to pivot to funding elections in the infrastructure deal, the Democrats’ Freedom to Vote Act was looking increasingly doomed in the Senate. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., made it clear that she was not willing to gut the filibuster — a legislative move that would have been required to ensure the bill’s passage. A Punchbowl News survey of senior congressional staffers found that even among Democratic staff, just 12 percent thought the bill had a shot.
Some leaders urged Congress to push forward with a narrower bill, abandoning demands like public financing of elections, to which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had expressed strong opposition. Others within the voting rights coalition faced immense pressure to stay quiet when they raised concerns about technical language in the statute, saying the Brennan Center in particular warned that even private deliberations could derail passage of the bill itself.
Election funding and election subversion are not unrelated issues. While immediate fears about subversion have been tied to rogue election clerks and state legislators, poorly funding elections heightens risk too. “Inadequately funded elections can lead to foreign or domestic actors tampering with our voting technology, voter registration databases, or machines that count ballots,” said Hasen. “And when funding is inadequate it creates opportunities for mistakes to happen and creates opportunities for people to try to manipulate things without oversight.”:american
His band was okay thoughfucking stole my joke
Trucker Itinerant Circus going wellVery satisfying video
https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1518438352017580032
The message – one of more than 2,000 texts turned over by Meadows to the House select committee investigating January 6 and first reported by CNN – shows that some of Trump’s most ardent allies on Capitol Hill were pressing for Trump to return himself to office even after the Capitol attack.
“In our private chat with only Members several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call Marshall [sic] law,” Greene texted on 17 January. “I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next.”
Meadows did not appear to respond to Greene’s text.
https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1519094035683577857
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security is creating a "Disinformation Governance Board" to combat misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterms.
Mayorkas appeared before the House Appropriations Subcommittee to discuss the fiscal 2023 budget for the Department of Homeland Security.
Its 90 pages Benji.FACT CHECK: 23 of those are an appendix I didn't read any of or even skim.
The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation
A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board announced Wednesday will immediately begin focusing on misinformation aimed at migrants
“We are very concerned that Haitians who are taking the irregular migration path are receiving misinformation that the border is open,”
Biden Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz Sang About Sex Fantasy with Dead Harry Potter
Breitbart follow upYou'd think the side that's voraciously adopted cancel culture would think to do some quick background checks before appointing people...QuoteBiden Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz Sang About Sex Fantasy with Dead Harry Potter
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/29/biden-disinformation-chief-nina-jankowicz-sang-sex-fantasy-dead-harry-potter/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/29/biden-disinformation-chief-nina-jankowicz-sang-sex-fantasy-dead-harry-potter/)
Breitbart follow upYou'd think the side that's voraciously adopted cancel culture would think to do some quick background checks before appointing people...QuoteBiden Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz Sang About Sex Fantasy with Dead Harry Potter
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/29/biden-disinformation-chief-nina-jankowicz-sang-sex-fantasy-dead-harry-potter/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/29/biden-disinformation-chief-nina-jankowicz-sang-sex-fantasy-dead-harry-potter/)
It is an ironic discovery — Jankowicz’s apparent obsession with Harry Potter — as many have deemed her the U.S. version of the Ministry of Magic’s overpowering Dolores Umbridge
1 million votes cast in the GOP primaryDemocratic primary was relatively uncontested, Tim Ryan had been anointed last year.
500k in the Dem primary
That would not surprise me at all...but I guess sometimes you reap what you sow.Breitbart follow upYou'd think the side that's voraciously adopted cancel culture would think to do some quick background checks before appointing people...QuoteBiden Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz Sang About Sex Fantasy with Dead Harry Potter
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/29/biden-disinformation-chief-nina-jankowicz-sang-sex-fantasy-dead-harry-potter/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/29/biden-disinformation-chief-nina-jankowicz-sang-sex-fantasy-dead-harry-potter/)
May be getting wooshed here but would it surprise you it is a pretty innocuous thing she did when 18 that is getting heard through the most hysterical distortion ?
Breitbart follow upYou'd think the side that's voraciously adopted cancel culture would think to do some quick background checks before appointing people...QuoteBiden Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz Sang About Sex Fantasy with Dead Harry Potter
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/29/biden-disinformation-chief-nina-jankowicz-sang-sex-fantasy-dead-harry-potter/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/29/biden-disinformation-chief-nina-jankowicz-sang-sex-fantasy-dead-harry-potter/)
May be getting wooshed here but would it surprise you it is a pretty innocuous thing she did when 18 that is getting heard through the most hysterical distortion ?
Europe is finally waking up, all Russian propaganda TV is to be completely outlawed (terrestrial broadcasts, cable, satellite, internet/apps) to hinder the spread of disinformation. Should have happened years ago, considering Putler has been working hard to destroy the EU (Brexit was in part made possible with the help of Russian influence/money).Reported this post for spreading disinformation that would assist Putin.
Too bad America has no rules regarding disinformation, the constant onslaught of which has gravely damaged American democracy (which at this point may be beyond saving).
Ya the idea that you can't make laws that fascists would abuse when in power is pretty dumb.
Having rules for news organizations that prevents them from spreading disproved information (and outright lies) does nothing of the sort.Your assumption is that power cannot be abused because only good people can wield it. My assumption is that's not true and it's not worth the risk to find out which of us is right. Better to protect free speech and free press than to outlaw both.
Having rules for news organizations that prevents them from spreading disproved information (and outright lies) does nothing of the sort.
Having a press law that requires adherence to a basic code of ethics (=no broadcasting unverifiable information/propaganda) so far seems to work pretty well as a safeguard against a return of fascism for Europe. Doesn't seem to curb the freedom of speech, either.Perhaps you should heed the warning from history since the Nazi Party was outlawed by Weimar Germany and it also had extensive speech/press restrictions?
Not heeding the warning from history has made Trumpism possible in America. What comes next will be worse.
Doesn't seem to curb the freedom of speech, either.So the laws don't even work? And yet you're advocating for them to be imposed on other people while hoping no one there will abuse them? This is strange advocacy.
Ya the idea that you can't make laws that fascists would abuse when in power is pretty dumb.
I'm sure those women who will be imprisoned for "illegal" abortions in the future will be able to console themselves with their free speech.I would think it's obviously better that they can advocate for removing restrictions on abortions than imprisoning or killing them for doing so.
Ya the idea that you can't make laws that fascists would abuse when in power is pretty dumb.
you want to elaborate? is there an understood "...because the fascists will never be allowed to be in power again?"
The George W. Bush Administration announced today the arrest of thousands of so-called self-declared journalists for spreading the disinformation that WMDs were not found in Iraq. We go now live to the White House for more on the defeat of these seditious traitors.
Ya the idea that you can't make laws that fascists would abuse when in power is pretty dumb.
Exactly. And they'll make much worse laws once they are in power.
Americans will get to experience this firsthand, soon.
I'm sure those women who will be imprisoned for "illegal" abortions in the future will be able to console themselves with their free speech.
Ya the idea that you can't make laws that fascists would abuse when in power is pretty dumb.
you want to elaborate? is there an understood "...because the fascists will never be allowed to be in power again?"
Because if fascists want to do something they will do it whether it is lawful or not. So the idea that you can't make laws that would otherwise help stop the spread of fascism because they might abuse the power is silly. If you are in a place where the laws are being abused, the issue is the people abusing the law not the laws themselves. The fear of what-ifs is what is actively allowing America to regress at it's current rate. You can actively try to stop that from happening or let it happen and then go 'well at least we didn't make it a law to round up journalists while journalists are being round up anyway. Like you wouldn't want to create a situation where big-brained Nintex gets to gleefully post about how the bad behaviour of the right is really the fault of the left.
If you are in a place where the laws are being abused, the issue is the people abusing the law not the laws themselves. The fear of what-ifs is what is actively allowing America to regress at it's current rate.
The concern over disinformation laws in the hands of facists is myopic to the concern over the rise of facism.
Anyone dumbfucked enough to believe the 2020 election was rigged through conspiracy isn't going to "snap out of it" through censorship.
The concern over disinformation laws in the hands of facists is myopic to the concern over the rise of facism.
it's more important to stop fascism than to worry about whether the actions you're taking contribute to the rise of fascism?
This is a misunderstanding about how disinformation works. The point would have been to prevent a situation that normalized the idea that the election was rigged in the first place rather than to try to convert people who already believe.
Saying that the election was rigged without any evidence is not a political belief. It is an act that is harmful to democracy.
What are the other available options then for the government?
Saying that the election was rigged without any evidence is not a political belief. It is an act that is harmful to democracy.
voting for trump is also an act that is harmful to democracy, yet you would defend a conservative's right to cast that vote?
when your position is that stopping fascism is more important than examining potential consequences of your actions, I think you'll find a world of possibilities open to you
@Madrun Badrun
Very good posts, my thoughts exactly.
They don't understand that fascists don't care about laws, or free speech. Even now they are banning books, and that as soon as they have total control they will create "patriot" laws that will outlaw "unpatriotic" speech.
As long as the political fight remains like this you can't get rid of disinformation as both sides deploy it as they see fit.
Are we going to lock up people who believe there are 50 genders? Are we going to lock up people who think JFK Jr. is still alive?
There is no such thing as universal truth, not in a free society at least. All of science is based on the fact that you question things.
If no one questioned their rulers we would still believe the earth was flat and we would all be speaking Latin or something.
The fact that no one is happy with how elections are conducted (let alone counted) tells you the system sort of works.
In that sense, did the Twitter and Facebook censoring really do anything to stop the spread of misinformation? I don't think so.
The fact that no one is happy with how elections are conducted (let alone counted) tells you the system sort of works.
@Madrun Badrun
Very good posts, my thoughts exactly.
They don't understand that fascists don't care about laws, or free speech. Even now they are banning books, and that as soon as they have total control they will create "patriot" laws that will outlaw "unpatriotic" speech.
@Madrun Badrun
Very good posts, my thoughts exactly.
They don't understand that fascists don't care about laws, or free speech. Even now they are banning books, and that as soon as they have total control they will create "patriot" laws that will outlaw "unpatriotic" speech.
well let's be honest here, this would be fine as long as the books contained misinformation
@Madrun Badrun
Very good posts, my thoughts exactly.
They don't understand that fascists don't care about laws, or free speech. Even now they are banning books, and that as soon as they have total control they will create "patriot" laws that will outlaw "unpatriotic" speech.
the irony of this post blows my mind.
you're the one talking about banning speech here
You aren't the force for good that you seem to think you are. "A useful idiot" is what Lenin would have called you. Fascist goverment or no, "misinformation" is always going to be whatever the people in charge wants it to be, how is that so hard to understand?
Does it? Go on. How do you connect the fact of people being unhappy with how elections are done to outright lying about results being ok and unavoidable?People suspected foul play with Bush/Gore and they suspected foul play when Kennedy won.
As an example, I looked up the so-called press code from Europe's largest democracy, Germany.
https://www.presserat.de/pressekodex.html?file=files/presserat/dokumente/pressekodex/Pressekodex2017english.pdf
Something like this makes sense, is no slippery slope and has not led to fascism or a ban on free speech.
Quite the opposite, it prevents right-wing nuts from using mass media to amplify their lies and take over. In Germany, an entity like Fox News would be reprimanded for spreading proven lies and for not adhering to basic journalistic ethics, and then either start behaving or eventually lose its license.
Misinformation serves no useful purpose in the political discourse, other than to mislead people and to brainwash them. Which is what Trump's Big Lie has successfully done to 30% of Americans.
A democracy that does not defend itself against lies will eventually succumb to them.
Go ahead, read the German Press Code and point out which parts of it don't make sense or are somehow bad for democracy.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to lie without any consequences.
It doesn't matter if the loser is a sore loser or accepts the loss
People suspected foul play with Bush/Gore and they suspected foul play when Kennedy won.
Hillary Clinton didn't trust the outcome of the 2016 election and neither did most of the liberal class.
If the system is valid is another discussion. Just by the sheer number of votes, voting methods and counting methods the margin of error in an election (or really any endeavor) of this size is significant.
And like all these systems most of it is window dressing. That's what the protestors found out on January 6th and afterwards, just like the liberals did between 2016 and 2020.
You can interfere with the ceremony or discover things after the vote but it doesn't change anything about the outcome. The only chance you have is the next election.
The system isn't fair or just because it isn't designed to be fair or just. It is designed to elect a President out of 330 million people.
And unless someone finds a better way to do that, the losing side will always point at what they perceive are the flaws in the system.
Occam and Madrun's position is that people who said blacks are equal humans to whites, that homosexuality isn't a mental illness, that ulcers aren't caused by stress, that the NSA is spying on citizens, that the government was lying about Vietnam, that people should wear masks during COVID, that Communists had not infiltrated the leadership of the State Department and Army, that the United States is at war in Libya, that people who've committed no crimes shouldn't be forcibly sterilized, that Biden won the 2020 election, that [insert person here] was killed by police, that recovered memories by children about fantastical satanic sexual abuse are bullshit, etc. should have been thrown in jail because the threat to democracy from these oppositional positions is too great.That's basically how modern day China works and as we can see in Shanghai that isn't actually working anymore either.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’
As an example, I looked up the so-called Press Code of Europe's largest democracy, Germany.What is the German Press Council's opinion of that time the German government tried to charge Der Spiegel staff with treason, held them without trial and occupied their offices for a month while leaving the minister of justice out of the loop and denying to the Bundestag that any of this was happening?
https://www.presserat.de/pressekodex.html?file=files/presserat/dokumente/pressekodex/Pressekodex2017english.pdf
Something like this makes sense, is no slippery slope and has not led to fascism or a ban on free speech.
Quite the opposite, it prevents right-wing nuts from using mass media to amplify their lies and take over. In Germany, an entity like Fox News would be reprimanded for spreading proven lies and for not adhering to basic journalistic ethics, and then either start behaving or eventually lose its license.
Misinformation serves no useful purpose in the political discourse, other than to mislead people and to brainwash them. Which is what Trump's Big Lie has successfully done to 30% of Americans.
A democracy that does not defend itself against lies will eventually succumb to them.
Go ahead, read the German Press Code and point out which parts of it don't make sense or are somehow bad for democracy.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to lie without any consequences.
You're not asking for just "any" limit on free speech, you're asking for the government to be able to imprison and kill people who disagree with the government. It's eviscerating the entire concept.
What you need is a law to limit political ad spending and media appearances by political entities in general."Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"
I went to summarily executed because you brought up the idea that this will lead to the government murdering people.How do you think the government enforces the law? Asking nicely?
I support limits on free speech. We disagree in that any kind of limit means a full loss of free speech. It's so obvious that you can't have hate speech laws because no one can define what hate speech is and surely the government will abuse that power if it is allowed to define it? Likewise you can't have disinformation laws because what is disinformation. Surely no one can say that Alex Jones is empirically wrong about Sandy Hook and you wouldn't;t want the government to be able to decide if Sandy Hook happened or not would you? First, the government says Sandy Hook happened, then you become China.Yes, the threat of being prosecuted for your speech means you do not have freedom of speech. If you do not have a limiting principle for when the government can do this you do not support freedom of speech.
The idea you can't place a limit on free speech without a tyrannical government abusing it for anything is as much as an American fantasy as the second amendment will protect you from a tyrannical government.
Executive director Nina Jankowicz, who once described Hunter Biden’s laptop as “a Trump campaign product"
Sure there is a human right to hate speech and misinformation. It is Alex Jone's human right to lie about Sandy Hook and profit from it. No true liberal democracy would fail to engage in American fantasies.It is also the right of those affected to sue Alex Jones for the harm his words cause.
The less a state suppresses that right the better it is, the more liberal, the more democratic.
Supporting the most essential human right is not childish.
She's going to be too busy with Nintex:QuoteExecutive director Nina Jankowicz, who once described Hunter Biden’s laptop as “a Trump campaign product"
Heh too funny. So do we think that the DGB will be sanctioning their own boss for misinformation or do we just accept that misinformation is going to be whatever the current goverment says it is? :lol
Jankowicz wrote last year about her mission: “The biggest challenge in identifying this content both for our team and for platforms is what we’ve dubbed ‘malign creativity’—the coded language, memes, and context-based content which allow harmful posts to avoid detection.”
If you are in a place where the laws are being abused, the issue is the people abusing the law not the laws themselves.
You need to interlace your post with emoticons if you going to post like Nintex.I'm no longer engaging with you here as you're clearly far too blinded with anger right now to do anything but throw baseless defamatory hate speech filled insults that should get you imprisoned for life.
Freedom of speech is the most essential component of a liberal democracy. The less a state suppresses that right the better it is, the more liberal, the more democratic.
Oh yeah? Name me one non-democratic country that doesn't have freedom of speech. Go ahead, i'll wait.It's true, you got me:
ARTICLE 125. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law :
a) freedom of speech;
b) freedom of the press;
c) freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
d) freedom of street processions and demonstrations; These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communications facilities and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.
ARTICLE 126. In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to develop the organizational initiative and political activity of the masses of the people, citizens of the U.S.S.R. are ensured the right to unite in public organizations - trade unions, cooperative associations, youth organizations, sport and defence organizations, cultural, technical and scientific societies; and the most active and politically most conscious citizens in the ranks of the working class and other sections of the working people unite in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), which is the vanguard of the working people in their struggle to strengthen and develop the socialist system and is the leading core of all organizations of the working people, both public and state.
ARTICLE 127. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed inviolability of the person. No person may be placed under arrest except by decision of a court or with the sanction of a procurator.
ARTICLE 128. The inviolability of the homes of citizens and privacy of correspondence are protected by law.
They all have freedom of speech, it's just that the governments have freedom to make them disappear too.Freedom of speech is the most essential component of a liberal democracy. The less a state suppresses that right the better it is, the more liberal, the more democratic.
Oh yeah? Name me one non-democratic country that doesn't have freedom of speech. Go ahead, i'll wait.
Benji concern trolling about free speech when the court says there's no right to privacy. Open that anus nice and widejames hysterical about a highly skeptical looking leaked draft that he didn't read at all accusing someone of acting in nefarious bad faith when repeating positions they've held for their entire time on The Bire and were responding to someone else introducing the topic of suppressing free speech in the first place
it's so shortsighted to not even consider the breadth of speech that is some form of disinformationIt really is an insane proposal to try to regulate truth, especially in a country like the US which is historically opposed to regulation (or at least over-regulation).
nearly all jokes are lies
"what did the salamander say to the rabbi?" "salamanders cannot speak and it erodes our foundational pursuit of truth to even chuckle at the idea that they might"
"Dave Chapelle's latest special implies a large portion of the trans community is crazy which does not reflect reality and cannot be aired"
all fiction is disinformation; infinity stones do not exist, nor hyrule, nor half life 3
"but that's ridiculous, they would never try to control something as obviously benign as storytelling, it would only ever be used for good"
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alright, so now Alex Jones starts telling "stories" to his audience about Blandy Blook Elementary...
"well they can't allow that, I suppose they'll just stop the disinformation which seems pretty obviously an allegory in this vein"
alright, so next an author writes a story which can be interpreted as a loose retelling of real life events completely by accident and finds their book censored (explicitly or through publisher chilling effect), and before you know it anything that calls into question the benevolence of a governing body (Hunger Games et al) require scrutiny if not outright banning
in what universe is this tenable
But the findings also point to the risk that partisan media pose for democracy.https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/04/07/when-fox-news-viewers-flip-to-cnn-their-opinions-shift-too-study-finds/
"How can a voter hold a politician accountable for an act of malfeasance if they do not know it occurred?" the authors asked in their study. "Or, alternatively, how can voters reward a … politician for good performance if their chosen media network does not inform them of it?"
In the pre-insanity days, there used to be a fairness doctrine in the US, which ensured that something like Fox News couldn't happen.So you admit it wouldn't have applied while being sure in your insistence that it wouldn't have allowed Fox News. The FCC's ability to regulate content doesn't apply to cable and the internet because those aren't public airwaves of a limited spectrum, they are outside its jurisdiction.
Of course this only applied to broadcast TV and radio, because cable and the internet didn't exist when it was implemented by the FCC in 1949. The rule was found to be constitutional and not violate free speech on several occasions.
Having news media adhere to basic ethics of journalism (fact check issues, rectract stories that have been proven wrong) and report issues from the entire spectrum in no way violates free speech.Prosecuting journalists absolutely violates free speech and free press.
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason of righteousness, temperance, and of a judgment to come in their presence. Slavery cannot tolerate free speech. Five years of its exercise would banish the auction block and break every chain in the South. They will have none of it there, for they have the power. But shall it be so here?
Even here in Boston, and among the friends of freedom, we hear two voices: one denouncing the mob that broke up our meeting on Monday as a base and cowardly outrage; and another, deprecating and regretting the holding of such a meeting, by such men, at such a time. We are told that the meeting was ill-timed, and the parties to it unwise.
Why, what is the matter with us? Are we going to palliate and excuse a palpable and flagrant outrage on the right of speech, by implying that only a particular description of persons should exercise that right? Are we, at such a time, when a great principle has been struck down, to quench the moral indignation which the deed excites, by casting reflections upon those on whose persons the outrage has been committed? After all the arguments for liberty to which Boston has listened for more than a quarter of a century, has she yet to learn that the time to assert a right is the time when the right itself is called in question, and that the men of all others to assert it are the men to whom the right has been denied?
It would be no vindication of the right of speech to prove that certain gentlemen of great distinction, eminent for their learning and ability, are allowed to freely express their opinions on all subjects – including the subject of slavery. Such a vindication would need, itself, to be vindicated. It would add insult to injury. Not even an old-fashioned abolition meeting could vindicate that right in Boston just now. There can be no right of speech where any man, however lifted up, or however humble, however young, or however old, is overawed by force, and compelled to suppress his honest sentiments.
Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money. I have no doubt that Boston will vindicate this right. But in order to do so, there must be no concessions to the enemy. When a man is allowed to speak because he is rich and powerful, it aggravates the crime of denying the right to the poor and humble.
The principle must rest upon its own proper basis. And until the right is accorded to the humblest as freely as to the most exalted citizen, the government of Boston is but an empty name, and its freedom a mockery. A man’s right to speak does not depend upon where he was born or upon his color. The simple quality of manhood is the solid basis of the right – and there let it rest forever.
Yes, as I said, the most essential human right is freedom of speech.Non-violently, anyway. :shh
If you cannot speak you cannot advocate for your rights. It is essential.
So long as a court has to decide their application, I see no issue with some restrictions.
But why does it need to be as close to absolute as is possible? Germany doesn't have a particularly good set of restrictions (for a recent example, google "Du bist so 1 pimmel"), but there are some that I have no issue with, such as Holocaust denial or hate speech. Do these impede the functioning of our democracy?Unfortunately I have yet to hear a limiting principle other than to simply trust in those who cannot themselves be trusted to speak or hear certain ideas.
So long as a court has to decide their application, I see no issue with some restrictions.
...Who upholds free speech then?
That doesn't mean it maintains itself. Someone has to make sure it's enforced as intended. If a government can enforce a stronger interpretation of free speech, it can enforce a weaker interpretation and maintain it at that level, too....Who upholds free speech then?the uncomplicated first amendment as it stands?
Republicans have no problem stopping people they don’t like from voting and it seems to be working for them.
Republicans have no problem stopping people they don’t like from voting and it seems to be working for them.
correct, and if they were further enabled to find ways to arrest people for saying things they didn't like it would be equally ruinous
Republicans have no problem stopping people they don’t like from voting and it seems to be working for them.
correct, and if they were further enabled to find ways to arrest people for saying things they didn't like it would be equally ruinous
Take a look at what they’re doing to Madison Cawthorn right now if you don’t believe they are already capable of punishing people for saying things they don’t like.
why on earth would you do thatWhat are your trying to argue? Should we not be able to change laws, ever?
governments can enforce a weaker interpretation of voter rights, or property rights, or right to an attorney
I mean sure it's all good, some people cast votes for trump which are inherently damaging to the union and on some level fueled by hatred/racism, we have justification to remove voting rights if you're not going to use that right responsibly
https://twitter.com/AprilDRyan/status/1522303111863455744 (https://twitter.com/AprilDRyan/status/1522303111863455744)Psaki is still :whew
New WH Press Secretary just dropped.
why on earth would you do thatWhat are your trying to argue? Should we not be able to change laws, ever?
governments can enforce a weaker interpretation of voter rights, or property rights, or right to an attorney
I mean sure it's all good, some people cast votes for trump which are inherently damaging to the union and on some level fueled by hatred/racism, we have justification to remove voting rights if you're not going to use that right responsibly
My point is: our right to free expression over here in Germany is not as wide-ranging as yours in the US, but things turned out - fine, mostly? We have a functioning liberal society. I'm trying to tease out why anything lesser than "total" is unuseable, I guess. That's where the line appears to be drawn. Stray from that and you can't have - what? Things are doomed to get worse?
No it wasn't. :doge
your specific statement was that it's ok to weaken rights, not merely "change laws"
Republicans have no problem stopping people they don’t like from voting and it seems to be working for them.
correct, and if they were further enabled to find ways to arrest people for saying things they didn't like it would be equally ruinous
Take a look at what they’re doing to Madison Cawthorn right now if you don’t believe they are already capable of punishing people for saying things they don’t like.
Why not deal with the erosion of rights were actually dealing with instead of spending so much time playing devils advocate against changes that have absolutely no chance of ever seeing the light of day? Republican appointed Supreme Court justices have decided that past precedent no longer matters, I think that’s a bigger deal than whatever random Twitter users are saying :trumpsThe fuck are you talking about? Occam came into this thread once again to say that the government should be allowed to completely control everyone's speech and we're responding to that and people agreeing with him that freedom of speech should not be allowed, not saying that anything about Twitter matters.
...Who upholds free speech then?
That doesn't mean it maintains itself. Someone has to make sure it's enforced as intended. If a government can enforce a stronger interpretation of free speech, it can enforce a weaker interpretation and maintain it at that level, too.
What are your trying to argue? Should we not be able to change laws, ever?The government should not be allowed to infringe on the content of speech at all. This empowers them to decide on the content of all speech. I asked you for a limiting principle and you've come back with merely restating your previous theory that there shouldn't be one and the government should be able to limit whatever it wants.
My point is: our right to free expression over here in Germany is not as wide-ranging as yours in the US, but things turned out - fine, mostly? We have a functioning liberal society. I'm trying to tease out why anything lesser than "total" is unuseable, I guess. That's where the line appears to be drawn. Stray from that and you can't have - what? Things are doomed to get worse?
Rep. Victoria Spartz topped a nonpartisan group’s “Worst Bosses” list last year, winning the dubious title of most staff turnover in the House. Her retention record is only getting worse.
Four aides are departing the Indiana Republican’s office this month after another exited weeks ago, leaving a skeleton crew of staffers in the first-term lawmaker’s D.C. office. Spartz’s exodus is on the radar of GOP leadership, which has tried to address her performance as an employer at least twice since the end of last year, according to a senior Republican close to the matter.
The frequent departures stem from an allegedly unhealthy work environment, according to interviews with eight people, including more than a half-dozen former staffers as well as Republicans familiar with her office dynamics who were granted anonymity to speak candidly. They described Spartz as an unpredictable boss whose temper can rocket from tepid to boiling.
Those former staffers and other Republicans told POLITICO she frequently yells and curses at aides, belittling her staff’s intelligence and berating them in front of others — members, constituents and even with reporters in close proximity. On more than one occasion, three former staffers said, Spartz likened her aides’ writing skills to those of elementary-school students and proclaimed that her children were more talented than her staff.
Inside Spartz’s office, three of the former staffers accused the Republican of raising tensions by usually avoiding firings and instead bullying aides until they leave on their own.
staffers say her response to previous staff departures followed a familiar pattern, according to multiple former staffers and Republicans: She would respond that she was effectively doing the jobs of her exiting aides anyway.:karen
Some of the former staffers pointed to Spartz’s inability to make up her mind about standard decisions — including about hiring new aides — as another significant problem. That paralysis, as well as Spartz’s assertions that her staff would frequently get her demands wrong, led to a mutually agreed-upon practice between her and employees to make audio recordings of her requests or guidance for tasks she wanted completed.
But despite the existence of that audio, former staffers said, Spartz at times would later deny that she asked her aides to take a certain action or accuse aides of doing something she didn’t want. The former staffers interviewed said they decided not to play Spartz the tapes of her own voice in order to avoid further conflict with their then-boss, despite her requesting that the conversations be recorded.
I asked you for a limiting principle and you've come back with merely restating your previous theory that there shouldn't be one and the government should be able to limit whatever it wants.I left that alone because I thought you don't believe in any lesser limiting priciples than what your 1st amendment provides, i.e. 'agree to disagree' and walk away.
The government should not be allowed to infringe on the content of speech at all. This empowers them to decide on the content of all speech....isn't actually true.
https://youtu.be/jDTi2eMW26U
While our limiting principle is weaker, it's still a limiting principle. Our government is less restricted in how it can limit speech, not unrestricted. Meaning this, afaict...I think these are absolutely connected. "Hate speech" is a broad infinite category that can be constantly redefined and the entire power of redefinition is itself placed with entities with an incentive to expand it. I think you'd also have to argue against history to claim that content restrictions don't expand outwards once granted. When the Supreme Court said that speech against war and slavery was outside the First Amendment because of the danger these posed to the government doing what it wished this eventually was used as a supporting precedent to justify outlawing political parties, books, advocating communism broadly, speaking against a war at a time when others are also speaking against it, etc. and was also used to get around other precedents against compelling speech. The First Amendment never changed from "shall make no law" but administrations and courts didn't stop writing exceptions into this for "dangerous" speech until the Supreme Court explicitly reversed itself after fifty years. (Similarly, the Supreme Court saying that political speech and the free press could be limited led to the Obama Administration arguing that it could ban books from being published.) Maybe non-Americans are less likely to abuse exceptions without bounds but that theory doesn't seem to fit very well with the theory that it's existentially dangerous to allow non-Americans to speak or hear things the government dislikes.The government should not be allowed to infringe on the content of speech at all. This empowers them to decide on the content of all speech....isn't actually true.
I don't mean to debate the particulars of German law (nor American law actually I'm just pointing to it as examples) especially since my German is nicht sehr gut but to me the "insults the human dignity" provision is a giant gaping hole that a malicious actor will absolutely abuse.I don't know if I'm more optimistic on this point or less. More, because I'm not worried about anyone abusing this loophole, or less, because I think that no limits would ultimately stop bad actors with popular support, whether there are loopholes or not.
Wasn't the DDR... 20% of the combined German population ? So any poll results on the matter would actually be fairly narrow.It's difficult to find the exact source on modern Google but there's a pretty lenghty piece on the recent poll they did
There was a poll done a while ago that showed people are more afraid to say what they think now than they were in the DDR.I'm not familiar with that poll, but I find that silly on its face. I smell a hefty dose of GDR nostalgia.
When Das Leben der Anderen released in 2006 it seemed crazy to live in a society like that and now that's pretty much the reality everywhere.Because of constant mass surveillance, or because you can get shouted at online by what feels like the whole world (shortcircuiting people's sense of proportion)?
I don't know if I'm more optimistic on this point or less. More, because I'm not worried about anyone abusing this loophole, or less, because I think that no limits would ultimately stop bad actors with popular support, whether there are loopholes or not.Probably more optimistic, as I already said earlier in this conversation I don't expect only good people to obtain power. With or without popular support, especially since history has shown they don't need it in order to abuse the law.
You might be thinking of this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Jeff_Paul/status/1321331610344656897
You, and Occam, seem to be arguing that because past governments were criminal, current and future governments should be allowed to be criminal and apparently exempt from even being called criminal by anyone else. While this is probably Occam's position since he's always argued for complete authoritarianism
Having certain rules in place that prevent the erosion of democracy or the destruction of the environment (our habitat) is not a call for authoritarianism. Quite the contrary. It allows for a maximum of individual freedom, because our safety is protected. Free speech absolutism is nonsense, and doesn't exist anywhere. There are always limits on speech, even in America. For instance there are defamation laws, or if you call for someone to be murdered, or post instructions on how to build weapons of mass destruction, presumably you will be arrested.So you don't know anything about American laws and yet you're pontificating on them at length?
Furthermore, I wasn't suggesting broad censorship (or imprisonment of anyone), only that news media adhere to certain ethical standards, like fact checking and not repeating disinformation once disproven.Funny again how you yet say you aren't calling for censorship or imprisonment and then immediately start listing out your grievances about people you do want to censor and imprison. And earlier you pretty explicitly said you want to compel speech. If you don't want people to be censored and imprisoned then why are you spending so much time explaining why in a democracy some ideas should not be allowed to be spoken or heard without people being imprisoned for it?
Having large disinformation networks (basically brainwashing operations) in place that serve as the only source of news for much of the population is not beneficial to democracy. Asides from paving the way for a fascist dictatorship, this actually kills people. How many Americans have died of Covid after refusing perfectly safe vaccines because right-wing propaganda lied to them? In the near future, another example is going to be man-made global warming, which is about to kill millions (billions?).
I have yet to hear a good argument how Hitler's credo "the jews are our misfortune!" being broadcast to millions long before he took power was somehow beneficial to society in general or democracy in specific.
Doctors have a code of ethics they need to adhere to, as do lawyers. Why shouldn't journalists? And since corporations are people according to the gods of capitalism, why shouldn't the corporate sellers of news have a code of ethics, too?
Republicans own most high level judges, precedent no longer matters. They are making gerrymandering and voter suppression legalAgain, totally ignorant of how the law works yet expert on how it should work. For the maintenance of democracy of course.
Democrats can't even pass any laws thanks to the insane way the US government works.In your country if a party does not have a majority can it pass laws without compromise? Can the party pass laws without compromise when it's own members disagree? Assume the party whip is incredibly weak.
Fundraising:I wonder how this qualifies her to be a member of parliament?
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I wonder how this qualifies her to be a member of parliament?What part of "I'm not a racist, unlike my dad" did you miss?
There are always limits on speech, even in America. For instance there are defamation laws, or if you call for someone to be murdered, or post instructions on how to build weapons of mass destruction, presumably you will be arrested.So you don't know anything about American laws and yet you're pontificating on them at length?
Yes, you can find them online. Yet there is a law against it.
https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20030908_RL32074_fcbf5a7d23f14b3350d4c2d81465aaaf7bcd299d.pdf
Hence, presumably.
(2)Prohibition.—It shall be unlawful for any person—
(A)to teach or demonstrate the making or use of an explosive, a destructive device, or a weapon of mass destruction, or to distribute by any means information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction, with the intent that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence; or
(B)to teach or demonstrate to any person the making or use of an explosive, a destructive device, or a weapon of mass destruction, or to distribute to any person, by any means, information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction, knowing that such person intends to use the teaching, demonstration, or information for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence.
Sen. Susan Collins was confronted with a pro-abortion rights message Saturday night when an unknown person or persons wrote in chalk on the sidewalk outside her West Broadway home in Bangor, prompting a police response.:badass
“Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA —–> vote yes, clean up your mess,” the message read, according to a Bangor police report.
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Bangor police responded to West Broadway at 9:20 p.m. Saturday to investigate a message written in chalk on a sidewalk, Bangor police spokesperson Wade Betters said.
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“We are grateful to the Bangor police officers and the City public works employee who responded to the defacement of public property in front of our home,” Collins said.
Nobody was better positioned to model such a process than Brandy Brooks, a racial equity and environmental justice consultant running for an at-large seat on the Montgomery County Council in Maryland. She’s the founder and CEO of Radical Solutions LLC, a consulting firm that offers “training, coaching and consulting for progressive organizing leaders who are working on multiracial, cross-class, movement-building electoral and issue campaigns.” The firm’s “focus [is] on supporting and centering the leadership of women and femmes of color.”:american
On March 14, Brooks learned that she herself was the subject of a complaint of a hostile work environment from a member of her campaign staff. What made the process feel especially difficult — but also resolvable through a restorative justice process — was the source of the complaint: a person she considered a longtime close friend.
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Sam bowed out, and Brandy invited over a female friend for the type of evening she was looking for: tears, hand-holding, and self-exploration. That Sunday night, just after midnight — technically Monday morning — Sam reached back out to start a long conversation about the virtues of wool dryer balls.
Sam later said — to the Washington Post and others — that they understood the request for mutual crying and hand-holding as an unwanted romantic advance. Without invalidating Sam’s perspective, a mutual friend said that she had seen Brandy say similar things to people of all genders, not meant in a romantic way. “That’s how she interacts with her very close friends, and I felt it was really taken out of context,” the friend said.
As the head of the campaign, she had suggested something inappropriate either way, Brandy has since acknowledged. That the relationship was already unprofessional is not in dispute, and Sam hadn’t even joined the campaign full-time yet.
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The sessions helped Brandy craft her statement of accountability. At the second mediation, Brandy read a draft of her statement to Sam, who told her, according to Brandy, that it was beyond what they had expected, and they accepted it without amendments. The two jointly signed a mediation agreement on March 22, 2022. “[Sam] and Brandy Brooks agree to keep mediation discussion and written products confidential except for a limited circle of close advisers,” reads the agreement. “[Sam] affirms that the campaign and Brandy Brooks handled this situation in good faith with a clear intention of restorative justice and will not make any further requests of Brandy Brooks or the campaign pertaining to the complaint of March 14.”
She read it aloud to staff on March 26. “Brandy spoke for a grueling 10 minutes about how sorry she was,” said one of the roughly nine staffers in the room.
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Shortly afterward, Brandy and the campaign began to field calls from people who had endorsed her, or others in the progressive community, saying they had heard damning stories about her behavior on the campaign, specifically that she was offering jobs to staff in exchange for sexual favors, and retaliating when the overtures were rejected. Montgomery County’s rumor mill was running wild, and Brandy tried to tamp down the speculation.
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On the night of April 7, a Thursday, Brandy’s campaign learned that the local Jews United for Justice chapter was discussing the situation and considering dropping their endorsement. The next day, Brandy called her endorsers to let them know as much as she could: There had been a complaint of a hostile workplace environment, and it had been resolved in mediation.
On Saturday, April 9, Brandy got a call from a member of the Metro D.C. DSA steering committee, its leadership body, inviting her to join a call on Tuesday, April 12, to respond to what they said were disturbing allegations they’d been hearing.
That Monday, Brandy did a second reading of her accountability statement to two kitchen cabinet members who had missed the first meeting. Sam was present for that too and told Brandy afterward that the statement was no longer acceptable and more accountability was needed. Brandy said she offered to reenter mediation, but Sam told her the only way they’d do so would be if Brandy withdrew completely from the race. It’s an open question what, exactly, prompted Sam’s change of heart, but Brandy calling her endorsers to tamp down the rumor mill may have played a role. Brandy said Sam couched her departure from the campaign not as a demand but simply a necessity. “I’m not asking you to do this, I’m just saying this is the only way,” was the posture, according to Brandy.
Dropping out, Brandy responded, was not an option, for a number of reasons, including her faith that her campaign was best positioned to serve the million people of Montgomery County she would represent. Beyond that, the campaign was publicly financed to the tune of $175,000 from local taxpayers. Ending the campaign early would mean Brandy would be personally on the hook for that amount, plus interest.
Brooks was told on Tuesday evening at the Metro DC DSA steering committee meeting that the committee would be voting soon on whether to recommend its membership unendorse her campaign, and would halt work on her behalf for the time being. The committee told her it was aware of evidence that she had confessed to sexual harassment — presumably a reference to her accountability statement — and Brooks again took responsibility for what she had done but denied actively seeking sex or retaliating in any way. Losing their ground support would be hard, Brooks knew, and a public denunciation would be difficult to overcome.
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The next day, DSA members put forward a resolution to unendorse Brooks, arguing that the only way for her to be held accountable was for her to end her campaign. “Whereas,” reads the resolution, “evidence has been brought forward that while an internal campaign mediation process was undertaken in an attempt to seek accountability from the candidate for the harm caused, the outcomes of the process were insufficient and it is our belief that true accountability cannot occur amidst an ongoing campaign for office.”
A steering committee meeting was held that evening to discuss the resolution. Sam spoke at the steering committee meeting, laying out the allegations. One attendee asked by chat if Brandy, as a long-serving DSA member, was entitled to due process. “Endorsement is a privilege, not a right of membership,” a steering committee member said in response. Brandy was not so privileged.
From the time DSA’s steering committee met with Brandy and the time that members, supported by the steering committee, put forward a resolution calling for her to end her campaign, two days had elapsed.
Much of the public condemnation of Brooks was organized around the straightforward power dynamic at work between a boss and an employee. While the dynamic was painted as black and white in this instance, in others, the left has been able to construct increasingly sophisticated power maps that get at the gradations of power differentials at play in different relationships. Race and gender are significant factors, yet there’s no evidence DSA examined the potential for implicit bias at work against Brandy or in the favor of Sam.
“We’re disappointed to now see her twist the language of abolition and restorative justice to try to deflect from her actions,” DSA’s public statement read.
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That the dynamic between the two on the campaign was inappropriate isn’t in dispute. But in real-time and in hindsight, it seemed like the kind of thing a sophisticated progressive movement invested in the concept of restorative justice could handle through good-faith mediation. Indeed, if something like this can’t be resolved through such a process, what can? Instead, Brooks’s agreement to enter mediation became the very evidence against her and formed the foundation of the DSA’s resolution for unendorsement. “I cannot emphasize enough that Brandy Brooks admitted to sexually harassing her employee in a meeting before her entire staff. Those facts are not in dispute,” posted one DSA member who co-sponsored the resolution on Twitter.
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I spent a couple of months last year pointing out that the Democratic childcare proposal would dramatically increase childcare prices for middle-class families right above the subsidy cliff. At the time, I was the only one publicly saying this (unless you also count the DC city government, which published a report saying the same thing). And I got a crazy amount of backlash for doing so.:american
Email blasts went out across the Hill telling everyone I was wrong. The Center for American Progress (CAP) ran a social media campaign claiming not only that I was wrong but also that the childcare proposal didn’t even have a subsidy cliff (it did). Childcare advocates got Politico’s Eleanor Mueller to write an attack on me that lined up quotes from Rasheed Malik of CAP, Melissa Boteach of the National Women’s Law Center (formerly at CAP), an anonymous “Democratic aide,” and even Senator Patty Murray, all saying in so many words that I was way off base.
All of this was bullshit. One of Yglesias’s think tank sources told him that this was a known problem with the childcare plan well before I pointed it out, but that the problem had nonetheless been suppressed for political reasons.
But how was it that nobody noticed this problem until Bruenig? I heard from someone who used to work at a well-regarded center-left think tank that one of her colleagues noticed this exact problem earlier. But when she raised the issue, she was told to keep quiet because the care groups have always been supportive on other issues.
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In one case, right after a new draft of the BBB legislation was published, I pointed out on Twitter that the paid leave program had become more restrictive. Whereas previously someone was eligible provided they had worked at any point in the few months prior to taking leave, now they had to have done that and earned at least $2,000 in the prior two years. This new restriction was aimed at denying eligibility to the poorest workers in our society.
About an hour later, Eleanor Mueller, the same Politico journalist that the childcare advocates had lined up to write a piece against me, bizarrely said that I was wrong. She said instead that the new eligibility requirement “makes sure that people with erratic income can access paid leave even if they haven’t worked in the period immediately prior.” But this was false as a matter of basic reading comprehension. The $2,000 earnings requirement was on top of the requirement to have worked in the period immediately prior. It did not provide any new eligibility relative to the prior bill draft. It only restricted eligibility further.
More interesting than Mueller’s error, though, is contemplating how exactly she came to the point where she was rebutting me with a lie. I suppose it’s possible that she just saw my tweet (she doesn’t follow me) and, of her own volition, decided to rebut it. Perhaps she had already read the brand new statutory paid leave text and felt confident enough in her reading of it to say I was wrong. But the much more likely scenario is that the same people who fed her bullshit about my childcare analysis also fed her bullshit about this paid leave eligibility point. In other words, she was had by Democratic agents of policy misinformation.
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When I wrote a piece about this, a significant member of Congress and their staff contacted me to talk about this development and, to my surprise, ask me how I even learned that the bill had been changed in this way. It hadn’t been reported in the media. The section-by-section fact sheet had not been updated to reflect the change. There was absolutely zero communication from anyone that the first three years of the pre-K plan had been basically eliminated. The only reason I knew it had happened, which I told this member, is that every time the BBB bill was updated, I would reread the entire statutory text of the childcare section (and a few other sections I was tracking) to spot changes.
It certainly looked like the small group of insiders responsible for shepherding the bill were hiding the ball even from other Democratic lawmakers.
Indeed, the information climate around the pre-K and childcare proposal funding got so bad that someone actually leaked to me an internal CBO document showing the CBO had assumed that a large minority of states would not participate in either program because the federal subsidies to do so were so minimal. Put differently, this document, along with the surrounding facts about the legislative history, strongly suggested that the Democrats were scaling back childcare and pre-K funding in subsequent drafts in order to get the CBO to conclude that a bunch of kids would never get any of the benefits, and thus the program would not cost very much.
This fact was not circulating in any national publication or policy circle. Imagine how desperate things must have gotten for someone to conclude that their best option for getting this information out was through me. This means that they had exhausted their internal options and had decided that dozens of policy figures and media figures far more prominent than me wouldn’t put it out there, or that it might otherwise imperil them professionally.
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced the Copyright Clause Restoration Act, a new bill to strip woke corporations like Disney of special copyright protections. Senator Hawley’s bill would limit new copyright protections to 56 years and make the change retroactive for massive corporations like Disney that have been granted unnecessarily long copyright monopolies.Time to put aside our differences and help Senator Hawley take on the woke corporations. :american
Senator Hawley said, “the age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over. Thanks to special copyright protections from Congress, woke corporations like Disney have earned billions while increasingly pandering to woke activists. It’s time to take away Disney’s special privileges and open up a new era of creativity and innovation.”
Under Congress’s current sweetheart deal, companies like Disney have been granted certain copyright protections for up to 120 years—well beyond the original maximum of 28 years. Senator Hawley’s bill would crack down on copyright monopolies to ensure they only last long enough to encourage innovation.
Bill text can be found here.
Background
The Copyright Clause Restoration Act would:
Limit new copyrights to 56 years, the same period that persisted for most of the 20th century, which is plenty of incentive to encourage authorship.
Make this change retroactive for the biggest entertainment companies, including Disney, that were granted unnecessarily long monopolies. Under this legislation, Disney would begin to lose protections for some of its oldest and most valuable copyrights.
Delay implementation for certain license holders, to reasonably protect pre-existing contracts.
“the age of Republican handouts to Big Business is over.
re: the debate on the previous pages. My views and interpretations on this are quite fringe. I think German speech laws are completely broken and a sham. Full of Prussian ideas of “honor“ with a anti-Nazi bandaid applied.
I mean the first article in the constitution about human dignity is complete window-dressing without any real legal meaning.
My views and interpretations on this are quite fringe.:jeanluc
Yeah, it‘s a pretty unpopular position, but I‘m a free speech absolutist. Are the everyday implications non-existent for 99% of the population? Probably, but I would abolish every restriction on speech, especially criminal offenses like blasphemy(lol) and insulting a head of state(lol). These are some kooky ass laws that are completely unacceptable. The only saving grace is that the courts are pretty sensible and don’t really apply these laws.
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., on Friday slammed Republicans for criticizing President Biden when "we’re at war.":american
Hoyer, the second-highest-ranking House Democrat made the inflammatory statement while debating on the House floor, pushing back on Republicans’ pointing out Biden has "clamped down" on producing energy domestically.
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"It is unfortunate that in a time of war, that we spend all the time blaming our own president," Hoyer continued. "It is unfortunate that when the Europeans put themselves over the objections of numerous administrations in a place where they had a dependence on Russia, Russia has no leverage over us."
"I wish we'd get off this and really focus on the enemy," the Democrat leader added. "I know there's a lot of politics here, but we're at war. We need to produce energy."
Exactly who or what is the US at war with according to Hoyer?Whaddya got?
https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1382539028801605632
Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shootingWhy are you watching Fox News?
Suspect was allegedly motivated by the theory, but network has barely mentioned gunman’s reasoning, even after Tucker Carlson pushed the concept in more than 400 of his shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/17/buffalo-shooting-fox-news-tucker-carlson-great-replacement-theory
Just because a racist lie was pushed on 400+ episodes of Carson's propaganda/brainwashing show, who could have known someone would actually believe it and start killing people? That's preposterous!
He wants to get angry about people he's being told to hate.Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shootingWhy are you watching Fox News?
Suspect was allegedly motivated by the theory, but network has barely mentioned gunman’s reasoning, even after Tucker Carlson pushed the concept in more than 400 of his shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/17/buffalo-shooting-fox-news-tucker-carlson-great-replacement-theory
Just because a racist lie was pushed on 400+ episodes of Carson's propaganda/brainwashing show, who could have known someone would actually believe it and start killing people? That's preposterous!
Senate Democrats planned to hold a May 10 hearing on "disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation," just a couple of weeks after Biden tapped Jankowicz to head his administration's newly created Disinformation Governance Board. Democratic leaders were reluctant to have Jankowicz face Republican questioning, however, prompting them to nix the hearing, three Senate offices told the Washington Free Beacon.I hope this disinformation by Senate aides is being investigated.
"They yanked it when the entire ‘disinformation board' blew up," one senior aide told the Free Beacon. "They realized there's no way they could reschedule without Nina Jankowicz being called to testify."
The Senate's Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee had the hearing scheduled since April, but the optics of the hearing in light of Jankowicz's negative press led to its abrupt cancellation. Such hearings are normally sleepy events on Capitol Hill, but the controversy surrounding Jankowicz would have made the hearing a spectacle. The hearing would have been an opportunity for Republicans to question not only Jankowicz but also the creation of the board in the first place. The administration has refused to answer questions about its decision to give the disinformation post to Jankowicz, who has drawn criticism for falsely labeling Hunter Biden's laptop a "Russian influence op" and for her flamboyant TikTok videos.
Canceling Senate hearings on such short notice is out of the ordinary and typically does not happen unless a witness or expert falls ill or has a last-minute scheduling conflict. The disinformation hearing, according to multiple Senate offices, had been scheduled since early April and was planned for May 10.
The committee is helmed by Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.), who also chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the organization tasked with maintaining Democrats' Senate majority. Aides speculated the event was canceled to insulate vulnerable Democrats from the political blowback of the disinformation board.
"We have at least one Democrat who has a tough reelection coming up this cycle," the aide said, referring to New Hampshire senator Maggie Hassan. "It's pretty insane."
"Peters is running cover for the administration," another aide said. Peters did not respond to a request for comment.
edit: I took out some snark that may have been insulting.
What makes you think I do?Fox News suddenly goes quiet on ‘great replacement’ theory after Buffalo shootingWhy are you watching Fox News?
Suspect was allegedly motivated by the theory, but network has barely mentioned gunman’s reasoning, even after Tucker Carlson pushed the concept in more than 400 of his shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/17/buffalo-shooting-fox-news-tucker-carlson-great-replacement-theory
Just because a racist lie was pushed on 400+ episodes of Carson's propaganda/brainwashing show, who could have known someone would actually believe it and start killing people? That's preposterous!
Can someone break these down, Ben's shit is 2 deep 4 me :derpYou gotta read up on the lore
Can someone break these down, Ben's shit is 2 deep 4 me :derp
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Much love.
https://twitter.com/bennydiego/status/1527006882300592128
Dang, what deep ass subtext :lawdCan someone break these down, Ben's shit is 2 deep 4 me :derp
Biden is not the real president but also will start WW3 by himself.
Unreal. Horrible yet the comedic timing of muttering “…Iraq, too… 75” is a solid recoveryDid he not say Semper Fi?
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I guess courting controversy is the easiest way to get publicity these days. Knew I was right to dislike this little edgelord.
I was thinking of this when I was reading Mary Harris’ interview with Anat Shenker-Osorio in Slate, headlined “Why Abortion Activists Need to Stop Using the Word Choice.”:social
I don’t have extremely strong convictions about what word you should use for the political faction that believes abortion should remain legal. But I always thought the basic logic of “pro-choice” was pretty clear: you want people who believe that abortion is wrong as a matter of religious conviction to still vote for candidates who believe that abortion should be legal. That’s important. A lot of people have views that incorporate both the metaphysics of fetal personhood and also support for a woman’s right to choose, and Democrats are counting on the votes of many religiously observant Black and Hispanic voters.
My big complaint with Shenker-Osorio’s take isn’t that her ideas about language and framing are necessarily wrong — I’m open to the idea that there’s a better option than “choice” — it’s the way she evades talking about policy.
As her big positive case study in favor of her ideas, she cites the successful campaign to legalize abortion in Ireland. That is absolutely something that we should study and learn lessons from. But the necessary starting point for learning lessons from Ireland’s success is understanding what they succeeded in achieving.
Under the terms of the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Act of 2018, abortion is legal in the Republic of Ireland under the following conditions:QuoteWhen the pregnancy is less than 12-weeks old.That is a big change from the historical abortion policy situation in Ireland, and it is very much at odds with the policy goals of the pro-life movement in the United States of America. But it is also a much more moderate policy than the one advocated for by the pro-choice movement in the United States of America.
When two doctors certify in good faith that the fetus is likely to die either before or within 28 days of birth.
When two doctors certify that continuing the pregnancy poses a serious risk to the life or health of the mother.
When one doctor certifies that there is an emergency threat to the life or health of the mother requiring immediate action.
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Democrats thus far have not taken up my advice, largely I think because pro-choice groups have made it clear they are not yet prepared to certify this stance as supportive of abortion rights.
Instead, the party and the movement are having this conversation about framing, language, and slogans. On one level it’s fine to talk about framing, language, and slogans because those things matter. But the semantic content of what you are saying matters more. I think it is fine and appropriate to say that political slogans developed in Ireland over the past five to 15 years may be more relevant than slogans developed in the United States 50-60 years ago. But you can’t just sweep under the rug the fact that Irish choice activists won their battle by advocating for a more popular, more moderate policy.
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Marcela Mulholland and McKenzie Wilson of Data for Progress have a new podcast out where they reference specific messaging testing experiments on abortion to see which ones do best.
It’s a really good discussion because they hone in on a point that I think tends to be neglected in this discussion — the best-testing messages tended to be ones they did not personally like. After all, these are two young, secular, college-educated women living in a big city and working professionally in progressive politics. If the whole electorate was made up of young female college graduates, then you could win on abortion with any message. But the point of developing a message is to try to come up with language that seems persuasive to people who aren’t progressive political professionals. In the case of the tests they did, that was generally messages that activated libertarian and individualistic ideas. Young leftists are not big on individualism. But as they say, this works precisely because it’s a political idea that appeals to people who aren’t leftists.
In the Slate article, Shenker-Osorio complains about trying to appeal to right-of-center individualists:QuoteHarris: In the U.S., we talk about abortion as an individual right.
Shenker-Osorio: That’s right.
Harris: It’s almost by definition separate from the community.
Shenker-Osorio: Separate from the community, separate from relationships. And it has historically been argued in a libertarian framework. U.S. out of my uterus. Get your laws off my body. My child, my choice. And what happens with that “individual choice” language is, in policy terms, we get the Hyde Amendment.
I think this is backward.
At a time when abortion rights are under very clear and direct assault, you can’t optimize your messaging choices to try to advance Hyde Amendment repeal — a cause that’s unpopular and nowhere close to winning the needed votes in the Senate.
If the Supreme Court tosses Roe v. Wade, which seems very likely, many Republicans are going to push to enact draconian anti-abortion laws. Those laws will in many cases be unpopular and risk backlash. But to generate effective backlash, abortion rights activists need to counter-mobilize with a more popular position — the way they did in Ireland — not try to come up with a message that is optimized to try to defend an unpopular position. Compared to other western countries, the United States is more religious, which makes abortion rights harder to defend. But the United States is also more individualistic, which gives abortion rights a fighting chance. The most effective messages key into that, but effective messengers will also acknowledge that words aren’t magic and can’t substitute for aligning your views with things the public agrees with.
Asked on “Fox News Sunday” how he would help women who carried out their pregnancies despite financial or other challenges that would make it difficult to raise a child, Mr. Stitt blamed the “socialist Democrat left” for attempting to abort children who would be born into poverty.
“We believe that God has a special plan for every single life and every single child,” he said, “and we want everybody to have the same opportunities in Oklahoma, and aborting a child is not the right answer.”
Free speech winsAt the price of national security:
Unreal. Horrible yet the comedic timing of muttering “…Iraq, too… 75” is a solid recovery.
Some people in their 20s, kids during his administration, see Bush as a funny goofball :-\
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMBzfUj5zsgTurning tide?
Turning tide?https://twitter.com/JShahryar/status/1528021255026200576
#nintexwasright
Mayor Adams may be eyeing a White House run if President Biden doesn’t seek a second term, confidantes and City Hall insiders told The Post.
“Eric has told me repeatedly that he thinks that he has a platform to run for national office, for president in 2024. He has said that repeatedly. He thinks New York is a national platform. He thinks the national party has gotten too far to the left and he thinks he has a platform to win,” a person close to the mayor said.
A Brooklyn Democratic elected official who was also frequently in talks with the mayor said Adams was “considering a White House run in 2024 if Biden doesn’t seek re-election,” adding that Adams’ advisor Ingrid Lewis-Martin was “running point” on the issue.
Even a GOP lawmaker broached the topic with Adams.:american
“I said you really have to consider that you are young enough where you will have a life after the mayoralty and if you solve the crime problem there would be a lot of interest in a big city Democrat, African American with progressive values but who mediated the crime problem in a major city,” he said.
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Nearly 3,500 Virginians have had their civil rights restored by Gov. Glenn Youngkin since he took office in January, allowing them to vote, run for public office or serve on a jury.:american
In Virginia, those who are convicted of a felony automatically lose these rights. Under the current system, the governor is the only way someone with a felony on their record could regain these rights.
According to the governor’s office, the civil rights of 3,496 people convicted of felonies have been restored since Youngkin was sworn in.
You get the most flak when you are right on target.Turning tide?https://twitter.com/JShahryar/status/1528021255026200576
#nintexwasright
And when you are on the wrong target, as you should know by now.You get the most flak when you are right on target.Turning tide?https://twitter.com/JShahryar/status/1528021255026200576
#nintexwasright
Hey USA, you guys doing okay?
Hey USA, you guys doing okay?Despite what the barely polling PhD says, the Constitution does not mandate the type of death penalty nor does it even mandate the death penalty. Her not having written the Constitution does seem to be accurate though.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1528443821293461505I just can't with the MyPillow ads :dead
Hey USA, you guys doing okay?
I actually looked up the 1919 SC commentary from which this cowded theatre thing originated and yeah, it makes no sense so people (and even lawyers) keep quoting this as an example of the limits of free speech in the USA. In reality, there are almost no limits imposed today, and you can absolutely shout fire in a crowded theatre.
I actually looked up the 1919 SC commentary from which this cowded theatre thing originated and yeah, it makes no sense so people (and even lawyers) keep quoting this as an example of the limits of free speech in the USA. In reality, there are almost no limits imposed today, and you can absolutely shout fire in a crowded theatre.I appreciate that you bothered to look into it.
Asked about his Afro-Latino heritage at the news conference where he was introduced as Ms. Hochul’s choice for lieutenant governor, Mr. Delgado gave a winding answer. He said people had surmised that he was Afro-Latino because of his name, or perhaps because he briefly lived in Puerto Rico, where he played semipro basketball. He then seemed to suggest that his Latino heritage stemmed from his family’s ties to Cape Verde, a small island nation off the west coast of Africa that was once a Portuguese colony.
The answer mystified some of his supporters, and created an opening for his opponents to scrutinize his claims of being Latino.
Luis A. Miranda Jr., a founding partner of the MirRam Group, a political consulting firm, posted celebratory comments on Twitter about Mr. Delgado’s appointment when it was announced. But after hearing his remarks at the news conference, Mr. Miranda said he was “puzzled by his explanation on ethnicity.”
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Mr. Delgado, in an interview with The New York Times, described the complexity of how he views his ethnicity. He said his mother grew up at a time when she felt safe identifying only as Black or white, but eventually embraced the Mexican, Colombian and Venezuelan ancestry of her father, whom she did not know.
“She became someone who identifies as a proud Black woman with Latino roots,” Mr. Delgado said in the interview. “And as I’ve tried to orient myself and my sense of identity through her, that is the entry point.”
Asked how he identified himself, Mr. Delgado said: “I am a Black American man with Cape Verdean roots and Latino roots. When it pertains to my Latino roots, that comes from my mom’s side, whose own story around her identity is multifaceted and complex.”
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“Gov. Hochul is being extremely opportunistic and simplistic,” said Ms. Archila, who immigrated to the United States from Colombia and whose running mate is Jumaane Williams, New York City’s public advocate. “I think he should say more than, I have an ancestor who once was born in Colombia.”
Ms. Reyna, whose running mate is Representative Thomas R. Suozzi, said at a recent campaign event that a “last name does not make you Latino.” The first statewide Latino official should be “authentic,” have “lived experience” and a record of helping Latino communities, she told Encuentro New York, a Latino advocacy group.
“She tells us that her lieutenant governor is a member of the Latino community,” Ms. Reyna, who is Dominican, said of the governor. “This is not about identity politics. This is about being truthful.”
Ms. Hochul and her campaign have said little about the questions surrounding Mr. Delgado’s ethnicity. They referred to him as Afro-Latino in the third line of a news release announcing his appointment; an email sent out the next day about a fund-raiser did not mention his ethnicity.
“He identifies as Afro-Latino,” Jerrel Harvey, a spokesman for Ms. Hochul’s campaign, said.
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Camille Rivera, a Democratic political strategist who identifies as Afro-Latina, said Ms. Hochul had missed an opportunity to energize an important voting bloc that could help decide the general election. Among the issues Latino leaders say they want state government to address are affordable housing, child care and inequalities in health care.
“You have no statewide Latino representation, right?” Ms. Rivera said. “Here was an opportunity to actually lift up Latinos in a real way.”
There has been little scrutiny of Mr. Delgado’s Latino heritage. Several news articles over the years have identified him incorrectly as Puerto Rican. Some articles from 2018, when he defeated John J. Faso, the Republican incumbent, to claim the House seat representing the Hudson Valley and Catskills regions, referred to him as Black.
Asked whether he had ever corrected the record about being Puerto Rican before the news conference where he was introduced as lieutenant governor, Mr. Delgado said in a statement that he was “raised as a blend of heritages,” including “Latino roots.”
“That’s the background I grew up with and how I identify,” he said in the statement. “My mom’s maiden name is Gomez and she grew up identifying as having Latina roots.”
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“Experience informs what you see, how you perceive things, how you bring in issues that might go unseen or unrecognized,” Professor Dinzey-Flores said. Choosing someone from an Afro-Latino background so that constituency is represented in government, she added, should be about “authentically” capturing that experience and not “checking a box.”
Melissa Mark-Viverito, a former New York City Council speaker who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, concurred, saying that Mr. Delgado’s claim of Latino heritage “raises the question and the concern of people loosely taking on certain identities and not being completely honest.”
“That concerns me because as someone who fully embraces the importance of representation, we have two qualified Latinas running and a chance to make history,” Ms. Mark-Viverito said, referring to Ms. Reyna and Ms. Archila. “Yet it feels like we are being duped. It’s all very messy.”
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Days after Ms. Hochul named him as Mr. Benjamin’s successor, Mr. Delgado gave a 15-minute speech at the Harlem headquarters of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. Mr. Sharpton said he was surprised that Mr. Delgado did not address the confusion about his Afro-Latino identity.
“I think it’s something he can’t ignore,” Mr. Sharpton said in an interview after Mr. Delgado spoke that day.
Instead, Mr. Delgado reminisced about growing up in a Black Baptist church and drew hearty amens and nods of approval from the mostly Black crowd. He talked about why he pursued a career as a rapper after graduating from Harvard Law School, an issue opponents tried to use against him when he first ran for Congress.
“I know the power of the culture,” Mr. Delgado said. “I am the culture.”
Meanwhile, in New York:It's almost like using race as a qualification for office is a bad thing....Quote from: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/21/nyregion/antonio-delgado-afro-latino.htmlAsked about his Afro-Latino heritage at the news conference where he was introduced as Ms. Hochul’s choice for lieutenant governor, Mr. Delgado gave a winding answer. He said people had surmised that he was Afro-Latino because of his name, or perhaps because he briefly lived in Puerto Rico, where he played semipro basketball. He then seemed to suggest that his Latino heritage stemmed from his family’s ties to Cape Verde, a small island nation off the west coast of Africa that was once a Portuguese colony.
The answer mystified some of his supporters, and created an opening for his opponents to scrutinize his claims of being Latino.
Luis A. Miranda Jr., a founding partner of the MirRam Group, a political consulting firm, posted celebratory comments on Twitter about Mr. Delgado’s appointment when it was announced. But after hearing his remarks at the news conference, Mr. Miranda said he was “puzzled by his explanation on ethnicity.”
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Mr. Delgado, in an interview with The New York Times, described the complexity of how he views his ethnicity. He said his mother grew up at a time when she felt safe identifying only as Black or white, but eventually embraced the Mexican, Colombian and Venezuelan ancestry of her father, whom she did not know.
“She became someone who identifies as a proud Black woman with Latino roots,” Mr. Delgado said in the interview. “And as I’ve tried to orient myself and my sense of identity through her, that is the entry point.”
Asked how he identified himself, Mr. Delgado said: “I am a Black American man with Cape Verdean roots and Latino roots. When it pertains to my Latino roots, that comes from my mom’s side, whose own story around her identity is multifaceted and complex.”
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“Gov. Hochul is being extremely opportunistic and simplistic,” said Ms. Archila, who immigrated to the United States from Colombia and whose running mate is Jumaane Williams, New York City’s public advocate. “I think he should say more than, I have an ancestor who once was born in Colombia.”
Ms. Reyna, whose running mate is Representative Thomas R. Suozzi, said at a recent campaign event that a “last name does not make you Latino.” The first statewide Latino official should be “authentic,” have “lived experience” and a record of helping Latino communities, she told Encuentro New York, a Latino advocacy group.
“She tells us that her lieutenant governor is a member of the Latino community,” Ms. Reyna, who is Dominican, said of the governor. “This is not about identity politics. This is about being truthful.”
Ms. Hochul and her campaign have said little about the questions surrounding Mr. Delgado’s ethnicity. They referred to him as Afro-Latino in the third line of a news release announcing his appointment; an email sent out the next day about a fund-raiser did not mention his ethnicity.
“He identifies as Afro-Latino,” Jerrel Harvey, a spokesman for Ms. Hochul’s campaign, said.
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Camille Rivera, a Democratic political strategist who identifies as Afro-Latina, said Ms. Hochul had missed an opportunity to energize an important voting bloc that could help decide the general election. Among the issues Latino leaders say they want state government to address are affordable housing, child care and inequalities in health care.
“You have no statewide Latino representation, right?” Ms. Rivera said. “Here was an opportunity to actually lift up Latinos in a real way.”
There has been little scrutiny of Mr. Delgado’s Latino heritage. Several news articles over the years have identified him incorrectly as Puerto Rican. Some articles from 2018, when he defeated John J. Faso, the Republican incumbent, to claim the House seat representing the Hudson Valley and Catskills regions, referred to him as Black.
Asked whether he had ever corrected the record about being Puerto Rican before the news conference where he was introduced as lieutenant governor, Mr. Delgado said in a statement that he was “raised as a blend of heritages,” including “Latino roots.”
“That’s the background I grew up with and how I identify,” he said in the statement. “My mom’s maiden name is Gomez and she grew up identifying as having Latina roots.”
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“Experience informs what you see, how you perceive things, how you bring in issues that might go unseen or unrecognized,” Professor Dinzey-Flores said. Choosing someone from an Afro-Latino background so that constituency is represented in government, she added, should be about “authentically” capturing that experience and not “checking a box.”
Melissa Mark-Viverito, a former New York City Council speaker who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, concurred, saying that Mr. Delgado’s claim of Latino heritage “raises the question and the concern of people loosely taking on certain identities and not being completely honest.”
“That concerns me because as someone who fully embraces the importance of representation, we have two qualified Latinas running and a chance to make history,” Ms. Mark-Viverito said, referring to Ms. Reyna and Ms. Archila. “Yet it feels like we are being duped. It’s all very messy.”
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Days after Ms. Hochul named him as Mr. Benjamin’s successor, Mr. Delgado gave a 15-minute speech at the Harlem headquarters of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network. Mr. Sharpton said he was surprised that Mr. Delgado did not address the confusion about his Afro-Latino identity.
“I think it’s something he can’t ignore,” Mr. Sharpton said in an interview after Mr. Delgado spoke that day.
Instead, Mr. Delgado reminisced about growing up in a Black Baptist church and drew hearty amens and nods of approval from the mostly Black crowd. He talked about why he pursued a career as a rapper after graduating from Harvard Law School, an issue opponents tried to use against him when he first ran for Congress.
“I know the power of the culture,” Mr. Delgado said. “I am the culture.”
Someone I spoke to this week told me that since Elon now has American citizenship he's technically an African-American. :-\
Would you bang?
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Would you bang?
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Two of the Republican front-runners for Michigan governor could be disqualified because of fraud, but both plan to fight to be on the ballot.oops
James Craig and Perry Johnson are two of the five GOP governor candidates who don’t have enough valid signatures to get on the Aug. 2 primary ballot, according to a review from the Michigan Bureau of Elections.
But Johnson’s campaign believes he has enough valid signatures. Craig said he will keep fighting, too.
The Bureau of Elections does not have the final say on who makes the ballot. The Board of State Canvassers decides that on Thursday, May 26.
Here’s why the state says Craig and Johnson do not have enough signatures, and why Johnson’s team says the state process was faulty.
5 candidates short on valid signatures
Craig, Johnson, Michael Brown, Donna Brandenburg and Michael Markey Jr. are all short of the 15,000-signature requirement because they had too many signatures invalided due to fraud – as the state believes the names were forged by circulators.
In its review of the signatures, the bureau uncovered an “unprecedented amount” of fraudulent signatures. It names 36 petition circulators in particular who allegedly forged names.
These 36 people collected a combined 68,000 signatures across petitions for 10 candidates in varying races. There were a flurry of errors that tipped off investigators: similar handwriting for multiple signees, names from people who died years ago, incorrect addresses, etc.
There could be criminal consequences for the circulators. State officials plan to refer the apparent fraud to law enforcement.
There were a flurry of errors that tipped off investigators:John, Mike, Barron, Earl and myself sign it with the sharpie fellas :trumps
What's the contradiction supposed to be?
What's the contradiction supposed to be?
Benjamin, he is celebrating an 18 year old that murdered people with a rifle.
Life comes at you fast.The Rittenhouse situation has about as much in common as those tweets and common decency. What's fucking cunt.
https://twitter.com/theericklouis/status/1529400971377377281
https://twitter.com/theericklouis/status/1529442712981757952
Eh, no matter what a piece of shit guy he may be, his daughter didn't deserve to die because of it. Shit talking him when his kid just died seems bad taste.
Eh, no matter what a piece of shit guy he may be, his daughter didn't deserve to die because of it. Shit talking him when his kid just died seems bad taste.
The daughter is happily at home with Jesus, according to the right, so it's fair game to shit on her garbage dad and hope he lives the rest of his life in miseryYou kinda sound angrier at a dad who lost his daughter for earlier posting stuff on Facebook you dislike than the criminal who murdered her and multiple others. I'm starting to see a pattern in your cruelty.
The daughter is happily at home with Jesus, according to the right, so it's fair game to shit on her garbage dad and hope he lives the rest of his life in miseryYou kinda sound angrier at a dad who lost his daughter for earlier posting stuff on Facebook you dislike than the criminal who murdered her and multiple others. I'm starting to see a pattern in your cruelty.
The daughter is happily at home with Jesus, according to the right, so it's fair game to shit on her garbage dad and hope he lives the rest of his life in miseryYou kinda sound angrier at a dad who lost his daughter for earlier posting stuff on Facebook you dislike than the criminal who murdered her and multiple others. I'm starting to see a pattern in your cruelty.
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1529555040414867457 (https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1529555040414867457)
:wut
“massacre”He's waiting for the forensic audit.
Life comes at you fast.The Rittenhouse situation has about as much in common as those tweets and common decency. What's fucking cunt.
https://twitter.com/theericklouis/status/1529400971377377281
https://twitter.com/theericklouis/status/1529442712981757952
man I'm shocked at the replies, I thought there would be tons of people agreeing with him, there is no chillGetting roasted by some traitor scum:
The father advocated for Rittenhouse, a fearful and angry young man who crossed state borders to attend an event where he hoped things would escalate to the point where he'd be able to use his easily yet illegally attained weapon. He did. People died. The father was down with that. He thought that was a hoot, too.
The "crossing state lines" meme is also amusing because the city is right next to the border. It's not some epic trek that few dare to even survive but a common commute that tons of people including himself make every day.
The "crossing state lines" meme is also amusing because the city is right next to the border. It's not some epic trek that few dare to even survive but a common commute that tons of people including himself make every day.
As a libertarian, you should be well aware that "crossing state lines", even if the line is the subway between NJ and NY, or VA and MD, can get you locked up for many extra years when you diddle the children in the manner that libertarians do
A man who walked onto the campus of an Arlington elementary school Thursday morning was injured when a gun he was wearing was accidentally discharged, police say.
NBC 5 has learned a man was walking toward the front office at Duff Elementary when he went to adjust his pants and hit the trigger on a gun tucked into his waistband.
The father advocated for Rittenhouse, a fearful and angry young man who crossed state borders to attend an event where he hoped things would escalate to the point where he'd be able to use his easily yet illegally attained weapon. He did. People died. The father was down with that. He thought that was a hoot, too.
You obviously haven't watched any of that trial if you think this is how it went down. Next you're gonna talk about his three black victims even though the guys he defended himself from were white.
The gun wasn't illegally obtained. The gun never crossed borders.
The crossing borders thing you guys love to bring up doesn't make any sense either. His parents are divorced and his dad lives in that state. It's his childhood home.
Cleaning graffiti and putting out fires is looking for trouble?Arming yourself with a rifle and rushing to a violent riot where armed groups were already clashing is looking for trouble, yes.
Cleaning graffiti and putting out fires is looking for trouble?
Nothing happened up until the point they decided to jump him. He only shot the first guy when he was fleeing, tripped and was with his back on the ground and the guy tried to jump on top of him.
The second guy that got shot was trying to hit him in the back of the head with the axle of a skateboard as Kyle was fleeing.
The third guy that got shot and ended up losing his bicep was pointing a handgun at Kyle's head as he was on the ground.
Putting people on ignore cause you don't like hearing the truth, makes you the bitchmade runt.
I never really followed this case cause I dont care about white people. But do you have a link with events?https://www.nytimes.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-shooting-timeline.html
Arming himself turned out to be a good decision considering some peaceful protestors tried to kill him multiple times for doing good.Cleaning graffiti and putting out fires is looking for trouble?Arming yourself with a rifle and rushing to a violent riot where armed groups were already clashing is looking for trouble, yes.
No need for sarcasm. The people he ended up shooting were looking for trouble, too.Arming himself turned out to be a good decision considering some peaceful protestors tried to kill him multiple times for doing good.Cleaning graffiti and putting out fires is looking for trouble?Arming yourself with a rifle and rushing to a violent riot where armed groups were already clashing is looking for trouble, yes.
I never really followed this case cause I dont care about white people. But do you have a link with events?https://www.nytimes.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-shooting-timeline.html
In case of paywall: https://archive.ph/DrrCe
You mean that bitchmade runt who went looking for trouble, found it, and whether or not it was legal required a whole heap of legal proceedings to determine?The only thing that "required a whole heap of legal proceedings" was a prosecutor under political pressure to overcharge and pursue a losing case to the end. The only feasible alternative theory is that he was trying to clear Rittenhouse's name.
You mean that bitchmade runt who went looking for trouble, found it, and whether or not it was legal required a whole heap of legal proceedings to determine?The only thing that "required a whole heap of legal proceedings" was a prosecutor under political pressure to overcharge and pursue a losing case to the end. The only feasible alternative theory is that he was trying to clear Rittenhouse's name.
The Wikipedia page looks comprehensive:I never really followed this case cause I dont care about white people. But do you have a link with events?https://www.nytimes.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-shooting-timeline.html
In case of paywall: https://archive.ph/DrrCe
Thanks, although I meant after the trial and evidence and such.
When he was cleaning the school during the day he wasn't armed yet. Only when they asked them during the evening to help protect the car park did they arm up as it had turned violent again.Fair enough, but whether he (or anyone else) was asked to protect the place is unclear.
On August 24, Rittenhouse drove to Kenosha to stay with his friend Dominick Black.[52][41] The following day, August 25, Rittenhouse helped clean graffiti off a school.[53] Later, Rittenhouse and Black, both armed with rifles, arrived at Car Source.[54][55] Accounts differ as to whether Rittenhouse and Black's help was requested by Car Source. The dealership owner's sons denied that gunmen had been asked to defend the business,[56][57] but several witnesses testified that armed individuals had been directly sought out by the business to protect their property.[56]
After Black and Kyle Rittenhouse spent some time viewing damaged property and cleaning graffiti in downtown Kenosha, they headed back to Black’s house, where Kyle Rittenhouse took the gun and they eventually went back downtown, where the protests were held.
You've always been reliable, can I get a link from you about ritten house.
link :rage
Thanks, although I meant after the trial and evidence and such.I literally don't know what it is you're asking for. :lol
You've always been reliable, can I get a link from you about ritten house.
link :rageThanks, although I meant after the trial and evidence and such.I literally don't know what it is you're asking for. :lol
After the trial he went to Trump's Southern White House, went on Tucker and Newsmax, etc. No idea what he's doing now, I saw he got banned from Origin for trying to use his actual name as his display name or something. I only really paid second hand attention to the trial, mostly because of the fits progressives were throwing that he wasn't just being summarily executed. Don't really care about him as a person as he sounds pretty lame.
No sorry, I meant after trial looking back what actually happened. Don't care what that shitstain did after getting out of court. either way ignore my posts this morning.I replied with the wrong link above, but the page itself has some on the aftermatch as well, if that's what you're asking for...?
No sorry, I meant after trial looking back what actually happened. Don't care what that shitstain did after getting out of court. either way ignore my posts this morning.I replied with the wrong link above, but the page itself has some on the aftermatch as well, if that's what you're asking for...?
Fair enough, but whether he (or anyone else) was asked to protect the place is unclear.
Sam, who described himself as a property manager for Car Source, said under questioning from defense attorney Corey Chirafisi that he could not say how much property was lost in the arson and vandalism.
However, Chirafisi brought up a well-circulated news report that stated Sam had said the business had suffered $2.5 million in damages and the business’s insurer had rejected the claim.
“They don’t cover the riots. This is domestic terrorism, don’t cover it,” Sam was quoted as saying to WKOW last year. “I’m screwed. I’m bankrupt.”
On the stand, Sam said he could not confirm the report, that he did not know how much was lost and that the business was insured. Last year, Sam had also said he was a co-owner of Car Source, but on the stand said he was only an employee.
Chirafisi appeared increasingly frustrated as Sam failed to give direct answers to the defense after being more straightforward with the prosecution.
There's also a picture of his brother with the group of armed men at the Car Source smiling for the camera.What does that prove?
They testified they hadn't met the group.Where are you seeing that?
Anmol, who at the time was an inventory manager at the Car Source properties, recalled briefly chatting with Rittenhouse earlier in the day and giving the then-17-year-old his phone number.
Another photo depicting Sal posing with the armed group — including Rittenhouse and former Car Source employee Nicholas Smith — at one of the Car Source locations was shown in court. Sal said on the stand that he was intrigued by the men, had never seen anyone like them before except “on TV,” and asked for the picture. He said he didn’t know the group ostensibly planned to stay on Car Source property.
They testified they hadn't met the group.Where are you seeing that?Quote from: https://news.yahoo.com/family-behind-kenosha-car-dealership-225827924.htmlAnmol, who at the time was an inventory manager at the Car Source properties, recalled briefly chatting with Rittenhouse earlier in the day and giving the then-17-year-old his phone number.
Misread this maybe?Quote from: https://www.kenoshanews.com/did-car-source-ask-for-armed-help-during-kenosha-unrest-witness-testimony-differs/article_d0d31293-6736-53f4-9dcc-f448f37b2952.htmlAnother photo depicting Sal posing with the armed group — including Rittenhouse and former Car Source employee Nicholas Smith — at one of the Car Source locations was shown in court. Sal said on the stand that he was intrigued by the men, had never seen anyone like them before except “on TV,” and asked for the picture. He said he didn’t know the group ostensibly planned to stay on Car Source property.
You said they testified that they hadn't met the group.They testified they hadn't met the group.Where are you seeing that?Quote from: https://news.yahoo.com/family-behind-kenosha-car-dealership-225827924.htmlAnmol, who at the time was an inventory manager at the Car Source properties, recalled briefly chatting with Rittenhouse earlier in the day and giving the then-17-year-old his phone number.
Misread this maybe?Quote from: https://www.kenoshanews.com/did-car-source-ask-for-armed-help-during-kenosha-unrest-witness-testimony-differs/article_d0d31293-6736-53f4-9dcc-f448f37b2952.htmlAnother photo depicting Sal posing with the armed group — including Rittenhouse and former Car Source employee Nicholas Smith — at one of the Car Source locations was shown in court. Sal said on the stand that he was intrigued by the men, had never seen anyone like them before except “on TV,” and asked for the picture. He said he didn’t know the group ostensibly planned to stay on Car Source property.
https://news.sky.com/story/kenosha-residents-say-there-is-still-more-to-be-done-after-trump-and-biden-visit-12063160 (https://news.sky.com/story/kenosha-residents-say-there-is-still-more-to-be-done-after-trump-and-biden-visit-12063160)
Either Sal lied to Sky News back then about being the owner or he lied on the stand. Since according to the article he was the owner of it in 2020 and when he testified in 2021 he apparently wasn't the owner but worked in a store in Milwaukee.
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You said they testified that they hadn't met the group.
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TAOS, N.M., May 27 (Reuters) - Two blazes that grew into New Mexico's largest ever wildfire were both started by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the agency said on Friday, prompting the state's governor to demand the federal government take full responsibility for the disaster.
Forest Service investigators determined the Calf Canyon Fire was caused by a "burn pile" of branches that the agency thought was out but reignited on April 19, the Santa Fe National Forest said in a statement.
That blaze on April 22 merged with the Hermits Peak Fire, which the USFS started with a controlled burn that went out of control on April 6, the agency previously reported.
The combined blaze has so far torched over 312,320 acres(126,319 hectares) of mountain forests and valleys, an area approaching the size of greater London, and destroyed hundreds of homes.
"The pain and suffering of New Mexicans caused by the actions of the U.S. Forest Service – an agency that is intended to be a steward of our lands – is unfathomable," New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a statement.
The Fulton County District Attorney’s wide-ranging criminal investigation into efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election is heating up, weeks after the seating of a special purpose grand jury with subpoena power.
Jurors are slated to hear closed-door testimony from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Thursday, according to his subpoena, which was obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request.
They also filed separate subpoenas to interview five of Raffensperger’s current and former top aides, including Deputy Secretary of State Gabe Sterling, the week of June 6 and at least one state senator later in the month.
“You comply with subpoenas,” Sterling told Channel 2 Action News, which first reported news of his subpoena. “You go in there, you tell the truth, follow the law and that’s what this office always does and will continue to do.”
Raffensperger will be one of the first witnesses from which the 23-person special grand jury hears testimony since jurors were selected on May 2. Fulton DA Fani Willis has refrained from calling witnesses to testify during the month of May to avoid appearing politically motivated ahead of this week’s primaries.
But with those elections in the rearview mirror and key witnesses like Raffensperger, Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr now clear of their intraparty battles, the jury is expected to issue a flurry of additional subpoenas in the weeks ahead.
Hale-Cusanelli, who has been in jail since Feb. 2021, did not dispute that he entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, and his defense lawyer explicitly admitted that Hale-Cusanelli engaged in criminal activity that day. Video shows Hale-Cusanelli yelling at cops outside the Capitol, entering the Capitol moments after it was breached, waving other members of the mob into the building, and attempting to grab another rioter away from police.
But Hale-Cusanelli attempted to defend himself against charges by saying he didn't know that the Capitol was where the House and Senate sit — despite having described himself during the trial as a history buff who closely followed the electoral college certification process. He claimed in testimony on Thursday that he didn't realize that senators and House members were in the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
"I know this sounds idiotic, but I'm from New Jersey," Hale-Cusanelli told jurors on Thursday. "I feel like an idiot, it sounds idiotic, and it is."
The first count of Hale-Cusanelli's indictment charges that he "attempted to, and did, corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede an official proceeding, that is, a proceeding before Congress, specifically, Congress's certification of the Electoral College vote." Prosecutors had to convince a jury that Hale-Cusanelli acted "knowingly" and not "through ignorance, mistake, or accident."
Hale-Cusanelli leaned heavily on the "ignorance" component, telling jurors that — despite his knowledge of the 17th Amendment that provided for direct election of U.S. senators — he had no clue that members of Congress met at the Capitol.
"I didn't know the Capitol building was the same as the congressional building," Hale-Cusanelli told a federal prosecutor.
Meanwhile, in DC:Quote from: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-defendant-posed-hitler-tells-jurors-idiot-didnt-know-congress-me-rcna30743Hale-Cusanelli, who has been in jail since Feb. 2021, did not dispute that he entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, and his defense lawyer explicitly admitted that Hale-Cusanelli engaged in criminal activity that day. Video shows Hale-Cusanelli yelling at cops outside the Capitol, entering the Capitol moments after it was breached, waving other members of the mob into the building, and attempting to grab another rioter away from police.
But Hale-Cusanelli attempted to defend himself against charges by saying he didn't know that the Capitol was where the House and Senate sit — despite having described himself during the trial as a history buff who closely followed the electoral college certification process. He claimed in testimony on Thursday that he didn't realize that senators and House members were in the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
"I know this sounds idiotic, but I'm from New Jersey," Hale-Cusanelli told jurors on Thursday. "I feel like an idiot, it sounds idiotic, and it is."
The first count of Hale-Cusanelli's indictment charges that he "attempted to, and did, corruptly obstruct, influence, and impede an official proceeding, that is, a proceeding before Congress, specifically, Congress's certification of the Electoral College vote." Prosecutors had to convince a jury that Hale-Cusanelli acted "knowingly" and not "through ignorance, mistake, or accident."
Hale-Cusanelli leaned heavily on the "ignorance" component, telling jurors that — despite his knowledge of the 17th Amendment that provided for direct election of U.S. senators — he had no clue that members of Congress met at the Capitol.
"I didn't know the Capitol building was the same as the congressional building," Hale-Cusanelli told a federal prosecutor.
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A White House press briefing on Tuesday saw a massive spike in viewers when K-pop megastars BTS stopped by to deliver remarks ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden.
The seven-member sensation, which has shattered records with its popular songs and music videos, drove more than 310,000 simultaneous viewers to tune into a livestream of the press briefing on the White House’s YouTube channel. The regularly occurring briefings, which as of late have centered on topics such as inflation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, rarely generate anywhere near the audience size seen Tuesday.
The White House’s official video of a BTS-less briefing last Thursday, for instance, had garnered fewer than 16,000 total YouTube views as of Tuesday afternoon.
BTS came to the White House to talk to Biden about Asian inclusion and representation, and to discuss a sharp rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in recent years. Biden last year signed the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act in an effort to address that trend.
“Hi, we’re BTS, and it is a great honor to be invited to the White House today to be able to discuss the important issues of anti-Asian hate crimes, Asian inclusion and diversity,” the group’s leader RM told the crowd of reporters in English.:american
He also thanked Biden for the “important opportunity to speak about the important causes [and] remind ourselves of what we can do as artists.”
The other six members each spoke in Korean. The band took no questions and left the room.
Much of the audience checked out just as quickly. Within a few minutes of the group’s departure, more than 200,000 viewers had left the livestream.
Another day in "when you should just stop at the critique":
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1531424178301173760
Guess they've completely given up at this point.But he's right, what could they do? Time travel isn't an enumerated power in the Constitution, especially for the executive branch.
New York (CNN)Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing nearly $300,000 from his former client, adult film actress Stormy Daniels.:american
District Judge Jesse Furman said Avenatti's conduct was "so brazen and egregious" adding, he "took advantage of a vulnerable victim given her unorthodox career and somewhat unorthodox beliefs."
Avenatti was convicted in February of one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. He faced as much as 20 years on the wire fraud charge and a mandatory two-year sentence for aggravated identity theft.
Avenatti is currently serving a 30-month prison sentence for attempting to extort over $20 million from Nike by threatening to go public with damaging information unless they paid him. He goes on trial next month in California on charges alleging that he embezzled $10 million in settlement funds from at least five clients. He has also been charged with tax fraud and bankruptcy fraud and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Part of Thursday's sentence will be served alongside the Nike sentence, but Furman said Avenatti will have to serve an additional two and a half years after he completes the Nike sentence.
Avenatti was also ordered to pay $148,750 to Daniels and $297,900 to the US.
Avenatti 2024 kicks off:Quote from: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/politics/michael-avenatti-stormy-daniels-sentencing/New York (CNN)Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing nearly $300,000 from his former client, adult film actress Stormy Daniels.:american
District Judge Jesse Furman said Avenatti's conduct was "so brazen and egregious" adding, he "took advantage of a vulnerable victim given her unorthodox career and somewhat unorthodox beliefs."
Avenatti was convicted in February of one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. He faced as much as 20 years on the wire fraud charge and a mandatory two-year sentence for aggravated identity theft.
Avenatti is currently serving a 30-month prison sentence for attempting to extort over $20 million from Nike by threatening to go public with damaging information unless they paid him. He goes on trial next month in California on charges alleging that he embezzled $10 million in settlement funds from at least five clients. He has also been charged with tax fraud and bankruptcy fraud and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Part of Thursday's sentence will be served alongside the Nike sentence, but Furman said Avenatti will have to serve an additional two and a half years after he completes the Nike sentence.
Avenatti was also ordered to pay $148,750 to Daniels and $297,900 to the US.
Are gas prices too high?For fucks sake Joe, just print a couple trilly and cut taxes on people earning >$400k/yr
Yes
Is it Joe Bidens fault?
Yes
Because he controls the prices?
Yes
And high prices are bad for Joe?
Yes
So if Joe controls the prices, and the high prices are bad for Joe, why doesnt he just make them lower to get more votes?
:pika
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and at least 14 others have tested positive for COVID-19 after covering or attending the Mackinac Policy Conference last week.https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2022/06/06/buttigieg-positive-covid-19-mackinac-policy-conference/7532212001/
In a statement issued Monday afternoon, conference organizer Detroit Regional Chamber indicated it is aware of at least 15 people who tested positive after attending the conference.
Buttigieg joined hundreds of politicians, business leaders, reporters and others at the conference Wednesday on Mackinac Island. He participated in multiple events unmasked, including news conferences and interviews, at times with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Pretty sure democracy would be better served if you needed to pass a basic economic/system of government literacy test before being given the right to vote.We, uh, sorta have a problematic history of this.
I don't see it as problematic, just the wrong implementation.Pretty sure democracy would be better served if you needed to pass a basic economic/system of government literacy test before being given the right to vote.We, uh, sorta have a problematic history of this.
https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1533795682666127361
Are gas prices too high?
Yes
Is it Joe Bidens fault?
Yes
Because he controls the prices?
Yes
And high prices are bad for Joe?
Yes
So if Joe controls the prices, and the high prices are bad for Joe, why doesnt he just make them lower to get more votes?
:pika
The funniest way to do it would be by referendum, so all the people who vote for it would show up next time and not be able to vote because they don't know the Constitution or whatever.I don't see it as problematic, just the wrong implementation.Pretty sure democracy would be better served if you needed to pass a basic economic/system of government literacy test before being given the right to vote.We, uh, sorta have a problematic history of this.
“Given the exacting standards that the state’s attorney has for charging a case — which is proof beyond a reasonable doubt — when those charges are brought, these people are guilty,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. “Of course they’re entitled to a presumption of innocence. Of course they’re entitled to their day in court. But, residents in our community are also entitled to safety from dangerous people.”https://twitter.com/CookCoDefender/status/1533962896895447040
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To provide public safety, Lightfoot said the powers that be need to keep pressuring criminal court judges to “lock up dangerous, violent people and not put them out on bail or electronic monitoring back into the very same communities where brave souls are mustering the courage to come forward and say, ‘This is the person who is responsible.’ ”
“That undermines safety. It tells the victims that there’s no justice for them. And it undermines the legitimacy of the criminal courts,” she said.
Of course they’re entitled to their day in court. But,:dead
JOE BIDEN doesn’t do many off-the-record chats with reporters. So the traveling White House press corps was surprised and intrigued when the president dropped by Air Force One’s press section for one such session with them during a recent trip to the West Coast.This doesn't sound like a very "off-the-record" chat and "multiple people" seem to have agreed.
But Biden wasn’t just there to field questions. He had his own message to deliver. According to multiple people familiar with the off-the-record session, he used much of his time with reporters to criticize the quality and tenor of press coverage of his administration.
There is growing frustration by the president and his family that he is not receiving the kind of generally more positive coverage they believe he deserves — that too often attention is focused on staff turnover and poor poll numbers and not a robust jobs market and America’s relatively strong economic recovery.
In addition to privately pushing reporters, the president and his team are also trying new tactics to change the prevailing storylines. Among them is an attempt to reframe the narrative around issues like inflation. His team published opinion pieces in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal in recent days under the president’s byline, attempting to share his foreign policy vision and path to lowering costs for consumers.
The White House has also recently leaned into the use of celebrities to help carry its message. Visits from Korean pop group BTS and Oscar-winning actor MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY have resulted in major boosts in earned media. Within minutes, a late-night video of the president and BTS discussing recent violence against Asians was one of the president’s top performing posts, and McConaughey’s emotional plea in the White House briefing room for measures to reduce gun violence similarly received millions of views on YouTube. On Wednesday, the president will stop by “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for his second appearance on a late-night show since taking office and his first one in-person.
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1534643822814277633 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1534643822814277633)
Welp
Liz Cheney or Donald Trump
Well, duh. But it's going to stay that way, because that's how the Republicans want it.That's how Congress wants it so they can say "unelected judges" took it out of their hands. It's not like the Court suddenly started striking down statutes in 2021.
Decisions such as Citizens United and Shelby County are typical examples of how the Court has overruled Congress to make it harder for ordinary people to participate in American democracy on equal terms.As if the government banning the publication of books or criticism of politicians would make it easier for "ordinary people to participate in American democracy" on any terms, let alone equal ones.
https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1534947445456703488Tweet is a little misleading, right in the story it says they're only really targeting Fox News' YouTube channel. There's no "ad network" to target on Fox News itself.
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DAMN YOU JOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEFACT CHECK:
Putin’s Price Hike hit hard in May here and around the world: high gas prices at the pump, energy, and food prices accounted for around half of the monthly price increases, and gas pump prices are up by $2 a gallon in many places since Russian troops began to threaten Ukraine.:putin
https://twitter.com/KateHydeNY/status/1535335661120651266 (https://twitter.com/KateHydeNY/status/1535335661120651266)
I’ve been thinking about dating apps recently because, like millions of Americans, I’m on them. I know a lot of people hate “the apps.” To be honest, I don’t mind them. They take a lot of the stress and ambiguity out of meeting people or asking someone out. But the longer I use these dating apps, the stranger the whole experience feels.:bernie
For one thing, quite a few of the suggested matches I’m seeing don’t make a ton of sense. I figure the algorithm has reached the point where the apps could predict my preferences pretty well. So even though I’m a pretty open-minded guy, I do have to wonder why I, as a democratic socialist of modest means and faith that the international working class shall free the human race, am regularly shown profiles of venture capitalists and Wall Street types.
I’ve also noticed that my use of the apps sometimes feels weirdly detached from the aim of actually trying to meet people. I open them just because a push notification has informed me that I have new recommended matches, or because “swipe surge is now in session”; soon the smooth-flowing interface is inviting me to peruse and “like” profiles. Not long after, colorful, eye-catching icons are gently persuading me to spend a few extra dollars for more matches or getting my profile seen by more people.
Before I know it, I find myself surrendering to the dull compulsion of algorithmic relations — even if I’m not actually interested in messaging anyone or going on a date anytime soon.
All of which got me thinking: What are these apps really for? I know what they are supposedly for for users like me, but what matters to the app owners is not getting their users good dates. What matters is that they can make money off of us.
With roughly one in five American adults estimated to have used online dating services in 2021, and at least one study showing that it’s now the most popular way for straight couples to meet, there has been no shortage of attention paid to the social and moral questions raised by online dating. But little has been said about one particular implication of the rise of dating apps and websites: the vast power it has given unaccountable, for-profit companies to manage how we meet potential romantic or sexual partners.
We could consciously uncouple our dating lives from the tyranny of the profit motive, though — with publicly owned apps that will democratize how we meet people online.
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Here’s where the state would have an important role to play: in providing public funding for the development of cooperatively owned dating apps.
This idea isn’t as outlandish as it might seem: after all, even in the United States, governments already fund many cultural institutions for the benefit of their citizens’ quality of life: museums, the arts, research in the humanities, public parks, even nightlife. Dating apps are an increasingly important avenue for a central experience of being human. It makes sense for the government to devote public resources to them.
In fact, some countries are already paying to set up their own dating services. The Singaporean government’s Ministry of Social and Family Development has a webpage devoted to helping the uncoupled find partners; it advertises a government-run online dating portal, officially accredited dating agencies, and a “Partnership Fund” which “supports ideas and initiatives that you are passionate about to create opportunities to bring singles together.”
These government initiatives admittedly do have an ulterior motive — they’re trying to reverse sharply declining birth rates. Still, these programs show that there is nothing particularly strange or novel about publicly funded dating.
Corey Robin once wrote that “the point of socialism is to convert hysterical misery into ordinary unhappiness.” That goes for socializing online dating, too. It wouldn’t do away with the frustration or disappointment that many people experience on the apps or in dating more generally. But it could be an important step toward making a dating experience that’s about people instead of profit. Then we could swipe, not to create wealth for the capitalist class, but for the simple and essential purpose of finding a date.
https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1535369747491356672Ignorance and stupidity really are virtues in Republican America...
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.
Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.
Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.Oh, so nothing to do with the massive levels of government stimulus spent around the world and the huge disruptions to the supply chain then? Just blame Trump? Cool, let's see how that works out for the Democrats.
Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.Oh, so nothing to do with the massive levels of government stimulus spent around the world and the huge disruptions to the supply chain then? Just blame Trump? Cool, let's see how that works out for the Democrats.
Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.You think the Democrats should run on confusing deficit and debt when they wanted to spend trillions more this last year than they were able to except Manchin and Sinema stopped it? All while promoting MMT as Scientific Proof™ that deficits AND debt don't matter?
Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
Trump caused the current inflation by increasing the deficit by $7.8 trillion (7,800,000,000,000 USD), an increase of 40% compared to the level of debt when Obama left office. And he gave a permanent tax cut to billionaires.You think the Democrats should run on confusing deficit and debt when they wanted to spend trillions more this last year than they were able to except Manchin and Sinema stopped it?
Dems should start repeating this simple statement all day, every day.
All while promoting MMT as Scientific Proof™ that deficits AND debt don't matter?Didn't Republicans come up with that?
Of course the Democrats didn't oppose this either so they don't have an argument lol.I suppose so.
But two actions on March 23 would swing investors from despair to relief, and reveal who really matters in America.
That morning, the Federal Reserve announced the deployment of additional “tools to support households, businesses, and the U.S. economy overall in this challenging time.” The measures included many actions taken during the 2008 financial crisis, with one new wrinkle: Direct purchases of corporate debt — the first nongovernment bond-buying in the Fed’s history — would now be allowed. Companies have swelled their borrowing in recent years, and experts have identified this as a source of serious economic risk. A sudden shock like the pandemic that wiped out revenues would not only cause bankruptcies, but also accelerate bond defaults, broadening stress throughout the financial system.
Backstopping corporate bond markets would support investors and capital owners. By the evening of March 23, investor confidence was lifted even further; reports announced progress on a record $2.2 trillion congressional rescue package, a large chunk of which would go to support the Fed’s interventions in corporate bond and other markets.
The mere announcement of future spending heartened investors, who have relied on Fed support since the last financial crisis. This explains the shocking dissonance between collapsing economic conditions and the relative comfort on Wall Street. Between March 23 and April 30, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rocketed nearly 6,000 points, a jump of nearly 31 percent, creating over $7 trillion in capital wealth. The April gains were the biggest in one month since 1987.
The same month, 20.5 million Americans lost their jobs.
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Dozens of companies, from troubled aircraft maker Boeing to airline Delta, from Exxon Mobil to T-Mobile, have been tapping credit markets they might never have been able to access, at lower rates than previously offered. The American Prospect and The Intercept have identified at least 49 large companies that have issued corporate bonds since the Federal Reserve announced that it would purchase them. For some, the benefit of cheaper borrowing was worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
“It is meaningfully changing the way investors are evaluating the risks for a swath of companies,” said Kathryn Judge, a law professor at Columbia University and expert in financial markets and regulations. The Fed’s support disproportionately flows to large corporations with access to credit markets, Joyce pointed out. “Small and midsized businesses with much more need are more likely to struggle.”
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In short, while activists nitpicked about which companies got small business grants worth $10 million, the real bailout, with trillions on the line rather than millions, was happening, quietly, at the Fed.
The left’s response to Boudin’s recall is instructive. The voters who decided to recall their left-wing prosecutor were simply confused. “Why is recalling a prosecutor supposed to be an answer to homelessness? How is the mythic fusion of CRIMEANDHOMELESSNESS supposed to translate into any sort of ‘stark warning’ on these two separate policy questions?” demanded Tom Scocca. “Perhaps more than anything, Boudin’s recall shows how inchoate anger over the visible symptoms of inequality — homelessness, public drug use, property crime — can crystallize into a renunciation of an individual politician, even as voters broadly desire the policies that politician champions,” concludes Piper French.Good discourse in the replies to this tweet:
The biggest takeaway from Boudin’s decisive defeat, according to the left, is that voters really like Boudin’s policies.
A different explanation is that Boudin made himself the focal point of frustration with lawlessness because he loudly communicated the idea that enforcing the law was not his priority. He vowed “the tough-on-crime policies and rhetoric of the 1990s and early 2000s are on their way out,” criticized Mayor London Breed for cracking down on drug dealers, and promised not to charge quality-of-life offenses like “public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk.”
It may be true that the underlying cause of homelessness lies outside of Boudin’s control. But given that he publicly articulated a change in policy in handling the symptoms of that crisis, it’s hardly a surprise that voters would fault him when the symptoms worsen.
Boudin represents the long tail of a disastrously misconceived response by progressives to the problem of abusive and racist policing. The best available model for effective reform of urban policing could be found in Camden, New Jersey, which dissolved its corrupt and racist police force and reconstituted the department. The Camden model required spending more money for better and more accountable public safety.
This model, however, did not have intrinsic appeal to progressive activists. Instead, activist groups settled on a slogan of defunding the police. The advantage of this approach is that, first, it neatly fudged the difference between activists who favored reducing spending on the police and more radical activists who favored outright police abolition. (Defund can mean either decreasing funds or zeroing them out.) And second, by framing the police problem as one of resources, it avoided the need to discomfit labor by confronting the power of police unions (which make it difficult to fire even the most violent and bigoted cops). Instead, it held out the possibility of redistributing resources from policing to other government agencies, an additional carrot for government employees.
One norm that has taken hold within the progressive movement is a taboo against expressing frontal disagreement with progressive activists, which is disdained as “scolding.” (The activists themselves, of course, are free to castigate liberals and moderates as openly as they wish.) Since every issue on the left has affiliated activists, the practical effect of the anti-scolding norm is to make it difficult to identify and correct misguided ideas on the left, at least openly. Many progressives have quietly backed away from defunding without repudiating its underlying premises.
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The left’s response to these reversals has been to portray voters as the victims of brainwashing by conservative media.
“Congratulations to San Francisco’s hysterically reactionary media for carrying this Koch-funded recall over the finish line, ensuring that reforming America’s brutal criminal justice system drifts ever-further out of reach,” wrote Dave Roberts. “The media, and particularly local television news, tends to cover crime a lot, in part because of the perception that this draws viewers,” wrote Perry Bacon, making a more considered version of the same argument. “And both national and local newspapers tend to be owned and run by more moderate figures, be wary of left-wing causes and find the left to be a useful foil to demonstrate to conservatives that they aren’t too liberal. As a result, news coverage in these races becomes very favorable to politicians like Adams and unfavorable to ones like Boudin.”
Why Black, Latino and Asian American Democrats would be more susceptible to reactionary media propaganda than white Democrats, they have not explained.
The obsession with the media does at least point toward a strategic answer to the problem. If the left could gain the same level of control over mainstream media that conservatives hold over right-wing media, you could at least imagine a world in which voters in blue America could be coaxed away from worrying about crime and instead worry about the things progressives want them to worry about.
My 4 point plan to clean up San Francisco:
Infiltrate the drug rings
Sell the drugs very cheap
Add cyanide to the drugs
Arrest the drug people for the thousands of cyanide deaths
No more druggies, no more drug dealers. Clean streets. Win win!
My 4 point plan to clean up San Francisco:
Infiltrate the drug rings
Sell the drugs very cheap
Add cyanide to the drugs
Arrest the drug people for the thousands of cyanide deaths
No more druggies, no more drug dealers. Clean streets. Win win!
Use the drug money to buy weapons for South American dictatorships
You see the actual takeway like any election result is that you shou-SHUT THE FUCK UP THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED UNTIL YOU END CAPITALISM (Also, Chait said something stupid at least once so anything he says is a right-wing fascist lie intended to give false consciousness to the proletariat.)
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:pikaNot every President can be as good as Jimmy Carter though, it's not wise to hold everyone to apparently near impossible standards.
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/LeuchterNEJM2022The fact that this is not "off topic" for the US politics thread is alarming.
Among all Americans, Trump (43%) now has a higher personal favorability rating than Biden (40%) as well.You think it's just another poll, than you notice the D+7 sample. :pika
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FVdm6-lUEAEK62b?format=jpg&name=small)dude looks like he's having a nervous breakdown in his profile image lmao
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:delicious
[...] Over the weekend, while many Americans were celebrating the 167th anniversary of Juneteenth (when Union Gen. Gordon Granger, in Galveston, Tex., delivered the order abolishing slavery) the Texas Republican Party voted on a platform declaring that federal laws it dislikes “should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.”
The proposed platform (it’s expected to be approved when votes are tallied) adds: “Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto.” It wants the secession referendum “in the 2023 general election for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.
[...]
”In democracy’s place, the Republican Party, which enjoys one-party rule in Texas, is effectively proposing a church state. If you liked Crusader states and Muslim caliphates, you’ll love the Confederate Theocracy of Texas.
The Texas GOP platform gives us a good idea what such a paradise for Christian nationalists would look like. Texas would officially declare that “homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice.” It would redefine marriage as a “covenant only between one biological man and one biological woman,” and it would “nullify” any court rulings to the contrary. (The gay Log Cabin Republicans were banned from setting up a booth at the convention.) It would fill schools with “prayer, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments” but ban “the teaching of sex education.” It would abolish all abortions and require students to “learn about the Humanity of the Preborn Child.”
The Texas Theocracy, which maintains that President Biden “was not legitimately elected,” would keep only traces of democracy. It wants the Voting Rights Act of 1965 “repealed,” and it would rewrite the state constitution to empower minority rule by small, rural (and White) counties. It would rescind voters’ right to elect senators and the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.
The Texas Theocracy would probably be broke; it wants to abolish the federal income tax, “Axe the Property Tax” and do away with the estate tax and various business taxes. Yet it is planning a hawkish foreign policy! The platform argues that Texas is currently “under an active invasion” and should take “any and all appropriate measures the sovereign state defines as necessary to defend” itself. It imagines attacks by a “One World Government, or The Great Reset” — an internet-born conspiracy belief — and proposes “withdrawal from the current United Nations.” The Theocracy would put the “wild” back in the West, abolishing the minimum wage, environmental and banking regulations, and “red-flag” laws or waiting periods to prevent dangerous people from buying guns.
Above all, the Confederate Theocracy of Texas would be defined by thought police. It would penalize “woke corporations” and businesses that disagree with the theocracy over abortion, race, trans rights and the “inalienable right to refuse vaccination.”
Government programs would be stripped of “education involving race.” Evolution and climate change “shall be taught as challengeable scientific theories subject to change.” There would be a “complete repeal of the hate crime laws.” The Texas Revolution “shall not be ‘reimagined’” in a way the theocracy finds “disrespectful.” Confederate monuments “shall be protected,” “plaques honoring the Confederate widows” restored, and lessons on “the tyrannical history of socialism” required.
In their platform, the Texas Republicans invoked “God” or the “Creator” 18 times and “sovereignty” or sovereign power 24 times. And the word “democracy”? Only once — in reference to China.
149. Pornography Crisis: The State of Texas shall recognize that pornography is a public health hazard.
150. Ban on Exposing Minors to Pornography Online: We call upon our elected leaders to compel any websites displaying pornographic content in Texas to implement age verification for preventing minors from accessing the content, and to block or punish any such websites that continue to make such material available to minors.
151. Pornography Crisis: The State of Texas shall recognize that pornography and pedophilia are public health hazards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZZ2Y6fAq8o
Jesus, what a dickbag.
Holder had access to Trump, as well as his family members and associates, while directing a documentary series surrounding the final six weeks of the former president's reelection campaign in 2020. He said the footage he turned over includes interviews with Trump and his family leading up to the election, as well as never-before-seen footage of the Capitol riot.
The magazine reported that several former officials on Trump's reelection campaign have claimed they did not know that the documentary about his reelection campaign was being filmed in the first place, and heard about it for the first time after seeing the Politico report about the subpoena.
"What the f*** is this?" a former top Trump 2020 official messaged the publication after seeing the news.
"What the f*** is this?"
If I was in the tobacco business, I'd start getting tik tok influencers to push smoking on kids. Its like the perfect fucking audience, they will do anything the influencers say. And you can funnel all the money through china, so the media will just blame winnie the pooh whilst your stocks go up. Make smoking great again.Lung Capacity Challenge
So the committee just gets the edited documentary? I'd have figured they could get some raw footage.
Documentary looks good though
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1540086506030768128 (https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1540086506030768128)As someone who writes and prepares public figures and politicians for speeches and events, this type of thing is not uncommon.
It's sort of a question of what will implode first, the Biden or the Trump circus :doge
"YOU take YOUR seat."
He should take somebody else's seat. Deal with it, Jack. :biden
should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell
This is kinda wild (though not sure if this is really perjury, it's more like an opinion after all)
https://twitter.com/SpeakFreely55/status/1540394913421852672
What was actually the official reason for why made a new decision on Roe v. Wade? I'd imagined there'd need to be a pressing concern for a court to just overturn their old ruling.
If only there had been more freedom of speech in America, surely this could have been prevented.You're not doing well to dispel notions that you aren't just an authoritarian.
https://twitter.com/FarnoushAmiri/status/1540370901803433984 (https://twitter.com/FarnoushAmiri/status/1540370901803433984)
what are they doing
It's sort of a self-own for the Florida Swingers Club too :dogeMeanwhile, publicly:
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Donald Trump praised the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade Friday, telling Fox News that the ruling "will work out for everybody."
"This is following the Constitution, and giving rights back when they should have been given long ago," Trump told Fox News.
When asked if he had a message for any of his supporters who may be pro-choice, Trump told Fox News: "I think, in the end, this is something that will work out for everybody."
"This brings everything back to the states where it has always belonged," Trump said.
When asked whether he feels he played a role in the reversal of Roe v. Wade, after having appointed three conservative justices to the high court, the former president told Fox News: "God made the decision."
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If only there had been more freedom of speech in America, surely this could have been prevented.You're not doing well to dispel notions that you aren't just an authoritarian.
You keep claiming with a straight face that hate speech cannot lead to physical harm.You're going to have to explain who should have been imprisoned for what, when, and for how long to stop the tens of millions strong anti-abortion movement that nearly got Roe overturned thirty years ago, after Republicans had appointed eight of the nine Justices, except that David Souter had fooled H.W. Bush and John Sununu. You'll also have to be pretty specific to avoid it looking like a vague suggestion that Richard Nixon should have simply outlawed democracy by decree.
That disinformation has no adverse effects.
That allowing a vast propaganda network to create an alternate reality where up is down and left is right is not detrimental to democracy AND FREEDOM.
Well, here we go.
This is kinda wild (thouuugh not sure if this is really perjury, it's more like an opinion after all)
https://twitter.com/SpeakFreely55/status/1540394913421852672
What was actually the official reason for why made a new decision on Roe v. Wade? I'd imagined there'd need to be a pressing concern for a court to just overturn their old ruling.
What was actually the official reason for why made a new decision on Roe v. Wade? I'd imagined there'd need to be a pressing concern for a court to just overturn their old ruling.Mississippi attempted to move up the date when abortion bans begin, this was contested to the Supreme Court. When evaluating cases the Supreme Court is essentially empowered to make any ruling it wishes on the subject, being bound by precedent is custom but not required. There was fairly decent grounds to write Mississippi's law into the precedent (and it's what I assumed Roberts would attempt to gain a majority for so I was skeptical of the Alito draft) but they decided six seats is too good of opportunity to pass up. While traditionally the Court will try to write rulings narrowly to mildly change precedent slowly, especially under Roberts, it's not uncommon at all for the Court to simply overturn a previous ruling. Many of the most famous cases are doing exactly that, probably the biggest one being Brown v. Board overturning Plessy v. Ferguson, which first held then reversed that racial segregation was lawful.
Benji, I am still waiting for your suggestions what should be done to fix America's problems. Unless you think there is nothing wrong.
By the way, you keep bringing up the slippery slope you dread, yet none of the laws designed to protect groups of people from hatred in many western nations have resulted in any slipping. For instance, there is no mass incarnation in Europe (unlike in the US of A).
Mark Meechan, 29, taught the pug, named Buddha, to respond with the Nazi salute when prompted by statements such as “Heil Hitler” and “gas the Jews.”So it wasn't just the nazi salute, he also thought gassing Jews was a funny joke. What a dolt.
Benji, I am still waiting for your suggestions what should be done to fix America's problems. Unless you think there is nothing wrong.When somebody advocates where I can respond for my fellow citizens (but not themselves) to face the prospect of jail time or worse for the use of an essential human right on the basis of "it'll work this time, trust me bro" I do feel a little entitled to ask questions and possibly even object on their behalf without having to propose a counter "solution" such a person would find acceptable since I think that further maintaining rights and liberal democracy is the solution, not continuing to eliminate them and pursuing despotism.
What just happened was pretty much a foregone conclusion after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. I don't know if he actually had the power to do this, but if so, Biden should have stacked the Supreme Court.
White House: Biden doesn’t support expanding Supreme Court, despite disagreementsOf course, Biden cannot do this, he is not a dictator as you wish, he doesn't have support for it in the legislature even if he himself did not oppose it as he has forever.
Bid farewell to these United States of America.
I think that further maintaining rights and liberal democracy is the solution
I am advocating for America to become a liberal democracy.Not if you want it to have exponentially less freedom of thought than it currently does. :patel
I reject your premise that deliberately ending liberal democracy and the democratic process for mass totalitarian violence is a necessity either immediately or ever.Alternative proposal:
in the US, can't supreme court justices step down when they're old as fuck and blatently going to die soon and there's a favourable president?Yes, that's what Breyer just did this year. And Kennedy, Stevens, Souter, and O'Connor before him.
seems like such a crazy russian roulette to play otherwise.
https://twitter.com/BNNBreaking/status/1540840545039564800 (https://twitter.com/BNNBreaking/status/1540840545039564800)
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Benji, can you give us a short summary on how the US allowed it's Supreme Court to become so politicised? Like, is there no actual oversight on these appointments to ensure these people do not politicise what should be the most politically neutral office in the country?Allowed? It's always been this way.
I find it curious people in Canada and Europe are protesting the over turning of Roe v Wade when a state like Mississippi has more liberal abortion laws than Germany as expressed last page.
Benji, can you give us a short summary on how the US allowed it's Supreme Court to become so politicised? Like, is there no actual oversight on these appointments to ensure these people do not politicise what should be the most politically neutral office in the country?
Under the law, abortion is banned, unless a pregnant person’s life is in danger or the pregnant person is a victim of rape and has reported the incident to law enforcement. Anyone who performs or attempts to perform an abortion will be charged with a felony punishable by a fine of up to $100,000, up to 10 years in prison, or both
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1540422500760178688
:steel
I find it curious people in Canada and Europe are protesting the over turning of Roe v Wade when a state like Mississippi has more liberal abortion laws than Germany as expressed last page.
Mississippi is about to completely ban all abortions. (QED)
Its last abortion clinic has been closed. Like several other red states, it had trigger laws in place.
It must be nice to live in the magical land of make-believe.
Mississippi also has a trigger law in place, but unlike Louisiana, it will require certification from state Attorney General Lynn Fitch before going into effect — one of seven states in this situation.
Under the law, abortion is banned, unless a pregnant person’s life is in danger or the pregnant person is a victim of rape and has reported the incident to law enforcement.
I find it curious people in Canada and Europe are protesting the over turning of Roe v Wade when a state like Mississippi has more liberal abortion laws than Germany as expressed last page.
Mississippi also has a trigger law in place, but unlike Louisiana, it will require certification from state Attorney General Lynn Fitch before going into effect — one of seven states in this situation.
Under the law, abortion is banned, unless a pregnant person’s life is in danger or the pregnant person is a victim of rape and has reported the incident to law enforcement. Anyone who performs or attempts to perform an abortion will be charged with a felony punishable by a fine of up to $100,000, up to 10 years in prison, or both,
Seems fine to me.
Thomas wrote, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.”https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3535841-thomas-calls-for-overturning-precedents-on-contraceptives-lgbtq-rights/
The three cases Thomas mentioned are all landmark decisions establishing certain constitutional rights.
In Griswold v. Connecticut, the court ruled in 1965 that married couples have a right to access contraceptive. In 2003, the court said in Lawrence v. Texas that states could not outlaw consensual gay sex. And the court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges established a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Seems fine to me.
I find it curious people in Canada and Europe are protesting the over turning of Roe v Wade when a state like Mississippi has more liberal abortion laws than Germany as expressed last page.QuoteMississippi also has a trigger law in place, but unlike Louisiana, it will require certification from state Attorney General Lynn Fitch before going into effect — one of seven states in this situation.
Under the law, abortion is banned, unless a pregnant person’s life is in danger or the pregnant person is a victim of rape and has reported the incident to law enforcement. Anyone who performs or attempts to perform an abortion will be charged with a felony punishable by a fine of up to $100,000, up to 10 years in prison, or both,Seems fine to me.
Strongest support for abortion—within limits: An Associated Press/NORC poll in June found 87% support abortion when the woman’s life is in danger, 84% support exceptions in the case of rape or incest, and 74% support abortion if the child would be born with a life-threatening illness.
When abortion support drops: The further into the pregnancy, with AP/NORC finding 61% believe abortion should be legal during the first trimester, but only 34% in the second trimester and 19% in the third, and an April Wall Street Journal poll finding more Americans approve of 15-week abortion bans than disapprove.
Thomas calls for overturning precedents on contraceptives, LGBTQ rightsQuoteThomas wrote, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.”https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3535841-thomas-calls-for-overturning-precedents-on-contraceptives-lgbtq-rights/
The three cases Thomas mentioned are all landmark decisions establishing certain constitutional rights.
In Griswold v. Connecticut, the court ruled in 1965 that married couples have a right to access contraceptive. In 2003, the court said in Lawrence v. Texas that states could not outlaw consensual gay sex. And the court’s 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges established a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Let me guess:Seems fine to me.
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Just to add on, not undoing previous rulings added to the facade and mythology that the court was apolitical, and so this particular ruling really just exposed the issue but it's not something new.But this itself is just willfully accepted mythology for certain people. The Court constantly overturns previous rulings, Roe itself was thrown out back in 1992. The Court has no need to take up prior rulings if it doesn't intend to overturn them except when lower courts are ignoring it and in those cases it almost never bothers to issue an opinion.
Thomas calls for overturning precedents on contraceptives, LGBTQ rightsYou keep posting this as if it means anything or as if it should even be news. Have you even read Dobbs to know why Thomas was bringing up his views (citing himself) on other subjects that everyone already knows he has and nobody takes seriously?
Just want to set a couple of things straight...it is not through humility that I ask the question of how the US Supreme Court was allowed to get so politicised. It is through sheer amazement at how the US can continually shit on its own democracy.Judicial review is the entire point of the Supreme Court so it seems weird to frame it as "continually [shitting] on its own democracy" when it's doing what it's supposed to do in the democratic process. Especially in regards to a case where it was the Supreme Court who created abortion rights above the legislative process (perhaps correctly) in the first place rather than any kind of legislative bill being signed into law.
weren't you saying when the opinion leaked that the majority wouldn't vote on it :dogeAs I already have acknowledged multiple times I was skeptical that it was a majority opinion let alone one Roberts would sign onto for multiple reasons including that it meant both Thomas and Roberts passed it to Alito so he could write something so broad. If you think this skepticism on the first draft opinion ever leaked without any knowledge on the vote invalidates everything I ever say ever again and means you should favor people who clearly have no idea what they're talking about then I can't stop you from that, only advise you to be skeptical about them too. (Advice you should be skeptical about and thus reject.)
So you need a 2/3 vote in the senate to remove a Supreme Court justice from office.
Leaving aside that removal is impossible practically even if it were justified, it is in fact possible that all of the members of the house of Representatives on the Democratic side do choose to vote yea on impeachment.
What would that actually indicate here though? They don't like the ruling? We're shaking our fists in impotent rage because so we can pass an impeachment, but it would be a LOT easier to pass a law that solves the issue.
Forget the 67 votes in the Senate for a second. Lets say you HAVE 60 (you probably do). If you have 60, you can create abortion protections in law, just not constitutional protections. Impeachment is worthless because if you could remove, you could pass a law anyway.
My big problem with all of this anger isn't that people aren't allowed to be upset. It's that the reaction to the overturn isn't 'lets secure abortion rights', it's lets complain about the (what appears to be correct legally speaking) ruling.
There are two pro choice Republican Senators who would get on board with 16 week abortions with no debate. I imagine there are more and you need exactly 8 to get it done.
Legislative pressure is a lot more effective here, because you can actually influence people. I imagine there are 10 conservative leaning states that would codify this situation, but you have to try.
Instead, it's fuck the court, fuck the republicans, lets make them pay. That doesn't work when you don't have the numbers and it also doesn't convince people that you NEED to convince right now to have anything.
As someone who would really like to codify abortion: I need this rhetoric to stop. Does AOC know someone who can write legislation that would codify abortion, like, I dunno, a house member?
Just want to set a couple of things straight...it is not through humility that I ask the question of how the US Supreme Court was allowed to get so politicised. It is through sheer amazement at how the US can continually shit on its own democracy.
We're also not friends and the only thing Roe vs Wade is to me is fish eggs.
it just seems you're saying "no one should be surprised" when in fact it did surprise youNo, you're talking about two completely different events. Thomas writing an opinion where he says things he's always said for 30 years that nobody else signs onto is a completely expected event.
U.S. as tens of thousands of suburban swing voters who helped fuel the Democratic Party’s gains in recent years are becoming Republicans.
More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, according to voter registration data analyzed by The Associated Press. The previously unreported number reflects a phenomenon that is playing out in virtually every region of the country — Democratic and Republican states along with cities and small towns — in the period since President Joe Biden replaced former President Donald Trump.
But nowhere is the shift more pronounced — and dangerous for Democrats — than in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump’s Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back. Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Republicans also gained ground in counties around medium-size cities such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; and Des Moines, Iowa.
Thomas calls for overturning precedents on contraceptives, LGBTQ rightsYou keep posting this as if it means anything or as if it should even be news. Have you even read Dobbs to know why Thomas was bringing up his views (citing himself) on other subjects that everyone already knows he has and nobody takes seriously?
It is news in the same way Cornyn's tweet to Obama is being argued as a threat to bring back segregation.You're not supposed to read his actual words and understand his obvious point, you're supposed to look deep into his racist soul and find what you already knew to be true:
It is news in the same way Cornyn's tweet to Obama is being argued as a threat to bring back segregation.You're not supposed to read his actual words and understand his obvious point, you're supposed to look deep into his racist soul:
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John Cornyn can be the most racist person to ever exist and that will ever exist, he's still right that Brown overturned the 58 year old precedent of Plessy.
Seems weird to give racists the power to determine what history is and is not true. :trumps
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/26/second-civil-war-us-abortion
"The leftwing American political class, incredibly, continues to cling to its defunct institutional ideals."
"Any time anyone acts on their violent rhetoric, the rightwing politicians and media elites are appalled that anyone would connect what they say to what others do."
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fellow violent anti-democrat like yourself
fellow violent anti-democrat like yourself
Come on now.
I believe democracy needs to be protected, you believe it will magically regulate itself.
Just like a free and uncontrolled market regulates itself and would never allow the development of any naughty anti-consumer mechanisms like monopolies.
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here's something I hadn't considered
roe v wade always seemed to be one of the primary sources of "my body, my choice" rhetoric/mode of thinking
with it gone, if it truly is not your body, your choice, does that lay the groundwork for mandated vaccination in the future?
if you can be forced to carry a baby to term against your will, can't you be forced to take a vaccine as well? there is nothing in the constitution that guarantees freedom from vaccination
I don't mean to frame the repeal nor this potential consequence as good or bad, it's just something to consider
what would you say to the idea of hospitals being unwilling to perform an abortion when someone's life is in danger, because the wording "unless a pregnant person's life is in danger" is kind of vague and they'd be rightly worried about getting in a lot of trouble if it was later determined the patient's life was not quite enough in danger to perform it? like does it functionally ban all abortions except rape ones, out of an overabundance of caution?
like what if someone says they're going to commit suicide unless they get an abortion, is their life in danger?
what if they develop problems that have a 10% chance of mortality, is that "enough" in danger to perform the abortion?
eventually you get to the point where you admit that any pregnancy has a 0.02% chance of mortality for the mother, pregnancy itself puts the woman's life in danger, so you have to define a degree at which abortion would be appropriate
and how does all this interact with the US system of insurance companies being involved, what if insurance says they won't pay for any abortions in the state, even potential rape, because they aren't going to risk being complicit in breaking the law? and then the hospitals realize the average person needing an abortion won't be able to afford it without insurance and it'd always be a loss to them, so they simply don't do them at all either for that reason?
My problem is this is a massive what if with no real basis in reality. Legislate. Make it law.
My problem is this is a massive what if with no real basis in reality. Legislate. Make it law.
I'm only basing this on what you linked and said above: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48352.msg3048655#msg3048655
if the law says "unless the life of the patient is in danger," that is already reality, that is already law, and it's already vague
it's not a "what if" when such situations of waiting for official lawyer approval while a patient dies are already happening
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would you say this is likely a made up story by someone who just wants to sow trouble
Come on now.I admit I was perplexed by your advocacy. Why would someone so concerned about liberal democracy be so insistent on deliberately and illegally suppressing his own most important tool in a liberal democracy? Why would someone so concerned about "minority rule" do things like advocate constantly for a minority to suppress opposition to maintain power or link approvingly to a violence fetishist unconcerned that his own country had two-thirds of the voters vote against the current ruling party two consecutive times? Why would someone just "warning" and "trying to help" refuse to learn anything about the country and system he's advising to continue advocating for blatantly illegal acts and suppression of the democratic process? Why would someone ignore when being told something is wrong and never worked the way they think to continue advocating for it anyway if they didn't just want to start providing more avenues for people to jail political opponents? Why would someone accuse someone else arguing in favor of working peacefully within the rule of law and democratic process as "[believing] it will magically regulate itself" if the first person is not advocating for something to be imposed non-democratically on the system?
I believe democracy needs to be protected, you believe it will magically regulate itself.
America is about to descent into authoritarian religious minority rule against which it has no safeguards, while you pretend that all is well. Is this your special kind of trolling?
America is about to descend into authoritarian religious minority rule against which it has no safeguards, while you pretend that all is well. Is this your special kind of trolling?You called on the President of the United States to respond to a Supreme Court decision he disagreed with by unilaterally and illegally overthrowing the entire judicial branch.
My suggestion for a modernised version of the fairness doctrine that would apply to all news media outlets was just that, a suggestion.
You continue to mock people who don't understand the law, but you don't actually offer any ideas how to counter America's ever worsening plutocratic system.
What do you call this tactic of "deliberately" "misunderstanding" the person you are debating?Occam's razor.
See, you continue to avoid answering direct questions while making assumptions about me that are not supported by what I post.No, I continue to take what you say as what you mean.
What do you call this tactic of "deliberately" "misunderstanding" the person you are debating?Occam's razor.
People don't like democracy, they want to order things the way they want and just see everyone obey.
My suggestion for a modernised version of the fairness doctrine that would apply to all news media outlets was just that, a suggestion.
or to recognize your lack of understanding and just point out what you see as problems all day without offering anything constructive?Whenever I do have an absolutely perfect idea with zero downsides like expanding the House nobody gives a shit.
I don't think expanding the House would change gridlock at all. I doubt more new members would be more resistant to leadership than the existing ones are.
The actual real problem for it is logistics, the current buildings aren't designed for a properly sized House. But that kinda seems like something that is their problem, not mine, since they write the $7 trillion budget and all.
What's the over /under this time?
I have Tuesday at 11:42am
Himu will be taking another break for four months this time.What's the over /under this time?
I have Tuesday at 11:42am
Close!
The wildest part to me is I fully expect Himu back in 4 months on the dot, againHimu RN:
Himu will be taking another break for four months this time.What's the over /under this time?
I have Tuesday at 11:42am
Close!
Bork you cant delete the content before we all get to experience it
The wildest part to me is I fully expect Himu back in 4 months on the dot, again
is the plan with himu to just keep banning until his next personality shift? :doge
https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1541790937646612480 (https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1541790937646612480)
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Bork deleted posts that would’ve led to the arrest of Hilary Clinton :shh
https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1541790937646612480 (https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1541790937646612480)
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Holy fuck, MAGA King indeed"Her story is completely made up fake news. I didn't throw food...it was cake. Dumb bitch, I don't even know who she is anyway."
https://twitter.com/axios/status/1541845832693174272 (https://twitter.com/axios/status/1541845832693174272)
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Trump acting like Gordon Ramsay inside the white house has all of them crying lmao.
https://twitter.com/January6thCmte/status/1541852235843485697 (https://twitter.com/January6thCmte/status/1541852235843485697)
Trump denies it
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I find it hard to believe that 200lbs depressed Trump could lunge from the backseat of the Presidential limo, punch through what I assume is bullet proof glass, shove aside a well trained secret service agent, grab the steering wheel and yell: "I'M THE FUCKING PRESIDENT".
I'm probably stating the obvious here, but the democrats keep basing these huge "surprise motherfucker" moments on the most flimsy of evidence and not necessarily stable or believable witnesses. It's almost like the people running the party are so incompetent they would nominate Hilary Clinton...again.Not to mention this is very different from what was reported during and shortly after that day.
I'm probably stating the obvious here, but the democrats keep basing these huge "surprise motherfucker" moments on the most flimsy of evidence and not necessarily stable or believable witnesses. It's almost like the people running the party are so incompetent they would nominate Hilary Clinton...again.Not to mention this is very different from what was reported during and shortly after that day.
That happened in the SUV not the beast.
Keep up.
"I looked at Tony, and he had said, 'did you f-ing hear what happened in the Beast?'" Hutchinson recalled, using the nickname for the presidential vehicle. "I said, 'no Tony, I just got back, what happened?' Tony proceeded to tell me that when the president got in the Beast, he was under the impression that the off-the-record movement to the Capitol was still possible, and likely to happen, but that Bobby had more information."
"So once the president had gotten into the vehicle with Bobby, he thought that they were going up to the Capitol, and when Bobby had relayed to him, 'we’re not, you don’t have the assets to do it, it’s not secure, we’re going back to the West Wing,' the president had a very strong, very angry response to that."
Hutchinson said Ornato described Trump "as being irate."
Trump "said something to the effect of, 'I’m the f-ing president, take me up to the Capitol now,'" Hutchinson testified. "To which Bobby responded, 'sir, we have to go back to the West Wing.' The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm and said 'sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we’re going back to the West Wing. We’re not going to the Capitol.'"
Hutchinson added that Trump "then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and when Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned toward his" collarbone.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., then asked Hutchinson if Engel disagreed with any part of the story Ornato relayed. Hutchinson said he did not.
So January 6th went from Trump pussied out and left his supporters to be set up to Trump wanted to storm the capital, but the deep state stopped him. Awesome job democrats!
To get to what I assume Occam is referring to when he says I avoided questions there is only one solution in a democracy: advocate to win elections. Advocate to win elections. Advocate to win elections.
In other news, Biden is finally going against the filibuster in order to be able to codify a right to abortion, however
"President Biden’s call Thursday to make an exception to filibuster rules to pass legislation protecting abortions is likely to be a tough sell with a pair of Senate Democrats: Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia."
Hey, you know what the solution is if you want to draw maps to your partisan advantage rather than your opponents?To get to what I assume Occam is referring to when he says I avoided questions there is only one solution in a democracy: advocate to win elections. Advocate to win elections. Advocate to win elections.
Yeah, about that...
"The Supreme Court said Thursday that it will consider what would be a radical change in the way federal elections are conducted, giving state legislatures sole authority to set the rules for contests even if their actions violated state constitutions and resulted in extreme partisan gerrymandering for congressional seats."
(WaPo)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/30/supreme-court-federal-elections-state-legislatures/
And the best news of the day: Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to combat climate changeCongress actually passed the Clean Air Acts though.
Because who needs clean air. It's totally overrated, just ask the good people living in New Delhi.
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This could be you, soon.
And climate change will surely go away if only we ignore it hard enough!
In other news, Biden is finally going against the filibuster in order to be able to codify a right to abortion, however
"President Biden’s call Thursday to make an exception to filibuster rules to pass legislation protecting abortions is likely to be a tough sell with a pair of Senate Democrats: Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia."
All he has to do is remove two Republicans.
A delicious coffee sweetened with polonium.
That's it. That's all he has to do.
Moderates keep acting like there are no common sense solutions
Hey, you know what the solution is if you want to draw maps to your partisan advantage rather than your opponents?
Congress actually passed the Clean Air Acts though.
A system that disallows partisan map drawing right from the start?What's the basis for your theory that the Republican Party is constitutionally entitled to a certain percentage of Congressional seats?
After the clerical fascists have made it virtually impossible to vote them out it may be too late.
And that matters how?What's the basis for your theory that the executive branch can claim powers that neither the Constitution nor Congress delegates to it?
I think we can all agree that the people who put trump in the white house actually have the real power to govern, that 4rth branch so to speak, that lives in the shadows.Actually my reading of the 3rd, 12th and 18th Amendments is that Trump is President for Life. :trumps
I think we can all agree that the people who put trump in the white house actually have the real power to govern, that 4rth branch so to speak, that lives in the shadows.Actually my reading of the 3rd, 12th and 18th Amendments is that Trump is President for Life. :trumps
And the best news of the day: Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to combat climate change
Because who needs clean air. It's totally overrated, just ask the good people living in New Delhi.
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This could be you, soon.
And climate change will surely go away if only we ignore it hard enough!
So January 6th went from Trump pussied out and left his supporters to be set up to Trump wanted to storm the capital, but the deep state stopped him. Awesome job democrats!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgSqVNnH0R8
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Put a Fork in Donald Trump—the Ex-President Is Done
David Rothkopf
Published Jul. 01, 2022 4:37AM ET
Mark it on your calendars. This was the week the meteoric political career of Donald Trump did what meteors often do and collided with planet Earth, leaving a large, ugly mark on the landscape.
The fact that Trump may soon announce his candidacy for the presidency in the days ahead is itself more of a sign of his political collapse than it is of any strength he may have.
...
Her testimony hit Washington and the U.S. political scene, also as large meteors can do, with the force of several atomic bombs. Even dyed-in-the-wool members of Team Trump began to abandon ship. They called it “damning,” “difficult to dismiss,” and “insane shit.” The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed saying Trump should not run in 2024. The right-leaning Washington Examiner ran an editorial headlined “Trump proven unfit for power again.” Trump’s former attorney Ty Cobb said, “If this isn’t an insurrection I don’t know what is.” Former Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney wrote, “Things could get very dark for the former president” after Hutchinson’s testimony.
Speaking at one of the sacred sites of the Republican right, the Ronald Reagan Library in California, Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) got enthusiastic support from the crowd during a searing speech following this week’s hearing when she said, “It’s undeniable—the Republican Party cannot be both loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution.”
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it is fair to conclude that as bad as this week was for Trump, when the dust settles, he and we will find matters have only gotten worse for him, that, as of this week, he has once and for all plummeted to Earth and that finally and forever more, all the former president’s Fox friends and all of his men will not be able to put the brief shimmering political career of Donald Trump back together again.
Nintex finally defeated:Quote from: https://www.thedailybeast.com/put-a-fork-in-donald-trump-the-ex-president-is-donePut a Fork in Donald Trump—the Ex-President Is Done
David Rothkopf
Published Jul. 01, 2022 4:37AM ET
Mark it on your calendars. This was the week the meteoric political career of Donald Trump did what meteors often do and collided with planet Earth, leaving a large, ugly mark on the landscape.
The fact that Trump may soon announce his candidacy for the presidency in the days ahead is itself more of a sign of his political collapse than it is of any strength he may have.
...
Her testimony hit Washington and the U.S. political scene, also as large meteors can do, with the force of several atomic bombs. Even dyed-in-the-wool members of Team Trump began to abandon ship. They called it “damning,” “difficult to dismiss,” and “insane shit.” The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed saying Trump should not run in 2024. The right-leaning Washington Examiner ran an editorial headlined “Trump proven unfit for power again.” Trump’s former attorney Ty Cobb said, “If this isn’t an insurrection I don’t know what is.” Former Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney wrote, “Things could get very dark for the former president” after Hutchinson’s testimony.
Speaking at one of the sacred sites of the Republican right, the Ronald Reagan Library in California, Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) got enthusiastic support from the crowd during a searing speech following this week’s hearing when she said, “It’s undeniable—the Republican Party cannot be both loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution.”
...
it is fair to conclude that as bad as this week was for Trump, when the dust settles, he and we will find matters have only gotten worse for him, that, as of this week, he has once and for all plummeted to Earth and that finally and forever more, all the former president’s Fox friends and all of his men will not be able to put the brief shimmering political career of Donald Trump back together again.
The national survey shows Trump leading Biden 44 percent to 39 percent in a head-to-head match-up
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1542678283929763840
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You gotta love millionaires begging poor people for money.https://twitter.com/drmistercody/status/1543038554128822272
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1542987572116422656Maybe she should consider what her religion says about marijuana and other intoxicants...
Alex Jones exclusively reports Trump is announcing his 2024 candidacy on July 4th
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1543009934312460291 (https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1543009934312460291)
The President's men seem to want to prevent DeSantis from mounting a challenge against Trump after Joe Rogan said he would make a great President.Alex Jones exclusively reports Trump is announcing his 2024 candidacy on July 4th
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1543009934312460291 (https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1543009934312460291)
From a response by very reliable Roger Stone that Trump could announce a run as soon as July (no date mentioned) and Alex working himself into how awesome it would be if it was July 4th.
Joshua Henry, a special agent for DHS, confirmed the letter’s authenticity and said it was delivered at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. Robert Sperling, director of communication for the Federal Protective Service, also confirmed to The Dallas Morning News that the letter posted on Twitter was delivered.:american :american :american :american
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Henry said Walker sharing the letter on Twitter could bring more trouble.
“She’s kind of taking it as a joke,” Henry said. “She’s not remorseful about these statements, so that’ll be presented to a United States Attorney and they’ll make a decision on that.”
When a reporter asked the Garland Police Department if their officers accompanied a federal agent to Walker’s house to deliver the letter, spokesman Pedro Barineau wrote in an email “since DHS confirmed they went out there, they will have all the details and will need to provide the information. We can’t speak about another agencies [sic] investigation.”
On Friday night, the Federal Protective Service sent an email with an official statement to The News.
“DHS’s Federal Protective Service coordinates with law enforcement partners across the country to protect federal facilities, and those who work in and visit those buildings, from violence,” the statement read.
“FPS may issue warnings as a result of threats made to federal facilities and federal employees, in line with standard law enforcement practices. Americans’ freedom of speech and right to peacefully protest are fundamental Constitutional rights. Those rights do not extend to violence and other illegal activity.”
1)Whoever—
(A)assaults, kidnaps, or murders, or attempts or conspires to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap or murder a member of the immediate family of a United States official, a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official whose killing would be a crime under section 1114 of this title; or
(B)threatens to assault, kidnap, or murder, a United States official, a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official whose killing would be a crime under such section,
with intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such official, judge, or law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such official, judge, or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).
(2)Whoever assaults, kidnaps, or murders, or attempts or conspires to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap, or murder, any person who formerly served as a person designated in paragraph (1), or a member of the immediate family of any person who formerly served as a person designated in paragraph (1), with intent to retaliate against such person on account of the performance of official duties during the term of service of such person, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FW1Ol2FXoAAH2dd?format=jpg)Trying to explain percentages to that dense custard in human form would be a waste of time.
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After Uvalde shooting, Texas leaders will spend more than $100 million on school safety, mental health
Almost half the money is going toward bullet-resistant shields for school police officers, a move that Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called on fellow state leaders to support
https://www.khou.com/article/news/special-reports/uvalde-school-shooting/texas-spending-millions-after-uvalde-massacre/285-087e1b9c-4a1c-4f77-a662-fa0f500b0c0aQuoteAfter Uvalde shooting, Texas leaders will spend more than $100 million on school safety, mental health
Almost half the money is going toward bullet-resistant shields for school police officers, a move that Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called on fellow state leaders to support
:dead
Why is the main page of c-span about european politics with a sidenote about the shootings?To be fair, I think C-SPAN's site is more focused on the events they cover rather than the news in general. Unless somebody is giving a speech about shootings or there's a hearing or something like that it's more likely it will just be the events they record.
Why is the main page of c-span about european politics with a sidenote about the shootings?To be fair, I think C-SPAN's site is more focused on the events they cover rather than the news in general. Unless somebody is giving a speech about shootings or there's a hearing or something like that it's more likely it will just be the events they record.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/democrats-frustrated-biden-lack-of-urgency-supreme-court-setbacks/index.html (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/democrats-frustrated-biden-lack-of-urgency-supreme-court-setbacks/index.html)
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:dead
A White House press aide assigned to the issue was walking to get coffee when the alert hit.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/democrats-frustrated-biden-lack-of-urgency-supreme-court-setbacks/index.html (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/05/politics/democrats-frustrated-biden-lack-of-urgency-supreme-court-setbacks/index.html)
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:dead
wait why is this part remotely importantQuoteA White House press aide assigned to the issue was walking to get coffee when the alert hit.
press aides are meant to be sitting stock still, watching and waiting to be ready to act at any moment, and should not be getting coffee? also which aide? why does this matter?
Inside the White House, criticism and proposals from fellow Democrats are often seen as the latest version of, essentially, presidential fan fiction -- the kind of visceral, political statement that sounds great from the sidelines but doesn't actually make sense.
For example, in the wake of the Supreme Court's abortion reversal, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul have called for the White House to open up federal lands to abortion clinics, a move that lawyers inside and some outside the government believe would backfire by leaving abortion providers and women open to potential prosecution as soon as they stepped off the federal lands.
Why are our tax dollars being used to purchase over-priced cafe coffee?I think they might mean the person was out of the room doing that not miles away at a cafe?
Get a fucking Mr Coffee from Walmart.
So apparently we're nearing the point of "partial student debt restructuring" by the Biden administration... What is the general outline of what it should entail ?
Edit : plans to put new regulations in place but some amount being wiped clean still under consideration.
So apparently we're nearing the point of "partial student debt restructuring" by the Biden administration... What is the general outline of what it should entail ?
Edit : plans to put new regulations in place but some amount being wiped clean still under consideration.
What the fuck ? They still haven't done it?
I didn't realize it was still in talks.
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:cruise
Could I take out a 10k loan and use it to help sugar babies get through college and then write it off?
so the admin as just putting things off.
I find it strange that you're losing your mind and coming out against the rule of law so vehemently
What happened to Trumps big fourth of July running announcement, Nintex?
Quite the opposite. You continue to read things I don't write.::)
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While you continue to claim that all is well and the system works as intended, American democracy is foundering.
I have never, not once, claimed that "all is well" nor advocated that nothing should ever be done. You fight with enemies in your head.
What happened to Trumps big fourth of July running announcement, Nintex?
Very well then, to establish a baseline, a common frame of reference if you don't mind, what do you think is wrong with America's system of government? No need for a wall of text, just a few short bullet points.A layup is doubling the size of the House. Obviously quadrupling it would be more ideal but I imagine the partisans would lose their minds if you just tried to round up to 501 so I'll split the difference.
Where do you think America is headed?
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:trumps
One of the plans was to have Erik Prince create a private $10 billion army and to consolidate Ukrainian military aircraft production into a consortium that could rival Boeing or Airbus in order to deny China and Russia access to scale their aircraft production.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FW1cHl7WAAEb9u-?format=jpg)
:trumps
Interesting to think about the Ukraine invasion under Trump's nose. I'm guessing he wouldn't have lifted a finger
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWnAjleXoAAXw4D?format=jpg&name=small)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWnBCJ3XgAAAPgk?format=jpg&name=small)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWnBCKhWAAAV4Qc?format=jpg&name=small) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWnBCKhWAAAV4Qc?format=jpg&name=large)Quote from: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2022/07/01/feds-show-up-at-home-of-north-texas-woman-who-posted-angry-tweets-after-roe-decision/Joshua Henry, a special agent for DHS, confirmed the letter’s authenticity and said it was delivered at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. Robert Sperling, director of communication for the Federal Protective Service, also confirmed to The Dallas Morning News that the letter posted on Twitter was delivered.:american :american :american :american
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Henry said Walker sharing the letter on Twitter could bring more trouble.
“She’s kind of taking it as a joke,” Henry said. “She’s not remorseful about these statements, so that’ll be presented to a United States Attorney and they’ll make a decision on that.”
When a reporter asked the Garland Police Department if their officers accompanied a federal agent to Walker’s house to deliver the letter, spokesman Pedro Barineau wrote in an email “since DHS confirmed they went out there, they will have all the details and will need to provide the information. We can’t speak about another agencies [sic] investigation.”
On Friday night, the Federal Protective Service sent an email with an official statement to The News.
“DHS’s Federal Protective Service coordinates with law enforcement partners across the country to protect federal facilities, and those who work in and visit those buildings, from violence,” the statement read.
“FPS may issue warnings as a result of threats made to federal facilities and federal employees, in line with standard law enforcement practices. Americans’ freedom of speech and right to peacefully protest are fundamental Constitutional rights. Those rights do not extend to violence and other illegal activity.”
The cited, uh, "statue" is an interesting choice too:Quote from: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1151)Whoever—
(A)assaults, kidnaps, or murders, or attempts or conspires to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap or murder a member of the immediate family of a United States official, a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official whose killing would be a crime under section 1114 of this title; or
(B)threatens to assault, kidnap, or murder, a United States official, a United States judge, a Federal law enforcement officer, or an official whose killing would be a crime under such section,
with intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such official, judge, or law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such official, judge, or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).
(2)Whoever assaults, kidnaps, or murders, or attempts or conspires to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap, or murder, any person who formerly served as a person designated in paragraph (1), or a member of the immediate family of any person who formerly served as a person designated in paragraph (1), with intent to retaliate against such person on account of the performance of official duties during the term of service of such person, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).
She deleted the tweets so Agent Henry's apparent goal of abusing the law to moderate Twitter by illegally threatening people was accomplished.
https://twitter.com/BasedByAccident/status/1545942481392570369
#TrumpIsALaughingStock is trending on Twitter.It's another one of those fake hashtags that a few well known accounts pay to bot into briefly trending if you only view accounts predisposed to participating in it before everyone moves onto something else that catches their attention. Happens constantly about all kinds of things. This one has made it to a whopping 14K total tweets so they definitely got their monies worth. (They did not.)
Such an obvious and poorly thought out riposte to the "repeat the line" fiasco that it could only have come from sycophants who are desperately trying to divert attention.I mean it's not the same people at all, if you dig into these hashtags it always goes back to the same stupid accounts that always start them off with "let's see if we can get this trending" then they bot into existence for their followers who will just post random stuff to it for like an hour and move on. People like BrooklynDad_Defiant or OccupyDemocrats.
How do they do social media so bad after they got it so right with Obama?
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I wouldn’t even vote for him in Minecraft tbh
What Hunter biden stuff?Twitter is trying to delete it so the bois are making edits and their censors can't pick it up :lol
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Half of G.O.P. Voters Ready to Leave Trump Behind, Poll Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/us/politics/trump-approval-polling-2024.html
As far as I can tell it is too late for the global economy to turn around so the Kremlin losing the war in Ukraine is the sort of thing that could boost the Democrats.:wut
https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1546134471841292294 (https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1546134471841292294)
Biden officially joining the sub 30 club.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1547397629260226560 (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1547397629260226560)
:lol
We can't punish a man for telling the truth.
:thinking This feels historical this early into his first term.It all went to shit after they lost Afghanistan despite boasting that they wouldn't and denying the things that would literally happen hours later.
Living in rural CT I definitely see Biden bashing pretty much daily, but I figured that was just the area
I don't think anyone with a functioning brain or moral code thinks he's the one who looks good in that video.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1547397629260226560 (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1547397629260226560)
:lol
That is a pretty shitty thing to do
:thinking This feels historical this early into his first term.It all went to shit after they lost Afghanistan despite boasting that they wouldn't and denying the things that would literally happen hours later.
Living in rural CT I definitely see Biden bashing pretty much daily, but I figured that was just the area
That's when it was clear that something wasn't quite right. Before that everyone was sort of in 'wait and see' mode hoping things would return to normal.
Biden didn't even fire the people responsible, nor did they resign. It's like the Obama administration, an economy down the tubes and one foreign policy disaster after another sugar coated by the media.
But they have to stick with Biden because Kamala somehow combines the worst of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin into one incredibly dumb and unlikable person.
Like I said earlier, the Democrats now have to depend on some kind of military victory in Ukraine, because time is running out for any of their policies to turn around the economy.
Winning Ukraine would likely mean ousting Putin, which would open up the door to cheap Russian energy again. The problem with Ukraine though is that there isn't a strategy or an idea of what 'victory' looks like.
The US and most of their allies just say: "We need to support Ukraine without any limits" and pour more weapons into the country even openly declaring that they don't see the point in diplomacy.
It's absolute madness that we keep fighting and supporting wars without objectives.
I don't think anyone with a functioning brain or moral code thinks he's the one who looks good in that video.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1547397629260226560 (https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1547397629260226560)
:lol
That is a pretty shitty thing to do
Edit: Or that he leaves with any of his dignity intact (not that you would have any in the first place to do something like this).
“Everyone I talk to is desperately hoping for it — desperately. I don’t know anybody who is not hoping for it,” said a Democratic operative in frequent touch with the White House. “While it has been good for my mental health that Trump is off Twitter, it also has put him to the side a little bit.”
“It’s Trumpworld, man,” the current adviser said. “It’ll be done the way we do everything else. It’ll be very last minute; it’ll be a surprise. We’ll cowboy it like 2016.”:dead
His [Trump's] base likes him BECAUSE he's a bumbling idiot, just like them.
This guyWhy does Ari think 2023 would be the one-year anniversary of something that happened in 2021? :hmm
twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1547914574686326786
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https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1547996467687616512 (https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1547996467687616512)
:idont
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXuZUNdVQAAOCdU?format=jpg)If high oil prices means Newcastle can sign Lucas Paqueta and Moussa Diaby, then I'm all for it.
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1547996467687616512 (https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1547996467687616512)
:idont
That picture incenses me. What the Fuck is Biden doing?They're putting together a coalition to bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran. Biden said something like: "using force as a last resort" from stopping Iran to get a nuke.
That picture incenses me. What the Fuck is Biden doing?They're putting together a coalition to bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran. Biden said something like: "using force as a last resort" from stopping Iran to get a nuke.
And then the Israeli PM said that the free world would stop Iran from getting a nuke whatever the cost as Biden was standing next to him. The Saudi's also align with this
https://twitter.com/Naija_PR/status/1548165113668022272 (https://twitter.com/Naija_PR/status/1548165113668022272)
Macron was caught on camera telling Biden (or rather Blinken) the Saudi's are tapped out as far as oil is concerned and thus pressed Biden to produce more in the US instead.
The leaders of most of the Gulf States are in Saudi Arabia this weekend for a summit.
Iran is an important ally for Russia so taking them out kills 3 birds with 1 stone. Russia loses a powerful ally, Iranian oil can be used to fix the energy crisis and Iran's nuclear capability will no longer be a threat to Israel/Saudi Arabia.
The response in the region is mixed, Iraq has declared it won't join a 'Middle East NATO' and won't attack it's neighbours.
Egypt has also said that they aren't planning to join at this time but their leadership is attending the summit.
With the Russians busy in Ukraine and Turkey poised to invade Syria their allies are in no position to help Iran against a joint Israeli/Saudi/US strike.
This is a pretty funny contrast
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62186332
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1548632161938538497MBS had revolutionised Saudi society and culture. He has taken them from Stone Age to Bronze Age. We should be thankful.
The Washington Post is a cold place for coworkers. :lol
just somewhat randomly guess based on which candidates are leading in polls
Data-driven news and analysis from Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight
Amazing that the tweet is still up
Nate Silver's site: "Franchot is favored to win"
Franchot: "I'm favored to win"
Nate Silver: "How dare you, apologize for spreading disinfo"
Nate's disclaimerQuotejust somewhat randomly guess based on which candidates are leading in polls
doesn't have the same ring to it as:QuoteData-driven news and analysis from Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight
He basically admits it's all just the gut feeling of an autisty :lol
That picture incenses me. What the Fuck is Biden doing?
Amazing that the tweet is still up
Nate Silver's site: "Franchot is favored to win"
Franchot: "I'm favored to win"
Nate Silver: "How dare you, apologize for spreading disinfo"
The guy is saying he's favoured to win the primary but the poll is about his chances in the actual election if he is selected but apparently 538 is not making any calls on the primary.
It's confusing and Nattu Bronze is not really explaining it well.
Yup he's playing fast and loose with thisAmazing that the tweet is still up
Nate Silver's site: "Franchot is favored to win"
Franchot: "I'm favored to win"
Nate Silver: "How dare you, apologize for spreading disinfo"
The guy is saying he's favoured to win the primary but the poll is about his chances in the actual election if he is selected but apparently 538 is not making any calls on the primary.
It's confusing and Nattu Bronze is not really explaining it well.
Ah ok, makes more sense. Though if Silver is that worried about his prediction being misunderstood he should probably do something more than just add an asterisk.
I can't tell if that is a reply to me because, if so, none of that is relevant to what I said other than more evidence to show you are primed to thinking that predicting elections doesn't work and hence why you'd be more comfortable drawing faulty inferences like the one you made. Again, you don't get to strip away the context of a quote then act as if it's some kind of admission to the thing you believe in.There really wasn't much context. Nate always hides behind asterisks and word salads to both make his numbers and forecasts sound more interesting as well as not take any accountability when he is wrong.
There really wasn't much context.
QuoteWe don't predict primary outcomes just somewhat randomly guess based on which candidates are leading in polls
doesn't have the same ring to it as:Quotejust somewhat randomly guess based on which candidates are leading in polls
Your basically admitting it's all just the gut feeling of an illiterate :lol
He basically admits it's all just the gut feeling of an autisty :lolAll 538's model does is slightly skew the aggregate based on past polling performance. The skew is actually arguably less change from the aggregate than it used to be because the aggregate itself is already pretty accurate and the worst pollsters fail out of the business.
It's getting hard to predict the election. On one hand it should be an easy win for the Republican challengers because of the inflation, gas prices, Biden's approval and whatnot.Nobody cares about Ukraine or memes.
Possibly losing another chunk of Ukraine after Obama already lost the Crimea and who knows what the state of the world will be by November.
But some of the Republican candidates like Dr. Oz seem both clueless and cringe.
They are hardly 'disciplined' conservatives like Ron DeSantis that the Republican electorate seems to like best right now and Oz's boomer-level meme game sucks too :doge
The point is you believe the general models are bad.Nope I believe polling can be accurate, I just don't believe that Nate Silver's skewing improves on the actual polls.
Nate Silver admitted his models are just random predictions, when nothing like that happened.He admitted this a couple of times actually. The issue I have with Nate is that he tries to present his data nearly scientific, using specific words, graphs, design and overall making it look corporate slick.
You're conflating multiple things to attack something you apparently refuse to understand if your claims are to be taken seriously.QuoteThe point is you believe the general models are bad.Nope I believe polling can be accurate, I just don't believe that Nate Silver's skewing improves on the actual polls.
In general though models don't really have a great track record but that's because most of the time they aren't used correctly, are incomplete or have a bias build-in.QuoteNate Silver admitted his models are just random predictions, when nothing like that happened.He admitted this a couple of times actually. The issue I have with Nate is that he tries to present his data nearly scientific, using specific words, graphs, design and overall making it look corporate slick.
The forecasts, simulations etc. it's all designed to make it look more credible than it actually is.
A quick google search shows that I'm not the only one questioning this type of journalism
https://www.salon.com/2018/11/12/the-needle-and-the-damage-done-another-election-night-fueled-by-garbage-data-journalism/ (https://www.salon.com/2018/11/12/the-needle-and-the-damage-done-another-election-night-fueled-by-garbage-data-journalism/)
Amazing that the tweet is still up
Nate Silver's site: "Franchot is favored to win"
Franchot: "I'm favored to win"
Nate Silver: "How dare you, apologize for spreading disinfo"
The guy is saying he's favoured to win the primary but the poll is about his chances in the actual election if he is selected but apparently 538 is not making any calls on the primary.
It's confusing and Nattu Bronze is not really explaining it well.
Ah ok, makes more sense. Though if Silver is that worried about his prediction being misunderstood he should probably do something more than just add an asterisk.
Not all heroes wear capes.Accusations by a rival group being clearly outperformed by Major. :wag
twitter.com/BasedByAccident/status/1549517325317115907
Because he had no license and did not know how to drive, an uncle transported him to the gun store twice. His uncle said the first time he didn’t know he was going to pick up a rifle, since the store is also a popular restaurant in town and his nephew said he was hungry. But he returned with a narrow box and no food.
Texas is the stupidest place on the face of this goddamn planet, shit.
A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, on Tuesday declined to indict a man who allegedly killed 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez while shooting at an armed robber in February
The killing happened February 14 at about 9:30 p.m. when Tony Earls and his wife drove to a drive-thru ATM to deposit some cash and a check, according to the district attorney’s office. A man then ran up and put a gun in the wife’s face and demanded their money, car keys and her wallet, the prosecutor’s office said.
The couple initially complied with the robber, handing over the check, cash and wallet, before the robber started to run away, the office said. Earls, who stepped out of the vehicle, said he heard gunshots and believed he was being shot at, so he shot at the robber, the office said.
Photo provided by the family of Arlene Alvarez, a 9-year-old girl who died on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, after being mistakenly shot by a robbery victim in Houston.
However, he ended up striking a truck that happened to be driving by at the same time, killing 9-year-old Arlene Alvarez in the backseat, the district attorney’s office said.
Joe has dementia. :nopeAt what point do they cancel each other out and we're left with Super Joe?
Joe has Long COVID. :ohyeahspoiler (click to show/hide):biden[close]
I assume this is all the Trump influence? Like they're just trying to find a new "meme king"Except for the fact that as long as the king is alive, they can't crown a new king.
Elon Musk engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin, prompting the Google co-founder to file for divorce earlier this year and ending the tech billionaires’ long friendship, according to people familiar with the matter.
Not politics, but I don't know where else to put this.This is very much part of the extended GOP multiverse.
We in the The Snyder Cut now
:klobspoiler (click to show/hide)I've actively avoiding figuring out what "The Snyder Cut" is.[close]
Ultimately Trump or DeSantis I don't think it will fundamentally change the ugly trend or direction the electorate is headed towards.Lots of conservatives are mad about the contraceptives bill that wasn't passed because 'it saves lives' and prevents the need for abortions.
So does that mean all search engines and social media?
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1550532898805383168
I'm glad somebody is willing to protect me from hate speech and disinformation rather than being concerned about trivial "rights" nobody needs. :american
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1551984522685829120 (https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1551984522685829120)
ok
If the Supreme Court says that's constitutional, then it is.If they're going to read the First Amendment out of the Constitution then there's nothing we can do breh. :trumps
This is one of these things where I'm not entirely sure if the visually impaired people who this is meant to be for even really care. The color of her suit seems quite irrelevant compared to how the microphone quality is kind of shit.
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1552143934499033089https://twitter.com/crackconnoisser/status/1547575115897921537 (https://twitter.com/crackconnoisser/status/1547575115897921537)
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1552296813230710784Well, you're welcome Mr. President. Glad somebody finally thanks me for the things I do around here.
:salute
https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1552143934499033089https://twitter.com/crackconnoisser/status/1547575115897921537 (https://twitter.com/crackconnoisser/status/1547575115897921537)
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1552364912395141121Any talk about what draft picks might be involved? Would a third country need to be involved due to cap space issues?
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1552364912395141121
https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1552364912395141121Any talk about what draft picks might be involved? Would a third country need to be involved due to cap space issues?
A new party emerges
https://twitter.com/davelevinthal/status/1552440315335827458 (https://twitter.com/davelevinthal/status/1552440315335827458)
btw he's looking sensational rn
(https://i.imgur.com/TGvoLYE.png)
btw he's looking sensational rn
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is this the real trump? looks like a lizardperson
It's official they killed the economyFACT CHECK:
https://twitter.com/cvpayne/status/1552633489111105536 (https://twitter.com/cvpayne/status/1552633489111105536)
btw he's looking sensational rn
(https://i.imgur.com/TGvoLYE.png)
is this the real trump? looks like a lizardperson
Where's Kamala?Doing something important in her blue suit, so that something is done about this important situation, and people will recognize the importance of the situation as such, which is really important right now in order to deal with this situation.
This level of shit posting is unprecedentedI don't think poorly concealed seething really constitutes "shitposting" breh.
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Haven't seen it mentioned here: Apparently Murdoch is done with Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/25/rupert-murdoch-donald-trump-splitsville-00047748
This is the result: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/us/politics/fox-news-trump-speech.html
I hate that I get my news from nintex.It's fucking weird - there's just so much 'stuff' it's crazy, like an out of control AI is running all this or something.
and that jon swetart is like "what the fuck is left?"
and that jon swetart is like "what the fuck is left?"https://twitter.com/robrousseau/status/1553794574132412418
Former President Donald Trump called Republican Senate candidate Eric Schmitt Monday evening, after posting on social media that he would endorse in Missouri’s GOP primary, and told him to look out for an announcement.
“You’ll be happy,” Trump told Schmitt.
What the former president didn’t say, according to two people familiar with the conversation, is that the press release would simultaneously back Schmitt and his rival for the GOP nomination, Eric Greitens. Greitens received a similar call in which Trump congratulated him on the endorsement and made no mention that he also endorsed Schmitt, Missouri’s state attorney general.
But Trump went in on the details, asking if the two candidates’ first names were spelled identically — noting that it wouldn’t work if they weren’t. While Trump was intrigued, he also remarked that it might be too cute
Trump pointed out that Greitens might face Trudy Busch Valentine, a wealthy Democratic candidate, in the general election. Busch is heir to the Anheuser-Busch brewing fortune.
“She’s not the weak Bush family,” Trump said, referencing his long-running feud with members of the Bush political dynasty. “She’s the strong Busch family.”
Super interested to see how the Arizona GOP governor primary plays out tonight. There's a super MAGA weirdo chick running who will def claim voter fraud if she loses tonight.It's close but Lake pulled ahead
She seems drunkLot of REEEE energy from that soy reporter.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1554483744618299396
But for some surrealist reason the Trump candidates win, their voters vote and then claim it was all fraud. :dogeProbably because their hero won the 2016 election but still raged that the popular vote was stolen from him? And then spent an entire year telling everyone the 2020 election was going to be stolen from him? And has since never stopped telling everyone it was stolen from him? And he only supports candidates who endorse these crazy narratives in the first place?
Maybe they're cheating and hacking all these elections themselves and as long as they scream fraud as loud as possible, no one will investigate :trumps
https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1554876349680173057
Mr. Bankston also produced clips from Mr. Jones’s Infowars broadcast in which he aired a copy of a photograph of the judge in Ms. Lewis’s and Mr. Heslin’s case, Maya Guerra Gamble, engulfed in flames.
“That’s justice burning,” a cowed Mr. Jones told Mr. Bankston.
In another broadcast, Infowars falsely linked the judge to pedophilia and human trafficking; in another, Mr. Jones questioned the intelligence of the jurors in the case, implying that his political enemies had handpicked “blue-collar” people who “don’t know what planet they’re on,” and were ill-equipped to decide what monetary damages he must pay Ms. Lewis and Mr. Heslin. In written questions submitted to Mr. Jones, jurors took immediate issue with that characterization.
"In our nation’s 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump"Donnie has officially defeated Saddam, The King of England, The Confederacy, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the USSR and all the terrorists.
Nine years for Miss Dunksalot.
The "honest mistake" defense didn't work, sadly, so we'll do up some diplomacy. Russia will get its merchant of death, and the United States will get back its dumbest WNBA star.
In addition to the arms dealer Russia has also asked for a literal assassin to be freed. I don't think that will happenGriner and Whelen to US, Kyrie to Lakers, arms dealer and assassin to Brooklyn, KD and Westbrook to Russia.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/griner-whelan-russia-murderer-request/index.html
You don’t even have to leave the US to find draconian weed laws, just go south of the Mississippi.:hmm
He had quite a lengthy statement ready, so either they had this typed up because they expected it, or someone tipped him off.
And he was first to break the news before law enforcement could issue any statement (they still haven't).
The thing is, we don't know if its related to Alex Jones' phone records, Manaforts admission that he sold polling data to Russian friends, the missing documents, the book with new revelations, or the January 6th inquiry.
Yep, it's apparently the documents.
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1556783756312281090 (https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1556783756312281090)
Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships
But never before in America
pee tape
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1556776386450407429 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1556776386450407429)Don't know why he's upset. If he's done nothing wrong, then he has nothing to worry about...
lol...
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1556793230028587009
:derp
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1556776386450407429Well, for one thing, Watergate was an illegal break-in by a bunch of Cubans because everybody involved knew they were doing something illegal.
lol...
Is nintex ok
I'm gonna assume if you get Wray, multiple DOJ officials, a judge, and coward ass Garland to sign off on a warrant to take the most aggressive action against a former president in decades (if not ever), the evidence must be pretty clear cut.
They also seemingly knew exactly where they wanted to go. Which makes me wonder...somebody had a wire?
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/08/cpac-jan-6-prayers-marjorie-taylor-greene-art-video/
Related, a new PLATINUM MEDAL is now available to award in the Victim Olympics.
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/08/cpac-jan-6-prayers-marjorie-taylor-greene-art-video/
Related, a new PLATINUM MEDAL is now available to award in the Victim Olympics.
https://twitter.com/fakenerd2113/status/1556808008365002752
:nintex :popular
I hope the FBI raids Nintex soon too.
They also seemingly knew exactly where they wanted to go. Which makes me wonder...somebody had a wire?
My theory is that Trump actually called up the FBI to do this raid (everyone knows the FBI is full of Trumps). This way he can campaign as a victim, fighting back against the deep state and the government as an outsider
I bet there's a good chance that Trump bragged to someone about what kind of documents he still has and whoever heard it didn't think it was quite as funny
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1556818400227119104I agree, Florida should definitely do this.
I can't imagine he actually took anything vitally important, why would he care? Wait, maybe he did this not for himself but files on like Obama and Hillary. :lol
I wonder if he used the President's authority to request documents on himself and then stole them thinking they were the only copies. :trumps
I can't imagine he actually took anything vitally important, why would he care? Wait, maybe he did this not for himself but files on like Obama and Hillary. :lol
I wonder if he used the President's authority to request documents on himself and then stole them thinking they were the only copies. :trumps
Feds aren't saying shit, Trump radio silent today. WaPo saying the boxes contained documents so sensitive they can't even be generally described during a congressional hearing. You'd get bopped in the head faster than you could say "Cambodia?" in Vietnam circa 1969.Don't get me hard without even offering to finish me off please!
He's probably fucked.
Build the wall out, defund the FBI in. Lets gooooooooDonald J. Kennedy
An Alaska jury has ordered the buyer of a news website to make good on a payment promise she had scrawled on a cocktail napkin.
The Anchorage Daily News reports that jurors on Thursday ordered Alice Rogoff to pay more than $850,000 to Tony Hopfinger.
Rogoff purchased a majority stake in the Alaska Dispatch website from Hopfinger in 2009. Her company bought the Anchorage Daily News in 2014 and merged the businesses.
Hopfinger sued Rogoff, claiming she failed to pay him $100,000 annually for 10 years as promised in a note on the cocktail napkin.
Rogoff’s attorney argued that terms were stated to commit Hopfinger to work for a decade and that he deserved nothing when he left.
Build the wall out, defund the FBI in. Lets gooooooooBuild the wall around the FBI. :rollsafe
Do you guys think trump did something wrong?
Do you guys think trump did something wrong?Like recently or... ?
Do you guys think trump did something wrong?
:LadyNintex
Bork plz
Haven't seen it mentioned here: Apparently Murdoch is done with Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/07/25/rupert-murdoch-donald-trump-splitsville-00047748
This is the result: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/us/politics/fox-news-trump-speech.html
https://twitter.com/nbc6/status/1557795432566333446
HES ON
wtf does he look so old we need hot attorneys like ally mcbeal
Edit: its fucking nothing
It seems more likely to me that they were trying to take a bunch of paperwork they shouldn't have been taking and accidentally got some overclassified nuclear secrets in those.
I told you fucks it was the Area 51 filesIt was the military's research on trying to stop a mass of people Naruto running, even nuclear weapons couldn't do it.
Garland: "The integrity of the FBI is unquestionable"
FBI: *leaks classified information about the most politically sensitive raid in history to the Washington Post*
And these documents were supposed to be stored by the national archives? None of this makes sense.
I told you fucks it was the Area 51 filesDocument 1: <<TOP SECRET>> Project Ligma
Those spaceships ran on clean fission tech and big oil will do anything they can to keep it away from the public
So who is giving the press all these detailed acounts of so called classified documents if the FBI's integrity is without question :idont
BREITBART HAS THE WARRANTCongrats to the Breitbart fuckboi that managed to land a wapo reporter this fast.
:drudge :drudge :drudge
The first statute is the one that has likely provoked media speculation about so-called “nuclear” documents: it applies to a broad range of defense “information,” from code books to ordinary photographs.Guess the walls aren't closing in then?
Garland: Trump can release the warrant whenever he wants
Trump *releases warrant*
Garland: :pika
Garland: Trump can release the warrant whenever he wants
Trump *releases warrant*
Garland: :pika
LOCK HIM UP
If that is true, isn't this a slam dunk of a case?
It's really amazing how many scandals Trump has been involved in. He even keeps going after he stopped being president
It's really amazing how many scandals Trump has been involved in. He even keeps going after he stopped being president
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1557926941646282752
foxnews...
It's really amazing how many scandals Trump has been involved in. He even keeps going after he stopped being presidentWhat's more amazing is how many fucking stupid yanks will still vote for him.
https://twitter.com/warkin/status/1558170430086606848
If that is true, isn't this a slam dunk of a case?
It's really amazing how many scandals Trump has been involved in. He even keeps going after he stopped being president
It's really amazing how many scandals Trump has been involved in. He even keeps going after he stopped being president
honestly, he has wracked up so many I have been desensitized to it
And these documents were supposed to be stored by the national archives? None of this makes sense.When an administration leaves the documents are sent to the National Archives to determine if they go to the Presidential Library, are stored at the National Archives or are to be returned to the agencies. They can't do this if you take them.
This would be the funniest outcome possible
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1557196801303662592
trump will never be charged
trump will never be charged
He's been impeached twice :dead
trump will never be charged
He's been impeached twice :dead
imagine thinking congress matters
And part of Crossfire Hurricane (or rather the investigation into it) is Robert Mueller and others selling Uranium to Russia or what is commonly known as the Uranium One deal.Why would the FBI Director have uranium to sell to Russia?
And part of Crossfire Hurricane (or rather the investigation into it) is Robert Mueller and others selling Uranium to Russia or what is commonly known as the Uranium One deal.Why would the FBI Director have uranium to sell to Russia?
Why would an investigation into Donald Trump's presidential campaigns potential ties with Russia include files on a then former FBI Director supposedly selling uranium to Russia six years earlier?
Campbell tells me his FBI handlers assured him they had briefed Obama and then-FBI Director Robert Mueller, now the Russia special prosecutor, on Rosatom’s criminal activities as part of the president’s daily briefing and that agents suggested to him that “politics” was the reason the sale was allowed to go through.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uranium-one-is-a-curious-case-1518564360 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/uranium-one-is-a-curious-case-1518564360)Okay, cool, what does any of this have to do with Crossfire Hurricane? And where does it say that Muller had acquired uranium that he was selling to Russia?
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/409356-fbis-37-secret-pages-of-memos-about-russia-clintons-and-uranium-one/ (https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/409356-fbis-37-secret-pages-of-memos-about-russia-clintons-and-uranium-one/)QuoteCampbell tells me his FBI handlers assured him they had briefed Obama and then-FBI Director Robert Mueller, now the Russia special prosecutor, on Rosatom’s criminal activities as part of the president’s daily briefing and that agents suggested to him that “politics” was the reason the sale was allowed to go through.
This was one of the leads that Rudy was chasing along with Hunter Biden's Ukraine activities.
They were basically trying to find the origins of the Steele dossier and trying to build the case that not Trump but Clinton was working together with Russia.
Well some journalists seem to think that the files Trump kept at the Mar-A-Lago were the files he declassified regarding Crossfire Hurricane.https://www.wsj.com/articles/uranium-one-is-a-curious-case-1518564360 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/uranium-one-is-a-curious-case-1518564360)Okay, cool, what does any of this have to do with Crossfire Hurricane? And where does it say that Muller had acquired uranium that he was selling to Russia?
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/409356-fbis-37-secret-pages-of-memos-about-russia-clintons-and-uranium-one/ (https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/409356-fbis-37-secret-pages-of-memos-about-russia-clintons-and-uranium-one/)QuoteCampbell tells me his FBI handlers assured him they had briefed Obama and then-FBI Director Robert Mueller, now the Russia special prosecutor, on Rosatom’s criminal activities as part of the president’s daily briefing and that agents suggested to him that “politics” was the reason the sale was allowed to go through.
This was one of the leads that Rudy was chasing along with Hunter Biden's Ukraine activities.
They were basically trying to find the origins of the Steele dossier and trying to build the case that not Trump but Clinton was working together with Russia.
And part of Crossfire Hurricane (or rather the investigation into it) is Robert Mueller and others selling Uranium to Russia or what is commonly known as the Uranium One deal.Why would the FBI Director have uranium to sell to Russia?
Why would an investigation into Donald Trump's presidential campaigns potential ties with Russia include files on a then former FBI Director supposedly selling uranium to Russia six years earlier?
Well some journalists seem to think that the files Trump kept at the Mar-A-Lago were the files he declassified regarding Crossfire Hurricane.I don't think you're understanding any of this, let me rephrase to see if you can. Why would a 2016-17 investigation about one thing have documents about something completely different from 2010 involving entirely separate people? And why would you think it would especially involve documents about someone tangentially involved in the latter case doing something they've never been alleged to have done that would seem strange for them to be able to do in the first place?
The 'nuclear' element of that set of documents could be the Uranium One deal. Mueller played a role in the deal as FBI director.
On the other hand that theory doesn't hold up with the claims that the GSA moved the boxes by accident and it was just some random stuff that was displaced.
New tactic :lolIf this is what it takes to repeal it, I can't complain. :trumps
So, for someone totally uninvested in this, why was Trump keeping these documents?Until we know more details I'm still just assuming it's documents that are mostly either about himself or one of his obsessions like Hillary or Obama. He doesn't give a shit about the law, he probably took them just because he wanted them.
My assumption is that it was some sort of blackmail guarantee that he would use something in those documents as collateral against being charged with something else.
Benji help...
I think it's a mistake to assume Trump is some kind of elaborate planner. This is the guy who was easily convinced the Vice President could simply halt an election from being certified indefinitely even after they had to explain to him that he couldn't simply delay elections by himself.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-must-testify-georgia-grand-jury-investigating-trump-judge-rules/
"Senator Graham was doing his due diligence before the Electoral Count Act certification vote — where he voted to certify the election," Graham's office said. "Although the district court acknowledged that Speech or Debate may protect some of Senator Graham's activities, she nevertheless ignored the constitutional text and binding Supreme Court precedent."lol, isn't this the call where he asked if all absentee ballots could be thrown out?
The Fulton County District Attorney declined to comment on the ruling.
Graham's attorneys argued in their motion to quash the subpoena that he "was engaged in quintessentially legislative factfinding — both to help him form election-related legislation, including in his role as then-Chair of the Judiciary Committee, and to help inform his vote to certify the election."
is she completely out of her mind too? :sicko
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1557929811120619520 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1557929811120619520)
The Scooter Libby case under George W. Bush showed that presidents can declassify materials without a clear paper trail.This totally clears the President*. THANK YOU!
The Evers administration has reversed course on the recent appointment of a convicted felon, who is awaiting trial on five additional felony and misdemeanor charges, to the Governor's Juvenile Justice Commission.:hmm
Aundray Evans, 24, of Milwaukee, was a member of the 19-member commission. He was charged in September 2019 with five criminal counts including armed robbery, motor vehicle theft, possession of a firearm by a felon, cocaine possession and obstructing an officer.
...
Evers re-created the Juvenile Justice Commission in 2019. It is Wisconsin’s State Advisory Group, required by the federal Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act.
The commission includes law enforcement, corrections professionals, attorneys, judges, mental health practitioners, and non-profit organizations dedicated to youth programming. One-fifth of members are also under the age of 28 when they are appointed.
Cudaback said in order to receive certain federal funds for juvenile justice improvement, federal law requires every state to establish a panel comprised of more than 20% of members who are under the age of 28 and at least three members who have been or are currently under the jurisdiction of the juvenile justice system.
That is how Evans was chosen.
By the way things are going, Trump might have singlehandedly destroyed the Trump dynasty as well.
:salute
Well they keep leaking to the press so might as well go directly to the source. :trumps
"Several people said Trump was nearly impossible to represent and that it would be unclear if they would ever get paid," the Post reported.:trumps
"This is not good," one Trump confidant told the outlet. "Something big is going to pop. Somebody needs to be in charge."
Trump confirms he has his passports back.If Roosevelt was livin, he wouldn’t let this be! No no no!
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Welcome to Gilead.
Students lose access to books amid ‘state-sponsored purging of ideas’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/17/book-ban-restriction-access-lgbtq/
I actually like that parents get an email with whatever books the child checked outThat is what worries the people against it the most.
depending on the phase or temperament of the kid, finding out what they do or enjoy can sometimes be like pulling teeth
there have been big strides recently in terms of data that can be shared with parents including homework, units being covered, and individual grades, and this feels like a natural extension of that
if you find out they're checking out a lot of fantasy books or graphic novels or whatever, it primes you to be able to recommend more, or know what might make a good gift
I understand the implication that this is for parents who want to catch kids reading "So You Think You're Trans" but situations like that feel like an edge case compared to the benefits of having an avenue to find out what your kid is interested in
plus the other thing this does is promotes responsibility on the parents' part to take an active role in their kid's education and upbringing, there are so many shitty absentee parents and anything along these lines just adds another vector to encourage them to pay more attention
I'm against censorship.
Still this thing is a self-inflicted wound. Teachers and schools taunting the parents with poorly written drivel about their ideology of the week. With some of these books it's like learning the kids internet search through pornhub.
Don't blame me when the kids are educated in the Critical Sonic TheoryI'm against censorship.
Still this thing is a self-inflicted wound. Teachers and schools taunting the parents with poorly written drivel about their ideology of the week. With some of these books it's like learning the kids internet search through pornhub.
The "Nintex is a theocratic evangelical who thinks all books that reference magic should be banned" is a new twist
Don't blame me when the kids are educated in the Critical Sonic TheoryI'm against censorship.
Still this thing is a self-inflicted wound. Teachers and schools taunting the parents with poorly written drivel about their ideology of the week. With some of these books it's like learning the kids internet search through pornhub.
The "Nintex is a theocratic evangelical who thinks all books that reference magic should be banned" is a new twist
https://twitter.com/AndreaBNYC/status/1560269250681798662 (https://twitter.com/AndreaBNYC/status/1560269250681798662)
I think this has a bigger chance of blowing up in Trump's face than the documents tbh
How long did it take them to distance themselves from G.W. Bush and his band of neo-cons?https://twitter.com/AndreaBNYC/status/1560269250681798662 (https://twitter.com/AndreaBNYC/status/1560269250681798662)
I think this has a bigger chance of blowing up in Trump's face than the documents tbh
I think he's fucked on multiple fronts. The bigger question to me is when does the GOP start to distance themselves. The longer they support, the worse they will look. A bit surprising, as DeSantis would be a very easy pivot for them.
How long did it take them to distance themselves from G.W. Bush and his band of neo-cons?
I think it was the last year of his presidency and mostly because the economy had tanked too.
And they never really got rid of the neo-cons in their orbit.
If they didn't distance themselves from the neo-cons over fake WMD's, torture camps, tanking the world economy and two failed wars.
Why would they distance themselves from Trump over tax fraud or classified documents.
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I think one of these polls may turn out to be inaccurate.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An anti-abortion coalition in Michigan filed a challenge Thursday against a potential ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution, claiming that 60 errors in the proposed amendment should disqualify it from the November ballot.We'll fix it in post. :trumps
The alleged 60 errors deal with spacing and result in “strings of gibberish,” making the amendment “impossible to understand,” the coalition said in a statement. Examples flagged by the group in the ballot language include the lack of spaces in phrases such as "DECISIONSABOUTALLMATTERSRELATINGTOPREGNANCY," "THEREISASIGNIFICANTLIKELIHOOD," or "OFTHEFETUS'SSUSTAINEDSURVIVALOUTSIDETHE."
“Some people would say, ‘Oh, they’re just spaces,’ but amending the constitution is pretty serious business and the correct number of typos to put in your constitution is zero,” Christen Pollo, a spokeswoman for Citizens to Support MI Women and Children, told The Associated Press.
But Richard Primus, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School, said he believes the amendment’s language could be cleaned up and that typographical problems wouldn’t cause legal issues.
“There’s no reason to think that anyone didn’t understand what the petition was saying,” Primus said. “There have been typographical problems with things drafted for constitutions as long as there have been constitutions in the United States.”
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I think one of these polls may turn out to be inaccurate.
But what are the unskewed numbers.spoiler (click to show/hide)(https://i.imgur.com/qsrBVQv.jpg)[close]
THE BORE »General »The Superdeep Borehole »Post reply ( Re: USA Politics Thread |OT| Cleaning up the town )
https://twitter.com/govttrader/status/1562112666868621315
RELEASE THE KRAKEN
Kraken, not the calamari ringRELEASE THE KRAKEN
If you say so.
*Unzips pants*
:smug
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1562884301490114562 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1562884301490114562)
does he think he's helping
Fuck Biden my parents paid for college so what do I get????????????(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fa-jHguX0AA_wSv?format=jpg&name=small)
They released the affidavit heavily redacted which gives both sides just enough to support their version of the story :lol"Both sides"...but it specifically states there is probable cause to charge him on multiple counts, and that he was housing information he shouldn't have had - and information they thought he gave them back in January.
Yes that's one side. But the other sideThey released the affidavit heavily redacted which gives both sides just enough to support their version of the story :lol"Both sides"...but it specifically states there is probable cause to charge him on multiple counts, and that he was housing information he shouldn't have had - and information they thought he gave them back in January.
It all comes down to the limits of the power of the executive, which was already a big question during the Bush administration.I don't think you're understanding that they asked him to send them back and he refused.
Their reading of the constitution was that the President could basically do whatever the fuck he wanted as long as he thought it was in the best interest of United States.
The same defense that got Trump through one of his impeachment trials thanks to Alan Dershowitz.
What makes or breaks this case is really what happened to those documents while they were at the Mar-A-Lago. Did Trump show them to others, did he know what was there etc. . If Trump is part of some scheme to sell secrets to a foreign power it's a slam dunk case but if it stays limited to boxes that ended up in his storage by accident and the government wanted to secure those boxes by any means necessary, they can confiscate the contents but it will be very difficult to prosecute Trump himself.
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:hesright
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FbV5nCvXEAEFexR?format=jpg)Who is he quoting?
:hesright
Yes, all these "the President can declassify anything he wants" takes seem to just skip right over the fact that the President is merely empowered to personally start the process. And as head of the executive branch obviously has the ability to lean on people to get it done.
The way the defenders seem to be using it is more like "hey, you've got some classified documents here" "oh, I declassified those" "never mind then, my mistake!" I've even seen some suggest that once you're a President you can always personally declassify any documents you want forever so Trump could just declassify them (without telling anyone) after the government asked for them back.
The current defenses seem to be saying that he took them on purpose but that's fine because Presidents can't do anything illegal by definition. Even after they've left office.
Nintex in shambles as Dark Biden conjures up another stunning election victoryYou mean another stunning stolen election from guaranteed winners like Dr. Oz, J.D. Vance (Trump supporter NeverTrump division), David Perdue and Laura Loomer.
Nintex in shambles as Dark Biden conjures up another stunning election victoryYou mean another stunning stolen election from guaranteed winners like Dr. Oz, J.D. Vance (Trump supporter NeverTrump division), David Perdue and Laura Loomer.
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… And I'm proud to be an American
Where at least I know I'm free
And I won't forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me
He thinks people don't know that the docs were placed there for the FBI to photograph? :lol
https://twitter.com/DavidEdwards/status/1565027550430203907 (https://twitter.com/DavidEdwards/status/1565027550430203907)Maybe ask your client about that Assange guy he hit with the "mundane" Espionage Act sometime?
She must be the first Alaskan Democrat to be elected in like a century. :lolAlaska actually used to be a pretty Democratic state, it's just simply always been represented by Don Young, Ted Stevens or someone from the Murkoswski family since the 1970's until they started dying. Mark Begich was a member of the post-Obama Democratic supermajority in the Senate after winning in 2008.
edit: oh yeah, that Gravel guy
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1565436402707435522https://twitter.com/kaoskit/status/1565441936110276608
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1565436402707435522https://twitter.com/kaoskit/status/1565441936110276608
The walls are closing in"reportedly"?
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1565313449575546881 (https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1565313449575546881)
Those documents definitely seem like the realest scandal Trump has faced. Not quite sure how he would be able to get out of it. Maybe blame it on some scapegoat?There are plenty of ways for him to stall the process and a number of people he can throw under the bus. And he's not wrong about the poll numbers, it will be very difficult to prosecute a Presidential front runner without making it a political process. Ironically he can hide behind the fact that Clinton got away with her server too. The espionage thing is the biggest question mark, that could potentally sink him.
Dark Brandon intensifies
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1565496344713859078 (https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1565496344713859078)Those documents definitely seem like the realest scandal Trump has faced. Not quite sure how he would be able to get out of it. Maybe blame it on some scapegoat?There are plenty of ways for him to stall the process and a number of people he can throw under the bus. And he's not wrong about the poll numbers, it will be very difficult to prosecute a Presidential front runner without making it a political process. Ironically he can hide behind the fact that Clinton got away with her server too. The espionage thing is the biggest question mark, that could potentally sink him.
The leader of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has been accused by former colleagues of stealing more than $10 million in donations from the organization for personal use, according to a lawsuit filed in court this week.
Shalomyah Bowers was called in the court filing as a “rogue administrator, a middle man turned usurper” who siphoned contributions to the nonprofit activist group to use as a “personal piggy bank,” according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Thursday.
The walls are closing in"reportedly"?
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1565313449575546881 (https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1565313449575546881)
Couldn't they check and get some examples? Then report that it happened rather than report that there are reports of it?
https://twitter.com/TheGoodLiars/status/1564983036474757123 (https://twitter.com/TheGoodLiars/status/1564983036474757123)
Those classified documents really tie the room together :trumps
Why do you think they believe only their solutions to climate change will work when they can could have invested in nuclear 30 years ago?It solves the energy problem leading to more production, consumption and emissions, what they want is people to consume less and change their habits.
Lmfao this incompetent turd bucket. How will he turn this into him being a victim this time?The general consensus is that Mark Meadows flipped on him, who as Chief of Staff would've been responsible for this.
QuoteWhy do you think they believe only their solutions to climate change will work when they can could have invested in nuclear 30 years ago?It solves the energy problem leading to more production, consumption and emissions, what they want is people to consume less and change their habits.
"Energy poverty" is a policy to bring about the changes they think are necessary to save the climate. (closing factories, farms, replacing meat with bugs and soy, making cars and air travel unaffordable, working at home etc.)
Nuclear energy would not change consumption habits and destroy their bottom line as they mostly get money from donations and lawsuits against fossil fuel energy companies.
All those in favor of the 'pro-climate' policies have the same message, people have to consume less and change their way of living.QuoteLmfao this incompetent turd bucket. How will he turn this into him being a victim this time?The general consensus is that Mark Meadows flipped on him, who as Chief of Staff would've been responsible for this.
Trump seems to have wanted personal trinkets and souvenirs from his time at the White House to display and keep.
Considering the nature of classified information, that could've been literally anything. Those folders could've contained pictures of vehicles, transcripts of his meetings with Kim Jun Un, weather reports or flight plans.
99% of the items that get to the President's desk are probably classified in some form. Trump keeps saying it is his stuff so I expect it mostly has to do with things he was personally involved in and relate to things he has on display like foreign trips and the new Air Force One.
The fact that they returned expired passports is another sign that he was just hoarding stuff like he also did at Trump Tower.
The big question is if this is what his staff collected for him (which would make it difficult to claim espionage) or if he just randomly took stuff by himself not caring if it was classified or not or if he took certain items to sell or share.
Da hell, thought we got 4 months off, smh
You ever notice the left calls the upper class the elite but most of the lefts agenda coincides with the elite? Or am I reading the room wrong? This isn't to say all of the elites have left viewpoints but overwhelmingly it seems to stick from climate change (particularly solutions to climate change) to LGBTQ politics.There's two different left wing movements though, you have the genuine left who sees the charade for what it is and the mainstream I suppose 'center' that consists of both left and right wing voices that simply repeat the same shit using the same words over and over.
Benji, what are your thoughts on progressives pushing their climate agenda and forcing renewables on everyone? Why do you think they believe only their solutions to climate change will work when they can could have invested in nuclear 30 years ago?I can't speak to the "normies" in the Democratic coalition as it doesn't make much sense and some of them whisper that they actually do support nuclear but "there's no support for it" because of the activists. The activists explanation, as much as I hate to say it, Nintex seems to have correct. They want degrowth, not abundant energy. Friends of the Earth, for example, calls nuclear a "false climate solution" on their website and seemingly wants all nuclear plants shut down:
"Here's a solution."
"No! It's not the one I like!"
Dirty, dangerous nukes have no role to play in a clean energy future. From start to finish, every segment of the nuclear industry is dangerous to communities and to future generations, from uranium mining to radioactive waste disposal — the most dangerous industrial byproduct in existence.
We are fighting to stop giant nuclear utilities from making electricity more expensive and slowing the deployment of cleaner, cheaper renewables.
For 40 years, Friends of the Earth has been a leading voice in the U.S. opposing nuclear reactors. We must move beyond this dangerous and dirty technology to the clean renewable energy and efficiency technologies of the 21st century.
Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign works to reduce risks for people and the environment by supporting efforts to close existing nuclear reactors and fighting proposals to design and build new ones.
The speech does signify that the White House doesn't think ... that the Republicans will pick Cheney as their candidate.Nobody sane thinks Liz Cheney would be the Republican candidate in 2024.
Benji, what are your thoughts on progressives pushing their climate agenda and forcing renewables on everyone? Why do you think they believe only their solutions to climate change will work when they can could have invested in nuclear 30 years ago?I can't speak to the "normies" in the Democratic coalition as it doesn't make much sense and some of them whisper that they actually do support nuclear but "there's no support for it" because of the activists. The activists explanation, as much as I hate to say it, Nintex seems to have correct. They want degrowth, not abundant energy. Friends of the Earth, for example, calls nuclear a "false climate solution" on their website and seemingly wants all nuclear plants shut down:
"Here's a solution."
"No! It's not the one I like!"Quote from: https://foe.org/projects/false-solutions/Dirty, dangerous nukes have no role to play in a clean energy future. From start to finish, every segment of the nuclear industry is dangerous to communities and to future generations, from uranium mining to radioactive waste disposal — the most dangerous industrial byproduct in existence.
We are fighting to stop giant nuclear utilities from making electricity more expensive and slowing the deployment of cleaner, cheaper renewables.Quote from: https://foe.org/projects/nuclear/?issue=5For 40 years, Friends of the Earth has been a leading voice in the U.S. opposing nuclear reactors. We must move beyond this dangerous and dirty technology to the clean renewable energy and efficiency technologies of the 21st century.
Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign works to reduce risks for people and the environment by supporting efforts to close existing nuclear reactors and fighting proposals to design and build new ones.The speech does signify that the White House doesn't think ... that the Republicans will pick Cheney as their candidate.Nobody sane thinks Liz Cheney would be the Republican candidate in 2024.
:wutI was going to ask if Joe Biden knew about this but after watching the clip I think it's a digression he's rambling onto after seeing whatever he's going to say about Zuckerberg and he's not actually saying this happened last week, he's saying "Mark Zuckerberg last week, [rambling digression], [then whatever he was supposed to be reading]" but I'd have to bother to try and look at the entire speech to know for sure. Rupar and some of these other Twitter guys do this constantly (Biden gets the same treatment from Republican accounts) and then it's just a meme forever repeated.
:wutI was going to ask if Joe Biden knew about this but after watching the clip I think it's a digression he's rambling onto after seeing whatever he's going to say about Zuckerberg and he's not actually saying this happened last week, he's saying "Mark Zuckerberg last week, [rambling digression], [then whatever he was supposed to be reading]" but I'd have to bother to try and look at the entire speech to know for sure. Rupar and some of these other Twitter guys do this constantly (Biden gets the same treatment from Republican accounts) and then it's just a meme forever repeated.
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1566426403985293312
Yep, Trump says 3 words of his teleprompter speech than he goes off script and returns back to his speech.
Last nights rally was 90% improv in that sense.
It's usually just certain words that trigger him, like when it's about corruption he throws in the Lock Her Up routine, when it's about migration he starts talking about the wall. Anything with the military or the wars usually gets him into a "sir" story. Climate and energy triggers the dead birds and wind turbines. He mostly does it when he notices the crowd is not responding to the prepared speech. As far as his mental state goes, he recalled the UN speech and the German response as well as his talks with Merkel and Xi.
He's also able to throw in new subjects like woke culture, mileage on electric cars and women sports as well as the FBI raid. I feel that is the biggest tell that he doesn't have dementia, because it would be fairly easy to learn a routine: wall, clinton, oil or whatever but very difficult to mix in new subjects, jokes and interact with the crowd. Especially the last part is something that not even all the big comedians can do very well. Most of them can only focus on 1 or 2 things at the same time. This is also his achilles heel though, like yesterday when he said: "[...] but we had to make your gas a bit more expensive so the oil companies could make a few bucks, right?".
With Biden it's different, sometimes he just 'switches off' and looks confused or even scared.
Unlike Trump he also brings up stuff that has no relation to the topic at hand. He weirdly repeats things and when asked about the things he just spoke about, he usually says the opposite.
He gave a speech about how Trump and MAGA Republicans were a threat to democracy and a day later he says that no Republican is a threat and he never said they were.
I'm not sure what the problem is but it's not just the stuttering.
I also considered what the timeline would be like if Trump ran for the Democratic Party instead of Republican and attacked the Republicans the way he does the Democrats. Do you think liberals would be on board?
With Biden it's different, sometimes he just 'switches off' and looks confused or even scared.lol wat
Unlike Trump he also brings up stuff that has no relation to the topic at hand. He weirdly repeats things and when asked about the things he just spoke about, he usually says the opposite.
Looks like Donnie is getting out of this jam
Looks like Donnie is getting out of this jam
https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1566826339637891075 (https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1566826339637891075)
(de)fund the police? :dizzy
https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1566755469909262337 (https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1566755469909262337)
is judge cannon related to nick cannon?Mmm some good ones coming out of this:
The whole thing will come crashing down in November unless Trump can convince enough people to vote for the likes of Dr. Oz
DR. OZ REVIVES PASSENGER ON FLIGHT
Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz helped revive a 27 year old male passenger who collapsed on an American Airlines flight from Louisville to Philadelphia Saturday morning.
“When I got to him, he was conscious but disoriented,” the cardiothoracic surgeon continued. “I asked the stewardesses to come help and get me something with sugar in it.”Thank you for your service, Dr. Oz. :american
The flight attendants brought Oz some soda for the passenger. The passenger remained seated on the ground for 10 minutes while he drank more fluids.
The whole thing will come crashing down in November unless Trump can convince enough people to vote for the likes of Dr. OzQuote from: https://www.wibc.com/kendall-and-casey/dr-oz-revives-passenger-on-flight/DR. OZ REVIVES PASSENGER ON FLIGHT
Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz helped revive a 27 year old male passenger who collapsed on an American Airlines flight from Louisville to Philadelphia Saturday morning.spoiler (click to show/hide)Quote“When I got to him, he was conscious but disoriented,” the cardiothoracic surgeon continued. “I asked the stewardesses to come help and get me something with sugar in it.”Thank you for your service, Dr. Oz. :american
The flight attendants brought Oz some soda for the passenger. The passenger remained seated on the ground for 10 minutes while he drank more fluids.[close]
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1567313856535347200
:drudge
Finally we will know the full extent of the Israeli arsenal
How does the Wapo know? The integrity of the FBI is without question.
Wait until we find out that Russia infiltrated the Lago not to steal but protect their information :trumps
people familiar with the search:snob
Quotepeople familiar with the search:snob
Crazy how Trump has full control of the military and has executed every Democrat and RINO at least twice, but yet the Deep State just keeps getting away with it.Wait, are you saying this isn't all part of The Plan, Joe?
It's apt that Colbert's desk for the Late Show is shaped like a C, for he truly is cringe.
It's apt that Colbert's desk for the Late Show is shaped like a C, for he truly is cringe.
It's apt that Colbert's desk for the Late Show is shaped like a C, for he truly is cringe.
His desk was shaped like a C at Comedy Central 15 years ago too. You just noticed?
It's apt that Colbert's desk for the Late Show is shaped like a C, for he truly is cringe.
I take it yours would be shaped like a pretzel, to reflect the shape of your brain?
No, you are the one wearing a MAGA hat.
No, I wish for you to get everything you'll be voting for in the next election.You will not get your wish, Hochul will probably win by 25 or something.
Not enough pretzel-brains in New York.
Well, I guess he could always move to Texas, seems like a better fit anyway.
We're only interested in American politics because American politicians keep invading other countries and doing shit that destabilises the world. The stupidity of the American electorate affects all of us.Not enough pretzel-brains in New York.
Well, I guess he could always move to Texas, seems like a better fit anyway.
I have spoken out against Texas abortion law many times. :)
Again, I do not appeal to the opinions of a non-American and I do not give a damn what a non-American thinks whom I, or my neighbor, should vote for. None of us care about your country's politics. We will follow it maybe, but not get invested the way you are in ours. Maybe you should learn to follow our example.
We're only interested in American politics because American politicians keep invading other countries and doing shit that destabilises the world. The stupidity of the American electorate affects all of us.Name one example. I'll wait. :bolo
Just one?We're only interested in American politics because American politicians keep invading other countries and doing shit that destabilises the world. The stupidity of the American electorate affects all of us.Name one example. I'll wait. :bolo
American idiocy absolutely absolutely affects the rest of the planet. One example: Global warming.I like how this one works for both sides of the argument.
Just one?I notice you didn't actually name one. :smug
I mean, I can name two from the same family that invaded the same country...Just one?I notice you didn't actually name one. :smug
:american USA USA USA USA :american
I mean, I can name two from the same family that invaded the same country...All I remember is Kuwait liberated from the guy who did 9/11 and then Iraq liberated from the guy who did 9/11? ???
:usacry :usacry :usacry :nothing :nothing :nothing
I mean, I can name two from the same family that invaded the same country...All I see is Kuwait liberated and then Iraq liberated? ???
:usacry :usacry :usacry :nothing :nothing :nothing
I mean, I can name two from the same family that invaded the same country...All I remember is Kuwait liberated from the guy who did 9/11 and then Iraq liberated from the guy who did 9/11? ???
:usacry :usacry :usacry :nothing :nothing :nothing
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1567577090811215875 (https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1567577090811215875)
:obama
Not enough pretzel-brains in New York.Himu's required by the terms of his settlement agreement to align with the political minority wherever he moves to. It'd just be socialist in Texas -> potential MAGA in NYC -> socialist in Texas again. If he goes to West Virginia he has to become a #ResistLib Hillary deadender or join #KHive. If he goes to Wyoming he has to become Liz Cheney or join #KHive.
Well, I guess he could always move to Texas, seems like a better fit anyway.
She's going to regret saying that when Biden chokes on a pretzel.
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1567313856535347200I'd bet money it's Israel or France. There's zero logical reason for him to have these documents, and clearly somebody is going to jail. Probably the attorney who was dumb enough to sign a written statement that MAL had returned all the classified/top secret docs.
:drudge
https://twitter.com/OliviaRubinABC/status/1567939525602844672 (https://twitter.com/OliviaRubinABC/status/1567939525602844672)He knows they want him to speak right?
Sloppy Steve
and dems likely re-take the senate and house here.With those maps?
Not enough pretzel-brains in New York.Himu's required by the terms of his settlement agreement to align with the political minority wherever he moves to. It'd just be socialist in Texas -> potential MAGA in NYC -> socialist in Texas again. If he goes to West Virginia he has to become a #ResistLib Hillary deadender or join #KHive. If he goes to Wyoming he has to become Liz Cheney or join #KHive.
Well, I guess he could always move to Texas, seems like a better fit anyway.
https://twitter.com/Local4News/status/1567985155045736450
:lol
Nightmare scenario for republicans. Might as well chalk Whitmer in for re-election, and dems likely re-take the senate and house here.
is she dead yet?
How long did it take the US to join both world wars again?
Nazis running riot around the world wasn't enough evidence that maybe they were the baddies?How long did it take the US to join both world wars again?
I thought one of the US's biggest problems was rushing to intervene militarily in others' affairs without at least a proper assessment of the situation?
The early stages of World War II was kind of confusing and not at all clear cut 'good vs. evil' as it was after the invasion of the USSR. England had sort of fueled the flames of the Poland/German conflict by telling the Poles not to negotiate and Russia had an alliance and understanding with Germany to carve it up in 2 zones. Most countries in western Europe remained Neutral but Germany feared the Brits would be able to built bases and send their navy there to blockade Germany as they had in WW1 and thus conquered the Nordic and low countries before England could. Like in Germany before it, a 'civilized' Nazi take-over was still seen as less of a threat than communism in most countries. Even before the war there were many German collaborators in countries like France and Holland including politicians, industrialists and members of the royal family. Up until the war broke out Jews that had fled Germany were rounded up in Holland and send back. The Queen had ordered a concentration camp to be built before the Germans invaded.Nazis running riot around the world wasn't enough evidence that maybe they were the baddies?How long did it take the US to join both world wars again?
I thought one of the US's biggest problems was rushing to intervene militarily in others' affairs without at least a proper assessment of the situation?
Seems much more clear cut than some Vietnamese farmers wanting self-determination after decades of colonial rule
I've left New York and I'm currently in Texas. I'm not socialist by a damn sight, though I do find Texas conservatives too much. It makes sense why I never really considered conservative viewpoints because I was so used to Texas Republicans. I still support Republicans but do think Texas GOP are a bit much. They're like the equivalent of California or NYC progressives but the opposite extreme.You can't discredit my truth with your petty facts.
I prefer the Midwest, honestly, and as PD knows I was in Michigan. Unfortunately family duties called me back to Texas. Every single ban this past summer happened when I was in the Lonestar state or Great Lakes. So there goes your theory.
How long did it take the US to join both world wars again?Should have never joined the first one and supplied the Allies in the second one from 1939.
Germany bombing innocent English speaking peoples really hit home in the US, even more so when German U-Boats attacked US ships. Those attacks made the US decide to help England and later the Soviet Union with supplies and other military aid.You're acting like the United States' refusal to declare war on a country that didn't attack it was this bold holding off on principle about diverting resources when Hitler declared war four days later. :lol
In that already tense situation the Japanese launched the attack on Pearl Harbor. Even at that point the US didn't want to declare war on Germany as it would divert resources from their war against Japan.
It was Hitler who decided to declare war on the US after the US declared war on Japan, perhaps hoping that the Japanese would also declare war on the Soviet Union in return.
I've left New York and I'm currently in Texas. I'm not socialist by a damn sight, though I do find Texas conservatives too much. It makes sense why I never really considered conservative viewpoints because I was so used to Texas Republicans. I still support Republicans but do think Texas GOP are a bit much. They're like the equivalent of California or NYC progressives but the opposite extreme.You can't discredit my truth with your petty facts.
I prefer the Midwest, honestly, and as PD knows I was in Michigan. Unfortunately family duties called me back to Texas. Every single ban this past summer happened when I was in the Lonestar state or Great Lakes. So there goes your theory.
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https://twitter.com/GaryGrumbach/status/1569353272099590147 (https://twitter.com/GaryGrumbach/status/1569353272099590147)
Sorry to keep you waiting, complicated business :trumps
Inflation still over 8% Biden what are you doing
Inflation still over 8% Biden what are you doinghttps://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1569659432899862528 (https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1569659432899862528)
Inflation still over 8% Biden what are you doing
Indicting Trump now would mean they'd have to adjourn the grand jury which doesn't seem like a good idea. Waiting until after the election to indict Trump is risky (what if he announces he's running for president) but it's probably worth it to wait.
Flip side they can indict his dumbass attorney anytime they want, given she clearly lied to the feds.
Indicting Trump now would mean they'd have to adjourn the grand jury which doesn't seem like a good idea. Waiting until after the election to indict Trump is risky (what if he announces he's running for president) but it's probably worth it to wait.
Flip side they can indict his dumbass attorney anytime they want, given she clearly lied to the feds.
If he won I don't want to imagine how easily he'd be able to squirm away. Before the election is the smarter move for the case, damn the optics.
Give me more crazy theories please.
But, sources told Real Raw News, Trump’s golf excursion was a diversion: while the rabid media focused on Trump, a senior aide who had travelled with him aboard the 757, quietly slipped away from the crowd on a clandestine mission—to visit the White House and, as once source put it, “Make sure it is as Trump left it.”
In July 2021, Real Raw News published an article claiming that Biden, despite appearances to the contrary, had not set foot in the White House, and was in fact turned away by the U.S. military when he and Kabula Harris sought entry on January 20th that year. Although multiple independent sources confirmed the story, we still questioned its veracity, for if true, it meant that every media organization in the country, including Fox News, was part of the fraud. Sources had said the Biden regime and its media enablers used movie sets and sound stages to mimic White House press events.
Yesterday’s information affirms last year’s contentions.
A source within Trump’s inner circle confided in RRN that the aide—we’ll call him “Jeff”—was greeted at the White House by the U.S. soldiers who have been safeguarding the Oval Office for either Donald J. Trump or the next “lawful president.”
Indicting Trump now would mean they'd have to adjourn the grand jury which doesn't seem like a good idea. Waiting until after the election to indict Trump is risky (what if he announces he's running for president) but it's probably worth it to wait.
Flip side they can indict his dumbass attorney anytime they want, given she clearly lied to the feds.
If he won I don't want to imagine how easily he'd be able to squirm away. Before the election is the smarter move for the case, damn the optics.
I mean the midterms, not 2024.
There's too much smoke blowing everywhere for me to believe no one gets caught.
The Democrats aren't going to jail Trump because that would destroy their fundraising and the motivation of their base.
If Trump's in jail than the entire 'threat to democracy' is gone.
It won't hurt the Republican party either because people see Trump as a seperate entity from the GOP.
http://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1569847934849634306
Jesus, ordered by the FBI not to talk about the investigation, and he broadcasts it. I hope he lands back in jail.
Tong and Lamont both pointed out that the new federal lawsuit was filed by an out-of-state organization.
I love how the world's most massive conspiracy in control of everything on Earth and inventing things like COVID simply gave up trying to get into the White House and has left it abandoned for nearly two years because the military apparently said they couldn't come in.Give me more crazy theories please.
Let’s leave the theories to the expert.QuoteIn July 2021, Real Raw News published an article claiming that Biden, despite appearances to the contrary, had not set foot in the White House, and was in fact turned away by the U.S. military when he and Kabula Harris sought entry on January 20th that year. Although multiple independent sources confirmed the story, we still questioned its veracity, for if true, it meant that every media organization in the country, including Fox News, was part of the fraud. Sources had said the Biden regime and its media enablers used movie sets and sound stages to mimic White House press events.
https://realrawnews.com/2022/09/trumps-advisor-checks-on-white-house/
:salute
Bernie would have nationalized the rail companies last week.
Why are you guys talking about trains? Bernie would have created transporters and given everyone jetpacks.Bernie would have nationalized the rail companies last week.
Bernie would have been talking about the virtues of spike hammerists unions, while fusion trains flew overheard.
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1570194506548498438 (https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1570194506548498438)
DeSantis takes no prisoners
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http://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1569847934849634306
Jesus, ordered by the FBI not to talk about the investigation, and he broadcasts it. I hope he lands back in jail.
http://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1569847934849634306
Jesus, ordered by the FBI not to talk about the investigation, and he broadcasts it. I hope he lands back in jail.
You think Lindell is going to jail?!? The FBI will be lucky to even exist after Mike is done with them.
https://twitter.com/Out5p0ken/status/1570479520565673984
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw - Wake-Up Call for the Radical Environmentalists | Peter Huntsman
Peter Huntsman is one of the foremost experts on energy and chemical markets. He joins us to examine the multiple crises involving energy, food, and water that are unfolding across the globe thanks to radical environmental policies.
Peter Huntsman is CEO of Huntsman Corp, a global chemicals company that manufactures the building blocks for countless consumer and industrial products.
With the event, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the following core principles for reform:lmao
Promote competition in the technology sector. The American information technology sector has long been an engine of innovation and growth, and the U.S. has led the world in the development of the Internet economy. Today, however, a small number of dominant Internet platforms use their power to exclude market entrants, to engage in rent-seeking, and to gather intimate personal information that they can use for their own advantage. We need clear rules of the road to ensure small and mid-size businesses and entrepreneurs can compete on a level playing field, which will promote innovation for American consumers and ensure continued U.S. leadership in global technology. We are encouraged to see bipartisan interest in Congress in passing legislation to address the power of tech platforms through antitrust legislation.
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Protect our kids by putting in place even stronger privacy and online protections for them, including prioritizing safety by design standards and practices for online platforms, products, and services. Children, adolescents, and teens are especially vulnerable to harm. Platforms and other interactive digital service providers should be required to prioritize the safety and wellbeing of young people above profit and revenue in their product design, including by restricting excessive data collection and targeted advertising to young people.
Remove special legal protections for large tech platforms. Tech platforms currently have special legal protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that broadly shield them from liability even when they host or disseminate illegal, violent conduct or materials. The President has long called for fundamental reforms to Section 230.
Increase transparency about platform’s algorithms and content moderation decisions. Despite their central role in American life, tech platforms are notoriously opaque. Their decisions about what content to display to a given user and when and how to remove content from their sites affect Americans’ lives and American society in profound ways. However, platforms are failing to provide sufficient transparency to allow the public and researchers to understand how and why such decisions are made, their potential effects on users, and the very real dangers these decisions may pose.
lma fucking o
https://twitter.com/Storm4Congress/status/1570532125975384064 (https://twitter.com/Storm4Congress/status/1570532125975384064)
I see absolutely no downside for liberals in this entire situation, yet there's this constant alternating between "look how great everything is turning out" and "desantis must be stopped, what a horrible person, this is illegal"
- if the immigrants remained in florida: everyone in FL is racist and will mistreat them and exploit them
- also if the immigrants remained in florida: if they're not mistreated, they'll fall into the local mentality that promotes conservatism and help them grow in power
- since they're being moved to liberal states: they are always treated well by the caring locals and set back on their feet
- they will owe a debt of gratitude toward liberals and feel drawn to that way of thinking, promoting liberal values
- liberal areas become less white which is a clear positive for diversity of thought and experience
- conservatives left to rot with their aging population and no influx of new people and ideas
- PR disaster of mean old conservatives shipping people around
- constant drain on conservative funds in order to move these people around
why the hell would anyone want to stop this? the only reason I can think of is if you don't like feeding, clothing and employing the needy, which is destantis' shitty position
keep it rolling, it's the best possible outcome for everyone involved
What's stopping Philly from gathering up all their homeless and putting them on a bus headed for Florida on the condition that they'd be warm for the winter? And before you say "morals", I want to clarify: Philadelphia.I expect by this time next year every state puts their migrants on a bus and they are being shuttled between states until they finally get dropped off at a Trump rally with no ride home because Trump didn't pay the bus companies.
Libs havin a good un today overallSo immigrants are trash? And should be in a dump? With a fence around them? Some kind of camp?
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- if the immigrants remained in florida:
What. Latinos trend conservative overall, anyways.
What. Latinos trend conservative overall, anyways.
What's stopping Philly from gathering up all their homeless and putting them on a bus headed for Florida on the condition that they'd be warm for the winter? And before you say "morals", I want to clarify: Philadelphia.One of the beliefs in California, to deny that incentives are an actual thing, is that other states are already doing this and sending them to California/San Francisco/etc. to ruin California and improve their states/cities. Not too long ago Gavin Newsom claimed Texas was the cause of all of California's homeless problems because they were deliberately sabotaging California in this way.
Libs havin a good un today overall
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What. Latinos trend conservative overall, anyways.
if that were true then you might expect US liberals to generally be against immigration anyway
or if they think they can change their minds, it's much easier to do so when they're living in non-conservative-leaning states instead of rotting in florida or texas
Liberals defending Chris Christie :dead
if that's a real thing that's taking place -- not denying it but acknowledging that I just haven't looked into it -- that almost feels like a trapWhat's laughable about the US corporate sector supposedly leaning left is that they are consistently breaking unions and any sort of worker power while promoting identity politics.
because any corporations vocally leaning liberal/politically correct are just doing so because it's socially acceptable and scores free marketing points, while benefiting from all the conservative policies in place for the rich/elite, they're not going to reject that because they're soulless and have no real ability to "take a stand" as a corporate entity
if regular america goes right, and rich corporate america sounds left but is still quietly right, then who is even left?
ok maybe someone can explain this to me because maybe I don't understand
the current thing going around social media about the desantis deportation is that he has a $12 million deportation budget and spent $600k of it to fly these immigrants to martha's vinyard
https://twitter.com/CharlieCrist/status/1570794372517732353
everyone is saying "he fucked up, his taxpayers aren't going to be happy that he's spending all their money on this stupid shit"
but imagine they stayed in texas or florida for years, got paid under the table as undocumented workers (no taxes involved), and took advantage of state programs the whole time? I mean even the tiniest shit like using public roads, all the way up to health care
might it add up to more than $12k per person?
are people not thinking about this or am I missing something?
if that's a real thing that's taking place -- not denying it but acknowledging that I just haven't looked into it -- that almost feels like a trap
because any corporations vocally leaning liberal/politically correct are just doing so because it's socially acceptable and scores free marketing points, while benefiting from all the conservative policies in place for the rich/elite, they're not going to reject that because they're soulless and have no real ability to "take a stand" as a corporate entity
if regular america goes right, and rich corporate america sounds left but is still quietly right, then who is even left?
It's all a matter of control.if that's a real thing that's taking place -- not denying it but acknowledging that I just haven't looked into it -- that almost feels like a trapWhat's laughable about the US corporate sector supposedly leaning left is that they are consistently breaking unions and any sort of worker power while promoting identity politics.
because any corporations vocally leaning liberal/politically correct are just doing so because it's socially acceptable and scores free marketing points, while benefiting from all the conservative policies in place for the rich/elite, they're not going to reject that because they're soulless and have no real ability to "take a stand" as a corporate entity
if regular america goes right, and rich corporate america sounds left but is still quietly right, then who is even left?
How the fuck does that line up with "left" politics? The Democrats wholeheartedly back this stance as well because they are exactly the same.
Liberals defending Chris Christie :dead
What. Latinos trend conservative overall, anyways.
if that were true then you might expect US liberals to generally be against immigration anyway
or if they think they can change their minds, it's much easier to do so when they're living in non-conservative-leaning states instead of rotting in florida or texas
Because liberals are delusional and cling to things like "demographics is destiny" even though Latinos and Asians are flipping to Republicans. They're so obsessed with identity politics they think all "minorities" think the same or these are collectivist obsessed racial groups who act like crabs.
The truth is more complex.
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/23/1113166779/hispanic-and-minority-voters-are-increasingly-shifting-to-the-republican-party
Even Ruy Teixeira, the man that made the demographics is destiny theory has disavowed it. Liberals cling to it because they live in their own unique bubbles. Remember a few years ago liberals were all about sanctuary states so in theory this should be fine for them. But reality knows that libs and progressives use racial minorities as a convenient cudgel to win. They don't actually care about us which is precisely why when they meet a black Republican or something they're a "race traitor" even if the person calling them that is white and they only seem to care about "minorities" during election years.
https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1571157734824763392 (https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1571157734824763392)
:trumps
https://twitter.com/ZacaMesaSix/status/1570989914099183616How do you both want pro-police and also less government?
https://twitter.com/ZacaMesaSix/status/1570989914099183616How do you both want pro-police and also less government?
On one hand, stronger borders are needed. Please finish the wall. What if these people were cartel? Thousands of people streaming into the state every damn day. Please finish the wall. How is this not considered an invasion of America's sovereignty?Allowing immigration does not harm a nations claim of sovereignty.
Libertarian Mark Jay Tippetts, attorney, former Lago Vista city councilman, and nominee for governor in 2018
Green Delilah Barrios, environmental activist
Independent Deirdre Dickson-Gilbert, public educator (previously ran for Democratic nomination)
Independent Ricardo Turullols-Bonilla, retired educator and write-in candidate for U.S. Senate in 2020
On one hand, stronger borders are needed. Please finish the wall. What if these people were cartel? Thousands of people streaming into the state every damn day. Please finish the wall. How is this not considered an invasion of America's sovereignty?Allowing immigration does not harm a nations claim of sovereignty.
Also on the Texas gubernatorial ballot:QuoteLibertarian Mark Jay Tippetts, attorney, former Lago Vista city councilman, and nominee for governor in 2018
Green Delilah Barrios, environmental activist
Independent Deirdre Dickson-Gilbert, public educator (previously ran for Democratic nomination)
Independent Ricardo Turullols-Bonilla, retired educator and write-in candidate for U.S. Senate in 2020
There's no wall on the American-Canadian border because you don't have to deal with cartels and drug smugglers en masse.Since you know the statistics how much more drugs comes across the Mexican border than the Canadian border? How much comes in through the ports?
These people are completely unchecked. They are not "migrants", they are illegal immigrants.I'm not a big person on thinking harmless civil violations of unjust laws makes a person a bad person though.
Since you know the statistics how much more drugs comes across the Mexican border than the Canadian border? How much comes in through the ports?
San Antonio is a hub for cargo, including migrants
The city is just 150 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, on two busy corridors that reach across the U.S.: I-10 running between Los Angeles and Florida and I-35 running from the border crossing at Laredo up north to Minnesota.
"Once you get to San Antonio, you can go to Houston, you can go to Dallas, you can go further north into the Midwest. Of course, I-35 goes all the way up to Minnesota," Enriquez said. "So it is an important corridor for goods and unfortunately, also for smuggling and the trafficking of persons."
Human traffickers thrive in areas where their trucks can mix in with other vehicles. And in Laredo, thousands of trucks cross the border each day. Smugglers operate their own logistics chain — but with safehouses instead of warehouses.
"I mean, it is literally a needle in a haystack," Robinette said. "If you've ever been to that border, you just see the frequency and the volume of trucks that are traveling northbound through the different checkpoints. It's a miracle that [agents] come across what they do come across."
Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said in a tweet that the dead include 22 Mexicans, 7 Guatemalans and 2 Hondurans. The others have not yet been identified.
Migrants pay tens of thousands of dollars to smugglers
For migrants, the financial costs of crossing are steep.
"We've heard reports of tens of thousands of dollars, depending on where they're coming from and where their destination is," Enriquez said.
"We also have to keep in mind that many of these folks already have family in the United States, and they're simply either trying to reunify with family here" or are in families with mixed citizenship, he said. In turn, loved ones who are working in the U.S. often help migrants raise the money to pay smugglers' steep fees, Enriquez added.
"It's a terrible human tragedy, and it continues to happen on a too-regular basis, because we have really failed to address two of the most important components of immigration law, which is family reunification and labor," he said.
Noting flaws in the U.S. guest worker program and other issues, Enriquez added, "Basically, we've stayed in a holding pattern for the last 10 or 15 years."
One thing that has changed is the difficulty of crossing into the U.S. Because of the measures people take to elude new technologies, Enriquez said, migrants' journeys continue to get more dangerous.
Another part of the problem, Robinette said, is that when things go wrong, human traffickers will look after themselves first.
"At the end of the day, these smugglers have very, very little value or care" for the people they're bringing into the U.S., he said.
For migrants who rely on human smugglers, the heat sharply increases the risks they face. The San Antonio area has been experiencing extreme heat, with record temperatures topping 100 degrees this month.
"Any mistakes are essentially a death sentence to folks," Enriquez said, adding that if a driver doesn't show up on time to pick up a load, or if a refrigeration unit fails, "You're putting folks in a tremendous amount of peril."
Robinette says the U.S. has long sent mixed messages to would-be migrants, who then risk everything for the chance of a better life, despite the dangers and the threat of prosecution.
Until the U.S. can change the dynamic, he said, "we're going to have people doing anything and everything they can to try to get in here and many times risking their lives, like they did in this situation."
What is the difference between human smuggling and human trafficking?
Human smuggling is when a person willingly pays a smuggler to gain entry into a foreign country, while human trafficking is the exploitation of an individual, for labor or commercial sex acts, using force, fraud or coercion.
'TOO MANY INNOCENT DEATHS': Biden says human smuggling crackdown will intensify after San Antonio migrant deaths
“A key difference is that victims of trafficking are considered victims of a crime under international law; smuggled migrants are not—they pay smugglers to facilitate their movement,” according to the U.S. Department of State.
However, it’s not uncommon for a migrant who willingly is being smuggled to end up being exploited or trafficked.
Smuggling Migrants at the Border Now a Billion-Dollar Business
With demand for smugglers on the rise, organized crime has moved in, with cruel and violent results.
I'm not a big person on thinking harmless civil violations of unjust laws makes a person a bad person though.
‘Absolute Warfare’: Cartels Terrorize Mexico as Security Forces Fall Short
The president disbanded the Federal Police and created the National Guard to tackle soaring violence, but three years later, criminal cartels have expanded their reach.
It doesn't stop drug traffing, either. You can always use ladders, tunnels, drones.I'm pretty sure that not many drugs are being brought into the US by Mexicans on foot either.
The wall is a con by pretzel brains, for pretzel brains.
On the Texas ballot are the issues of illegal immigration/border control and abortion. Both sides are weak on at least one half. Both are serious. Captured states that don't have moderate parties to act as a buffer are pointless. Instead you get progressives running in the state of Texas. Texas needs a Manchin.
You don't find it curious that California, a border state, and New Mexico, a border state, don't seem to be having a border crisis?
But only the republican led states of Texas and Florida do?
The idea that a wall solves or comes close to solving illegal immigration is s-tier stupidity. I wouldn't take the Benji approach on border laws and whether they should exist or not, but...the wall is dumb guys.
On the Texas ballot are the issues of illegal immigration/border control and abortion. Both sides are weak on at least one half. Both are serious. Captured states that don't have moderate parties to act as a buffer are pointless. Instead you get progressives running in the state of Texas. Texas needs a Manchin.
You don't find it curious that California, a border state, and New Mexico, a border state, don't seem to be having a border crisis?
But only the republican led states of Texas and Florida do?
Its almost like you're falling for the propoganda around the scary brown people.
What year was the infamous caravan again, 2018? Dominated media coverage for months and then the day after the election was never mentioned again
if those states aren't republican-led, then maybe it'd be off-message for the platform to publicize any problems they might be having?
This typifies liberal "solutions".
Homelessness in the subway with some crack smoking homeless man making a public utility his house where children ride, mental illness rampant and the liberal solution?
"Leave them alone, they need a place to stay during the winter and that's their home."
A non solution.
Similarly, conservatives are proposing one of many deterrances for illegal immigrants. A wall is just one of those deterrants. What's the solution or alternative liberals got? "A wall is stupid." Yeah? I posted that the cartel evades a wall if it's erected but at least it's something. What do you propose that's better?
It's the same way with conservatives and their complete lack of real healthcare proposal or Obamacare replacement. If you're going to trash an idea propose a better solution. A wall may be "dumb" to you, but to me it's just one added layer of security of many.
if those states aren't republican-led, then maybe it'd be off-message for the platform to publicize any problems they might be having?
The number of help wanted signs at restaurants indicates that there is not in fact an over abundance of cheap labor.
CBP is a federal organization, James.
I don't know whom to vote for.
On one hand, stronger borders are needed. Please finish the wall.
Some days I think I'll vote Abbott, other days I think I should vote Beto.
if those states aren't republican-led, then maybe it'd be off-message for the platform to publicize any problems they might be having?
The number of help wanted signs at restaurants indicates that there is not in fact an over abundance of cheap labor.
what kind of person looks at undocumented migrants and says oh boy gee whiz I can't wait to exploit them, bring over as many as you want and we'll throw them in our kitchens paying them nearly nothing under the table
Standing on stage at a Republican debate on the Gulf Coast of Florida last week, Mitt Romney repeatedly lashed out at rival Rudy Giuliani for providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants in New York City.
Yet, the very next morning, on Thursday, at least two illegal immigrants stepped out of a hulking maroon pickup truck in the driveway of Romney's Belmont house, then proceeded to spend several hours raking leaves, clearing debris from Romney's tennis court, and loading the refuse back on to the truck.
In fact, their work was part of a regular pattern. Despite a Globe story in Dec. 2006 that highlighted Romney's use of illegal immigrants to tend to his lawn, Romney continued to employ the same landscaping company — until today. The landscaping company, in turn, continued to employ illegal immigrants.
I won't humor you with a reply but this is an issue Democrats are losing on. That's all.
Poll: GOP is winning on the economy, immigration; Democrats are ahead on abortion and health care
Naturally. Once your brain has twisted itself into a pretzel, it's virtually impossible to untwist.
You know the saying, you can lead a Republican to the facts but you can't make make them think.
But my point is, the old anti-immigration line was "dur stealing muh jerbs".
Notice it's not used anymore, because we have more jobs that immigrants. How exactly would the labor shortage look if we take away the 500k that came over in the past few years?
so, again: why does anyone want to stop desantis from sending people up north?
he's depriving himself of jobs and all the benefits that come from increased diversity, and bolstering democratic states. how is this a problem? how is it not just a self-own in every sense?
why do you want to force these people to remain in republican shitholes rather than end up where they are welcomed, fed, and given good jobs?
so, again: why does anyone want to stop desantis from sending people up north?
he's depriving himself of jobs and all the benefits that come from increased diversity, and bolstering democratic states. how is this a problem? how is it not just a self-own in every sense?
I notice you never responded to my reply pointing out that DeSantis took people from TEXAS to send to MA. Why is that?
And you dont see any problem with LYING to people to get them onto your plane to make a political statement? He told them they were going to Boston and had jobs lined up.
so, again: why does anyone want to stop desantis from sending people up north?
he's depriving himself of jobs and all the benefits that come from increased diversity, and bolstering democratic states. how is this a problem? how is it not just a self-own in every sense?
I notice you never responded to my reply pointing out that DeSantis took people from TEXAS to send to MA. Why is that?
I don't think it matters in terms of examining what is happening, broadly it's republicans governments sending immigrants from southern states to northern states
presumably they have an agreement or arrangement with each other since their goals align, unless you've got a news source that demonstrates greg abbott is angry desantis is doing thisQuoteAnd you dont see any problem with LYING to people to get them onto your plane to make a political statement? He told them they were going to Boston and had jobs lined up.
ideally it ought to be clearly communicated where they're going and what they will find when they get there, though as incompetent as these states are, I would tend not to ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity or miscommunication
and this is yet another aspect of the self-own, creating his own personal PR nightmare
Neither DeSantis or Abbott are president or have Republican federal governments. Why are you comparing state power with federal power? States lack power in what they can do with borders, which are obviously federal issues.
I don't know whom to vote for.
On one hand, stronger borders are needed. Please finish the wall.
Some days I think I'll vote Abbott, other days I think I should vote Beto.
A mix of the two.
Immigration and borders are a federal responsibility, not a state one. But if Beto were in charge he would probably make attempts to soften the border issue and do jack shit with the illegals.
At least Abbott is doing something, although it's not clean.
Federal powers are the ones that allocate resources. Resources that Biden and his Twitter administration aren't allocating to the border. They are forcing Abbott to do this with their negligence.
If Biden started paying for buses to transport immigrants north, the Rs would have a meltdown. You know that is true. HOW DARE HE USE TAX MONEY TO ILLEGALLY TRANSPORT IMMIGRANTS they would scream just minutes after defending DeSantis doing the same
Naturally. Once your brain has twisted itself into a pretzel, it's virtually impossible to untwist.
You know the saying, you can lead a Republican to the facts but you can't make make them think.
Most Americans agree with me on immigration, foreigner. :)
Did I claim all illegal immigrants are bad people?No, I do not think a person should have to get everyone else's permission to invite someone onto their property. Nor do I think that someone should have to get everyone else's permission to travel to a person's property.
No.
But I don't know who they are.
...
An uncontrolled border leads to sex slavery, human trafficking, human smuggling, drug smuggling, violence, and an entire swarm of humanitarian violations.
How is this not contradicting NAP?
Why should I just trust people to come into my state without being checked just because I will be accused of being racist from by people far, far away from the issue who don't have to deal with it?
Are you fine letting robbers rob houses too? Or are you more fine with calling them "visitors"? Some are migrants, some aren't but all are illegal immigrants
The wall should be only one form deterrence and it's precisely why it's not the only thing I listed as border security in my last post. I just consider it one form of border security, like one of the many tools in my pocket knife.
A non solution.But nothing you're complaining about is significantly coming across the vacant land along the Mexican border. A wall there is security theater. How is a wall going to stop all the people overstaying the expired visas? You want more security at the checkpoints to do what? Stand there and look menacing as we wave everyone through? Or do you actually want all the border traffic halted for long background checks and extensive searches of everything? Or everyone who comes in the country to have a minder of some kind?
Similarly, conservatives are proposing one of many deterrances for illegal immigrants. A wall is just one of those deterrants. What's the solution or alternative liberals got? "A wall is stupid." Yeah? I posted that the cartel evades a wall if it's erected but at least it's something. What do you propose that's better?
However, the Mexicans sending their army to the border to please Trump was also very effective.
Naturally. Once your brain has twisted itself into a pretzel, it's virtually impossible to untwist.
You know the saying, you can lead a Republican to the facts but you can't make make them think.
Most Americans agree with me on immigration, foreigner. :)
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Because Italy's problem is ships. NGO's use big ships to pick up the migrants in their small and leaky boats and bring them to Europe.
So friends of Erdogan sell those poor people leaky boats that can only make it half way.
This will surely help with the approval ratings
https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474 (https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474)
Because Italy's problem is ships. NGO's use big ships to pick up the migrants in their small and leaky boats and bring them to Europe.
So friends of Erdogan sell those poor people leaky boats that can only make it half way.
To travel from Libya and Turkey by land you either have to take your chances on the Turk/Greek border or move through Ukraine.
This will surely help with the approval ratings
https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474 (https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474)
To fix inflation we need to print more money jack :derp
Inflation in the Netherlands rose to above ten per cent for the first time since 1975 last month, the country's statistics agency said on Thursday.
Prices were 10.3% higher in July 2022 compared to the previous year. Inflation in the month of June was at 8.6%.
Because Italy's problem is ships. NGO's use big ships to pick up the migrants in their small and leaky boats and bring them to Europe.
So friends of Erdogan sell those poor people leaky boats that can only make it half way.
To travel from Libya and Turkey by land you either have to take your chances on the Turk/Greek border or move through Ukraine.
This will surely help with the approval ratings
https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474 (https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474)
Another day, another Democratic "solution". And that solution of course is ignoring the problem because haha, there is no problem. As much as I hate him I really should have voted Trump. We are in the hands of a geriatric with dementia whose administration is staffed with Twitter addled fa**ots. Far from the centrist he campaigned on.
Because Italy's problem is ships. NGO's use big ships to pick up the migrants in their small and leaky boats and bring them to Europe.
So friends of Erdogan sell those poor people leaky boats that can only make it half way.
To travel from Libya and Turkey by land you either have to take your chances on the Turk/Greek border or move through Ukraine.
This will surely help with the approval ratings
https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474 (https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474)
Another day, another Democratic "solution". And that solution of course is ignoring the problem because haha, there is no problem. As much as I hate him I really should have voted Trump. We are in the hands of a geriatric with dementia whose administration is staffed with Twitter addled fa**ots. Far from the centrist he campaigned on.
The Fed is run by a fiscally conservative Republican. Increasing rates is exactly what he would do in a Republican admin.
The current chair is Jerome Powell, who was sworn in on February 5, 2018.He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump on November 2, 2017 and later confirmed by the Senate. He was nominated for a second four-year term by President Joe Biden, later confirmed by the Senate and sworn in on May 23, 2022.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Federal_Reserve
Our crooked government has an approval rating of 15% :idontTo fix inflation we need to print more money jack :derpQuoteInflation in the Netherlands rose to above ten per cent for the first time since 1975 last month, the country's statistics agency said on Thursday.
Prices were 10.3% higher in July 2022 compared to the previous year. Inflation in the month of June was at 8.6%.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/08/04/inflation-in-netherlands-above-10-for-first-time-in-nearly-47-years
Joe really gets around. How does the guy manage to preside over so many economies?
Because Italy's problem is ships. NGO's use big ships to pick up the migrants in their small and leaky boats and bring them to Europe.
So friends of Erdogan sell those poor people leaky boats that can only make it half way.
To travel from Libya and Turkey by land you either have to take your chances on the Turk/Greek border or move through Ukraine.
This will surely help with the approval ratings
https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474 (https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474)
Another day, another Democratic "solution". And that solution of course is ignoring the problem because haha, there is no problem. As much as I hate him I really should have voted Trump. We are in the hands of a geriatric with dementia whose administration is staffed with Twitter addled fa**ots. Far from the centrist he campaigned on.
The Fed is run by a fiscally conservative Republican. Increasing rates is exactly what he would do in a Republican admin.
Granted, I'm not knowledgeable about economy. I'm not an expert. All I know and see is that the President and Democrats are pretending it's not a problem, which I know a Republican admin wouldn't do because that's what they're strong on.
Stock Markets Crash as Trump Insists Coronavirus Fears Are “Fake News”
The Dow Jones fell 1,700 points and counting.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/global-markets-crash-coronavirus-oil-trump
The Dow Jones Industrial Average sustained its biggest point drop in history and its biggest closing decline since the day the markets re-opened after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Dow, which had opened sharply lower on fears of more possible bank failures, finished the day down 7%, with a 777.68 point drop to 10365.45. Losses to shares on the broader Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 index amounted, on paper, to $1.2 trillion -- eclipsing the size of the proposed bailout package. The Nasdaq Stock Market finished down 9.1%.https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122270285663785991
The widely watched VIX index, a measure of market volatility often called "the fear index," closed at its highest levels in its 28-year history. In early trading in Asia Tuesday, Japan's Nikkei was off 4.5%, and other markets also were down.
Granted, I'm not knowledgeable about economy. I'm not an expert. All I know and see is that the President and Democrats are pretending it's not a problem, which I know a Republican admin wouldn't do because that's what they're strong on.
Let's not rewrite history.
Trump:QuoteStock Markets Crash as Trump Insists Coronavirus Fears Are “Fake News”
The Dow Jones fell 1,700 points and counting.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/global-markets-crash-coronavirus-oil-trump
Bush:QuoteThe Dow Jones Industrial Average sustained its biggest point drop in history and its biggest closing decline since the day the markets re-opened after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Dow, which had opened sharply lower on fears of more possible bank failures, finished the day down 7%, with a 777.68 point drop to 10365.45. Losses to shares on the broader Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 index amounted, on paper, to $1.2 trillion -- eclipsing the size of the proposed bailout package. The Nasdaq Stock Market finished down 9.1%.https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122270285663785991
The widely watched VIX index, a measure of market volatility often called "the fear index," closed at its highest levels in its 28-year history. In early trading in Asia Tuesday, Japan's Nikkei was off 4.5%, and other markets also were down.
Joe Biden is not the World Economic Arbiter. Every nation of Europe has above a ~9% threshhold inflation rate, with energy averaging 40%, and non-energy industrial goods increasing to 7%+. You can read the fed monetary reports to understand what's to be done: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases.htm -- these problems are global and require a global amelioration effort. Everyone has the same solution for the same problem -- it just takes time. It'll happen. Markets are still expected to drop at the expectation of rate increases, but there's nothing you can do about it. There's a general consensus among economists that forecasts 0+ GDP growth in the fourth quarter and ~1% growth next year, down about half a percentage point from expectations -- that's what this stuff is about. We're dealing with fractions of a percentage point and slow changes over years. This is just the way it is. Playing the blame game with partisan politics doesn't make any sense. It's not like one party knows what to do and the other doesn't -- the externalities of the world are dealt with the same way by both. Buy treasuries if you're feeling the pain -- the yields are making record gains. Brace and wait out the lows. Short-term pain. We're all in this together - stop being tribal shitheads.
Blue states over corrected with Covid and their economies have paid the price.
Blue states over corrected with Covid and their economies have paid the price.
What exactly is your mental process when it comes to making shit up? Where do you get your lies from, and why do you think its ok to repeat them?
Here is GDP data from Q4 2019 (pre covid) to Q4 2021 (post covid).
The top states were:
New Hampshire 8.5%
Utah 7.2%
Washington 7.1%
California 6.1%
Tennessee 6.1%
The worst states were
North Dakota -2.5%
Louisiana -2.8%
Hawaii -4.4%
Alaska -5.6%
Wyoming -5.6%
To prevent any confusion, I must note that North Dakota, Louisiana, Alaska and Wyoming were R states with minimal covid restrictions.
Source:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2022/05/17/us-gdp-by-state-and-fastest-growing-states-by-gdp-growth/?sh=29dc46d65a72
Scroll down to second chart (2 year).
Here are some core takeaways:
States that imposed more restrictions such as stay-at-home orders and mask requirements did experience lower rates of death and hospitalizations. But they also tended to have worse economic and educational outcomes.
States whose economies are heavily dependent on tourism suffered the most economically, with Hawaii and Nevada hit hardest.
No state did well in every policy area.
Overall, rural states tended to fare better than more urbanized states on economic and educational outcomes. Many rural states, despite being less densely populated, ranked poorly in health outcomes, however.
The scorecard suggests states that had fewer shutdowns and more rural geography tended to fare better economically than more urban states that imposed more public health restrictions.
States that shut down only briefly – or not at all – rebounded far quicker than those that remained closed. Many of the states that did not issue orders directing residents to refrain from participating in nonessential activities – including Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Utah – had better-than-average economic outcomes on the scorecard.
Again, a state’s political orientation appears to have played a role; eight of the top 10 states in the economic category voted for Trump and were led by Republican governors. All 10 of the bottom states on the economy voted for Biden and nearly all have Democratic governors.
It also appears to matter whether a state was hit hard early in the pandemic. For the most part, states impacted by the first wave of the pandemic — including New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey — were slower to lift lockdown measures and have had a more sluggish economic recovery.
“You basically had winners and losers chosen early in the pandemic,” said Jason Straczewski, vice president of government relations and political affairs for the National Retail Federation.
States heavily reliant on tourism suffered the worst. Hawaii and Nevada, which cite tourism as a key driver of state economic revenue, ranked at the bottom, with Hawaii earning 0 out of 100 points for its economy. Average monthly unemployment levels there quadrupled over pre-pandemic levels.
so, again: why does anyone want to stop desantis from sending people up north?
Because Italy's problem is ships. NGO's use big ships to pick up the migrants in their small and leaky boats and bring them to Europe.
So friends of Erdogan sell those poor people leaky boats that can only make it half way.
To travel from Libya and Turkey by land you either have to take your chances on the Turk/Greek border or move through Ukraine.
This will surely help with the approval ratings
https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474 (https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474)
Another day, another Democratic "solution". And that solution of course is ignoring the problem because haha, there is no problem. As much as I hate him I really should have voted Trump. We are in the hands of a geriatric with dementia whose administration is staffed with Twitter addled fa**ots. Far from the centrist he campaigned on.
The Fed is run by a fiscally conservative Republican. Increasing rates is exactly what he would do in a Republican admin.
Granted, I'm not knowledgeable about economy. I'm not an expert. All I know and see is that the President and Democrats are pretending it's not a problem, which I know a Republican admin wouldn't do because that's what they're strong on.
Joe Biden is not the World Economic Arbiter. Every nation of Europe has above a ~9% threshhold inflation rate, with energy averaging 40%, and non-energy industrial goods increasing to 7%+. You can read the fed monetary reports to understand what's to be done: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases.htm -- these problems are global and require a global amelioration effort. Everyone has the same solution for the same problem -- it just takes time. It'll happen. Markets are still expected to drop at the expectation of rate increases, but there's nothing you can do about it. There's a general consensus among economists that forecasts 0+ GDP growth in the fourth quarter and ~1% growth next year, down about half a percentage point from expectations -- that's what this stuff is about. We're dealing with fractions of a percentage point and slow changes over years. This is just the way it is. Playing the blame game with partisan politics doesn't make any sense. It's not like one party knows what to do and the other doesn't -- the externalities of the world are dealt with the same way by both. Buy treasuries if you're feeling the pain -- the yields are making record gains. Brace and wait out the lows. Short-term pain. We're all in this together - stop being tribal shitheads.
I'm not being tribal. I give both parties shit. It doesn't change the fact that Democratic Party messaging on inflation is God awful and proves their streak for elitist ivory tower horse shit. It takes their problems and make them even more unlikable.
Joe Biden is not the World Economic Arbiter. Every nation of Europe has above a ~9% threshhold inflation rate, with energy averaging 40%, and non-energy industrial goods increasing to 7%+. You can read the fed monetary reports to understand what's to be done: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases.htm -- these problems are global and require a global amelioration effort. Everyone has the same solution for the same problem -- it just takes time. It'll happen. Markets are still expected to drop at the expectation of rate increases, but there's nothing you can do about it. There's a general consensus among economists that forecasts 0+ GDP growth in the fourth quarter and ~1% growth next year, down about half a percentage point from expectations -- that's what this stuff is about. We're dealing with fractions of a percentage point and slow changes over years. This is just the way it is. Playing the blame game with partisan politics doesn't make any sense. It's not like one party knows what to do and the other doesn't -- the externalities of the world are dealt with the same way by both. Buy treasuries if you're feeling the pain -- the yields are making record gains. Brace and wait out the lows. Short-term pain. We're all in this together - stop being tribal shitheads.
I'm not being tribal. I give both parties shit. It doesn't change the fact that Democratic Party messaging on inflation is God awful and proves their streak for elitist ivory tower horse shit. It takes their problems and make them even more unlikable.
The question is where are you getting your info? This is considered fact at this point. Covid restrictions have fucked blue states and their economic recovery as well as education prospects of their children.
At the Ohana Institute, a private school in Florida’s Panhandle, for kindergarten through 12th grade, the waiting list for students grew from 95 just before the pandemic to 393 last fall, Executive Director Lettye Burgtorf said.
@Propagandhim
He's not going to read or comprehend this, and it will have no effect on the way he thinks.
Pearls and all that.
Because Italy's problem is ships. NGO's use big ships to pick up the migrants in their small and leaky boats and bring them to Europe.
So friends of Erdogan sell those poor people leaky boats that can only make it half way.
To travel from Libya and Turkey by land you either have to take your chances on the Turk/Greek border or move through Ukraine.
This will surely help with the approval ratings
https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474 (https://twitter.com/wallstmemes/status/1571887396869865474)
Another day, another Democratic "solution". And that solution of course is ignoring the problem because haha, there is no problem. As much as I hate him I really should have voted Trump. We are in the hands of a geriatric with dementia whose administration is staffed with Twitter addled fa**ots. Far from the centrist he campaigned on.
The Fed is run by a fiscally conservative Republican. Increasing rates is exactly what he would do in a Republican admin.
Granted, I'm not knowledgeable about economy. I'm not an expert. All I know and see is that the President and Democrats are pretending it's not a problem, which I know a Republican admin wouldn't do because that's what they're strong on.Joe Biden is not the World Economic Arbiter. Every nation of Europe has above a ~9% threshhold inflation rate, with energy averaging 40%, and non-energy industrial goods increasing to 7%+. You can read the fed monetary reports to understand what's to be done: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases.htm -- these problems are global and require a global amelioration effort. Everyone has the same solution for the same problem -- it just takes time. It'll happen. Markets are still expected to drop at the expectation of rate increases, but there's nothing you can do about it. There's a general consensus among economists that forecasts 0+ GDP growth in the fourth quarter and ~1% growth next year, down about half a percentage point from expectations -- that's what this stuff is about. We're dealing with fractions of a percentage point and slow changes over years. This is just the way it is. Playing the blame game with partisan politics doesn't make any sense. It's not like one party knows what to do and the other doesn't -- the externalities of the world are dealt with the same way by both. Buy treasuries if you're feeling the pain -- the yields are making record gains. Brace and wait out the lows. Short-term pain. We're all in this together - stop being tribal shitheads.
I'm not being tribal. I give both parties shit. It doesn't change the fact that Democratic Party messaging on inflation is God awful and proves their streak for elitist ivory tower horse shit. It takes their problems and make them even more unlikable.Joe Biden is not the World Economic Arbiter. Every nation of Europe has above a ~9% threshhold inflation rate, with energy averaging 40%, and non-energy industrial goods increasing to 7%+. You can read the fed monetary reports to understand what's to be done: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases.htm -- these problems are global and require a global amelioration effort. Everyone has the same solution for the same problem -- it just takes time. It'll happen. Markets are still expected to drop at the expectation of rate increases, but there's nothing you can do about it. There's a general consensus among economists that forecasts 0+ GDP growth in the fourth quarter and ~1% growth next year, down about half a percentage point from expectations -- that's what this stuff is about. We're dealing with fractions of a percentage point and slow changes over years. This is just the way it is. Playing the blame game with partisan politics doesn't make any sense. It's not like one party knows what to do and the other doesn't -- the externalities of the world are dealt with the same way by both. Buy treasuries if you're feeling the pain -- the yields are making record gains. Brace and wait out the lows. Short-term pain. We're all in this together - stop being tribal shitheads.
I'm not being tribal. I give both parties shit. It doesn't change the fact that Democratic Party messaging on inflation is God awful and proves their streak for elitist ivory tower horse shit. It takes their problems and make them even more unlikable.
Deep breaths, Propagandhim. Deep breaths.
There's no such thing as a government that's not strong on the economy, which is why every Central Bank is independently run and apolitical. We split the atom 100 years ago, you don't think we're able to figure out the equation that determines what grows the economy and what doesn't? Everyone subscribes to the same model - keep inflation low while allowing businesses to take out the maximum amount of money to grow sectors of the economy. Allow capital to have inherent growth to incentivize money-on-hand and debt reduction. Keep income inequality as tight as possible to soak up the labor curve and avoid political distress. Invest in human capital by creating a social security net while incentivizing risk and wealth creation. As simplistic as this chart is, it really does represent the truth: average GDP growth over Republican/Democratic administrations norms across global capital booms.
(https://imgur.com/qonKTXm.jpg)
What do you take away from this chart? Do you think Kennedy and Bill Clinton's administration specifically figured out what grew an economy, and the subsequent administrations threw out that conventional wisdom? The economy grew 30 million jobs in 8 years and 35% gdp growth under Clinton. We can see a very simple causal link between investment in the middle class that reduced unemployment -- but then why doesn't everyone just invest in the middle class?
Clinton is a perfect microcosm on why thinking about political parties during economic boons is short-sighted. During Clinton's tenure, the strength of the labor market was unprecedented, median household income in real dollars reached a peak that we still haven't recovered from, and the poverty rate reached an all-time low which we also haven't recovered from. Let's look back at the 70's: Reagan and the Fed were tasked and succeeded in taming inflation with a brief recession in '82. You might've heard about 'trickle down' - His supply-side policies focused on tax-cuts from the top and rolling back Johnson's welfare programs that were an albatross in the 70s inflationary economy. The market crashes in 1987 and inflation skyrockets in the 1990s, which prompted interest rate hikes and a new recession in the Bush years. When Clinton took over, he reversed the budget deficits that Reagan created, which allowed the new Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, enough room to keep interest rates low, which encouraged unemployment to fall. When interest rates fall, the amount of private sector savings that goes into buying federal debt reduces, instead it increases the amount of private sector investment. So unemployment kept falling and private business investment soared. Increased private investment increased labor productivity, combined with labor scarcity, and wages were pushed up. Median incomes rose, and poverty fell. This created deficit reduction. Great. But deficit reduction isn't always the right economic strategy for the time - it was for this circumstance. A low interest rate, specifically in the 90s, was especially and specifically effective at deficit reduction. Republicans say that the credit truly belongs to Ronald Reagan, because his supply-side economics created a great wave of entrepreneurial-technological innovation that transformed and restructured the economy - he engendered a kind of fortunate circumstance that allowed the US to take advantage of the serendipity of global phenomena like the internet and easy communication and set up for cheap globalized manufacturing, which resulted in a lot of prosperity that continued. Democrats point to Clinton's policies of deficit reduction. The truth is that they're both right - it's a causal chain of events from multiple administrations. Clinton raised marginal tax rates on the highest-income Americans -- Reaganite supply-siders thought that was economically disastrous and it was uniformly opposed by Republicans, but as we know now the economy was much more prosperous after this than it was during the years Reagan was actually in office and taxes were lower. But whose to argue that Reagan's investments in the private sector didn't enabled this? What many Republicans make of Clinton's tenure is that he was simply fortunate in his timing with insane stock valuations because of burgeoning global phenomenon like the internet, and clearly the high prices lifted the economy for anyone invested in the markets. It was called "The Clinton bubble", where the market was fueled by aggressive financial deregulatory policies from Clinton and Greenspan -- huge sums of cash from IPO underwriting that investment banks were engaged in persuaded the administration to open up the market to new competition from commercial banks. So commercial banks are lending out more money to a booming middle class, thanks to market surges. It's capitalism, money begets more money for bursts of time. But for the past 10 years prior to this bursting era, the United States and other rich European countries suffered from a shortfall in aggregate demand (aggregate demand is the measure of total demand for goods and services) - a situation in which even very low interest rates do not induce either full employment or inflation. So Reagan could not have employed this strategy of cutting rates to any success until those market surges, but he contributed to those market surges. It simply does not make sense to put tons of stock in economic policy from the lens of short-term partisan politics. Normally during interest rate cuts fears about inflation curbs growth. But Clinton's policies dealt with fears through trade agreements and extra participation from a workforce that was incentivized by certain social security policies, and things like childcare investment (thanks to a booming global economy and revolutions in economic communication, transfer, and travel of globalization). A good economy begets good results -- and allowed Clinton to tackle the Reagan-era structural deficit. What's the takeaway from this? That Keynesian (keynesians economics is a belief that the government can stabilize the economy with countercyclical fiscal policy - like lowering taxes to stimulate aggregate demand) economics that handle budget deficit is the key to economic growth, right? That Reagan should not have cut taxes to create a large structural budget deficit and Clinton's push for a deficit reduction is the key? Actually, no. Over the past 15 years, it's been the complete opposite. Interest rates and inflation stayed low during the economy of the early to mid aughts, as George W. Bush brought budget deficits back (the deficits were created by fiscal stimulus) and he cited the Clinton surplus as evidence that taxes were too high, which drove the U.S. budget into the red. When Obama took over, he called deficit reduction, " balanced budget fetishism" during the Global Financial Crisis, because global factors out of his control wouldn't allow him to get a handle on it -- much of economic policy is a non-partisan group asking themselves "What options do we have?" not, "What would this Democrat/Republican administration want?" Because they don't control the major factors of the economy -- which is why the same problems remain extant over many years and exist globally. When the Asian financial crisis hit in the late 90s, it was devastating to east asian and south-east asian markets -- everyone thought that devastation would transfer to the US, but the result was actually very minimal. Their currency collapsed so our exports to them fell sharply, right? Well most U.S. industries experienced export decline
to Asia, but the decline in export demand had no noticeable impact. And for the most part, we learned that imports from Asia do not compete directly with U.S. production. Therefore, an appreciation in the dollar with respect to Asian currencies leads to gains in consumption with little or no domestic pain. Creating an economy that transactionally behaves like this with Asia is a great situation right? Thanks to the experience of the 90s it was fantastic. Thanks to the experience of 2022, it's fucking terrible. Supply chain issues and an energy crisis compound and beget more problems. What specific administration is responsible for engendering this causal chain of events? Who set up the economy to function like this? 90% of it is outside an administration of 4-8 years' control and periphery of credit/blame.
All of this wall of text is already well understood by every government on earth -- that's fiscal policy is complex and inherited from causal factors over long periods of time and global. This is why every Central Bank in every advanced economy is insulated from short-term political pressures by being given a degree of autonomy outside of the legislature. Otherwise, they'd do things like enacting excessive expansionary monetary policy to lower unemployment in the short term, to fuck over the next administration, and say "see? look what these dipshits did!" There isn't one side that cares more or even knows more about fixing the economy than the other, nobody is that prescient. All the information we have is being utilized in the exact way as intended.
Granted, I'm not knowledgeable about economy. I'm not an expert. All I know and see is that the President and Democrats are pretending it's not a problem, which I know a Republican admin wouldn't do because that's what they're strong on.
It takes a year to reduce inflation 3 to 4 percentages points. CPI showed it was .10% above estimates (and in line with most conservative estimates) -- that's less than 2 weeks on a linear trajectory. It's noise. Anyone making a big stink about Biden is just political chaff.
What are Republicans strong on?Turning gullible human brains into pretzels. During the past 50 years they have perfected their method.
You said:QuoteGranted, I'm not knowledgeable about economy. I'm not an expert. All I know and see is that the President and Democrats are pretending it's not a problem, which I know a Republican admin wouldn't do because that's what they're strong on.
What are Republicans strong on?
I watched the video -- it encompasses my point exactly. Biden is saying the inflation rate went up .10% That's noise on forescasting. Morgan Stanley and BoA projected a differential higher than that between each other. That's how noisy that is. Why is it noise? Because it takes years for the inflation rate to go down. I even wrote it a few days ago.QuoteIt takes a year to reduce inflation 3 to 4 percentages points. CPI showed it was .10% above estimates (and in line with most conservative estimates) -- that's less than 2 weeks on a linear trajectory. It's noise. Anyone making a big stink about Biden is just political chaff.
Biden is being a politician. He's trying to calm fears and letting the Fed do what it does. You can't avoid this pain. This is happening everywhere and will take time to fix.
You said:QuoteGranted, I'm not knowledgeable about economy. I'm not an expert. All I know and see is that the President and Democrats are pretending it's not a problem, which I know a Republican admin wouldn't do because that's what they're strong on.
What are Republicans strong on?
You wrote all that to articulate that Republicans have a tendency to overspend, create huge amounts of national debt?
I will concede that Democratic Presidents tend to be better on economy. I was wrong and pushed my ire towards liberals too far. I hate them that much. But right now, the main problem is Biden and his awful economic messaging.I watched the video -- it encompasses my point exactly. Biden is saying the inflation rate went up .10% That's noise on forescasting. Morgan Stanley and BoA projected a differential higher than that between each other. That's how noisy that is. Why is it noise? Because it takes years for the inflation rate to go down. I even wrote it a few days ago.QuoteIt takes a year to reduce inflation 3 to 4 percentages points. CPI showed it was .10% above estimates (and in line with most conservative estimates) -- that's less than 2 weeks on a linear trajectory. It's noise. Anyone making a big stink about Biden is just political chaff.
Biden is being a politician. He's trying to calm fears and letting the Fed do what it does. You can't avoid this pain. This is happening everywhere and will take time to fix.
That's fair enough. I cannot stand politicians and I don't trust them.
so, again: why does anyone want to stop desantis from sending people up north?
https://twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1571849207174123522
The main message is, zeroing in on what Biden says about inflation on 60 minutes is a waste of time and not an indication of anything. He doesn't have the control you think he does.
so, again: why does anyone want to stop desantis from sending people up north?
https://twitter.com/MarisaKabas/status/1571849207174123522
the brochure isn't fake, the services are all real
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/list-of-ori-programs-and-services
are we certain this was actually handed to all of them as an indication of where they were going, or is it equally likely they found themselves in an immigration building that had many brochures from a lot of different states? and, as expected when you don't speak the local language and find yourself in unfamiliar territory, have ample opportunity for misunderstanding?
administration is staffed with Twitter addled fa**ots. Far from the centrist he campaigned on.
Would be quite something if this stunt sinks DeSantis and that puts Trump back in the White House :trumps
The services are ONLY for people resettled through the official asylum program, like folks being brought in from Ukraine. DeSantis copied and pasted that into a word document and gave it to people who dont qualify.
You really think a random office in Texas would have a pamphlet for MARTHAS FUCKING VINYARD?
We know it's fake because any government agency worth their own salt would spend at least 4 weeks on ensuring the state seal is properly centered and colored. Source: Have worked with government logos.
Come on man, we dont need two Himus.
administration is staffed with Twitter addled fa**ots. Far from the centrist he campaigned on.
Oh shit I missed this. See you in November I guess.
The services are ONLY for people resettled through the official asylum program, like folks being brought in from Ukraine. DeSantis copied and pasted that into a word document and gave it to people who dont qualify.
You really think a random office in Texas would have a pamphlet for MARTHAS FUCKING VINYARD?
We know it's fake because any government agency worth their own salt would spend at least 4 weeks on ensuring the state seal is properly centered and colored. Source: Have worked with government logos.
Come on man, we dont need two Himus.
another reason we know it's fake is because it was brought to light by the trusted reliable american institution, popular.info
https://twitter.com/flvoicenews/status/1571902660265279488
:sabu
Oopsie
Prop: Also, let's be real. Biden's administration hasn't done him favors. You bring up his fed, I'm talking policy. Even more Covid Stimulus, BBB, cancelling student loans are all things that will make a bad situation worse. That's on the Democrats and the Biden administration's crappy progressive politics, not on banks, no on the federal reserve.
Prop: Also, let's be real. Biden's administration hasn't done him favors. You bring up his fed, I'm talking policy. Even more Covid Stimulus, BBB, cancelling student loans are all things that will make a bad situation worse. That's on the Democrats and the Biden administration's crappy progressive politics, not on banks, no on the federal reserve.
Trump also provided Covid stimulus and forgave loans and provided huge tax cuts to the top earners in this country. Remember, he put his name on the check. And the Biden admin isn't forgiving student debt out of the goodness of their heart -- analysts generally agree that forgiving student debt boosts gdp by an average of $100+ billion each year for a decade, then continues at a receded rate over time. That says nothing about the morality of the decision -- I understand that it's unfair for certain people. I'm not making a value judgement on the ethics and morality of that and what it means for other people who paid it off, i'm just saying economically speaking it has utility beyond being nice to kids.
Prop: Also, let's be real. Biden's administration hasn't done him favors. You bring up his fed, I'm talking policy. Even more Covid Stimulus, BBB, cancelling student loans are all things that will make a bad situation worse. That's on the Democrats and the Biden administration's crappy progressive politics, not on banks, no on the federal reserve.
Trump also provided Covid stimulus and forgave loans and provided huge tax cuts to the top earners in this country. Remember, he put his name on the check. And the Biden admin isn't forgiving student debt out of the goodness of their heart -- analysts generally agree that forgiving student debt boosts gdp by an average of $100+ billion each year for a decade, then continues at a receded rate over time. That says nothing about the morality of the decision -- I understand that it's unfair for certain people. I'm not making a value judgement on the ethics and morality of that and what it means for other people who paid it off, i'm just saying economically speaking it has utility beyond being nice to kids.
I know. Which is why I said Biden gave even more stimulus. Trump giving stimulus at the time was needed. Biden took an already big problem and is basically throwing gasoline on a fire by increasing spending. I not once said Trump didn't spend big. My argument is,"hey, Trump administration and the federal government gave over trillions to the People. Maybe hold your horses."
Biden administration? "NO!"
Prop: Also, let's be real. Biden's administration hasn't done him favors. You bring up his fed, I'm talking policy. Even more Covid Stimulus, BBB, cancelling student loans are all things that will make a bad situation worse. That's on the Democrats and the Biden administration's crappy progressive politics, not on banks, no on the federal reserve.
Trump also provided Covid stimulus and forgave loans and provided huge tax cuts to the top earners in this country. Remember, he put his name on the check. And the Biden admin isn't forgiving student debt out of the goodness of their heart -- analysts generally agree that forgiving student debt boosts gdp by an average of $100+ billion each year for a decade, then continues at a receded rate over time. That says nothing about the morality of the decision -- I understand that it's unfair for certain people. I'm not making a value judgement on the ethics and morality of that and what it means for other people who paid it off, i'm just saying economically speaking it has utility beyond being nice to kids.
I know. Which is why I said Biden gave even more stimulus. Trump giving stimulus at the time was needed. Biden took an already big problem and is basically throwing gasoline on a fire by increasing spending. I not once said Trump didn't spend big. My argument is,"hey, Trump administration and the federal government gave over trillions to the People. Maybe hold your horses."
Biden administration? "NO!"
It's complicated. Stimulus increases inflation, no doubt. You can make some good arguments for being more discerning with need-based stimulation or vetting business loans better. I don't want to get into what it means to not be able to pay your bills because of an event you can't control and real wages stagnating for the middle class. Political stability is important for confidence in markets. You can look at charts for U.S. economic growth over historical and recent periods of time -- but it won't show the whole picture because of changes in income inequality. Things are going to get a bit worse before they get better, and they will get better. And when they do, someone else who just sat in a warm seat will take the credit for it. ...and the cycle continues.
Prop: Also, let's be real. Biden's administration hasn't done him favors. You bring up his fed, I'm talking policy. Even more Covid Stimulus, BBB, cancelling student loans are all things that will make a bad situation worse. That's on the Democrats and the Biden administration's crappy progressive politics, not on banks, not on the federal reserve.
Prop: Also, let's be real. Biden's administration hasn't done him favors. You bring up his fed, I'm talking policy. Even more Covid Stimulus, BBB, cancelling student loans are all things that will make a bad situation worse. That's on the Democrats and the Biden administration's crappy progressive politics, not on banks, not on the federal reserve.
This right here tells me you're just regurgitating talking points and don't understand the issue. I'm not going to provide a Fed deep dive though.
Inflation has been occurring globally since economies re-opened, it makes little sense to blame the administration. Any more than it made sense to blame Biden for gas prices, when prices increased globally as well. And then of course when prices dropped over the last couple months no one could point to any conservative explanation for why. We didn't "start drilling more" after all.
Globally, the dominant drivers of inflation have been significantly increased demand and supply chain delays/shortages due to shutdowns. The war in Ukraine has also played a factor in oil and food (grain shortages) cost increases. Entire Chinese cities that manufactured car chips were suddenly closed during the pandemic (and continue today in some areas), increasing new and used car prices as supply failed to match demand. People spent much of the latter part of the shutdowns spending a shit ton of money purchasing things, often online, and companies couldn't handle the drastic rise from lowered demand (initial quarantine) to maximum demand.
In the US the other major factor is the job market. We went from large portions of our labor force being shut down or reduced to a massive re-hiring spree alongside wage increases. Unemployment is at near record lows, wages continue to rise, and costs are increasing alongside it.
Those are the major drivers of this. Some parts of this will naturally solve themselves. As we move back to consumers spending money on services, vs the highly elevated spending on goods during the pandemic, inflation will decline. But the demand for goods remains relatively high and companies/supply chains continue to struggle to meet it. The fed is pushing higher interest rates, and a potential recession will give companies an opportunity to reduce wage growth.
Prop: Also, let's be real. Biden's administration hasn't done him favors. You bring up his fed, I'm talking policy. Even more Covid Stimulus, BBB, cancelling student loans are all things that will make a bad situation worse. That's on the Democrats and the Biden administration's crappy progressive politics, not on banks, not on the federal reserve.
This right here tells me you're just regurgitating talking points and don't understand the issue. I'm not going to provide a Fed deep dive though.
Inflation has been occurring globally since economies re-opened, it makes little sense to blame the administration. Any more than it made sense to blame Biden for gas prices, when prices increased globally as well. And then of course when prices dropped over the last couple months no one could point to any conservative explanation for why. We didn't "start drilling more" after all.
Globally, the dominant drivers of inflation have been significantly increased demand and supply chain delays/shortages due to shutdowns. The war in Ukraine has also played a factor in oil and food (grain shortages) cost increases. Entire Chinese cities that manufactured car chips were suddenly closed during the pandemic (and continue today in some areas), increasing new and used car prices as supply failed to match demand. People spent much of the latter part of the shutdowns spending a shit ton of money purchasing things, often online, and companies couldn't handle the drastic rise from lowered demand (initial quarantine) to maximum demand.
In the US the other major factor is the job market. We went from large portions of our labor force being shut down or reduced to a massive re-hiring spree alongside wage increases. Unemployment is at near record lows, wages continue to rise, and costs are increasing alongside it.
Those are the major drivers of this. Some parts of this will naturally solve themselves. As we move back to consumers spending money on services, vs the highly elevated spending on goods during the pandemic, inflation will decline. But the demand for goods remains relatively high and companies/supply chains continue to struggle to meet it. The fed is pushing higher interest rates, and a potential recession will give companies an opportunity to reduce wage growth.
I understand all of this. You're mistaking me articulating my blame on the administration and saying they could be preventing it fully, when we are in the fumes of a global pandemic and mass shortages. Of course we have inflation. My problem isn't the inflation, it's my frustration in the administrations response, messaging, and overall ignoring it. Even a simple "we as Americans will all bear the brunt of increasing inflation and there's little we can do to stop it. We as Americans need to simply hold tight and look for light at the end of the tunnel" would make me feel better. Instead we get that Biden sound bite on 60 Minutes. It just doesn't deliver confidence despite the fact I know, internally, that all we can do is wait.
BBB and the student loan situation aren't helping things.
Prop: Also, let's be real. Biden's administration hasn't done him favors. You bring up his fed, I'm talking policy. Even more Covid Stimulus, BBB, cancelling student loans are all things that will make a bad situation worse. That's on the Democrats and the Biden administration's crappy progressive politics, not on banks, not on the federal reserve.
This right here tells me you're just regurgitating talking points and don't understand the issue. I'm not going to provide a Fed deep dive though.
Inflation has been occurring globally since economies re-opened, it makes little sense to blame the administration. Any more than it made sense to blame Biden for gas prices, when prices increased globally as well. And then of course when prices dropped over the last couple months no one could point to any conservative explanation for why. We didn't "start drilling more" after all.
Globally, the dominant drivers of inflation have been significantly increased demand and supply chain delays/shortages due to shutdowns. The war in Ukraine has also played a factor in oil and food (grain shortages) cost increases. Entire Chinese cities that manufactured car chips were suddenly closed during the pandemic (and continue today in some areas), increasing new and used car prices as supply failed to match demand. People spent much of the latter part of the shutdowns spending a shit ton of money purchasing things, often online, and companies couldn't handle the drastic rise from lowered demand (initial quarantine) to maximum demand.
In the US the other major factor is the job market. We went from large portions of our labor force being shut down or reduced to a massive re-hiring spree alongside wage increases. Unemployment is at near record lows, wages continue to rise, and costs are increasing alongside it.
Those are the major drivers of this. Some parts of this will naturally solve themselves. As we move back to consumers spending money on services, vs the highly elevated spending on goods during the pandemic, inflation will decline. But the demand for goods remains relatively high and companies/supply chains continue to struggle to meet it. The fed is pushing higher interest rates, and a potential recession will give companies an opportunity to reduce wage growth.
I understand all of this. You're mistaking me articulating my blame on the administration and saying they could be preventing it fully, when we are in the fumes of a global pandemic and mass shortages. Of course we have inflation. My problem isn't the inflation, it's my frustration in the administrations response, messaging, and overall ignoring it. Even a simple "we as Americans will all bear the brunt of increasing inflation and there's little we can do to stop it. We as Americans need to simply hold tight and look for light at the end of the tunnel" would make me feel better. Instead we get that Biden sound bite on 60 Minutes. It just doesn't deliver confidence despite the fact I know, internally, that all we can do is wait.
BBB and the student loan situation aren't helping things.
You can't keep saying you understand something while simultaneously demonstrating you don't. It's the same with the immigration argument where you were railing on the feds while simultaneously arguing Beto could magically worsen a situation he will not control. Not to mention advocating for the wall.
BBB doesn't even exist and wasn't passed. I haven't seen one compelling argument for 10k student loan forgiveness driving inflation today. We know what the primary drivers are. We know what the Fed plan is. Why are you focused on tenuous arguments about side dishes, beyond the politics of "democrats bad" lol? It makes no sense.
Even the messaging argument...no I don't think Biden's messaging is good. And yet democrats are tied or leading midterm polls. Clearly my views on the messaging are irrelevant to many Americans as they determine who they're going to vote for in November.
O’Rourke himself has avoided labeling the situation a “crisis” and has said National Guard troops are being sent to address “a solution in search of a problem.” Abbott’s campaign has highlighted that comment in near-daily news releases this month under the headline, “Beto’s Big Border Denial.”
And in an interview, he said he disagrees with the notion that Democrats are divided over the issue and said voters appreciate a nuanced policy.
It's not 1978, and it's surely not 2008. We're not in the midst of a decades long economic decline in the face of Soviet aggression, or the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. The economy is shocking strong in many respects. We've got a problem largely based around Americans having too much money to spend on stuff. If ever there was a time for a president to be a dick and express confidence, it would be right now. Might as well get it in before the Fed knocks us off a cliff...a
Republican gubernatorial nominee Ron DeSantis spoke at a conference of an anti-Muslim group in October 2017 whose founder argues devout Muslims cannot be loyal Americans.
DeSantis, who resigned from his U.S. House seat last week to focus on his run for governor, spoke to the group meeting in Washington, D.C., taking a hard line on immigration and asylum, and characterizing some U.S. Department of State employees as sympathetic to Arab views.
DeSantis’ address to ACT for America is evidence of another meeting with groups known for extremist views, including a conference featuring speakers who have defended a candidate accused of child molestation, suggested killing Muslims and argued that women are less likely to be in leadership roles because of “biological causes.”
Founded in 2007, ACT for America promotes itself as the “largest national security grassroots organization.” ACT refers to the organization’s former name, American Congress for Truth. The group has built a reputation for lobbying state legislators to ban Sharia law and has referred to Islam as “Islamofascism.”
“Tens of thousands of Islamic militants now reside in America, operating in sleeper cells, attending our colleges and universities, even infiltrating our government,” ACT for America’s website once claimed. “They are here — today. Many have been here for years. Waiting. Preparing.”
Ted Cruz calls for law enforcement to ‘patrol and secure’ Muslim neighborhoodshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/22/ted-cruz-calls-for-law-enforcement-to-patrol-and-secure-muslim-neighborhoods/
Cruz spokeswoman Alice Stewart later said there needs to be a robust law enforcement presence in American neighborhoods where many Muslims live.
"Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies all have divisions that target threats like drugs, gangs, human trafficking and organized crime. Radical Islamic terrorism is a significant and growing threat in this country, but this administration refuses to recognize it because they are afraid of being labeled ‘politically incorrect,’” Stewart said.
Cruz said: "For years, the West has tried to deny this enemy exists out of a combination of political correctness and fear. We can no longer afford either. Our European allies are now seeing what comes of a toxic mix of migrants who have been infiltrated by terrorists and isolated, radical Muslim neighborhoods."
The United States will have “absolutely no choice” but to close down some mosques where “some bad things are happening,” Donald Trump said in a recent interview, explaining his rationale for doing so.https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/trump-close-mosques-216008
“Nobody wants to say this and nobody wants to shut down religious institutions or anything, but you know, you understand it. A lot of people understand it. We’re going to have no choice,” the Republican presidential said in an interview from Trump Tower on Fox News’ “Hannity” on Tuesday night.
Those remarks go further than Trump did on Monday, when he said he would “strongly consider” closing mosques as part of a response to last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 and injured hundreds more.
Asked to explain his shifting position by Sean Hannity, Trump remarked that things are “happening a lot faster than anybody understands.”
Benji, there's absolutely no reason I should support unvetted illegal immigrants from cartel infested Mexico that terrorizes that country and starts streaks of violence on the border. Thousands streaming into the state of Texas daily, unvetted, who could be very much tied to the cartel. What if they bring guns? What if they come to traffic Americans? Nope. They can fuck off. If they're a genuine migrant who traveled to America to escape political upheaval they have my sympathy and should go through legal channels at the border so that they can be vetted and ID'd. We ID anyone that flies into our borders, we should do so for every single gotdamn channel of entry and I'm not a Nazi for believing so. Finish the wall, force legit migrants genuine and legal entry, relax legal immigration laws so that you don't have to be a rich tech worker to immigrate legally, put more guns on the border, strike a deal with Mexico to make their side of the border also strong. Send guns on the Mexican side of the border too.My dude, all your appeals are complete nonsense. The "legal channels" of the past were everywhere in the country, Ellis Island was a way station for immigrants coming in through New York City not the only legal path of entry into the United States. Even after the blatantly xenophobic Immigration Acts of the 1920s, Ellis Island was simply a filthy inhumane detention center. The concept of "illegal" immigration made no sense to America until America began sealing its borders and imposing ethnic quotas, if you came to America you were a "legal" immigrant period.
I thought the Democrats supported legal entry for migrants? So why let them cross such unsafe territory to America? Nope. Finish the wall and force them through CBP. When immigrants in the past came to America they came through legal channels, namely Ellis Island. Build a wall and make a new Ellis Island like port on the southern border for people to get through legally and welcome to America. If they wanna come, they gotta do it right. End of.
I won't let the left redefine this word and label all illegal immigrants "migrants". I won't and I will not let them.
What are Republicans strong on?Personally, I'm a big fan of tax cuts that are difficult to repeal.
If Democrats truly want to “save democracy” from MAGA Republicans, why is their party spending millions in this year’s primaries to boost . . . MAGA Republicans?
A new analysis by The Washington Post found Democrats have shelled out $53 million this year to aid “far-right” candidates in Republican primaries. In Illinois alone, they coughed up a whopping $35 million to help Donald Trump-backed state Sen. Darren Bailey defeat Aurora mayor Richard Irvin, who could’ve been the state’s first black governor.
Benji, there's absolutely no reason I should support unvetted illegal immigrants from cartel infested Mexico that terrorizes that country and starts streaks of violence on the border. Thousands streaming into the state of Texas daily, unvetted, who could be very much tied to the cartel. What if they bring guns? What if they come to traffic Americans? Nope. They can fuck off. If they're a genuine migrant who traveled to America to escape political upheaval they have my sympathy and should go through legal channels at the border so that they can be vetted and ID'd. We ID anyone that flies into our borders, we should do so for every single gotdamn channel of entry and I'm not a Nazi for believing so. Finish the wall, force legit migrants genuine and legal entry, relax legal immigration laws so that you don't have to be a rich tech worker to immigrate legally, put more guns on the border, strike a deal with Mexico to make their side of the border also strong. Send guns on the Mexican side of the border too.My dude, all your appeals are complete nonsense. The "legal channels" of the past were everywhere in the country, Ellis Island was a way station for immigrants coming in through New York City not the only legal path of entry into the United States. Even after the blatantly xenophobic Immigration Acts of the 1920s, Ellis Island was simply a filthy inhumane detention center. The concept of "illegal" immigration made no sense to America until America began sealing its borders and imposing ethnic quotas, if you came to America you were a "legal" immigrant period.
I thought the Democrats supported legal entry for migrants? So why let them cross such unsafe territory to America? Nope. Finish the wall and force them through CBP. When immigrants in the past came to America they came through legal channels, namely Ellis Island. Build a wall and make a new Ellis Island like port on the southern border for people to get through legally and welcome to America. If they wanna come, they gotta do it right. End of.
I won't let the left redefine this word and label all illegal immigrants "migrants". I won't and I will not let them.
You're not just demanding the borders be sealed but you're talking about committing something that could plausibly be interpreted as acts of war against a neighboring country because of an incredibly minor problem you only seem to believe comes from all Latinx people not born in America.
I'm not even talking about restoring America to the open borders past it had for the first hundred plus years of the country, I'm merely talking about making the current immigration system less insane and kafkaesque. You claim to want this but at the same time seem to also want a police state imposed on Americans while inflaming the situation within a friendly neighboring country and then punishing anyone who tries to escape the situation you're deliberately making worse to punish innocent people who share a heritage with criminals.
Under present immigration policies, the U.S. population will exceed 400 million by 2050. Nobody is seriously planning for such population growth—building the schools and hospitals these people will need, planning for the traffic they will generate. Nobody is thinking very hard about the environmental consequences, either. The average American causes the emission of almost 17 tons of carbon dioxide each year, quadruple the annual emissions of the average Mexican and 45 times the emissions of the average Bangladeshi.
The question before the United States and other advanced countries is not: Immigration, yes or no? In a mobile world, there will inevitably be quite a lot of movement of people. Immigration is not all or nothing. The questions to ask are: How much? What kind?
Too little immigration, and you freeze your country out of the modern world. Too much, or the wrong kind, and you overstress your social-insurance system—and possibly upend your democracy. Choose well, and you build a stronger, richer country for both newcomers and the long-settled. Choose badly, and you aggravate inequality and inflame intergroup hostility. How we choose will shape the future that will in its turn shape us.
I'm being realistic and sane.
You have the mind of an utopian child.
unless you're a child or pregnant woman, you should have a CBP gun to your face.
Try to be an illegal immigrant in Japan or France, Egypt, Italy, or even Saudi Arabia. You'll get a quick boot to the ass and a pistol whip to the face. In Egypt you get lifetime imprisonment, which has recently been amended, but still strict. Close the border. Add more men (guns) on it. Talk to Mexico into doing the same. Send the illegals packing. You will not guilt trip me with changing my mind on what's right through a pedantic appeal to emotion. Try it with someone that cares.
Why in the fuck would I allow people that:God Bless America, land of liberty and home of the free. Unless Himu doesn't know you personally and you look like someone he's decided he hates, then enjoy your boot in the ass and pistol whip to the face for trying to improve your life. You should be thankful you aren't being deprived of your life like realistic and sane countries! And all the Americans who get to have their constitutional rights erased because they live near the border? Fuck you for not wanting to militarize your daily life in loyalty to the state! Don't you realize that the adult needs some innocents to be punished?
1. I don't know
2. I don't know their background
3. Coming from Cartel infested Mexico
It belies any standard of common sense.
Seal the border. Add more guns to the border. Finish the wall. Deport fresh arrivals en masse.
We all moved to Florida to escape vaccine and mask mandates. We thought it would be a tropical paradise. However, I left Florida and most others are leaving Florida after 1 year. In fact I was so anxious to get out I was not even there 1 year, I found a replacement for my lease and cut my lease short.
THE HEAT WAS COMPLETELY AWFUL!!! 90+ degrees and humid morning AND NIGHT with near 100% humidity. I opened the door at 2am to get air and it felt like a SPACE HEATER - OUTSIDE! 24/7 AC is the only way to survive.
The rent and cost of living is now AS BAD AS CALIFORNIA, but the weather is 10x worse! I know, because I lived in southern California for years! I would have rather been in California than Florida! (Both are bad and I would want to be in neither!)
I thought there would be a lack of diversity in SW Florida, I WAS WRONG, it's mostly hispanic.
I thought they would not have any masks, while partly true, many companies still require it. I got kicked out of a US Post Office for not wearing a mask, I certainly was not about to put one on.
The beaches are crap! Because it costs so much to even go, and if you are 1 mile away as the crow flies, it still takes an hour to get there! And then parking is $20 per hour, if you can even find a spot, just to be in an overcrowded beach!
The houses are getting as expensive as California, with half a million and up for a tiny house. BUT THESE PRICES ARE NOT SUSTAINALE, THIS IS A BUBBLE AND WILL CRASH!! Just look at what happened some years ago on the east coast of Florida, where houses bubbled to over a million and then crashed to normal so that people with million dollar mortgages had houses worth only $100k.
Right now literally trailers (single and double wides) are selling for $100k, $200k, and even $300k and up. It's ridiculous. This WILL NOT LAST, a trailer will NOT be worth anything, it will go back to being worth $7,000 instead of the $100K+, and the people with that mortgage will file bankruptcy. And it won't be long now!
This is not like the California bubble which was spurred by two famous areas - Hollywood (LA/SoCal) and Silicon Valley (SanFran/NorCal), which brought in massive jobs and continue to do so. Those are rich areas and house rich people, and this is why those bubbles can sustain for so long - but as soon as Hollywood and/or Silicon Valley stop making so much money (which may be very soon), those housing markets will absolutely implode and decimate the population. It will be relegated to the third world (even though most of it already is now, but for a different reason).
Places like Southwest Florida do not have any important industries, and are not famous, and there's a reason few people lived there until now - there are no jobs, poor economy, and low wages. That's why houses there cost $50k just 2 years ago. In fact even now, employers are laying off people because of decreases in sales - DESPITE the continued influx of new people, although it is slowing. The only thing it had going for it was the FALSE ILLUSION that it was a white area (IT'S NOT) and that it had a good climate (IT DOES NOT!)
YOU DO NOT WANT TO MOVE TO FLORIDA! REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU ARE A CONSERVATIVE OR A LIBERAL! SAVE YOURSELF THE MONEY AND HEADACHE! I REGRET MOVING TO FLORIDA, AND YOU WILL TOO!
If you think that Florida is a tropical paradise, you are only half wrong. It's a tropical hellhole! And I lived in the nicest part of it (rich area)! Not worth it!
Why don't I completely regret moving to Florida? Because if I had not moved to south Florida, I would not know how much I HATED such HOT HOT HOT (and ultra humid) weather day and night! Don't make the same mistake! Don't move to Florida!
Dude moved somewhere to escape diversity without even checking to see that the state is 50% non-white, one of the highest ranking states, first. :lolQuoteI thought there would be a lack of diversity in SW Florida, I WAS WRONG, it's mostly hispanic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/florida/comments/xjki1j/i_regret_moving_to_florida_i_already_left_you_do/
Dude moved somewhere to escape diversity without even checking to see that the state is 50% non-white, one of the highest ranking states, first. :lolQuoteI thought there would be a lack of diversity in SW Florida, I WAS WRONG, it's mostly hispanic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/florida/comments/xjki1j/i_regret_moving_to_florida_i_already_left_you_do/
Move to Massachusetts or Vermont if you want to hang out with only white people and avoid the heat buddy.
Bidens approval rating skyrocketed when the Dark Brandon memes started coming out
Its simple science
The Atlantic endorses the Nintex theory of politik:
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1571136910902312960
Pretty sure you don't have to be part of the Roman Catholic Church to be a nun.
The problem is probably that in fiction everybody tends to take the religion as seriously as it deserves. Religious disputes in fiction are always about some serious important point that's plot relevant. Or it's mocking how the real world disputes seem to be more based around whether or not some guys in the past believed some other guy was left or right handed and then one time they got really heated about this so they killed a bunch of one dudes and took their land and nobody is ever going to let it go.Let's go religion :jeb
The problem is probably that in fiction everybody tends to take the religion as seriously as it deserves.
But you don't have to be religious to not be nihilist, atheist and/or hedonist.
Religion as an excuse seems like a poor moral framework.
twerking 10 year olds or propagating an agenda that children can choose their gender. Religion is needed to stop humans from venturing too far
I think your single variable correlation is spurious and the causation is not in evidence.
Thankfully there is a God that is all forgiving and eternally merciful when we genuinely ask for forgiveness.
Its simple science
Nintex: "Hurr"There are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe.
Also Nintex: "Durr"
progressivism has taught me that fundamentalists have always been correct and should've been listened to from the beginning
- marilyn manson: satanist in the 90s, sexual abuser in the 2020s
- dungeons and dragons: demonic in the 80s, racist in the 2020s
- harry potter: evil witchcraft in the 2000s, transphobic in the 2010s
- sexy outfits in media: scandalous and anti-christian in the 90s, misogynist and problematic in the 2020s
- rap music: violent and frightening in the 90s, perpetuates misogyny in the 2020s
- bill maher: anti-religion in the 2000s, anti-progressive in the 2020s
- south park: crude and degenerate in the 90s, -phobic in the 2020s
- classic books dealing with early American racial tension: banned for the N word in the 90s, banned for being written by whites in the 2020s
why the fuck didn't we listen
:stahp
I have converted and will keep both ears wide open, the predictions of christ's followers always bear fruit in the end 🙏
Wow when you put it like that its clear as day!
How much praying do I need to do before I get called on to blow up a school?
Wow when you put it like that its clear as day!
How much praying do I need to do before I get called on to blow up a school?
- public schools: not blown up by christians in the 90s, accordingly not blown up in the 2020s
stay strong brother 🙏
Either way, you don't need religion for morality. Especially in the modern world. However, it does act as a totem pole for community and gives people meaning and hope. There's merit to that. The need for religion is embedded into humanity, if you don't have a religion it's probably politics or sports. But unlike religion, those two things don't make ones life feel more fulfilling. Man that works at the office all the time might wonder what the point in life is, while his religious co-worker is more happy and more fulfilled. Without religion multiple boys and young men have no sense of belonging or community or even people to look up to and have fallen into a nihilistic state. People mock thoughts and prayers but prayer creates real grit to adversity. There's something hopeful in what prayer brings. Religion brings more than rules to ones life.Just stating theories does not actually make them facts. What are you, some kind of progressive?
These are just facts. Choose to accept them if you want.
5.8 billion? Well, I'd say a significant proportion of them are just hedging their bets. Mental illness is probably pretty high among the restNintex: "Hurr"There are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe.
Also Nintex: "Durr"
The point is, if you call Himu mentally challenged just for believing in a higher power, you consider them all mentally ill or deluded.
Now I have no problem with making such a generalization about billions of people myself but I'm not sure if this is how you feel.
Twitter is such fucking garbage. :snoopEndlessly people doing this with every topic:
God, she's been tweeting like 500 times a day for the past 10+ years
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:likeTwitter is such fucking garbage. :snoopEndlessly people doing this with every topic:
https://twitter.com/dril/status/841892608788041732spoiler (click to show/hide)LIKE AND RT IF YOU AGREE![close]
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1572623241440641024God, she's been tweeting like 500 times a day for the past 10+ years
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She’s like 60 too :dead
God, she's been tweeting like 500 times a day for the past 10+ years
Trump trying to flee from the feds in his golf cart will be a sight to see
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1572790894834913280
:hesright
I know this is obvious, but...what's the point of the law, then Donald? If I can run a red light and just say "in my mind, it was green. And so it was green" to the cop, then why have the law against running red lights in the first place? Nobody is going to say, "Darn! It was red in my mind, too!" How does a president have such little knowledge about his own powers and have the awareness for so much recklessness with them, at the same time.Nothing he's done since actually taking office has dissuaded me from the belief that he doesn't care what the law is and thinks the President is the country's CEO and can do whatever he wants because that's how the various Trump corporations were always organized except when he personally lost control over them when they went bankrupt or faced criminal charges. On The Apprentice he often struggled with the idea that contestants may not simply obey whoever was put in charge for that task and may act in other ways and often based on whether or not they like/dislike someone especially due to things that had happened prior. Unless Carolyn or later Ivanka pointed it out Trump was often easily bamboozled by people who would deliberately sabotage situations (or just do something incredibly stupid) and then claim it was poor leadership that caused them to do this which would lead Trump to spending all his time attacking and questioning the task leader while letting the subordinate off the hook.
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I am shocked that you have a hard time grasping the concept that there are no biologically separate races of homo sapiens. Shocked.
Stunning videos showing how religion provides community, a place of belonging, and a hub for doing good deeds.
https://twitter.com/Ancommiey/status/1572403030414221313
https://twitter.com/MahyarTousi/status/1572139513673121793
I am shocked that you have a hard time grasping the concept that there are no biologically separate races of homo sapiens. Shocked.
if you were to compose a post like that, speaking to the medical needs of different groups of humans, what word usage would you prescribe instead?
As Burns correctly points out, there is only one human race, there aren't multiple races. That is debunked pseudoscience, and has been for nearly a century. Americans need to stop using the term when referring to people of different ethnicity/geographic origin.The United States Census defines race as sociocultural groups, not biological ones. The standards and created groups (like Hispanic) trickle down from there because the Census is the source of demographic data. A switch to ethnic data has been dissuaded because of concerns that people will not identify accurately. Also that any further subgrouping will undermine solidarity concerns.
It's shameful that it's still being used 77 years after Hitler.
I don't give a fuck about "liberal" talking points.Then you disagree fundamentally with anti-racists who claim the most essential component of someone is their race and all other things sit below their racial group as defined biologically. Lead scholar Ibram X. Kendi and others in the CRT schools advocate that racial concerns should trump all others including the rule of law, democracy, etc.
Of course there is ethnicity, as I wrote above. There just are no races. By using the term "race" to classify people you give credence to and perpetuate long discredited pseudoscience.
Yay, science.
A racist is a person who believes in racial theory.
when they say racial concerns, they mean ethnic concerns, because using the exact technically correct word is more important than getting your point across to the listenerWhite is not an ethnicity, fascist! :ufup
:science
I don't give a fuck about "liberal" talking points.I see your point and it is a noble stance, but that line of thinking legitimises this :dolezal
Of course there is ethnicity, as I wrote above. There just are no races. By using the term "race" to classify people you give credence to and perpetuate long discredited pseudoscience.
Yay, science.
A racist is a person who believes in racial theory.
I still don't understand how that's any different from the gender stuff.It's not. You can't change your genetics any sooner than you can change your chromosomes
The identity of the Jews has always been a touchy subject. But most of them believe their origins are the same and they have a list of arbitrary rules that decide if you can live in their Jewish state or not.Which countries do not have a list of arbitrary rules to decide this?
They used to make fun of conservatives(and Colbert did this all the time) who said they weren't racist because they didn't see color which is a talking point that the liberals have now taken over.This is a disingenuous argument. Arguing that there are no real genetic differences between races doesn't mean race as a social construct doesn't exist, or that racism doesn't exist. No one on the left is making that argument. If anything it's brought up to essentially say "we're all the same genetically so why are you being weird by being racist."
Although I agree with the one human race theory in principle, you have to realize that if races and ethnicities are gone so is the ability to call out racism or laws that protect people from racism.
Take the current draft in Russia for example, they're clearly not calling up the Slavs but the Central Asians and other groups.
Putin has decided though that there is only one "Russian" identity and all these various ethnicities and nationalities such as Ukrainians do not exist.
Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney said at The Texas Tribune festival Saturday that if former President Donald Trump becomes the Republican Party's nominee for president in 2024, she will not remain a Republican.No, stop, don't go...
"I'm going to make sure Donald Trump, I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he is not the nominee. And if he is the nominee, I won't be a Republican," Cheney said.
But, Cheney would not go as far as saying that she wants Democrats to keep control of the House of Representatives after the midterm elections.
Cheney said there are a lot of "bad policies" in the Biden administration but added, "I think it's really important though, as voters are going to vote, that they recognize and understand what the Republican Conference consists of in the House of Representatives today."
Carl Icahn thinks the game is up.:gddr5
Inflation can't be stopped but central banks will try by increasing interest rates. This won't work because they keep printing money.
Higher interest rates will cause a recession and various markets (housing, insurance etc.) will collapse.
He says this is a 'fall of the Roman empire' moment for the US and that the destruction will be monumental.
Carl Icahn thinks the game is up.
Inflation can't be stopped but central banks will try by increasing interest rates. This won't work because they keep printing money.
Higher interest rates will cause a recession and various markets (housing, insurance etc.) will collapse.
He says this is a 'fall of the Roman empire' moment for the US and that the destruction will be monumental.
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To The Stars reminds us who we are and shows us where to go. It is a salute to the free-spirited. To the rowdy. To the wide-eyed wanderers. To the dreamers. To the stars.
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is this even real
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The peacemaker
Gotta love the way Don sells himself. :lol
Also, what kind of deal could either side want? Russia wants Ukraine; Ukraine wants its survival as a nation. Russia has invested too much into this war to simply back out because it's on Putin's head if they do.
Finally, for the first time in my life I'm grateful that we pump the amount we do into military. Might truly is right. Boomers weren't wrong :obama
What would not have happened? :lolI'd imagine...Trump kneecapping US intel in early 2022, claiming he's seen no evidence that an invasion is imminent. Followed by refusing to condemn Putin after the invasion, and little to no military aid to Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/politvidchannel/status/1575130882519666690
https://twitter.com/_queenbitc/status/1575134375020302336
Unlike the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, they decided against publicly stating that the goal was explicitly "regime change". Kind of understand why considering how those wars turned out.Gotta love the way Don sells himself. :lol
Also, what kind of deal could either side want? Russia wants Ukraine; Ukraine wants its survival as a nation. Russia has invested too much into this war to simply back out because it's on Putin's head if they do.
Finally, for the first time in my life I'm grateful that we pump the amount we do into military. Might truly is right. Boomers weren't wrong :obama
*Has* Russia actually, publicly said what they want out of the war?
If you have no stated, achievable goal going in then it seems like war for war's sake. What did he tell Russian citizens? Is that still the same line these days? How long can they move the goalpost before national fatigue sets in? :thinking
Last I checked Russians supported the war but that was when it first started.Maybe go and check now that conscription has started.
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1574870713047126017This is like saying that investors paid for their "accounts" in Bernie Madoff's fund. :trumps
https://twitter.com/politvidchannel/status/1575130882519666690By "prominent lawyer" here they mean #Resistence Blue Check and former prosecutor Tristan Snell who constantly tweets about how he knows nothing about the law (many such cases):
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Isn't it mostly affecting gay men?Yes, predominantly. There were high infection rates early but it's pretty much been nuked by community action and the vaccine.
God works in mysterious ways
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/1575531681921966081
God works in mysterious ways
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/1575531681921966081
Praise Allah :blessup
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Can we stop calling that stuff socialism? Also it's bizarre how people use a hurricane to dunk political points. I don't like conservatives doing that to liberal areas too. It's so binary and disgusting. "Hur hur, floridans getting what they deserve" "hyuck hyuck Oregon getting what they deserve with these fires" as if all floridans are Republican living in the sticks next to an alligator nest and all Oregonians are super Liberal Progressives with purple hair from Portland.
It makes a mockery of the human loss and even further divides this nation. I really don't like it.
God works in mysterious waysLike I'm supposed to believe that Dick Cheney took the Hurricane directing device with him when he left the White House? Not a chance the feds don't have more than one.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/1575531681921966081
If we really want to get into the weeds, the only political party that regularly votes against disaster aide are republicans. Including what, damn near 200 voting against the Hurricane Ida aide last year because congress also needed to raise the debt limit? Or senate wise, Ted Cruz regularly voting against aide unless it's for Texas. Rand Paul doing the same for Kentucky.
The Republicans are gaining in nearly all the polls. Which is obvious considering the economy is the hot button issue.
I'm not sure if abortion rights (that haven't really changed in most places either) is a big enough issue for voters to offset their general dissapointment in the Democrats.
The Republicans are gaining in nearly all the polls. Which is obvious considering the economy is the hot button issue.
I'm not sure if abortion rights (that haven't really changed in most places either) is a big enough issue for voters to offset their general dissapointment in the Democrats.
The Republicans are gaining in nearly all the polls. Which is obvious considering the economy is the hot button issue.
I'm not sure if abortion rights (that haven't really changed in most places either) is a big enough issue for voters to offset their general dissapointment in the Democrats.
The problem for republicans is the abortion issue changes the dynamics of who will be voting. Ever since that Kansas abortion vote, women voting has gone up significantly in nearly every noteworthy primary contest. Dems matched or exceeded Biden's 2020 district numbers as well. Largely due to increases in women. I expect that to hold into election day barring some disaster.
If dems had a 20 seat edge in the house I'd put money on dems holding the house. Because it's only a 5 seat margin or something like that, republicans will win. But I'm nearly 100% confident democrats hold the senate. And more importantly they're sailing to victories in the MI and PA governor races, which bodes well for 2024.
If you told me 7 months ago that dems would hold the senate, hold MI/PA (and possibly WI) governor seats I'd be thrilled. It guarantees a shot at another Supreme Court judge before the next presidential election.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3667715-fettermans-lead-over-oz-shrinks-in-pennsylvania-senate-race-poll/Spread looks about the same to me: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/pa/pennsylvania_senate_oz_vs_fetterman-7695.html
What is going on in these polls :dahell
It guarantees a shot at another Supreme Court judge before the next presidential election.Clarence is only going to be 76.
https://twitter.com/matildabress/status/1575832652892246016 (https://twitter.com/matildabress/status/1575832652892246016)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fd8OOpSXoAEEC7k?format=jpg&name=small)
:hmm
Who cares. It's 2022, most employers and universities require certain vaccinations or a TB test for employment or enrollment. This wasn't a controversial concept until a certain group of people went insane over a pandemic they deemed to be fake or overblown.
Yeah, PD. It's 2022 and the Pandemic, as per Biden, is "over". Forcing the military and coast guard to require a pandemic vaccine, a disease that will go away, weakens America and is absolutely foolish leadership. Liberals forcing entire industries, even our own military to take on this vaccine, during high employment shortages is just another way they force their flexing of their cultural power. Libs and their stupid corporations are even forcing truckers and people that do work from home jobs to get Covid vaccination. You can force your narrative on all of society, but we are free to choose, and also allowed to free to tell you to fuck off.
https://twitter.com/ChristianWalk1r/status/1577284445367042049
He played American football for years and did some MMA fights, dude is almost certainly mad brain damaged. This whole circus is sad.
I've been operating all this time from the assumption that Warnock would lose, despite how close the race is. But now...I think he takes it. Local media in Georgia is just going to dig into the story and further confirm it. He claims he doesn't know the woman, she claims she's been speaking to him recently. All she has to do is reveal the correspondence and he has no fall back.
Never say you've never met her, fellas. :doge
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FePeUA9WAAAjUbg?format=jpg)Kinda think that if you know some terrible things about Warnock you should let people know, Donald. Whether or not they're true has never stopped you before so I'm not understanding the hesitation now.
barely literate distinguished mentally-challenged fellows who would fuck their own cousins..."But enough about my Attorney General!" :trumps
barely literate distinguished mentally-challenged fellows who would fuck their own cousins..."But enough about my Attorney General!" :trumps
I hate politicians, so much.That's not the gotcha you think it is, but I wouldn't expect better from a Republican supporterbarely literate distinguished mentally-challenged fellows who would fuck their own cousins..."But enough about my Attorney General!" :trumps
"Let's judge people across the globe I've never even met!"
Meanwhile, in his own country...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/05/australia-consumed-rape-claim-attorney-general (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/05/australia-consumed-rape-claim-attorney-general)
:girlaff :point
HIT DOGS HOLLER
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King shit
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1578098324476989456 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1578098324476989456)
Holy shit
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1578098324476989456 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1578098324476989456)
Holy shit
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1578098324476989456 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1578098324476989456)Rest of this is actually potentially more consequential than a handful of federal possession pardons amidst a federal crackdown on marijuana (https://www.laweekly.com/federal-cannabis-arrests-jump-25-under-biden/):
Holy shit
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1578098324476989456 (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1578098324476989456)Rest of this is actually potentially more consequential than a handful of federal possession pardons amidst a federal crackdown on marijuana (https://www.laweekly.com/federal-cannabis-arrests-jump-25-under-biden/):
Holy shit
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1578155139487207425
https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579788950696185859 (https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1579788950696185859)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Z1x8Ou8VU
:salute
So you hate gays now
Weird seeing protesters holding signs that say "homosexuality big sin" being lauded by a pro-gay anti-trans twitter
How the tides have turned.
We've come a long way from Republicans debating which country in the Middle East to bomb first with thermonuclear warheads to muslims being praised for standing up for conservative values and Dr. Oz running on the Trump ticket.
What does this even mean.So you hate gays now
Weird seeing protesters holding signs that say "homosexuality big sin" being lauded by a pro-gay anti-trans twitter
Hate? No. Think it becoming normalized is bad for society? Yes.
What does this even mean.So you hate gays now
Weird seeing protesters holding signs that say "homosexuality big sin" being lauded by a pro-gay anti-trans twitter
Hate? No. Think it becoming normalized is bad for society? Yes.
If they are scared of lgbt books they are free to go home to Afghanistan
What does this even mean.So you hate gays now
Weird seeing protesters holding signs that say "homosexuality big sin" being lauded by a pro-gay anti-trans twitter
Hate? No. Think it becoming normalized is bad for society? Yes.
What does this even mean.So you hate gays now
Weird seeing protesters holding signs that say "homosexuality big sin" being lauded by a pro-gay anti-trans twitter
Hate? No. Think it becoming normalized is bad for society? Yes.
himu is trying to say he hates gays in a different form.
they've changed culture in terms of values such as freedom of speech and the way they use their power and their agenda to force their depraved narrative on everyone and everything. Chappelle is transphobic!!! So he must be gotten rid of. Cyberpunk is transphobic!!!! You're not allowed to discuss it.
If they are scared of lgbt books they are free to go home to Afghanistan
So you're not only homophobic you're weird too. I'm not going to engage on this, I'll simply wait for your next complete, obsessive personality/opinion shift in a year or two. Having known you for well over a decade at this point I really think you're mentally ill and hope you get some help. No disrespect.If they are scared of lgbt books they are free to go home to Afghanistan
The first (and most famous) in America were black. Nice try, though!What does this even mean.So you hate gays now
Weird seeing protesters holding signs that say "homosexuality big sin" being lauded by a pro-gay anti-trans twitter
Hate? No. Think it becoming normalized is bad for society? Yes.
Its normalization has led to seeping into every corner of life. It was about acceptance but now it's about fully taking in every part of their agenda. They put their agenda over everything culturally. Meanwhile their culture is bereft of any values. Having men compete with women in sports, the entire trans thing, especially when forced on kids, trans women forcing themselves into women's spaces - even lesbian spaces, if you don't accept all of this you're a transphobe. Trans people overwhelmingly are Marxist radicals hoping to upend gender norms. Look at the BLM org and its queer based Marxist grift. Then there's the slippery slope that has happened. Ever since the legalization of gay marriage society has become increasingly sexual in public from social media, to porn being inescapable, to kids being hooted and hollered over by a bunch adult men as they shake their ass. It is a complete dopaminization of civilization, much like with Rome, and gives credence that gays sex is solely about lust and not love, and that mentality, as it gain social acceptance through osmosis, is cancerous to society which ultimately doesn't mean anything to LGBTQ because they mostly cannot reproduce.
Society, as a whole, is much better with them in the closet. Ever since their full integration into society it has become a warped society. It is unnatural and wrong.
If they are scared of lgbt books they are free to go home to Afghanistan
with that attitude you're lucky you're not european, or you'd find yourself in the literal nazi camp :lol
If they are scared of lgbt books they are free to go home to Afghanistan
with that attitude you're lucky you're not european, or you'd find yourself in the literal nazi camp :lol
Nazis want to kill people for being different. I strongly disagree with that.
I believe in the free market and competition. Let everyone do what they want, but they can do it in a way that doesn't fuck over their neighbors.
USA: Free speech, no banning books, copious gun violence.
Afghanistan: No free speech, books and music banned, copious gun violence.
Portugal: Free speech, no banning books, no gun violence.
Saudi Arabia: No free speech, books and music banned, no gun violence.
Let everyone pick which lifestyle they prefer and move there.
nazis want to kill people, "literal nazis" wants refugees who don't like "how we do things 'round here" to move elsewhere :yeshrug
your position is the position of the far right in Sweden (and presumably elsewhere in europe) if i was being too obtuse
If they are scared of lgbt books they are free to go home to Afghanistan
with that attitude you're lucky you're not european, or you'd find yourself in the literal nazi camp :lol
Nazis want to kill people for being different. I strongly disagree with that.
I believe in the free market and competition. Let everyone do what they want, but they can do it in a way that doesn't fuck over their neighbors.
USA: Free speech, no banning books, copious gun violence.
Afghanistan: No free speech, books and music banned, copious gun violence.
Portugal: Free speech, no banning books, no gun violence.
Saudi Arabia: No free speech, books and music banned, no gun violence.
Let everyone pick which lifestyle they prefer and move there.
nazis want to kill people, "literal nazis" wants refugees who don't like "how we do things 'round here" to move elsewhere :yeshrug
your position is the position of the far right in Sweden (and presumably elsewhere in europe) if i was being too obtuse
nazis want to kill people, "literal nazis" wants refugees who don't like "how we do things 'round here" to move elsewhere :yeshrug
your position is the position of the far right in Sweden (and presumably elsewhere in europe) if i was being too obtuse
Theyre doing it race-based. Thats whats fucked up. Your race doesnt determine your ideas or values. The countries should be absed on value systems.
Himu and the Yall Queda should be deported to Afghanistan (pro-drug), Saudi Arabia (pro-murder), or Yemen (pro-piracy). Any Afghanis/Saudis/Yemis that believe in freedom are more than welcome to move to Sweden, the US, or whatever matches their preferences on things like healthcare and gun massacres.
they've changed culture in terms of values such as freedom of speech and the way they use their power and their agenda to force their depraved narrative on everyone and everything. Chappelle is transphobic!!! So he must be gotten rid of. Cyberpunk is transphobic!!!! You're not allowed to discuss it.
My dude, three posts up your praising people calling for the banning of books.
Do you want free speech or not?
As for me being mentally ill, I'm not. I'm perfectly sane. I see a therapist weekly and have dealt with intense childhood trauma and PTSD my whole adult life. I've gotten treatment for it and I'm much better. Just because you disagree doesn't mean I'm mentally ill. That's awfully ableist if you, since you're calling me such a dirty homophobe (I don't care).:yeshrug
As for me being mentally ill, I'm not. I'm perfectly sane. I see a therapist weekly and have dealt with intense childhood trauma and PTSD my whole adult life. I've gotten treatment for it and I'm much better. Just because you disagree doesn't mean I'm mentally ill. That's awfully ableist if you, since you're calling me such a dirty homophobe (I don't care).:yeshrug
Nothing to do with you disagreeing. Everything to do with you changing religion, sexuality, gender, and moral beliefs multiple times within the last decade plus. There's a progression of extremes here that is troubling, and your inclination to regurgitate talking points without thinking is weird as fuck.
Wow those illustrations are appalling. 18 year olds shouldn't be exposed to that sort of indoctrination material. Hell after seeing those pictures, even I feel like sucking some cock, I can't imagine what it's doing to our kids.
What’s next? Legalizing sex with animals?! :info
If they are scared of lgbt books they are free to go home to Afghanistan
The first (and most famous) in America were black. Nice try, though!What does this even mean.So you hate gays now
Weird seeing protesters holding signs that say "homosexuality big sin" being lauded by a pro-gay anti-trans twitter
Hate? No. Think it becoming normalized is bad for society? Yes.
Its normalization has led to seeping into every corner of life. It was about acceptance but now it's about fully taking in every part of their agenda. They put their agenda over everything culturally. Meanwhile their culture is bereft of any values. Having men compete with women in sports, the entire trans thing, especially when forced on kids, trans women forcing themselves into women's spaces - even lesbian spaces, if you don't accept all of this you're a transphobe. Trans people overwhelmingly are Marxist radicals hoping to upend gender norms. Look at the BLM org and its queer based Marxist grift. Then there's the slippery slope that has happened. Ever since the legalization of gay marriage society has become increasingly sexual in public from social media, to porn being inescapable, to kids being hooted and hollered over by a bunch adult men as they shake their ass. It is a complete dopaminization of civilization, much like with Rome, and gives credence that gays sex is solely about lust and not love, and that mentality, as it gain social acceptance through osmosis, is cancerous to society which ultimately doesn't mean anything to LGBTQ because they mostly cannot reproduce.
Society, as a whole, is much better with them in the closet. Ever since their full integration into society it has become a warped society. It is unnatural and wrong.
they've changed culture in terms of values such as freedom of speech and the way they use their power and their agenda to force their depraved narrative on everyone and everything. Chappelle is transphobic!!! So he must be gotten rid of. Cyberpunk is transphobic!!!! You're not allowed to discuss it.
My dude, three posts up your praising people calling for the banning of books.
Do you want free speech or not?
I'm fullstop opposed to "banning" books. You want to put explicit books in an age restricted portion of the library, fine. But as someone who was once a horny kid I can guarantee you no kids are rushing to the library to look at any of this shit and they'll likely never know it's there.
From what I can read from Himu's posts he doesn't hate gay people, or think they should be hurt, just that they're gross and ideally wouldn't exist.
If i'm misunderstanding please clarify for me Himu.
Look at the BLM org and its queer based Marxist grift.
they've changed culture in terms of values such as freedom of speech and the way they use their power and their agenda to force their depraved narrative on everyone and everything. Chappelle is transphobic!!! So he must be gotten rid of. Cyberpunk is transphobic!!!! You're not allowed to discuss it.
My dude, three posts up your praising people calling for the banning of books.
Do you want free speech or not?I'm fullstop opposed to "banning" books. You want to put explicit books in an age restricted portion of the library, fine. But as someone who was once a horny kid I can guarantee you no kids are rushing to the library to look at any of this shit and they'll likely never know it's there.
I will say, "book banning" is usually overstated
what generally happens is a school chooses to stop using a particular book as part of its curriculum, which is perfectly reasonable and happens all the time
that could mean kids are no longer forced to read a specific book and then engage in discussions about it, or that could mean it no longer shows up on recommended reading lists for that grade level
I'm not even against schools removing certain books from their library designed for students who attend there, because those books are constantly selected based on appropriateness for a school-age audience anyway
what's the alternative? are we angry that school libraries don't literally contain all the books and publications that can be found in a public library? why can't middle schoolers find mein kampf on the shelf? was it "banned?" or did someone make a logical and sound decision to just not have it on the shelf? they can find it online or in other libraries if they really want to, the book hasn't been officially censored or burned
angry mobs of conservative parents are shit, but I have no problem with the idea of questioning the thinking of the person who decided to stock any particular book, and making changes if necessary
let's not pretend that people don't conflate books being superficially made less available in a specific library, with mass book burning and government censorship, which are a world of difference apart
(https://i.imgur.com/iy4CajJ.png)
they've changed culture in terms of values such as freedom of speech and the way they use their power and their agenda to force their depraved narrative on everyone and everything. Chappelle is transphobic!!! So he must be gotten rid of. Cyberpunk is transphobic!!!! You're not allowed to discuss it.
My dude, three posts up your praising people calling for the banning of books.
Do you want free speech or not?I'm fullstop opposed to "banning" books. You want to put explicit books in an age restricted portion of the library, fine. But as someone who was once a horny kid I can guarantee you no kids are rushing to the library to look at any of this shit and they'll likely never know it's there.
I will say, "book banning" is usually overstated
what generally happens is a school chooses to stop using a particular book as part of its curriculum, which is perfectly reasonable and happens all the time
that could mean kids are no longer forced to read a specific book and then engage in discussions about it, or that could mean it no longer shows up on recommended reading lists for that grade level
I'm not even against schools removing certain books from their library designed for students who attend there, because those books are constantly selected based on appropriateness for a school-age audience anyway
what's the alternative? are we angry that school libraries don't literally contain all the books and publications that can be found in a public library? why can't middle schoolers find mein kampf on the shelf? was it "banned?" or did someone make a logical and sound decision to just not have it on the shelf? they can find it online or in other libraries if they really want to, the book hasn't been officially censored or burned
angry mobs of conservative parents are shit, but I have no problem with the idea of questioning the thinking of the person who decided to stock any particular book, and making changes if necessary
let's not pretend that people don't conflate books being superficially made less available in a specific library, with mass book burning and government censorship, which are a world of difference apart
These are the books they had removed from the library + blocking digital access on the school interweb
"Push" by Sapphire
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold
"Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
"Red, White & Royal Blue" by Casey McQuiston
"And They Lived" by Steven Salvatore
"All Boys Aren't Blue" by George M. Johnson
"This Book is Gay" by Juno Dawson."
and parents and kids can still track down these books if they really want to
and parents and kids can still track down these books if they really want to
If a child is gay, and their parent is a religious fanatic, how exactly do they track down the books?
Part of the reason of having them in school a library is to ensure that everyone has equal access to the materials.
Same with other sensitive subjects like eating disorders, self-harm etc.
Librarians are curated by educated professionals with a masters degree. They certainly know more about books than Johnny Taliban or Debby Klan.
Providing government resources for children to escape a cult is a good thing, actually.
and parents and kids can still track down these books if they really want to
If a child is gay, and their parent is a religious fanatic, how exactly do they track down the books?
Part of the reason of having them in school a library is to ensure that everyone has equal access to the materials.
Same with other sensitive subjects like eating disorders, self-harm etc.
Librarians are curated by educated professionals with a masters degree. They certainly know more about books than Johnny Taliban or Debby Klan.
Providing government resources for children to escape a cult is a good thing, actually.
and if a child is gay and the librarian is a fundie christian and decided to stock the library full of books that proclaim they're going through a phase and should be ashamed, do you advocate for removing those books from the library?
Every year there's a push from a certain group of people (racists) who want to ban books like To Kill A Mockingbird
The teachers’ objections to the book included criticism that Black characters are not fully realized and that the book romanticizes the idea of a “white savior.”
The teachers also cited concerns that characters in the book frequently use the N-word while no character explains that the slur is derogatory, and that the word and the portrayal of Black characters cause harm to students of color.
and parents and kids can still track down these books if they really want to
If a child is gay, and their parent is a religious fanatic, how exactly do they track down the books?
Part of the reason of having them in school a library is to ensure that everyone has equal access to the materials.
Same with other sensitive subjects like eating disorders, self-harm etc.
Librarians are curated by educated professionals with a masters degree. They certainly know more about books than Johnny Taliban or Debby Klan.
Providing government resources for children to escape a cult is a good thing, actually.
and if a child is gay and the librarian is a fundie christian and decided to stock the library full of books that proclaim they're going through a phase and should be ashamed, do you advocate for removing those books from the library?
"Librarians are curated by educated professionals with a masters degree.'
Fundie Christians have at most a GED.
Every year there's a push from a certain group of people (racists) who want to ban books like To Kill A Mockingbird
well, no, it's because to kill a mockingbird is itself racist actually
https://crosscut.com/news/2022/01/kill-mockingbird-hot-seat-wa-school-districtQuoteThe teachers’ objections to the book included criticism that Black characters are not fully realized and that the book romanticizes the idea of a “white savior.”
The teachers also cited concerns that characters in the book frequently use the N-word while no character explains that the slur is derogatory, and that the word and the portrayal of Black characters cause harm to students of color.
this article does not mention it but another point I've seen raised is that harper lee as a white person in the 50s was ill-equipped to accurately represent the struggles, behaviors and culture of the Black experience at that time or indeed any time
And while I understand for instance the books I had to read in HS English - 1984, Lord Of The Flies, etc - are likely no longer heavily used in curriculums today I would expect and want those books to still be readily available in a school or local library. Because they're important literary works and hold some value in being read by young children whose minds/thoughts are in a state of development
The book will not be not banned, however, and teachers may still choose to assign the book in their classrooms.
ah I see, there is no circumstance in which an objectionable book could ever be added to a school library and therefore no basis for ever requesting a specific book be removed
Every year there's a push from a certain group of people (racists) who want to ban books like To Kill A Mockingbird
well, no, it's because to kill a mockingbird is itself racist actually
https://crosscut.com/news/2022/01/kill-mockingbird-hot-seat-wa-school-districtQuoteThe teachers’ objections to the book included criticism that Black characters are not fully realized and that the book romanticizes the idea of a “white savior.”
The teachers also cited concerns that characters in the book frequently use the N-word while no character explains that the slur is derogatory, and that the word and the portrayal of Black characters cause harm to students of color.
this article does not mention it but another point I've seen raised is that harper lee as a white person in the 50s was ill-equipped to accurately represent the struggles, behaviors and culture of the Black experience at that time or indeed any time
Did you miss the rest of his post?QuoteAnd while I understand for instance the books I had to read in HS English - 1984, Lord Of The Flies, etc - are likely no longer heavily used in curriculums today I would expect and want those books to still be readily available in a school or local library. Because they're important literary works and hold some value in being read by young children whose minds/thoughts are in a state of development
Thats exactly what your article says happened:QuoteThe book will not be not banned, however, and teachers may still choose to assign the book in their classrooms.
No one is stocking books on effective ways to commit suicide or how to build a pipe bomb.
are we questioning their motivation, or whether it actually happens? a lot of these conservative driven "bannings" also fail in similar ways, sometimes removed from reading lists but not the library, sometimes they're just told to fuck off
why are those books banned from the library? no books should be banned, right?
When I say "banned" I mean moved from school curriculums and libraries forever. This is objectively wrong.
why are those books banned from the library? no books should be banned, right?
Come on, no need to act dumb.
Free speech and defamation laws can co-exist, as can laws that prohibit assault.
(Assault is just a verbal threat, battery is the act)
These protests are about banning books that arent dangerous, they just go against the magic book filled with pedophile stories.
this is literally the basis of my post on this, though
if you accept that there are good reasons that some books ought to be excluded from school libraries, THEN you can start to dither over the details of whether this particular one is justified or not
bash conservatives and their shit reasoning all you like, just don't pretend that there's no reason literally any book's inclusion should ever be questioned
The vast majority of people who have attempted to ban or remove To Kill A Mockingbird from schools since the 1960s are racist parents, often in the south, upset about the topics described in the book (you know, racism). Who claim the book is obscene due to the n-word, among other things, in order to put on what they believe to be a more reasonable/less racist-looking facade. A couple delusional leftist teachers in Seattle doesn't change that. I will definitely say I have noticed that argument appearing on the left though, often from white writers who seemingly don't understand what a "white savior" character is. I see no argument for Atticus being that, given how flawed of a character he'd depicted as in the book (vs the movie).Every year there's a push from a certain group of people (racists) who want to ban books like To Kill A Mockingbird
well, no, it's because to kill a mockingbird is itself racist actually
https://crosscut.com/news/2022/01/kill-mockingbird-hot-seat-wa-school-districtQuoteThe teachers’ objections to the book included criticism that Black characters are not fully realized and that the book romanticizes the idea of a “white savior.”
The teachers also cited concerns that characters in the book frequently use the N-word while no character explains that the slur is derogatory, and that the word and the portrayal of Black characters cause harm to students of color.
this article does not mention it but another point I've seen raised is that harper lee as a white person in the 50s was ill-equipped to accurately represent the struggles, behaviors and culture of the Black experience at that time or indeed any time
this is literally the basis of my post on this, though
if you accept that there are good reasons that some books ought to be excluded from school libraries, THEN you can start to dither over the details of whether this particular one is justified or not
bash conservatives and their shit reasoning all you like, just don't pretend that there's no reason literally any book's inclusion should ever be questioned
All they have to do is simply apply the test determined by the USSC - the Miller Test.
That being said, I propose an updated version, the Himu test.
Basically, whatever Himu thinks, do they exact opposite.
The vast majority of people who have attempted to ban or remove To Kill A Mockingbird from schools since the 1960s are racist parents, often in the south, upset about the topics described in the book (you know, racism). Who claim the book is obscene due to the n-word, among other things, in order to put on what they believe to be a more reasonable/less racist-looking facade. A couple delusional leftist teachers in Seattle doesn't change that. I will definitely say I have noticed that argument appearing on the left though, often from white writers who seemingly don't understand what a "white savior" character is. I see no argument for Atticus being that, given how flawed of a character he'd depicted as in the book (vs the movie).Every year there's a push from a certain group of people (racists) who want to ban books like To Kill A Mockingbird
well, no, it's because to kill a mockingbird is itself racist actually
https://crosscut.com/news/2022/01/kill-mockingbird-hot-seat-wa-school-districtQuoteThe teachers’ objections to the book included criticism that Black characters are not fully realized and that the book romanticizes the idea of a “white savior.”
The teachers also cited concerns that characters in the book frequently use the N-word while no character explains that the slur is derogatory, and that the word and the portrayal of Black characters cause harm to students of color.
this article does not mention it but another point I've seen raised is that harper lee as a white person in the 50s was ill-equipped to accurately represent the struggles, behaviors and culture of the Black experience at that time or indeed any time
The white liberal guilt of these types of people, and the brain rot it generates, is pretty wild.
I love that you're so obsessed with me.this is literally the basis of my post on this, though
if you accept that there are good reasons that some books ought to be excluded from school libraries, THEN you can start to dither over the details of whether this particular one is justified or not
bash conservatives and their shit reasoning all you like, just don't pretend that there's no reason literally any book's inclusion should ever be questioned
All they have to do is simply apply the test determined by the USSC - the Miller Test.
That being said, I propose an updated version, the Himu test.
Basically, whatever Himu thinks, do they exact opposite.
Most of the leftist conversations I've seen don't recommend banning but I've seen many that say it shouldn't be taught in schools because "white savior" or "a white's perspective doesn't matter." Brain worms and frankly not much better than wanting to ban a book due to being racist.The vast majority of people who have attempted to ban or remove To Kill A Mockingbird from schools since the 1960s are racist parents, often in the south, upset about the topics described in the book (you know, racism). Who claim the book is obscene due to the n-word, among other things, in order to put on what they believe to be a more reasonable/less racist-looking facade. A couple delusional leftist teachers in Seattle doesn't change that. I will definitely say I have noticed that argument appearing on the left though, often from white writers who seemingly don't understand what a "white savior" character is. I see no argument for Atticus being that, given how flawed of a character he'd depicted as in the book (vs the movie).Every year there's a push from a certain group of people (racists) who want to ban books like To Kill A Mockingbird
well, no, it's because to kill a mockingbird is itself racist actually
https://crosscut.com/news/2022/01/kill-mockingbird-hot-seat-wa-school-districtQuoteThe teachers’ objections to the book included criticism that Black characters are not fully realized and that the book romanticizes the idea of a “white savior.”
The teachers also cited concerns that characters in the book frequently use the N-word while no character explains that the slur is derogatory, and that the word and the portrayal of Black characters cause harm to students of color.
this article does not mention it but another point I've seen raised is that harper lee as a white person in the 50s was ill-equipped to accurately represent the struggles, behaviors and culture of the Black experience at that time or indeed any time
The white liberal guilt of these types of people, and the brain rot it generates, is pretty wild.
Who does Atticus even save?? He literally loses the case and his defendant is shot to death. What are leftist crackers even smoking? I told you leftism is a disease, PD. I'm glad to see you acknowledge it.
Most of the leftist conversations I've seen don't recommend banning but I've seen many that say it shouldn't be taught in schools because "white savior" or "a white's perspective doesn't matter." Brain worms and frankly not much better than wanting to ban a book due to being racist.
To be perfectly honest...they've targeted a variety of classic lit books. I've seen leftists argue Lord Of The Flies is problematic because it lacks diversity, and that a book centered on white male perspectives is worthless. Yes I agree with you, this is parody level stupidity. I said earlier I'm fine with that book not being taught, given that some may view it as dated, but that it belongs in school libraries. To exile it based on extremist views on representation is insane.
There's probably somebody out there pitching a Lord Of The Flies remake with a diverse cast. Not recognizing that them all being (white) boys, and the type of British school they came from, are central to what the book is saying.
I'm not actually low IQ in any way. I won't reveal what it is and I guarantee I have more skills and talents than you. My binary thinking is really helpful in learning things.
That constant measure of self criticism is precisely how I get good at things and precisely why I am better than you.
You don't have the ability to self obsess about something soooo much, that you wake up at 6 am and do it till 2 am.
We are not the same and you know I am better than you. I know what bothers you. It bothers you that you will die, damp in the darkness of your own mind, not really having lived nor experienced life. An oxygen tank strapped to the side as your body is dressed in tape. All you hear are beeps and the chatter of nurses talking about what men they're currently dating. You want to scream, but you can only whisper and in your final words you let out a gasp. You have no God, you admit to being suicidal in another thread. You will embrace the emptiness of your life, your hearts last jump, and then nothing. A void.
Most of the leftist conversations I've seen don't recommend banning but I've seen many that say it shouldn't be taught in schools because "white savior" or "a white's perspective doesn't matter." Brain worms and frankly not much better than wanting to ban a book due to being racist.The vast majority of people who have attempted to ban or remove To Kill A Mockingbird from schools since the 1960s are racist parents, often in the south, upset about the topics described in the book (you know, racism). Who claim the book is obscene due to the n-word, among other things, in order to put on what they believe to be a more reasonable/less racist-looking facade. A couple delusional leftist teachers in Seattle doesn't change that. I will definitely say I have noticed that argument appearing on the left though, often from white writers who seemingly don't understand what a "white savior" character is. I see no argument for Atticus being that, given how flawed of a character he'd depicted as in the book (vs the movie).Every year there's a push from a certain group of people (racists) who want to ban books like To Kill A Mockingbird
well, no, it's because to kill a mockingbird is itself racist actually
https://crosscut.com/news/2022/01/kill-mockingbird-hot-seat-wa-school-districtQuoteThe teachers’ objections to the book included criticism that Black characters are not fully realized and that the book romanticizes the idea of a “white savior.”
The teachers also cited concerns that characters in the book frequently use the N-word while no character explains that the slur is derogatory, and that the word and the portrayal of Black characters cause harm to students of color.
this article does not mention it but another point I've seen raised is that harper lee as a white person in the 50s was ill-equipped to accurately represent the struggles, behaviors and culture of the Black experience at that time or indeed any time
The white liberal guilt of these types of people, and the brain rot it generates, is pretty wild.
Who does Atticus even save?? He literally loses the case and his defendant is shot to death. What are leftist crackers even smoking? I told you leftism is a disease, PD. I'm glad to see you acknowledge it.
To be perfectly honest...they've targeted a variety of classic lit books. I've seen leftists argue Lord Of The Flies is problematic because it lacks diversity, and that a book centered on white male perspectives is worthless. Yes I agree with you, this is parody level stupidity. I said earlier I'm fine with that book not being taught, given that some may view it as dated, but that it belongs in school libraries. To exile it based on extremist views on representation is insane.
There's probably somebody out there pitching a Lord Of The Flies remake with a diverse cast. Not recognizing that them all being (white) boys, and the type of British school they came from, are central to what the book is saying.
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Having men compete with women in sports, the entire trans thing, especially when forced on kids, trans women forcing themselves into women's spaces - even lesbian spaces
Then there's the slippery slope that has happened. Ever since the legalization of gay marriage society has become increasingly sexual in public from social media, to porn being inescapable, to kids being hooted and hollered over by a bunch adult men as they shake their ass. It is a complete dopaminization of civilization, much like with Rome, and gives credence that gays sex is solely about lust and not love, and that mentality, as it gain social acceptance through osmosis, is cancerous to society which ultimately doesn't mean anything to LGBTQ because they mostly cannot reproduce.
Society, as a whole, is much better with them in the closet. Ever since their full integration into society it has become a warped society. It is unnatural and wrong.
No other group gets this kind of social power for such a small minority. There truly is a gay agenda. I supported gay people my entire life. I capable of saying I was wrong about them.
LGBTQ destroys society. We should learn from Rome's example. Live your life. Doesn't mean your lifestyle should gain acceptance.You're conflating a lot of things into a "gay agenda", ascribing motives to everyone in a large and diverse group even while using an example of in-group dispute, then ascribing everything potentially bad to a position now held by 75+% of the population.
Having men compete with women in sports, the entire trans thing, especially when forced on kids, trans women forcing themselves into women's spaces - even lesbian spacesThen there's the slippery slope that has happened. Ever since the legalization of gay marriage society has become increasingly sexual in public from social media, to porn being inescapable, to kids being hooted and hollered over by a bunch adult men as they shake their ass. It is a complete dopaminization of civilization, much like with Rome, and gives credence that gays sex is solely about lust and not love, and that mentality, as it gain social acceptance through osmosis, is cancerous to society which ultimately doesn't mean anything to LGBTQ because they mostly cannot reproduce.
Society, as a whole, is much better with them in the closet. Ever since their full integration into society it has become a warped society. It is unnatural and wrong.No other group gets this kind of social power for such a small minority. There truly is a gay agenda. I supported gay people my entire life. I capable of saying I was wrong about them.LGBTQ destroys society. We should learn from Rome's example. Live your life. Doesn't mean your lifestyle should gain acceptance.You're conflating a lot of things into a "gay agenda", ascribing motives to everyone in a large and diverse group even while using an example of in-group dispute, then ascribing everything potentially bad to a position now held by 75+% of the population.
You want us to learn from Rome but we could probably ascribe some of their issues to the spread of monotheistic religions rather than the spread of too many individual liberties.
Most of the leftist conversations I've seen don't recommend banning but I've seen many that say it shouldn't be taught in schools because "white savior" or "a white's perspective doesn't matter." Brain worms and frankly not much better than wanting to ban a book due to being racist.
To be perfectly honest...they've targeted a variety of classic lit books. I've seen leftists argue Lord Of The Flies is problematic because it lacks diversity, and that a book centered on white male perspectives is worthless. Yes I agree with you, this is parody level stupidity. I said earlier I'm fine with that book not being taught, given that some may view it as dated, but that it belongs in school libraries. To exile it based on extremist views on representation is insane.
There's probably somebody out there pitching a Lord Of The Flies remake with a diverse cast. Not recognizing that them all being (white) boys, and the type of British school they came from, are central to what the book is saying.
I think thats a simplification. What Ive heard is that a lot of the classics aren't exactly great literature, but theyre taught due to inertia + a small pool. Aka, books written by white American or British men, and new generations teaching what they were taught.
AKA, while there is certainly value to teaching Shakespeare, because of how influential the storylines are, you dont need a course that is ONLY Shakespeare.
Because you can only teach so many books in a year, its worth looking at other cultures and languages to see if there are better books to teach that hit on similar points of discussion but are written better or are better balanced.
You say some argue the books aren't that well written...but the same thing is happening to Joyce on the university level. Surely no one would argue James Joyce was an overrated writer.
This is all started with censoring Huckleberry Finn. Progressives and extreme conservatives both want to censor literature, but censor in their own way that shapes their agenda. In this case the cons just happen to be correct about the lgbtq content in school libraries. K-12 library should not have a book that features visualized fellatio (whether gay or straight) and gender transitions.
You're correct in that some gays are very vocal against the trans agenda. Sometimes the gay agenda and the trans agenda are two separate things foisted onto us by two different groups all under the LGBTQ umbrella. In practice, LGBTQ is still forcing society to fully accept their way of living through their activism.So who do you want arrested for what?
This is all started with censoring Huckleberry Finn. Progressives and extreme conservatives both want to censor literature, but censor in their own way that shapes their agenda. In this case the cons just happen to be correct about the lgbtq content in school libraries. K-12 library should not have a book that features visualized fellatio (whether gay or straight) and gender transitions.
is the fact that it's visually graphic the only issue?
when I was in 7th grade my english teacher had a shelf of random books (not sure if drawn from the library or just personal) and that's where I read Thinner, which opens with a guy getting a handjob from his wife while driving which causes him to run over a gypsy (outdated slur) and gets cursed to lose weight to death
I think the school library had other Stephen King books like It which as everyone now knows features an underage gangbang and graphically discusses penis girth of a fat kid
I also remember that Lord of the Flies has the boys laughing about shoving their stick "up her ass"
similarly another book that was required reading for me was Bless Me Ultima, a coming of age book "exploring the religiosity of Chicano culture" where I remember a group of boys looking through a hole in the wall to see their teacher's pussy
I love that you're so obsessed with me.this is literally the basis of my post on this, though
if you accept that there are good reasons that some books ought to be excluded from school libraries, THEN you can start to dither over the details of whether this particular one is justified or not
bash conservatives and their shit reasoning all you like, just don't pretend that there's no reason literally any book's inclusion should ever be questioned
All they have to do is simply apply the test determined by the USSC - the Miller Test.
That being said, I propose an updated version, the Himu test.
Basically, whatever Himu thinks, do they exact opposite.
I think youre fascinating.
Pretty much everyone at the bore is an educated, successful professional in their 30s-40s. We may not agree on everything, but we have the basic building blocks needed to have a conversation based around logic and reason.
You arent like that. Youre the 30% of the population that is low-IQ and incredibly easy to manipulate, confuse, and recruit. Its a fantastic insight into how folks like Trump or Chavez or Bolsonaro develop cults and can within the span of a single sentence proudly proclaim two completely contradictory viewpoints while actually genuinely thinking you are smart and logical and right.
Its just remarkable.
The problem with political consultants and operatives, especially on the left, is that they dont have access to people like you to prod and poke and observe. Youre a goldmine.
When you post, I feel the same level of excitement Dr. Oz must feel when he sees a fresh litter of puppies.
You're correct in that some gays are very vocal against the trans agenda. Sometimes the gay agenda and the trans agenda are two separate things foisted onto us by two different groups all under the LGBTQ umbrella. In practice, LGBTQ is still forcing society to fully accept their way of living through their activism.So who do you want arrested for what?
This is all started with censoring Huckleberry Finn. Progressives and extreme conservatives both want to censor literature, but censor in their own way that shapes their agenda. In this case the cons just happen to be correct about the lgbtq content in school libraries. K-12 library should not have a book that features visualized fellatio (whether gay or straight) and gender transitions.
is the fact that it's visually graphic the only issue?
when I was in 7th grade my english teacher had a shelf of random books (not sure if drawn from the library or just personal) and that's where I read Thinner, which opens with a guy getting a handjob from his wife while driving which causes him to run over a gypsy (outdated slur) and gets cursed to lose weight to death
I think the school library had other Stephen King books like It which as everyone now knows features an underage gangbang and graphically discusses penis girth of a fat kid
I also remember that Lord of the Flies has the boys laughing about shoving their stick "up her ass"
similarly another book that was required reading for me was Bless Me Ultima, a coming of age book "exploring the religiosity of Chicano culture" where I remember a group of boys looking through a hole in the wall to see their teacher's pussy
No one wants to gang bang a girl to defeat an intergalactic demon in the shape of a clown:wut :info
QuoteNo one wants to gang bang a girl to defeat an intergalactic demon in the shape of a clown:wut :info
None of these things you mention are a part of an agenda to push on young people.
Never said anything about arrests. Just disagree with their agenda.What are you even talking about here then? You've gone on and on about the dangers of acceptance and pointed to changes in the law as the issue and how there will be blowback from it, now you're saying that you think the blowback should just be some more criticism?
Never said anything about arrests. Just disagree with their agenda.What are you even talking about here then? You've gone on and on about the dangers of acceptance and pointed to changes in the law as the issue and how there will be blowback from it, now you're saying that you think the blowback should just be some more criticism?
None of these things you mention are a part of an agenda to push on young people.
well, I mentioned explicit content, but how can you be so confident that the rest of those books don't promote an agenda?
broadly you can say that school has an agenda to teach kids how to be good citizens in the society they grow up in, and required literature might just be about how to read anything at all, and absorb what you read and think about it critically
but how can we be sure that these specific books aren't chosen to fulfill an agenda, and it's just that nobody noticed until we all became hyper-scrutinizing of everything? additionally, while we wield the word "agenda" as a dark insidious thing, can't there be positive agendas?
like Lord of the Flies teaching us to reject superstition/fear, petty tribalism and mob mentality that leads us to commit terrible acts without thinking
those who want to foster tribalism and in group/out group thinking might want us to reject this message, and would grumble about the book's agenda
they'd say things like, "sometimes it IS important to get angry and take a stand, let the mob justice wash over us and burn it all down...this book urging calm rationality props up institutions which are threatened by any call to action"
“I can’t wait to have your cum in my mouth. I am going to give you the blowjob of your life, and then I want you inside me.”
“What if I told you I touched another guy’s dick? What if I told you I sucked it? I was ten years old, but it’s true. I sucked Doug Goble’s dick, the real estate guy, and he sucked mine too.”
himu, find help.
Do you think it's okay for a kid struggling with their sexuality to read a book that says it's okay to give the real estate man a blowjob? What's your limit?
My argument remains the same. Gay marriage legalization allowed activists to roll their other issues into a big ball that society just has to accept at face value, cannot question, and must accept fully or else you're a bigot.Okay, but you don't want gay marriage derecognized or things like sodomy recriminalized even though those victories of the "gay agenda" led to what you consider the current state of things.
Do you think it's okay for a kid struggling with their sexuality to read a book that says it's okay to give the real estate man a blowjob? What's your limit?
Thats not what is happening in the quote.
The author is describing a real experience he had where he, a 4th grader, sucked the dick of another 4th grader (who later became a real estate agent)
He is not condoning the act. He is not instructing others. He is retelling true events.
Your argument is basically:
a) The actions being talked about are bad
and
b) If kids read this, they will do this.
Its the same lazy argument that says we should ban violent video games. If a kid plays Goldeneye, then surely he will start to kill right?
And presumably, the author of the book had his blowjob experience without having read the book.
What's your limit?
What's the line? Considering that a school recently had an assignment where they request second graders to take pictures of themselves (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/2nd-grader-kicked-out-of-christian-school-after-parents-refused-to-photograph-her-in-the-bathtub/ar-AA12trMx) in the bathtub, how does one separate truly abusive intent with innocent inquiry? Do you not see the agenda?
I think it's also likely that a majority of schools already don't stock that particular book...does the left condemn those schools for being so bigoted as to screen that content?
but I also think it's untenable to say "if a book has an agenda then we must remove it" because I think every book has some level of agenda, and that's ok
It contains extremely pornographic material in a High School. I'm sorry but in the 90's and 00's you know for a fact that shit wouldn't be there in our libraries.
In episode fifteen, while Bloom is at the brothel, he imagines switching roles with the proprietor, Bella Cohen. Not only roles, but genders: Bella becomes a man, Bello, and Bloom becomes a woman, Miss Ruby, ready to be penetrated. The fantasy is one of subjugation, sadomasochism, cross-dressing, and, in a strange twist of events, bestiality.
...
One can’t help but wince when they read that Bello “bares his arm and plunges it elbowdeep in Bloom’s vulva”! One of the most brutal scenes in the novel, here Bloom is feminized, violently fisted, and then branded. Bloom becomes both a woman and a beast as ‘she’ is auctioned off at a cattlemarket to the highest bidder, the climax of a sustained sexual fantasy gaining fervor and becoming increasingly lewd. This scene is, for lack of a better word, vulgar. Not smutty or sexy or salacious, but vulgar. If its intention was to shock readers, it likely did so — if they got that far into the notoriously long and difficult novel.
In 1932, Random House and lawyer Morris Ernst arranged to import the French edition and have a copy seized by Customs. Random House contested the seizure, and in United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, U.S. District Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that the book was not pornographic and therefore could not be obscene,[69] a decision Stuart Gilbert called "epoch-making".[70] The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling in 1934.[71] The U.S. thus became the first English-speaking country where the book was freely available.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)#Censorship
The left is celebrating Lawn Boy and Gender Queer.
https://theforestscout.com/34659/in-our-opinion/to-ban-or-not-to-ban-a-students-perspective/
It contains extremely pornographic material in a High School. I'm sorry but in the 90's and 00's you know for a fact that shit wouldn't be there in our libraries.
Describing a blow job is extremely pornographic material?
“What,with my tongue in your tail?” - Taming of the Shrew
Here is a summary of a scene in Joyces Ulysses, which we certainly read in high school in the 90sQuoteIn episode fifteen, while Bloom is at the brothel, he imagines switching roles with the proprietor, Bella Cohen. Not only roles, but genders: Bella becomes a man, Bello, and Bloom becomes a woman, Miss Ruby, ready to be penetrated. The fantasy is one of subjugation, sadomasochism, cross-dressing, and, in a strange twist of events, bestiality.
...
One can’t help but wince when they read that Bello “bares his arm and plunges it elbowdeep in Bloom’s vulva”! One of the most brutal scenes in the novel, here Bloom is feminized, violently fisted, and then branded. Bloom becomes both a woman and a beast as ‘she’ is auctioned off at a cattlemarket to the highest bidder, the climax of a sustained sexual fantasy gaining fervor and becoming increasingly lewd. This scene is, for lack of a better word, vulgar. Not smutty or sexy or salacious, but vulgar. If its intention was to shock readers, it likely did so — if they got that far into the notoriously long and difficult novel.
Of course the same slack-jawed conservatives tried to get it banned.QuoteIn 1932, Random House and lawyer Morris Ernst arranged to import the French edition and have a copy seized by Customs. Random House contested the seizure, and in United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, U.S. District Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that the book was not pornographic and therefore could not be obscene,[69] a decision Stuart Gilbert called "epoch-making".[70] The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the ruling in 1934.[71] The U.S. thus became the first English-speaking country where the book was freely available.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)#Censorship
I'm sorry but in the 90's and 00's you know for a fact that shit wouldn't be there in our libraries.I'm sorry but I'm not going to pretend like the school officials I had growing up were paragons of virtue and ethics who should regulate our culture forever.
I'm sorry but in the 90's and 00's you know for a fact that shit wouldn't be there in our libraries.I'm sorry but I'm not going to pretend like the school officials I had growing up were paragons of virtue and ethics who should regulate our culture forever.
If a kid plays Goldeneye, then surely he will start to kill right?If he is going to do it with devastating style, good looks and panache like James Bond, then who are we to discourage him?
Thank God for tradition. In this world there's only Right and Wrong and some of us take our medicine later than others.But if you just want independent social shaming for people who won't take their medicine or even those who advocate that the medicine actually is bad then why are you posting diatribes about it in a politics thread?
No, this is on the US. Macron told Biden / Blinken to produce themselves because the Arabs can't produce more. That was caught on camera earlier this year.
I'm sorry but in the 90's and 00's you know for a fact that shit wouldn't be there in our libraries.I'm sorry but I'm not going to pretend like the school officials I had growing up were paragons of virtue and ethics who should regulate our culture forever.
Let me write an anecdote.
A baby gets sick. He laid in his bed going cough, cough, cough! His mother buys a dark red syrup to ease the pain and make his hard throat soft. The baby spits out the cough syrup. "I'll force feed the medicine by pinch his cheeks in!"
Down it went. It tasted disgusting.
The child got older and was sick again. He laid in his bed going cough, cough, cough! His mother buys a dark red syrup to ease the pain but this time had another thought! "I'll promise his ice cream if he takes his medicine!"
Down it went. It smelled disgusting but at least there was dessert afterwards.
The child became a teenager and was sick again. He laid in his bed going cough, cough, cough! His father buys a dark red syrup to ease the pain but this time the teenager took it willingly. "I'll disappoint dad if I don't take it!"
Down it went. It looked disgusting but he made his father happy.
The teenager became a man and was sick again. He laid in his bed going cough, cough, cough! He buys a dark red syrup to ease the pain but this time the man couldn't wait to take it. "The more I'm sick the less work I can get done!"
Down it went. It actually tasted pretty good!
Throughout our lives we are raised in a specific manner and taught certain values by our parents, our communities, our nations. Many of these things we reject because we find them outdated or just flat out wrong. There comes a time in every person's life when we can finally admit that some things, mom and dad were right about all along and we come to embrace tradition, our parents, and our culture.
Being grown means being able to say you were wrong in how you rejected what you were taught and that your parents, your family, your culture were right along.
Thank God for tradition. In this world there's only Right and Wrong and some of us take our medicine later than others.
https://twitter.com/D_B_Harrison/status/1434262910696493058
https://twitter.com/tradcatmaria/status/1434235268094173185
https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1434231529891368962
Inflation increased 0.4% in September, more than expected despite rate hikes
also I'm not educated or a professional.
also I'm not educated or a professional.
All this time I thought you were a lawyer.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1580547166484905985 (https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1580547166484905985)
:idont
This seems like a bigger deal than a graphic in a book
https://mobile.twitter.com/cagoldberglaw/status/1578121292502409216
This seems like a bigger deal than a graphic in a book
https://mobile.twitter.com/cagoldberglaw/status/1578121292502409216
Why, to look at an empty chair or hear several hours of "I don't recall"?
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1580644181122330625 (https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1580644181122330625)
The television event of the year.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fe6kQUkVQAEoXff?format=jpg) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fe6kQUhVsAIVU6_?format=jpg)Twitter's character limit was really helping this guy seem smarter.
:trumps
It's indeed quite amazing how they managed to brainwash a huge part of the population to permanently abandon all values, to continually vote against their own best interests, making them poorer and poorer, destroying the environment, taking away rights, freedoms and social security.But enough about the Democratic Party, it's time to talk Republicans! :ohyou
The markets and the models are also telling very different stories about the trajectory of the race, though — and I think this gets at two potential ways in which political betting markets sometimes aren’t that smart.
One weakness of these markets is that they tend to follow the media narrative about the race more so than they do the underlying evidence. The source for this claim: yours truly, because I’ve been doing this for a very long time.2
My impression for the past few weeks is that media coverage has been leaning into the Republican-rebound story. (So has ours, to be unhypocritical about this.) And in some ways, this coverage is justified. Republicans have unambiguously gained ground in the Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Nevada Senate races — and those are important contests! The steady improvement in political fortunes that Democrats experienced in the summer is over.
But the Republican position hasn’t really improved in Arizona’s Senate race, and Herschel Walker has probably lost ground in Georgia. In Ohio and North Carolina, momentum is murky, and any poll movement is hard to distinguish from statistical noise. The generic ballot and President Biden’s approval rating have also not shifted very much. The outlook in the House continues to favor Republicans but hasn’t changed much in either direction.
this gets at two potential ways in which political betting markets sometimes aren’t that smart.
The other weakness in these prediction markets is that the traders don’t have a lot of technical sophistication about election forecasting. That’s not to say they aren’t sophisticated in general.
Why? Well, voters aren’t paying all that much attention. Yes, you’re paying attention because you’re a FiveThirtyEight reader. But the general public pays much less attention to midterms than to presidential elections. Take a look, for example, at Google searches for the word “polls”:The technical sophistication of Google Trends :dead
Aw yisss Nate the poll Clown is here againQuotethis gets at two potential ways in which political betting markets sometimes aren’t that smart.QuoteThe other weakness in these prediction markets is that the traders don’t have a lot of technical sophistication about election forecasting. That’s not to say they aren’t sophisticated in general.
:snobQuoteWhy? Well, voters aren’t paying all that much attention. Yes, you’re paying attention because you’re a FiveThirtyEight reader. But the general public pays much less attention to midterms than to presidential elections. Take a look, for example, at Google searches for the word “polls”:The technical sophistication of Google Trends :dead
It's pretty impressive how Trump made all these races so competitive with his clown car candidates.
A guy with a stroke running against "Generic Republican"? 40/60
A guy with a stroke running against Dr. Oz? 50/50
He knows how to make it interesting. Some of these candidates aren't even liked by Trump supporters so you have to wonder who the hell are voting for people like JD Vance.
It's also quite remarkable how all candidates manage to stay in the race? Forced abortions? Cheating? Having a stroke? Campaign killers in the old days. That was it for miss or mister politician, bye bye.
Post-Trump 2016 you can just continue to run as a zombie candidate.
twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1580516384663957504Tulsi, girlfriend, you literally went to Iraq for a conflict the Democratic Party supported. You ran for Congress in the middle of Obama's unauthorized intervention in Libya.
You bet the Republican party would love to simply nominate inanimate objects instead of human candidates, their voters certainly wouldn't mind. They'd vote for a rock with an R on it.Both parties would actually love that.
No other group gets this kind of social power for such a small minority. There truly is a gay agenda. I supported gay people my entire life. I capable of saying I was wrong about them.
If the Republicans take the House/Senate it's going to be bye-bye Ukraine. That's going to be some funny shit, too.
No other group gets this kind of social power for such a small minority. There truly is a gay agenda. I supported gay people my entire life. I capable of saying I was wrong about them.
Himu, your posts weigh on my heart. I think you're seriously confused, but if not, then I was wrong all these years about you. I hope like in most things, this is just a phase for you, and I'll see you on the other side of it.
[Kaufman] appeared to be looking at a cell phone in one hand,” the police report said. “I immediately became alarmed as I saw [Kaufman] had his pants down mid-thigh and was exposed showing his fully erect nude penis.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ffcncp3X0AEN-du?format=jpg)Of course his fucking name is Randy
:mynicca
The next questions should have been: What kind of interracial porn? What's the video name? Got a link?
Wanna bet the MAGAts will vote for him anyway?It's just the governing board for the community colleges in Maricopa County, the other two elections for it this year were cancelled because no opposing candidate filed and the people will win by default, they all can probably masturbate during the maybe two meetings a year they hold to rubber stamp everything.
"It’s an article of faith among Democrats that their party is deeply hampered by its inability or unwillingness to tout its own accomplishments.
But what if that conventional wisdom wasn’t just wrong but terribly, harmfully so?
That’s the warning being issued by one of the party’s most seasoned pollsters, STAN GREENBERG. In memos, private communications and interviews, Greenberg has been imploring the party to — let’s put this bluntly — shut the hell up about all the work it’s done. It’s not that voters don’t care. He says voters actively turn against Democrats when they hear it.
“It’s our worst performing message,” Greenberg told West Wing Playbook. “I’ve tested it. I did Biden’s exact words, his exact speech. And that’s the test where we lost all of our leads… It said to the voters that this election is about my accomplishments as a leader and not about the challenges you’re experiencing.”
I posted this on another thread, but: what even is the Democrats' selling point for this cycle? Below are the only arguments I've heard:
- **"Jan 6! Jan 6! Jan 6! Jan 6! Jan 6! Jan 6! Jan 6! Jan 6! Jan 6!"** *Even if this is an important thing to investigate, maybe don't make it the centerpiece of your campaign. People don't care about a riot that happened literally two years ago if they can't afford their mortgage and are losing their entire paychecks in gas and groceries.*
- **"The GOP would be even worse!"** *Never in human history has a ruling political party held on to power by saying, hey maybe our policies suck but the opposition is even worse, so please come out in force and vote for us. You need to give people a reason to vote for you, not just begging them to vote against the other guy.*
- **"Dr Oz said crudite instead of veggie tray, lmffffaoooo"**
- **"The GOP wants to literally kill women by taking away access to medically necessary abortions! We just want women to be safe!"** *Which would be a good argument if state level Democrats weren't simultaneously passing laws to allow elective abortions up to the point of birth, which most voters see and are repelled by.*
- **"Republicans want to take away your child's right to read about sex positions illustrated in library books!"**
*Do you guys really want to go down this road of jumping into the public school culture wars and creating the perception that you're going against parents? Does the 2021 Virginia governor's election mean anything to you?*
Democrats usually take the wrong message from losing to the Republicans, and those who take the right message get shouted down by the "progressive" base.
When you see these awful Republican candidates beat reasonable Democrats, the message you should take away is that the Democratic brand has become so toxic that the people have resorted to electing terrible Republicans to send that message. But instead, increasingly the message they're taking away is that half of the country is racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and brainwashed by Fox News and incapable of independent thought, so they're not worth even trying to appeal to.
We saw this after Trump's election in 2016, when the narrative in the Democratic Party shifted from: *we need to hear the unheard people and not take their votes for granted like Clinton did* to: *all Trump voters are racists who just want to own the liberals and we need to resist them and call them out and deprogram them with NPR and spoken word poetry.*
GOP wave threatens blue-state strongholds
Democrats are increasingly worried that Republicans will make gains in deep-blue strongholds such as New York and Oregon as the winds appear to shift in the GOP’s favor ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
The GOP is making competitive bids to take back governorships in both states, which reliably go for Democrats in presidential elections. The Republican gains could also extend to the House, where the GOP is making inroads in the aforementioned states, along with Rhode Island and others.
“I would say Oregon Democrats are worried. We have a history of competitive gubernatorial elections, but usually we’re up by at least 2 points at this point in October, not down by 2 like the current public polls show,” said Oregon-based Democratic strategist Jake Foster.
“And you know, frankly, we’re not used to hearing our state mentioned in the same breath as Arizona or Nevada,” Foster added, noting two other closely watched gubernatorial races.
Oregon has not elected a Republican governor since 1982, nor has it gone for the GOP presidential nominee since 1984. In 2020 alone, President Biden won the state by 16 points.
But Republican Christine Drazan could be poised this year to win the Oregon gubernatorial race over Democrat Tina Kotek given a confluence of factors. Current Gov. Kate Brown (D) is the most unpopular governor in the country, per data from Morning Consult. Adding to that are issues like crime and homelessness, which are seen as top of mind for voters. Finally, but just as significantly, third-party candidate Betsy Johnson, a Democrat-turned-independent, could complicate things further by siphoning off votes from her former party.
An Emerson College Polling survey released earlier this month showed Drazan leading Kotek 36 percent to 34 percent, within the margin of error and effectively tying the two. Kotek’s campaign blamed Johnson for being a disruptor in the race and taking away crucial votes.
“One of the main reasons Tina decided to run for Governor is because Kate Brown was absent on two of Oregon’s biggest problems: homelessness and addiction. Tina has an urgent plan of action to make real change in all of these areas: reducing homelessness, making housing more affordable, and fixing our broken mental health and addiction treatment systems,” Kotek spokesperson Katie Wertheimer said in a statement.
“She will lead where Kate Brown couldn’t or wouldn’t. Christine Drazan has a failing record on these issues, and we don’t need to take our state to the far right-wing to fix these problems.”
"The New York Times’ Nick Corasaniti brings us the startling statistic that Democratic candidates for secretary of state and their allies have outspent the Republican side on TV by a 57 to 1 margin since July, and most of the GOP spending is limited to one race.
. . . Despite this massive edge, though, most polls show Democratic contenders locked in tight races, or even trailing, in competitive states against a raft of election deniers.”
Quote- **"The GOP wants to literally kill women by taking away access to medically necessary abortions! We just want women to be safe!"** *Which would be a good argument if state level Democrats weren't simultaneously passing laws to allow elective abortions up to the point of birth, which most voters see and are repelled by.*
from what I gather almost all of progressive europe is MORE restrictive than most of america was under Roe v Wade? in terms of cutoff dates
Quote- **"The GOP wants to literally kill women by taking away access to medically necessary abortions! We just want women to be safe!"** *Which would be a good argument if state level Democrats weren't simultaneously passing laws to allow elective abortions up to the point of birth, which most voters see and are repelled by.*
I'm in favor of safe access to life-saving abortions, even fully elective ones (if you don't want one don't get one), but I have noticed this too
from what I gather almost all of progressive europe is MORE restrictive than most of america was under Roe v Wade? in terms of cutoff dates
Most states respect the constitutional right to carry guns in public for self-defense, which the Supreme Court upheld last June. But some states are only pretending to comply with the Second Amendment, as illustrated by the law that New York passed after that decision and a similar bill that legislative leaders in New Jersey introduced last week.
In an October 6 ruling, U.S. District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby rejected New York's attempt to defy the Constitution and the Supreme Court. Although New York eliminated a demand that carry permit applicants show "proper cause," which the Court said gave licensing officials too much discretion, the state retained and elaborated on a requirement that applicants demonstrate "good moral character."
That amorphous standard, Suddaby noted, is based on "undefined assessments" of "temperament," "judgment," and trustworthiness. New York "has replaced its requirement that an applicant show a special need for self-protection with its requirement that the applicant rebut the presumption that he or she is a danger," he wrote, "while retaining (and even expanding) the open-ended discretion afforded to its licensing officers."
Under New York's law, the assessment of "good moral character" includes an examination of the applicant's online comments. As the gun owners who are challenging the law see it, that inquiry violates the right to freedom of speech as well as the right to bear arms, making the latter contingent on how applicants have exercised the former.
Quote- **"The GOP wants to literally kill women by taking away access to medically necessary abortions! We just want women to be safe!"** *Which would be a good argument if state level Democrats weren't simultaneously passing laws to allow elective abortions up to the point of birth, which most voters see and are repelled by.*
I'm in favor of safe access to life-saving abortions, even fully elective ones (if you don't want one don't get one), but I have noticed this too
from what I gather almost all of progressive europe is MORE restrictive than most of america was under Roe v Wade? in terms of cutoff dates
somewhat ironically the challenge to the mississippi law restricting abortion to 15 weeks that ultimately got roe vs wade overturned would be considered above average in the european countries that consider themselves to have free elective abortions (first trimester is the norm here i think)
https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1582429523403935747
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Republicans worried about education, Democrats worried about crime and border control. They all agree on everything.
Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism
The problem with American politics isn't polarization—it's rising illiberalism.
According to American National Election Studies data, the share of Americans who self-identify as moderates or say they don't know what they are has fallen from 55 percent in 1972 to 39 percent in 2020. In that sense, people really have been moving toward the poles. But if partisan consolidation is the story of the last few decades, the story of the last few years is one of fracturing. More people are calling themselves conservatives, for example, but their preferences and priorities are not necessarily shared.
The future of the parties is now a matter of live debate. But in both cases, the elements that seem to have the most energy behind them have something important in common: a desire to move their side, and the country as a whole, in an illiberal direction.
On the left, a new crop of socialists hope to overthrow the liberal economic order, while the rise of intersectional identity politics has supplanted longstanding commitments to civil liberties. On the right, support for free markets and free trade are more and more often derided as relics of a bygone century, while quasi-theocratic ideas are gathering support.
What has not changed—what may even be getting worse—is the problem of affective polarization. Various studies have found that Americans today have significantly more negative feelings toward members of the other party than they did in decades past.
But partisan animosity suits the authoritarian elements on the left and right just fine. Their goal is power, and they have little patience for procedural niceties that interfere with its exercise. As history teaches, a base whipped up into fear and fury is ready to accept almost anything to ensure its own survival. Perhaps even the destruction of the institutions and ideals that make America distinctively itself.
Two Sides Turn on the First Amendment
According to the old American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) mythos, one of the group's finest hours came in 1977 when it successfully defended the First Amendment right of neo-Nazis to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois. Some 30,000 people reportedly canceled their ACLU memberships to protest the decision, but the group stood by it on the high grounds that speech protections, to mean anything, must extend even to the least popular in society.
That commitment carried the group all the way to Charlottesville, Virginia, four decades later. But in the aftermath of the infamous Unite the Right rally in 2017, ACLU leadership appeared to break. The following June, The Wall Street Journal published a leaked document that had been drafted to help state chapters decide which cases to take a pass on. While insisting the civil liberties organization would "continue our longstanding practice of representing" even repugnant speakers "in appropriate circumstances," the guidelines created an impression that circumstances were highly unlikely to be deemed appropriate when it came to the likes of white supremacists.
As former board member Wendy Kaminer explained in a commentary for the Journal, "The speech-case guidelines reflect a demotion of free speech in the ACLU's hierarchy of values." It's a demotion that is evident across the progressive movement, where "systemic equality," "racial justice," and other manifestations of identity politics that include an ever-more-militant LGBT agenda have sidelined practically all concern for the speech rights of those seen as on the wrong side politically.
"The quest to suppress objectionable reading material in America" was once mostly confined to the right, author Kat Rosenfield argued in a March essay. "But as progressives became increasingly focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts—and on the potential harm wrought by books that didn't do enough to champion the proper values—they started issuing challenges of their own. By 2020, the [American Library Association's] list included almost as many complaints about racist language, white savior narratives, or alleged sexual misconduct by an author as it did ones about bad language or LGBT themes."
Not that conservatives have abandoned censorship. Cry as they might when their own speech faces adverse consequences, they have few qualms about punishing expression that runs up against right-wing pieties.
The Rhetoric of Radicalization
In January, The Atlantic published a long article by an Irish writer who had lived through the ethno-nationalist conflict known as the "troubles." Describing a perception of civil war just around the corner, he writes: "Once that idea takes hold, it has a force of its own. The demagogues warn that the other side is mobilizing. They are coming for us. Not only do we have to defend ourselves, but we have to deny them the advantage of making the first move. The logic of the preemptive strike sets in: Do it to them before they do it to you. The other side, of course, is thinking the same thing."
An analogous logic is on display in America today. It is mostly rhetorical so far. But it is happening at both ends of the ideological spectrum.
The tropes come in escalating stages. One is that the other side is irredeemably evil and out to destroy all that is good. A second is that our side is weak and overly beholden to procedural niceties, whereas our opponents are shameless about breaking the rules in their pursuit of power. The third, following from the other two, is that whatever it takes to win is justified; any institution standing in the way can be demolished; and doing any less amounts to cowardice and surrender.
The left insists that conservatives are engaged in an "eliminationist" and "genocidal" struggle against marginalized communities such as trans people, women, and the working class. "Conservatives are animated by a vision of 1950s-style white Christian patriarchal dominance," a Georgetown visiting professor wrote in The Guardian recently. "It is the only order they will accept for America." The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is "the culmination of a decades-long conservative assault on the constitutional foundations of our modern civil rights regime," tweeted Slate legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern. It's not just that "abortion bans are class warfare" (per the DSA) but also that "austerity is violence" (per Chapo Trap House). The very idea of reducing government spending now has existential stakes.
The right has its own purveyors of dire warnings about what progressives are up to—which supposedly includes grooming children for sexual assault, using immigration to replace native-born Americans with a Democrat-voting electorate, and eradicating traditional Christian beliefs and practice from the public square. Nothing less than conservatives' survival is on the line, they say. In 2020, Vermeule tweeted that the attendees of an anti-Trump conference would not be spared the gulag when the extremist left takes over; four years earlier, an essay in the Claremont Review of Books implored readers to elect Trump with the memorable words, "2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die."
Observe the equal-opportunity demonization and the industrial-scale hyperbole about the threat posed by the other side (stage one). Likewise, left and right seem equally convinced that passive co-partisans are undermining the cause (stage two). "Tea and crumpets fussiness and chickenshit unwillingness to wield power is going to end democracy," tweeted the progressive journalist Ryan Cooper last year, in a pitch-perfect instance of the genre.
Finally, each side frequently declares that desperate measures are now required (stage three). And why wouldn't they be, if the other guys really are as bad as all that?
On the left, this most often takes the form of proposals to radically reform governing institutions seen as impediments to enacting policy. Since 2020, the progressive media have issued calls to pack the Supreme Court, strip states of control over elections, abolish the U.S. Senate (or at least the filibuster), eliminate the Electoral College, and generally engage in what one Jacobin article called "an extremely necessary assault on the undemocratic power of the judiciary." All told, such a program would dramatically weaken America's system of checks and balances, making it easier for a slim majority to impose its will on the rest of the country.
Short of restructuring the entire system, there's always executive action, such as Biden's efforts on behalf of the environmental lobby to hamstring energy producers. The administrative state can also be deputized to prosecute the culture war, as when the Justice Department decided last year to treat parents expressing concern at school board meetings as potential domestic terrorists, or when the Department of Education was tasked with ensuring K-12 schools give students access to locker rooms matching their gender identities. And if all else fails to make the left's policy preferences a reality, the implication goes, there's always violent uprising.
On the right, radical ideas are similarly in vogue. Vance's desire to punish left-wing corporations is just the beginning. Vermeule has promoted an alternative to "originalist" jurisprudence that would empower (presumably friendly) judges to read "substantive moral principles…into the majestic generalities and ambiguities of the written Constitution." Adherence to rule of law seems, at best, like an afterthought. "Among some of my circle," one right-wing podcaster told a Vanity Fair reporter last year, "the phrase 'extra-constitutional' has come up quite a bit." In March, Curtis Yarvin, a wildly popular blogger on the "neoreactionary" right, published a long essay arguing that the "only possible cure for 'wokeness' is a change in the structural form of government." His suggested replacement: dictatorship.
More concretely, the GOP has been working since 2020 to make state voting laws more restrictive and to elect or appoint Trump loyalists to key positions at the state and local levels. The goal, it appears, is to prevent a situation in 2024 like the one in which officials in places like Georgia and Arizona willingly certified a Republican loss that members of the party base consider dubious. It's no exaggeration to say that the expectation for a peaceful transition of power is in doubt in America today.
The point is not that either side is wholly unjustified in its motivating grievances. The left really has trained its guns on traditionalist Christians, for example, as the volley of ACLU lawsuits against religious hospitals makes clear. Social media platforms did, as if in lockstep, block a damning news story about Hunter Biden from being shared in 2020, thus choosing sides in the midst of a contested presidential race. And the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania did step in to unilaterally decree that absentee ballots arriving after Election Day should continue to be processed, piquing conservative suspicion about procedural irregularities surrounding the contest.
Meanwhile, the right really does seem woefully indifferent to, for instance, the lingering effects on black communities of three centuries of legally sanctioned oppression. Trump did begin priming his base to reject the outcome of the last election months before votes were even cast, to say nothing of his encouragement of the January 6 riot. And Senate Republicans did pivot shamelessly from refusing to hold confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland to rushing through approval of Amy Coney Barrett, leading many progressives to wonder why they should feel constrained by the norms of congressional process where their opponents manifestly are not.
But each side is using some legitimate complaints to build a permission structure for seizing power by any means necessary and raining down destruction on its foes. One result is a sort of bipartisan apocalypticism: A recent Yahoo News poll found that more than half of each major party believes it's likely that America will "cease to be a democracy in the future." Under these circumstances, extreme medicine can start to seem like the only logical response.
The other side is mobilizing. They're coming for us. Do it to them before they do it to you.
"White savior narratives" truly jumped the shark last year when the charge was hurled at....Dune.
:dead
Republicans worried about education, Democrats worried about crime and border control. They all agree on everything.
https://twitter.com/JNwk14/status/1584232570878758914
The genesis for all of this is that we're stacking generations of people who do not read. At one point you could have said we had a generation of people who only read Harry Potter, or Hunger Games, or Twilight. At this point we're worse off and they haven't even read those. Instead we have people who skim wikipedia, or watch the film adaption, or skip the spark notes, or just read the end of a book. And if they do manage to read something they're judging it entirely from a modern perspective. You see this a lot from people who watch films and TV to figure out what the "woke" parts are, which they then complain about. Literature wise you've got people reading Huck Finn and claiming the novel in of itself is racist, Huck is a white savior, Jim isn't a realistic (black) character etc. It's nauseating. But again, this is the product of people not reading.You want me to spend all the time to read something when I might find something that makes me uncomfortable or that I don't enjoy or that might raise moral/ethical questions in the book? :jeanluc
twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1582429523403935747https://twitter.com/jkosseff/status/1584322921161719808
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https://reason.com/2022/09/13/the-authoritarian-convergence/QuoteBoth Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism
The problem with American politics isn't polarization—it's rising illiberalism.QuoteAccording to American National Election Studies data, the share of Americans who self-identify as moderates or say they don't know what they are has fallen from 55 percent in 1972 to 39 percent in 2020. In that sense, people really have been moving toward the poles. But if partisan consolidation is the story of the last few decades, the story of the last few years is one of fracturing. More people are calling themselves conservatives, for example, but their preferences and priorities are not necessarily shared.
The future of the parties is now a matter of live debate. But in both cases, the elements that seem to have the most energy behind them have something important in common: a desire to move their side, and the country as a whole, in an illiberal direction.
On the left, a new crop of socialists hope to overthrow the liberal economic order, while the rise of intersectional identity politics has supplanted longstanding commitments to civil liberties. On the right, support for free markets and free trade are more and more often derided as relics of a bygone century, while quasi-theocratic ideas are gathering support.
What has not changed—what may even be getting worse—is the problem of affective polarization. Various studies have found that Americans today have significantly more negative feelings toward members of the other party than they did in decades past.
But partisan animosity suits the authoritarian elements on the left and right just fine. Their goal is power, and they have little patience for procedural niceties that interfere with its exercise. As history teaches, a base whipped up into fear and fury is ready to accept almost anything to ensure its own survival. Perhaps even the destruction of the institutions and ideals that make America distinctively itself.QuoteTwo Sides Turn on the First Amendment
According to the old American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) mythos, one of the group's finest hours came in 1977 when it successfully defended the First Amendment right of neo-Nazis to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois. Some 30,000 people reportedly canceled their ACLU memberships to protest the decision, but the group stood by it on the high grounds that speech protections, to mean anything, must extend even to the least popular in society.
That commitment carried the group all the way to Charlottesville, Virginia, four decades later. But in the aftermath of the infamous Unite the Right rally in 2017, ACLU leadership appeared to break. The following June, The Wall Street Journal published a leaked document that had been drafted to help state chapters decide which cases to take a pass on. While insisting the civil liberties organization would "continue our longstanding practice of representing" even repugnant speakers "in appropriate circumstances," the guidelines created an impression that circumstances were highly unlikely to be deemed appropriate when it came to the likes of white supremacists.
As former board member Wendy Kaminer explained in a commentary for the Journal, "The speech-case guidelines reflect a demotion of free speech in the ACLU's hierarchy of values." It's a demotion that is evident across the progressive movement, where "systemic equality," "racial justice," and other manifestations of identity politics that include an ever-more-militant LGBT agenda have sidelined practically all concern for the speech rights of those seen as on the wrong side politically.
"The quest to suppress objectionable reading material in America" was once mostly confined to the right, author Kat Rosenfield argued in a March essay. "But as progressives became increasingly focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts—and on the potential harm wrought by books that didn't do enough to champion the proper values—they started issuing challenges of their own. By 2020, the [American Library Association's] list included almost as many complaints about racist language, white savior narratives, or alleged sexual misconduct by an author as it did ones about bad language or LGBT themes."
Not that conservatives have abandoned censorship. Cry as they might when their own speech faces adverse consequences, they have few qualms about punishing expression that runs up against right-wing pieties.QuoteThe Rhetoric of Radicalization
In January, The Atlantic published a long article by an Irish writer who had lived through the ethno-nationalist conflict known as the "troubles." Describing a perception of civil war just around the corner, he writes: "Once that idea takes hold, it has a force of its own. The demagogues warn that the other side is mobilizing. They are coming for us. Not only do we have to defend ourselves, but we have to deny them the advantage of making the first move. The logic of the preemptive strike sets in: Do it to them before they do it to you. The other side, of course, is thinking the same thing."
An analogous logic is on display in America today. It is mostly rhetorical so far. But it is happening at both ends of the ideological spectrum.
The tropes come in escalating stages. One is that the other side is irredeemably evil and out to destroy all that is good. A second is that our side is weak and overly beholden to procedural niceties, whereas our opponents are shameless about breaking the rules in their pursuit of power. The third, following from the other two, is that whatever it takes to win is justified; any institution standing in the way can be demolished; and doing any less amounts to cowardice and surrender.
The left insists that conservatives are engaged in an "eliminationist" and "genocidal" struggle against marginalized communities such as trans people, women, and the working class. "Conservatives are animated by a vision of 1950s-style white Christian patriarchal dominance," a Georgetown visiting professor wrote in The Guardian recently. "It is the only order they will accept for America." The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is "the culmination of a decades-long conservative assault on the constitutional foundations of our modern civil rights regime," tweeted Slate legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern. It's not just that "abortion bans are class warfare" (per the DSA) but also that "austerity is violence" (per Chapo Trap House). The very idea of reducing government spending now has existential stakes.
The right has its own purveyors of dire warnings about what progressives are up to—which supposedly includes grooming children for sexual assault, using immigration to replace native-born Americans with a Democrat-voting electorate, and eradicating traditional Christian beliefs and practice from the public square. Nothing less than conservatives' survival is on the line, they say. In 2020, Vermeule tweeted that the attendees of an anti-Trump conference would not be spared the gulag when the extremist left takes over; four years earlier, an essay in the Claremont Review of Books implored readers to elect Trump with the memorable words, "2016 is the Flight 93 election: charge the cockpit or you die."
Observe the equal-opportunity demonization and the industrial-scale hyperbole about the threat posed by the other side (stage one). Likewise, left and right seem equally convinced that passive co-partisans are undermining the cause (stage two). "Tea and crumpets fussiness and chickenshit unwillingness to wield power is going to end democracy," tweeted the progressive journalist Ryan Cooper last year, in a pitch-perfect instance of the genre.
Finally, each side frequently declares that desperate measures are now required (stage three). And why wouldn't they be, if the other guys really are as bad as all that?
On the left, this most often takes the form of proposals to radically reform governing institutions seen as impediments to enacting policy. Since 2020, the progressive media have issued calls to pack the Supreme Court, strip states of control over elections, abolish the U.S. Senate (or at least the filibuster), eliminate the Electoral College, and generally engage in what one Jacobin article called "an extremely necessary assault on the undemocratic power of the judiciary." All told, such a program would dramatically weaken America's system of checks and balances, making it easier for a slim majority to impose its will on the rest of the country.
Short of restructuring the entire system, there's always executive action, such as Biden's efforts on behalf of the environmental lobby to hamstring energy producers. The administrative state can also be deputized to prosecute the culture war, as when the Justice Department decided last year to treat parents expressing concern at school board meetings as potential domestic terrorists, or when the Department of Education was tasked with ensuring K-12 schools give students access to locker rooms matching their gender identities. And if all else fails to make the left's policy preferences a reality, the implication goes, there's always violent uprising.
On the right, radical ideas are similarly in vogue. Vance's desire to punish left-wing corporations is just the beginning. Vermeule has promoted an alternative to "originalist" jurisprudence that would empower (presumably friendly) judges to read "substantive moral principles…into the majestic generalities and ambiguities of the written Constitution." Adherence to rule of law seems, at best, like an afterthought. "Among some of my circle," one right-wing podcaster told a Vanity Fair reporter last year, "the phrase 'extra-constitutional' has come up quite a bit." In March, Curtis Yarvin, a wildly popular blogger on the "neoreactionary" right, published a long essay arguing that the "only possible cure for 'wokeness' is a change in the structural form of government." His suggested replacement: dictatorship.
More concretely, the GOP has been working since 2020 to make state voting laws more restrictive and to elect or appoint Trump loyalists to key positions at the state and local levels. The goal, it appears, is to prevent a situation in 2024 like the one in which officials in places like Georgia and Arizona willingly certified a Republican loss that members of the party base consider dubious. It's no exaggeration to say that the expectation for a peaceful transition of power is in doubt in America today.
The point is not that either side is wholly unjustified in its motivating grievances. The left really has trained its guns on traditionalist Christians, for example, as the volley of ACLU lawsuits against religious hospitals makes clear. Social media platforms did, as if in lockstep, block a damning news story about Hunter Biden from being shared in 2020, thus choosing sides in the midst of a contested presidential race. And the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania did step in to unilaterally decree that absentee ballots arriving after Election Day should continue to be processed, piquing conservative suspicion about procedural irregularities surrounding the contest.
Meanwhile, the right really does seem woefully indifferent to, for instance, the lingering effects on black communities of three centuries of legally sanctioned oppression. Trump did begin priming his base to reject the outcome of the last election months before votes were even cast, to say nothing of his encouragement of the January 6 riot. And Senate Republicans did pivot shamelessly from refusing to hold confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland to rushing through approval of Amy Coney Barrett, leading many progressives to wonder why they should feel constrained by the norms of congressional process where their opponents manifestly are not.
But each side is using some legitimate complaints to build a permission structure for seizing power by any means necessary and raining down destruction on its foes. One result is a sort of bipartisan apocalypticism: A recent Yahoo News poll found that more than half of each major party believes it's likely that America will "cease to be a democracy in the future." Under these circumstances, extreme medicine can start to seem like the only logical response.
The other side is mobilizing. They're coming for us. Do it to them before they do it to you.
The genesis for all of this is that we're stacking generations of people who do not read. At one point you could have said we had a generation of people who only read Harry Potter, or Hunger Games, or Twilight. At this point we're worse off and they haven't even read those. Instead we have people who skim wikipedia, or watch the film adaption, or skip the spark notes, or just read the end of a book. And if they do manage to read something they're judging it entirely from a modern perspective. You see this a lot from people who watch films and TV to figure out what the "woke" parts are, which they then complain about. Literature wise you've got people reading Huck Finn and claiming the novel in of itself is racist, Huck is a white savior, Jim isn't a realistic (black) character etc. It's nauseating. But again, this is the product of people not reading.
If all you consume is your twitter feed or whatever tumblr you enjoy, your writing is going to be overly influenced by that. This is why so much dialogue in media (especially television, but also film) is trash. The ironic thing about all of this is that 30 years ago, Rush Limbaugh and others were crying about leftist art; they didn't call it "woke" because they hadn't stolen that phrase from black people yet. Today much of the right wing media nexus will have you believe films/tv weren't political back in those glory days. In reality they were arguably more political but the writing was better. Because the writers...read. They found inspiration in prose, found their own voice, and then found a way to say something beyond throwing some words in a blender (privilege, white supremacy, etc) and calling it a day.
Now make a non-insane libertarian party.NEVER! WHAT'S NEXT? A LICENSE TO MAKE TOAST IN MY OWN DAMN TOASTER? :bolo
Now make a non-insane libertarian party.NEVER! WHAT'S NEXT? A LICENSE TO MAKE TOAST IN MY OWN DAMN TOASTER? :bolo
twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/1582429523403935747https://twitter.com/jkosseff/status/1584322921161719808
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https://twitter.com/jkosseff/status/1584324311447261185
this is fine
We should ban all games except Miencraft, Fall Guys, Among Us, and New Pokemon Snap. Everything else is bad for society.
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wat
i don't think you could have chosen a worse batch of games to represent your utopia :ufup
Two alleged Chinese spies charged with trying to obstruct US Huawei investigation
The US Justice Department unsealed charges Monday against two alleged Chinese spies who are accused of interfering with a federal prosecution against a global telecommunications company based in China.
According to charging documents, the Chinese telecommunications company was facing federal prosecution in Brooklyn, New York. Though the indictment does not name the company, a person familiar with the investigation confirmed to CNN that the company is Huawei.
The two alleged spies were charged with obstructing the Justice Department’s prosecution against Huawei.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and other Justice Department officials are scheduled to make an announcement Monday afternoon related to significant national security cases. The department said in a press release that the cases relate to “malign influence schemes and alleged criminal activity by a nation-state actor in the United States.”
Gouchun He and Zheng Wang, the two alleged Chinese spies, cultivated a relationship with a law enforcement official involved in the case beginning in 2017. He and Wang believed they had recruited the official as a Chinese asset, according to charging documents, but the US official was working as a “double agent” under FBI supervision, maintaining their allegiance to the US.
James Bond shit. I was gonna say shouldn't that information be classified and not revealed, since it can blow the person's cover. But then again I'd imagine when shit hit the fan and the spies were arrested, it wouldn't be hard for China to figure out who that person was. They've likely been removed from undercover work now that the fish has been caught.
WE NEED LIBERTY, BENJILook, the Libertarian Party faces a large number of hurdles that it will never overcome for multiple reasons but fundamentally I don't think you're really going to get a bunch of radical individualists to ever do ceaseless group activities for the purpose of achieving collectivist goals. Cranks will dominate because libertarians in general are not going to be interested in pursuing political power over the long term. The other third parties have similar problems of a similar nature with radicals and cult figures because moderates are going to be drawn to the more powerful apparatus of the two actually supported parties and driven out by infighting where the most extreme can always show more commitment to the cause. What's actually remarkable about the Libertarian Party at the national level, the state parties are totally different, is that the moderates traditionally have won. Jo wasn't their first pick, but she was still a compromise candidate. The party could have reacted entirely differently to having it given itself over to Gary for two cycles. Even still, nobody wants to vote for candidates that are always going to lose. American voters want to win more than anything and the cost is too high to get people to break from that and therefore the two viable parties.
BOTH PARTIES ARE ANTI-LIBERTY DICKS
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In a grunt for attention, third-party Congressional candidate Mike Itkis has released a sex tape to highlight his sex positive campaign platform. The 53-year-old Army cyber operations officer is bound to lose to Rep. Jerry Nadler in Manhattan’s 12th Congressional District. But he posted the 13 minute video to a popular online porn site of him having sex with porn performer Nicole Sage as “a conversation piece,” he told City & State. “If I would just talk about it, it wouldn’t demonstrate my commitment to the issue. And the fact I actually did it was a huge learning experience, and it actually influenced items on my platform.” His issues include legalizing sex work, and making sexual rights explicit – “do NOT rely on privacy or free speech rights,” his campaign site reads, where sex positivity is one of just three campaign issues, which are all thin on details. Itkis, whose bio identifies himself as “Not married. No kids. Not celibate. Atheist.” also seems to take aim at child support payments, writing that “men should not be required to support biological children without prior agreement.”
Itkis said the video “Bucket List Bonanza” in 2021 was his first time having sex on camera, and insisted he’s not an exhibitionist. “I’m very much an introvert,” the “very liberal” registered Democrat said. “I’m kind of a nerd who doesn’t like to be the center of attention if I can avoid it. But I thought the issues I’m trying to address are so important… I wanted to have my issues talked about in some way.”
The Nadler campaign declined to comment. Itkis’ Republican opponent understood it. “You gotta do what you gotta do,” Mike Zumbluskas told City & State. “The media ignores everybody that’s not a Democrat in the city.”:american
i don't think you could have chosen a worse batch of games to represent your utopia :ufup
Theyre the only games I play and I turned out great
:patel
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In a grunt for attention, third-party Congressional candidate Mike Itkis has released a sex tape to highlight his sex positive campaign platform. The 53-year-old Army cyber operations officer is bound to lose to Rep. Jerry Nadler in Manhattan’s 12th Congressional District. But he posted the 13 minute video to a popular online porn site of him having sex with porn performer Nicole Sage as “a conversation piece,” he told City & State. “If I would just talk about it, it wouldn’t demonstrate my commitment to the issue. And the fact I actually did it was a huge learning experience, and it actually influenced items on my platform.” His issues include legalizing sex work, and making sexual rights explicit – “do NOT rely on privacy or free speech rights,” his campaign site reads, where sex positivity is one of just three campaign issues, which are all thin on details. Itkis, whose bio identifies himself as “Not married. No kids. Not celibate. Atheist.” also seems to take aim at child support payments, writing that “men should not be required to support biological children without prior agreement.”
Itkis said the video “Bucket List Bonanza” in 2021 was his first time having sex on camera, and insisted he’s not an exhibitionist. “I’m very much an introvert,” the “very liberal” registered Democrat said. “I’m kind of a nerd who doesn’t like to be the center of attention if I can avoid it. But I thought the issues I’m trying to address are so important… I wanted to have my issues talked about in some way.”QuoteThe Nadler campaign declined to comment. Itkis’ Republican opponent understood it. “You gotta do what you gotta do,” Mike Zumbluskas told City & State. “The media ignores everybody that’s not a Democrat in the city.”:american
amen, everyone knows she was executed at gitmo ages ago :trumpsThis reminds me of arguably my favorite post-election November 2020 moment, when Q twitter was ablaze with the rumor that specials ops had invaded Germany and overrun a base where the CIA director was protecting a server that had the real election results on it. She died in a firefight, the server was retrieved, and SOON the real results would be known.
https://twitter.com/IndivisibleTeam/status/1583496354734538756 (https://twitter.com/IndivisibleTeam/status/1583496354734538756)
"Your dollars"
another day, another grift.
WE NEED LIBERTY, BENJILook, the Libertarian Party faces a large number of hurdles that it will never overcome for multiple reasons but fundamentally I don't think you're really going to get a bunch of radical individualists to ever do ceaseless group activities for the purpose of achieving collectivist goals. Cranks will dominate because libertarians in general are not going to be interested in pursuing political power over the long term. The other third parties have similar problems of a similar nature with radicals and cult figures because moderates are going to be drawn to the more powerful apparatus of the two actually supported parties and driven out by infighting where the most extreme can always show more commitment to the cause. What's actually remarkable about the Libertarian Party at the national level, the state parties are totally different, is that the moderates traditionally have won. Jo wasn't their first pick, but she was still a compromise candidate. The party could have reacted entirely differently to having it given itself over to Gary for two cycles. Even still, nobody wants to vote for candidates that are always going to lose. American voters want to win more than anything and the cost is too high to get people to break from that and therefore the two viable parties.
BOTH PARTIES ARE ANTI-LIBERTY DICKS
Plus, if the Libertarians ever somehow broke through what is probably a maximum ceiling during a perfect one-time election of 10-15% to where they could win it would make the existential panic that Trump created look like a calm and respectful tea party. Despite a trifecta, Trump and the GOP never even feigned an actual investigation of all the criminal shit Obama did because they didn't care nor think that violating the law is a big deal.
Especially glad to revote for Dan Crenshaw!
“The worst thing modern Christianity stands for is anti-homosexual marriage, which is a far cry from sex slaves, sharia law and beheadings,” Crenshaw wrote then.
Especially glad to revote for Dan Crenshaw!
Good guy, I fully agree with his views on Islam.Quote“The worst thing modern Christianity stands for is anti-homosexual marriage, which is a far cry from sex slaves, sharia law and beheadings,” Crenshaw wrote then.
https://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Once-cordial-Houston-congressional-campaign-turns-12895473.php
Democracy is on the line. Don’t count on white women to save it.
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If more than seven decades of American political history is any guide, most white women who vote in next month’s elections will probably cast ballots for Republicans in races nationwide that will ultimately decide control of the House and Senate.
They will reject the party that wants to codify abortion rights, ban assault weapons, and restore voting rights. They will support the party of insurrection and its sympathizers which manufactures grievance, condones racism, and ardently clings to the lie that the 2020 presidential election must have been stolen because Donald Trump lost.
Oh, and they will protect white supremacy.
When 47 percent of white women who voted in 2016 cast their ballots for Trump, there was a lot of confusion. How could Hillary Clinton, the first woman nominated for president by a major party, lose her own demographic by two points to a bombastic oaf accused of sexual assault and misconduct by more than 20 women? A man who, only weeks before the election, was heard on rediscovered audio boasting about kissing women and grabbing their vaginas without their consent?
Why Elon Musk’s Idea of “Free Speech” Will Help Ruin America
Twitter without content moderation—and with Donald Trump and others reinvited—means that lies and disinformation will overwhelm the truth and the fascists will take over.
After months of legal wrangling, Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter appears to be finally going through. Musk and the right see this as a great thing because it will restore “free speech” to Twitter. Any suggestion that the sort of “free speech” they envision can have highly undesirable consequences is met with howls of “Libs hate free speech” or other accusations of fascism. Similarly, warnings that unfettered free speech results in dangerous misinformation spreading are derided with “Sunlight is the best disinfectant” and the libertarian belief that in the marketplace of ideas, the best will always win out.
These theories will be tested quickly. It is being reported that after the sale is finalized, Musk plans on laying off nearly three-quarters of Twitter’s staff and that one of the first things to go will be any corporate attempt at content moderation and user security. Musk also plans on restoring the accounts of high-profile sources of disinformation and violent messaging who were previously banned, most notably former President Trump.
The pro-Musk arguments are complete nonsense, and there are innumerable historical and modern examples of why social media platforms with nearly unlimited freedom of speech produce horrors. The Supreme Court decided free speech isn’t absolute long ago, when Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes noted that you can’t shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater, for obvious reasons.
First, freedom of speech has caused untold death and suffering when used to disseminate hate or spread disinformation. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a fabricated antisemitic text that purported to expose a global baby-murdering Jewish plot bent on world domination. Mein Kampf was Hitler’s autobiography, which blamed Germany’s post–World War I woes on a global Jewish conspiracy. Both were readily available in the Weimar Republic, which had no First Amendment per se but guaranteed freedom of speech. They were key contributors to the fall of German democracy, the rise of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust itself.
In modern times, lack of moderation on social media sites has repeatedly contributed to mass murder. The Christchurch, New Zealand, shooter killed 51 Muslims at two mosques after being radicalized on YouTube, 4Chan, and 8Chan. The shooter who killed 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh had been radicalized on the social media site Gab, which advertised itself as the “free speech” alternative to Twitter. Dylann Roof killed nine people at the historically Black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, after he self-radicalized online. Investigations revealed that Google searches steered him further and further into extremist propaganda and hate.
Actually, John Fetterman’s Debate Performance Was Fine
Here’s what to make of the obvious impairments the Democratic candidate showed on stage.
The question became: Is this the result of a processing problem, or could it be signaling some greater impairment than what his campaign has disclosed?
To answer that question, I talked to two doctors about how we should view Fetterman or assess his abilities, after watching him debate. Kevin Sheth, director of the Yale Center for Brain & Mind Health, told me it’s clear that Fetterman’s stroke was significant—but it’s also evident he’s made significant progress in the past five to six months since. He’s not only been continuing to campaign but was able to participate in last night’s debate, get on stage, and get into extended question and answer sessions. To Sheth, “that says something, clearly he does have some challenges still with his speech and his language, but those in some ways are not unexpected.”
The aftermath of stroke recovery varies greatly depending on which section of the brain was impacted and how severe it was. The American Stroke Association boils it down to: if a stroke occurs in the left side of the brain, the right side will be affected and that includes speech and language problems, though Fetterman’s campaign hasn’t shared specific details on the extent of his stroke. Paralysis and memory loss are also potential symptoms that can impact strokes that happen no matter which side of the brain the stroke occurred on.
Pooja Khatri, division chief of neurology and rehabilitation medicine at the University of Cincinnati, told me Fetterman pushing through his impairments could actually help with his stroke recovery. She explained that it’s a principle of speech therapy—a form of rehab Fetterman’s doctor has confirmed he’s been attending on a regular basis. However, stress can make recovery more challenging, Sheth noted, adding that that’s something the job of a senator usually comes with.
Taking all of that into consideration, Sheth said he thinks Fetterman appears to be doing OK! Sure, he has some lingering auditory processing issues, but Sheth thought his ability to get into complex responses during Tuesday night’s debate should be viewed as reassuring, even if he was noticeably slower than his opponent (who is, to be fair, a TV veteran). Generally, the first three months following a stroke are considered the most important for recovery and when patients see the most improvements, and Fetterman is about five months post-stroke. But Sheth doesn’t think that means Fetterman is at the end of his road to recovery—he said there’s certainly still potential for more progress.
Many people who experience strokes end up with some level of disability—in fact it’s considered a leading cause of disability in the U.S. It’s possible that Fetterman will continue to struggle with processing, but it shouldn’t be viewed as a proxy for his cognition or thinking. When I asked about the reaction to Fetterman’s performance, Sheth thought that it was a reflection of American society’s preconceived judgements, “We definitely often have biases against a range of disabilities and I think that’s what you’re seeing play out here,” he said.
https://newrepublic.com/article/168309/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-ruin-americaWild how The New Republic will just publish things that aren't true and/or will be deliberately misleading in failed attempts to prop up their desire for minorities to be imprisoned or killed. Seems like we need some kind of moderation to oversee The New Republic before they're allowed to publish again.QuoteThe pro-Musk arguments are complete nonsense, and there are innumerable historical and modern examples of why social media platforms with nearly unlimited freedom of speech produce horrors. The Supreme Court decided free speech isn’t absolute long ago, when Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes noted that you can’t shout “Fire!” in a crowded theater, for obvious reasons.
First, freedom of speech has caused untold death and suffering when used to disseminate hate or spread disinformation. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a fabricated antisemitic text that purported to expose a global baby-murdering Jewish plot bent on world domination. Mein Kampf was Hitler’s autobiography, which blamed Germany’s post–World War I woes on a global Jewish conspiracy. Both were readily available in the Weimar Republic, which had no First Amendment per se but guaranteed freedom of speech. They were key contributors to the fall of German democracy, the rise of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust itself.
In modern times, lack of moderation on social media sites has repeatedly contributed to mass murder. The Christchurch, New Zealand, shooter killed 51 Muslims at two mosques after being radicalized on YouTube, 4Chan, and 8Chan. The shooter who killed 11 Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh had been radicalized on the social media site Gab, which advertised itself as the “free speech” alternative to Twitter. Dylann Roof killed nine people at the historically Black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, after he self-radicalized online. Investigations revealed that Google searches steered him further and further into extremist propaganda and hate.
Be like me.
https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1585313656044068874Honestly, I'm pretty skeptical that Cenk couldn't pick up a ton of trash everyday without anyone noticing any decline in the quality of his "job" from it.
It's hard to keep up but Metal Gear cosplayer Crenshaw more like Cuckshaw is a loser RINO now and frankly should be ashamed of himself.Especially glad to revote for Dan Crenshaw!
Good guy, I fully agree with his views on Islam.Quote“The worst thing modern Christianity stands for is anti-homosexual marriage, which is a far cry from sex slaves, sharia law and beheadings,” Crenshaw wrote then.
https://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Once-cordial-Houston-congressional-campaign-turns-12895473.php
[538 has an article about how we have less polling this cycle, how the polling is more partisan, and how](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/youre-not-imagining-it-there-are-fewer-polls-this-cycle/) since there is less polling in races considered not competitive there’s room for surprising wins.
The article says there are 339 House districts for which there are no polls. We could be in for some surprises.
I’d love to know to what extent covid policy is affecting voting numbers. Covid policy there was extreme compared to many other places - I’m sure it’s been polarizing for independents
I voted for Obama twice and Hillary once (begrudgingly). I'm furious at the Democrats for everything covid and have basically made it my life's mission to see them fail. I won't ever consider voting for a democrat for the rest of my life after what they did to us for 2 years.
Same here. I hate how the white house, CDC/FDA administrators basically became the marketing department of Pfizer/Moderna.
The least they could make vaccine manufacturers do is to conduct high quality trials both pre and post marketing. But nope, they're willing to bypass their own advisors to approve universal boosters and the bivalent booster with 0 efficacy data.
Two senior vaccine regulators in the FDA also resigned due to politcal pressure from White House.
Mandating a new vaccine that slightly reduces transmission is also extremely illiberal. I couldn't support Democrats for a long time.
Hochul had a conference yesterday and when she was questioned regarding pivoting away from bail reform, she essentially said that she did not want to change direction yet without enough time to get the data in.
I was kind of shocked, given how bail reform in particular has been abused by repeat offenders. I'm not sure its wise to continue to wait when it should be clear at this point that reform is needed and changes should be implemented asap to stem the bleeding from the bad policies.
I guess I cannot be too surprised though, given that Hochul was quoted as saying she does not need the data when questioned what data she used when crafting the legislation for the CCIA, specifically making it harder for those who want to legally conceal carry in NY state. It just seems to be a continuation of NY politics, where the Governor rules by decree.
She straight up said republicans are not welcome in New York, that they needed to leave. To a moderate that really shows she is not flexible nor willing to work with the other side, even if they propose something that makes sense, just because it’s the other side.
I dunno man she’s got the crazy eyes too. I’m surprised she didn’t get primaried out.
I think it’s also important to note that Hochul is a staunchly upstate politician with little name recognition in the city. The only thing I ever hear people talk about her is the $850 million for a new stadium in Buffalo. Not that NYC is the entire state, but for a D politician she has to run up decent numbers in the city to overcome the red parts of the state. For this reason I could see Schumer and most house candidates having an easier time and Hochul being in an extremely tight race.
I've said this elsewhere. A lot of swing voters and moderate Democrats aren't happy. I know Hochul wins this, but I have no faith from what I've seen that she will understand what such a close race means.
On 2A- Hochul.is, as near as I can tell, deliberately and knowingly breaking the law of the land with her anti gun measures. she's employing, whether consciously or not, what used to be racist tactics to suppress gun ownership. May issue was used to keep "the wrong races" from gun ownership. even if race isn't used, it's where the idea came from. I mentioned in another post having minority family that live in the boonies. A gun is basically necessary. What she's doing is suppressing that. Not to mention the gray area of the Adirondacks where bears, mountain lions, and I believe Moose all live.
On crime- I haven't really seen her address it. I swear I saw someone post about how crime is actually down, or some article claiming it's not that bad. I can only speak to my city. Last year we broke the record for most homicides since anyone started recording. This year we are on track to match that number. My wife and I moved out of the city because ultimately the crime in our area was getting worse. It had the occasional homicide but more than one was rare- there were 3 in a block radius from us all within a few months. It may be a local issue but when the state in general is having the same issue, it's a state issue.
And, as a city in Upstate we get ignored. Were used to it, if not bitter about it. But then to have a governor from our neighboring city manage to still basically ignore us gets under the skin of a lot of folks. I didn't like Cuomo, but I expected it from him. Hochul had to pass Rochester to get to Albany. We're still bigger than Syracuse and we have RIT and some of the best hospitals and schools in the state.
Ultimately I think displeasure could see low voter turnout. I'm not going to vote Zeldin. I know nothing of any 3rd party candidates, except Larry Sharpe and he isn't getting my vote either. But largely I don't like Hochul who seems to have stumbled upwards twice now, and hasn't actually earned her spot. I agree with a commenter above me, that there's no way Hochul loses, but that if she doesn't get her shit together, the *next* election all it would take is a competent Republican (or a very popular 3rd party candidate who isn't a libertarian).
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1585625370711425025
Some boomer hacked the post and he's too old to think of anything clever to do with it
Cant wait for all my posts to be sponsored by pillows and survival kits
GOP Has a Chance at Oregon Governorship for First Time in Four Decades
Increasing frustration with homelessness, crime and drug use leaves some voters in the Democratic-dominated state open to new leadership
Oregon Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan spoke to a rally last week in Aurora, Ore.
PORTLAND—Oregonians might choose a Republican governor for the first time in 40 years, polls show, as voters look for new leadership to take on homelessness and crime and a well-funded independent candidate complicates the race.
Former Democratic state House Speaker Tina Kotek and former state House GOP leader Christine Drazan are running evenly at just under 39%, according to the polling average on the website FiveThirtyEight.
Trump is too busy posting on his super successful truth social network to return to Twitter. Only a loser goes back to a place that bans him
Why would you pay for a poll in a House district that's not competitive?Quote[538 has an article about how we have less polling this cycle, how the polling is more partisan, and how](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/youre-not-imagining-it-there-are-fewer-polls-this-cycle/) since there is less polling in races considered not competitive there’s room for surprising wins.
The article says there are 339 House districts for which there are no polls. We could be in for some surprises.
Maybe don't link "RNCresearch"
Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was "violently assaulted" after a break-in at the couple's San Francisco home early on Friday, her office said in a statement.
"The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation," the statement said. "Mr. Pelosi was taken to the hospital, where he is receiving excellent medical care and is expected to make a full recovery."
The Democratic speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, who is second in line to the presidency, was not at home at the time of the early morning assault.
The circumstances of the attack were unclear, including how the intruder got into the home.
David Depape
Former castro nudist protestor
:wut
He also has a blog
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Literally Gamer Gate
https://twitter.com/boruszak/status/1586054846754562050 (https://twitter.com/boruszak/status/1586054846754562050)
In videos circulating on Twitter Friday morning, two men carrying boxes are seen standing near the entrance to Twitter’s San Francisco building, claiming to have been laid off by Elon Musk, who officially took over the company Thursday evening.
There are plenty of problems with what these two men say to reporters. The most glaring is that one man identifies himself as a software engineer named “Rahul Ligma.” The Verge has confirmed that name does not exist in Twitter’s Slack or email system. There is also no evidence that the employee exists on LinkedIn.
And he's hinted to colleagues that he has achieved all that can be reasonably accomplished in the current political environment — both domestically and internationally.:iface
Biden needs to act NOW.Trials for people we already know are guilty and who will just deny it and try to sabotage us achieving justice? And putting somebody that old who literally is an agent of Putin and denied Her her Presidency on the Supreme Court? :jeanluc
1. Declare the attack domestic terrorism
2. Declare that the GOP will be investigated as state supporters of terrorism, including their Supreme Court affiliates
3. Set up speedy trials in Guantanamo
4. Cancel the November elections until everything can be sorted out
5. Put Bernie, AOC, and Obama on the Supreme Court
Its the only correct course of action
John Kerry list of accomplishments:There is that one time he invaded another country on the orders of a man who wasn't President yet. Allegedly. It was seared in his memory supposedly.
PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge Friday refused to bar a group from monitoring outdoor ballot boxes in Arizona’s largest county where watchers have shown up armed and in ballistic vests, saying to do so could violate the monitors’ constitutional rights.
U.S. District Court Judge Michael Liburdi said the case remained open and that the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans could try again to make its argument against a group calling itself Clean Elections USA. A second plantiff, Voto Latino, was removed from the case.
Liburdi concluded that “while this case certainly presents serious questions, the Court cannot craft an injunction without violating the First Amendment.” The judge is a Trump appointee and a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization.
Local and federal law enforcement have been alarmed by reports of people, including some who were masked and armed, watching 24-hour ballot boxes in Maricopa County — Arizona’s most populous county — and rural Yavapai County as midterm elections near. Some voters have complained alleging voter intimidation after people watching the boxes took photos and videos, and followed voters.
Arizona law states electioneers and monitors must remain 75-foot (23-meter) from a voting location.
“Plaintiffs have not provided the Court with any evidence that Defendants’ conduct constitutes a true threat,” the judge wrote. “On this record, Defendants have not made any statements threatening to commit acts of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals.”
He's white.Black lives matter sign and pride flag on his house.
IS HE RIGHT WING?!?!
How do we know the guy just didn’t want some ice cream? A little hospitality goes a long way.He was fighting over a hammer apparently.
One internet theory is that it was Paul Pelosi's grindr date gone wrong. :dead
I like how the reaction is always not "no, this is clearly not a regular Republican person, so I a regular Republican person should not have my worldview be threatened by this event" but "this was some leftist BLM nudist sex thing proving that it's actually the Democrats who are wrong and also that they deserved this for being freaks" and the story will probably only grow from there.
Nah, I disagree on most of those.
Replacement theory for instance is stupid but let's be honest, the left plays their part in propagating it. Stuff like "Republicans won't be elected because of demographics!" is basically the same as Replacement Theory. Many people on the left outright say white people will be outnumbered by minorities or "x got more brown/black!" pretty much all the time. X being education, some hobby, whatever. It's always comical seeing people on the left scream at replacement theory while at the same time saying the equivalent in the side of their mouths. Meanwhile, I completely deny that demographics will change the parties. On the contrary, more black and brown people are shifting to the GOP. Thank God.
On the other hand, got to love the cute arrogance "standard Republican viewpoints these days" when your flock is currently WAH-ing about Musk taking over Twitter. You can say,"those don't represent all Democrats" but for whatever reason, someone like Boebert or MTG represents the full circumference of the Republican Party. Anyone on my side of things could point to whatever dog whistle or conspiracy theory Democrats lobby at their opponents, whether it's stating Trump helped Russia steal the election in 2016 or whatever. Both sides have whackos.
Nah, I disagree on most of those.
Replacement theory for instance is stupid but let's be honest, the left plays their part in propagating it. Stuff like "Republicans won't be elected because of demographics!" is basically the same as Replacement Theory. Many people on the left outright say white people will be outnumbered by minorities or "x got more brown/black!" pretty much all the time. X being education, some hobby, whatever. It's always comical seeing people on the left scream at replacement theory while at the same time saying the equivalent in the side of their mouths. Meanwhile, I completely deny that demographics will change the parties. On the contrary, more black and brown people are shifting to the GOP. Thank God.
On the other hand, got to love the cute arrogance "standard Republican viewpoints these days" when your flock is currently WAH-ing about Musk taking over Twitter. You can say,"those don't represent all Democrats" but for whatever reason, someone like Boebert or MTG represents the full circumference of the Republican Party. Anyone on my side of things could point to whatever dog whistle or conspiracy theory Democrats lobby at their opponents, whether it's stating Trump helped Russia steal the election in 2016 or whatever. Both sides have whackos.
Do you understand how unhinged and objectively stupid this sounds? A white nationalist racist theory about a political party destroying white power in order to take over the country is the same as...acknowledging the reality of demographic shifts in this country and that the country will be majority brown in 30 years or so?
When you aren't shooting off the most basic right wing talking points word for word, you're trying to "both sides" everything else to make yourself seem more balanced. It's laughable.
This is the same kind of thing. The "opposite" is not true because "Democrats are also nuts" isn't the "opposite" of what I said. Of course, there are conspiratorial loons who are Democrats too, the White House just invited the worst accounts of BlueAnon Twitter to visit*, but that has nothing to do with what I was saying. You're pretty much just instinctively reacting in defense because for the example I used was what the tweets Nintex shared were saying.I like how the reaction is always not "no, this is clearly not a regular Republican person, so I a regular Republican person should not have my worldview be threatened by this event" but "this was some leftist BLM nudist sex thing proving that it's actually the Democrats who are wrong and also that they deserved this for being freaks" and the story will probably only grow from there.
I agree. The opposite is also true. Both sides don't want to be represented by some crazy person because they know it will give points to the enemy. It's why any time there's some tragedy, like a mass shooting or something, both sides are quick to dig their heels in supporting why it was a political rival. The black shooter that shot up the subway I was almost in was a "black supremacist" according to conservative media, while this guy was clearly a Qanon flunky according to the left. Meanwhile, a Democrat literally shot up a GOP event, some guy was going to assassinate Kavanaugh, and now this guy wanted to kill Nancy and her beautiful grandma milkers. But for some reason both parties want to be quick to point fingers even when we have zero facts.
I don't know, I'm starting to get the impression that far more of the population than I once assumed are fully on board with conspiracies. It being a majority or a supermajority of the population wouldn't surprise me at all.
It may even be totally normal. What's the easiest way to explain how despite you being in the "silent majority" or on the "right side of history" you lost an election to avoid cognitive dissonance? It was obviously stolen by a nefarious force that performed near impossible tasks perfectly and in secret.
That's a fine position to take and argue, but I think one of our collective issues is the notion that we're constantly in an existential war and everything is part of the battlefield. A sense that if you allow a criticism of Republicans to go undefended or without a corresponding attack on Democrats that the field will shift slightly in their favor and possibly decide the entire war. I think this is a large part of Trump's appeal to Republicans, he basically would never turn off.:dead
For example, you fit PD into your standard narrative about the Democrats but of all Bire posters past and present I would not put PD near the top of the list for "loyal Democrats" especially on certain issues. If Rick Snyder announced a 2024 campaign tomorrow, PD would have probably already sent in $2800 and volunteered.
:deadPeople really forget how popular he was in 2010. I remember lots of Democrat cope that they were going to pull it out because Obama had won by 16 points in 2008, the D nominee never polled over 40% and fell short of that in the election. Snyder almost got 40% in Wayne County!
He was a nerd and CPA. I had no choice.
That's a fine position to take and argue, but I think one of our collective issues is the notion that we're constantly in an existential war and everything is part of the battlefield. A sense that if you allow a criticism of Republicans to go undefended or without a corresponding attack on Democrats that the field will shift slightly in their favor and possibly decide the entire war. I think this is a large part of Trump's appeal to Republicans, he basically would never turn off.
For example, you fit PD into your standard narrative about the Democrats but of all Bire posters past and present I would not put PD near the top of the list for "loyal Democrats" especially on certain issues. If Rick Snyder announced a 2024 campaign tomorrow, PD would have probably already sent in $2800 and volunteered.
I think if someone criticized me for being too harsh on Democrats or rather too lenient on Republicans that would be a fair criticism. My defense would be that I perceive the Democrats to often be claiming to be better even, perhaps especially, when they're far worse and that my larger interest is poking at this rather than the specifics. Republicans to me, until recently, tended to appeal more to a transactional notion between their coalition parts. (Now that coalition has agreed on a single core issue: Trump good.) But I would absolutely agree this isn't a perfect framing and much of it is based on my perceptions, as well as I often assume most people here are (or were) Democrats and so will have already seen many of the "other side" things so I think less about sharing them.lmao you posted this on a Saturday night NERD
But rarely do people go "yeah, but Republicans" or "yeah, but Trump" to me because most recognize that I'm obviously independent of that battle and aren't usually trying to score points that way so they need to act as if the enemy is encroaching especially if they know I don't even vote for moral reasons. I think it's important to keep in mind that even people who appear less clearly independent as me in that regard are not always lockstep partisans. We have people sometimes reflexively defend Biden (either correctly or incorrectly) but many of these people were nefarious Russian Bernie agents or patriotic Warren supporters, their loyalty to Biden (and beyond that Democrats as a whole) is more complex. We have members who are with the Democrats on nearly everything but are more in line with you on stuff like trans issues or some COVID measures. Even a Nintex is more complex than it would seem because nobody really logs it in their mind when he doesn't talk about a topic so his position goes unknown and you can only go off what he does seem to say and support.
When you boil things down to a binary choice and then demand people choose one or the other you're really just encouraging the mentality you're then using to justify disliking the "unified" other and supporting the superior one. Especially as an election approaches are we encouraged to think of deviations as possibly harming the total galactic effort. That person might switch to vote for Oz! That Ryan supporter might stay home! This is completely irrational because people engaged enough to talk about politics, especially to the extent we do, are not people like this in the first place. And the idea that the other kind of people are going to hop on to get informed and read your posts is our standard online scourge: narcissism. (Except in my case since I mail every undecided voter bound monthly digests of all my posts.)
I don't claim to be perfect in recognizing this myself obviously but I do think it's important to try not to read possible intents into rhetoric, especially rhetoric that can often be more hyperbolic than realistic. If somebody says Trump is the worst President ever, I'm going to disagree since it was clearly and objectively Woodrow Wilson and I also feel some chagrin when the person seems fine with what the Obama Administration did, but rarely is the person making an objective claim and more just saying he really really sucked. It's fair to say I'm also doing that mind reading thing but I prefer to think of it as trying to place a check on myself rather than trying to infer the bad faith of the other person even if that person is a known sociopath or dishonest or whatever.
I'll also note that everything I said here and in the earlier post about things I think should often be kept in mind is that some people don't give a shit at all. They want the partisan fighting, seeing enemies everywhere and feeling of constant combat that doing stuff like making complete fools of themselves daily in public on Twitter gives them. I AM LITERALLY MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN ALL PEOPLE'S LIVES THIS IS NOT IRRATIONAL OBSESSIVE NARCISSISM SEND TWEET
I don't think "yeah but the other side does X" is the actual problemI do in reality think, from experience, that most people who respond with "BOTH SIDES DURRR" are also being instinctively defensive and essentially revealing that they did intend that "hidden" message. I'm mostly saying yet again "be the change that you seek" since I think it's very important to always consider what things are actually within your control. At the same time, I think going into those weeds grants the argument to that person, you're now debating who is less bad rather than what is correct. That may be the "realistic" choice implied by having two parties but your debate isn't deciding the election it's attempting to pursue the truth of the issue. "Yes, both ideas suck, but those are our choices." They aren't! You aren't actually choosing!
the problem is the implied "...therefore I'm right" or "...therefore it's a wash and I can continue uncritically supporting my side"
recognizing issues on both sides (if we must deal with a binary) is important, as long as the issues are presented honestly, in good faith, and with enough context to understand them, which admittedly never happens
I'm just not comfortable poisoning the well against the idea of rebuttal, as so much online discourse already has, where offering the mildest "yeah, but" for anything has people pointing and shrieking at you like donald sutherland
And yet virtually every post you make is this weird collection of Fox News primal screams and cheerleading. I would have dismissed it if not for it following the pattern of literally the last decade plus of you jumping from one obsession to another. Where you become extremely passionate about something on a surface level and it becomes your personality until the next New Thing arrives. In this case it just landed on something I find to be odious. I'm an accountant, so if we were discussing the merits of higher or lower taxes - or monetary policies, or finance etc - I'd be cool with that even if we were in complete disagreement. But the conservative things that animate you tend to boil down to...Q-adjacent delusions (gay/trans stuff is a demonic agenda), immigration and Fox News talking points (inflation). That's corny to me.
Literally in the span of our last few convos on twitter, before my recent return to The Bore, you went from being trans to being a dude focused on performative masculinity and attracting/marrying a submissive woman. What are we doing here fam.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1586494196117958656
Remember that first debate that Biden attended during the primaries, where candidate after candidate took weird swings at Obama, and Biden by association. To me that marked the clear takeover of democrat messaging by younger aides and advisers who were completely consumed by twitter-brain. No matter how much Elon and others claim Twitter is the public square for humans, less than 30% of Americans use it. In the real world, Obama was and remains pretty damn popular. On leftist twitter, Obama is a neolib loser who never got anything done (beyond using drones to murder brown people).
Just wild to see republicans completely beholden to Trump irl and online, vs democrats becoming this leaderless herd obsessed with every twitter grief issue that regular people don't care about. Just as an example, the last few months of "cars are bad, public transportation spending needs to increase, get rid of parking lots etc" stuff. You can certainly build a coalition behind "we need better public transportation" but good luck getting Americans to care about your weird anti-car shit. Yet I see that daily from Noteworthy Liberal/Leftist People On Twitter.
Biden basically won a primary by saying "I like Obama and unions" and nobody got the message.
And yet virtually every post you make is this weird collection of Fox News primal screams and cheerleading. I would have dismissed it if not for it following the pattern of literally the last decade plus of you jumping from one obsession to another. Where you become extremely passionate about something on a surface level and it becomes your personality until the next New Thing arrives. In this case it just landed on something I find to be odious. I'm an accountant, so if we were discussing the merits of higher or lower taxes - or monetary policies, or finance etc - I'd be cool with that even if we were in complete disagreement. But the conservative things that animate you tend to boil down to...Q-adjacent delusions (gay/trans stuff is a demonic agenda), immigration and Fox News talking points (inflation). That's corny to me.
Literally in the span of our last few convos on twitter, before my recent return to The Bore, you went from being trans to being a dude focused on performative masculinity and attracting/marrying a submissive woman. What are we doing here fam.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1586494196117958656
Remember that first debate that Biden attended during the primaries, where candidate after candidate took weird swings at Obama, and Biden by association. To me that marked the clear takeover of democrat messaging by younger aides and advisers who were completely consumed by twitter-brain. No matter how much Elon and others claim Twitter is the public square for humans, less than 30% of Americans use it. In the real world, Obama was and remains pretty damn popular. On leftist twitter, Obama is a neolib loser who never got anything done (beyond using drones to murder brown people).
Just wild to see republicans completely beholden to Trump irl and online, vs democrats becoming this leaderless herd obsessed with every twitter grief issue that regular people don't care about. Just as an example, the last few months of "cars are bad, public transportation spending needs to increase, get rid of parking lots etc" stuff. You can certainly build a coalition behind "we need better public transportation" but good luck getting Americans to care about your weird anti-car shit. Yet I see that daily from Noteworthy Liberal/Leftist People On Twitter.
Biden basically won a primary by saying "I like Obama and unions" and nobody got the message.
By contrast, the conservative ethos is one of individualism, making your own way, having your own voice. I find it far more empowering. I find it strong and what is needed. Look at immigrant Africans and Carribbean black folks. They're some of the most hardest working people I know and they make zero excuses for themselves. I also don't find it a coincidence that they're extremely conservative, even when voting Democrat, they still have a pro-American, we can do it mindset.Yet you say you were changed by NYC, which is filled with the people you mention probably more than any other US city. When you lived here, were you spending most of your time with the many white midwestern transplants who've made BK their home over the past decade?
Obama's act still works. :lol
Who's got your backs? That's right the guy that bailed out the banks and greenlit their plan to evict you from your homes.
Who's got your backs? The guy that used big tech to collect all your personal data for his campaigns.
Who's got your backs? The guy that handed Crimea to Putin.
Who's got your backs? The guy that toured the entire Middle East to promote Democracy in stable yet autocratic countries and then threw the protestors under the bus.
Who's got your backs? The guy that told you there was lead in all the water and you shouldn't complain about it.
By contrast, the conservative ethos is one of individualism, making your own way, having your own voice. I find it far more empowering. I find it strong and what is needed. Look at immigrant Africans and Carribbean black folks. They're some of the most hardest working people I know and they make zero excuses for themselves. I also don't find it a coincidence that they're extremely conservative, even when voting Democrat, they still have a pro-American, we can do it mindset.Yet you say you were changed by NYC, which is filled with the people you mention probably more than any other US city. When you lived here, were you spending most of your time with the many white midwestern transplants who've made BK their home over the past decade?
Obama's act still works. :lol
Who's got your backs? That's right the guy that bailed out the banks and greenlit their plan to evict you from your homes.
Who's got your backs? The guy that used big tech to collect all your personal data for his campaigns.
Who's got your backs? The guy that handed Crimea to Putin.
Who's got your backs? The guy that toured the entire Middle East to promote Democracy in stable yet autocratic countries and then threw the protestors under the bus.
Who's got your backs? The guy that told you there was lead in all the water and you shouldn't complain about it.
I like how even the headline: "Obama drinks flint water" is fake :lolObama's act still works. :lol
Who's got your backs? That's right the guy that bailed out the banks and greenlit their plan to evict you from your homes.
Who's got your backs? The guy that used big tech to collect all your personal data for his campaigns.
Who's got your backs? The guy that handed Crimea to Putin.
Who's got your backs? The guy that toured the entire Middle East to promote Democracy in stable yet autocratic countries and then threw the protestors under the bus.
Who's got your backs? The guy that told you there was lead in all the water and you shouldn't complain about it.
Still love this clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ZynkD3N_k
As a guy who spent nearly a decade in corporate security where millions of dollars were poured into it I’ll say - security is mostly a show to make people feel safe. It’s designed to detect the obvious and stereotypical security threats. It’s always the weird folks who make no efforts to actually elude security to pull off strange stunts that make it past. A question I’ll never forget that I had to help answer “how did we miss a dozen topless protesters walking through a gate and across campus in the middle of the day?!”The government will admit this is true for them too from time to time. The politicians don't, it'd undermine their entire purpose, but the actual people tasked with it will.
Strength vs weaknessIt's somewhat of a category error to assume that this is so easily determined though. Take your complaint about victimhood, you argue this is weakness. But it's not in a culture that rewards weakness which is the very purpose of the progressive stack, the subaltern, lived experiences, identity politics, etc. They argue that the victim status should prioritize people, then they argue that victim status should able to be claimed by anyone. This empowers those willing to claim victim status at all times.
A lot of my positioning revolves around the idea of strength. I respect what's strong. I do not respect what's weak.
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I think the mindset of conservatives is needed in our community and what is best for it. At the end of the day only the strong survive. Strength is right.
You started to approach this as you turned towards individualism but I think it doesn't speak to strength being relative and to many people that means the power they can wield in society, collectivist ideologies (progressivism, Trumpism, etc.) deceive because they claim by submitting your individuality to The People you will have more power since you will be aligned with society.
Look at one of your pet concerns, trans issues. It's now pregnant person, ACLU rewriting RBG quotes and demanding books be destroyed, claims of genocide when women claim womenhood as exclusive to females, etc. You yourself claim that the "gay agenda" has taken over everything. How is this not strength? Shouldn't you support them since they're constantly displaying strength? Instead you reject their strength and align with conservative weakness, appealing to select friendly states and locals to protect you from the all-powerful agenda.
Watching a nuke detonate while holding hands with his child bride is pretty evil tho.Well, I mean, I don't know that he's the one who set off the nuke. Innocent until proven guilty, Jack.
Kamala dropped out as one of the first in the primary because she had no support and the Biden bump at least gets her to lose only single digits against Trump in current match-ups.That's just Generic Democrat polling two years out. Kamala's problem is the primary, most any mainstream Democrat will be competitive within the margin of error.
A gap of about 7 or 8 points that she could overcome if she plays her cards right. We've seen Republicans close those type of gaps over the past few months.
"I like strength and don't like weakness" is pretty standard fascist fair. You also want to go back to the good old days too, I reckon...
I have no idea how she survives in the party being a tough-on-crime police advocate with a bunch of footage of her laughing about all the kinds of people she incarceratedFACT CHECK: Cops are based actually:
Election season is wild:With 120 million Soros is by far the biggest Dem donor and single biggest donor this cycle. Not even the paypal maffia can keep up. Palmer Luckey got cancelled for way less.
https://twitter.com/JRSterne/status/1587081933896425473
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Democrats scramble to avert shock Senate loss in Washington state
Incumbent Patty Murray’s support has slipped in recent weeks, prompting outside groups to pour in millions to prevent a sleeper victory by Republican Tiffany Smiley.
Democrats are adding millions in television spending to boost Sen. Patty Murray, a sign that the party is employing a take-no-chances approach even in solidly blue Washington state.
The 30-year veteran of the Senate is facing a challenge from Republican Tiffany Smiley, a political newcomer whose campaign has seized on quality-of-life issues, from urban crime and homelessness to inflation, to tarnish Murray. In recent public polling, Smiley has closed a sizable gap since this summer, when Murray led by 18 percentage points in an 18-candidate, all-party primary.
A Seattle Times poll released last week showed Murray slipping slightly, from 51 percent in a July survey to 49 percent now, with Smiley’s support increasing from 33 percent this summer to 41 percent now. The poll also finds that Smiley has improved with independents in the state, capturing 50 percent of their support to Murray’s 34 percent.
The national political environment currently favors Republicans in the midterms, and the fact that Democrats are spending to shore up an incumbent in a solidly blue state is not a good sign for them.
“It doesn’t surprise me that this race has tightened,” said Alex Glass, a Democratic strategist based in the state who noted voters still weren’t paying close attention to the race over the summer.
Issue #1 is crime. The state Democrats have been terrible on crime in the last half decade. Seattle has become a shithole of homeless drug addicts that openly use on the street without repercussion. Vagrant camps have been put up around schools. It is not uncommon to see needles and human feces on the ground when you walk around downtown Seattle. Recently an 18 month old child OD’d on a loose fentanyl pill found at playground.
Washington has been a one party state for so long that the Democrats own all of these failures. Furthermore, the progressive wing of the party has actively exacerbated the problem. From CHOP/CHAZ and the “summer of love”of 2020 to the recent state crime reform bill that makes it impossible for police on the streets to actually do their jobs to running a legitimate police abolitionist for city prosecutor, the state Democratic Party has been associated with being weak on crime.
All of this plays into Tiffany Smiley’s adds which have been hammering Murray on crime. Granted, none of the above is Murray’s fault, but a significant number of voters are tired of the Democratic Party being beholden to the most progressive of voices in the state and are looking to punish the party.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/
As per someone else's words:
Yeah, no.. While many of us said "we don't know, so let us make our own choices," there were some who felt compulsion was the correct choice. You don't get to make our lives hell, ruin the global economy, and just make everything worse for two years and then say we should "forgive each other."
Also the Biden admin still considers Covid an "emergency". Luls.
Regardless of if various mitigation measures were "worth it" or not (a calculation that is probably far too subjective and based on too much conjecture to ever be resolved), I think it is very hard to overlook the lack of acknowledgement that such measures had some real victims.
As a mother of a daughter who was struggling with addiction during that time, the mitigation measures had a very real and very deadly cost. In person meetings shut down. Many rehabs and detoxes shut down, or had minimal beds available. Further, forced isolation caused by all the shutdowns destroyed the mental health of many, particularly the young.
Our deaths due to despair have skyrocketed (suicides, drug and alcohol deaths). My daughter was one of them. Until I hear a politician acknowledge that they made a trade-off that probably contributed to my daughter's death, it's going to be really hard to move on. We sacrificed the young to save the elderly, and too many pretended that anyone who wasn't 100% on board with this was some evil grandma killer.
My Uncle died by himself in an isolated hospital room with no visitors or family and was buried with 3 people at his graveside - all because of the policies and procedures put in place by following the data that the author holds so sacred in her virtuous Twitter bio.
And when I dared to even once question any of it..I was at best talked down to and at worst cursed at and lectured by people exactly like Ms. Oster.
So no, I won't be forgiving and forgetting. No one is really to blame you see - it's all "the government's fault" or some other entity that is beyond being held truly accountable.
Oh my gosh this article is infuriating. They think they deserve no accountability because “we didn’t know.” That’s no excuse. They didn’t even attempt to listen to the other side at all during the pandemic.
Bingo.q
*"We didn't know!"*
'Well people tried to tell you, you said they were racists and denying science and supported mass murder. Then you cut off their ability to share their views with others, ended their livelihoods, irreparably damaged their mental health, and then fired them if it was even remotely possible.'
*"Yeah, but we didn't know they were -right- or we would've listened to them! Let's call it a draw and go back to being friends??"*
I'm not one for arguments about white privilege- but if there's anything more "white privilege" than an economist from Brown telling people that 'mistakes were made, we should come together now before it's politically inconvenient for me and my friends', I dunno what it is. Imagine thinking you can put a bandage on the gunshot wound that is still festering after shoving a poker in there for 2 years and hope you'll be forgiven.
The audacity of even pitching that outside your group of friends is something you really just will only find in someone who hasn't been questioned by anyone their entire lives outside a thesis defense. Like, it'd never even occur to me to try to gaslight everyone reading The Atlantic as effectively as this woman tries to; because I know I'd never get away with it.
Maybe it's not a racial thing because that's a shitty lens- but maybe it kinda is?
A entire generation of students had their education stunted. Loved ones died alone and were denied funerals while George Floyd was permitted to have three. Millions of people lost their jobs, first to lockdowns and then to illegal vaccine mandates that were later struck down by the courts. Trust in institutions and experts was destroyed. People who questioned any of this were censored relentlessly by Big Tech while the bullies who called them "plague rats" and "grandma killer" got a free pass. Young children were still forced to wear masks at school well into 2022.
Has any official been fired for their role in this?
Has any official offered a single apology for the amount of trauma they caused?
No.
There cannot be "amnesty" and "moving on" until there is accountability. There is no "moving on" until we make absolutely sure that this can never happen again.
Every time a political attack happens or a mass shooting and it's endless probes on the assailants history to see if they were a right wing nazi or a left wing communist. It's pretty tiring.
Every time a political attack happens or a mass shooting and it's endless probes on the assailants history to see if they were a right wing nazi or a left wing communist. It's pretty tiring.
when was the last good old fashioned unpoliticized mass shooting
At the 2006 trial of Muhammad, Malvo testified that the aim of the killing spree was to kidnap children for the purpose of extorting money from the government and to "set up a camp to train children how to terrorize cities," with the ultimate goal being to "shut things down" across the United States
Every time a political attack happens or a mass shooting and it's endless probes on the assailants history to see if they were a right wing nazi or a left wing communist. It's pretty tiring.
when was the last good old fashioned unpoliticized mass shooting
Now comes the latest iteration of this campaign attack. But it’s just as empty as the previous ones.
The main source of this accusation is a document issued by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which helps elect Republicans to the Senate. In February, Scott released a 60-page “11-point plan to rescue America” that offered 128 proposals.
Buried on Page 38, in a section on government restructuring, was one sentence: “All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.”
“Sunset” is inside-the-Beltway lingo. The Congressional Research Service offers this definition: “The sunset concept provides for programs and agencies to terminate automatically on a periodic basis unless explicitly renewed by law.” In theory, then, even a venerable program such as Social Security or Medicare would have to prove its worth all over again every five years, though neither was specifically mentioned.
Scott’s plan was almost immediately rejected by most Senate Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was especially harsh.
“We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half of the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years,” McConnell told reporters March 1. “That will not be part of a Republican Senate majority agenda.”
During an interview with Fox News on March 27, Scott was asked whether his plan could “potentially sunset programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.” He dismissed that as “Democratic talking points” and said his proposal was intended to focus attention on how to deal with potential funding shortfalls in the future.
“No one that I know of wants to sunset Medicare or Social Security, but what we’re doing is we don’t even talk about it. Medicare goes bankrupt in four years. Social Security goes bankrupt in 12 years,” Scott said. “I think we ought to figure out how we preserve those programs. Every program that we care about, we ought to stop and take the time to preserve those programs.”
(It’s beyond the scope of this fact check, but Scott’s “bankrupt” language is exaggerated. Payments would continue but at reduced levels, according to the annual reports issued by the administrators of the programs’ trust funds. As we have noted before, Medicare’s Part A fund has, since 1970, been on the brink of going “broke” — but always manages to stay afloat.)
Im old enough to remember the speaker of the house, whats his name, the guy with the cringe gym photos, running on an "abolish SS" platform
Political punishment should happen more often. One party completely owning a state is dumb dumb, whether blue or red. You need checks and you need balances. Democrats need to lose power to humble them push them to the right to force them to be more reasonable. Kind of like letting a kid touch an oven to realize they burn. Or telling your kid,"if someone hits you hit them back" to teach the other kid a good lesson in boundaries. If Dems don't get it, continue to punish them until they finally do and you get the government you want. Likewise, states like Texas are in serious need of reasonable blue representation to offset the Republicans heterodox of Tejas politic. This is why flip states are actually the smartest states and why flip voters are actually the smartest voters. Partisans are r-etards.:hmm
Luls.
Here's to a few upsets rocking the boat of progressives and their God awful policy. Here's hoping for a decade of conservatives rule. Cheers.
Just had the 20 year birthday of these bad boysRemember how the media panicked for weeks about white vans and they were in a red car or whatever the whole time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks#MotiveQuoteAt the 2006 trial of Muhammad, Malvo testified that the aim of the killing spree was to kidnap children for the purpose of extorting money from the government and to "set up a camp to train children how to terrorize cities," with the ultimate goal being to "shut things down" across the United States
Why cant we go back to how things used to be
Political punishment should happen more often. One party completely owning a state is dumb dumb, whether blue or red. You need checks and you need balances. Democrats need to lose power to humble them push them to the right to force them to be more reasonable. Kind of like letting a kid touch an oven to realize they burn. Or telling your kid,"if someone hits you hit them back" to teach the other kid a good lesson in boundaries. If Dems don't get it, continue to punish them until they finally do and you get the government you want. Likewise, states like Texas are in serious need of reasonable blue representation to offset the Republicans heterodox of Tejas politic. This is why flip states are actually the smartest states and why flip voters are actually the smartest voters. Partisans are r-etards.:hmm
Luls.
Here's to a few upsets rocking the boat of progressives and their God awful policy. Here's hoping for a decade of conservatives rule. Cheers.
The gop will block the debt ceiling extension which will cause a economic catastrophe which yes, will solve inflationForget the GOP, the MAGA force is going to cause everyone a whole lot of trouble. :doge
The gop will block the debt ceiling extension which will cause a economic catastrophe which yes, will solve inflation
https://twitter.com/omw/status/1586859830521757698The replies. :lol
"This midterm election, we have seen a lot of ads by Republicans running for everything touting crime," Clinton said. "Crime is the issue. But when an 82-year-old man is attacked by an intruder in his own home, they don't seem to be too bothered by that, because that person is married to the speaker of the House, who's of a different political party."
"Like I said, the Republicans have been talking about nothing but crime, when a crime is committed against Paul Pelosi, they could care less," she said.
"These people do not really believe half of what they say," Clinton said of Republicans.
"Look, Paul Pelosi was attacked by a person who is an illegal alien in our country, should have never been here in the first place. My view very simply is that we need to deport violent illegal aliens, OK?" Vance said.:dead :dead
"When an illegal alien attacks Paul Pelosi it's tragic and it's terrible but it's not reflective of Republicans. It's reflective of the fact that we let way too many violent people live freely in our country," Vance said.
this thread used to have good links on current US policies and shit.
this thread used to have good links on current US policies and shit.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1586859468859621378
wait, what story just played out in brazil?
an asshole incumbent conservative was narrowly voted out and replaced by a liberal, but is still throwing a tantrum? this constitutes defeating extremism and fascism?
george this literally already happened in the US in 2020
:takei
https://twitter.com/omw/status/1586859830521757698
this thread used to have good links on current US policies and shit.What do current US policies have to do with US politics? ???
You guys still pretending the guy hasn't been arrested, hasn't made statements - including that he isn't gay - and that he planned on kidnapping Pelosi and targeting other politicians? Or is he lying to hide the Real Story too.That's just what they want us to think
Guys an arrested criminal who may have been in cahoots with the Pelosi crime family and also possibly gay, not sure why we should trust him! Not to mention he was part of Gamergate which is full of liars and criminals.You guys still pretending the guy hasn't been arrested, hasn't made statements - including that he isn't gay - and that he planned on kidnapping Pelosi and targeting other politicians? Or is he lying to hide the Real Story too.That's just what they want us to think
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1587948848969916416 (https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1587948848969916416)It's true though
Bit of a wet noodle quickly gobbled together speech of nothing we haven't heard before.
Wonder if internal polls are really really bad at this point.
It's true thoughIt's not though. It's not unprecedented, unlawful or un-American.
It's true thoughIt's not though. It's not unprecedented, unlawful or un-American.
Like, even this one time we had an election where the losing party refused to accept the results of the election by trying to start their own country with hookers and blackjack. And a million Americans died. (That one was kinda unlawful admittingly.)
yeah there was that other time one of the sides wouldn't accept defeat and demanded a recount of ballots and had all this stuff about hanging chadsAll jokes aside, there is a difference between refusing to accept a clear result and asking for a recount of a close result (hanging chads is another matter, but at least there was some basis for disputing them as opposed to just not liking the outcome and staging a coup attempt).
And also refusing to say outright "sure I trust our system well enough, whatever the result I assume if tampering exists we'd be talking about a tiny fraction of a percentage, of course I would concede a clear loss and I'll congratulate my opponent if he wins"yeah there was that other time one of the sides wouldn't accept defeat and demanded a recount of ballots and had all this stuff about hanging chadsAll jokes aside, there is a difference between refusing to accept a clear result and asking for a recount of a close result (hanging chads is another matter, but at least there was some basis for disputing them as opposed to just not liking the outcome and staging a coup attempt).
Not really.https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1587948848969916416 (https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1587948848969916416)It's true though
Bit of a wet noodle quickly gobbled together speech of nothing we haven't heard before.
Wonder if internal polls are really really bad at this point.
I get that individually they aren't a threat, but democracy very much depends on all candidates accepting the results of elections and not staging coups and stuff.Not really.https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1587948848969916416 (https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1587948848969916416)It's true though
Bit of a wet noodle quickly gobbled together speech of nothing we haven't heard before.
Wonder if internal polls are really really bad at this point.
A few senate seats aren't a threat to democracy.
The GOP isn't saying that if they win they will end voting or elections and aren't planning to. Outlawing the opposition and abolishing the supreme court is the threat and that's what the Democrats want to do now.
Kari Lake, Herschel Walker, JD Vance etc. there is 0 evidence that they are undemocratic.
Did you just mistake Nintex for benji? ;-):dead
Political punishment should happen more often. One party completely owning a state is dumb dumb, whether blue or red. You need checks and you need balances. Democrats need to lose power to humble them push them to the right to force them to be more reasonable. Kind of like letting a kid touch an oven to realize they burn. Or telling your kid,"if someone hits you hit them back" to teach the other kid a good lesson in boundaries. If Dems don't get it, continue to punish them until they finally do and you get the government you want. Likewise, states like Texas are in serious need of reasonable blue representation to offset the Republicans heterodox of Tejas politic. This is why flip states are actually the smartest states and why flip voters are actually the smartest voters. Partisans are r-etards.:hmm
Luls.
Here's to a few upsets rocking the boat of progressives and their God awful policy. Here's hoping for a decade of conservatives rule. Cheers.
Opinion | Florida Is a Blaring Warning Sign for Democrats
Biden has been reading too much of his own press.
For some reason, the White House is telling itself that the president’s trip to the Sunshine State this week sets up his midterm message perfectly, or as a CNN report put it, serves “as the ideal backdrop for his warnings against ‘mega-MAGA’ Republicans.”
“For months,” according to CNN, “Biden and his team have been hoping to use Florida’s constellation of Trump-aligned Republicans — including the former president himself — to crystallize Biden’s closing pitch that the election is a choice and not a referendum and galvanize Democratic voters.”
A senior Biden adviser explained of Tuesday’s venture into Florida, “You can’t shake a stick without hitting a Republican that represents the MAGA extremes that the president is talking about. So, it allows the president to really drive home what’s at stake and what the choice is.”
This raises some questions: If a large, politically prized state that is one of the most important in the Union has alleged extremists everywhere, are they really that extreme? And if Democrats do poorly in Florida next week, as seems likely, what does it say about the party?
Every party that is heading for a midterm drubbing has a moment of desperation-driven wishful thinking near the end of a campaign, and clearly, this is one of those moments.
Anyone who thinks that it’s a good idea to campaign against a future-oriented, ethnically diverse state where the Democratic Party is cratering has been spending too much time reading White House press releases, or Ron Klain’s Twitter account.
Besides Donald Trump, who is sui generis and not an elected official in the state, the chief Florida bogeyman is Ron DeSantis. For the left, he earned much of his notoriety during the pandemic, when he was a fierce opponent of lockdowns, school closures and mandates. His critics will never admit that he was correct, but at the very least, it’s hard to rekindle the righteous fury that was directed at him during the height of the pandemic.
Indeed, his response is one of his calling cards in a re-election campaign that looks set to sweep aside his adversaries.
DeSantis is so extreme that he leads his Democratic opponent Charlie Crist by double digits in the RealClearPolitics average, and has led by double digits in the last four polls in the average.
It’s worth pausing over this fact. Florida is not Utah or Alabama. It has been a swing state for much of the last 100 years. One of the most reliable indicators that a candidate is going to become president of the United States is if he wins the Sunshine State. George W. Bush did it twice, and so did Barack Obama. And not by large margins. Trump also won it twice, by 1 point in 2016 and in a harbinger of the state’s move rightward, 3 points in 2020.
this thread used to have good links on current US policies and shit.
Now it's just himu and nintex writing stupid shit.
i'd say bork sort this but it's sorta an empty gesture.
and to be fair nintex at least post links to stuff you can trace back.
himu, jfc, what the fuck is this drivel?
Immigration officials say Pelosi attacker was in US illegally
Washington CNN —
David DePape, the man accused of violently attacking Paul Pelosi last week, was in the United States illegally and may face deportation, the Department of Homeland Security said late Wednesday.
“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an immigration detainer on Canadian national David DePape with San Francisco County Jail, Nov. 1, following his Oct. 28 arrest,” the department said.
ICE issues so-called immigration “detainers” to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to inform them that the agency intends to take custody of an individual and requests that ICE be notified before that individual is released.
The detainer is unlikely to affect DePape’s case since deportations often happen after criminal cases are resolved. But after conviction and prison sentence, the US normally would seek deportation.
According to federal records, DePape, a Canadian citizen, entered the country in early March at the San Ysidro port of entry, which is along the California-Mexico border, as a temporary visitor. Generally, Canadians who are visiting for business or pleasure don’t require a visa and are allowed to stay in the US for six months.
DePape, 42, has been charged with a litany of crimes, including assault, attempted murder and attempted kidnapping, following last week’s break-in at Pelosi’s San Francisco home, the US attorney’s office and San Francisco district attorney announced on Monday.
He was charged with one count of “attempted kidnapping of a US official,” according to the US attorney’s office for the Northern District of California. That charge relates to Nancy Pelosi, whom DePape told police he planned to “hold hostage,” according to an FBI affidavit also unsealed on Monday.
DePape entered a not guilty plea Tuesday to all state charges during his initial appearance in court. He has not yet entered a plea in federal court.
An illegal you say? Will Democrats start to want to vet illegal immigrants more readily now? MAYBE SO, because this man after all is white and not brown. :sabu But I bet they won't. It'll be more pussy footing. More weak policy, more navel gazing, and more moralizing.
QuoteOpinion | Florida Is a Blaring Warning Sign for Democrats
Biden has been reading too much of his own press.
The subheading is fire but also lacks introspection.
QuoteBiden has been reading too much of his own press.
This is a perennial problem that plagues Democrats, mostly because of the institutional control they have over the press in this country. They don't seem to understand that the American public has no confidence in journalists, and the journalists who write endlessly slanted articles are not representative of the true feelings of the population.
I honestly don't understand how the difference in media reporting and actual populace views can be so wide. I know outrage sells but surely the slant has be negatively affecting the revenue they generate? Maybe I am misrepresenting the general consumer of news but alienating half the population seems like a surefire way to lose money? I really don't get it.
Absolutely. Only the press thinks it’s a mystery that Hillary Clinton lost, and I voted for her.
The problem is that the Democrats have become the party of "let them eat cake". If someone disagrees with them, they are automatically a redneck deplorable. Democrats have lots of great ideas that would benefit a lot of people, but their legislature is constantly bogged down with special interests and pandering to idiots online.
The democrats are walking away from the opportunity to be the adults in the room. Where a plurality of Americans support things like legal abortions and mandatory background checks, democrats obsess over dumb plans like one time forgiveness of student loans.
Republicans are so horrible that it's amazing they win at all, but the only way they can is because the Democrats have cast themselves as so ridiculous that they actually seem like a better choice to many.
So here's a true story of voter disenfranchisement. The year is 2000. I'm finally old enough to vote. Two presidential candidates presented themselves. Al Gore and George Bush. I completely agreed with the science of climate change and knew it was a problem we needed to address. I also liked the economy and policies under Bill Clinton. However, every time I heard Al Gore speak, he was harping on about special interests, and his running mate, Joe Lieberman, was going to make it a campaign goal to ban violent video games. I saw them as radical and out of touch. Meanwhile Bush was likeable, relatable, and he seemed like the adult in the room. So I voted for Bush.
That's the part the news stories ignore. Most people don't identify as republican or democrat. They identify as individuals with various political opinions. So much so that a gay friend of mine in California who is an atheist was a staunch Trump supporter in 2016 despite this seeming ironic with his demographic. Hillary seemed dishonest and out of touch. The democrats nomination process seemed crafted to disenfranchise voters with the super delegates.
These are anecdotal stories, but they explain the problem well.
1. Democrats so heavily depend on dominating margins with minority voters that any slip in those totals can be catastrophic. “Demographics are destiny” is nonsense, as after 2-3 generations, most immigrants simply identify as “white”. When those “previously hispanic” and “previously 60% democrat voter” groups become closer to 50/50, thats a lot of voters that are lost. Similarly, with black voters, even a drop from 90% to low 80’s is devastating. Think those numbers arent realistic? How realistic is it that those margins continue to stay that high? That may explain the recent trend of the DNC catering so heavily towards “sure thing” voters. Now, if it ends up backfiring? That could happen, and thats when those margins start falling off.
2. these next 10 years are going to be a ride. We are starting to see the breaking up of the voting blocks of the south, midwest, and west. Democrats have put a lot of effort and money into trying to get a crown jewel in Florida (and Texas). Republicans have similarly made a lot of gains in the midwest. The electoral map of the ‘30s may well show New England cracking as well or one of the pnw states turning purple.
My parents are semi-retired and live at their place in Clearwater, Florida most of the time these days. Really the only reason they keep their house back home is to placate my brothers and I who like to frolic in our childhood nostalgia over the holidays, but I digress.
I visit fairly frequently. Originally when they first moved it was to escape the cold and enjoy the novelty of wearing shorts in winter, but then after Covid measures persisted beyond my emotional breaking point I often took refuge in the Sunshine State for more extended periods to take advantage of remote work flexibility and lay on the beach.
Florida is going places. There is really no denying it. Even with the current real estate market, try getting a house in Broward or Miami-Dade in particular these days that is not astronomically priced (a problem in and of itself). The business climate is booming, migration numbers are sky high, and the Governor has proven fearless in the face of culture war issues. Oh, and as an aside, there is a Po'Folks restaurant still open in St Pete. I shit you not. I had not seen those since I was a little kid.
People take note of this. People want to emulate this. People may very well vote accordingly.
An illegal you say? Will Democrats start to want to vet illegal immigrants more readily now? MAYBE SO, because this man after all is white and not brown. :sabu But I bet they won't. It'll be more pussy footing. More weak policy, more navel gazing, and more moralizing.
Read your own fucking quotes.
"According to federal records, DePape, a Canadian citizen, entered the country in early March at the San Ysidro port of entry, which is along the California-Mexico border, as a temporary visitor. Generally, Canadians who are visiting for business or pleasure don’t require a visa and are allowed to stay in the US for six months.'
He entered legally and overstayed.
Thats the point everyone keeps making. A wall wont fix that.
https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1588220086191538177 (https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1588220086191538177)
:trumps
Non Republican pollsters are starting to pick up on shifts.
https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1588129148543041537 (https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1588129148543041537)
QuoteOpinion | Florida Is a Blaring Warning Sign for Democrats
Biden has been reading too much of his own press.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/11/02/bidens-foolhardy-florida-obsession-00064689
Biden uses another Florida pol, now-Sen. Rick Scott, as the occasion for making a tried-and-true attack against the GOP, namely that it wants to cut entitlements. This is an issue where it is actually the case, as Biden likes to say, that it’s no longer your father’s Republican Party. Trump turned the GOP against austerity economics and party leaders have largely resisted returning to entitlement reform as a major cause. When he came up with his own agenda earlier this year, Scott suggested voting to reauthorize entitlements every five years rather than having them run on autopilot. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave it the cold shoulder, and the chances of the proposal being taken up by Republicans should they win congressional majorities are exactly zero. At this point, there’s no way that Biden is going to make significant headway with it in the midterms.
The overall political message of Florida isn’t that Republicans are lurching into mega-MAGA irrelevance, but that Democrats are losing ground in a vital part of the country.
As The Economist wrote recently, “Florida has become emblematic of much of America and central to all of it. The state is on the rise.” Its economy has doubled since 2002, and were it a sovereign country, it would have the 15th largest economy in the world. “Between 2010 and 2020,” the magazine notes, “its population grew at double the national rate. Florida has overtaken New York to become America’s third-most-populous state after California and Texas, with a dynamic and diverse demography, including fast-rising numbers of Hispanics.”
This should make the Democratic fade in the state all the more concerning to the party. Since 2020, there are roughly 330,000 fewer registered Democrats in Florida. Republicans have now ticked ahead of Democrats in registrations for the first time, taking a 5.3 million to 5 million lead. Contrast that with 2008, when, benefiting from an Obama-era influx, registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 700,000.
As a CNN report noted, Republicans have picked up nearly 60,000 new registrations among Hispanics, while Democrats have lost 46,000 — another indication of Democratic erosion with this key demographic. Such is the slide that Republicans could conceivably win in heavily Hispanic Miami-Dade county, the most populous county in the state that has traditionally been a pillar of the Democratic presidential coalition in Florida.
If Democrats want to chalk this all up to extremism, they are deluding themselves. Florida is a GOP success story and a cautionary tale for Democrats, rather than the key to staving off midterm defeats.
Himu, did you now that you can just talk to Nintex directly using PM? No need to make a detour using this thread.
To do this, click on his name, which will take you to his profile. Then on the left, click "Send PM".
Give it a try!
In 2020, the Democratic advantage among Hispanic voters declined by 16 points relative to 2016. On the eve of the 2022 election, that advantage is set to decline substantially once again.
This is obviously bad for the Democrats’ immediate electoral prospects. But it also cuts the ground out from under their leading electoral theory of the case: that the “rising American electorate”, with a starring role for the burgeoning ranks of minority voters, will deliver them victories in the future. It is overwhelmingly Hispanics who are driving the increase in the nonwhite population and if they continue moving toward the GOP—as they are and in a big way—the whole theory falls apart.
It is becoming clearer and clearer that Democrats have seriously erred by lumping Hispanics in with “people of color” and assuming they embraced a litany of liberal causes around race and other issues that are dear to the hearts of Democratic activists. This was a flawed assumption. In reality, Hispanic voters are overwhelmingly an upwardly mobile, patriotic population with practical and down to earth concerns focused on jobs, the economy, health care, effective schools and public safety.
In short, they are normie voters. And like other normie voters, if they feel Democrats are falling short on the things normie voters care about, they are more than willing to punish the party they hold responsible.
This creates a huge political problem. What people want—and need—is abundant, cheap, reliable energy. Therefore if what you are advocating appears to call that goal into question, no amount of rhetoric about a roasting planet and no amount of effort to tie every natural disaster to climate change is likely to generate the support needed for a reasonably quick energy transition.
To add to the political problems, this misguided approach to energy policy is all being done in the name of fighting climate change, which is not a high-salience issue for most voters. That is, climate change, while having very, very high salience for Democratic elites, has low salience for ordinary voters, particularly working class voters. Surveys have also showed that, while voters mostly acknowledge climate change is ongoing, are at least somewhat concerned about it and think there should be more climate-oriented action, the issue is not so salient that they are willing to sacrifice much to support such action.
Florida looks bad for dems, Pennsylvania looking good for dems. I'll take it. My priorities for Tuesday...Not sure if all these late poll swings are going to be reflected in the voting.
1. Hold PA governor seat
2. Hold MI governor seat
3. Hold US senate
1 and 2 seem like the most important for 2024, to ensure those elections are run in a logical and democratic way. Holding the senate is important for hopefully getting another supreme court seat, among other things.
QuoteAs The Economist wrote recently, “Florida has become emblematic of much of America and central to all of it. The state is on the rise.” Its economy has doubled since 2002, and were it a sovereign country, it would have the 15th largest economy in the world. “Between 2010 and 2020,” the magazine notes, “its population grew at double the national rate. Florida has overtaken New York to become America’s third-most-populous state after California and Texas, with a dynamic and diverse demography, including fast-rising numbers of Hispanics.”
This should make the Democratic fade in the state all the more concerning to the party.
Florida looks bad for dems, Pennsylvania looking good for dems. I'll take it. My priorities for Tuesday...Not sure if all these late poll swings are going to be reflected in the voting.
1. Hold PA governor seat
2. Hold MI governor seat
3. Hold US senate
1 and 2 seem like the most important for 2024, to ensure those elections are run in a logical and democratic way. Holding the senate is important for hopefully getting another supreme court seat, among other things.
From what I'm seeing lots of people have already voted early and once again the GOP banks on a big turn-out on election day.
A powerful PR/marketing thing but also a big risk if the weather sucks or the voters don't show on the big day.
It seems like both parties are desperately trying to persuade the last few voters who haven't made up their mind yet to not only vote for them but also vote at all.
A few senate seats aren't a threat to democracy.
The GOP isn't saying that if they win they will end voting or elections and aren't planning to. Outlawing the opposition and abolishing the supreme court is the threat and that's what the Democrats want to do now.
Kari Lake, Herschel Walker, JD Vance etc. there is 0 evidence that they are undemocratic.
Kari Lake has stated she wants to decertify the 2020 Arizona election and states she won't certify a Biden/dem win in 2024 if there is "fraud." I'd say she is anti-democracy, Benji.Nintex picked some particularly bad examples since that's the entire reason Kari Lake ran and J.D. Vance has said he wants to use the government to suppress non-MAGA views.
Read your own fucking quotes.Wait, the guy's a Canadian?
"According to federal records, DePape, a Canadian citizen, entered the country in early March at the San Ysidro port of entry, which is along the California-Mexico border, as a temporary visitor. Generally, Canadians who are visiting for business or pleasure don’t require a visa and are allowed to stay in the US for six months.'
He entered legally and overstayed.
Thats the point everyone keeps making. A wall wont fix that.
Fetterman is crushing Oz 75%-19% among those who have already voted; Oz leads 52%-39% among those who say they are almost certain to vote but haven't yet.
Man, the comments on r/moderatepolitics? Es muy bueno. :delicious Es delicioso.It's not like they stop taking in the media or go for clear partisan outlets like OANN/Newsmax/MSNBC, they continue to take in the same stuff but just are skeptical about it and complain about it. Just look at the largest media enterprises, how much of what CNN/MSNBC/Fox fills time with is something that was on one of the others or in the New York Times or whatever so they can be complain about it? It's only the crazies who determine everything in the media must be a lie and disconnect completely for fact-based sources like RealRawNews, everyone else maintains a balance in their head. Even still this is often only on certain issues that people are personally informed about and probably didn't trust the media in the first place, see: Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.QuoteI honestly don't understand how the difference in media reporting and actual populace views can be so wide. I know outrage sells but surely the slant has be negatively affecting the revenue they generate? Maybe I am misrepresenting the general consumer of news but alienating half the population seems like a surefire way to lose money? I really don't get it.
Not sure if all these late poll swings are going to be reflected in the voting.I doubt it. That was the old model, now there's lots of interest in turning out your own voters who don't vote regularly.
From what I'm seeing lots of people have already voted early and once again the GOP banks on a big turn-out on election day.
A powerful PR/marketing thing but also a big risk if the weather sucks or the voters don't show on the big day.
It seems like both parties are desperately trying to persuade the last few voters who haven't made up their mind yet to not only vote for them but also vote at all.
Michigan prob handled the abortion thing better than any state for dems. We have a ballot proposal on whether abortion should remain legal or not. That has forced candidates to take a direct stand and it's killing Tudor Dixon, the MAGA candidate. It's also allowed Whitmer to focus more on economic issues while liberal interest groups blast republicans in TV ads. Meanwhile every vote knows Prop 3 will be on the ballot.I see a good amount of the anti-3 signs out in front of houses, but it doesn't look like their messaging that it's EXTREME and UNCLEAR is getting through. Polling has it above 60%. Although the pro-3 side has spent almost five times as much money so maybe the voters just aren't hearing about how EXTREME and UNCLEAR it is. (Something I'll note that the anti-3 ads never say how, base your entire campaign around the proven tactic of saying a Proposal is misleading and then totally botch the execution breh.)
Read your own fucking quotes.Wait, the guy's a Canadian?
"According to federal records, DePape, a Canadian citizen, entered the country in early March at the San Ysidro port of entry, which is along the California-Mexico border, as a temporary visitor. Generally, Canadians who are visiting for business or pleasure don’t require a visa and are allowed to stay in the US for six months.'
He entered legally and overstayed.
Thats the point everyone keeps making. A wall wont fix that.
BUILD 👏 THE 👏 WALL 👏 OR 👏 INVADE 👏
The entire point is laws. I said nothing about walls in that post. This is an issue of laws. SF and California in general prioritizes itself as a sanctuary city and state which means lax illegal immigration law, even for expired visas. You two aren't actually providing any evidence against strict immigration law. In fact, this entire thing shows it should be more strict as if it was this could have been preventable. Instead, you focus on the wall as a straw man rather than the fact under Biden they have a lax illegal immigration policing.I didn't say shit about your post, in fact I specifically removed the quote because I was only replying to what james said, so I could make an anti-Canada joke. (But maybe there's still a chance...)
Democracy Intensifies:
(https://i.imgur.com/JcZ8IT9.jpeg)(https://i.imgur.com/OYKdJYo.jpeg)
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Dems need to pour all their resources into Texas and Florida for this last weekend, this is the year we turn Texas and Utah BLUE! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!
https://twitter.com/DavMicRot/status/1587990319999721473
https://twitter.com/CalebHowe/status/1588203985034518531
Shot Fired at Family Home of N. Carolina US House Candidate
A recent shooting at the Hickory, North Carolina, residence of GOP congressional candidate Pat Harrigan’s parents and young children caused no injuries but has placed “tremendous stress” on the family in the final weeks of his campaign, Harrigan’s mother said.
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, Associated Press/Report for America
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A recent shooting at the Hickory, North Carolina, residence of GOP congressional candidate Pat Harrigan's parents and young children caused no injuries but placed “tremendous stress” on the family in the final weeks of his campaign, Harrigan's mother said Thursday.
Harrigan, a firearms manufacturer and U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, is running against Democratic state Sen. Jeff Jackson for an open U.S. House seat in North Carolina's new 14th District based in western Charlotte. The left-leaning district emerged from a lengthy redistricting battle during which North Carolina redrew its congressional map to account for the additional seat it was awarded following the 2020 census.
Political analysts say the 2022 map favors Republicans in seven of the state’s 14 districts and favors Democrats in six, with one toss-up district in the Raleigh suburbs.
Marla Harrigan, 74, told The Associated Press on Thursday that she and her husband James Harrigan were watching television down the hall when a bullet shattered their laundry room window on the night of Oct. 18. The Hickory Police Department responded to their 911 call and noted in the police report that the incident involved a firearm.
The congressional candidate's children, ages 3 and 5, were asleep in the bedroom directly above the room where the shooting occurred, Marla Harrigan said. The bullet came from a densely wooded area and did not wake the kids.
She said the two children have been living with their grandparents in Hickory, about 57 miles northwest of Charlotte, for much of the campaign cycle. They have since been relocated out of state “out of an abundance of caution after the shooting," she said, adding that her son is urging his parents to leave town as well.
“It's just disconcerting, especially with the children there," Marla Harrigan told the AP. “This campaign is so stressful, and we feel so badly for our son because, you know, he's terribly stressed about his children ... and now they're gone, they're not with their parents and it's just very, very disruptive."
Hickory Police Department spokesperson Kristen Hart said the department has not made arrests related to the incident and that the investigation is ongoing.
Jordan Shaw, spokesperson for the Harrigan campaign, said the Republican candidate has also received numerous death threats, which they've submitted to the police to aid their investigation.
“I’m focused on fixing the economy, lowering prices and keeping our streets safe,” Harrigan said in a statement Thursday. “And it’ll take more than a bullet and death threats to knock this Green Beret off that mission.”
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Hannah Schoenbaum is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. Follow her on Twitter at @H_Schoenbaum.
Florida looks bad for dems, Pennsylvania looking good for dems. I'll take it. My priorities for Tuesday...
1. Hold PA governor seat
2. Hold MI governor seat
3. Hold US senate
1 and 2 seem like the most important for 2024, to ensure those elections are run in a logical and democratic way. Holding the senate is important for hopefully getting another supreme court seat, among other things.
Florida looks bad for dems, Pennsylvania looking good for dems. I'll take it. My priorities for Tuesday...
1. Hold PA governor seat
2. Hold MI governor seat
3. Hold US senate
1 and 2 seem like the most important for 2024, to ensure those elections are run in a logical and democratic way. Holding the senate is important for hopefully getting another supreme court seat, among other things.
Also hoping that Hochul beats anti-abortion, election denier, Trump lapdog Zeldin. Guy was my rep for the last 8 or so years and he's terrible. The best is, he's running on "crime is out of control!" yet he can't even keep crime out of his own backyard. Literally (to be fair, Shirley is kind of a trashy area):
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-shot-outside-new-york-congressman-lee-zeldins-home-2022-10-10/
Florida looks bad for dems, Pennsylvania looking good for dems. I'll take it. My priorities for Tuesday...
1. Hold PA governor seat
2. Hold MI governor seat
3. Hold US senate
1 and 2 seem like the most important for 2024, to ensure those elections are run in a logical and democratic way. Holding the senate is important for hopefully getting another supreme court seat, among other things.
Also hoping that Hochul beats anti-abortion, election denier, Trump lapdog Zeldin. Guy was my rep for the last 8 or so years and he's terrible. The best is, he's running on "crime is out of control!" yet he can't even keep crime out of his own backyard. Literally (to be fair, Shirley is kind of a trashy area):
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-shot-outside-new-york-congressman-lee-zeldins-home-2022-10-10/
I kind of view NY the same way I view TX. The minority party winning a state-wide election is a herculean effort. Of course this is complicated by Hochul apparently sucking (?) and only being governor due to scandal. Given how high turnout is across the nation you gotta expect dems to hold NY the same way I'd expect republicans to hold TX.
Florida looks bad for dems, Pennsylvania looking good for dems. I'll take it. My priorities for Tuesday...
1. Hold PA governor seat
2. Hold MI governor seat
3. Hold US senate
1 and 2 seem like the most important for 2024, to ensure those elections are run in a logical and democratic way. Holding the senate is important for hopefully getting another supreme court seat, among other things.
Also hoping that Hochul beats anti-abortion, election denier, Trump lapdog Zeldin. Guy was my rep for the last 8 or so years and he's terrible. The best is, he's running on "crime is out of control!" yet he can't even keep crime out of his own backyard. Literally (to be fair, Shirley is kind of a trashy area):
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/two-shot-outside-new-york-congressman-lee-zeldins-home-2022-10-10/
I kind of view NY the same way I view TX. The minority party winning a state-wide election is a herculean effort. Of course this is complicated by Hochul apparently sucking (?) and only being governor due to scandal. Given how high turnout is across the nation you gotta expect dems to hold NY the same way I'd expect republicans to hold TX.
Presidential vote in the last 4 NY elections
2008: 63% D
2012: 63% D
2016: 59% D
2020: 60% D
"New York isn't a blue state"
Presidential vote in the last 4 NY elections
2008: 63% D
2012: 63% D
2016: 59% D
2020: 60% D
"New York isn't a blue state"
Right wingers not understanding
Presidential vote in the last 4 NY elections
2008: 63% D
2012: 63% D
2016: 59% D
2020: 60% D
"New York isn't a blue state"
Buffalo voted for Biden by like 90-10 but Himu struggles to understand maps and data
Right wingers not understanding how maps and districts work is weird as fuck. If the people live in a large portion of a state - vs far fewer people living in a bunch of small counties and districts....and the people in the large portion of the state heavily out number the rest...
You see where I'm going with this.
Presidential vote in the last 4 NY elections
2008: 63% D
2012: 63% D
2016: 59% D
2020: 60% D
"New York isn't a blue state"
I said,"New York isn't a blue state, fucking NYC is blue".
NYC has a population of 8 million. It runs the states politics. This is why I likened it to Illinois and Chicago.
Therefore, the key to NY is the NYC metro area. Since so many problems persist in NYC and the Democrats virtually run it without contest, it puts the failures in the city on the Democratic Party. Therefore, by poking those weaknesses - and there are many weaknesses and holes to exploit - you can definitely push to that 59-60% to a solid 50. And low and behold, you have a nice, princely purple.
You should read more and try to understand messages rather than dismissing them entirely.
Democrats in NYC have many problems, especially in Brooklyn. A couple of areas are problematic. If this race is close (my hopes), and Dems continue to spiral with their one party rule, there's a high possibility that even if Zeldin loses, GOP will be in play in a more purple NY the next governor election. Not a 100% likelihood, but a real possibility.
Trump would be on TV blaming China for the inflation.Well, it's that AND the trillions of dollars in cash that western countries printed to keep economies afloat while we shut our own economies down for months at a time.
And he'd sort of be right? A lot of the supply chain issues are due to their Covid-zero policy where they close giant manufacturing cities for two weeks at random.
"Blame the scary foreigners" is a tried and true tactic for getting votes.
This is New Jersey, breh, not New York.Presidential vote in the last 4 NY elections
2008: 63% D
2012: 63% D
2016: 59% D
2020: 60% D
"New York isn't a blue state"
Buffalo voted for Biden by like 90-10 but Himu struggles to understand maps and data
2017:
(https://i.imgur.com/chBmV0L.png)
2021:
(https://i.imgur.com/AGA8Nbp.png)
Barely won.
DeBlasio lost to a former police officer who promised to crack down on crime in Adams.No, he didn't. de Blasio was term limited.
You accuse me of not understanding maps and data.We're just trying to tell you that land doesn't vote.
"I have actually never heard a person who isn't an economist or works on CNBC [use the word inflation]," Reid said out loud.:hmm
"The only people I ever hear use the word inflation are journalists and economists," Reid said on television. "So, that is not part of the normal lexicon of the way people talk. So, it is interesting that Republicans are doing something that they don't normally do, right? Which is not use the common tongue, not use just common English to sort of use their campaigns like they do with crime. But what they’ve done is they've taught people the word 'inflation.' Most people would have never used that word ever in their lives are using it now because they’ve been taught it."
"Including on TV, including in newspapers," an incredulous Reid said. "They've been taught this word and they've sort of wrapped this word around whatever it is they really want to vote -- you know, the reasons they really want to vote."
This is New Jersey, breh, not New York.Presidential vote in the last 4 NY elections
2008: 63% D
2012: 63% D
2016: 59% D
2020: 60% D
"New York isn't a blue state"
Buffalo voted for Biden by like 90-10 but Himu struggles to understand maps and data
2017:
(https://i.imgur.com/chBmV0L.png)
2021:
(https://i.imgur.com/AGA8Nbp.png)
Barely won.DeBlasio lost to a former police officer who promised to crack down on crime in Adams.No, he didn't. de Blasio was term limited.You accuse me of not understanding maps and data.We're just trying to tell you that land doesn't vote.
tiesto has this right because every single Republican who has won in a Blue State in recent memory except Maine (which was an unique race) has been this model. Running culture warriors means moderates stay home, running "business-like guy who doesn't care about abortion is gonna try to run things better" is how they win there. (The irony of this describing Trump's political persona before he became obsessed with Obama remains amusing.)
I brought NJ and VA to show it can be surprisingly close not to say it's NY.NY/NJ/VA D Presidential Share
On the ground in NYC I hear Hochul is barely campaigning.Why would she campaign in NYC? Staten Island's the only place not D+40 or higher.
I need her to lose, Benji. She is so bad!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
I need her to lose, Benji. She is so bad!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
Kathy Hochul got skewered on MSNBC. Host suggested New York City was going the way of San Francisco.
:tocryI was just making a joke about how libertarians know members of the state almost always get away with everything.
Please expound. Them always getting away with it makes the case for the individual at all times?
She needs to go and I have no idea how she won her primary.I think the people running against her were all running to her left so they would have been even more in favor of the things you don't like.
Does SF have zones where homeless people are allowed to shoot up heroin in public without police reprimanding? Does SF have a very packed in community where you'll interact with a mentally ill person on the subway violently lashing out and screaming passengers in the face during the work commute at 7 am? Does SF have rats copulating in the streets in BROAD DAYLIGHT because of the increase of outdoor dining during the pandemic which they use as a free picnic in after hours?You'd probably like that San Fransicko book I read:
I'm a black woman registered democrat in Brooklyn. I already voted for Zeldin. Her "idk why crime matters to you so much comment" was repulsive.
and she insists on not changing the DA and bail laws... if she is that tone-deaf to the needs of NY citizens, she doesn't have a spirit of service.
Let’s vote this lady out or New York will never change . They don’t care about bail reform . Their community are not getting touched by violence .
I’m Asian and I voted all red today ! Safety and Inflation matter ! I have to worry my 70+ yr old parents out for doctor visit every time. We don’t live in the rich neighborhood. if u don’t feel crime is not the problem , then thank god u have a privilege life like our governor Hochol
She running on a national platform when there are state issues.
I live in Rochester city. Rochester had the highest rate of homicides ever in 2021. This year we might break that record. This Democrat is voting for Lee Zeldin. It's a matter of safety!
Does SF have zones where homeless people are allowed to shoot up heroin in public without police reprimanding? Does SF have a very packed in community where you'll interact with a mentally ill person on the subway violently lashing out and screaming passengers in the face during the work commute at 7 am? Does SF have rats copulating in the streets in BROAD DAYLIGHT because of the increase of outdoor dining during the pandemic which they use as a free picnic in after hours?
You'd probably like that San Fransicko book I read:
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One of these days I'm going to upload the video I took after the mass shooting I was almost in. Walked nearly 30 streets to get to work while fire trucks and police went by for nearly an hour.
Shellenberger is a former liberal activist who now believes progressive policies are harmful. He lives in the San Francisco area and has seen the city deteriorate into the homeless capital of America with the highest drug overdose death rate.
He explains that this downfall stems from the progressive view that the homeless, addicts, and criminals are social victims and are thus entitled to almost any destructive behavior they want. This has led to major cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle allowing parks to be open drug encampments, sidewalks to be toilets, and streets to be controlled by violent criminals.
It was only about fifty years ago that homelessness was generally unknown. Back then courts would assign the mentally ill to mandatory treatment in mental hospitals. But in the 1970s civil libertarians led by the ACLU were successful in closing most of the mental hospitals and ending mandatory treatment. The result is that the mentally ill are now living on the streets, openly using drugs, filling the streets with human waste, and committing crimes to get drug money.
State and local governments, especially in California, joined the deinstitutionalization movement as it promised cost savings. But now these entities have ended up paying more in hospital, police, court, and welfare costs. California spends billions per year.
The people profiting from this system are homeless activists, contractors, consultants, service providers, attorneys, inspectors, and lobbyists who execute and support the current progressive homeless policies. But they have no legal accountability for their failed policies even though they are funded by tax dollars. California spends the most on the homeless but has the worst results.
This book was published in 2021 when the progressive homeless system seemed beyond repair. But in 2022 signs appeared the public had become sick and tired of progressive policies around the country. First voters recalled three progressive members of the San Francisco School Board. Then they recalled the progressive San Francisco District Attorney who refused to prosecute the homeless for almost any crime. Meanwhile voters in Maryland just defeated the progressive state attorney.
I consider myself a progressive Democrat but also worked in acute adult psychiatric units as a Licensed Psychiatric Technician & then a Registered Nurse. Part on my job was assessing patients in the emergency room to determine if they were a danger to themselves, a danger to others of “gravely disabled.” Back then “ gravely disabled” was defined as “unable to provide food, clothing & shelter for themselves,” and a tent on the sidewalk was not considered “shelter.” Back then, we cared about those that were unable to manage their own lives & never imagined that there was anything compassionate about letting the mentally ill live on the streets & self medicating with alcohol, opiates & meth. Back then, I could write a 72 hour hold called a “5150.” The patient would be assessed for 72 hours & then would see a judge to determine if they needed further assessment for 14 days. During these assessment periods, patients were cleaned up & often treated for lice or scabies & given psychotropic medication to treat the voices that often tormented them. They got three good meals & snacks. They had a real roof over their head & protected from the elements & others out on the streets that woukd take advantage & victimize them. At the end of 14 days, there would be another hearing with a judge to determine if the patient was now stable enough to manage their lives or if they needed long term care in a conservatorship. This kind of care was expensive, though & during the 80’s, psychiatric units began to close, leaving patients nowhere to go but the streets. Sadly, many misguided but maybe well meaning people were willing accomplices in this tragedy, saying it was a “civil right” to be tortured by mental illness, addiction & predators on the streets. Civil right? The author of this book cuts right through that nonsense. He shows clearly the failures of policies that perpetuate the false narrative that homelessness is a real estate problem. I wish every politician would read this book! You should read it too if mentally ill living in tents & pooping on the sidewalks & open air drug dealing is a concern for you. The author actually gets it.
Summary: The road to hades is paved with good intentions.
An excellent book that pretty well nails how San Francisco and California at large got to where they are today from the golden state of years past. The short answer is complex but well intentioned liberal and progressive persons (this is not an insult) attempted to make things better for the downtrodden, the drug addicted, and the now freely roaming mentally ill persons who in years past would have been institutionalized.
All notable goals to be sure, but the problem is always the same, such people seem to forget the basic tenants of human nature. Drug users will often slip back into addiction despite the best treatment available, Criminals fall back into recivististic ways, mentally ill persons stop taking their medications if there is no one to make sure they take the drugs BECAUSE the don't like the way the drugs make them feel, People start non profits to help people, but help themselves to large amounts of government grants and funds FIRST. Those same bureaucrats are just as intent on keeping the problems in place than give them jobs than to solve or end problems, Many, many people get involved intending to make things better but burn out or accept the status quo, and all in all NOTHING GETS BETTER.
California has served as the focal point of all these problems coming together under a unique set of circumstances, where despite lots of people wanting to improve things, competing interests and lots of money have made sure the problems will never get fixed.
It is truly sad. This book exposes how the situation came to be . . and even offered solutions are not likely to change anything. Beware of anyone that offers they are from the government and here to help you!
Walking plays a central role in New York City’s transportation system. According to the US Census, two thirds of New York City residents either walk or take transit to work. Fewer than 30 percent of residents in New York City commute by personal vehicle.
THREATDOWN:
(https://i.imgur.com/ybRjHXz.png)
THREATDOWN:
(https://i.imgur.com/ybRjHXz.png)
I'm wondering if the recent surge in a culture of individual empowerment is having an effect on elections too
at one point there was a sense of loyalty to a job and the owners might try to characterize it a "family," but work reform sentiments now have the average person taking a look at whether they're being exploited by their job, and being quicker to say "nope the pay is not worth this shit" and moving on
so, to some extent has that carried over into politics? there used to be a sense of loyalty to a political party, and the idea that "I don't love the guy's work in our district but I'm straight ballot and I'd rather see D/R in power." now, everyone seems quicker to apply local scrutiny, and if the candidate is doing a shit job, are you really going to stick to some theoretical partisan ideals while actually suffering?
whether it's left or right, it feels like people aren't putting up with bullshit that directly affects them and can be voted out
We also asked respondents why they felt each party had or hadn’t earned the right to govern. Sixty-eight percent of likely voters who didn’t think the Democratic Party should have continued control said its policies and plans were moving the country in the wrong direction. A 41-year-old Republican multiracial woman from Oklahoma said that Democrats “create tension between groups who feel marginalized at the expense of the country to create an emotional frenzy that will drive people to the polls. I am a former Democrat and feel disgust at the lack of morals or ethics shown by the party.” Among those who thought Democrats should continue to govern, 44 percent cited their belief that Democrats were moving the country in the right direction, while 17 percent cited their work to pass major and important legislation. Another 19 percent also said Democrats should have control simply because they were “better than the Republicans.”
As for those who wanted Republicans to control Congress, 51 percent cited GOP policies and plans, while 28 percent answered because “Democrats are ruining the country.” Just 13 percent answered that they thought the GOP would do a better job dealing with the economy, although some voters thinking about inflation or rising costs may have indicated that they broadly preferred Republican policies. Meanwhile, there wasn’t one obvious reason why some likely voters felt the GOP shouldn’t have power: Thirty-six percent said GOP policies and plans would move the country in the wrong direction, 30 percent said Republicans had not presented a clear plan for what they would do in Congress, and 16 percent felt Republican “values and beliefs were bad or wrong.” When asked to describe the values and beliefs of the GOP, a 72-year-old woman from California who identified as a Democrat wrote, “The current group calling themselves the Republican Party are a corrupt group who are no longer disguising their true intentions, which are solely to create immense personal wealth and power for themselves.”
the latest thing I keep seeing everywhere that kinda pisses me off: the pervasive narrative that republicans want to end social security, or that killing it is imminent in current active GOP plans somehow
constant memes, comments and fearmingering across the internet e.g.
(https://i.imgur.com/Bowa0Zg.png)
I'd looked into this previously and it seemed like a whole lot of nothing but I just checked again:
https://www.google.com/search?q=are+republicans+really+trying+to+stop+social+security
the top link I get is washington post debunking it (but they're centrist so you can't trust them I guess), followed by an entire page of more fearmongering
(https://i.imgur.com/NlxhSDS.png)
the wapo article out from under paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20220927194723/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/27/false-claim-that-senate-republicans-plan-end-social-security-medicare/QuoteNow comes the latest iteration of this campaign attack. But it’s just as empty as the previous ones.
The main source of this accusation is a document issued by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which helps elect Republicans to the Senate. In February, Scott released a 60-page “11-point plan to rescue America” that offered 128 proposals.
Buried on Page 38, in a section on government restructuring, was one sentence: “All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again.”
“Sunset” is inside-the-Beltway lingo. The Congressional Research Service offers this definition: “The sunset concept provides for programs and agencies to terminate automatically on a periodic basis unless explicitly renewed by law.” In theory, then, even a venerable program such as Social Security or Medicare would have to prove its worth all over again every five years, though neither was specifically mentioned.
Scott’s plan was almost immediately rejected by most Senate Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) was especially harsh.
“We will not have as part of our agenda a bill that raises taxes on half of the American people and sunsets Social Security and Medicare within five years,” McConnell told reporters March 1. “That will not be part of a Republican Senate majority agenda.”
not only that, the guy who supposedly wants to end social security seems to want to save it:QuoteDuring an interview with Fox News on March 27, Scott was asked whether his plan could “potentially sunset programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.” He dismissed that as “Democratic talking points” and said his proposal was intended to focus attention on how to deal with potential funding shortfalls in the future.
“No one that I know of wants to sunset Medicare or Social Security, but what we’re doing is we don’t even talk about it. Medicare goes bankrupt in four years. Social Security goes bankrupt in 12 years,” Scott said. “I think we ought to figure out how we preserve those programs. Every program that we care about, we ought to stop and take the time to preserve those programs.”
(It’s beyond the scope of this fact check, but Scott’s “bankrupt” language is exaggerated. Payments would continue but at reduced levels, according to the annual reports issued by the administrators of the programs’ trust funds. As we have noted before, Medicare’s Part A fund has, since 1970, been on the brink of going “broke” — but always manages to stay afloat.)
maybe he's fucking lying and insidiously saying he wants to save it when really given a moment's power over it would ax it immediately?
and there are also fake infographics floating around that claim to represent republican plans regarding social security:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-commitment-america-fake-graphic-727152796030
I don't trust most republican plans or sources, nor do they usually deserve defense or benefit of the doubt, but I'd like to be able to trust...literally anyone
:fbm
I don't even think republicans value social security and probably are looking for ways to screw people out of it or raise the minimum age, I just don't think it's imminent and if it were true would be wildly unpopular even within their base
like come the fuck on, don't pounce on the tiniest thing you think you can exploit to spread FUD
Eh the GOP was trying to be cool with gays until recently. They toned down the repeal Roe comments for decades waiting for the right time to strike.
If they aren't talking about it, that's no guarantee they won't shift gears as soon as they think they have the votes.
https://twitter.com/joeroganhq/status/1588880781975638016My thoughts about filming a video of another tweet showing a video?
The Republican party has no public plan for anything. They haven't had a party platform since 2020.I really think you should learn about American politics if you want to keep commenting so passionately on them. I'm not saying you can't keep going about like Nintex if that's what you want to do but you seem like someone who wants more than that.
They offer no solutions to any problems (real or made up). A constant stream of manufactured outrage is enough to motivate their uneducated simpleton voters to keep voting against their own best interests. Combined with gerrymandering they have found the perfect formula how to gain and retain power despite representing a minority.
The Republican party has no public plan for anything. They haven't had a party platform since 2020.
They offer no solutions to any problems (real or made up). A constant stream of manufactured outrage is enough to motivate their uneducated simpleton voters to keep voting against their own best interests. Combined with gerrymandering they have found the perfect formula how to gain and retain power despite representing a minority.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=das691USKa8
Republican Party issues:Not sure about all of these currently.
- Economy
- Economic Opportunity
- Curating a society that doesn't teach its citizens to hate its country
- Lower taxes
- Free speech and anti-censorship
Republican Party issues:Not sure about all of these currently.
- Economy
- Economic Opportunity
- Curating a society that doesn't teach its citizens to hate its country
- Lower taxes
- Free speech and anti-censorship
Some conservatives turn on Trump for attacking Ron DeSantis ahead of midterms: ‘What an idiot’
Conservative commentators who are typically Donald Trump's allies turned on the former president after he went after Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday.
Trump mocked DeSantis as "Ron DeSanctimonious" while discussing the 2024 Republican presidential primary at a rally in Pennsylvania. The pair is widely considered to be the top contenders for the Republican nomination, though DeSantis has offered no indication he intends to run. Commentators called out Trump for creating division in the ranks just three days before the midterm elections.
"DeSantis is an extremely effective conservative governor who has had real policy wins and real cultural wins. Trump isn’t going to be able to take this one down with a dumb nickname. He better have more than that up his sleeve," wrote Matt Walsh, a commentator at The Daily Wire and a leading voice among social conservatives.
"Also, nice job launching your public attack against the most popular conservative governor in America three days before the midterms when we’re all supposed to be showing a united front," he added.
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1589062635575685122
https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1589062876945186817
https://twitter.com/roddreher/status/1589146046881730560
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1589069494928179203
https://twitter.com/ben_kew/status/1589076322139402240
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1589084223990018048
Speaking purely anecdotally, I’ve seen the rhetoric push people into apathy. Whether that means toward the Republic party, who can say. But it’s one vote less for Democrats, so.Very short term thinking. What happens when the Republicans win?
So much of the media telling dems to vote isn’t like, have hope for the future, we’re building a better America, optimism. It’s shit like, Democracy will die if you don’t vote. We’re 10 seconds to midnight so vote to avert nuclear holocaust. Remember Hitler? Vote to prevent Satan from resurrecting his corpse. Lots of fear and prevention and typically what I’d associate with Republican ads. Trying to scare people into support.
Speaking purely anecdotally, I’ve seen the rhetoric push people into apathy. Whether that means toward the Republic party, who can say. But it’s one vote less for Democrats, so.All they have left is fear because nothing else worked and if the GOP wins that fear mongering will only increase.
So much of the media telling dems to vote isn’t like, have hope for the future, we’re building a better America, optimism. It’s shit like, Democracy will die if you don’t vote. We’re 10 seconds to midnight so vote to avert nuclear holocaust. Remember Hitler? Vote to prevent Satan from resurrecting his corpse. Lots of fear and prevention and typically what I’d associate with Republican ads. Trying to scare people into support.
I’m gonna do what I’ve always done. Vote blue. Then scribble Bob Dole Bob Dole Bob Dole on the margins.
So much of the media telling dems to vote isn’t like, have hope for the future, we’re building a better America, optimism. It’s shit like, Democracy will die if you don’t vote. We’re 10 seconds to midnight so vote to avert nuclear holocaust. Remember Hitler? Vote to prevent Satan from resurrecting his corpse. Lots of fear and prevention and typically what I’d associate with Republican ads. Trying to scare people into support.
Not sure how you can claim to be for economic opportunity and low taxes when you want to impose high taxes on people who do business with people you don't like.
And DeSantis, like Texas, wants to use the government to censor speech.
What government censorship through speech has happened? The "Covid Whistleblower?" Is she really to be trusted? (https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/06/04/democrat-who-ran-floridas-pandemic-response-blasts-rebekah-jones-for-running-a-disinformation-campaign-1385039) I don't think so. Florida IG found she had no real grounds. (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-ig-report-insufficient-evidence-desantis-critics-claims-covid-rcna30647)No, not that, but the whole thing where he tried to ignore the First Amendment and allow the government to censor speech online (https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202112355.pdf).
As an outsider, I have two observations/rhetorical questions about the US and 6 January...Speaking purely anecdotally, I’ve seen the rhetoric push people into apathy. Whether that means toward the Republic party, who can say. But it’s one vote less for Democrats, so.All they have left is fear because nothing else worked and if the GOP wins that fear mongering will only increase.
So much of the media telling dems to vote isn’t like, have hope for the future, we’re building a better America, optimism. It’s shit like, Democracy will die if you don’t vote. We’re 10 seconds to midnight so vote to avert nuclear holocaust. Remember Hitler? Vote to prevent Satan from resurrecting his corpse. Lots of fear and prevention and typically what I’d associate with Republican ads. Trying to scare people into support.
I’m gonna do what I’ve always done. Vote blue. Then scribble Bob Dole Bob Dole Bob Dole on the margins.
They had hoped or rather were certain that the January 6th hearings would end Trump's political career once and for all.
I also think they're starting to believe their own narrative.
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1589303777177505792 (https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1589303777177505792)
But can you blame them?
As an outsider, I have two observations/rhetorical questions about the US and 6 January...Nobody cared about Trump not knowing or caring anything about the law before they elected him the first time, why would they care when he just confirmed what everyone already knew by thinking Pence could personally stop an election? The President wanting to ignore the law doesn't animate anybody because it's totally normal.
- How mental is the electorate that it didn't end Trump's political career?
- How shite have the Dems been that it didn't end Trump's political career?
As an outsider, I have two observations/rhetorical questions about the US and 6 January...Speaking purely anecdotally, I’ve seen the rhetoric push people into apathy. Whether that means toward the Republic party, who can say. But it’s one vote less for Democrats, so.All they have left is fear because nothing else worked and if the GOP wins that fear mongering will only increase.
So much of the media telling dems to vote isn’t like, have hope for the future, we’re building a better America, optimism. It’s shit like, Democracy will die if you don’t vote. We’re 10 seconds to midnight so vote to avert nuclear holocaust. Remember Hitler? Vote to prevent Satan from resurrecting his corpse. Lots of fear and prevention and typically what I’d associate with Republican ads. Trying to scare people into support.
I’m gonna do what I’ve always done. Vote blue. Then scribble Bob Dole Bob Dole Bob Dole on the margins.
They had hoped or rather were certain that the January 6th hearings would end Trump's political career once and for all.
I also think they're starting to believe their own narrative.
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1589303777177505792 (https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1589303777177505792)
But can you blame them?
- How mental is the electorate that it didn't end Trump's political career?
- How shite have the Dems been that it didn't end Trump's political career?
I've always understood that your system of government is deeply flawed. Still confuses me why you don't have preferential voting.As an outsider, I have two observations/rhetorical questions about the US and 6 January...Speaking purely anecdotally, I’ve seen the rhetoric push people into apathy. Whether that means toward the Republic party, who can say. But it’s one vote less for Democrats, so.All they have left is fear because nothing else worked and if the GOP wins that fear mongering will only increase.
So much of the media telling dems to vote isn’t like, have hope for the future, we’re building a better America, optimism. It’s shit like, Democracy will die if you don’t vote. We’re 10 seconds to midnight so vote to avert nuclear holocaust. Remember Hitler? Vote to prevent Satan from resurrecting his corpse. Lots of fear and prevention and typically what I’d associate with Republican ads. Trying to scare people into support.
I’m gonna do what I’ve always done. Vote blue. Then scribble Bob Dole Bob Dole Bob Dole on the margins.
They had hoped or rather were certain that the January 6th hearings would end Trump's political career once and for all.
I also think they're starting to believe their own narrative.
https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1589303777177505792 (https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1589303777177505792)
But can you blame them?
- How mental is the electorate that it didn't end Trump's political career?
- How shite have the Dems been that it didn't end Trump's political career?
You're starting to get it! You're starting to think like an American.
My man!
Americans have only two viable, real options. So if Dems are shit, Republicans are the only option. Likewise, if Republicans are shit, Democrats are our only option. Democrats historically are shit and refuse to soul search. They always end up blaming voters (i.e. "voting against their interests") than fixing their issues. Look at 2016 and their reaction to Trump winning. Initially it was met with,"are we the baddies?" type soul searching but quickly evolved into "RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA".
As for Trump and J6, I mean. President Clinton lied UNDER OATH. W and Obama committed war crimes with zero punishment sans a reporters shoe thrown at Bush's face. Presidents always escape true repercussions so why care? What option do we have? Vote for the Democratic Party who blames everything on Russia and refuses any ounce of introspection?
I've always understood that your system of government is deeply flawed. Still confuses me why you don't have preferential voting.Why would the two parties want that?
For the sake of good government? But please see my first sentence for the answer to that rhetorical question.I've always understood that your system of government is deeply flawed. Still confuses me why you don't have preferential voting.Why would the two parties want that?
At that point you're forced into an apathy after the Party That Calls Wolf has shot its shot for the dozenth time since 2016. So you become numb to it and eventually think,"hmm, maybe Trump isn't so bad after all" and buy a MAGA hat because fuck you.That'd make more sense if the Republicans hadn't spent the prior years ignoring Obama's crimes to focus on hyping irrelevant things too. They got the trifecta and did nothing regarding the Obama Administration. They haven't even promised to change!
At that point you're forced into an apathy after the Party That Calls Wolf has shot its shot for the dozenth time since 2016. So you become numb to it and eventually think,"hmm, maybe Trump isn't so bad after all" and buy a MAGA hat because fuck you.That'd make more sense if the Republicans hadn't spent the prior years ignoring Obama's crimes to focus on hyping irrelevant things too. They got the trifecta and did nothing regarding the Obama Administration. They haven't even promised to change!
Don't make me tap the sign:
watDon't make me tap the sign:
Benji still reads Poliera
As we move into the endgame of the 2022 election, the Democrats face a familiar problem. America’s historical party of the working class keeps losing working-class support. And not just among white voters. Not only has the emerging Democratic majority I once predicted failed to materialize, but many of the nonwhite voters who were supposed to deliver it are instead voting for Republicans.
This year, Democrats have chosen to run a campaign focused on three things: abortion rights, gun control, and safeguarding democracy—issues with strong appeal to socially liberal, college-educated voters. But these issues have much less appeal to working-class voters. But these issues have much less appeal to working-class voters. They are instead focused on the economy, inflation, and crime, and they are skeptical of the Democratic Party’s performance in all three realms.
> Studies of [Hillary Clinton's] campaign-ad spending reveal that the overwhelming majority of these ads had nothing to say about policy or even policy orientation, instead attacking Trump’s character and his many divisive and offensive statements. Her campaign slogan, “Stronger together,” was an implicit rebuke of Trump on these grounds.
> Trump’s ads, by contrast, talked a great deal about policy, albeit not in the careful and detailed way Democrats tend to prefer, but rather discussing in broad strokes issues including trade, immigration, and the betrayal of elites.
I came across an interesting quote today:
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education."
-Franklyn D. Roosevelt, September 27, 1938
To ensure its political future, the Republican party is striving for a maximum level of unpreparedness.
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-winning-its-war-against-higher-education-well-all-lose-result-opinion-1756119
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1589703689790685184 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1589703689790685184)
Weird how entire countries can do it within a few hours, often the same night but multiple US states take weeks to count their votes.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1589703689790685184 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1589703689790685184)Some places can count ballots multiple times in one night to exhaust preferences too.
Weird how entire countries can do it within a few hours, often the same night but multiple US states take weeks to count their votes.
‘Yeah, we know that, but we just, you know, people just need their last hurrah. Like, they just need to feel like we fought one last time. Trust me, it’ll be fine.’ And I was like, ‘No, it won’t. That’s not what people believe and that’s not what you’re telling them. And maybe you’re smart enough to know that but like …’ So we have a lot of people in the political world that are just willing to say things they know aren’t true, they know aren’t true. It’s a huge manipulation.
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Election Deniers Admit It's A Lie Behind Closed DoorsHilary Clinton's whole life has been a big political lie, but no one is worried about that though
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-crenshaw-election-deniers_n_6364cc13e4b06f38ded30136Quote‘Yeah, we know that, but we just, you know, people just need their last hurrah. Like, they just need to feel like we fought one last time. Trust me, it’ll be fine.’ And I was like, ‘No, it won’t. That’s not what people believe and that’s not what you’re telling them. And maybe you’re smart enough to know that but like …’ So we have a lot of people in the political world that are just willing to say things they know aren’t true, they know aren’t true. It’s a huge manipulation.
You don't say! I am shocked!
Since its inception, YWN has never called for the ouster of an elected official, Republican or Democrat. That changes today. It is our firm belief that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s stance toward the Orthodox Jewish community in New York are such that she must be replaced.
Our position comes not only from her failing to publicly stand up for the rights of yeshivas, but especially because of what we have seen from the governor in private.
Several weeks ago, YWN was contacted by the Hochul campaign, which offered to conduct an exclusive interview with the governor.
This offer was surprising on several fronts: firstly, it is well know that YWN rarely conducts interviews promoting specific positions, especially ones from political candidates. Of the 2 million-plus articles that have been published on YWN, barely a handful are interviews.
The second and primary reason for our astonishment over the interview offer was that Gov. Hochul had never before agreed to an interview with any Orthodox Jewish publication, online or in print. Why suddenly did she agree to one now?
The answer, it soon came to be obvious, was to ingratiate herself to the Orthodox Jewish community without providing any evidence that she is working for them in Albany.
YWN was asked to interview the governor at a location in Manhattan, but the Hochul campaign gave us just 10 minutes for questions. This in itself was ridiculous, as all know that any political candidate can take a single question and filibuster their way through an empty 10-minute answer.
YWN then demanded that we get a minimum of 20 minutes to question the governor, at which point the Hochul campaign began making demands – and their motive – clear.
“Please confirm [with the interviewer] that he won’t ask questions that are not good for us,” was one demand.
Another was that all questions to be asked should be submitted to the Hochul campaign beforehand for review. Yet another was that the interview shouldn’t focus on the situation concerning yeshivas – literally the number one issue for Orthodox Jews in this campaign!
The arrogance with which Gov. Hochul’s campaign came to the table was stunning. What the governor obviously wanted, as noted earlier, was for her image among Orthodox Jews to be rehabilitated without her actually facing a single difficult question or requiring her to make commitments to the community.
This attitude toward the New York’s Orthodox Jews cannot stand, and we thus feel compelled to call for the defeat of incumbent Governor Kathy Hochul. New York’s Orthodox Jews deserve better.
The YWN Editorial Team
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Election Deniers Admit It's A Lie Behind Closed DoorsHilary Clinton's whole life has been a big political lie, but no one is worried about that though
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-crenshaw-election-deniers_n_6364cc13e4b06f38ded30136Quote‘Yeah, we know that, but we just, you know, people just need their last hurrah. Like, they just need to feel like we fought one last time. Trust me, it’ll be fine.’ And I was like, ‘No, it won’t. That’s not what people believe and that’s not what you’re telling them. And maybe you’re smart enough to know that but like …’ So we have a lot of people in the political world that are just willing to say things they know aren’t true, they know aren’t true. It’s a huge manipulation.
You don't say! I am shocked!
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Election Deniers Admit It's A Lie Behind Closed DoorsThis is totally like the birther thing. The carrot to bridge the gap between Trump 2020 and Trump 2024.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dan-crenshaw-election-deniers_n_6364cc13e4b06f38ded30136Quote‘Yeah, we know that, but we just, you know, people just need their last hurrah. Like, they just need to feel like we fought one last time. Trust me, it’ll be fine.’ And I was like, ‘No, it won’t. That’s not what people believe and that’s not what you’re telling them. And maybe you’re smart enough to know that but like …’ So we have a lot of people in the political world that are just willing to say things they know aren’t true, they know aren’t true. It’s a huge manipulation.
You don't say! I am shocked!
Blue wave coming to Oklahoma. Look at this garbage politician get destroyedIt's like a mix between Trump and Biden.
https://mobile.twitter.com/atrupar/status/1589272653290143745
https://twitter.com/politico/status/1589568452699820032 (https://twitter.com/politico/status/1589568452699820032)I don't use Facebook, does anyone have information on how many low thousands of dollars of ads from Russia are flooding the pages of Hillary Clinton supporters? We may have to throw out all the results from this election in states where the disinformation corrupts the results.
Be careful out there for wireless modems
Less than 24 hours before we look back and say "if only the government had protected us by eliminating Republican lies by any means necessary we'd still have a democracy." :usacry
In the wake of the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Democratic politicians across the country have spoken out about the increased threats of violence they’ve faced in the lead-up to the midterm elections.Look at this absurd fear porn almost none of which is about the purported topic of the article and uncritically platforms Democratic conspiracy theories. :dead :dead
But according to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, death threats and intimidation aren’t new to this election cycle—they’ve been a constant throughout her three-year stint as the top law enforcement figure in the state.
“In the last 24 hours, I had somebody come by my house, then get out of their car, went on the lawn and started taking pictures of my house,” she said to VICE News in an interview earlier this year while she was on the campaign trail. “It’s a scary time, there’s no question about that.”
Michigan is no stranger to extremism: Not only was the far-right Michigan militia active in the 90s—which once counted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh among its members—but Nessel’s office recently prosecuted and convicted members of the Wolverine Watchmen militia for plotting to kidnap and kill Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
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The adoption of violent and aggressive rhetoric within the GOP during this midterm election cycle, and post-Jan 6. writ large, has already given rise to threats and intimidation against mostly Democrat members of Congress, seemingly culminating in the attack on Paul Pelosi, 82, in San Francisco late last month. The alleged perpetrator yelled “Where’s Nancy?” and later, under interrogation, told police he planned to tie her up and torture her by breaking her kneecaps.
Additionally, a Pennsylvania Democrat running for a state House seat there claimed he was attacked earlier this week and suspected it was election-related.
Many Democrat lawmakers, like Nessel, fear this is just the beginning of what could turn into a broader trend, especially as she sees Republican candidates who fail “to condemn” far-right extremist groups that commit violence because “certain individuals that are running right now that I think align themselves with some of these organizations.”
And Democrats have real reasons to fear given some of the content increasingly being shared by the far-right on encrypted apps like Telegram, including neo-Nazi terrorist groups and their supporters who have called for the killing of politicians. For example, an international terrorist group under an FBI probe said on its Telegram account that politicians, including Republicans, should be bona fide targets for murder.
“Our enemies have names, addresses, and loved ones too,” it said in a message seen hundreds of times.
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Late last week a particularly violent Telegram channel used by neo-Nazis demanded that would-be assassins of politicians need to “get the job done and get it done right or quit LARPing,” referring to the Pelosi attack.
The account, which is yet more evidence of a growing bloodlust on the far-right for political blood to be spilled, pointed out that three political figures have already been attacked this election season and zero have been killed, allowing politicians to beef up security in the meantime.
Beyond the underground doldrums of Nazi chatrooms, mainstream Republicans have done very little to quell talk of political violence, before and after January 6. Former President Donald Trump, who often still openly references the QAnon conspiracy theory, famously failed to denounce the Proud Boys, a designated terrorist group in several countries, during a debate with current President Joe Biden in 2020. (Trump would later condemn the Proud Boys, while claiming he knew little about them.) Meanwhile, other Republican congressmen continue to describe the Jan. 6 attackers as “peaceful protesters.”
The problem with democracy is that if the other guys get more votes than your team, they win...
That's not a problem. This is:That's not because of gerrymandering, that's because of geographical districts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering_in_the_United_States
For instance: "Republicans in North Carolina acquired 50% of the vote, which subsequently garnered them about 77% of the available seats in congress." And then you install corrupt judges who back this and you are set.
Very democracy!
Right. Geographical districts that look like salamanders?For instance: "Republicans in North Carolina acquired 50% of the vote, which subsequently garnered them about 77% of the available seats in congress."That's not because of gerrymandering, that's because of geographical districts.
Explain how gerrymandering is getting Republicans to win the Presidency, Senate and Governorships too. Not to mention legislatures in states with non-partisan commissions drawing the lines.That's another problem: Apparently land votes in the US. Which is why some votes are worth more than others.
Right. Geographical districts that look like salamanders?Let me refer you back to my previous statements about your need to learn about American politics if you want to comment on them. You can do that and improve yourself or you can make a fool of yourself by trying to explain how land "votes" for any of the positions I mentioned when every single one is elected first-past-the-post like in nearly every country that's spun out of the UK.QuoteExplain how gerrymandering is getting Republicans to win the Presidency, Senate and Governorships too. Not to mention legislatures in states with non-partisan commissions drawing the lines.That's another problem: Apparently land votes in the US. Which is why some votes are worth more than others.
Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if we should even have an election during a period of democratic uncertainty. Do enough voters know our democracy is at threat? What if they vote like it isn't? What about voters who know our democracy is at stake but due to the disinformation are believing in Republican lies like so-called "inflation"? I'd feel a lot safer about our democracy if Joe just cancelled the elections tomorrow until our democracy was secure. We have to stop this Second Civil War before it happens and the only way to do that is stop every threat to democracy and the midterm elections right now look like a major threat to democracy.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1589818145945972736 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1589818145945972736)
:rejoice
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1589806553799872513 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1589806553799872513)
Right. Geographical districts that look like salamanders?Let me refer you back to my previous statements about your need to learn about American politics if you want to comment on them. You can do that and improve yourself or you can make a fool of yourself by trying to explain how land "votes" for any of the positions I mentioned when every single one is elected first-past-the-post like in nearly every country that's spun out of the UK.QuoteExplain how gerrymandering is getting Republicans to win the Presidency, Senate and Governorships too. Not to mention legislatures in states with non-partisan commissions drawing the lines.That's another problem: Apparently land votes in the US. Which is why some votes are worth more than others.
The problem with democracy is that if the other guys get more votes than your team, they win...
That's not a problem. This is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering_in_the_United_States
For instance: "Republicans in North Carolina acquired 50% of the vote, which subsequently garnered them about 77% of the available seats in congress." And then you install corrupt judges who back this and you are set.
Very democracy!
Wait, so the number of senators US states have is based on the size of their respective populations after all? And there is no electoral college? Wikipedia, how you have misled me. Really, you should apply your profound knowledge to help improve those incredibly wrong articles on Wikipedia like the one about US gerrymandering which I looked up in a futile attempt to better myself.My man, if you want to come out against the very concepts of state sovereignty and federalism themselves just do that. You don't have to make yourself look stupid.
Thank you for supporting Democracy and Freedom Himu. It only works if people vote. :salute
Benji, you say gerrymandering doesn't affect the midterms. But of course it does. You gerrymander, you disenfranchise groups of voters who would vote against you and install judges who rubber stamp it all.How do they "gerrymander" the gubernatorial races?
And then you get to this point:
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/republicans-rig-elections-never-lose/
Not the gubernatorial election, but you can take away a governor's power by using gerrymandering to achieve a veto proof majority.I take this as a concession that your original claim was completely false.
Not the gubernatorial election, but you can take away a governor's power by using gerrymandering to achieve a veto proof majority.I take this as a concession that your original claim was completely false.
What was completely false?When you claimed that Republicans don't win elections, somehow take office anyway due to "gerrymandering" even in offices that aren't allocated by internal districts and then these non-district allocated offices appoint corrupt judges to lock in their not winning of elections.
That gerrymandering undermines democracy because the group doing it gains more power than it should have based on the percentage of votes it actually received? Which it then abuses to further cement its position of undeserved power, disenfranchising part of the electorate?You never raised either of these before, but yes, these too are also false. The system does not allocate to any party a share of seats based on the percentage of the vote, the winner and only the winner receives the seats, so there is no "should have" they are being denied. You are faulting a system for not operating as a different system does then claiming the mere difference between the systems renders the one (and only that) system illegitimate. Then there is no "abuse to further cement its position" through "corrupt judges" as you alleged because those judges are not being appointed by the people being elected in any legislative districts gerrymandered or not.
Assembly Bill (“AB”) 20981 threatens that candor. While California is rightly focused on the role of licensed medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, AB 2098 goes too far. According to the State, the law is needed because an “extreme minority” of physicians have used their positions of trust—and popularity on social and legacy media—to propagate what the State deems “false or misleading information” about COVID-19.2 But rather than employ the existing tools at its disposal, the State has taken a blunt instrument to the entire profession. AB 2098 declares it “unprofessional conduct” for a physician to “disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19,” with “disseminate” defined broadly as the “conveyance of information from the licensee to a patient under the licensee’s care in the form of treatment or advice.” AB 2098, § 2(a), § 2(b)(3).3
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Fortunately, as even the State acknowledges, it does not need AB 2098 to keep patients safe. See Defs.’ Opp. to Mot. for Prelim. Inj. (“Opp.”), ECF 50, at 4–5. A less restrictive alternative exists: the California Business and Professions Code already regulates unprofessional conduct by physicians to the full extent allowed by the First Amendment. Under section 2234 of that code, physicians can be, and historically have been, disciplined for committing medical fraud, proscribing medically inappropriate treatment, and failing to provide patients with material information to make informed choices, like the availability of conventional treatment options. Requiring California to prove such unprofessional conduct before imposing a sanction neither ties officials’ hands nor harms patients. Indeed, the State does not explain why existing law has fallen so short as to justify a sweeping censorship law, or why the burden to prove unprofessional conduct under AB 2098 would be any less onerous than under the current section 2234.
What was completely false?When you claimed that Republicans don't win elections, somehow take office anyway due to "gerrymandering"
Minority rule has taken over Congress:
Democrats in the Senate represent 41.5 million more Americans than do Republicans. Yet that minority of Republicans, using the filibuster, have been able to stop everything from voting rights to healthcare to rebuilding our nation from the damage of 40 years of Reaganomics’ neoliberalism.
A total of 77.3 million Americans voted in 2020 for Democrats for the House of Representatives; only 72.8 million voted for Republicans.
Multiple states where the statewide vote is within a point or three of 50/50 (including Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Wisconsin) send far more Republicans than Democrats to the US House than their votes would dictate because of Republican gerrymanders.
This fall things will get even worse because of 2021 gerrymanders, meaning that when over half of Americans again (if history and polling holds) vote for Democrats for the House, the GOP will nonetheless likely take control of that body.
Minority rule has taken over multiple states:
Most of the states listed above suffer from the same problem in their own legislatures. In statewide elections, because most voters choose Democrats, all but two of those states ended up with Democratic governors; nonetheless, even though only a minority voted for Republicans, their legislatures are still Republican-controlled because of gerrymandering.
Imagine giving a shit about some midterm elections in a country thousands of miles away :girlaffIt's the world cup of politics and often a preview of what will happen in the NATO cinematic universe.
I did not say that.Quoting to me an article based on the same incorrect premise your original claims was based on does not help your case that you're a serious poster who actually wants to discuss these topics. In the post you just quoted of mine I explained to you why this premise is incorrect and here you are simply repeating the premise.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1589818145945972736 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1589818145945972736)
:rejoice
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1589806553799872513 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1589806553799872513)
Then there is no "abuse to further cement its position" through "corrupt judges" as you alleged because those judges are not being appointed by the people being elected in any legislative districts gerrymandered or not.
Their outcome will have an effect on the rest of the world. E.g. Ukraine, climate change.
And why I came back into this thread just now, for Himu, from a Blue State this time:
https://twitter.com/ACLU_NorCal/status/1589798406725468160
https://twitter.com/ACLU_NorCal/status/1589798418867949568Quote from: https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/60-1%20-%20Proposed%20ACLU%20Amici%20Brief.pdfAssembly Bill (“AB”) 20981 threatens that candor. While California is rightly focused on the role of licensed medical professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, AB 2098 goes too far. According to the State, the law is needed because an “extreme minority” of physicians have used their positions of trust—and popularity on social and legacy media—to propagate what the State deems “false or misleading information” about COVID-19.2 But rather than employ the existing tools at its disposal, the State has taken a blunt instrument to the entire profession. AB 2098 declares it “unprofessional conduct” for a physician to “disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19,” with “disseminate” defined broadly as the “conveyance of information from the licensee to a patient under the licensee’s care in the form of treatment or advice.” AB 2098, § 2(a), § 2(b)(3).3
...
Fortunately, as even the State acknowledges, it does not need AB 2098 to keep patients safe. See Defs.’ Opp. to Mot. for Prelim. Inj. (“Opp.”), ECF 50, at 4–5. A less restrictive alternative exists: the California Business and Professions Code already regulates unprofessional conduct by physicians to the full extent allowed by the First Amendment. Under section 2234 of that code, physicians can be, and historically have been, disciplined for committing medical fraud, proscribing medically inappropriate treatment, and failing to provide patients with material information to make informed choices, like the availability of conventional treatment options. Requiring California to prove such unprofessional conduct before imposing a sanction neither ties officials’ hands nor harms patients. Indeed, the State does not explain why existing law has fallen so short as to justify a sweeping censorship law, or why the burden to prove unprofessional conduct under AB 2098 would be any less onerous than under the current section 2234.
Their outcome will have an effect on the rest of the world. E.g. Ukraine, climate change.
Brother.
Okay.
So..
Representatives are the ones that have districts. Texas district 2. NY district 16. Those are the little pieces of land, the Salamander you called it. This happens for both red and blue. Congressmen and women control that. This is local.
Then there's county. A county is a local equivalent of a region. Look at the Wikipedia entry for county to see how ours differs than Europe's. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/County For county we vote things like judges. But the map changes. Although I'm from the Houston metro area I cannot vote for the Mayor because I don't live in city of Houston proper. I live in the golden land of suburbia and we got our own mayor, with our own town, and our own laws and jurisdiction. This is local. But I still get to vote some things within the county like Propositions. There's no one that can gerrymander judges because everyone and their mother votes in county. Judges are not reflected districts or an electoral map beyond county jurisdiction.
So despite living in a blue city, my actual district is Republican. It is made up of well to do yuppies, but also a mix of working class manufacturing, warehouses, airport jobs, et al. A lot of money comes and is used here. We vote Republican in this district. We are pro-police.
Then there's senators and governors and Comptroller's. These are state level positions and do NOT work via district or a map or a territory line. These are people everyone in the state votes for to represent us and our interests. This is state level.
And then the whole shebang...the President. The President is the only office we vote for that's federal.
So despite Pelosi being a national star, she's really just a congresswoman for CA district 12. She is to defer to the interests of her district, that little piece of land, and their interests and take those interests to the people of Washington.
Yeah, thanks. Contrary to what benji says, I do understand this. The question is (and I really mean no offense!) do you understand what is meant by Gerrymandering?
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/DifferingApportionment.svg/800px-DifferingApportionment.svg.png)
Yes, I do understand all of this. I know it has nothing to do with the Senate. I know some blue states are guilty of it, too, but looking at the map it definitely seems to be more of a problem in red states.
Ideally, there should be none.
Why does DeSantis always look like he is constipated?He kinda looks like an elephant tbh
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/OFLA6KMWZZDDRN6YYMTW2AIANU.jpg&w=1200)
https://twitter.com/CourierNewsroom/status/1590047424823046145
:bernie :bernie :bernie
https://twitter.com/JohnSurico/status/1590069399947739138
You claimed judge selection couldn't be affected by gerrymandering. I then showed you that indeed it can, depending on the state.You responded to a general claim made against your general claim by "citing" a hypothetical specific claim of an exception. :lol
Yes, I do understand all of this. I know it has nothing to do with the Senate. I know some blue states are guilty of it, too, but looking at the map it definitely seems to be more of a problem in red states.My dude, we can all see what Potato said that you were responding to:
Ideally, there should be none.
The problem with democracy is that if the other guys get more votes than your team, they win...
That's not a problem. This is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering_in_the_United_States
For instance: "Republicans in North Carolina acquired 50% of the vote, which subsequently garnered them about 77% of the available seats in congress." And then you install corrupt judges who back this and you are set.
Very democracy!
https://twitter.com/JohnSurico/status/1590069399947739138
Exit polls drop in a few minutes but I read that the Guam Exit Poll actually had the Republican losing by 13 points and the vote count showed he won by 5 points.
I suppose the R's don't trust the pollsters either.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1590109180014497792 (https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1590109180014497792)
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1590118240654696449 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1590118240654696449)
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1590118240654696449 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1590118240654696449)
twitter.com/nytimes/status/1590118240654696449https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1590162355496828930
The report describes attempts by top officials to link protesters to an imaginary terrorist plot in an apparent effort to boost Trump’s reelection odds, raising concerns now about the ability of a sitting president to co-opt billions of dollars’ worth of domestic intelligence assets for their own political gain. DHS analysts recounted orders to generate evidence of financial ties between protesters in custody; an effort that, had they not failed, would have seemingly served to legitimize President Trump’s false claims about “Antifa,” an “organization” that even his most loyal intelligence officers failed to drum up proof ever existed.
(https://i.imgur.com/cHg6VRJ.png)They askin about how fascism beat democracy in those two but not Miami-Dade?
Georgians are going to elect a degenerate and im here for it
Has the steal been stopped yet?No, Biden is sitting by and doing nothing. Just like he did with Long COVID. This is why 2024 will be the most important election in our lifetime.
Has the steal been stopped yet?No, Biden is sitting by and doing nothing. Just like he did with Long COVID. This is why 2024 will be the most important election in our lifetime.
Looking like I was right. No red tsunami so far. Republicans should take the house but this isn't 2006 or 2010.Wait for the absentees, you can't go by just the votes on election day, those always favor the Democrats. Also, the military votes. Really, we won't know the winners for a long time. Even the forensic audits might not uncover the actual winners like happened in Arizona.
https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1590166098208378880
I think Himu prob comes out the winner here. DeSantis is clearly the better candidate for republicans and has no baggage. All the exit polls tonight show Trump is incredibly unpopular and many of his big endorsements are bombing tonight. This is a great night for DeSantis...and Mitch McConnell.
On the other hand Trump is already essentially threatening DeSantis and insinuating he has dirt on him. Even if Trump loses a primary he could do everything possible to ensure DeSantis loses a general election.
This is a great night for DeSantis...and Mitch McConnell.
https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1590183843826634752
It's early but it's starting to look like Joe fucking Biden is going to end up having the best party performance in midterms for an incumbent since 2002. And that race was a historical anomaly due to 9/11.
:dead
https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1590190848817647617
Fetterman is going to win PA by at least 3-4 points. Mail is going to carry him over the top by a wide margin. From what I've seen, Fetterman is running a few points behind Shapiro, who won earlier tonight. Sounds like some split ticket voting but not nearly enough to hurt Fetterman.
Smh enjoy more crime!I never thought you'd be in agreement with Eric Adams on anything.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1590194705396273152WAIT 👏 FOR 👏 THE 👏 UPSTATE 👏 COUNTIES 👏
surprise surprise
Smh enjoy more crime!I never thought you'd be in agreement with Eric Adams on anything.
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1590194705396273152WAIT 👏 FOR 👏 THE 👏 UPSTATE 👏 COUNTIES 👏
surprise surprise
I'm really glad this is all over. Seems we are all cool again and the passions have died down. God, I waited a year to let this out but I can admit defeat.YOU ARE ABANDONING US AS DEMOCRACY IS LITERALLY IN THE PROCESS OF DYING AS WE SPEAK
I'm really glad this is all over. Seems we are all cool again and the passions have died down. God, I waited a year to let this out but I can admit defeat.YOU ARE ABANDONING US AS DEMOCRACY IS LITERALLY IN THE PROCESS OF DYING AS WE SPEAK
- This is now DeSantis' party (:rejoice)
- This is now DeSantis' party (:rejoice)
I really really hope so.
Because hes going to be BLOWN THE FUCK OUT.
Florida is Florida. Every old R person in the country moves there. It will only get redder and redder.
Young people flee in droves. Its a failed state for anyone under 40.
Thats not the case nationally. Thats why this was a blue wave. The youths came out. The polls once again forgot that no one under the age of 40 answers an unknown call.
And Cubans? Fuck cubans. We mexicans rule this country, cubans can have their little plantation state. Mexicans stand for hard work, fair pay, and not being enormous fucking assholes. Mexicans like Cesar Chavez not Bautista.
And no other state has cubans.
In competetive race after race, the ultra-maga party line lost
Also,
https://twitter.com/umichvoter/status/1590176144082751488
Bro the NY governor race was way close.
I'm really happy with the results.
NYT reports:
Hochul - 52.9%
Zeldin - 47%
At 90% vote total. For NY that's super, super close and this seems to be one of the polls that was on the nose. With it being so close that should be a warning to NY Dems. Far from a blowout and this should be considered a win for Republicans.
Bro the NY governor race was way close.
I'm really happy with the results.
NYT reports:
Hochul - 52.9%
Zeldin - 47%
At 90% vote total. For NY that's super, super close and this seems to be one of the polls that was on the nose. With it being so close that should be a warning to NY Dems. Far from a blowout and this should be considered a win for Republicans.
Dems flipped, MA, MD, and it looks like AZ governor races.
As far as I can tell, Rs made zero gains in governor seats.
Maybe that should be a warning to Rs.
Dems flipped, MA, MD, and it looks like AZ governor races.Come on, Jack. :biden
As far as I can tell, Rs made zero gains in governor seats.
Maybe that should be a warning to Rs.
(https://i.imgur.com/P0P00Lr.png)Probably should have waited on this one.
ahahahah Abrams fucked it up for Warnock. Go Walker!
As someone said on my discord:QuoteGeorgians are going to elect a degenerate and im here for it
:dead
What I'm saying by message is message to NY Dems.
Instead it may just be the best mid-term performance by a Democrat president party...EVERhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_United_States_Senate_elections
Instead it may just be the best mid-term performance by a Democrat president party...EVERhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_United_States_Senate_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections
History starts in 1965 my dudeAnother lieberal like DeSantis trying to erase most of the Democratic Party's white supremacist history. :wag
https://twitter.com/FOX13Memphis/status/1590208198857850880ugh, more woke shit, these social studies warriors never stop trying to destroy American traditions do they
This is the seat where Rep. Peter Meijer (R) lost to Gibbs in the primary after voting to impeach Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Gibbs was endorsed by Trump, and Scholten lost to Meijer in 2020 in a year Biden won in the area.
FLIP FLIP FLIP FLIP FLIPHow is he making this call when if they win all the seats they're currently leading in (a bunch of which are close and under 50% in) they'd be down 19-18? He's also counting the seat that barely has any of the vote in?
https://twitter.com/jefftimmer/status/1590240390879539200
this is like a Nintendo direct
Halfway through, Elissa Slotkin not doin so hot. Maybe flooding the district with ads only about Barrett being pro-life while he only talked about economy and rising prices and how she's voted with Biden 100% of time not best idea in 50/50 district.:ufup
Probably should have waited on this one.
are the good guys winning?
Also now wonder if some judge will read this to ban convict labor.Shut up dummy:
The proposed amendment would replace that with, “Slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited. Nothing in this section shall prohibit an inmate from working when the inmate has been duly convicted of a crime.”
are the good guys winning?
Himu posting walls of cope, so it seems like it.
as usual everyone wants to dunk on everyone
republicans thought they would win bigly, and they won but not as much as they thought
so is it more good because things weren't as bad as expected, or more bad that biden still generally finds himself in an ineffectual position?
I don't know how to look at it historically, is it common that every latter half of a presidency during economic downturn ends up with them even more compromised than this time? is this especially blue for the situation? or is the crowing just because polls leaned too far in the wrong direction?
it seems like nobody got what they wanted :doge
I had a look at the comments at foxnews, and while most of it is the usual pretzel brain nonsense (radical marxists! Cheating! Anti-Americans!), a handful of comments actually say that it doesn't work to just constantly get outraged at problems but offer no solutions.
I think voters want both parties to moderate.
There are so many politicians who have tried the "What if Trumpism, but I also subtly signal to middle of the road people that it's all an act" shtick from Nikki Haley to now Ron DeSantis.
You know what they all have in common? None of them have ever had to debate Donald Trump in person.
You know who HAS tried to simultaneously juggle dabbling in Trumpist aesthetic, signaling that they don't mean it, and debating Donald Trump in person, all at the same time? Marco Rubio
It's true voters tend not to like losers or people perceived as weak (democrats lol)....but they also don't like assholes. I think a lot of republicans miscalculated not realizing that the Trump shit really only works for him, outside of red states.
STAY MAD :sabuMAGA hat burning video when?
It's our party now :smug
STAY MAD :sabuMAGA hat burning video when?
It's our party now :smug
I want to win and stop the Democratic Party and their far leftism.
I want to win and stop the Democratic Party and their far leftism.
The problem is you want to win more than you want the country to win.
:bluesteel
Show me a single left policy that works besides universal healthcare and ending drug prohibition (which isn't exclusively left).
Show me a single left policy that works besides universal healthcare and ending drug prohibition (which isn't exclusively left).
https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/status/1590429536789102593
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1590404134939025408
https://twitter.com/WBUR/status/1590411820816367619
https://twitter.com/rmc031/status/1590193939038228480
Everything republicans yelled about turned out to be bullshit. The trans shit, the CRT nonsense, even inflation...none of it mattered more than abortion in many parts of the country. There should be a message here that while dems have some party problems, voters are tired or indifferent to the nonstop cultural warfare of the right wing. Republicans need to get rid of the Trump acolytes. The way Q shit has become mainstream in republican circles has to trouble them. I'm not referring to the grand election conspiracy, but instead the fantasy novel-esque obsession over "demonic forces." Having republicans call abortion demonic is probably not a good idea fellas. Every single pro-choice measure passed last night, including in MONTANA and Kentucky. Time to take the L on this.
It's early but I think republicans get bombed in 2024. MI is gone, based on last night's results (including mail voting being secured for future elections). PA is gone for the same reason. Barring economic collapse, I guess. Wisconsin is clearly winnable based on Evers getting re-elected. Florida is irrelevant. Biden won without it. Obama won it twice but would have still won even if he had lost the state to McCain or Romney.
I think Biden also deserves credit for finally stepping back and allowing the obvious Ws to pile up. The
I saw some people celebrating that trumpism is showing cracks and if trump is smart he won't run again
but what's better, a trump who likely won't win, or a candidate the republican party is more confident about who might actually stand a chance?
I know the democrats made the mistake of propping up trump before, but this seems like actual evidence that his shit is on the way out
The conservative or right wing side of this group has mostly learned how to invest in crypto, be an alpha male and that government is useless and elections are rigged.
Trump's going after DeSantis :lol
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhJrL0NXoAAEpgA?format=jpg)
GOP may have a hard time winning going forward with Gen Z in play for the time being.
Seems we may have a new powerful voting bloc
Also what's wrong with millennials? Why don't we vote?Trump's going after DeSantis :lol
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhJrL0NXoAAEpgA?format=jpg)
DO IT YOU FUCK ASS
Millennials suck. Objectively the worst generation.
Boebert now down by just 64 votes, nailbiter
Democrats in Albany began the year hopeful that they could draw new lines that would protect their incumbents and cost Republicans as many as four seats in the state to offset Republican gains elsewhere.
But New York’s highest court, in response to a Republican lawsuit, threw out the maps as an unconstitutional gerrymander and put more competitive alternatives in their place. In a handful of other states, courts ruled that Republicans had gerrymandered maps but did not enforce those rulings, but in New York, the judges insisted the lines be redrawn this year
Boebert now down by just 64 votes, nailbiter
Former Representative Peter King, a Republican from Long Island who has long supported Mr. Trump, said, “I strongly believe he should no longer be the face of the Republican Party,” adding that the party “can’t become a personality cult.”LOL. What year is this?
Everything republicans yelled about turned out to be bullshit. The trans shit, the CRT nonsense, even inflation...none of it mattered more than abortion in many parts of the country. There should be a message here that while dems have some party problems, voters are tired or indifferent to the nonstop cultural warfare of the right wing. Republicans need to get rid of the Trump acolytes. The way Q shit has become mainstream in republican circles has to trouble them. I'm not referring to the grand election conspiracy, but instead the fantasy novel-esque obsession over "demonic forces." Having republicans call abortion demonic is probably not a good idea fellas. Every single pro-choice measure passed last night, including in MONTANA and Kentucky. Time to take the L on this.
It's early but I think republicans get bombed in 2024. MI is gone, based on last night's results (including mail voting being secured for future elections). PA is gone for the same reason. Barring economic collapse, I guess. Wisconsin is clearly winnable based on Evers getting re-elected. Florida is irrelevant. Biden won without it. Obama won it twice but would have still won even if he had lost the state to McCain or Romney.
I think Biden also deserves credit for finally stepping back and allowing the obvious Ws to pile up.
https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1590521550574612483 (https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1590521550574612483)
Oh shi :lol
They had Piers Morgan write it as the ultimate humiliation
"What Tuesday night’s midterm election results suggest is that former President Donald Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellant in modern American history."
https://twitter.com/SykesCharlie/status/1590516428611919873 (https://twitter.com/SykesCharlie/status/1590516428611919873)
By the way, now that the Republican Party has turned into the party of Dear Leader, why wouldn't they fall for Dear Leader 2 after Trump?
It's not like those morons who go to Trump rallies will wake up one morning, suddenly develop the ability of independent thought and see the the error of their ways. They'll need someone else to fill the hole in their tiny hearts and brains.
The cult of personality surrounding Trump is pretty unprecedented in America.
https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1590521550574612483 (https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1590521550574612483)
Oh shi :lol
They had Piers Morgan write it as the ultimate humiliation
"What Tuesday night’s midterm election results suggest is that former President Donald Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellant in modern American history."
https://twitter.com/SykesCharlie/status/1590516428611919873 (https://twitter.com/SykesCharlie/status/1590516428611919873)
DenialAnger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
Dow surges 1,000 points in biggest rally since 2020 after a lighter-than-expected inflation report
The blue wave is lifting the marketQuoteDow surges 1,000 points in biggest rally since 2020 after a lighter-than-expected inflation report
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/09/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Joe Biden really is the messiah
DenialAnger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
What sort of deluded narcissist thinks every post is about them?DenialAnger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
When was I ever in denial or angry about these results? :heh
I think the stage you're at is deflection. I've been pushing for DeSantis to be the GOP Presidential Nominee for months, if not a year. I'm very happy with the results. As PD, said,"Himu wins here". Please catch up. :idont
https://twitter.com/ShitpostGate/status/1590740220194197504
The blue wave is lifting the marketQuoteDow surges 1,000 points in biggest rally since 2020 after a lighter-than-expected inflation report
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/09/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Joe Biden really is the messiah
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-says-he-plans-to-do-nothing-differently-in-second-half-of-presidency/Including the Democratic primary, Biden won 3 elections in a row that everyone predicted he would lose. People keep underestimating him.
:crowdlaff
Biden thinks the Dems not getting shellacked means voters approve of his tenure and agenda rather than rejecting the banana stand Trump backed GOP candidates. 2024 could still be ours for the taking. Dems might have learned the wrong lesson. Democratic Party might be among the dumbest people in this country.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-says-he-plans-to-do-nothing-differently-in-second-half-of-presidency/Including the Democratic primary, Biden won 3 elections in a row that everyone predicted he would lose. People keep underestimating him.
:crowdlaff
Biden thinks the Dems not getting shellacked means voters approve of his tenure and agenda rather than rejecting the banana stand Trump backed GOP candidates. 2024 could still be ours for the taking. Dems might have learned the wrong lesson. Democratic Party might be among the dumbest people in this country.
I'm not sure if Biden is the one who is dumb and should learn lessons.
The Republicans will blame Trump and he will blame the Republicans and whoever of them wins, they lose. :doge
https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1590542903755309056 (https://twitter.com/abughazalehkat/status/1590542903755309056)
Hilarious. So thanks to the non-corrupted court of NY, Democrats were not allowed to get away with gerrymandering, while the Republican-stacked courts elsewhere did not enforce their rulings, allowing the Republicans to get away with it.
So if the Republicans take the House, it will in part have been made possible by gerrymandering (which of course is an incorrect premise, as we have learned here).Hey, if lying to yourself and others is how you cope with constantly being an idiot in public I'm not going to stop you, I just don't want others to be deceived by the disinformation you like to spread in your service to undermining American democracy.
We could get our answer soon. If Trump announces his campaign before the Georgia run offs, doesn't help Walker, becomes a distraction etc and fucks up a GA special election again...I think elected republicans will be done with him.Third time to screw up a Georgia run-off is the charm I guess.
The blue wave is lifting the marketQuoteDow surges 1,000 points in biggest rally since 2020 after a lighter-than-expected inflation report
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/09/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html
Joe Biden really is the messiah
Are you guys ready for Biden to end up as the most effective US president since LBJ. :lol
https://twitter.com/jasonselvig/status/1590466681624621056
What if MAGA actually led to a viable third party, that’d be something
What if MAGA actually led to a viable third party, that’d be something
Hilarious. So thanks to the non-corrupted court of NY, Democrats were not allowed to get away with gerrymandering, while the Republican-stacked courts elsewhere did not enforce their rulings, allowing the Republicans to get away with it.So if the Republicans take the House, it will in part have been made possible by gerrymandering (which of course is an incorrect premise, as we have learned here).Hey, if lying to yourself and others is how you cope with constantly being an idiot in public I'm not going to stop you, I just don't want others to be deceived by the disinformation you like to spread in your service to undermining American democracy.
Im hearing that tomorrow is a holiday so theyre not working until Monday?
There's a new article arguing that MAGA/Trump is far from over.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/midterms-trump-desantis-dobbs-republicans/672068/
While some of the most awful candidates lost, all of them initially won their primaries, made possible by the MAGA base. And after all, 200 election deniers did win their races, and they were elected with the help of MAGAts.
Im hearing that tomorrow is a holiday so theyre not working until Monday?
Lol I don't keep track of these things but I guess you're really not American :american
Im hearing that tomorrow is a holiday so theyre not working until Monday?
Lol I don't keep track of these things but I guess you're really not American :american
It was an uncorrected mistake from 2020, when Democrats also underperformed — losing almost all the state and congressional seats they believed they could flip. The party’s post-mortem analysis of the election at the time noted they needed to focus more on low-propensity voters instead of highly-engaged voters, who are already likely to participate.
Hinojosa said this year the state party pushed campaigns and county parties to prioritize less engaged voters, but they still focused on likely voters, who they saw as “sure bets.”
“We did not spend enough time trying to get low propensity voters out,” he said. “We know that’s the solution but we have to spend the money to get it done.”
In an early sign of trouble, party leaders noticed during early voting that campaigns and county organizations were having trouble turning out Black voters – traditionally one of the Democrats’ most reliable blocs – in Harris County. Harris makes up nearly 30% of the statewide vote and Democrats often rely on it to balance out Republican votes from more conservative areas of the state.
“We had in Harris County, significant drop in our turnout, African American voters voted at much lower levels than what they voted in 2018,” Hinojosa said.
There was a late effort to mobilize Black voters, with first lady Jill Biden touring predominantly Black churches in Houston the Sunday before the election. And the next day, O’Rourke released a robocall from former President Barack Obama, the country’s first Black president.
O'Rourke's campaign had aimed to win 90% of the Black vote; they got 84%, according to exit polling.
Hinojosa said the county party in Harris County ran strong “Get out the vote efforts” but they were not enough.
The rest of us are here because we just need you clowns to elect someone who will respect the laws of your own country and conform to some pretty basic international standards of behaviour. We don't care if it's DeSantis or Biden or whoever else, just not a raving lunatic like Trump. If you can do that, most of us will happily exit the thread and have little interest in American politics.There's a new article arguing that MAGA/Trump is far from over.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/midterms-trump-desantis-dobbs-republicans/672068/
While some of the most awful candidates lost, all of them initially won their primaries, made possible by the MAGA base. And after all, 200 election deniers did win their races, and they were elected with the help of MAGAts.
They were also elected with the help of Democratic party. For all their hubbub it is politically beneficial for Democrats that MAGA exists. All that wah wah-ing. Nazis! Fascists! And yet they pumped dollar after dollar into MAGA campaigns with the mentally they would be easy to defeat. And this time they were. But what of next time? Because the Democratic Party was so successful in their strategy they won't stop meddling in Republican elections.
So yes, you're correct. MAGA won't go away.Im hearing that tomorrow is a holiday so theyre not working until Monday?
Lol I don't keep track of these things but I guess you're really not American :american
Do we have four actual Americans in this thread? Me, you, Benji, and PD? LMAO
The rest of us are here because we just need you clowns to elect someone who will respect the laws of your own country and conform to some pretty basic international standards of behaviour. We don't care if it's DeSantis or Biden or whoever else, just not a raving lunatic like Trump. If you can do that, most of us will happily exit the thread and have little interest in American politics.There's a new article arguing that MAGA/Trump is far from over.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/midterms-trump-desantis-dobbs-republicans/672068/
While some of the most awful candidates lost, all of them initially won their primaries, made possible by the MAGA base. And after all, 200 election deniers did win their races, and they were elected with the help of MAGAts.
They were also elected with the help of Democratic party. For all their hubbub it is politically beneficial for Democrats that MAGA exists. All that wah wah-ing. Nazis! Fascists! And yet they pumped dollar after dollar into MAGA campaigns with the mentally they would be easy to defeat. And this time they were. But what of next time? Because the Democratic Party was so successful in their strategy they won't stop meddling in Republican elections.
So yes, you're correct. MAGA won't go away.Im hearing that tomorrow is a holiday so theyre not working until Monday?
Lol I don't keep track of these things but I guess you're really not American :american
Do we have four actual Americans in this thread? Me, you, Benji, and PD? LMAO
Yes, but collectively you're still flirting with re-electing Trump.The rest of us are here because we just need you clowns to elect someone who will respect the laws of your own country and conform to some pretty basic international standards of behaviour. We don't care if it's DeSantis or Biden or whoever else, just not a raving lunatic like Trump. If you can do that, most of us will happily exit the thread and have little interest in American politics.There's a new article arguing that MAGA/Trump is far from over.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/midterms-trump-desantis-dobbs-republicans/672068/
While some of the most awful candidates lost, all of them initially won their primaries, made possible by the MAGA base. And after all, 200 election deniers did win their races, and they were elected with the help of MAGAts.
They were also elected with the help of Democratic party. For all their hubbub it is politically beneficial for Democrats that MAGA exists. All that wah wah-ing. Nazis! Fascists! And yet they pumped dollar after dollar into MAGA campaigns with the mentally they would be easy to defeat. And this time they were. But what of next time? Because the Democratic Party was so successful in their strategy they won't stop meddling in Republican elections.
So yes, you're correct. MAGA won't go away.Im hearing that tomorrow is a holiday so theyre not working until Monday?
Lol I don't keep track of these things but I guess you're really not American :american
Do we have four actual Americans in this thread? Me, you, Benji, and PD? LMAO
Biden was elected though.
We are? Not anymore, thank God. :rejoiceIf you think Trump is finished, you've got a massive reality check coming. Either Trump gets the nomination or he tears the Republican Party apart. Let's just hope the Democrats are smart enough to keep well away from Hilary. The world would probably prefer Trump to this evil bitch:
At this point Trump might get third party votes in Presidential elections banned :dead
Ah yes, Veterans Day. The Pretend holiday.
I quoted a New York Times article. The link is in my post.You find any of those Republicans who are elected without winning the election yet?
The rest of us are here because we just need you clowns to elect someone who will respect the laws of your own country and conform to some pretty basic international standards of behaviour. We don't care if it's DeSantis or Biden or whoever else, just not a raving lunatic like Trump. If you can do that, most of us will happily exit the thread and have little interest in American politics.Nobody can meet impossible standards, breh.
Im hearing that tomorrow is a holiday so theyre not working until Monday?
Lol I don't keep track of these things but I guess you're really not American :american
I work a real job, we dont get pretend holidays off
Oh, got to check on my Arizona favorite:
https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1590534956287393793
https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1590911194818568192
https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1591173855418421248
https://twitter.com/WendyRogersAZ/status/1591226656320290816
Please don't ever dismiss the tears of an American Veteran jokingly, even in irony. When I was a sixth grade and was learning to play my instrument in band, we learned to play Taps. Some kids played it as a joke, like what you see in cartoons. My band teacher, one of the coolest teachers I've ever had, screamed at the absolute disrespect shown to a song played at the dirges and funerals of the departed. I never saw him so mad before or after. It was a good lesson then and a good lesson now. Even if you're a full fledged adult, it's not cool to play with. Respect or don't speak. End of.
Ah yes, Veterans Day. The Pretend holiday.
Please don't ever dismiss the tears of an American Veteran jokingly, even in irony. When I was a sixth grade and was learning to play my instrument in band, we learned to play Taps. Some kids played it as a joke, like what you see in cartoons. My band teacher, one of the coolest teachers I've ever had, screamed at the absolute disrespect shown to a song played at the dirges and funerals of the departed. I never saw him so mad before or after. It was a good lesson then and a good lesson now. Even if you're a full fledged adult, it's not cool to play with. Respect or don't speak. End of.Quote from: HimuAh yes, Veterans Day. The Pretend holiday.
:trumps
Im hearing that tomorrow is a holiday so theyre not working until Monday?
Lol I don't keep track of these things but I guess you're really not American :american
I work a real job, we dont get pretend holidays off
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1591572930575495169
Which is surprising to me because I thought the democrat was making a massive mistake by refusing to debate Lake; her reasoning was that Lake was such an anti-democracy extremist that she wasn't worth engaging. I thought that was terrible reasoning, and poll after poll showed Lake up 2-3%. It's looking like the strategy didn't hurt at all.She also skipped her primary debate. I'm not sure it's the worst decision for a sitting Secretary of State who is already publicly visible actually. Look at ours, she just did better than the others at the top of the D ticket and basically only ran an ad naming herself and how she put more services online. Our Secretary of States are always considered to be doing a good job and getting re-elected and that's pretty normal in other states, wave elections are the main reason they ever seem to lose.
Which is surprising to me because I thought the democrat was making a massive mistake by refusing to debate Lake; her reasoning was that Lake was such an anti-democracy extremist that she wasn't worth engaging. I thought that was terrible reasoning, and poll after poll showed Lake up 2-3%. It's looking like the strategy didn't hurt at all.She also skipped her primary debate. I'm not sure it's the worst decision for a sitting Secretary of State who is already publicly visible actually. Look at ours, she just did better than the others at the top of the D ticket and basically only ran an ad naming herself and how she put more services online. Our Secretary of States are always considered to be doing a good job and getting re-elected and that's pretty normal in other states, wave elections are the main reason they ever seem to lose.
You also have to consider in this case, Lake wanted the debate so she could spend it attacking Hobbs personally for stealing the 2020 election as Secretary of State. No matter what else happened, even a part of the debate on abortion say, would have been overshadowed by Lake going after her for the 2020 election. A different candidate probably would have debated but this specific one had to weigh something others wouldn't have had to.
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1591616070921879552
Maybe freaking out over trans people, CRT, Trump delusions, etc wasn't a good idea huh.
To the surprise of everyone no Trumpian candidate has so far challenged the outcome of their race in any meaningful way.
I'm also seeing some of the brains of the GOP operation argue that it is worthless to contest the 'cheating' and they should instead get in on it by also exploiting mail-in ballots.
Which they still think aren't legit votes but as long as the Democrats use that tactic they might as well too.
They seem to be angry about different things.
Most of all Mitch for not backing MAGA candidates and Trump for replacing more competitive candidates with his own people and raking in all the donations.
They're also very angry at the pollsters (who've gone silent) that reported numbers most favorable to the GOP to seemingly gain Trump's favor and get hired by the MAGA candidates.
This also made them realize that maybe Trump isn't 5 or 7 points ahead of Joe Biden as those polls show.
Another example
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144 (https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144)
To the surprise of everyone no Trumpian candidate has so far challenged the outcome of their race in any meaningful way.
I'm also seeing some of the brains of the GOP operation argue that it is worthless to contest the 'cheating' and they should instead get in on it by also exploiting mail-in ballots.
Which they still think aren't legit votes but as long as the Democrats use that tactic they might as well too.
They seem to be angry about different things.
Most of all Mitch for not backing MAGA candidates and Trump for replacing more competitive candidates with his own people and raking in all the donations.
They're also very angry at the pollsters (who've gone silent) that reported numbers most favorable to the GOP to seemingly gain Trump's favor and get hired by the MAGA candidates.
This also made them realize that maybe Trump isn't 5 or 7 points ahead of Joe Biden as those polls show.
Another example
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144 (https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144)
That all actually sounds pretty good, too bad those democrats only exist in his head instead of reality.
To the surprise of everyone no Trumpian candidate has so far challenged the outcome of their race in any meaningful way.
I'm also seeing some of the brains of the GOP operation argue that it is worthless to contest the 'cheating' and they should instead get in on it by also exploiting mail-in ballots.
Which they still think aren't legit votes but as long as the Democrats use that tactic they might as well too.
They seem to be angry about different things.
Most of all Mitch for not backing MAGA candidates and Trump for replacing more competitive candidates with his own people and raking in all the donations.
They're also very angry at the pollsters (who've gone silent) that reported numbers most favorable to the GOP to seemingly gain Trump's favor and get hired by the MAGA candidates.
This also made them realize that maybe Trump isn't 5 or 7 points ahead of Joe Biden as those polls show.
Another example
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144 (https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144)
That all actually sounds pretty good, too bad those democrats only exist in his head instead of reality.
doesn't he live in thailand or some shit :girlaff
To the surprise of everyone no Trumpian candidate has so far challenged the outcome of their race in any meaningful way.
I'm also seeing some of the brains of the GOP operation argue that it is worthless to contest the 'cheating' and they should instead get in on it by also exploiting mail-in ballots.
Which they still think aren't legit votes but as long as the Democrats use that tactic they might as well too.
They seem to be angry about different things.
Most of all Mitch for not backing MAGA candidates and Trump for replacing more competitive candidates with his own people and raking in all the donations.
They're also very angry at the pollsters (who've gone silent) that reported numbers most favorable to the GOP to seemingly gain Trump's favor and get hired by the MAGA candidates.
This also made them realize that maybe Trump isn't 5 or 7 points ahead of Joe Biden as those polls show.
Another example
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144 (https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144)
That all actually sounds pretty good, too bad those democrats only exist in his head instead of reality.
doesn't he live in thailand or some shit :girlaff
Yea Malaysia, he’s twitters right wing version of Excelsiorlef
Trump intends to launch 2024 presidential campaign Tuesday despite pressure from allies to wait, sources say
Former President Donald Trump intends to launch his 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday, not an exploratory committee or anything less, sources close to Trump say.
The former president, who has said he'll make a "big" announcement Tuesday night, has been calling around and telling associates of his current plan. A senior adviser told CBS News that, in Trump's mind, it would look weak if he didn't launch his campaign and instead announced an exploratory committee.
Trump endorsed a number of candidates in the midterm elections and many of the Senate and gubernatorial candidates he backed lost their races. A senior source close to him told CBS News that Trump has been privately infuriated over the results of the midterm elections, a report that the former president denies.
"For those many people that are being fed the fake narrative from the corrupt media that I am Angry about the Midterms, don't believe it," he posted Thursday on social media site Truth Social. "I am not at all angry, did a great job (I wasn't the one running!), and am very busy looking into the future. Remember, I am a 'Stable Genius.'"
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 rival whom Trump has jabbed on Truth Social and in rallies in recent days, will be addressing a closed-door Republican Governors Association meeting in Orlando with donors at the same time as Trump's Tuesday announcement.
It's a dark time in Trump's inner circle, as several long-time friends, donors and aides of the former president have described to CBS News in the last 24 hours. Many of them say Trump is listening to very few people, isolated, and mean-spirited about his potential rivals. That sentiment materialized Friday in a social media post directed at Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, another potential 2024 contender. Several of those Trump allies say they're tired of his rants, and are avoiding him.
"I have never seen him more irresponsible and chaotic than he is today," a veteran Trump adviser who worked on the 2020 campaign told CBS News. "He seems to be in self-destruct mode. It is irresponsible to attack DeSantis and Youngkin, and it's irresponsible to announce any time in the near future but definitely before the Herschel Walker runoff is complete."
Some former Trump advisers, like Jason Miller, have gone on television and urged the former president to not make his announcement before next month's Georgia Senate runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican football star Herschel Walker. Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky said in an interview with CBS News Friday he would "prefer" for the president to wait until after the Georgia runoff race.
On Wednesday, CBS News reported that a senior source close to Trump said if he announces a 2024 bid before the runoff race, "I don't see a path forward." That source, who is frustrated over Trump's political missteps, compared the enthusiasm at DeSantis' victory rally, attended by a couple of thousand people, and his 19-point win, to Trump's event at Mar-a-Lago, with 100 of his friends and political consultants, and his high-profile losses. It is clear who American voters want, they said.
"This is a sinking ship," the senior source close to Trump said of the lack of enthusiasm for an emerging Trump 2024 campaign.
Another exampleWait until this guy finds out this was the state of things for the last two years.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144 (https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1591628614843654144)
Candace Owens said Trump's rudeness made her realize he's vengeful, paranoid, lacks humility
Candace Owens said on her Daily Wire show that Donald Trump was rude to her.
The conservative firebrand said the experience made her "question him as a person."
Owens said that Trump is "holding onto a vengeful spirit" and appears to lack a vision for 2024.
Candace Owens, speaking on her Daily Wire show after the midterms, said that former President Donald Trump being rude to her made her question for the "first time" what kind of person he is.
Owens, who once referred to Trump as "the savior" of the free world, described how the former president "actually got upset" with her following an interview with him in which he defended COVID-19 vaccines.
After the interview in December 2021, Owens defended him in an Instagram video, saying that people often forget "how old Trump is" and that he comes from a generation who "came from a time before TV, before the internet, before being able to conduct independent research."
The Daily Beast covered it, headlining the story: "Candace Owens: Trump Is Pro-Vax Because He's 'Too Old' to Understand the Internet."
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1591520345630310401
In her monologue on her Daily Wire show this week, Owen's said she was sharing the "personal story" because "it's something that made me for the first time question him as a person."
The conservative firebrand went on to say that Trump twisted a "completely kind and fair interview."
"That is not being a leader, that is not owning things that you did wrong, that is not owning that you misunderstood something about your base," she said. "That's not growing, that's not developing."
Owens said that was the moment she realized he was "not listening" and made her question if he was becoming "too angry."
Owens said that in previous elections, Trump was "having fun," and "the energy, it was electric." However, she said after the 2020 election, he is in "an angry space" and has become paranoid.
She repeated that "he was so rude to me."
Owens said that there are conversations going on behind Trump's back that deserve to go public. She suggested he is "holding onto a vengeful spirit" and questioned if he has a vision for 2024. "It needs to be more than, 'I'm back,'" she said.
Trump is expected to announce a 2024 presidential bid imminently, but The Guardian reported that some advisors and allies are urging him to delay it.
Owens said there's a sense of "trepidation" in Trump, which, she added, was evidenced in him taking a swing at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week. In a flurry of posts on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump called DeSantis an "average Republican governor" and referred to him as "Ron DeSanctimonious."
Trump endorsed more than 330 GOP candidates running for both state and federal offices in this election cycle, but several high-profile candidates lost or badly underperformed in the midterm elections.
Owens said Trump needs to exercise "a little more humility" when he gets something wrong, adding that the midterm results, which saw Democrats maintain control of the Senate, show that Trump and his base are "not sure."
I need to support Daily wire Plus and get a sub.I mean, you don't. There's many better ways to spend your money, like on crack.
I have reward Matt Walsh for the great What Is A Woman doc.The "interviewing stupid people about their stupid beliefs" genre is one of my favorites and Matt Walsh is a quality Twitter troll but none of that seems like something anyone needs to pay for. Meanwhile, crack...
For the first time in U.S. history, a Confederate battle flag was displayed inside the Capitol
That seems possibly unlikely to me? There's been Confederate statues inside the Capitol. Hell, there might be some right now, I don't actually know every state's submission to the National Statuary Hall.
Displayed on the floor of the Senate seems a more reasonable claim.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/us/politics/confederate-flag-capitol.htmlThanks actually (not sarcastic), exactly what I meant I was sure the former Confederate states had put Confederate stuff in the Capitol before if only because there were literal Confederates who served in Congress after the war even before Massive Resistance brought back deliberate Southern defiance posturing:
:idont
The emblem has appeared in the Capitol before.Although I'm not sure the actual flag of Mississippi should necessarily count as an example. :lol
The Mississippi flag, which once featured the Confederate symbol prominently, hung in the Capitol until June 2020, when it was replaced after a vote by the State Legislature to remove the emblem.
Where was Himu on January 6?How many personalities ago is that?
QuoteFor the first time in U.S. history, a Confederate battle flag was displayed inside the Capitol
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Where was Himu on January 6?
Returning to the discussion at hand. I brought up gerrymandering as an example of a flaw in a democratic system. Sure, I wasn't as precise as I could have been (and quoted an example unrelated to the current election), but all I said was basically "gerrymandering makes democracy flawed".No, in my original post I told you that gerrymandering is not the cause of the disconnect between the state-wide vote share and district winner results, this is simply geographic districts. You then and have since continued to post all kinds of crap about gerrymandering. A state sending a delegation overrepresented compared to the state-wide popular vote share is not evidence of gerrymandering. Drawing maps to try and achieve this would probably require gerrymandering not eliminate it. I gave you the Oregon example because you probably cannot draw a map to give it a 3-2 delegation instead of 4-1, especially not one that wouldn't look absurd.
In your next post, you only mentioned the types of elections that aren't affected while you specifically left out the election of the House of Representatives, which is very much influenced by gerrymandering.
Obviously gerrymandered districts only directly affect elections involving districts. Nobody is claiming otherwise. I still am not exactly sure what your position is.
Gerrymandering gives a disproportionate advantage to those who do it while depriving some voters of representation. I prefer proportionate representation, because it means the voice of a potentially large part of the electorate isn't simply ignored. If there is gerrymandering in a winner-takes-all system (like the one used to elect the members of the House of Representatives), under- and overrepresentation gets even worse.
If you had replied to my initial post with "Sure, gerrymandering is bad but the example you used isn't about the type of elections held during mid terms" I would then have said "Yes, I know, I just used it as a general example of how bad the effects of gerrymandering can be" and that would have been the end of it.
Ok, but according to the New York Times, Democratic gerrymandering in New York would have gained the Dems an additional four House seats in this very election if the state's Supreme Court hadn't struck it down. Is that disinformation?Well, yes. The New York Court of Appeals struck down a map the legislature had drawn because it conflicted with a 2014 state constitution change in particular the part where the legislature wasn't supposed to do this rather than approve or reject what the already stacked commission had drawn.
Nate rated them an A- :hehI would suggest actually reading his tweet.
Jay Jacobs, the state party chairman, is now the target of ire from both progressive and moderate Democrats. Several prominent politicians, including City Comptroller Brad Lander and Liz Krueger, one of the highest-ranking state senators, have called for his ouster. All ideological factions crave competence, and Jacobs has not delivered on even this most basic front.
Hochul said last week she is sticking with Jacobs, who was a holdover from the Cuomo years and maintained a close relationship with the disgraced former governor. Political observers in the state don’t expect Jacobs to last deep into 2023 — the holiday season, or shortly after, might be the preferred time to dump him — but the beleaguered party chair is as much a symptom of the New York Democratic debacle as he is its cause. It’s easy enough to understand the anger at Jacobs: He simultaneously chairs the Nassau County Democratic Party, which oversaw enormous losses for the House, state senate, and county level. All the Democratic gains of the Trump era have been erased, and the suburb, just to the east of Queens, is now deep red. Republicans haven’t been this dominant on Long Island in decades.
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Jacobs has spent much of his time as party chair — he’s held the job in two different instances now — blaming Democratic losses on outspoken progressives. He once compared India Walton, the Black democratic socialist who won the primary for mayor of Buffalo, to David Duke. Even Establishment-aligned operatives have grown tired of Jacobs’s act. In part this is simply because the state party offers very little in the way of organization or assistance, and there’s a growing consensus in Democratic circles that Hochul must move on from Jacobs. The left-wing Working Families Party has stood out because it did undertake a visible get-out-the-vote push to boost its own party and get Hochul re-elected. The contrast between the WFP and Jacobs’s moribund apparatus was telling.
Beyond Jacobs, Democratic machines have atrophied on the county level, particularly in New York City. The Brooklyn Democratic Party, riven by infighting, could barely mobilize as Republicans swept a large stretch of southern Brooklyn. The Queens Democratic Party is hardly more active or better suited to repel Republicans.
Many Democrats blame party chair Jay Jacobs, an Andrew Cuomo holdover that Hochul should have replaced. The centrist Jacobs has cozied up to Republicans, spent party money challenging progressive Democrats in primaries, and refused to endorse the progressive Democratic victor, India Walton, in the primary for Buffalo mayor last year. More than 1,000 New York Democratic leaders, mostly on the left, have demanded that Hochul fire Jacobs; she insists she will not.
“I know that there are lots of people that think I’m the worst person in the world,” Jacobs said after the dimensions of the party’s losses were becoming clear. “But the truth is I’m probably only in third or fourth place.” He might be right; he has competition.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Sean Patrick Maloney has maybe come in for the worst criticism—including this piece by our own Alexis Grenell, and this one by Slate’s Alexander Sammon. Maloney chased popular first-term progressive Mondaire Jones out of his own district—to be fair, redistricting put both of them in the same district, but Jones had represented most of it. Instead of challenging the man who controlled the party’s coffers in a primary, Jones decamped to a Brooklyn/Lower Manhattan district where he didn’t live, and came in third.
But you know who’s rarely mentioned as a Democrat partly to blame for the disaster? Former representative Tom Suozzi, who gave up his Long Island seat to run a lurid, sexist campaign against Hochul, depicting her as soft on crime as well as not quite up to the job. Suozzi lost that race, badly, and Democrats lost his House seat last week. He almost single-handedly validated the “New York is a hellhole of crime” attack that Zeldin went on to use against Hochul. It didn’t work on Hochul statewide, but it did work on Long Island and in Rockland County, where the House Democrats lost seats they probably could have won. Similar bogus crime attacks fell short in Michigan, California, and Pennsylvania, but somehow found their mark in the Empire State.
Someone who deserves blame too is New York’s Democratic mayor, the night-clubbing, crypto-boosting, ethics-rules-challenging Eric Adams. New York’s second Black mayor likewise took office blaming fellow Democrats for what did feel, for a while, like a scary post-pandemic wave of crime and disorder. He called on Democrats to scrap a bail reform law that made it easier for certain low-income nonviolent defendants to go home without onerous bail requirements; wealthier defendants were able to pay to go free before their trials. He criticized a fellow Black Democrat, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, before he’d effectively taken control of his office, creating the storyline that progressive bail reform plus a justice-minded district attorney made New York City a hellscape.
Then he authored an op-ed in USA Today Monday blaming Democrats for “ignoring [working people] who are deeply concerned about the economy, crime and inflation.” You can’t say Adams lacks chutzpah.
Speaking of chutzpah, all of those men are blaming New York progressives for the lost House seats, for pulling the party too far to the left. The truth is, the party lost seats in what were the hotbeds of white backlash in the 1960s, Long Island and Rockland County. (I know. I grew up in Nassau County.) They were afraid of dark Gotham—dark in many senses of the word. Social change and a diversifying population left more of them open to Democrats over the years. Now Democratic leaders like Adams and Suozzi have stoked that fear of dark Gotham again. Good work, guys. Your left-bashing won’t work. There’s too much evidence of your incompetence and fealty to the party’s centrist, moneyed donors for serious-minded people to believe your blame game.
This fucker is so boring. Hasn't the "We're getting killed by X country. We're doing so badly. We're the laughing stock" loser victim mentality stuff worn off? This is appealing to voters?Reunion tours always play the hits.
Himu might be getting his way in New York, more progressives rather than right-wing losers like Hochul and Adams:Quote from: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/midterm-results-new-york-doesnt-have-a-democratic-party.htmlJay Jacobs, the state party chairman, is now the target of ire from both progressive and moderate Democrats. Several prominent politicians, including City Comptroller Brad Lander and Liz Krueger, one of the highest-ranking state senators, have called for his ouster. All ideological factions crave competence, and Jacobs has not delivered on even this most basic front.
Hochul said last week she is sticking with Jacobs, who was a holdover from the Cuomo years and maintained a close relationship with the disgraced former governor. Political observers in the state don’t expect Jacobs to last deep into 2023 — the holiday season, or shortly after, might be the preferred time to dump him — but the beleaguered party chair is as much a symptom of the New York Democratic debacle as he is its cause. It’s easy enough to understand the anger at Jacobs: He simultaneously chairs the Nassau County Democratic Party, which oversaw enormous losses for the House, state senate, and county level. All the Democratic gains of the Trump era have been erased, and the suburb, just to the east of Queens, is now deep red. Republicans haven’t been this dominant on Long Island in decades.
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Jacobs has spent much of his time as party chair — he’s held the job in two different instances now — blaming Democratic losses on outspoken progressives. He once compared India Walton, the Black democratic socialist who won the primary for mayor of Buffalo, to David Duke. Even Establishment-aligned operatives have grown tired of Jacobs’s act. In part this is simply because the state party offers very little in the way of organization or assistance, and there’s a growing consensus in Democratic circles that Hochul must move on from Jacobs. The left-wing Working Families Party has stood out because it did undertake a visible get-out-the-vote push to boost its own party and get Hochul re-elected. The contrast between the WFP and Jacobs’s moribund apparatus was telling.
Beyond Jacobs, Democratic machines have atrophied on the county level, particularly in New York City. The Brooklyn Democratic Party, riven by infighting, could barely mobilize as Republicans swept a large stretch of southern Brooklyn. The Queens Democratic Party is hardly more active or better suited to repel Republicans.Quote from: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/new-york-democrats-congress/Many Democrats blame party chair Jay Jacobs, an Andrew Cuomo holdover that Hochul should have replaced. The centrist Jacobs has cozied up to Republicans, spent party money challenging progressive Democrats in primaries, and refused to endorse the progressive Democratic victor, India Walton, in the primary for Buffalo mayor last year. More than 1,000 New York Democratic leaders, mostly on the left, have demanded that Hochul fire Jacobs; she insists she will not.
“I know that there are lots of people that think I’m the worst person in the world,” Jacobs said after the dimensions of the party’s losses were becoming clear. “But the truth is I’m probably only in third or fourth place.” He might be right; he has competition.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Sean Patrick Maloney has maybe come in for the worst criticism—including this piece by our own Alexis Grenell, and this one by Slate’s Alexander Sammon. Maloney chased popular first-term progressive Mondaire Jones out of his own district—to be fair, redistricting put both of them in the same district, but Jones had represented most of it. Instead of challenging the man who controlled the party’s coffers in a primary, Jones decamped to a Brooklyn/Lower Manhattan district where he didn’t live, and came in third.
But you know who’s rarely mentioned as a Democrat partly to blame for the disaster? Former representative Tom Suozzi, who gave up his Long Island seat to run a lurid, sexist campaign against Hochul, depicting her as soft on crime as well as not quite up to the job. Suozzi lost that race, badly, and Democrats lost his House seat last week. He almost single-handedly validated the “New York is a hellhole of crime” attack that Zeldin went on to use against Hochul. It didn’t work on Hochul statewide, but it did work on Long Island and in Rockland County, where the House Democrats lost seats they probably could have won. Similar bogus crime attacks fell short in Michigan, California, and Pennsylvania, but somehow found their mark in the Empire State.
Someone who deserves blame too is New York’s Democratic mayor, the night-clubbing, crypto-boosting, ethics-rules-challenging Eric Adams. New York’s second Black mayor likewise took office blaming fellow Democrats for what did feel, for a while, like a scary post-pandemic wave of crime and disorder. He called on Democrats to scrap a bail reform law that made it easier for certain low-income nonviolent defendants to go home without onerous bail requirements; wealthier defendants were able to pay to go free before their trials. He criticized a fellow Black Democrat, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, before he’d effectively taken control of his office, creating the storyline that progressive bail reform plus a justice-minded district attorney made New York City a hellscape.
Then he authored an op-ed in USA Today Monday blaming Democrats for “ignoring [working people] who are deeply concerned about the economy, crime and inflation.” You can’t say Adams lacks chutzpah.
Speaking of chutzpah, all of those men are blaming New York progressives for the lost House seats, for pulling the party too far to the left. The truth is, the party lost seats in what were the hotbeds of white backlash in the 1960s, Long Island and Rockland County. (I know. I grew up in Nassau County.) They were afraid of dark Gotham—dark in many senses of the word. Social change and a diversifying population left more of them open to Democrats over the years. Now Democratic leaders like Adams and Suozzi have stoked that fear of dark Gotham again. Good work, guys. Your left-bashing won’t work. There’s too much evidence of your incompetence and fealty to the party’s centrist, moneyed donors for serious-minded people to believe your blame game.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, New York City hate crimes have been on a steady rise. Already this year, they are up nearly 16% year to date over 2021, according to NYPD data.
In an effort to stop the kind of attacks that have left minority communities across the city on edge, the city’s most recent budget invests a record $1.7 million in the Manhattan district attorney’s Hate Crimes Unit.
Officials say the money is necessary to support outreach and to hire staff to do the extensive research required to prosecute hate crimes cases.
The hate crimes docket is at an all-time high for the DA’s office, at 99 cases, according to officials. That number reflects the current number of open cases, meaning it includes cases initiated this year or in a previous year.
“We’re in a historic moment and we want to meet the need that we're seeing certainly for this office,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in an interview.
Although hate crimes have increased citywide over the past two years, Manhattan has seen some of the highest numbers of hate crimes citywide.
LOWER MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) -- The crime statistics for New York City are out, and they're staggering, with overall crime up nearly 60% compared to this time last year.
Nicole Robinson waited for her uptown train Thursday night, 16 feet from the edge of the platform. And she wasn't alone.
"I don't feel safe anymore. I really don't feel safe. I would rather take the bus for two hours, versus taking the train for 45 minutes," subway rider Nicole Robinson said.
Despite the NYPD's stepped-up enforcement, many New Yorkers are still deeply worried about crime, both in the subways and on the streets.
Last month, overall crime in New York went up 59% over the same period in 2021.
The author claims racism and a fear of a "Dark Gotham" as if people's concerns are entirely imaginary and inherently racist.What I liked about that part was to support her theory she cites something she claims happened in the 1960's in response to Republican policies.
The author claims racism and a fear of a "Dark Gotham" as if people's concerns are entirely imaginary and inherently racist.What I liked about that part was to support her theory she cites something she claims happened in the 1960's in response to Republican policies.
It was up to you, New York. And you blew it.
In one of the nation’s bluest states, Democrats lost an estimated five seats in the House of Representatives. NBC News has been predicting Republicans will win the House by four seats.
There’s a lot of blame to go around. Governor Kathy Hochul wound up defeating crime-baiting, Trump-hugging former GOP representative Lee Zeldin, but only by five points. Hochul lacked much of a visible ground game, and in winning, she had no coattails. In losing, Zeldin did.
twitter.com/MrBeau/status/1592960262260559873I think they legitimately like when this guy comes and does these. The guy calling the next speaker always sounds so cheery after.
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MAGAGA!
Growing domestic extremism has been linked to the country’s widening political divide and a rise in distrust of institutions. Critics of social media’s role in radicalizing extremists say that misinformation and hate speech spread online is fueling the problem
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The report noted that tech companies often use content moderation tools to remove or flag extremist content after it’s already spread. They should change their algorithms and products to ensure they aren’t encouraging the content in the first place, the report recommended.
“The rise in domestic terrorism can be partially attributed to the proliferation of extremist content on social media platforms and the failure of companies to effectively limit it in favor of action that increase engagement on their platforms,” the report concluded.
Peters continued: “My investigation also found that social media companies are contributing to the spread of domestic extremist content that often translates into this real world violence by prioritizing revenue and user engagement over online safety. My report makes important recommendations about the need to increase transparency and accountability to address how these platforms are spreading dangerous and extreme content.”I feel safer already, Senator. :american
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The report makes key recommendations, including: ...
Create accountability for social media companies to prioritize safety on their platforms; and
Establish trust and safety as prioritized metrics for social media companies.
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Peters’ report also found that the business models of social media companies – particularly Meta, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube – have also allowed the rapid spread of extremist ideologies.
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During the course of his investigation, Peters found that while social media companies often tout investments in trust and safety, the platforms continue to amplify white supremacist and anti-government content, and they lack incentives and safeguards that would ensure their products are not contributing to the spread of this harmful rhetoric. Despite repeated requests for these companies to provide more information on how they are working to prevent the spread of extremist content – the platforms provided little transparency.
https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1592565605240279040
:rejoice :uguu
https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1592979855691636740
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1592248515543326720So Trump was right it was just his personal stuff
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1592248520668753921
A senator who stops to consider the personal or political consequences of his actions might vote for bills that don’t “own the libs.” For many Republican voters, this alone is enough reason to vote for Walker.https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/herschel-walker-georgia-runoff-stupidity-1234630182/
For example, Georgia did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The state contributes extra money into the national treasury for medical care that it does not receive, for no real reason other than keeping doctors away from poor people. Hospitals are closing across the state, mostly in communities with poor white residents, though the most significant recent closure was of a major Level 1 trauma center in downtown Atlanta.
The policy is profoundly stupid. It also hurts more Black people than white people in Georgia, so many Republicans support it. A smart politician would be looking for a policy workaround that brings that money to Georgia. But Republicans don’t want a smart politician. They want Walker.
Yes, but why differentiate? They're not simply Republicans, they're Americans.QuoteA senator who stops to consider the personal or political consequences of his actions might vote for bills that don’t “own the libs.” For many Republican voters, this alone is enough reason to vote for Walker.https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/herschel-walker-georgia-runoff-stupidity-1234630182/
For example, Georgia did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The state contributes extra money into the national treasury for medical care that it does not receive, for no real reason other than keeping doctors away from poor people. Hospitals are closing across the state, mostly in communities with poor white residents, though the most significant recent closure was of a major Level 1 trauma center in downtown Atlanta.
The policy is profoundly stupid. It also hurts more Black people than white people in Georgia, so many Republicans support it. A smart politician would be looking for a policy workaround that brings that money to Georgia. But Republicans don’t want a smart politician. They want Walker.
You can't make this up. Are Republicans the dumbest people on the planet?
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1592248515543326720So Trump was right it was just his personal stuff
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1592248520668753921
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted against legislation that would protect interracial marriages on Wednesday, despite the fact that he's married to an Asian American woman.
Why the fuck is interracial marriage even an issue in this day and age?
Why the fuck is interracial marriage even an issue in this day and age?
Roe v Wade was based on a "right to privacy" which isnt explicitly written in the constitution, but it was inferred as such.
By throwing that out this summer, the court says a right to privacy doesnt exist.
Thing is, both the interracial marriage ruling and the gay marriage ruling were based off the same idea.
So these bills are a way to encode the rights into law.
lol that seems fucking stupid :confusedHow would you go about proving someone's race anyway?
Why the fuck is interracial marriage even an issue in this day and age?
lol that seems fucking stupid :confusedHow would you go about proving someone's race anyway?
Why the fuck is interracial marriage even an issue in this day and age?
:dolezal
I really think you guys should not just repeat whatever nonsense you've heard elsewhere that you've randomly decided must be true.Why the fuck is interracial marriage even an issue in this day and age?
Roe v Wade was based on a "right to privacy" which isnt explicitly written in the constitution, but it was inferred as such.
By throwing that out this summer, the court says a right to privacy doesnt exist.
Thing is, both the interracial marriage ruling and the gay marriage ruling were based off the same idea.
I really think you guys should not just repeat whatever nonsense you've heard elsewhere that you've randomly decided must be true.Why the fuck is interracial marriage even an issue in this day and age?
Roe v Wade was based on a "right to privacy" which isnt explicitly written in the constitution, but it was inferred as such.
By throwing that out this summer, the court says a right to privacy doesnt exist.
Thing is, both the interracial marriage ruling and the gay marriage ruling were based off the same idea.
Just ask yourself: if Roe established the right to privacy then how did Griswold predate it by eight years?
edit: I mean, fuck, even I while making this post forgot Loving predated Roe by six years! We really don't even need to get into how the right to privacy wasn't involved in these cases! (How can you have a right to privacy when you're asking the government to recognize your marriage?)
Holdinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy" that protects a pregnant woman's liberty to abort her fetus. This right is not absolute, and has to be balanced against the government's interest in protecting women's health and protecting prenatal life. Texas's statutes making it a crime to procure an abortion violated this right.
After its historical surveys, the Court introduced the concept of a constitutional "right to privacy" that it said had been intimated in its earlier decisions Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, which involved parental control over childrearing, and Griswold v. Connecticut, which involved the use of contraception.[6] Then, "with virtually no further explanation of the privacy value",[7] the Court ruled that regardless of exactly which provisions were involved, the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of liberty covered a right to privacy that protected a pregnant woman's decision whether to abort a pregnancy.[6]
This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or ... in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether to terminate her pregnancy.
— Roe, 410 U.S. at 153.[116]
You really don't get any enjoyment out of this?Well, I don't even watch the stuff because I already knew these people were dishonest. Everything we've found out about the group and their stunts like making false neo-Nazis only makes them more evidently that dishonest. Rick Wilson is a Jennifer Rubin tier person who used to argue abortion was literally murder and gays were close, was proud of the Confederacy and claimed Joe Biden had dementia who now pretends his constant tweeting of this stuff until 2017 when he "realized" everything he said before in his life was wrong so he can cozy up to idiots who will throw endless money at him for attacking Republicans in markets where only DC circle Democrats will see the content.
Who do we trust, someone still butthurt that his McMuffin candidate lost, or Wikipedia?Thanks for quoting stuff that only supports what I said ya dummy.
Who do we trust, someone still butthurt that his McMuffin candidate lost, or Wikipedia?Thanks for quoting stuff that only supports what I said ya dummy.
attacking Republicans in markets where only DC circle Democrats will see the content.
Well well well, another Witch HuntNot really if you listen to him, these were already existing investigations, because Trump is running for President and Biden is presumably an opposing candidate the special counsel is being appointed so Biden, through MAGA ally Garland, can't easily influence the investigation.
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:trumps
PD's conclusions are inconclusive. Many people across political lines aren't comfortable with the trans ideology or CRT. You had a major event in your own state featuring Muslims just a few weeks ago. Don't dismiss that issue.
That's not the problem. The problem is the extremism of Trump candidates denying things like the election, and Roe dying (which is an economic issue). Abortion and the election results were so important people picked Democrats. This doesn't mean they don't care about CRT or trans or you might find yourself in a similar situation where GOP are now.
Also the biggest GOP concerns this cycle was crime and inflation, not CRT or trans, these are two things you've continuously denied are problems.
being fair, unless they gave explicit reasons, it doesn't seem right to ascribe motivation to it
could've been they're behaving quite capitalist and think it might be monetarily damaging to their brand to remain, just a business decision
could've been a unilateral decision by one social media "expert" who was since fired for their poor decision making, and they don't necessarily owe an explanation to anyone that this is what occurred behind closed doors
a lot of news orgs have hated twitter for a long time and put out creepily lockstep messages about how we should listen to them and trust them over randos on the internet, and many could've just been waiting for any excuse to de-legitimize a platform that has long de-legitimized them
I have no idea what "In light of the uncertainty around Twitter and out of an abundance of caution, CBS News is pausing its activity on the social media site as it continues to monitor the platform" is even supposed to mean. They apparently monitored it for all of Saturday and decided there was no uncertainty so came back on Sunday.
Another Flop From GOP Productions
David Frum
In 2006 and 2018, Democrats won control of the U.S. House of Representatives on the way to winning the presidency two years later.
In 1994 and 2010, Republicans won control of the U.S. House of Representatives. They then lost the presidency two years later.
The difference? Discipline.
The leader of the Democratic majority elected in 2006 and 2018 was Nancy Pelosi. She restrained emotions in her caucus. After 2006, many Democrats burned with anger against the Bush administration—some even talked of impeaching George W. Bush over the Iraq War. Speaker Pelosi would not allow it. Her vision was to use control of the House to prepare the way for the impending presidential election so that Democrats could then legislate. The passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 rewarded her strategy.
By contrast, the Republican majority elected in 1994 and 2010 lunged immediately into total war. In 1994, the leaders, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, wanted and led the total war. In 2010, Speaker John Boehner opposed the lunge and tried, largely in vain, to control it. In both cases, the result was the same: a government shutdown in 1995, a near default on U.S. debt obligations in 2011, and a conspiratorial extremism that frightened mainstream voters back to the party of the president.
The signs strongly indicate that the next Republican House majority will follow the pattern of its predecessors.
The most urgent of those warning signs is Republicans’ urge to base their program for the next Congress on an investigation of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter. On November 18, the next chair of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer of Kentucky, and his colleague due to chair the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan of Ohio, held a press conference to offer their theory of what they would find: corrupt business dealings that implicate the president himself.
Why Republicans would want to believe this holds little mystery. From 2017 to 2021, Republicans supported and defended a strikingly corrupt president whose children disregarded nepotism rules to enrich themselves and their businesses. The administration opened with a special favor from the government of Japan to Donald Trump’s daughter and closed with a $2 billion investment by the government of Saudi Arabia for the president’s son-in-law—despite written warnings from the Saudi government’s outside advisers about excessive fees, inexperienced management, and operations that were “unsatisfactory in all aspects.”
How do partisans try to neutralize four years of nonstop genuine scandals? By ginning up an equal and opposite scandal against the other team. The Trump family may have been the most crooked ever to occupy the White House, and on a scale impossible to deny or ignore. During Trump’s administration, his hotel business exacted payments on Pennsylvania Avenue from corporations, individuals, and foreign governments as a condition of presidential favor and charged the Secret Service fees simply so that it could do its job of protecting the president. Trump himself elevated his son-in-law to de facto positions as a chief of staff and a national security adviser. Meanwhile, the president’s other children headed family businesses that profited from the presidency.
If that record cannot be denied, then maybe it can be diminished or rendered somehow acceptable by alleging that Trump’s successor is doing the same thing. But in their whataboutism, Republicans are forgetting a lesson they should have learned in 1995–96: Don’t oversell, and even more important, don’t talk yourself into believing the false narrative you hope to sell to others.
Back in 1995, there was one thing that probably every voting American knew about President Bill Clinton: He was not a good husband. But he won the election of 1992 despite revelations of his improper behavior. At another time, that would have removed the allegations from further politics: The voters had adjudicated. No point relitigating the issue.
Republicans, however, chose to relitigate it. They needed to reframe the old, rejected scandal into a new, possibly more exciting scandal. They focused on a very particular question. Clinton had survived scandal in 1992 in large part because his wife, Hillary Clinton, had joined him on television, publicly forgiven him, and asked his critics to back off. Republicans allowed themselves to speculate on why she had done that. The answer they arrived at was that Hillary Clinton was the central figure in an extensive web of criminality who forgave Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct so that he would protect her financial wrongdoing, up to and including drug smuggling and murder. Those latter, crazy-sounding allegations became the basis for dozens of editorials in The Wall Street Journal, so many that when ultimately published in book form, they filled six paperback volumes.
I was part of this world at the time, and I observed people who should have known better talking themselves into deeply believing these fantasies. They became a core part of the Republican critique of the Clinton presidency—and led to the spectacular failure of that critique in the presidential election of 1996 and the congressional elections of 1998.
It was as if the Republicans had started this dialogue with the electorate:
Republicans: Do you know that Bill Clinton is an unfaithful husband?
Voters: Yes.
Republicans: Don’t you care?
Voters: No.
Republicans: What if we told you that Bill and Hillary Clinton ran a massive international-crime syndicate and that they are implicated in multiple murders and cover-ups?
Voters: We’d say, “You guys are delusional maniacs.”
Republicans in 2022 seem to be writing a similar dialogue for 2023.
Republicans: Do you know that Hunter Biden is a financial and emotional mess?
Voters: Now we do.
Republicans: Don’t you care?
Voters: No.
Republicans: Do you know that Joe Biden wrote notes telling his son he loved him despite his troubles, and also let his son stay in his house when his son was down on his luck?
Voters: That sounds like a good thing.
Republicans: What if we told you that Joe and Hunter Biden ran a massive international-crime syndicate and that they are implicated in sex trafficking and cover-ups?
You can foresee where this dialogue is heading.
With the Clinton scandals, voters proved able to distinguish between the true parts, which they rejected as uninteresting, and the interesting parts, which they rejected as untrue. Voters will likely prove just as shrewd in the 2020s as they were in the 1990s. They demonstrated again in the elections of 2022 just how unimpressed they were by the extremist fantasies of the conservative fringe.
But Republicans are more and more isolated in their ideological information networks and seem even less connected to mainstream America today than they were a generation ago. They so passionately believe the stories they hear that they forget who confected those stories: themselves.
There are real questions for a Republican majority to investigate in the coming session of Congress: Why was the Biden administration caught so by surprise at the collapse of the Afghan government and military? What can actually be determined about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic? How did immigration controls at the southern border fail, and why haven’t those controls been fixed yet? But all of those questions lead to issues of policy, and policy is notoriously tangled, complicated, and difficult.
What Republicans want instead is an excuse for their enabling of Trump. They yearn to spread their fantasy narrative that Biden’s attempts to be a supportive father to an errant son are the moral equivalent of the Trump family’s looting of the U.S. government. Fantasies don’t survive contact with reality, including the democratic reality of elections.
Unfortunately, fantasies can be generated faster than reality can puncture them. So off we go with a repeat of an old show—written, directed, and performed by a production company oblivious that it is chasing box-office success by remaking a three-decade-old flop.
I think his theory is what he actually wrote in the article.That's literally what he actually wrote in the article:
By contrast, the Republican majority elected in 1994 and 2010 lunged immediately into total war. In 1994, the leaders, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, wanted and led the total war. In 2010, Speaker John Boehner opposed the lunge and tried, largely in vain, to control it. In both cases, the result was the same: a government shutdown in 1995, a near default on U.S. debt obligations in 2011, and a conspiratorial extremism that frightened mainstream voters back to the party of the president.
I think his point was that the crazy behavior didn't lead to R presidency.I know, that's why I asked:
So people voted against anti-crazies Bob Dole and Mitt Romney and for Republican Congressional candidates to punish the overreach of the crazies in the Republican Houses? This is the Frum theory?
Turns out the killer was non binary.
:beli
productive discussion on the subject:"please respect everyone's chosen pronouns"
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Turns out the killer was non binary.
:beli
productive discussion on the subject:
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They're now treating him like a victim on the pretext of identity.Because The Bire embeds show two tweets in threads you can just link every other tweet and all four will be readable instead of posting every link which will repeat the same ones in the thread. Not criticizing, just offering a tip about keeping the number of Twitter embeds in a post down.
This guy was blaming Carlson and LOTT and now he's shoving a big, fat non binary cock down his mouth. What did I say yesterday? A culture of mediocrity. Your brain on leftism.
This Occam/Potato rivalry is great. Carry on, friends :popcorn
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1595241072971481089
:american
“Anyway, we got along great, he expressed no anti-semitism”
This is a wonderful statement :lol
“Anyway, we got along great, he expressed no anti-semitism”
This is a wonderful statement :lol
Jared is in Qatar lol
https://twitter.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1597268364606705665 (https://twitter.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1597268364606705665)
https://twitter.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1597278242867908609 (https://twitter.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1597278242867908609)Lol, yanks gotta Yankee doodle dandy
STOP THE COUNT
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FirnzRPVIAAtNMj?format=jpg)They didn't have to because, and this is key to your plight Donald, she complied with the law at the time:
On December 5, 2014, Clinton lawyers delivered 12 file boxes filled with printed paper containing more than 30,000 emails. Clinton withheld almost 32,000 emails deemed to be of a personal nature.[18] Datto, Inc., which provided data backup service for Clinton's email, agreed to give the FBI the hardware that stored the backups.[42]How do you think they knew how many e-mails got deleted?
Breton told Musk he must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an "arbitrary" approach to reinstating banned users and agreeing to an "extensive independent audit" of the platform by next year, according to the report
Trump Dined at Mar-a-Lago with White Nationalist, Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes Alongside Kanye West; UPDATE – Trump Responds, ‘Had Never Met and Knew Nothing About’ Fuentes
Orange Man meeting Nick Fuentes, is lol satire shit by the way. Meeting a literal Nazi who is obviously a Mexican going by his name. Trump's circle is getting extremely small for him to entertain this shit and it's glorious.
Ever since the midterms I've checked to see if conservative media will remain anti-Trump given the obvious rescind on Trumpism in the election cycle and...even Breitbart is turning on the Big T, and I don't be mean trans.
Like holy shit.QuoteTrump Dined at Mar-a-Lago with White Nationalist, Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes Alongside Kanye West; UPDATE – Trump Responds, ‘Had Never Met and Knew Nothing About’ Fuentes
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/25/trump-dined-at-mar-a-lago-with-white-nationalist-holocaust-denier-nick-fuentes-alongside-kanye-west/
Orange Man meeting Nick Fuentes, is lol satire shit by the way. Meeting a literal Nazi who is obviously a Mexican going by his name. Trump's circle is getting extremely small for him to entertain this shit and it's glorious.
Ever since the midterms I've checked to see if conservative media will remain anti-Trump given the obvious rescind on Trumpism in the election cycle and...even Breitbart is turning on the Big T, and I don't be mean trans.
Like holy shit.QuoteTrump Dined at Mar-a-Lago with White Nationalist, Holocaust Denier Nick Fuentes Alongside Kanye West; UPDATE – Trump Responds, ‘Had Never Met and Knew Nothing About’ Fuentes
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/11/25/trump-dined-at-mar-a-lago-with-white-nationalist-holocaust-denier-nick-fuentes-alongside-kanye-west/
The average BB reader seems very MAGA to me, if the comment section is anything to go by.
The average BB reader seems very MAGA to me, if the comment section is anything to go by.
They are but Andrew Breitbart was jewish.Breitbart was different before he was murdered by the deep state and Steve Bannon took over. Brietbart wanted an openly conservative tabloid that wouldn't turn down stories, Bannon wanted a platform to overthrow the West and save white people. The Brietbart comments have always been to the "right" of the writers, when Bannon gave up control to join the actual Trump team the comments were constantly attacking the writers for "undermining" Trump by publishing any non-positive story about him or publishing positive stories but not framing it exactly as Trump did. (i.e. Trump defeats Mueller yet again but you didn't put "WITCHUNT" in the headline SO FUUUUUCCCK OOOOFFFFOOOOFFFFFFFF LIEBERAL) I wouldn't be surprised if one of the reasons Trump dismissed Bannon is that he had enough integrity to insist on Breitbart sticking to the larger overall message instead of blind loyalty for Trump, especially after Trump hired him. (Because Trump has no idea how the media, or much of anything, works he probably assumed Bannon would keep day to day control over the website while working in the White House. I also assume that Trump didn't actually believe it when Bannon outright told him he supported Trump because he saw Trump as the best current vessel to get Bannon what he wanted.)
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1598471626638913537 (https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1598471626638913537)Not surprised this guy wants to mock the issues that matter to us EVERYDAY AMERICANS. :usacry
Democrats side with corporations over workers.
:american
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sREM_nEZjNk
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:salute
GOP talking heads: shut up and dribbleSay what you will about the Democrats Himu they didn't put at least 4 mentally ill Presidents in the White House including the best and our favorite President :trumps
Also GOP talking heads: let's placate and platform a mentally ill bipolar man because he's a celebrity.
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I am Republican but this is really bad being associated with these people. But thinking of it, the left placates mentally ill activists too. So it really is bipartisan.
Nixon (alcoholic paranoid narcisist)
Reagan (demented evangelist)
George W. Bush (alcoholic without a consience)
Donald John Trump (autism)
Nixon (alcoholic paranoid narcisist)
Reagan (demented evangelist)
George W. Bush (alcoholic without a consience)
Donald John Trump (autism)
Howard Dean wasn't a radical at all. :lolHe sat on a tank and yelled right? At the time that was not presidential behaviour and considered radical.
To be fair some of their behaviours might be more personality traits as opposed to mental illnesses. Not to mention they can be both crazy as well as a great President.
Still, they put some crazy cookies in the White House while the Democrats have often opted to keep the radicals out at all costs (Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean for example).
Howard Dean wasn't a radical at all. :lol
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1599442203717390337The context actually makes it worse, he wants to suspend the rule of law because Twitter banned something two years ago that's since been reversed. :lol
One of the law clients he robbed, Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, was a mentally ill paraplegic on disability.
https://twitter.com/catdecal/status/1599878976369233920 (https://twitter.com/catdecal/status/1599878976369233920)
:idont
Analysis by Chris Cillizza
President Biden says last Tuesday was “a good day” for democracy, but he must not be paying attention to what happened in Illinois. Behold a case study in how Democrats change the rules to limit political competition and entrench one-party, public-union rule.
Democrats held supermajorities in both legislative chambers and a 4-3 majority on the state Supreme Court before the election. But their ex-boss Michael Madigan’s corruption scandal gave Republicans a chance to make gains in the statehouse, compete for Governor, and take control of the state Supreme Court for the first time in more than 50 years.
After deposing Mr. Madigan, Democrats last year did him proud by jamming through new state legislative maps that forced 12 Republican incumbents into six House districts. Democrats held 73 of 118 House seats under Mr. Madigan’s gerrymander. Their new, more extreme gerrymander helped them pick up four to five more seats.
Democrats also redrew state Supreme Court districts for the first time in 60 years. Three Justices are elected exclusively from Cook County, which includes Chicago. This guarantees Democrats three seats. But their majority looked in danger after a Democratic Justice representing central Illinois lost a retention election in November 2020 for the first time in state history.
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The libs are just destroying themselves with these paywalls
I bet you can find a free 3 hour documentary on the counter argument of the same subject for free and after you've watched it you get a MyPillow discount code.
The libs are just destroying themselves with these paywallsI ain't watching that shit, just going to skip ahead for my coupon code. :success
I bet you can find a free 3 hour documentary on the counter argument of the same subject for free and after you've watched it you get a MyPillow discount code.
Not disputing the spyware label, but what makes Tik Tok "society destroying" in comparison to other social media networks?
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1602486580052037632
Not disputing the spyware label, but what makes Tik Tok "society destroying" in comparison to other social media networks?
Not disputing the spyware label, but what makes Tik Tok "society destroying" in comparison to other social media networks?
Reddit is the endgame of the thot pipeline?Their content is stolen and posted for free by bots :trumps
I’m getting out of touch :engel
Tiktok is mostly known for the Tiktok -> Twitch -> OnlyFans -> pornhub -> reddit spam skill tree progression.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-unveil-bipartisan-bid-ban-chinas-tiktok-2022-12-13/
Lawmakers consider banning Communist China's society destroying spyware. Good. Another thing Trump was (unfortunately) right about.
You claim you're concerned about China changing American values and yet you're advocating for copying China by having the state block things it doesn't like instead of continuing the free internet America has championed.Not disputing the spyware label, but what makes Tik Tok "society destroying" in comparison to other social media networks?
China literally uses an algorithm to promote certain things on amercan tik tok. It's very sexual to the point where if you download the app you'll see questionable things. It has a societal effect that affects young people and China is choosing specific topics to make them seem cool to young people. It takes certain things like gender wars and race wars and puts them to the forefront. It's being cursted to be like this. Meanwhile China's TikTok is overwhelmingly positive. It's like this by design and it's not only spyware but also a way for communist China to get inside Americans heads and change our values.
Twatter and Facebook and LinkedIn have already been collecting personal data on everybody (not just Americans) for more than a decade and have been using it to push an American-centric agenda on the rest of the world.Not disputing the spyware label, but what makes Tik Tok "society destroying" in comparison to other social media networks?
I get your point but one is not only financed by an adversarial government, it's collecting personal data on Americans that will likely be used for decades.
Not disputing the spyware label, but what makes Tik Tok "society destroying" in comparison to other social media networks?
I get your point but one is not only financed by an adversarial government, it's collecting personal data on Americans that will likely be used for decades.
Elon Musk, who implored his army of Twitter followers to vote Republican in the 2022 midterms, did not vote in the election, state records show.
The billionaire is registered in Cameron County, Texas, where his rocket company SpaceX has a launch base and development site. Musk lists a modest home as his residence, though he has been known to spend time at other luxury properties.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmakers-unveil-bipartisan-bid-ban-chinas-tiktok-2022-12-13/
Lawmakers consider banning Communist China's society destroying spyware. Good. Another thing Trump was (unfortunately) right about.You claim you're concerned about China changing American values and yet you're advocating for copying China by having the state block things it doesn't like instead of continuing the free internet America has championed.Not disputing the spyware label, but what makes Tik Tok "society destroying" in comparison to other social media networks?
China literally uses an algorithm to promote certain things on amercan tik tok. It's very sexual to the point where if you download the app you'll see questionable things. It has a societal effect that affects young people and China is choosing specific topics to make them seem cool to young people. It takes certain things like gender wars and race wars and puts them to the forefront. It's being cursted to be like this. Meanwhile China's TikTok is overwhelmingly positive. It's like this by design and it's not only spyware but also a way for communist China to get inside Americans heads and change our values.
I agree. But I'm not sure what the solution is.The solution is pretty simple. The government doesn't oppress its own people out of fear that foreigners might have good ideas so persuasive that the people decide to change their minds about how they want to run their own government. It's not consent of the governed if the people are forced to "consent" in only one way.
I guess one consideration in light of our non American friends here is that America can't possibly complain about China spying on our citizens when we've done the same to the rest of the world for the last decade through our own social media companies.
Therefore, for egalitarianism, despite whatever ills TikTok has maybe we should leave it alone lest we prick our own toe and have our own look in the mirror.
Potato and Jorma are absolutely correct that this is America Spider-Man pointing at China for doing absolutely the same exact fucking thing. Internet imperialism for me not for thee.
Government truly is awful but sometimes I don't know what to think about threats of other nations' governments. Do we need government to supercede the prostrations of other governments? But that just results in more government. I don't know, Benji.
The Indiana law that lets citizens shoot copshttps://theweek.com/articles/474702/indiana-law-that-lets-citizens-shoot-cops?amp=
The Hoosier State now allows people to use deadly force to keep public servants from illegally entering their homes or cars. Police, of course, are not pleased
It authorizes people to protect themselves or their property by using deadly force in response to "unlawful intrusion" by a "public servant." The measure is essentially just a public-servant-specific amendment to the state's 2006 so-called Castle Doctrine bill, which allows people to do whatever they have to to stop someone from illegally entering a home or car. Indiana is reportedly the first state to specifically allow the use of force against police. The new rule was passed with a nudge from the National Rifle Association, which has pushed permissive gun laws around the country.
There's an interesting article about Chinese disinformation, and how successful it is
The article is about China trying to free speech Taiwan into wanting to give up democracy and join the mainland.
There's an interesting article about Chinese disinformation, and how successful it is:The Chinese government has had to run its own people over with tanks and put millions into concentration camps to ensure they are not deposed by people demanding democratic rights. A whole island of 23 million people is willing to fight a nation of 1.5 billion to not be subsumed into the communist system. I'd say the Chinese aren't that great at propaganda to be honest.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/taiwan-china-disinformation-propaganda-russian-influence/672453/
https://twitter.com/GBalloutine/status/1603152891816050689 (https://twitter.com/GBalloutine/status/1603152891816050689)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeUH90coXSI
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NFT lootbox :titus
Trump outs himself as a champion of free speech. :dogeI ain't watching nearly seven minutes from a guy who never has supported free speech before to find out a "policy proposal" from a guy who has never done policy proposals before.
I agree, it seems very off brand for the MAGA hat guy to do 7 minute policy videos :snoreTrump outs himself as a champion of free speech. :dogeI ain't watching nearly seven minutes from a guy who never has supported free speech before to find out a "policy proposal" from a guy who has never done policy proposals before.
Almost twice as many Republicans died from Covid than Democrats, study says
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7vjx8/almost-twice-as-many-republicans-died-from-covid-before-the-midterms-than-democrats
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1602723204207886342
https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1603051111757250560
It’s no secret that many left-wing activist groups and nonprofits, roiled by the reckonings over sexual harassment and racial justice of the past few years, have become internally dysfunctional.
In June the Intercept’s Ryan Grim wrote about the toll that staff revolts and ideologically inflected psychodramas were taking on the work: “It’s hard to find a Washington-based progressive organization that hasn’t been in tumult, or isn’t currently in tumult.” Privately, I’ve heard countless people on the professional left — especially those over, say, 35 — bemoan the irrational demands and manipulative dogmatism of some younger colleagues. But with a few exceptions, like the brave reproductive justice leader Loretta Ross, most don’t want to go on the record. Not surprisingly, many of Grim’s sources in the nonprofit world were anonymous.
That’s why the decision by Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the progressive Working Families Party, to speak out about the left’s self-sabotaging impulse is so significant. Mitchell, who has roots in the Black Lives Matter movement, has a great deal of credibility; he can’t be dismissed as a dinosaur threatened by identity politics. But as the head of an organization with a very practical devotion to building electoral power, he has a sharp critique of the way some on the left deploy identity as a trump card. “Identity and position are misused to create a doom loop that can lead to unnecessary ruptures of our political vehicles and the shuttering of vital movement spaces,” he wrote last month in a 6,000-word examination of the fallacies and rhetorical traps plaguing activist culture.
The divide being between men and women is true but eh.Conservatives won't win the game because a lot of people know that the 'culture' issues aren't resolved at the ballot box. On that front Trump didn't move the needle one bit. It only started to move after he was out of office.
I'm well aware of news rooms and jschools being full of women.
The good news is that conservatives will win the game in the end. Democrats aren't procreating and will be even more single in ten years while being pathetic enough to say,"I don't want to have children because of climate change" while traditional people are all about continuing the human race and passing on our line. Thankfully feminism could die out simply because they got independent enough to not have children. Whoopsies.
Thankfully many women are coming off the birth control pill too. So things might balance out eventually.
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1604924447210688512 (https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1604924447210688512)This is interesting framing because when I think of the Civil War in the context of an "attack on democracy" I think of all those people Lincoln had held by the military without trial for criticizing him despite the continued functioning of the courts along with conscription. :hmm
We literally just had an election where the black male vote did what it always does...vote overwhemingly for democrats, including female democrat candidates. Instead of focusing on statistical noise or finding ways to spin an argument beyond "we've gone from universal democrat support to near universal support" there's a bigger story here that no one is talking about: how come white women still vote predominantly for republicans, and why won't anyone bring that up?
The vast majority of black men voted for Stacy Abrams whereas nearly 70% of white women voted for Kemp. Yet pre-election, there were at least two articles a month claiming black men were refusing to support a black woman due to misogyny. We even got this gem:
https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1589653707838615552
We are now weeks past the election. Despite black men voting overwhelmingly for Abrams there hasn't been a single apology from chaos peddlers who pit black men against black women on purpose to sow discord. And no one is saying shit about the white women who rejected Abrams? Why? Because white women fund all of this shit. Most of these activists, "professors" and influencers are directly tied to white intersectional feminism funding. They won't call out white women because white women sign the checks.
Black men are the most liberal, progressive, "woke" voters in this country by a mile. Yet every 2-4 years the same black people - mainly black women activists - are trotted out to shit on black men and suggest we're the problem. And when we vote the way we always vote - and white women vote the way they always vote - these activists suddenly disappear into the shadows. Funny how that works.
Black men being told they cannot lead because black women are more worthy.
I've considered myself a feminist my whole life but intersectional feminism has taken up the core message of feminism for the past decade that I'm not sure it's worth labeling oneself as a feminist without push back. To be true, women's rights are important, but when it morphs into some radical behavior of hierarchy that displaces straight black men - a historically denigrated group - as oppressors I'm going to question my ties to it.You keep doing this, you're allowing others to control the definition of things and then turning against the things because of the people who identify that way.
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To me intersectional appears to be the end game of feminism and if it is, why continue to identify as a feminist when it has done catastrophic harm? Feminism tends to grow in waves. Do you think the next wave of feminism will be more moderate? It seems to be getting only more extreme thanks to social media. So how do you reconcile still identifying being a feminist when intersectional is the definition of feminism these days? This isn't the feminism of our youth which was pretty reasonable and rationale
I've considered myself a feminist my whole life but intersectional feminism has taken up the core message of feminism for the past decade that I'm not sure it's worth labeling oneself as a feminist without push back. To be true, women's rights are important, but when it morphs into some radical behavior of hierarchy that displaces straight black men - a historically denigrated group - as oppressors I'm going to question my ties to it.You keep doing this, you're allowing others to control the definition of things and then turning against the things because of the people who identify that way.
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To me intersectional appears to be the end game of feminism and if it is, why continue to identify as a feminist when it has done catastrophic harm? Feminism tends to grow in waves. Do you think the next wave of feminism will be more moderate? It seems to be getting only more extreme thanks to social media. So how do you reconcile still identifying being a feminist when intersectional is the definition of feminism these days? This isn't the feminism of our youth which was pretty reasonable and rationale
If intersectional feminism betrays the tenets of feminism (assume so for the sake of the argument) it doesn't follow to dismiss feminism, only those falsely claiming the label. If you support the tenets then it behooves you to defend the tenets against phony usurpers rather than to grant them the authority those tenets convey that they betray.
As a man, too, why should I identify as a feminist? That's a woman thing.
Well, identifying as something isn't as important as actually being it. But think about radical feminists, especially of the TERF variety like Jane Clare Jones, they see the importance of defending their version of feminism because they think feminism is actually important. They care about the label because it's become seen as a signifier of "good" but really their dispute and their passion is about the ideas, any chagrin about the label being "stolen" is because they think those claiming it are betraying the ideals. Nobody wants to give up something just because someone else has come along and claimed it especially when they don't seem to actually care about the subject enough to learn about it. Think about anything else like fans not liking movies not being true to the book or comic, console gamers looking down on mobile gamers, music fans criticizing fans of newer artists, etc. Ideas and philosophies are no different. That's why you have to expose and kill the revisionists rather than let them take control of the revolution.
I think that would depend on the extent of your belief in feminism. Like if someone said "I'm a feminist, all women should be strapped in and bred like cows" you'd object to their claim right? If someone says the latter part and you ask "how can you say that?" and they say "because I'm a feminist" then you're definitely going to dispute that. Just because a whole bunch of other people are also doing this isn't reason for you to get shaky about your hold on what feminism means.
You're a Muslim, think about Shia and Shiites, neither side gives up Islam because the other dude and a whole bunch of other dudes is totally wrong about Islam.
Good points. With Islam, since America isn't a Muslim nation, we come to the conclusion that,"they're Muslims. We disagree, but they're Muslim." I'd struggle to make to make that kind of concession with intersectional feminism the same way I am with Shia's. At least with Shia's I can still go to a Shia masjid and pray even if we disagree. I struggle to find any such commonalities with intersectional feminists.Well, the goal. I think you normally have to accept that people really do want the goals they say even if they're going about it completely in the wrong way or even in a way that guarantees failure. Like the Muslims have the shared goal of heaven (I assume, I'm trying to be general and broad here), all the "feminists" would want equality for women presumably. Plus when you start defining God or morality or equality or women, people are going to disagree. Take the abortion debate for example, people really struggle about the other side from them truly believing it's a violation of rights, so they have to construct some crazy theory about their secret TRUE goals of enslaving women or eating baby parts or whatever. Even me trying to be evenhanded in this way is going to trigger at least one person who will read this and be like "BUT THEY ACTUALLY DO BELIEVE THAT" because we often want to believe goals are legitimate so we must seek another way to delegitimize their views.
Now they say it’s up to Attorney General Merrick Garland or Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith to investigate or indict Trump, but they’re not waving federal prosecutors off from prosecuting the former president.
“The entire nation knows who is responsible for that day,” McConnell said in a statement, pointing the finger squarely at Trump in response to the House Jan. 6 committee referring four criminal charges against Trump to the Justice Department.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Laura Boebert are fighting.
Good points. With Islam, since America isn't a Muslim nation, we come to the conclusion that,"they're Muslims. We disagree, but they're Muslim." I'd struggle to make to make that kind of concession with intersectional feminism the same way I am with Shia's. At least with Shia's I can still go to a Shia masjid and pray even if we disagree. I struggle to find any such commonalities with intersectional feminists.Well, the goal. I think you normally have to accept that people really do want the goals they say even if they're going about it completely in the wrong way or even in a way that guarantees failure. Like the Muslims have the shared goal of heaven (I assume, I'm trying to be general and broad here), all the "feminists" would want equality for women presumably. Plus when you start defining God or morality or equality or women, people are going to disagree. Take the abortion debate for example, people really struggle about the other side from them truly believing it's a violation of rights, so they have to construct some crazy theory about their secret TRUE goals of enslaving women or eating baby parts or whatever. Even me trying to be evenhanded in this way is going to trigger at least one person who will read this and be like "BUT THEY ACTUALLY DO BELIEVE THAT" because we often want to believe goals are legitimate so we must seek another way to delegitimize their views.
This is one reason I'm big on pointing out when someones position fails on its own terms. Like if you're pro-life and arguing that any woman who gets an abortion should be put to death, I'm kinda missing the point if I'm trying to convince you to be pro-choice rather than just not stupid by your own standards. I think this is a lot of the core failure embedded in many of the intersectional stances aside from whether or not I agree with some of their other aspects.
omg
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1603123298530779139
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1603413524427874304
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Laura Boebert are fighting.
I think feminism is important in the sense that any struggle for equal rights is important. My issue is solely with intersectional feminism and the mental goal posts it shifts for people. Not to mention the threat it poses to black boys and black men when your teacher, doctor, therapist, etc essentially views you as inhuman or a natural predator that needs to be neutered (or worse). We've got a lot of women who love Bell Hooks and that alone is a problem. I'm not going to exaggerate and claim this is a majority or even close to it. But it's enough to cause problems when they enter academia.
I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of this shit has replaced black power and/or black nationalist ideals. Think about the conversations and goals that were once priorities. Black independence, black businesses, pan Africanism etc. Now we've got movements more interested in protesting police brutality by twerking. While doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible. That can't be a coincidence in this country. There's a clear agenda at work when dysfunction and resentment are being promoted between black men and black women. There's a clear agenda at work when black women are positioned as the image/spokesman for obesity - when they're also the people most likely to die of heart failure/hypertension/etc. Some wild shit is going on right now.
While doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible.
I think feminism is important in the sense that any struggle for equal rights is important. My issue is solely with intersectional feminism and the mental goal posts it shifts for people. Not to mention the threat it poses to black boys and black men when your teacher, doctor, therapist, etc essentially views you as inhuman or a natural predator that needs to be neutered (or worse). We've got a lot of women who love Bell Hooks and that alone is a problem. I'm not going to exaggerate and claim this is a majority or even close to it. But it's enough to cause problems when they enter academia.
I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of this shit has replaced black power and/or black nationalist ideals. Think about the conversations and goals that were once priorities. Black independence, black businesses, pan Africanism etc. Now we've got movements more interested in protesting police brutality by twerking. While doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible. That can't be a coincidence in this country. There's a clear agenda at work when dysfunction and resentment are being promoted between black men and black women. There's a clear agenda at work when black women are positioned as the image/spokesman for obesity - when they're also the people most likely to die of heart failure/hypertension/etc. Some wild shit is going on right now.
Did I touch a nerve in your world view?
I think feminism is important in the sense that any struggle for equal rights is important. My issue is solely with intersectional feminism and the mental goal posts it shifts for people. Not to mention the threat it poses to black boys and black men when your teacher, doctor, therapist, etc essentially views you as inhuman or a natural predator that needs to be neutered (or worse). We've got a lot of women who love Bell Hooks and that alone is a problem. I'm not going to exaggerate and claim this is a majority or even close to it. But it's enough to cause problems when they enter academia.
I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of this shit has replaced black power and/or black nationalist ideals. Think about the conversations and goals that were once priorities. Black independence, black businesses, pan Africanism etc. Now we've got movements more interested in protesting police brutality by twerking. While doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible. That can't be a coincidence in this country. There's a clear agenda at work when dysfunction and resentment are being promoted between black men and black women. There's a clear agenda at work when black women are positioned as the image/spokesman for obesity - when they're also the people most likely to die of heart failure/hypertension/etc. Some wild shit is going on right now.
I'm gonna preface this, I'm latinx(lol).
What I've seen happen, I deal with alot of small businesses doing this and that for them.
The increase of women who are POC in the past five years has been big.
To attribute this to feminism pushing out male POC voices is kind of...gross to be honest.
POC males basking in the side effect of patriarchy doesn't mean that colored males are being pushed aside. It means that they need to step up.QuoteWhile doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible.
Because there's a perverse taught in action to not let women get ahead.
I think feminism is important in the sense that any struggle for equal rights is important. My issue is solely with intersectional feminism and the mental goal posts it shifts for people. Not to mention the threat it poses to black boys and black men when your teacher, doctor, therapist, etc essentially views you as inhuman or a natural predator that needs to be neutered (or worse). We've got a lot of women who love Bell Hooks and that alone is a problem. I'm not going to exaggerate and claim this is a majority or even close to it. But it's enough to cause problems when they enter academia.
I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of this shit has replaced black power and/or black nationalist ideals. Think about the conversations and goals that were once priorities. Black independence, black businesses, pan Africanism etc. Now we've got movements more interested in protesting police brutality by twerking. While doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible. That can't be a coincidence in this country. There's a clear agenda at work when dysfunction and resentment are being promoted between black men and black women. There's a clear agenda at work when black women are positioned as the image/spokesman for obesity - when they're also the people most likely to die of heart failure/hypertension/etc. Some wild shit is going on right now.
I'm gonna preface this, I'm latinx(lol).
What I've seen happen, I deal with alot of small businesses doing this and that for them.
The increase of women who are POC in the past five years has been big.
To attribute this to feminism pushing out male POC voices is kind of...gross to be honest.
POC males basking in the side effect of patriarchy doesn't mean that colored males are being pushed aside. It means that they need to step up.QuoteWhile doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible.
Because there's a perverse taught in action to not let women get ahead.
Hold on I said nothing about businesses or employment. I'm talking about activist and community groups, where black male voices are being silenced or ignored and where the idea that black women are more marginalized has become dogma. I'm talking about anti-black men sentiments that are directly tied to intersectionality, and where the "black men are the white men of the community" mantra was birthed. It would certainly be ridiculous to say black men are being pushed out of employment opportunities in the private sector.
I definitely think a lot of it is tied to the dismantling of the black middle class, Himu. This is largely a product of dysfunction and a lack of opportunity. At the same time I think hammering victimhood into people's brains from a young age is harmful. This is not an argument against discussing discrimination or racism, both of which still exist and have huge impact on us.
Again, I want to go back to the differences in activism. My mom is old enough to remember the Detroit riots, tanks rolling down the street across from her house, and the Black Panthers. She vividly remembers the breakfast programs, community safety measures, urban farming, and other things the BPs introduced in Detroit and other cities. Or the way black entertainers and athletes were directly involved in helping finance these programs, the same way they directly helped finance MLK, Malcolm X, and the civil rights movement earlier. VS the activism of the last 5-10 years which has next to no real community focus. We went from focusing on our own community to begging white people for Oscars and money. We literally just watched BLM raise millions of dollars, spent it on themselves, and barely dole out anything to actual community programs or groups.
The point being, we now have an activist class that is exclusively focused on white people. And it's largely financed by white people (specifically white women). This gives white liberals the opportunity to absolve their sins by donating to "black causes" that ultimately don't do anything. And it allows a certain class of activists to earn a living while peddling the desired talking points. For all the complaining right wingers do about "woke" shit, deep down they are more comfortable with black people twerking in the face of cops, vs the things black people were doing during the black power movements...
There is no black patriarchy in this country. Black men have never benefited from it, and historically their maleness has been questioned or denied by white supremacy from the minute we landed in this continent.I think feminism is important in the sense that any struggle for equal rights is important. My issue is solely with intersectional feminism and the mental goal posts it shifts for people. Not to mention the threat it poses to black boys and black men when your teacher, doctor, therapist, etc essentially views you as inhuman or a natural predator that needs to be neutered (or worse). We've got a lot of women who love Bell Hooks and that alone is a problem. I'm not going to exaggerate and claim this is a majority or even close to it. But it's enough to cause problems when they enter academia.
I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of this shit has replaced black power and/or black nationalist ideals. Think about the conversations and goals that were once priorities. Black independence, black businesses, pan Africanism etc. Now we've got movements more interested in protesting police brutality by twerking. While doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible. That can't be a coincidence in this country. There's a clear agenda at work when dysfunction and resentment are being promoted between black men and black women. There's a clear agenda at work when black women are positioned as the image/spokesman for obesity - when they're also the people most likely to die of heart failure/hypertension/etc. Some wild shit is going on right now.
I'm gonna preface this, I'm latinx(lol).
What I've seen happen, I deal with alot of small businesses doing this and that for them.
The increase of women who are POC in the past five years has been big.
To attribute this to feminism pushing out male POC voices is kind of...gross to be honest.
POC males basking in the side effect of patriarchy doesn't mean that colored males are being pushed aside. It means that they need to step up.QuoteWhile doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible.
Because there's a perverse taught in action to not let women get ahead.
Hold on I said nothing about businesses or employment. I'm talking about activist and community groups, where black male voices are being silenced or ignored and where the idea that black women are more marginalized has become dogma. I'm talking about anti-black men sentiments that are directly tied to intersectionality, and where the "black men are the white men of the community" mantra was birthed. It would certainly be ridiculous to say black men are being pushed out of employment opportunities in the private sector.
These things don't exist in a vacuum by themselves. Business and politics are hand in hand.
There is a parallel in sexism throughout different races, where men come up on top. No one is "being silenced" black men, white men, latino men, they're being complacent. They are standing still .
There is a vast shift happening with women who realize that, "oh we don't need these assholes" to move upward.
There is no black patriarchy in this country. Black men have never benefited from it, and historically their maleness has been questioned or denied by white supremacy from the minute we landed in this continent.I think feminism is important in the sense that any struggle for equal rights is important. My issue is solely with intersectional feminism and the mental goal posts it shifts for people. Not to mention the threat it poses to black boys and black men when your teacher, doctor, therapist, etc essentially views you as inhuman or a natural predator that needs to be neutered (or worse). We've got a lot of women who love Bell Hooks and that alone is a problem. I'm not going to exaggerate and claim this is a majority or even close to it. But it's enough to cause problems when they enter academia.
I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of this shit has replaced black power and/or black nationalist ideals. Think about the conversations and goals that were once priorities. Black independence, black businesses, pan Africanism etc. Now we've got movements more interested in protesting police brutality by twerking. While doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible. That can't be a coincidence in this country. There's a clear agenda at work when dysfunction and resentment are being promoted between black men and black women. There's a clear agenda at work when black women are positioned as the image/spokesman for obesity - when they're also the people most likely to die of heart failure/hypertension/etc. Some wild shit is going on right now.
I'm gonna preface this, I'm latinx(lol).
What I've seen happen, I deal with alot of small businesses doing this and that for them.
The increase of women who are POC in the past five years has been big.
To attribute this to feminism pushing out male POC voices is kind of...gross to be honest.
POC males basking in the side effect of patriarchy doesn't mean that colored males are being pushed aside. It means that they need to step up.QuoteWhile doing everything in their power to push as many black men out of movements as possible.
Because there's a perverse taught in action to not let women get ahead.
Hold on I said nothing about businesses or employment. I'm talking about activist and community groups, where black male voices are being silenced or ignored and where the idea that black women are more marginalized has become dogma. I'm talking about anti-black men sentiments that are directly tied to intersectionality, and where the "black men are the white men of the community" mantra was birthed. It would certainly be ridiculous to say black men are being pushed out of employment opportunities in the private sector.
These things don't exist in a vacuum by themselves. Business and politics are hand in hand.
There is a parallel in sexism throughout different races, where men come up on top. No one is "being silenced" black men, white men, latino men, they're being complacent. They are standing still .
There is a vast shift happening with women who realize that, "oh we don't need these assholes" to move upward.
We gotta stop lumping black men in other groups, I'm talking about a very specific series of issues. Black men are being other-ized and stigmatized by black activists who sound more like white racists than actual white racists. That's a problem and it's stirring division. Nor do I agree the business and political/activist issues are tied together. The issues black men have with employment have nothing to do with black women or feminism, and everything to do with a lack of opportunity. And a lack of ambition/hard work in some cases, to be fair. We need to do better.
Nor do I agree the business and political/activist issues are tied together.
I did not say there was a black patriarchy
POC males basking in the side effect of patriarchy
QuoteNor do I agree the business and political/activist issues are tied together.
Why not?
PD consider that thread i got banned at Reset for and how it relates to our current discussion:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-banality-of-blackness.480124/
PD consider that thread i got banned at Reset for and how it relates to our current discussion:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-banality-of-blackness.480124/
I don't agree with much of this but will say...a lot of black art in film/tv seems to be going the way you describe and I have a theory for you. I feel like a lot of shit we've seen over the last few years is influenced by Get Out and Moonlight - two films I enjoyed. But the impression I get is that studios have wanted their own version of those films, and a lot of the projects greenlit since then have focused on trivializing the things that made those films so good. Specifically the commercialization of black trauma. When I look at shit like Lovecraft Country, Them, and nearly everything Lena Waithe does there's this very weird attempt to view racism and trauma through a horror lens that just feels...ugly.
Right wingers call it woke but it's more like exploitation. You take black trauma and white supremacy, turn them into motifs and then ape the cinematography from Moonlight (specifically the way darker black characters were lit in that film, the color contrasts etc) and boom...you've got most black shit over the last half decade. Half assed black hacks, and white studio execs and critics who are too scared to say "this sucks."
QuoteNor do I agree the business and political/activist issues are tied together.
Why not?
There isn't much of that type of politics in the business world, as it relates to race at least. Black women are graduating at a higher rate, and entering professional spaces at a higher rate. I don't see that advancement as political, at least not in the sense that we're talking about. It's moreso about opportunity as I mentioned earlier, plus black men not taking opportunities that they do have. We aren't being replaced or ignored...we've simply got to do a better job about completing school, mentoring, etc.
My view of the community and activist situation is the exact opposite. There is no education or financial barrier for entry, so it's a more even ground. Yet we are seeing the dominant black activist views right now focus on intersectionality and ignoring black men. If black men are "privileged" and the white men of the community, their needs can be ignored. After all, the black woman is more oppressed and needs more help so that's where the resources should go right. This is what I'm talking about. This is why black male mental health can be ignored or laughed about. Why no one cares about black male homelessness. Incarceration. The list goes on and on. When you silence the entire group by writing them off as patriarchal predators - or people who "dominate culture," whatever that means - it's easier to actively work against them. That's what is happening now and why I'm upset.
PD consider that thread i got banned at Reset for and how it relates to our current discussion:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-banality-of-blackness.480124/
I don't agree with much of this but will say...a lot of black art in film/tv seems to be going the way you describe and I have a theory for you. I feel like a lot of shit we've seen over the last few years is influenced by Get Out and Moonlight - two films I enjoyed. But the impression I get is that studios have wanted their own version of those films, and a lot of the projects greenlit since then have focused on trivializing the things that made those films so good. Specifically the commercialization of black trauma. When I look at shit like Lovecraft Country, Them, and nearly everything Lena Waithe does there's this very weird attempt to view racism and trauma through a horror lens that just feels...ugly.
Right wingers call it woke but it's more like exploitation. You take black trauma and white supremacy, turn them into motifs and then ape the cinematography from Moonlight (specifically the way darker black characters were lit in that film, the color contrasts etc) and boom...you've got most black shit over the last half decade. Half assed black hacks, and white studio execs and critics who are too scared to say "this sucks."
It's so weird how black trauma is such a thing to monetize now. Black art used to be inherently aspirational at the minimum (Cosby which has become tainted, Fresh Prince to a degree, A Different World), or every day at the maximum (Martin, Living Single, Boondocks, Bebe's Kids, Proud Family). Now so much of it hinges on strapping itself to the same activism we are talking about and are repulsed by.
I'm not sure what we're arguing at this point, I don't think we're talking about the same things. Of course black women advancing is good, and advancement in general. That's not political to me. I work at one of the largest financial firms in the country, I've hired more black women than black men. Largely because more are qualified/available. That's not because black women have "moved past" victimization. Certainly not in a world where many cast themselves as the premier victim in this country. Nor do I think the solution for black men is simply moving past that shit either. Part of it is behavioral sure. But a lot is about opportunity, and a system designed to ruin black men more than black women (incarceration).QuoteNor do I agree the business and political/activist issues are tied together.
Why not?
There isn't much of that type of politics in the business world, as it relates to race at least. Black women are graduating at a higher rate, and entering professional spaces at a higher rate. I don't see that advancement as political, at least not in the sense that we're talking about. It's moreso about opportunity as I mentioned earlier, plus black men not taking opportunities that they do have. We aren't being replaced or ignored...we've simply got to do a better job about completing school, mentoring, etc.
My view of the community and activist situation is the exact opposite. There is no education or financial barrier for entry, so it's a more even ground. Yet we are seeing the dominant black activist views right now focus on intersectionality and ignoring black men. If black men are "privileged" and the white men of the community, their needs can be ignored. After all, the black woman is more oppressed and needs more help so that's where the resources should go right. This is what I'm talking about. This is why black male mental health can be ignored or laughed about. Why no one cares about black male homelessness. Incarceration. The list goes on and on. When you silence the entire group by writing them off as patriarchal predators - or people who "dominate culture," whatever that means - it's easier to actively work against them. That's what is happening now and why I'm upset.
You don't see the advancement of women who are POC getting into the professional space as advancement? Who do you think makes the rules?
Black males are not predators.
People are victims of their upbringings.
Black women have taken it upon themselves to move past that.
PD consider that thread i got banned at Reset for and how it relates to our current discussion:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-banality-of-blackness.480124/
I don't agree with much of this but will say...a lot of black art in film/tv seems to be going the way you describe and I have a theory for you. I feel like a lot of shit we've seen over the last few years is influenced by Get Out and Moonlight - two films I enjoyed. But the impression I get is that studios have wanted their own version of those films, and a lot of the projects greenlit since then have focused on trivializing the things that made those films so good. Specifically the commercialization of black trauma. When I look at shit like Lovecraft Country, Them, and nearly everything Lena Waithe does there's this very weird attempt to view racism and trauma through a horror lens that just feels...ugly.
Right wingers call it woke but it's more like exploitation. You take black trauma and white supremacy, turn them into motifs and then ape the cinematography from Moonlight (specifically the way darker black characters were lit in that film, the color contrasts etc) and boom...you've got most black shit over the last half decade. Half assed black hacks, and white studio execs and critics who are too scared to say "this sucks."
It's so weird how black trauma is such a thing to monetize now. Black art used to be inherently aspirational at the minimum (Cosby which has become tainted, Fresh Prince to a degree, A Different World), or every day at the maximum (Martin, Living Single, Boondocks, Bebe's Kids, Proud Family). Now so much of it hinges on strapping itself to the same activism we are talking about and are repulsed by.
All this started happening at the exact same time too. Lovecraft Country, Them, and everything Lena Waithe does. That was like 2020, 2021, etc.
https://youtu.be/WL3Jz8fDgFI
I haven't seen the show but there's a scene in this where a pregnant woman is raped while giving birth, and the baby is removed from her and smashed to pieces. This obsession with presenting disgusting, traumatic images of black pain is obscene.
I'm not opposed to depictions or discussions of black trauma, mind you. I'm talking about when it is used as nothing more than a horror gag. You can tell these showrunners are selling this shit as treating black trauma like a Game Of Thrones twist or something.
I haven't seen the show but there's a scene in this where a pregnant woman is raped while giving birth, and the baby is removed from her and smashed to pieces.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1605376162460729344 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1605376162460729344)Is "RIGG" a reference to something in particular? These things are always so hard to decode.
lol far left twitter trying to push for scotus judge tax returns but only on the republicans of courseDo they think the Justices are getting secretly paid (to support positions they've long held, especially Thomas who has been on the Court for 30 years) and just going to list it on their tax returns? And this will lead to Republicans voting to impeach them to allow Biden to appoint Democratic Justices?
https://twitter.com/JDCocchiarella/status/1540726209058856963I don't understand how someone can actually think this is some kind of debate win, all it does is shift the debate to what is or is not a human right. I know from experience that these people consider all kinds of human rights, like free speech or ownership over your own labor, to not actually be human rights.
Preparing for any potential war against Iran, the Biden administration has formally elevated Israel in military planning. Israel's changed status comes as the U.S. military refocuses from the 'war on terror' to potential combat with the big four—China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran.
As Israel has become a full-fledged military partner, the U.S. intelligence community is also putting more emphasis on its Hebrew language program to spy on its number-one Mideast ally.
Is it a human right to own a firearm? Our Bill of Rights says it is. Which human rights does he respect? Which does he belittle? Oh, excuse me buttercup, we can't be friends because I don't prioritize the human rights you care about. Funny how that works. And there's your brain on leftism, if you have any noodles left after the fact.A minor distinction but the rights in the Constitution are generally considered constitutional rights, they may or may not also be human rights. Most people, being anti-gun, would not consider the right to have a gun a human right. (And as we've seen recently nor the right to self-defense to be a human right.) Is the death penalty a violation of human rights? The Constitution has been interpreted to both ban and allow this practice. We'd assume that being put to death by the state despite being innocent should be a human right but the American Constitution currently is interpreted to allow this. For another consider the right to vote at 18? What makes 18 so special other than that's when you can go into the U.S. military which was the main argument for lowering the age?
I'm not sure what we're arguing at this point, I don't think we're talking about the same things. Of course black women advancing is good, and advancement in general. That's not political to me. I work at one of the largest financial firms in the country, I've hired more black women than black men. Largely because more are qualified/available. That's not because black women have "moved past" victimization. Certainly not in a world where many cast themselves as the premier victim in this country. Nor do I think the solution for black men is simply moving past that shit either. Part of it is behavioral sure. But a lot is about opportunity, and a system designed to ruin black men more than black women (incarceration).QuoteNor do I agree the business and political/activist issues are tied together.
Why not?
There isn't much of that type of politics in the business world, as it relates to race at least. Black women are graduating at a higher rate, and entering professional spaces at a higher rate. I don't see that advancement as political, at least not in the sense that we're talking about. It's moreso about opportunity as I mentioned earlier, plus black men not taking opportunities that they do have. We aren't being replaced or ignored...we've simply got to do a better job about completing school, mentoring, etc.
My view of the community and activist situation is the exact opposite. There is no education or financial barrier for entry, so it's a more even ground. Yet we are seeing the dominant black activist views right now focus on intersectionality and ignoring black men. If black men are "privileged" and the white men of the community, their needs can be ignored. After all, the black woman is more oppressed and needs more help so that's where the resources should go right. This is what I'm talking about. This is why black male mental health can be ignored or laughed about. Why no one cares about black male homelessness. Incarceration. The list goes on and on. When you silence the entire group by writing them off as patriarchal predators - or people who "dominate culture," whatever that means - it's easier to actively work against them. That's what is happening now and why I'm upset.
You don't see the advancement of women who are POC getting into the professional space as advancement? Who do you think makes the rules?
Black males are not predators.
People are victims of their upbringings.
Black women have taken it upon themselves to move past that.
https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1605252238749839361Sorry Don, your legal jams sell too many newspapers so we have to make prosecutions great again :trumps
Is it a human right to own a firearm? Our Bill of Rights says it is. Which human rights does he respect? Which does he belittle? Oh, excuse me buttercup, we can't be friends because I don't prioritize the human rights you care about. Funny how that works. And there's your brain on leftism, if you have any noodles left after the fact.A minor distinction but the rights in the Constitution are generally considered constitutional rights, they may or may not also be human rights. Most people, being anti-gun, would not consider the right to have a gun a human right. (And as we've seen recently nor the right to self-defense to be a human right.) Is the death penalty a violation of human rights? The Constitution has been interpreted to both ban and allow this practice. We'd assume that being put to death by the state despite being innocent should be a human right but the American Constitution currently is interpreted to allow this. For another consider the right to vote at 18? What makes 18 so special other than that's when you can go into the U.S. military which was the main argument for lowering the age?
To pick a related example (and one that's not a constitutional right) I consider conscription to be slavery and therefore a violation of human rights. Almost nobody else on the planet believes this, they think that your human rights end when the state decides it wants to fight with another state.
I know it's a distinction, but for me it's personal. The 13th amendment after all, is the law the disallowed slavery from being legally practice. So for me it's an inch between constitutional right and human right. In my perspective I view them as one and the same.You are simply restating your view not reading what I said. A constitutional right may or may not correspond with a human right and vice versa. Appealing to the Constitution is not appealing to a human right because not everything in the Constitution is typically considered a human right.
Interesting take on conscription. Personally, as men, I find it our duty to protect our homes with our lives and wish we had mandatory service in America. We would probably be a stronger nation overall. My main criticism of conscription and being drafted are unjust wars such as Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. America since WWII has done nothing but get out noses into messes that don't need us leading to pointless wars, pointless drafts, and pointless deaths. So I think conscription is worth scrutinizing despite thinking it has merit. For example, where would we be as a nation without it given the Revolutionary and Civil Wars? Also without conscription in WWII there probably wouldn't have been a Civil Rights Movement.Why should I have a duty to be enslaved by the state for the states wishes at any time? Especially when I have not been convicted of a crime, the only allowance for slavery under the 13th Amendment you just mentioned?
I know it's a distinction, but for me it's personal. The 13th amendment after all, is the law the disallowed slavery from being legally practice. So for me it's an inch between constitutional right and human right. In my perspective I view them as one and the same.You are simply restating your view not reading what I said. A constitutional right may or may not correspond with a human right and vice versa. Appealing to the Constitution is not appealing to a human right because not everything in the Constitution is typically considered a human right.Interesting take on conscription. Personally, as men, I find it our duty to protect our homes with our lives and wish we had mandatory service in America. We would probably be a stronger nation overall. My main criticism of conscription and being drafted are unjust wars such as Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq. America since WWII has done nothing but get out noses into messes that don't need us leading to pointless wars, pointless drafts, and pointless deaths. So I think conscription is worth scrutinizing despite thinking it has merit. For example, where would we be as a nation without it given the Revolutionary and Civil Wars? Also without conscription in WWII there probably wouldn't have been a Civil Rights Movement.Why should I have a duty to be enslaved by the state for the states wishes at any time? Especially when I have not been convicted of a crime, the only allowance for slavery under the 13th Amendment you just mentioned?
There was no conscription during the Revolutionary War and conscription during the Civil War accomplished nothing but sending the poor to fight while exempting the rich.
Mandatory service to me seems to be the most un-American concept possible. You should have to give up years of your life simply to be a tool of the state for the state's goals and for what? What's even the larger goal supposed to be in a free society other than giving free labor to the state? Is there even a possible goal that isn't abhorrent?
Were these men, who were treated with more dignity and respect abroad as drafted soldiers enslaved?Uh, yeah, they were. That whole part where they didn't consent to it and weren't allowed to refuse.
These men, who were walked over, boot over neck, by their own country would be among the first to refuse a draft and look how it worked out.Might have been quite different had they been sent into combat to die en masse.
Were these men, who were treated with more dignity and respect abroad as drafted soldiers enslaved?Uh, yeah, they were. That whole part where they didn't consent to it and weren't allowed to refuse.
I also don't think there's any support for the idea that they were "treated like kings" and this awoke them to their state in America either. It completely erases the known Black experience in America for something that'd be quite difficult to show any evidence of.These men, who were walked over, boot over neck, by their own country would be among the first to refuse a draft and look how it worked out.Might have been quite different had they been sent into combat to die en masse.
And no, I don't think Black men "learned" about their state by going abroad because this requires you to ignore all the writing Black people did about the injustice before other Black men went abroad
You just disputed the only example you came up with and still haven't outlined any possible goal that would justify it.
The perversity of the United States fighting Hitler’s master-race ideology with an army segregated by race was not lost on African Americans. Military service was also a fresh humiliation for Black enlistees who had never experienced segregation. “Whether one was a graduate of Harvard Law School or was a sharecropper in Georgia with a second-grade education, he was swept into the same brutally segregated American military,” says Rawn James, Jr., author of The Double V—How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military. “That united African Americans under one common cause that would have a tangible benefit for all of them.”
I did not dispute it. In fact it adds to my favor.???
Black men had the least amount of reasons to be drafted in this country during the days of segregations height. They weren't even citizens in their own nation and they had to fight for it? And yet, what ends up happening was black men in America were treated very well in non American nations. It disarmed them and they gained a semblance of true freedom. The Civil Rights Movement in many ways started abroad in foreign borders (https://www.americanairmuseum.com/stories/black-americans-britain-sww). When these same men arrived back home only to be denied the GI Bill benefits, and segregated once again, within ten years there was a massive movement of getting rid of segregation. Do you go back to second class citizenship after being treated like a king? No sir, you do not. You could probably even trace the British Invasion of Rock and Roll to WWII and black soldiers stationed in the UK. Conscription isn't all bad. Were these men, who were treated with more dignity and respect abroad as drafted soldiers enslaved? These men, who were walked over, boot over neck, by their own country would be among the first to refuse fighting for USA but many were drafted and look how it worked out.
You don't think black men being treated well abroad and like humans wouldn't trigger them into ending segregation after they fought for their lives in the shit?
If Black men didn't learn about their status in America from being conscripted and sent abroad then you've just lost the only point you've made in favor of being conscripted. One I was willing to concede to ask how this could possibly be a justification for mass mandatory conscription.And no, I don't think Black men "learned" about their state by going abroad because this requires you to ignore all the writing Black people did about the injustice before other Black men went abroad
I'm not understanding this argument. It's not being said at all.
I did not dispute it. In fact it adds to my favor.???Black men had the least amount of reasons to be drafted in this country during the days of segregations height. They weren't even citizens in their own nation and they had to fight for it? And yet, what ends up happening was black men in America were treated very well in non American nations. It disarmed them and they gained a semblance of true freedom. The Civil Rights Movement in many ways started abroad in foreign borders (https://www.americanairmuseum.com/stories/black-americans-britain-sww). When these same men arrived back home only to be denied the GI Bill benefits, and segregated once again, within ten years there was a massive movement of getting rid of segregation. Do you go back to second class citizenship after being treated like a king? No sir, you do not. You could probably even trace the British Invasion of Rock and Roll to WWII and black soldiers stationed in the UK. Conscription isn't all bad. Were these men, who were treated with more dignity and respect abroad as drafted soldiers enslaved? These men, who were walked over, boot over neck, by their own country would be among the first to refuse fighting for USA but many were drafted and look how it worked out.You don't think black men being treated well abroad and like humans wouldn't trigger them into ending segregation after they fought for their lives in the shit?If Black men didn't learn about their status in America from being conscripted and sent abroad then you've just lost the only point you've made in favor of being conscripted. One I was willing to concede to ask how this could possibly be a justification for mass mandatory conscription.And no, I don't think Black men "learned" about their state by going abroad because this requires you to ignore all the writing Black people did about the injustice before other Black men went abroad
I'm not understanding this argument. It's not being said at all.
Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring
Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and is the author of two books on the Supreme Court.
We have now lived with the consequences of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s late-life arrogance for more than two years.
In 2014, President Barack Obama was in office and Democrats controlled the Senate, empowering them to confirm a new justice if Justice Ginsburg had left the Supreme Court. Ginsburg was a two-time cancer survivor in her 80s, the oldest member of a 5-4 Court where the right to an abortion — and perhaps even the right to vote in reasonably fair elections — teetered on a knife’s edge.
When she died in the final months of the Trump presidency, Ginsburg told her granddaughters her last desire: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” It amounted to nothing. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court, a seat that until recently belonged to the greatest women’s rights lawyer in American history, is now held by her ideological opposite.
Now, eight years later, the question arises: Should Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, 68 and 62, respectively, do what Ginsburg would not?
1-3 are all absurd and you'll never be able to provide proof of any of them, I highly doubt 4 is supported by the historical record and this is basically American mythology.
If you have to conscript people to fight your war, your war isn't needed. This violates consent of the governed and is making excuses for slavery. I'm skeptical of the World War II figures because the draft was enacted in peacetime before Pearl Harbor, it wasn't a reaction to insufficient volunteers. Say I grant you WWII, the only time in history the United States has ever been attacked, how does this justify mandatory mass conscription during peacetime?
And, yes, of course all taxes are theft. :lol
1-3 are all absurd and you'll never be able to provide proof of any of them
Data shows service years have led to improved education outcomes, career advancement and higher wages, and even crime reduction in some cities.
But it seems you're against conscription on generalYeah, like I said at the start.
During war time they need everyone to pitch in because everything goes to the war effort. Conscription is one such means to go about it. I brought up the WWII stat to show that without the draft we wouldn't haven't had enough to fight the Axis in WWII. This is fact. Even when America was attacked there weren't enough voluntary soldiers to win a war.No, that's not a fact. Nowhere did you show this. You only showed what happened with a peacetime draft already in place. The United States didn't even remotely draft all the men it could have.
As a citizen of a country you tie yourself to a contract so to speak. If you're drafted, rescind your citizenship. End of. No one is forcing you to be enslaved.lmao, so either you're enslaved by duty of mere birth or you have to give up your citizenship and become stateless and thus have zero protected rights anywhere on the planet because the "liberty" of the state to go to war with whoever it wants whenever it wants overrides your right not to be enslaved even when the Constitution specifically outlaws slavery.
I'll say this about conscription: it's not nice, but necessary. If I'm drafted to fight Russia I'll do so because my country wants me to and my country's liberty supercedes my own at that moment in time.
Could you imagine if USA had mandatory military service? Gangster's would have some place to go. Kids from the ghetto would get discipline and skills to take back with them. The class divide might lessen because everyone and their influencer kid would have to do military service. It would make Americans more humble and more appreciative.You seriously cannot believe this nonsense. You think a mere year of service, which will never have everyone being put in the military as every proposal always allows for "alternative" service, is going to do anything but steal a year from people? You think it will lessen the class divide to take a year of work away from poor kids? You think it will lessen the class divide despite every draft in history resulting in the rich finding ways out of equal service? What skills will "kids from the ghetto" possibly learn in a year if they've gained relatively nothing from the already mandatory twelve years of schooling? You think the military wants to spend a year of non-combat (because you aren't handed guns and sent out immediately) training on everyone? You think prospective college freshmen are going to gain anything from a year before they can finally hop off to college? Does that twelve years of schooling make Americans more humble and appreciative or do they fucking hate it and spend the rest of their lives wanting to mess with it constantly and probably make it even worse by attaching all their current neuroses to it?
Moreover mandatory service means more fit population.
Moreover mandatory service means more fit population
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1605988493267595265 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1605988493267595265)
The war rages on
Come on Joe, don't grab ass in public - not even if it belongs to you. :lol10% for the big guy :biden
But it seems you're against conscription on generalYeah, like I said at the start.During war time they need everyone to pitch in because everything goes to the war effort. Conscription is one such means to go about it. I brought up the WWII stat to show that without the draft we wouldn't haven't had enough to fight the Axis in WWII. This is fact. Even when America was attacked there weren't enough voluntary soldiers to win a war.No, that's not a fact. Nowhere did you show this. You only showed what happened with a peacetime draft already in place. The United States didn't even remotely draft all the men it could have.
And you're granting that the wars are justified in the first place even as you started this conversation by pointing out just a few of the American wars that were not justified and will further on in this post reiterate this point. You can't even get close to justifying a draft without pointing to the one instance when the U.S. didn't start a war by itself and had already been drafting people.As a citizen of a country you tie yourself to a contract so to speak. If you're drafted, rescind your citizenship. End of. No one is forcing you to be enslaved.lmao, so either you're enslaved by duty of mere birth or you have to give up your citizenship and become stateless and thus have zero protected rights anywhere on the planet because the "liberty" of the state to go to war with whoever it wants whenever it wants overrides your right not to be enslaved even when the Constitution specifically outlaws slavery.
I'll say this about conscription: it's not nice, but necessary. If I'm drafted to fight Russia I'll do so because my country wants me to and my country's liberty supercedes my own at that moment in time.Could you imagine if USA had mandatory military service? Gangster's would have some place to go. Kids from the ghetto would get discipline and skills to take back with them. The class divide might lessen because everyone and their influencer kid would have to do military service. It would make Americans more humble and more appreciative.You seriously cannot believe this nonsense. You think a mere year of service, which will never have everyone being put in the military as every proposal always allows for "alternative" service, is going to do anything but steal a year from people? You think it will lessen the class divide to take a year of work away from poor kids? You think it will lessen the class divide despite every draft in history resulting in the rich finding ways out of equal service? What skills will "kids from the ghetto" possibly learn in a year if they've gained relatively nothing from the already mandatory twelve years of schooling? You think the military wants to spend a year of non-combat (because you aren't handed guns and sent out immediately) training on everyone? You think prospective college freshmen are going to gain anything from a year before they can finally hop off to college? Does that twelve years of schooling make Americans more humble and appreciative or do they fucking hate it and spend the rest of their lives wanting to mess with it constantly and probably make it even worse by attaching all their current neuroses to it?
Moreover mandatory service means more fit population.
There are absolutely no benefits to conscription without appeal to some mythical "higher purpose" horseshit. It's just nationalist jerking off about making people submit to the state so they hopefully learn their place as nothing more than a cog in the machine that can have their lives upended at anytime to serve the state's desires. It's completely absurd that we rightly can't be forced to pledge allegiance to the flag but can have everything stolen from us so we can be imprisoned or murdered simply because the state wants to kill some foreigners. Especially now that we live in an era where the state doesn't even follow the law to start its wars all over the globe and the President does this solely on a personal whim.
I also think you might forgive some vigilance on this point considering how quickly you went from championing our constitutional rights as human rights against a leftist/liberal to wanting to write an additional exception in on the hopes it might potentially be a worthwhile social policy to force everyone through it or strip their citizenship from them.
That picture right there...all the evidence you ever needed to confirm that there ARE lizard-headed alien overlords running the world.Come on Joe, don't grab ass in public - not even if it belongs to you. :lol10% for the big guy :biden
*hell gate noises*
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1605919631289589767 (https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1605919631289589767)
*hell gate noises*
In previous generations it was expected that if Uncle Sam called, you came. ... But the ideal wouldn't have won World War II and unfortunately in this life sometimes force is necessary.These two things cannot both be true. You're trying to lean on a single example, the only time when America was ever attacked, so you can ignore all the other times the draft was used purely to provide poor people as fodder for the state's ill-advised policy choices. We have absolutely zero idea if volunteers were enough to win World War II like all the rest of America's successful conflicts where they were.
But we do live in a society and whether good or bad you really can't expect a nation to not conscript during war time, either.I absolutely can because that was the United States before 1917 and has been effectively the case since 1973 when it has reached the apex of its global military power.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkqxcYdX0AE4t4I?format=jpg)If he has the evidence he should try submitting it in court another 60 times or so. :girlaff
oh shi, all caps
ALL HE IS DOING IS USING THE TWITTER LEGAL PRINCIPLE OF "accusations are evidence" WHICH WAS WELL-ESTABLISHED BY THE #metoo MOVEMENT AND RESETERA.COM PROMINENT MEMBERS.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkqxcYdX0AE4t4I?format=jpg)If he has the evidence he should try submitting it in court another 60 times or so. :girlaff
oh shi, all caps
The continued prevalence of hate speech and crimes against American citizens and residents on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability is evidence of the enduring threat of hate crimes to the fabric of American democratic society and to the safety and security of individuals.
In light of this threat, I write to underscore that the First Amendment and Supreme Court precedent do not require courts always to strike down a government entity's attempts to prevent harm to their citizens
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One aspect of those values is a central understanding of the dignity and respect that must be afforded to all citizens and people, regardless of any personal characteristics or attributes like race, religion, and sexual orientation, and the role of that respect for the individual in the healthy functioning of a multiracial, pluralistic democracy. As Justice [Brennan] stated …, we recognize "that respect for the individual which is the lifeblood of the law." The flipside of that central understanding is that hate speech is antithetical to the values of this nation.
Hateful speech encourages hateful thoughts, which lead to hateful goals of individuals; those, in turn, lead to hateful actions and sometimes violence, resulting in harm to the public.
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We may properly consider the incalculable harm that hate speech can cause ethnic or racial minorities in the context of school settings. Justice Thomas's words are illustrative in this evaluation: "In every culture, certain things acquire meaning well beyond what outsiders can comprehend." His words counsel us to keep in mind the differing cultural and historical circumstances that might lead different groups to experience hate speech differently. Children go to school to enrich their lives and gain knowledge and skills to assist their full and productive participation in society. But consider how an African American child must feel if confronted with images sent to other students portraying the child as inferior, as less intelligent and as less human. As in the facts of the case before us, African American children may be particularly sensitive to imagery portraying them as slaves or akin to animals.
Similarly, Jewish children may be particularly sensitive to images portraying them as rats or vermin, or even insects, as was done in Nazi Germany as prelude to the Holocaust. Indeed, each ethnic, racial, or other minority group will recognize visual images or verbal phrasings that dehumanize their community and encourage hate to be visited upon them, resulting in the disruption or interference with their effective learning process. Such an inquiry must be fact-specific and unique to the circumstances of each case, but in an especially egregious example like the case before us today, the answer is clear, as expressed in the majority opinion. In my view, civilized society should not tolerate imagery encouraging hate; government bodies, consistent with the Constitution, can and should be able to take steps to stop it.
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government officials more broadly, should not be unduly constrained in their attempts to regulate hate speech for the purpose of protecting the intended targets of said speech. This may require some refining of the Supreme Court's prior guidance in its precedents. For example, while recognizing that my views on hate speech may be less protective of speech than some current doctrine, I would conclude here that the racist characterizations and images, dehumanizing African Americans students, is sufficient to show a threat of imminent violence, fights or other attacks on African Americans
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Refocusing our attention on the hate speech issues in this case, I conclude that "just as one cannot burn down someone's house to make a political point and then seek refuge in the First Amendment, those who hate cannot terrorize and intimidate to make their point." In our case, the culprits believed that they could escape the consequences of their hate speech that generated indisputable fear and intimidation in their targeted student victims because their conduct was couched in avowed "speech." If the Supreme Court decides to reassess its precedents in this area, I urge them to not blink the fact of grievous harm that hate speech causes its targets. I also urge the Court not to give any First Amendment protection for racist hate speech. For example, the Court could consider modifying the Brandenburg test to require only a probable and emerging threat of violence rather than imminent lawless action as a result of speech in order to regulate it. Regardless, I would adopt an expansive view of the ability of government officials who regulate schools to protect the future citizens they are bound to serve and educate.
Deep state war is heating up.The Adults are Back in Charge™ and paranoid about the Secret Service again. :american
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1607848139104620544
:biden :tinfoil :doge
Deep state war is heating up.
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1607848139104620544
:biden :tinfoil :doge
“After my firm filed suit on separation of powers grounds to block January 6 House Select Committee’s illegitimate subpoena to President Trump over his activities while president — the committee waved the white flag & withdrew subpoena,” Dhillon said in a tweet Wednesday.lmao, all you did was run out the clock
“We were confident of victory,” she added, “in court, given precedent & refusal of prior presidents to testify in Congress. J6 committee wasted millions for a purely political witch-hunt, total abuse of process & power serving no legitimate legislative purpose.”
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1608890202998870017 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1608890202998870017)
:dead
More of those Adults™ at work:I hadn't seen that he's trying to defend himself:
twitter.com/thehill/status/1608251701890252801
This week alone, he called on the state Supreme Court to convene a grand jury to look into “any and all wrongdoing” with respect to the development and promotion of COVID-19 vaccines — getting into a public battle with Anthony Fauci, the White House adviser on COVID-19 and a target of the right, in the process.
Weighing in this week on the newly signed Respect for Marriage Act, which enshrines into law federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples, DeSantis said there was “certainly no need” for such a measure.
He also raised concerns about what the law could mean for religious institutions opposed to same-sex marriage.
“They are using the power, I think, of the federal government in ways that will absolutely put religious institutions in difficult spots if you have people that are so inclined to be very aggressive against that,” DeSantis told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Tuesday.
A tale of two parties.
As 2023 gets underway, the GOP is experiencing ‘a big belly flop’ (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/2023-gets-underway-gop-experiencing-big-belly-flop-rcna63939)
Top Biden adviser: White House heads into new year with ‘strong jolt of momentum’ (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3780765-top-biden-adviser-white-house-heads-into-new-year-with-strong-jolt-of-momentum/)
Tbf it's depressing progressive legislation can only get passed every 10-15 years the GOPers have a big in-fight, but I guess the pendulum swings both ways there.
A tale of two parties.
As 2023 gets underway, the GOP is experiencing ‘a big belly flop’ (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/2023-gets-underway-gop-experiencing-big-belly-flop-rcna63939)
Top Biden adviser: White House heads into new year with ‘strong jolt of momentum’ (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3780765-top-biden-adviser-white-house-heads-into-new-year-with-strong-jolt-of-momentum/)
Tbf it's depressing progressive legislation can only get passed every 10-15 years the GOPers have a big in-fight, but I guess the pendulum swings both ways there.
As said before and it is unfortunate given how satanic Progressive policy truly is, this decade belongs to the Democratic Party. There's no way Biden is losing. He is the most effective Democratic President since LBJ or FDR in terms of getting their agenda across. But this will also make Dems cocky and bubbling on the surface is a rising counter culture. The next decade, politically, will be interesting. And frightening. Let's see how things flip in interesting ways. NY beginning to flip red is an interesting sign of things to come once Republicans are done with Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3777139-desantis-tacks-further-right-amid-2024-speculation/I'm no expert on Florida so I'll assume he got that part about grand juries correct (or the reporter got it wrong) but I'm going to suggest this is outside the jurisdiction of Florida.QuoteThis week alone, he called on the state Supreme Court to convene a grand jury to look into “any and all wrongdoing” with respect to the development and promotion of COVID-19 vaccines
NY beginning to flip red is an interesting sign of things to come once Republicans are done with Trump.You might want to slow your roll about less than a handful of seats flipping in a midterm before you're too disappointed when the state votes 65+% for Democrats in 2024.
NY beginning to flip red is an interesting sign of things to come once Republicans are done with Trump.
You might want to slow your roll about less than a handful of seats flipping in a midterm before you're too disappointed when the state votes 65+% for Democrats in 2024.
They downplay social and cultural issues and focus on economic and governance ones. This is every Republican in the Boston-DC corridor for the last 30 years or more and half the ones before then back nearly a century.
I don't disagree, but their voters do!
“This is an utter, unmitigated disaster,” ex-White House chief of staff and George W. Bush operative Karl Rove exclaimed to John Roberts on Fox News Channel earlier today as Republicans self-cannibalized. “Chaos tends to bring about chaos until it no longer brings about chaos. We’re a long way from the point at which chaos stops bringing around more chaos.”
“Insanity is a good word to use when we talk of this group,” ex-GOP operative Wallace replied to Sherman of her past party partners and the ever-increasing demands on McCarthy by the likes of the Freedom Caucus and others.
Why is “wife” in scare quotes? :dead
Is the speaker like where it is in Britain where it's just some dickhead shouting order? If so why does anyone care :heh
Is the speaker like where it is in Britain where it's just some dickhead shouting order? If so why does anyone care :hehNo, it's not at all like the Commonwealth Speakers (the Speaker of the House actually rarely presides personally), it's effectively the PM stripped of the executive functions. The Speaker has control over all business in the House, although it's not technically true because of rule changes, you basically do not get to bring something up for a vote in the House without the Speaker's permission.
So many non-Americans here :existentialWe can't help it if your parliament is where the best laughs are to be had...
So many non-Americans here :existential
benji, how likely is it we get to the next election cycle and there's still no speakerProbably pretty unlikely, there's been much more contested elections in the past, though only one after the Civil War. After the 1854 election it took 133 ballots and two months with 135 different people getting votes and they had to change the rules to allow a plurality.
twitter.com/MattLaslo/status/1610346549888057346https://twitter.com/RobertGarcia/status/1610396414353313793
twitter.com/MattLaslo/status/1610346549888057346https://twitter.com/RobertGarcia/status/1610396414353313793
So many non-Americans here :existentialWe can't help it if your parliament is where the best laughs are to be had...
:elon
that's not an original superman #1 is it...?That's Action Comics #1:
he's supposed to be throwing a car and there's an extremely distraught man in the corner
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Every day this goes on is one less day to get to the bottom of the Hunter Biden laptop. Dont they know whats at stake???THANK YOU JAMES LISTEN TO THE MAN:
“Are you guys watching the Speakership fest?” comedian Kathy Griffin, a vocal critic of former President Trump, said in a video posted on Tik Tok. “I know it’s bad for the country, but it’s good for us.”
Why isn't the vote a simple majority?It is?
Why isn't the vote a simple majority?
Nobody got a majority on any of those ballots.Why isn't the vote a simple majority?
Sigh, if only...
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Why isn't the vote a simple majority?It is?
Nobody got a majority on any of those ballots.Why isn't the vote a simple majority?
Sigh, if only...
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Isn't a simple majority the most votes?That's a plurality.
Isn't a simple majority the most votes?That's a plurality.
And you can't have a minority party organize the body, Occam will call you a threat to democracy.
Depends on your definition.Why isn't the vote a simple majority?It is?
Isn't a simple majority the most votes?
This just clicked me for me.I'm actually seeing a lot of people elsewhere not getting it, so I'll put it another way. If it was just a plurality/most votes, it wouldn't matter anyway. Jeffries can be Speaker and nothing will happen because the Republicans still have a majority so the Democrats will lose every vote. Democrats can have every chair of every committee if they want, the Republicans will still be the majorities in those and nothing can be done without the majority. The only instances where anything would happen would be all the unanimous random shit they do like name some bathroom in some park after some guy or whenever enough Republicans split off which could happen in committees because you only need a couple but once it advances to the floor that's not enough votes.
I pride myself in being condensing and this is embarrassing.
This just clicked me for me.I'm actually seeing a lot of people elsewhere not getting it, so I'll put it another way. If it was just a plurality/most votes, it wouldn't matter anyway. Jeffries can be Speaker and nothing will happen because the Republicans still have a majority so the Democrats will lose every vote. Democrats can have every chair of every committee if they want, the Republicans will still be the majorities in those and nothing can be done without the majority. The only instances where anything would happen would be all the unanimous random shit they do like name some bathroom in some park after some guy or whenever enough Republicans split off which could happen in committees because you only need a couple but once it advances to the floor that's not enough votes.
I pride myself in being condensing and this is embarrassing.
The more likely scenario (after the insurgents just giving up at some point) is the Republicans find a compromise candidate enough Democrats can support but at the moment the Democrats have no incentive to break ranks to start the session when the Republicans can look stupid and nothing of value is being lost anyway. The Democrats crying to the media about "what if there's an emergency? We won't be able to hold a hearing" should be obvious for what it is. (Say there was an emergency that needed the House to actually do something, the House can at any time vote to suspend the rules, unanimously declare war on Canada and then go back to casting ballots for Speaker.)
If the R's don't elect Trump as speaker on January 6th to 'own the libs' they might as well just disband the Republican party.
Depends on your definition.A simple majority is still a majority, not a plurality. As your own link says:
In some countries, a "simple majority" is whoever gets the most votes. Then you have an "absolute majority" which is when you require more than 50% of votes.
https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/in-parliament-which-votes-require-a-simple-majority-and-which-votes-require-an-absolute-majority/ (https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/in-parliament-which-votes-require-a-simple-majority-and-which-votes-require-an-absolute-majority/)
Most ideas – motions – are agreed to by a simple majority. A simple majority is when a majority of those who are present agree to the idea.This isn't just the "most votes" though I certainly do not know if either house of the AU Parliament can have motions with more than two options like in the case of this Speaker vote the wording seems to indicate that if this was possible a majority would still be needed.
The Australian Government is part of the Australian Parliament. After a federal election, the party or coalition of parties with the support of the majority – more than half – of members elected to the House of Representatives becomes the government.
To remain in office the government must keep the support of the majority in the House of Representatives.
Australian parties go to an election with a "nominated" leader.Depends on your definition.A simple majority is still a majority, not a plurality. As your own link says:
In some countries, a "simple majority" is whoever gets the most votes. Then you have an "absolute majority" which is when you require more than 50% of votes.
https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/in-parliament-which-votes-require-a-simple-majority-and-which-votes-require-an-absolute-majority/ (https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/in-parliament-which-votes-require-a-simple-majority-and-which-votes-require-an-absolute-majority/)QuoteMost ideas – motions – are agreed to by a simple majority. A simple majority is when a majority of those who are present agree to the idea.This isn't just the "most votes" though I certainly do not know if either house of the AU Parliament can have motions with more than two options like in the case of this Speaker vote the wording seems to indicate that if this was possible a majority would still be needed.
From a corresponding question:Quote from: https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/your-questions-on-notice/questions/how-is-the-government-elected-in-parliament/The Australian Government is part of the Australian Parliament. After a federal election, the party or coalition of parties with the support of the majority – more than half – of members elected to the House of Representatives becomes the government.
To remain in office the government must keep the support of the majority in the House of Representatives.
I can't seem to find out at the moment how Australia does it. Do they up/down vote a single PM candidate until someone gets approved or are all the parties leaders (plus randoms) nominated and there's a single ballot? Some countries (typically the French-Spain sphere) do one way and others (typically the UK sphere, which is why the US Speaker vote and the Electoral College is like this) do the other way.
They should nominate "Generic Republican" that guy always does well in polls but never actually runs, he can probably bring the party together.
A simple majority is still a majority, not a plurality. As your own link says:QuoteMost ideas – motions – are agreed to by a simple majority. A simple majority is when a majority of those who are present agree to the idea.This isn't just the "most votes" though I certainly do not know if either house of the AU Parliament can have motions with more than two options like in the case of this Speaker vote the wording seems to indicate that if this was possible a majority would still be needed.
A tale of two parties.
As 2023 gets underway, the GOP is experiencing ‘a big belly flop’ (https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/2023-gets-underway-gop-experiencing-big-belly-flop-rcna63939)
Top Biden adviser: White House heads into new year with ‘strong jolt of momentum’ (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3780765-top-biden-adviser-white-house-heads-into-new-year-with-strong-jolt-of-momentum/)
Tbf it's depressing progressive legislation can only get passed every 10-15 years the GOPers have a big in-fight, but I guess the pendulum swings both ways there.
As said before and it is unfortunate given how satanic Progressive policy truly is, this decade belongs to the Democratic Party. There's no way Biden is losing. He is the most effective Democratic President since LBJ or FDR in terms of getting their agenda across. But this will also make Dems cocky and bubbling on the surface is a rising counter culture. The next decade, politically, will be interesting. And frightening. Let's see how things flip in interesting ways. NY beginning to flip red is an interesting sign of things to come once Republicans are done with Trump.
Satanic? Dafuq?
Yes. There's no shock that many progressives have a taste for Satan.and how their policies are a snowball on a cliff that slowly destroys society from the family unit to governments, as it placates human desire and that modernism which is tied to progressives thought. Take the 1960's. Flower power, hippies, the summer of love, the ruination of old thought and an embracement of the new and untested. John Lennon wrote later that he didn't believe in anything but himself. The more we stray from tradition the more unhappy, unfulfilled, untethered we feel as we are lost in the murky soup of subjective morality. Gone is community and replaced with rampant individualism; gone is the respect for individual opinions and replaced with fealty to the group. We subsist in a quagmire of inherent contradictions and nothing matters but making the next dollar. Progressivism and modernity are satanic reactions to WWII where envision a world where we can do whatever the fuck we want whether it's miring in the stench of dysfunction that involves twerking and dressing like a whore or setting life saving medicine like insulin up to impossible to afford prices. Look at how the Democratic Party plays up and caters to ending natural order in the name of being "open and nice", where man becomes woman and woman becomes man. Look at how Republicans play up Christian arrogance for piety.The problem with your theory is that the roots of American progressivism are in the religious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Gospel
It all has Shayton's number on it.
Congratulations Speaker McCarthy!!
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https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1611625462488252416 (https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1611625462488252416)
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Fucking clown show of a party and a bunch of idiots that only a moron could support.
“Is he willing to shut the government down rather than raise the debt ceiling?” Rep. Ralph Norman (S.C.), one of the Republicans who had been opposing McCarthy for Speaker this week before switching sides, said Wednesday. “That’s a non-negotiable item.”
House Speaker is yesterday's news, we've moved on to more important matters.How does he know Howard Stern's ratings when they aren't disclosed?
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:hesright
None of that kind of stuff gets shutdown during the "government shutdowns" and a shutdown that stopped things like Vietnam probably would have been the moral thing to do.Quote“Is he willing to shut the government down rather than raise the debt ceiling?” Rep. Ralph Norman (S.C.), one of the Republicans who had been opposing McCarthy for Speaker this week before switching sides, said Wednesday. “That’s a non-negotiable item.”
Actively hoping the gov't shuts down for their own ends... :snoop
Putin right now:
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I'm definitely happy modern GOPers weren't running things during the Cold War or we probably wouldn't even exist right now.
I'm not sure calling such a tactic "treasonous" hits hard enough.
I'm definitely happy modern GOPers weren't running things during the Cold War or we probably wouldn't even exist right now.On the contrary. One could argue that Bill Clinton's support of Yeltsin's cronyism is what made the word 'Democracy' toxic in Russia for generations paving the way for Putin and vaporized trust in pretty much 'ALL' institutions that were created for economic development and free trade such as the world bank and IMF.
Quote“Is he willing to shut the government down rather than raise the debt ceiling?” Rep. Ralph Norman (S.C.), one of the Republicans who had been opposing McCarthy for Speaker this week before switching sides, said Wednesday. “That’s a non-negotiable item.”
Actively hoping the gov't shuts down for their own ends... :snoop
Putin right now:
:putin (https://i.imgflip.com/37u3g1.png?a464664) :putin
I'm definitely happy modern GOPers weren't running things during the Cold War or we probably wouldn't even exist right now.
I'm not sure calling such a tactic "treasonous" hits hard enough.
QuoteI'm definitely happy modern GOPers weren't running things during the Cold War or we probably wouldn't even exist right now.On the contrary. One could argue that Bill Clinton's support of Yeltsin's cronyism is what made the word 'Democracy' toxic in Russia for generations paving the way for Putin and vaporized trust in pretty much 'ALL' institutions that were created for economic development and free trade such as the world bank and IMF.
We are on the brink because:
- Clinton and Albright failed to make Russia a Democratic state in the 90's
- The US dismantled Ukraine's unclear arsenal making it vulnerable to attacks
- Obama failed to stop Putin from taking over Crimea (and didn't take action when he did)
When it comes to Russia, Biden is an anomaly among Democrats.
Nintex's geopolitical and historical takes may or may not correspond with actual events
It's an interesting history to look into but the short version is that Bill Clinton and the US kept Yeltsin in power by helping him with his political campaigns as well as helping him secure massive loans from the IMF/World Bank to continue his corrupt regime.QuoteI'm definitely happy modern GOPers weren't running things during the Cold War or we probably wouldn't even exist right now.On the contrary. One could argue that Bill Clinton's support of Yeltsin's cronyism is what made the word 'Democracy' toxic in Russia for generations paving the way for Putin and vaporized trust in pretty much 'ALL' institutions that were created for economic development and free trade such as the world bank and IMF.
We are on the brink because:
- Clinton and Albright failed to make Russia a Democratic state in the 90's
- The US dismantled Ukraine's unclear arsenal making it vulnerable to attacks
- Obama failed to stop Putin from taking over Crimea (and didn't take action when he did)
When it comes to Russia, Biden is an anomaly among Democrats.
Is Bill Clinton the Jesus of Democracy or something? What kind of moron thought he'd be able to convert Russia, wholesale, to anything in 4-8 years max?
Even in Japan it took way more time than that, and that was considered a miracle for how fast it went!
The idea that Russians hate the very concept of democracy only because BILL CLINTON is some kind of US fragility/self-hate. C'mon now. It's not like everyone in Russia was cheering Gorbachev on as he dismantled the USSR, it was pretty much the opposite. :lol
What kind of moron thought he'd be able to convert Russia, wholesale, to anything in 4-8 years max?It was a policy called 'shock therapy' that economists implemented and the US including Clinton insisted to continue even when the cracks started to show.
Who was the largest opposition to Yelstin, Nintex?In numbers the communists but mostly his fellow reformers. Yeltsin dissolved the parliament and his opponent the speaker of parliament later said this:
Yeltsin received support when he shelled the parliament, but do you see what kind of constitution we have now? It's not just a constitution, it's a super-constitution. Nobody has any power in our country except the president. You can't even sneeze without his permission. And that is a direct consequence of what happened back then."
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) sent a letter to the agency in December urging it to take action against the appliances, saying they are a “cumulative burden” on minority and low-income households.
50% of Trump’s black friends just dropped dead.
https://twitter.com/DiamondandSilk/status/1612636233196355586
Trump pulls in COCO CHOWWas Donald Trump, who hired Coco Chow for his cabinet and she served the entire term, involved? Just asking?
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The walls are finally closing in on Biden.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1615109922403885067 (https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1615109922403885067)
"So I hear he's running, we'll handle that the way I handle things" o shi :omg
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/wyoming-republicans-take-a-stand-want-to-ban-electric-cars/I'm not sure the headline here is accurate, as Ars Technica notes in their article:
:derp Why are Republicans like this lol
Anderson told the Cowboy State Daily that if successful, Wyoming's legislature would inform the rest of the world that "if you don’t like our petroleum cars, well, we don’t like your electric cars."I actually wonder if they could pass this if it wasn't a meaningless resolution or if it'd die immediately.
But even if the bill passes—not impossible, given the tight Republican control of both chambers of Wyoming's legislature—it does not bind the state to any action other than a general sense of opprobrium toward cars powered by batteries.
Indeed, the Cowboy State Daily quotes State Senator Brian Boner, another politician behind the bill, as saying some might describe the bill as "tongue-in-cheek, but obviously it’s a very serious issue that deserves some public discussion."
https://twitter.com/JUNlPER/status/1616108471052558336"Special"
There's something special about US politics
So this drag queen killed a dog?
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1617570843776761869 (https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1617570843776761869)
wat
I will probably have an aneurysm if Trump is re-elected.
Keep digging boys, we might finally get CheneyHe probably moved them all to George's ranch.
Sad that "civil rights" has become a cover for radical leftism.
More often than not when civil rights is mentioned you can assume that the activist involved has some ties to abolishing the police, Marxism, attacking "whiteness," pushing black supremacy, or falsely causing racial moral panics.
It started back in roughly 2017 with the women's march but a lot of other institutions that claim to follow civil rights like the ADL and ACLU have fallen to radicalism as well.
https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1617932914875826194 (https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1617932914875826194)
Red Mike got caught Red Handed. :trumps
I'm going to just paste what someone on my Discord server said because they said it all:"It started back in roughly 2017" :roflQuoteSad that "civil rights" has become a cover for radical leftism.
More often than not when civil rights is mentioned you can assume that the activist involved has some ties to abolishing the police, Marxism, attacking "whiteness," pushing black supremacy, or falsely causing racial moral panics.
It started back in roughly 2017 with the women's march but a lot of other institutions that claim to follow civil rights like the ADL and ACLU have fallen to radicalism as well.
At this point, if so, who cares if Trump had documents at Mar El Lago? It's something all of these politicrooks do.The main point is how he refused to give them back when asked multiple times and lied about it. He didn't just discover them and turn them in voluntarily like Biden and Pence.
boosts in government spending and private investment aided growth.
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY, THE FEDERALIST: It is unbelievable that they were allowed for two years, that Facebook was allowed to deplatform at first the sitting president of the United States, then the leader of the Republican party, now a candidate for president, a potential future president of the United States. They did this in part because people were not creating enough outrage over it.:stahp
Facebook in general has done so much to attack freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and the freedom of free people to debate. They didn't do it just with Trump. They did it with all sorts of effective voices. All sorts of important debates about COVID. And, so, finally two years later after meddling in election after election, now they're finally saying, oh, he can come back now. This isn't even coming close to making right what they did to this country and what they continue to do.
It is true that the left has become this authoritarian totalitarian force. They have pushed to continue this horrific censorship that has done so much to destroy civil society in the United States. So they did try to keep the pressure on Facebook. But that is not to their credit that they are even worse than Google or Facebook or Twitter or these Big Tech companies that have done so much censorship against the American people.
It's just crazy how much the left supports this type of restriction on how people can say or think or what should happen to them when they do. I think it's also worth remembering when this happened -- when this move to take President Trump off of these platforms happened -- it was so bad that it alarmed people who don't even have the protections of our First Amendment. Angela Merkel was appalled. Various other European leaders were terrified about what was happening with how much control these Big Tech companies have over -- if you can do this to the sitting president of the United States, this makes you more powerful than most governments.
They are not just private companies. They have a lot of privileges that are afforded to them. This cannot continue. And if they think, oh, after two years of this type of thing, allowing a little bit of more free expression would keep people from coming after them, I think they have another thing coming. They are an existential threat to the country and the party.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1618370493840560128 (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1618370493840560128)
https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1620541496398336000 (https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1620541496398336000)Is that a storytime session for mentally handicapped children or something?
wait for the end
It's fucking crazy that the only viable anti-war candidate is Donald Trump :doge
SEAN HANNITY: How will other candidates distinguish themselves against Donald Trump if they agree with his policies?:popular :era :popular
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: I really don't know, but I do know this. We're lucky it's a party to have Mike Pompeo, who was a terrific secretary of state. Nikki Haley, a strong voice in the U.N. for the American-First agenda. My buddy and love him, Tim Scott, right? Mike Pence is maybe the most decent guy to ever serve in the government.
Here's why I am with Trump. I know the downside of Trump but let me tell you about the upside of Trump. There are no Trump policies without Donald Trump. Do you know why NATO gave $431 billion in defense spending increases? Because they thought Trump really moment when it he said he was going to pull out.
Do you know why the capital -- we moved the embassy of the United States to Jerusalem? Every president before Trump said "I will do it" but then all the smart people said it would create World War II. Trump said, "I said I would do it, I would do it."
He's responsible for securing the border through his personal will. When he put tariffs on Chinese products, it scared the crap out of Mexico and they said, "Yes, we'll be glad to give you 28,000 troops, we'll be glad to keep people in Mexico. "Because they thought Trump would put tariffs on Mexican policies.
There are no Trump policies without the man, Donald Trump. And to all these people who are very talented, I don't think you could do what he did, and I want him to have another shot. Unfinished business.
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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: No, we need to get ready for a real spirited contest. Now, why Trump? You mentioned like DeSantis, if you try to tell me that Ron DeSantis is not a good governor in Florida, I'm not going to listen to you. If you try to tell me Mike Pompeo is not qualified to be president, I'm not going to listen to you because I think he is.
I am for Trump not because of the flaws of anybody else. I'm for Donald Trump because I know what I'm going to get. We need somebody that, on day one, can get this country back on track. That can secure our border and bring order out of chaos. Somebody the Russians and the Chinese fear. Somebody that can take the fight to the terrorists. The Abraham Accords are the result of Donald Trump impressing the Arabs and the Israelis. He's the best solution to the problems we face, not because of the flaws of others but because of what I know he can do, and I'm telling your listeners right now, when you hear, "I like Trump policies but I'm ready for somebody new," there are no Trump policies without Donald Trump.
Somebody the Russians... fear
there are no Trump policies without Donald Trump
It's fucking crazy that the only viable anti-war candidate is Donald Trump :doge
No, you're just fucking crazy. :social2
Loved the Trump vaccines?
Jackie Chan escaping China in a balloon would be pretty cool, ngl.Isn't he a hardcore CCP apologist?
HH: If you’re back in the Oval, will you use the powers of the presidency to punish people who punished you?...unless? :trumps
DJT: No, I wouldn’t do that because I want to bring our country forward. No, I wouldn’t do that. Some people think I will. Some people think that’s words, but I wouldn’t.
HH: One of the best things you did when you ran the first time--
DJT: I would be entitled to a revenge tour, if you want to know the truth, but I wouldn’t do that.
“Ron DeSantis got elected because of me. You remember he had nothing. He was dead. He was leaving the race. He came over and he begged me, begged me for an endorsement,” Trump said, even claiming that DeSantis was crying at the time.
Ah yes, the famously well known six months later endorsement bounce:Quote“Ron DeSantis got elected because of me. You remember he had nothing. He was dead. He was leaving the race. He came over and he begged me, begged me for an endorsement,” Trump said, even claiming that DeSantis was crying at the time.
Jackie Chan escaping China in a balloon would be pretty cool, ngl.Isn't he a hardcore CCP apologist?
the Energy Department this week proposed new rules that amount to a gradual de facto ban.
the Energy Department proposed new efficiency standards that would ban the sale of most gas stoves currently on the market? The stated purpose of the rule-making is to reduce energy consumption and save consumers money. But these benefits are meager. The department estimates the proposed rule would reduce energy use by a mere 3.4% from the status quo, and consumers on average would save $21.89 over a cook-top’s lifetime.
Twenty of the 21 gas stove-top models that the Energy Department tested wouldn’t comply with its proposed standards.
The Inflation Reduction Act also includes a $840 rebate to buy electric stoves plus $500 to convert from gas. Yes, Americans, they really are coming for your gas stoves.
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1621936913652367360 (https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1621936913652367360)Just waiting for the Chinese to start shooting down all of the US "weather balloons" and various espionage satellites they currently have over mainland China.
https://www.youtube.com/live/crbb7DALW20?feature=share (https://www.youtube.com/live/crbb7DALW20?feature=share)
:cruise
Jackie Chan escaping China in a balloon would be pretty cool, ngl.
No denial, though.
Curious.
I'm telling you guys, I think Trump is gonna truck him. Solely because that base is so mentally challenged that "but he didn't deny it" is a logical retort to them. DeSantis is being funded by the establishment, Trump remains the candidate of the people (lol).
https://twitter.com/gavinbena/status/1623212737600921604It's just a trick to make them watch the video.
Dark Brandon Saga going full insane-o mode :whew :biden
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1623412720199426048
8———D Chess
I'm always a big fan of elected officials explaining that they don't understand how the law works.
Replies on that tweet are full of lunatics including people demanding imprisonment without trial and even execution of former Twitter executives for treason. :lol
I'm not the only lawyer in the room and while the Constitution does provide us the right to free speech, there are of course limitations as she pointed out, we cannot yell fire in a crowded theater. Compromising freedom of speech may seem dangerous until we weigh that compromise against the men and women massacred in Buffalo or the many other places where radicalized extremists found their motivation to kill on social media. It's not about oppression but public safety. It's not about censorship but protecting our democracy from misinformation.
earned a Juris Doctor from the Howard University School of Law in 2015:stahp :era :stahp
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1623412720199426048
I'm sure they'll be arrested and executed at Gitmo soon, with exclusive coverage by RealRawNews.
I'm always a big fan of elected officials explaining that they don't understand how the law works.
Replies on that tweet are full of lunatics including people demanding imprisonment without trial and even execution of former Twitter executives for treason. :lol
Look, if the alien overlords can't avoid a missile, then they're not worthy quite frankly.They're so advanced they scoffed that the ship would need shields against mere propelled projectiles, surely the Earth Species used advanced energy weapons like they do.
turns out that due to unforeseen biological differences they grossly miscalculated the amount of energy required to damage humans, so their "energy weapons" feel to us like a comforting blast from a hair dryer set to mediumLook, if the alien overlords can't avoid a missile, then they're not worthy quite frankly.They're so advanced they scoffed that the ship would need shields against mere propelled projectiles, surely the Earth Species used advanced energy weapons like they do.
turns out that due to unforeseen biological differences they grossly miscalculated the amount of energy required to damage humans, so their "energy weapons" feel to us like a comforting blast from a hair dryer set to mediumLook, if the alien overlords can't avoid a missile, then they're not worthy quite frankly.They're so advanced they scoffed that the ship would need shields against mere propelled projectiles, surely the Earth Species used advanced energy weapons like they do.
imagine being so salty about never banging a black chickWho do you think was in the pee tape?
imagine being so salty about never banging a black chickWho do you think was in the pee tape?
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any parent or guardian of an individual less than 16 years of age to whom a social media account is provided in violation of this Act may bring a civil action against the social media company in an appropriate district court of the United States or a State court of competent jurisdiction for—:dead
8 (A) injunctive relief;
9 (B) damages; and
10 (C) attorney’s fees and costs.
“WHAT DO YOU think of firing squads?”
That’s the question Donald Trump repeatedly asked some close associates in the run-up to the 2024 presidential campaign
Court filings in 2019 showed that the total value of the IRA’s Facebook ads that were deemed election-related amounted to $2,930, in a political cycle where billions of dollars were spent. The only reporter to write about that finding was Sperry, of Real Clear Investigations.
One frequent and vague catchphrase—“people (or person) familiar with”—is widely used by many journalists: the Times used it over a thousand times in stories involving Trump and Russia between October 2016 and the end of his presidency, according to a Nexis search. The last executive editor I worked for, Bill Keller, frowned on its use. He told the staff repeatedly the phrase was “so vague it could even mean the reporter.” The Times, in a statement to CJR, said, “We have strong rules in place governing the use of anonymous sources.” Other outlets mentioned in this piece declined to discuss their anonymous-sourcing practices.I do have a complaint though, it's proper style guidelines to refer to perjurers James Clapper and James Brennan with their perjurer title. The latter should probably be perjurer and delusional conspiracy theorist but I understand that the latter is not a formally recognized title yet.
Another anonymous-sourcing convention that was turbocharged in the Trump era was the use of more neutral descriptors like “government official” or “intelligence official” or “American official” to mask congressional leakers. A few reporters admitted that to me, but, of course, only anonymously. Here’s how it works. First, a federal agency like the CIA or FBI secretly briefs Congress. Then Democrats or Republicans selectively leak snippets. Finally, the story comes out, using vague attribution. “It was a problem for us,” Mike Kortan, the former FBI spokesman until 2018, told me. Kortan, who also worked in Congress, added: “We would brief Congress, try and give them a full picture with the negative stuff, and then a member of Congress can cherry-pick the information and the reporter doesn’t know they’ve been cherry-picked.” The typical reader or viewer is clueless.
My final concern, and frustration, was the lack of transparency by media organizations in responding to my questions. I reached out to more than sixty journalists; only about half responded. Of those who did, more than a dozen agreed to be interviewed on the record. However, not a single major news organization made available a newsroom leader to talk about their coverage.
https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1625515538725187585 (https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1625515538725187585)Quote“WHAT DO YOU think of firing squads?”
That’s the question Donald Trump repeatedly asked some close associates in the run-up to the 2024 presidential campaign
:trumps
FTFYhttps://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1625515538725187585 (https://twitter.com/NoahShachtman/status/1625515538725187585)Quote“WHAT DO YOU think of firing squads?”
That’s the question Donald Trump repeatedly asked some close associates in the run-up to the 2024 presidential campaign
:trumps
It’s possible thathe’sthe US electorate is dumb enoughthat he thinks he couldto let him get this through. It’s more likely, though that he simply sees this as a dog whistle to get rambunctious ultra right wing followers to mobilize on his behalf.
Go Nikki :-*
Except, majority Muslim nations have often been led by women and, at last count, the US has only had 0 women presidents.Go Nikki :-*
Your religion doesnt allow women to lead men
:trumps "Sorry to keep you waiting folks, complicated business"Except, majority Muslim nations have often been led by women and, at last count, the US has only had 0 women presidents.Go Nikki :-*
Your religion doesnt allow women to lead men
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpP_jDtXoAIV5iW?format=jpg)If your country considers voting THIS in a second time, just nuke yourself and do the world a favour. Please.
Throw in the damn towel
America loves a comeback story and this is like the biggest comeback story ever.(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpP_jDtXoAIV5iW?format=jpg)If your country considers voting THIS in a second time, just nuke yourself and do the world a favour. Please.
Throw in the damn towel
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3863645-desantis-approval-drops-in-gop-primary-poll/ (https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3863645-desantis-approval-drops-in-gop-primary-poll/)Interesting article, doesn't mention that Trump also dropped. The DeSantis drop is visible in the bump for other anti-Trumps in Haley and Pompeo, but Trump's loss then goes into undecided. I also like the framing being completely around DeSantis when Trump is aggregate polling at the worst he has against the field ever even though there's still only one other announced candidate. The only "benefit" at all is that he's doing slightly better specifically compared to unannounced candidate DeSantis. Trump hasn't commanded a majority of the primary poll since November despite being the only candidate until four days ago. Sad! He should probably save some of his low energy and drop out already.
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1627665203398688768
:americanspoiler (click to show/hide)https://twitter.com/jeffpearlman/status/1627674650271485955[close]
What is Sedition?Not something you can tweet, thankfully.
What is Sedition?Not something you can tweet, thankfully.
What is Sedition?Not something you can tweet, thankfully.
Trump's totally back , this is great stuff, taking questions from the crowd :dead:bow :bow :bow :trumps :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1627843328959021056 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1627843328959021056)
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1627844810592641025 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1627844810592641025)
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she looks like that one pseudo-meme image of the guy looking at you just like this, drawn outline from a photo, horny like the bueno guy but angled downward
you know what I'm talkin about
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she looks like that one pseudo-meme image of the guy looking at you just like this, drawn outline from a photo, horny like the bueno guy but angled downward
you know what I'm talkin about
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she looks like that one pseudo-meme image of the guy looking at you just like this, drawn outline from a photo, horny like the bueno guy but angled downward
you know what I'm talkin aboutspoiler (click to show/hide)(https://i.imgur.com/mhD3dK2.png)[close]
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1628496450677260288 (https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1628496450677260288)Those people don't look Palestinian.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1628522122783121409 (https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1628522122783121409)
Trump also got the backing of Alex Jones and Tim Pool today and Tim Pool has called on Joe Rogan to endorse Trump as well.
Your move meatball ron
I was summoned for jury dutya couple of weeks ago but I wasnt selected.Don't worry I've got one coming up, I love prosecutors!
I would have voted for treason
Biden admin caught stealing from taxpayersApparently he's a serial luggage thief as well!!
https://twitter.com/asyakhamsin1/status/1627541483245936642
We need more Mom n Pop defense contractors!!!
https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1629145143289819140
:american
twitter.com/Burnett18/status/1627735598143311887https://twitter.com/AzCapitolTimes/status/1628244996683079680
:jeanluc
Lmfao trump touring Ohio. Trump really turned lemons into lemonade with this lmfao
And that poll was probably taken pre-Ohio.
Meatball Ron should announce he's not running and keep his powder dry for 2028.
Otherwise he ends up on the growing pile of politicians that got derailed by the Trump train.
HOT PREDICTION: Meatball Ron hitches his wagon to the Trump Train and runs as his VP by September (or whenever the rubber starts to meet the road).Trump doesn't want him as his VP. He needs someone boring that won't steal his thunder and won't fuck up either.
twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1629872229646323713Again, 43% is the lowest Trump has been in almost seven years, this poll is right in line with the average which has Trump at his worst position since he won the nomination in 2016. Focusing on the performance of a non-candidate a year before Iowa is exactly what they want you to do.
:doge :doge :doge :doge :doge :doge
told youuuu
Trump scores higher than any of his competitors and that's before any debates so they're somehow doing worse than him.twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1629872229646323713Again, 43% is the lowest Trump has been in almost seven years, this poll is right in line with the average which has Trump at his worst position since he won the nomination in 2016. Focusing on the performance of a non-candidate a year before Iowa is exactly what they want you to do.
:doge :doge :doge :doge :doge :doge
told youuuu
Trump scores higher than any of his competitors and that's before any debates so they're somehow doing worse than him.No, it's not. Trump was polling 57-60% against non-candidates for like two years, now he's polling 43% against non-candidates. Emerson is the only poll he's been at 50% or higher in since the midterms.
The Democrat party is pretty much the same I guess. You'd have Biden at 40% or so and Kamala, Pete etc. trailing him.
The race is also clearly trending in Trump's favor
Trump scores higher than any of his competitors and that's before any debates so they're somehow doing worse than him.No, it's not. Trump was polling 57-60% against non-candidates for like two years, now he's polling 43% against non-candidates. Emerson is the only poll he's been at 50% or higher in since the midterms.
The Democrat party is pretty much the same I guess. You'd have Biden at 40% or so and Kamala, Pete etc. trailing him.
The race is also clearly trending in Trump's favor
Not great for an undefeated incumbent President.
FACT CHECKYes, in 2015-2016, when he started from zero. Nobody's talking about eight years ago.
Trump was polling below the 40s against his primary opponents for the first half of the race
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FACT CHECKYes, in 2015-2016, when he started from zero. Nobody's talking about eight years ago.
Trump was polling below the 40s against his primary opponents for the first half of the race
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wait when did bill turn heel
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1630676090854187015 (https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1630676090854187015)was he on the edging ward? :noah
:wut
https://mobile.twitter.com/Mdixon55/status/1630577547166490625That's actually surprisingly funny from people who are notoriously humourless
:dead
Also funny from the notoriously humorless are all the people on Twitter breathlessly talking about how it's literally fascism and literally what Hitler did. :americantwitter.com/Mdixon55/status/1630577547166490625That's actually surprisingly funny from people who are notoriously humourless
:dead
https://twitter.com/AhComfy/status/1630966861344149505That's an AI generated image, right?
https://mobile.twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1630999446149373953
"comedy"
https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1631072611567271940 (https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1631072611567271940)
well he's a clown so that checks out :trumps
Everyone who watched this is now less intelligent for the experience. Who the fuck watches this idiot? Why?"comedy"
https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1631072611567271940 (https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1631072611567271940)
well he's a clown so that checks out :trumps
This is like beef between 20yo Youtubers.
Why is he talking about that, beyond a quick joke? Nonstop political brain is nauseating. The need for every celebrity to cope/sympathize/be angry/etc alongside you is just...stupid. It's not 2005, man. You're not a political exile surrounded by crazy people who outnumber you. It's pretty clear most people have agreed with some generic liberal views since Obama. Sitting around constantly being politically charged and crying online is sucker shit. Go outside. Go get laid. Watch a movie.
Why is he talking about that, beyond a quick joke? Nonstop political brain is nauseating. The need for every celebrity to cope/sympathize/be angry/etc alongside you is just...stupid. It's not 2005, man. You're not a political exile surrounded by crazy people who outnumber you. It's pretty clear most people have agreed with some generic liberal views since Obama. Sitting around constantly being politically charged and crying online is sucker shit. Go outside. Go get laid. Watch a movie.
https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1631726711728480264 (https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1631726711728480264)going to be fun seeing all of them groveling again when he gets the nomination. republican party is cucked and sissified (https://i.imgur.com/5fVkDYp.png)
https://twitter.com/AlanFisher/status/1631719994173079552 (https://twitter.com/AlanFisher/status/1631719994173079552)
:idont
"I'm NOT Sorry I called you a cheating drug addicted warmongering prostitute of the Neocons Nikki, let's stop with these silly games and Make America Great Again"https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1631726711728480264 (https://twitter.com/metzgov/status/1631726711728480264)going to be fun seeing all of them groveling again when he gets the nomination. republican party is cucked and sissified (https://i.imgur.com/5fVkDYp.png)
https://twitter.com/AlanFisher/status/1631719994173079552 (https://twitter.com/AlanFisher/status/1631719994173079552)
:idont
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1631638435516633090Not surprised she has no idea how the law works. But get dat cash from stupid #Resistance people who worship the state. :money
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Trump speaks in 2 hours apparently.
she should run for senate now :shaqI agree, we should do everything we can to encourage her to challenge Gillibrand next year.
https://twitter.com/fowerli/status/1632919048768876545
:american
If Hillary was president, the Tucker "problem" would have been "solved" years agotio bernie would have put tucker in guantanamo and taxed his rich family extra to keep him there! :bernie
https://twitter.com/fowerli/status/1632919048768876545caging indigenous americans is good when biden does it!
:american
Honestly didn’t know much about desantis. That John Oliver show did its hit piece on him and boy they had nothing to work with. He’s a boring guy from both ends.
If I ever get demoralized by how weak the young and future democrats are looking, at least it’s as bad in both aisles. It’s too soon to unleash the clone of Bob Dole to sweep the country.
that's what makes him dangerous
be a total asshole to get legislature through and get paid and pay people off.
…
he same way mcconnell keeps being a terror in the senate.
desantis is a boring guy by design.
Yes democrats get paid off.
Were the fuck did I even mention democrats
it's how the gop operates for getting things done.
No need to be combative.
That said, an inability to articulate ones ideas shows they have faulty roots. That's fine. Have a good day!
caging indigenous americans is good when biden does it!
caging indigenous americans is good when biden does it!
I love a democrat in the white house!
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1633548066753249280
It’s too soon to unleash the clone of Bob Dole to sweep the country.Norm didn't die, he's in deep cover preparations.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I have a question. How come this is not thought of as being recruiting? How come they are not thinking about this as radicalizing?
SUNNY HOSTIN: Like recruiting domestic terrorists?
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Why is this not being scrutinized the way that they scrutinize other things?
Because to me, this is, this should be against the law. You should not be able to lie to the American people knowingly. And, you know, it’s one thing if you made a mistake and you didn’t know. But we've heard for five or six years now, you know, the media was a lying sack of doo. They were fake news. They were this.
So how come? What is our, what do we do as Americans to say this is not okay?
"THE VIEW" CO-HOST: It's the First Amendment.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to willingly lie.
ALYSSA FARAH: I think Tucker Carlson is more destructive to American political discourse than Donald Trump, and more powerful... This is a man who goes on the airwaves and says, "What would be so bad if Russia won against Ukraine?" He says insane things, he pits Americans against each other, knowingly lying to them. Even if it is not Trump, whoever the next Republican politician is, they're going to have to win the Tucker Carlson Primary.
SUNNY HOSTIN: He's just an entertainer though, the judge found that.
But Whoopi, you said something I don't think I've ever heard on television about domestic terrorism. Because you had the FBI director, Chris Wray, say the number one threat to our country, to the survival of our democracy, is domestic terrorists. How do you recruit domestic terrorists? How do you do that? Misinformation. Having these kinds of rallies, saying these things on Substack. And someone with Tucker Carlson, you would know better than I do, how many millions and millions of viewers? We get three million on this show. That's a lot. He gets more than that.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: But now, it is not just one voice in the wind. These are emails, this is the head of Fox saying this is what happened, this is what went down. So you knew you were going out there every night and lying. So, to me, that should be an issue.:american :american :american :american
SUNNY HOSTIN: Illegal!
JOY BEHAR: "Knowing" is the key word.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Knowingly, that's the whole point. As I was saying earlier, you can make a mistake and say something, and it happens, but then people say it wasn't right. But you knew, you knew, you knew.
You knew and you know people are still listening to you and you’re still lying. And I hope that the DOJ looks through a whole bunch of stuff and figures out what to do about this.
SUNNY HOSTIN: I hope [Attorney General] Merrick Garland is listening.
do they feel the same for the hosts on cnn and msnbc, or they think those ones are always telling the truth? :muellerNo, she said they're just wrong and don't know it so it's okay.
Some poor DeSantis staffer has got 94,000 copies in his garage.
twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1633885428951707648Why is Matt Taibbi testifying to anything in Congress?
Any time I see the word "destroyed" in a political context, I immediately know the person who wrote it is a fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellow and should probably be the first to go up against the wall.
Maybe Ron has more legs than I think.Ron DeSantis sells dead trees and posts butt plug porn on Twitter, Trump drops a dystopian #1 banger on iTunes, they are not the same.
https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-memoir-outsells-books-from-clinton-trump-obama-in-fist-week-2023-3
:)
Wow, I think Trump is done now with this.
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https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1634921384374853632?cxt=HHwWgIDT9ceVtLAtAAAA[close]
This is what happens when you've burrowed so deep in your own arse in pursuit of the smell of your farts that you've come out the other side...Wow, I think Trump is done now with this.
(https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/Teydyrqtbh.jpg?format=webp)spoiler (click to show/hide)Cowards removed it.
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1634921384374853632?cxt=HHwWgIDT9ceVtLAtAAAA[close]
absolute melons probably thought that people would go "oh he is so bad not even Epstein liked him" but soon realised that this wasn't gonna help anyone but Trump :lol
could you pour gasoline under the wall and light them on fire? or piss :doge
Despite having a job that entails exchanging small talk and pleasantries on a daily basis, the Florida governor tends to brush off those obligations and struggles with basic social skills, according to a source close to DeSantis, several of his former staffers, and other GOP operatives who have worked with him and his team.
During his Iowa swing, DeSantis’ apparent use of bike racks to create space between himself and a crowd didn’t go unnoticed elsewhere.
Months into his own campaign, meanwhile, Trump has started to dabble in retail politics—mostly in the form of unannounced visits to local eateries likely to have a friendly crowd scouted in advance by the campaign, according to the Washington Post—in an effort to paint DeSantis as stiff and cold.
If DeSantis continues on his current course, Trump’s job may not prove very difficult.
“He would sit in meetings and eat in front of people,” a former DeSantis staffer told The Daily Beast, “always like a starving animal who has never eaten before… getting shit everywhere.”
DeSpectrum
twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1635826124809986048?People invent stuff everywhere, dude, calm down.
Wasn't sure where to put this.
Please, get your shit together USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSbwylmEHIYcould you pour gasoline under the wall and light them on fire? or piss :doge
Only if you're like reeeeeeeeaaaaaaaallly hungover.
Usually an invention follows a need for something. If you need bullet proof rooms for schools you're doing something wrong.twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1635826124809986048?People invent stuff everywhere, dude, calm down.
Wasn't sure where to put this.
Please, get your shit together USA.
Schools shouldnt have walls.I like where you're going with this but maybe we should just get rid of schools. :rollsafe
That way if a bad man is coming everyone can see them from a distance, and they cant hide form police
I guess you should just arm the teachers then...Nah, I'm sure the locks on their doors work incase an extremely low probability event occurs.
Cool. School shootings are low probability events. Nothing to worry about then.I guess you should just arm the teachers then...Nah, I'm sure the locks on their doors work incase an extremely low probability event occurs.
Defending school shootings on thebore.comYeah, definitely need to get your shit together. :rofl
Cool
All good chief.And you're trying to claim you're not the one losing your shit? :umad
You keep fighting the good fight of defending the rights of kids and adults to enter a school and shoot the people inside. That's what's important.
It's the rest of us watching from afar in utter horror that need to get our shit together.
Nintex, I noticed you missed a couple irrelevant polls buddy:oh shit, you're right
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Da fuq you talking about?All good chief.And you're trying to claim you're not the one losing your shit? :umad
You keep fighting the good fight of defending the rights of kids and adults to enter a school and shoot the people inside. That's what's important.
It's the rest of us watching from afar in utter horror that need to get our shit together.
benji: Lock yo doors, hide yo kids.
some dude: Blow the yearly budget on my stupid pop-up rooms.
Potato: Eliminate democracy and establish a police state or else you support, defend and want mass murder of every school age child!
Such hard choices. :hmm
Da fuq you talking about?Yeah, the guy who said I was "defending school shootings" and "defending the rights of kids and adults to enter a school and shoot the people inside" because I wasn't getting hysterical like he was is the guy not raving like a lunatic. :lol
Seriously, the US has a problem with school shooters. So much so someone invented a whiteboard that converts into a bullet proof room.
I pointed this out for a bit of a laugh at the expense of Americans and you're now raving like a lunatic about some bullshit police state.
Dude, go outside.
Oh please, tell me all about how school shootings are low probability events again and are nothing to worry about.Da fuq you talking about?Yeah, the guy who said I was "defending school shootings" and "defending the rights of kids and adults to enter a school and shoot the people inside" because I wasn't getting hysterical like he was is the guy not raving like a lunatic. :lol
Seriously, the US has a problem with school shooters. So much so someone invented a whiteboard that converts into a bullet proof room.
I pointed this out for a bit of a laugh at the expense of Americans and you're now raving like a lunatic about some bullshit police state.
Dude, go outside.
Oh please, tell me all about how school shootings are low probability events again and are nothing to worry about.Yeah, there you go being completely hysterical again. School shootings are in fact extremely low probability events.
That's a sane viewpoint.
There's no magical "eliminate school shootings" option, sorry.Except, you know, in all those places where they don't happen.
There's no magical "eliminate school shootings" option, sorry.
What are you talking about?My man, you're the one demanding something be done but you refuse to even suggest what you want done.
I said, "Get your shit together". Why is it up to me to solve problems in the US? That's what I'm saying. It's time for you lot to solve your own problems.
What's very clear is that you don't like anyone questioning your libertarian beliefs, which happens to be a behaviour you have in common with religious fundamentalists.
The minute anyone even so much as hints they might think some regulation might be in order you lose your shit and throw baseless accusations out all over the place.
Now, stop having a tantrum and answer my question.
Demanding?What are you talking about?My man, you're the one demanding something be done but you refuse to even suggest what you want done.
I said, "Get your shit together". Why is it up to me to solve problems in the US? That's what I'm saying. It's time for you lot to solve your own problems.
What's very clear is that you don't like anyone questioning your libertarian beliefs, which happens to be a behaviour you have in common with religious fundamentalists.
The minute anyone even so much as hints they might think some regulation might be in order you lose your shit and throw baseless accusations out all over the place.
Now, stop having a tantrum and answer my question.
This isn't anything to do with my "libertarian beliefs", if you have a proposal that would be better than democracy I'm willing to hear it but many have tried, all have failed.
I didn't lose my shit at all and leveled zero baseless accusations, that was you. All I did was disagree with you about "need" being the basis for invention. You almost immediately thereafter jumped to saying I was "defending school shootings" and the "defending the rights of kids and adults to enter a school and shoot the people inside" for some reason I still can't fathom. You're the one having a tantrum, you haven't even recognized that I answered your question already before you asked it twice more.
ChadGPT what are the potato and cat fighting aboutI have a desperate need for all children to be murdered. If even one makes it to their teenage years, I consider it a failure. They absolutely must be protected from james and there's only one way.
Number of school shootings in the US:Sounds like there might be a need.
- 2000s - 78 incidents
- 2010s - 251 incidents
- 2020s - 117 incidents
Anyway, I'll take it you don't think there's a problem with school shootings in the US.
Good chat.
Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present))Number of school shootings in the US:Sounds like there might be a need.
- 2000s - 78 incidents
- 2010s - 251 incidents
- 2020s - 117 incidents
Anyway, I'll take it you don't think there's a problem with school shootings in the US.
Good chat.
where is this data from? if I remember some of the most-cited info on this counted "incidents" as "senior who hunts with his dad after school was discovered to have a rifle in the back of his pickup truck" or "sound of gunshots reported on college campus, may have come from adjacent low income area"
actual elementary school shootings that this would defend against always make national news, and they are rare
I don't say this to defend the US's relationship with its guns, but because accurate data is important
0 incidents would be great
this doesn't contradict the idea that the kind of shooting this might help defend against would be a rare event
EDIT: read the descriptions of these incidents, (https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2023/01) technically school-related/affiliated shootings but a majority of them seem to be angry sports fans after basketball games? not the kind of thing where people strap up and invade classes in progress
Try reading people's posts for a change instead of immediately leaping to hysteria and baseless accusations sometime and it might help with your running into assholes all day long problem.
:mindblownChadGPT what are the potato and cat fighting aboutI have a desperate need for all children to be murdered. If even one makes it to their teenage years, I consider it a failure. They absolutely must be protected from james and there's only one way.
So then you agree there's no need for fold-out bulletproof rooms. Good chat.
A 6-year-old male student at Richneck Elementary School shot teacher Abby Zwerner, wounding her.
A maintenance worker at Stanford Elementary School accidentally shot himself while working at around 11 p.m.
Dude, all I did was dispute that there was a need for this dumb thing, same as Cauliflower and james, and you immediately jumped to accusing me of wanting mass murder. Now you're trying to claim I'm a fundamentalist because I don't think this dumb thing is needed for anyone other than the guy selling it? And you're still trying to baselessly accuse me of things I've already said the opposite of.:mindblownChadGPT what are the potato and cat fighting aboutI have a desperate need for all children to be murdered. If even one makes it to their teenage years, I consider it a failure. They absolutely must be protected from james and there's only one way.
You really are a fundamentalist...emphasis on the mental part.
The only hissy fit in this thread is from the guy who took offence at an imaginary slight against his fundamentalistreligionpolitics.
The US has a problem with school shootings. That is a fact. If you don't agree, please present some evidence that there isn't a problem and I'll discuss it with you. Until then, you are just making shit up and deflecting from discussing anything because you have no argument.So then you agree there's no need for fold-out bulletproof rooms. Good chat.
The invention of a whiteboard that converts into a bullet proof shelter is entirely a demand-driven innovation. If you disagree with that then there is nothing else to discuss. You're a fundamentalist and will not be swayed from your position.
STOP. MAKING. SHIT. UP.Dude, all I did was dispute that there was a need for this dumb thing, same as Cauliflower and james, and you immediately jumped to accusing me of wanting mass murder. Now you're trying to claim I'm a fundamentalist because I don't think this dumb thing is needed for anyone other than the guy selling it? And you're still trying to baselessly accuse me of things I've already said the opposite of.:mindblownChadGPT what are the potato and cat fighting aboutI have a desperate need for all children to be murdered. If even one makes it to their teenage years, I consider it a failure. They absolutely must be protected from james and there's only one way.
You really are a fundamentalist...emphasis on the mental part.
The only hissy fit in this thread is from the guy who took offence at an imaginary slight against his fundamentalistreligionpolitics.
The US has a problem with school shootings. That is a fact. If you don't agree, please present some evidence that there isn't a problem and I'll discuss it with you. Until then, you are just making shit up and deflecting from discussing anything because you have no argument.So then you agree there's no need for fold-out bulletproof rooms. Good chat.
The invention of a whiteboard that converts into a bullet proof shelter is entirely a demand-driven innovation. If you disagree with that then there is nothing else to discuss. You're a fundamentalist and will not be swayed from your position.
You obviously think little of my brain power because you haven't even attempted to try and change my mind about either this stupid thing or the basis of invention other than screaming your head off about my child murder fetish.
Are you seriously suggesting you think these stupid things should be installed everywhere?
STOP. MAKING. SHIT. UP.Are you expecting people to not be able to go back a page or for me to quote the posts? Let me again try and see if you can maybe follow a few short sentences:
You came in the thread and told me to calm down (after a mild joke post) and that people invent stuff everywhere.
I said that this invention is kind of a US-centric thing because it's where school shootings happen (meaning there is demand).
Then you said nobody needs a bullet-proof room in a US school, which I said was debateable (this was sarcasm, just in case you didn't notice).
People invent stuff everywhere, dude, calm down.
Usually an invention follows a need for something. If you need bullet proof rooms for schools you're doing something wrong.
I absolutely disagree with your theory of inventions unless you expand "need" to be a meaningless distinction from other words like "want" or "I was drunk and had an idea" or "somebody else had an idea and I stole it" like the great inventors of the past.
Nobody needs a pop-up room of any kind.
Well, let's just narrow it down to this invention in particular, ok?
"Is there a need for bullet proof rooms in US schools?"
"Why, yes potato, there is a need (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(2000%E2%80%93present)) for bullet proof rooms in US schools."
Then who the fuck knows what happened because you became convinced I was calling for these stupid things to be installed in every classroom
...
At no point in this discussion did anyone suggest that these things should be installed anywhere.
If you read my posts (ironic given you're partial to suggesting others don't read yours) instead of having a hissy fit, you would see that the suggestion that the US "get your shit together" did not refer in any way to a need or demand to installing bullet proof shelters in schools.
...
Building bullet proof shelters in schools is not a solution.
Cool. School shootings are low probability events. Nothing to worry about then.I guess you should just arm the teachers then...Nah, I'm sure the locks on their doors work incase an extremely low probability event occurs.
:nothing :science
Yeah, they are. Maybe you should get your shit together. :lol
Defending school shootings on thebore.com
Cool
All good chief.Feel free to continue arguing with yourself, a child murder enthusiast, about the need for these if you want.
You keep fighting the good fight of defending the rights of kids and adults to enter a school and shoot the people inside. That's what's important.
It's the rest of us watching from afar in utter horror that need to get our shit together.
Haha, the living embodiment of this meme walks among us.People invent stuff everywhere, dude, calm down.
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Stop. Making. Shit. Up.
It's really my fault for breaking my cardinal bore rule of don't engage with the weaponised autism.
Biden’s DOJ is coordinating with the Democrat Manhattan DA to arrest Donald Trump, the top Republican Presidential candidate for 2024, and charge him with a fake outdated misdemeanor charge.
It’s ALL FOR POLITICS!
This is what they do in communists countries to destroy their political opponents!
Republicans in Congress MUST subpoena these communists and END this!
We have the power to do it and we also have the power to DEFUND their salaries and departments!
Enough of this!
The American people deserve a government that actually works for them NOT a bunch of self centered communists who bail out their donors, protect the elites, and weld their power to punish their political enemies!
Of course as soon as our Oversight Committee comes out with REAL PROOF that the entire Biden family was getting paid by CHINA for influence and favors from Joe Biden, these communists thugs decide to arrest Trump.
IMPEACH JOE BIDEN!!!
And it’s not even political like Trump impeachments, it’s actually deserved.
We don’t need to protest about the Communists Democrat’s planning to arrest Pres Trump and the political weaponization of our government and election interference.
These idiots are sealing their own fate in 2024 because the silent majority has two feelings right now about the current regime.
Fear and anger.
That is the most powerful combination when election time comes.
And the Democrats are driving that force with their own corrupt actions.
Trump getting arrested is this centuries 911
DeSoros
Proposals include giving qualifying residents $5 million, $97,000 a year for 250 years, or $1 homes.
The $97,000 sounds so non-arbitrary and exact though! :lolI think it was estimated based on some figure about lost income had they been white cishet males in San Francisco or something.
https://twitter.com/dril/status/1637700700150059008
Once the sealed indictment is delivered to the judge, the DA’s office would discuss Trump’s surrender with his counsel, according to a court official who, like the others, was granted anonymity to discuss internal planning procedures. If Trump were to not surrender, a warrant would be issued for his arrest.
Whether Trump would be handcuffed is a decision that would be made by the district attorney, the court official said. He would be finger printed and a mug shot would be taken, though he is not expected to be “perp-walked” or paraded before the public in handcuffs, the official said.
twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16371937676974080013% or so should be about right I would assume, why would billionaires pay income tax unless they, like Elon apparently does, collect it as salary? (Or, like Elon did last year, sell multi-billions worth of stock to buy an internet forum.)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrooK_3WAAEyL0m?format=jpg)Lots of interesting grammar and punctuation choices going on here.
Yes, the entire state of California also has a panel weighing proposals for state-wide reparations. The suggestions have already ran into trouble because they suggested it only be available to those who can prove descendance from slaves, social justice groups were highly opposed to this racist discrimination. There's also been complaints that the proposals only apply to Black people instead of all oppressed groups like Indigenous and trans people.the trans goofballs really tried to add themselves into a reparations proposal? :pacspit
The quoted subheadline is also accurate, none of the panels were supposed to do any kind of investigation about how to pay for any of it only establish plans for what should be given.
No, California was not a slave state.
https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1637196732181168128twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16371937676974080013% or so should be about right I would assume, why would billionaires pay income tax unless they, like Elon apparently does, collect it as salary? (Or, like Elon did last year, sell multi-billions worth of stock to buy an internet forum.)
the trans goofballs really tried to add themselves into a reparations proposal? :pacspitThere have been proposals that Blue States need to provide trans people in Red States with relocation funds and then a living wage.
The GIFT program will offer 55 trans people in San Francisco a guaranteed income of $1,200 per month, for 18 months — starting in January 2023 and ending in June 2024.
The funds will be given to participants via a new debit Visa card, which the program will reload with a fresh $1,200 each month.
Aubrey Davis, executive associate with the Transgender District, points out that many trans people in San Francisco continue to struggle making ends meet, due to layoffs but also discrimination that can make it harder for them to find a job.
She says some trans folks are also dealing with homelessness and housing insecurity, after being pushed out by family.
“What this program is supposed to do is help the situation — make it possible for people to support themselves, for them to just have a little bit more ease with their finances,” Davis said. She added that by receiving direct financial assistance each month to cover some essential expenses, folks living in one of the most expensive cities in the country will be getting some sort of lifeline.
As part of the City’s growing portfolio of guaranteed income programs, GIFT is one of several programs the City is developing, implementing, and evaluating to identify how to best support San Francisco residents and promote economic stability and recovery. This pilot program is the first guaranteed income initiative to focus solely on trans people, and will accept applications from November 15 through December 15, 2022.
The GIFT Program will provide 55 eligible trans individuals with temporary income and a range of wrap-around direct services such as gender affirming medical and mental health care, case management and specialty care services, as well as financial coaching.
“Our Guaranteed Income Programs allow us to help our residents when they need it most as part of our City’s economic recovery and our commitment to creating a more just city for all,” said Mayor London Breed. “We know that our trans communities experience much higher rates of poverty and discrimination, so this program will target support to lift individuals in this community up. We will keep building on programs like this to provide those in the greatest need with the financial resources and services to help them thrive.”
The program began accepting applications Wednesday. The application period will close in December.
Recipients will be selected by organizations helping to administer and shape the program, including the Transgender District, a group whose goal is to help trans people find economic security.
“By giving low-income trans people the resources to cover the expenses they deem most immediate and important given each person’s unique situation, we are implementing a truly community-centered intervention to combat poverty,” said Aria Sa’id, president of the Transgender District.
https://twitter.com/BusinessInsider/status/1636929481272164353
Is this for real?
QuoteProposals include giving qualifying residents $5 million, $97,000 a year for 250 years, or $1 homes.
:dead
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/20/law-enforcement-donald-trump-indictment-plan-00087836 (https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/20/law-enforcement-donald-trump-indictment-plan-00087836)QuoteOnce the sealed indictment is delivered to the judge, the DA’s office would discuss Trump’s surrender with his counsel, according to a court official who, like the others, was granted anonymity to discuss internal planning procedures. If Trump were to not surrender, a warrant would be issued for his arrest.
Whether Trump would be handcuffed is a decision that would be made by the district attorney, the court official said. He would be finger printed and a mug shot would be taken, though he is not expected to be “perp-walked” or paraded before the public in handcuffs, the official said.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1637826603978838016 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1637826603978838016)
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Doesn't sound like Donnie is in the mood to surrender. :lol
Will Trump be arrested today, kids?I think costello was supposed to testify against Trump not burn down Cohen
I'd usually find Trump getting nicked hilarious (on a pretty weak charge too), but some of the most annoying people online will be taking this as a personal W so :kobeyuck
The likes of yer Jennifer Rubins and Brooklyn Dads and all the other resistence dorks will be even more unbearable than usual.
They cancelled their own real path forward in Cuomo.
This is back, guess he got reported for it and it was temporarily taken down. :lolhttps://twitter.com/dril/status/1637700700150059008
Fucking dril is deleting tweets now.
The woke mob have gone too far :social
or gay (Polis).Like Buttigieg, this isn't actually a problem, breh.
All of those impacts are set to increase rapidly, as we have failed to reverse the 200-year trend of rising greenhouse gas emissions, despite more than 30 years of warnings from the IPCC, which published its first report in 1990.:hmm
Stop having families! Stop making kids! Get rid of your gas stove! Get rid of your gas car! Travel less!
How convenient. Leftists have all the damn answers. Can't wait for the next big climate summit when a bunch of rich yuppies meet to tell me how to live as they travel in their private jets that pump out CO2!
It's a matter of voting for what you don't have.
The left mostly dwells in their shithole cities with garbage piles, crime and overpopulation. If I would live there I would also be convinced the world is ending.
Stop having families! Stop making kids! Get rid of your gas stove! Get rid of your gas car! Travel less!
How convenient. Leftists have all the damn answers. Can't wait for the next big climate summit when a bunch of rich yuppies meet to tell me how to live as they travel in their private jets that pump out CO2!
Guterres called on governments to take drastic action to reduce emissions by investing in renewable energy and low-carbon technology.
Ah yes, they're urging them to act.
The climate is obviously warming, and it seems fact that humans are causing at least some of that.
My issue is: what do you want us to do about it?
It's a matter of voting for what you don't have.Okay, so explain why the "right" thinks the world is ending too.
The left mostly dwells in their shithole cities with garbage piles, crime and overpopulation. If I would live there I would also be convinced the world is ending.
I can think of one renowned muslim man who took an effective proactive approach at decreasing the carbon emission causes by air travel.Osama was more of a "you guys should totally do this while I chill at a compound with my wives" type of guy.
Himu, are you a complainer or a leader?
twitter.com/atrupar/status/1638531949441478658Is this not a totally rational conclusion from Jones? Rupar is becoming more insane the more unemployed he is. :doge
oof yikes
Meanwhile, the source said, “Trump couldn’t stop smiling as he played ‘Maria’ from ‘West Side Story,’ the theme from ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and a chorus of ‘Hallelujah’ that had people scratching their heads as to exactly what that meant.”
A source previously told Page Six of Trump and his supporters, “They are very pumped about this … The Manhattan DA, NYPD and even the Department of Justice were trying to work out a quiet handover coordinated with the Secret Service — and Trump was having none of that. If an indictment and arrest happens, he wants it to be public.”
We were even told that team Trump is planning to “try and film and document it with their own camera crew, they want a shot of him in cuffs and will release the mugshot. They are loving this stuff.”
Trump will be the first President to serve 3 terms since FDR.This is why I think the Democrats need to sue to get him off the ballot, enforce the 22nd Amendment! :american
ron's more of a duvalin guy. 2 in the pink, one in the stinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECac7O4hg8
(https://i.imgur.com/9Pa0r63.jpeg)
any videos of trumpy saying "ron desnctimonious"
this may be both the worst and best nickname he's come up with :rofl
I would only vote for trumpy if he did something wild like have crazy bernie or abuela hillary as his vice prezAt this point probably Catturd2 or one of many Mikes :trumps
does he already have someone in mind? :thinking maybe marianne orb mom :doge
twitter.com/atrupar/status/1639253181732405248Guess they better make sure it's not a false charge then huh? :kermit
I would only vote for trumpy if he did something wild like have crazy bernie or abuela hillary as his vice prez
does he already have someone in mind? :thinking maybe marianne orb mom :doge
any videos of trumpy saying "ron desnctimonious"https://twitter.com/alx/status/1639774535510532096 (https://twitter.com/alx/status/1639774535510532096)
this may be both the worst and best nickname he's come up with :rofl
any videos of trumpy saying "ron desnctimonious"https://twitter.com/alx/status/1639774535510532096 (https://twitter.com/alx/status/1639774535510532096)
this may be both the worst and best nickname he's come up with :rofl
The Catturd Poll and Ron DeSanctimonious
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1640490947036295168 (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1640490947036295168)
Is the hard R one of those Spanish rolling Rs?
Ivanka is the only correct choice.
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It's pronounced NEW-cue-lar thank you very much...Is the hard R one of those Spanish rolling Rs?
I just say Nuclea' to avoid any problems with the uptight crowd.
twitter.com/LolOverruled/status/1640497100973568006On the upside, like most things about laws on Twitter, the text of this bill nowhere says it would criminalize using a VPN as the tweeter alleges. I'm certainly not an expert on such foreign adversary laws but I'm skeptical any individual would even be charged under this law for anything except as an enhancing charge to another set of crimes. It seems more targeted at companies and such. For one thing it requires one million users for most of the provisions.
It's pronounced NEW-cue-lar thank you very much...Is the hard R one of those Spanish rolling Rs?
I just say Nuclea' to avoid any problems with the uptight crowd.
Have the walls finally closed in? :titusMark down the date, this is the end of Donald Trump's Presidency.
(https://i.imgur.com/YoXlxxs.jpeg)spotted at a local coffee shop :doge
biden won the last election, benj. trump is at maralago :dogeI can't believe you forgot January 6th already.
https://twitter.com/EricaRN4USA/status/1641550454399066113 (https://twitter.com/EricaRN4USA/status/1641550454399066113):ohhh
wait for the end :lol
It wrapped up a two-day meeting in Sacramento on Thursday, which included heated public comments, some filled with frustration.
In public comments, Jamilia Land talked about what she called the "true nature of reparations."
At the core of the word: It's repair, repair for the harm that has been caused," Land said.
The task force listened to several hours of testimony over the past two days, much of it with strong emotions. Some called for the whole system to be "dismantled."
Others suggested how to spend the $800 billion economists suggest would be needed for decades of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination.
"Seems to me free health care, free education, tax-exempt status, land allocations, a check, all have longevity," said Douglas Oliver.
Moore also said the task force wants to debunk the argument that California was never a slave-free state.:american
"We brought experts in to disrupt the myth around California of not having any role at all in slavery," she said. "We learned very early on that California was only free in name only."
https://twitter.com/EricaRN4USA/status/1641550454399066113 (https://twitter.com/EricaRN4USA/status/1641550454399066113)The one time in history that someone saying "wait until the end" was worth it.
wait for the end :lol
Losers donating to the personal legal defense of a billionaire. :lolAmericans really be that fucking stupid, right?
Losers donating to the personal legal defense of a billionaire. :lolIt's dumber, I think this is donations to his presidential campaign.
Yeah but after posting this, you didn't start to delete your posts in panic. :lolI or any random schmuck can “speak in first person” as AOC or literally anyone else under any random tweet right now. Not sure what that proves.
Hey folx, this is your favorite bore user Uncle. I just wanted to let y’all know that I really love eating poop.
it's not even that big a deal, but it's a pretty long con to pretend you're on AOC's side for over a year with thousands of tweets, then "accidentally" reveal yourself and delete everything, just to hope she's briefly angry that people think she had a burner for a dayWasn't it star witness Michael Cohen that ran a bunch of Twitter accounts of women praising him for his looks :lol
The regime is shaking in their boots
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1642603375152734214 (https://twitter.com/alx/status/1642603375152734214)
.https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1642881630862753793
the avatar is tatsuhiro sato from welcome to the NHK :doge.https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1642881630862753793
It’s finally abuela’s time to shine :jeb
I, for one, do NOT want to see filler's doughnut hole.It’s finally abuela’s time to shine :jeb
Someone post the donut hole meme again please, bonus points if it s filller
I, for one, do NOT want to see filler's doughnut hole.It’s finally abuela’s time to shine :jeb
Someone post the donut hole meme again please, bonus points if it s filller
Guess who finally cares about voters in Wisconsin?Spread the word! Vote for a judge to protect democracy!
twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1643252969977028614
I, for one, do not NOT want to see filler's doughnut hole.It’s finally abuela’s time to shine :jeb
Someone post the donut hole meme again please, bonus points if it s filller
Delete your account :camby
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1643353510510047233Nice, Trump getting the ol' Prosecutor Special he loves.
DeSantis signed a mn affordable housing plan. If he could just focus on victories like this and raising teacher salaries the guy could be a hut all across the political aisle but instead he's obsessed with getting MAGA culture warrior support.
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/ron-desantis-signs-affordable-housing-plan/
NAPLES - Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a $711 million plan to make housing more affordable for working Floridians.Where's the victory, all I see here is a price increase for cronies funded by the taxpayers?
A priority of Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, the "Live Local Act," will more than double funding for housing and rental programs, provide incentives for investment in affordable housing and encourage mixed-use developments in struggling commercial areas.
"As demand is high to move to a place like Florida, it makes it more challenging for folks to be able to afford," DeSantis said during a bill-signing event in Naples. "I think this is the biggest effort that's ever been done in the history of Florida."
twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1643410457183567872Well, aside from all those other crimes. :trumps
Liberals won a majority in Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time in 15 years.
Abortion is killing the GOP lmao
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-liberals-win-majority-rcna77190
It's true that they need to thank Trump for sticking with them.Liberals won a majority in Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time in 15 years.
Abortion is killing the GOP lmao
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-liberals-win-majority-rcna77190
Liberals swept all the elections last night the republican party is done
Liberals won a majority in Wisconsin Supreme Court for the first time in 15 years.
Abortion is killing the GOP lmao
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-liberals-win-majority-rcna77190
Liberals swept all the elections last night the republican party is done
Yeah, Trump + endless culture war crap + ending Roe is going to diminish Republican gains for a decade plus. RIP. If DeSantis signs that 6 week Florida abortion bill he can kiss any Presidential wishes goodbye. No idea why they're willing to die on such a hill most Americans are moderate on. Just absolutely ridiculous banana town. The Republican Party deserves what it gets.That's something the Republicans didn't get. Trump is the moderate. That's where his cross party appeal and minority support comes from.
There's no way Democrats don't win 2024 and if the crystal ball is clear, 2028 as well.
The abortion problem is that everyone is beginning to recognize this stuff is largely bs. If abortion is murder, why is a 6 week ban better than an outright ban? Surely you should support a complete ban because saying "well we can kill the baby at 7 weeks but not 6 weeks" isn't logical.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1643690466964021248 (https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1643690466964021248)
We're now praying not just for Trump, but also his buildings apparently.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1643718074678296576 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1643718074678296576)
Deep State needs to practice more :pacspitYeah, Trump + endless culture war crap + ending Roe is going to diminish Republican gains for a decade plus. RIP. If DeSantis signs that 6 week Florida abortion bill he can kiss any Presidential wishes goodbye. No idea why they're willing to die on such a hill most Americans are moderate on. Just absolutely ridiculous banana town. The Republican Party deserves what it gets.That's something the Republicans didn't get. Trump is the moderate. That's where his cross party appeal and minority support comes from.
There's no way Democrats don't win 2024 and if the crystal ball is clear, 2028 as well.
That's something the Republicans didn't get. Trump is the moderate. That's where his cross party appeal and minority support comes from.
He just got out of jail. Isn't he on probation? Why is even allowed anywhere near a protest?Because it's not the real one but an imposter. :trumps
After the midterms were dissapointing he pointed out that the reason was the Republican platform and going all in on abortion as well as them trying to abolish welfare benefits.QuoteThat's something the Republicans didn't get. Trump is the moderate. That's where his cross party appeal and minority support comes from.
:what
Trump has said the election has been fake for years. That's far from moderate.
He just got out of jail. Isn't he on probation? Why is even allowed anywhere near a protest?Because it's not the real one but an imposter. :trumpsQuoteAfter the midterms were dissapointing he pointed out that the reason was the Republican platform and going all in on abortion as well as them trying to abolish welfare benefits.QuoteThat's something the Republicans didn't get. Trump is the moderate. That's where his cross party appeal and minority support comes from.
:what
Trump has said the election has been fake for years. That's far from moderate.
Trump also governed as a moderate on most social and economic issues. Things as justice reform as well as subsidies for farmers.
The gop is the dog chasing the abortion car that now doesn’t know what to do once they’ve caught it
Especially once the scare tactics fail and people realize oh wow, kids aren't regularly having their dicks cut off and there's a large medical process in place to determine the best health outcomes for kids.
Especially once the scare tactics fail and people realize oh wow, kids aren't regularly having their dicks cut off and there's a large medical process in place to determine the best health outcomes for kids.
I don't agree with this
feels like every couple of months a new whistleblower from something like Mermaids comes out and says "yeah, we're all absolutely terrified of being called bigots from both within and without so there's a firm culture of rubber stamp approving everything every kid or parent says they want"
there's also plenty of coaching online of the exact words you need to say to parents and caregivers to get what you want with a minimum of pushback
we need more longer term studies on today's young people who are transitioning, which does more than follow them for 1 or 2 years, we need to know 10 years down the line if they are still happy and healthy...and such studies need to account for pressure to conform within communities, whether they are truly happy or feel like they need to say they are happy just to help normalize and promote similar procedures for others
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1643744170966945792The left only cares about trans issues to use it as a cudgel against the right. The right only cares about it to use it as a cudgel against the left.Especially once the scare tactics fail and people realize oh wow, kids aren't regularly having their dicks cut off and there's a large medical process in place to determine the best health outcomes for kids.
I don't agree with this
feels like every couple of months a new whistleblower from something like Mermaids comes out and says "yeah, we're all absolutely terrified of being called bigots from both within and without so there's a firm culture of rubber stamp approving everything every kid or parent says they want"
there's also plenty of coaching online of the exact words you need to say to parents and caregivers to get what you want with a minimum of pushback
we need more longer term studies on today's young people who are transitioning, which does more than follow them for 1 or 2 years, we need to know 10 years down the line if they are still happy and healthy...and such studies need to account for pressure to conform within communities, whether they are truly happy or feel like they need to say they are happy just to help normalize and promote similar procedures for others
The trans issue is an issue but it's not a major issue right now because they have mainstream acceptance. It's a down the line issue. It will take someone like Jazz hurting himself to really turn it around mainstream.
But even then the amount of trans people is like 1% of the population. It's such an insignificant number might not care and the issue will correct itself in the medical community, proving PD right.
If the Republican party can live with their leader paying hush money to porn stars, they can surely find it in their hearts to accept a moderate position on abortion.
From what I've seen the Trump wing of the party wants to move from an anti-abortion to pro-breeder message following along their ideological leaders like Elon Musk who believe that the human race faces extinction not overpopulation.
Trump has already announced a bunch of policies that would make it more appealing to have kids.
Otherwise they mostly think it is a states issue (so they can get abortions after the swinger parties in another state :lol)
I am Trumpacus!Careful Joe:
Austin Sarat
@ljstprof
Teaches law and politics @amherstcollege. Writes about the death penalty and American political life.
Austin D. Sarat:stahp
POLITICAL SCIENCE, LAW, JURISPRUDENCE, AND SOCIAL THOUGHT, FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science; Chair of Political Science
Degrees
LL.D (Honorary), Providence College (2008)
J.D., Yale Law School (1988)
A.M. (Honorary), Amherst College (1984)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (1973)
M.A., University of Wisconsin (1970)
B.A., Providence College (1969)
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1643635354082193414Trump getting shot is just another new multi-episode plot to liven up the show. :doge
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1643635354082193414
Something needs to be done about Clarence Thomas
Is what they say about Black people being bad tippers true? Himu?
https://twitter.com/JustinElliott/status/1643936491528151043
An incident report released Thursday afternoon by the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office allege that the 13-year-old made repeated threats to shoot up Holley Navarre Middle School and to stab students who angered him.
Investigators interviewed multiple students who spoke with the teenager, as well as those who saw messages he posted on social media. In the messages to his friends, the teenager made the following statements, among others:
“I want to shoot up the school.”
“If I get a gun I’m gonna shoot up hnms lol.”
“I’m getting a wrath and natural selection shirt so maybe but I don’t think many ppl know what the columbine shooters look like.”
“Okay so it’s been like 3-4 weeks since I got on my new antidepressants and they aren’t working but they’re suppose to by now so I have no hope in getting better so why not kill the losers at school.”
The teenager told one of his friends that he planned to shoot up the school the Thursday before Spring Break but there were too many things going on so he postponed it until March 31.
The students reported the claims to the school prior to that date and the investigation was launched.
Okay so it’s been like 3-4 weeks since I got on my new antidepressants
Is what they say about Black people being bad tippers true? Himu?This guy is a reporter and he couldn't even find out there's no "ethics law" to violate?
twitter.com/JustinElliott/status/1643936491528151043
twitter.com/BrickmanInGA/status/1644051232259031040lol at this idiot thinking an irrelevant lunatic criminal liar is a "political foe" of the guy who just won re-election by 20 points.
Trumps other bitches are fighting :whew :pacspit
https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1644394053172166656 (https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1644394053172166656)
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1644401426498560001 (https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1644401426498560001)
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1644175451026276353 (https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1644175451026276353)
Trump/Tulsi 2024 :rejoice
Trumps other bitches are fighting :whew :pacspitBut Laura, you yourself posted that you're not allowed to own a gun in Florida because you've been declared mentally incompetent by a court so where's MTG's lie? Is that why you, rarely for yourself, didn't make a legal threat here?
twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1644401426498560001
SAVE DEMOCRACY
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tennessee-new-front-battle-american-democracy-98445732
Tennessee has become a new front in the battle for the future of American democracy after Republicans expelled two Black lawmakers from the state Legislature for their part in a protest urging passage of gun-control measures.
In separate votes on Thursday, the GOP supermajority expelled Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, a move leaving about 140,000 voters in primarily Black districts in Nashville and Memphis with no representation in the Tennessee House.
The removal of the lawmakers, who were only recently elected, reflects a trend in dozens of states where Republicans are trying to make it harder to cast ballots and challenging the integrity of the election process.
At least 177 bills restricting voting or creating systems that can intimidate voters or permit partisan interference were filed or introduced in dozens of states so far this year, according to the Brennan Center.
“It represents a really slow erosion of our democracy,” said Neha Patel, co-executive director of the State Innovation Exchange, a strategy center for state legislators working toward progressive policies.
Patel called the expulsions “the third prong of a long-range strategy.” She said it was once “unprecedented” for states to make it harder for people to vote, but the practice has become “commonplace.”
National Urban League President Marc Morial said the issue was about race, but “it’s not only about race. It’s about basic American values.”They're really going to try and challenge that a legislature can determine its own rules? :girlaff
Referring to the right to vote, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, he said, “It appears as though the Tennessee Legislature needs a refresher on the American Constitution.”
The president of the Congressional Black Caucus, Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford, called for the Tennessee lawmakers to be returned to their seats and for Attorney General Merrick Garland to look into potential violations of the Voting Rights Act.
NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said the civil rights organization was prepared to take legal action "to ensure that this heinous attempt to silence the voice of the people is addressed in a court of law.”
Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member.
Wasn’t he supposed to be a “transition president” and not run for a second term? Or am I imagining shit?
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1645493814553894912 (https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1645493814553894912)furry representation in the white house :reeeee
I engaged in sexual congress with the Easter Bunny.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/11/pentagon-leak-traced-to-video-game-chat-group-users-arguing-over-war-in-ukraine
gamers really are the most oppressed minority (tm)
twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1645957062348750848Soft bigotry of low expectations. :ufup
Nothing in the rules says a dead lady can't be senator. :idont
o shit they found the Shosta discordThe tweet said "mutual love of guns, military gear and god", not "haircare products, Che Guevara hats and champagne socialism" though...
o shit they found the Shosta discordThe tweet said "mutual love of guns, military gear and god"
Luckily Queens stick together.:wut
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1646496744291676162
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-signs-6-week-abortion-ban-law-florida-rcna78989
Look at this man. There goes your chances. I won't vote for you in a primary. Team Haley.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-signs-6-week-abortion-ban-law-florida-rcna78989
Look at this man. There goes your chances. I won't vote for you in a primary. Team Haley.
Don't you Republicans want pro-life politicians in power to push a pro-life agenda?
:confused
Or is it a case of the "dog catching the car"?
It is the same for me. I used to be for a fifteen week limit with medical exception determined by a physician, similar to what most of Europe has. It seemed like a solid compromise.
But now? I am for unfettered abortion access. Why? Because Republicans have shown that they will expand and abuse any restrictions.
Republicans have turned me into an extremist on abortion, and I hate it.
I used to be one of those “yeah maybe we can decide on a point in pregnancy to ban it except in extreme medical cases” sort of people. Now? Now I don’t want to hear a single fucking thing about abortion from republicans. I don’t want any laws because they’ve shown they can’t control themselves.
I’d much rather leave the decision entirely up to individual women and their physicians than continue this march toward theocratic authoritarianism.
*cough* *taps mic*
LEAKY JOE
https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1646398460977979393 (https://twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1646398460977979393)
I fucking hate that song :rage
Trump's latest campaign strategy is very interesting.
Why does he keep bringing up the n-word :doge
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1646983304959098881 (https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1646983304959098881)
guy is getting taken down by a stupid ass nickname :muellerTrump is unbeatable as a Republican.
you don't deserve the nomination if you can't overcome that tbh :karen
We need to arrest the groomersRead the article, what a rollercoaster :crazy
https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1648026562422272006
It would help if he actually announced.They had four years to learn that Trump doesn't give a shit about the party. He will see it all burn if it means he gets to sit in the oval Office again and enrich his family while doing it.
I think the folks running his campaign and PACs thought that Trump wouldn't attack him before he actually announced his candidacy.
They probably didn't think Trump would burn down the party he leads. :lol
lmao, Trump is truely in rare form these days :lolStill amazes me that Trump, the most brilliant genius in the world, somehow hired all of these dumbest born losers in the world to his staff.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ft96rJEWwAEL0zh?format=jpg)
https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1648470822946996224
Trump has a new policy just for you Himu :)I'm pretty sure they already make tent cities on publicly owned land.
twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1648465597263654912
Didnt one of you say this would happen
Donald Trump Comes out in Support of Disney, Slams Ron DeSantis for Fighting Back
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/04/18/donald-trump-comes-out-in-support-of-disney-slams-ron-desantis-for-fighting-back-n732979
Trump taking Disney’s side in its battle against DeSantis happened just days after Donald Trump Jr. urged conservatives to end an ongoing boycott against Bud Light. In both cases, it appears the Trumps are more worried about donor money than winning important cultural battles. That’s not exactly comforting given Trump is running on fighting and cleaning up Washington, DC. If he can’t stand firm against a company as blatantly woke as Disney, then that calls into question his resolve to face down any serious cultural challenge. If you aren’t even willing to face down Disney, you aren’t going to defeat the deep state.
Nah, those aren't our "only" options. We can just protect people's rights rather than have them stripped arbitrarily by unaccountable bureaucrats as part of some religious central plan.
You keep asking how the progressives win and it's because you "conservatives" accept all their false choices about how the state needs more unchecked power rather than conserving either human or constitutional rights. Next you're going to be saying I have to choose a license to make toast in my own damn toaster.
What next, a license to make toast in your own damn toaster?I already got the license to use that joke! :bolo
Next you're going to be saying I have to choose a license to make toast in my own damn toaster.
Having to acquire government permission before you're allowed to have rights that protect you from the same government is pretty inherently bad. You're arguing that you know when to stop when you're arguing for eliminating every constitutional right. :lol
Even if I grant your proposition that "conservatives" know when to stop, like when the W. Bush administration argued that it could suspend constitutional rights whenever it wanted to, the rest of your proposition argues against allowing it because there's no check on when the "progressives" take power and build on that like the Obama administration did when it argued that could murder any American citizen without trial whenever it wanted to.
twitter.com/JonSchweppe/status/1649119229998661654This dummy realizes that Trump was openly pro-choice before 2014 or so, right? And that, like, he's a guy who constantly lies to try and make people like him?
:trumps
What is your solution then? Offer a viable solution in its place rather than talk up "limiting a constitutional right". An 84 year old man had a gun, shot with zero provocation, shot him in the head when he was down to make sure he was dead. How do you answer for abating situations like this which are complete neglect without some form of gun education to the populace? Is your argument against complete prevention and one exclusively for prosecution?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vidzkYnaf6Y
MSNBC Legal Analyst Andrew Weissmann argued that the only way to deter media networks from “promulgating lies” — using Fox News Dominion lawsuit as an example — is for the US government to step in and regulate this conduct.:era
...
Weissman, who served in the Department of Justice and took a senior role in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into former President Donald Trump, has long been a critic of Fox News and was on Morning Joe Friday morning for his legal expertise on the First Amendment and the current state of opinion media.
...
“You really need to be thinking about, okay, what is the business model for the National Enquirer? What is the business model for Fox News and the next media company that’s going to pretend to be giving news but is actually going to be promulgating lies? Is there going to be some regulatory damage that’s going to deter that?” he continued.
“So we don’t have a repetition because it’s really easy to just simply avoid denigrating a company so you won’t get sued but still promulgate a big lie. And so you need to have the government step in to have some kind of regulation of that kind of conduct.”
The last supper remastered
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1649578716786196485 (https://twitter.com/alx/status/1649578716786196485)
Trump took a slice of Pizza and said
https://twitter.com/KateSullivanDC/status/1649586796815065088 (https://twitter.com/KateSullivanDC/status/1649586796815065088)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnqGvi-U49UConsidering how crazy expensive everything is I'm not surprised more children are working these days.
REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Well, this was a corporation suing another corporation for material damages. Their job is to go in and get the most money that they can, and I think that they did that. They are not lawyers for the American public and I think what is best for the country, what would have been best for the country, would have been to demand that, and not settle until we got that.:juche
But that is not their role, and so for us, I think this raises much larger questions. Very often, I believe that we leave it to the courts to solve issues that politics is really supposed to solve, that legislating is supposed to solve.
We have very real issues with what is permissible on air, and we saw that with January 6th and we saw that in the lead up to January 6th, and how we navigate questions, not just a freedom of speech but also accountability for incitement of violence. This is the role we have to really explore through law as well.
PSAKI: Do you think media organizations of social media platforms should be accountable for being platforms for incitement?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I believe that when it comes to broadcast television, like FOX News, these are subject to federal law and regulation in terms of what's allowed on air and what isn't. And when you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence. Very clearly. And that is the line that I think we have to be willing to contend with.
has aoc considered what happens once the government is given control over the media the way she seems to want and then the republican party gets control of the white house, senate and house. or just enough control to appoint whoever they want and now they are the ones with full control over the media? :snoopWhy does anyone think it's only the Republicans that would abuse control of the media?
Nintex on suicide watch.
https://twitter.com/dylanbyers/status/1650522061721182210
Why is Meatball Ron in Japan
Why does anyone think it's only the Republicans that would abuse control of the media?What part of Republicans are fascists while Democrats represent the people, science, truth and democracy is so hard for you fascists to understand?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnqGvi-U49U
I may disagree with leftists on a lot but really respect their commitment to speaking truth to power, just as they're only people in the room that haven't white washed Bush and the Iraq War. I disagree with their policies these days but still respect that the only people in the room holding others accountable.:wut
It probably hinges on who you're referring to when you say "leftists" because my experience is that the self-declared rarely do anything but praise and excuse power.
Michelle ObamaIt probably hinges on who you're referring to when you say "leftists" because my experience is that the self-declared rarely do anything but praise and excuse power.
Find me a single leftist that praises Bush
Michelle ObamaIt probably hinges on who you're referring to when you say "leftists" because my experience is that the self-declared rarely do anything but praise and excuse power.
Find me a single leftist that praises Bush
Michelle ObamaIt probably hinges on who you're referring to when you say "leftists" because my experience is that the self-declared rarely do anything but praise and excuse power.
Find me a single leftist that praises Bush
If our standard for leftism is merely not praising the Bushes then this probably makes Trump the paragon leftist.It probably hinges on who you're referring to when you say "leftists" because my experience is that the self-declared rarely do anything but praise and excuse power.
Find me a single leftist that praises Bush
What a great candidate.Gotta read the fine print, my man:
“We have to face this reality,” Haley told reporters. “The pro-life laws that have passed in strongly Republican states will not be approved at the federal level. That’s just a fact notwithstanding what the Democrat fearmongers say.”That's an extreme super-far-right anti-woman fascist position, not anywhere near the pro-woman national consensus that includes what "opponents call partial-birth abortion", a permanent repeal of the anti-woman Hyde Amendment and free access to abortion for trans women.
“They say Republicans are about to ban all abortions nationwide and send women to prison. These wildly false claims amplified by a sympathetic media are not designed to do anything other than score political points,” she said.
Haley also called on Republican candidates to take a firmer stance on abortion, while painting Democratic candidates as extreme on the issue.
“Pro-life political leaders and candidates should not put up with being demonized. We should call out the extremism on the left,” she said.
During the address, Haley invoked her husband’s experience of being adopted and her own experience initially having issues becoming pregnant with her children as apart of her anti-abortion beliefs.
“My goal as president will be the same as it was when I was governor and ambassador — to save as many lives, and help as many moms, as possible,” she said.
...
SBA Pro-Life America praised Haley’s speech on Tuesday, referencing in a statement “Haley’s commitment to acting on the American consensus against late-term abortion by protecting unborn children by at least 15 weeks when they can feel excruciating pain.”
However, Haley did not state a specific limit on abortion restrictions in her address. When asked for clarification following the speech, an SBA spokespersons told The Hill they were “assured she would set national consensus at 15 weeks.”
When asked for comment, a Haley campaign official said the ambassador was “very clear in her speech.”
“She believes there is a federal role to play in protecting as many babies and helping as many moms as possible,” the official said.
Disney is suing DeSantis
RIP in peace meatball ron, you're done
What a great candidate.https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1651297354228563981 (https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1651297354228563981)
> On Wednesday, Montana house Republicans barred transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from the house floor for the rest of the 2023 session
> The lawmaker will still be able to vote remotely under the terms of the punishment but is unable to discuss proposals and amendments under consideration with other Montana lawmakers.
> The feud spilled over into this week’s house sessions when Zephyr, not recognized to speak on another transgender proposal, hoisted a microphone in the air and encouraged protesters in the gallery to disrupt proceedings.
twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1651376097349578753https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/1651381040601022467
Sounds like Trump, he was even complaining about the length of the Wonderful Diamond, of Diamond and Silk's funeral during his eulogy at said funeral :trumpsThat eulogy was amazing, I don't think anyone posted the whole thing. There's only bits and pieces with soy commentary on YouTube.
I think Republicans underestimate how well these uncle Joe moments work vs. ALL CAPS TRUTHS though :lol
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1651662405569486858 (https://twitter.com/alx/status/1651662405569486858)
I think Republicans underestimate how well these uncle Joe moments work vs. ALL CAPS TRUTHS though :lol
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1651662405569486858 (https://twitter.com/alx/status/1651662405569486858)
Who wouldn't want to vote for this guy after such a statement?
In Texas, the courts presume that all property and income that either spouse obtained during the course of the marriage belongs equally to both spouses
Holy shit
https://yashar.substack.com/p/exclusive-video-reveals-steven-crowder
Good.Cops want more minority criminals, film at 11.
https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-voters-favor-gun-limits-arming-citizens-reduce-gun-violence
Holy shitcrowder is a dick, but this also seems like she set his ass up to get it all on camera and with audio. it's just too perfect how it went down right in front of a camera :thinking
https://yashar.substack.com/p/exclusive-video-reveals-steven-crowder
It looks like it's on their security camera, though she may have set him up in front of it, it may have just been opportunistically caught. It's not really too surprising because Crowder has rarely reacted well to pushback from anyone, which is probably why he prefers soft targets.
For james (who's been posting it in Culture War) and Himu, we've been "discussing" it some in the Wank Dad thread, Transhuman did a good analysis of Crowder's "statement" there. I don't know where we should want to organize our Crowder posting to.
Wtf is the wank dad threadIt's like the conspiracy theory thread, only with people who are also running various scams.
Good.Cops want more minority criminals, film at 11.
https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-voters-favor-gun-limits-arming-citizens-reduce-gun-violencespoiler (click to show/hide):riot[close]
It looks like it's on their security camera, though she may have set him up in front of it, it may have just been opportunistically caught. It's not really too surprising because Crowder has rarely reacted well to pushback from anyone, which is probably why he prefers soft targets.
For james (who's been posting it in Culture War) and Himu, we've been "discussing" it some in the Wank Dad thread, Transhuman did a good analysis of Crowder's "statement" there. I don't know where we should want to organize our Crowder posting to.
https://breaking911.com/breaking-autorites-to-release-nashville-shooters-manifesto-report/Why?
Can you believe these peoplehttps://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1652095671128952834
:trumps
Corpo media is vile
twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1651773745336295425
“He had been to five different countries in five days and he definitely looked spent, but his message wasn’t presidential,” they told POLITICO. “He was horrendous.”
A second business figure who was in the room said it was a “low-wattage” performance and that “nobody in the room was left thinking, ‘this man’s going places’.”
I’d rather be strapped to a chair, have the Magna Carta branded on my chubby white arse w/ a white hot poker, while acid is dripped on my toes
he was really up there talking to silk like it was the first time ever seeing her :lolSounds like Trump, he was even complaining about the length of the Wonderful Diamond, of Diamond and Silk's funeral during his eulogy at said funeral :trumpsThat eulogy was amazing, I don't think anyone posted the whole thing. There's only bits and pieces with soy commentary on YouTube.
This has some highlights with decent commentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOqs1Z0ZSbg
Good Lord.
Good Lord.
I thought we were done hating people different from you?
From personal experience the migrant problem is only going to get worse because apart from all the other problems in a few years time there will be very few jobs these folks can do to sustain themselves.Malthus was wrong.
We've offered an internship to a Syrian girl after request from the local government and while she is learning the language and everything you can't help but think that what she is able to learn (entry level HTML/CSS) is absolutely useless now that AI's exist. A lot of low level desk jobs simply won't exist anymore in 5 to 10 years time (perhaps even sooner). Learn to plumb?
From personal experience the migrant problem is only going to get worse because apart from all the other problems in a few years time there will be very few jobs these folks can do to sustain themselves.Malthus was wrong.
We've offered an internship to a Syrian girl after request from the local government and while she is learning the language and everything you can't help but think that what she is able to learn (entry level HTML/CSS) is absolutely useless now that AI's exist. A lot of low level desk jobs simply won't exist anymore in 5 to 10 years time (perhaps even sooner). Learn to plumb?
Also, plumbing is a specialized field and potentially lucrative career.
Good Lord.
I thought we were done hating people different from you?
Himu do you live in Harris County?
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1653497335471656987
Himu do you live in Harris County?
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1653497335471656987
I'm from there, yes.
Another Bernie win
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1653431454800510977
Do you think the GOP should be able to cancel results in one county because they don't like them?Look who suddenly dislikes socialism.
The Biden administration is planning to temporarily deploy 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border ahead of an expected surge in migrants.
The announcement comes as Title 42, a policy that allows for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the border and blocks them from seeking asylum, is set to expire May 11.
A U.S. official told The Hill the troops would be deployed for 90 days to assist with work including ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support, but they would not be doing law enforcement work.
The troops are meant to station at the border until U.S. Customs and Border Protection can more adequately address its needs through contracted support, according to the official.
DHS officials have predicted that attempts to cross the border could climb following the end of the policy, which was first implemented under the Trump administration.
In March, U.S. officials encountered more than 191,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border; administration officials have said they expect that number to go up significantly with the end of Title 42.
Thing is, Pudding Rons voice is that of the kind of bitch assed individual who would have a Disney land annual pass :trumpsNow that you mention it, he does sorta seem like a jilted lover, like all the Harry Potter fans with Joanne.
https://cherp.medium.com/rebekah-jones-the-unbearable-lightness-of-truth-6b14142083d5https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes/status/1654638242069880832
:whoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vidzkYnaf6Yhttps://twitter.com/AP/status/1654048268718940160
Bare-knuckle brawlers from Trumpworld are standing by.
"Now, we're going from peacetime to Defcon 1," the friend added. "His team is preparing for war. He wants his freedom."
said the terrible episode broke New Yorkers’ hearts and that it disrupted a place where all New Yorkers have to learn to co-exist.
It seems like a failure of the city to act but this is sort of a trend in neoliberal cities.
The Fiscal 2023 Preliminary Budget for the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) totals $2.2 billion, which represents 2.2 percent of the City's overall budget of $98.5 billion.
Our education system has done us a disservice. "Let's protest!" as the way to solve things ever since the civil rights movement as the answer to every single thing. Ugh.Especially since that would be an inaccurate characterization of the sustained multifaceted effort that was intelligently considered.
It seems like a failure of the city to act but this is sort of a trend in neoliberal cities.Here's an example of what I mean.
California’s Reparations Task Force voted on Saturday to recommend that the state issue a formal apology for slavery and potentially provide billions of dollars in cash payments, moving forward a historic effort to enact remedies and compensation for descendants of African Americans who were enslaved in the U.S.
Economists calculated preliminary estimates of monetary losses in three categories of community harms: health disparities, African American mass incarceration and over-policing, and housing discrimination.
The amounts each individual receives would be determined by the number of years they have resided in California for a minimum of six months. The money would be given to every eligible recipient and no one would need to provide proof that they suffered individual harms in each category.
Compensation for health disparities: $13,619 for each year of residency. This figure was derived by comparing life expectancy between Black non-Hispanic and white non-Hispanic Californians.
Compensation for mass incarceration and over-policing of African Americans: $2,352 for each year of residency in California during the war on drugs from 1971 to 2020.
Compensation for housing discrimination: $3,366 for each year between 1933 and 1977 spent as a resident of the state of California.
The proposal calls for additional compensation for unjust property takings and the devaluation of African American businesses, which have not yet been quantified. The task force also suggests the Legislature adopt an individual claims process to provide reparations for those who can prove particular harms.
The report recommends that the Legislature provide initial down payments to begin the process, with more payments to follow, and prioritize the elderly as the first in line for compensation. The task force also noted that the amounts are conservative estimates and not final.
A draft of the final report recommends “a range of policies needed to guarantee restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and non-repetition,” included, but not limited to:I especially liked this one because the minimum wage was originally pushed by progressives in hopes of driving Blacks out of employment:
Repeal or amend Proposition 209, a measure approved by California voters that banned affirmative action in 1996.
Analyze laws, policies and ordinances from the local to the state level for racial impact prior to passage and after implementation.
Amend the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude.
Pay fair market value for jail and prison labor.
Abolish the death penalty.
Fund community wellness centers in African American communities.
Strengthen the Bane Act by eliminating the requirement that a victim of police violence show that the officer “specifically intended” to commit misconduct.
Declare election day a paid state holiday.
Restore voting rights to all formerly and currently incarcerated people.
Implement rent caps for historically redlined ZIP Codes.
Increase grants and financial assistance to improve homeownership rates among African Americans, including subsidized down payments and mortgage payments to those who reside in formerly redlined neighborhoods
Allow descendants who reside in formerly redlined neighborhoods to transfer the assessed value of their primary home to a newly purchased or constructed primary residence.
Provide free college tuition for all California residents eligible for monetary reparations.
Build more parks in African American communities.
Identify and remove Confederate monuments, markers and memorials.
Create a guaranteed income program for descendants of an enslaved person.
Automatically increase minimum wage on a regular basis to adjust for increases to the cost of living, including inflation.
Provide interest-free loans to owners of small businesses in African American commercial areas.
End the cash bail system.
Repeal the “three strikes” law.
Adopt universal single-payer healthcare coverage and a healthcare cost control system.
Increase Medi-Cal reimbursement rates to match reimbursement rates of private insurance.
Automatically increase minimum wage on a regular basis to adjust for increases to the cost of living, including inflation.Then once all the lower classes were driven out of employment it'd be easy for the state to just sterilize everyone unemployed and protect society from their tainted blood allowing for the progressive utopia to begin.
“By participating in these horrors, California further perpetuated the harms African Americans faced, imbuing racial prejudice throughout society through segregation, public and private discrimination, and unequal disbursal of state and federal funding,” the panel noted, according to NPR.:usacry :usacry :usacry :usacry
Though up to $1.2 million in reparations was approved by the task force, some voiced their displeasure at the offer, arguing the amount should be much higher. Citing a 19th century promise of “40 acres and a mule,” activist Rev. Tony Pierce demanded an “equivocal” amount for every black citizen, amounting to a total he figured to be $200 million, Fox News reported.
While the panel approved the $800 billion in reparations, the proposed payments are not likely to pass through the state’s legislature as $800 billion is more than 2.5 times higher than the state’s annual budget, NPR reported.
“There’s no way in the world that many of these recommendations are going to get through because of the inflationary impact,” Roy L. Brooks, a professor and reparations scholar at the University of San Diego School of Law, told NPR.
The Marine did good work
Your opinion would be if value if you were a black man but you aren't and I have never ranted violently to other people or threw trash at them.
Rep. Bryan Slaton resigned from the Texas House on Monday after an investigation determined that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a 19-year-old woman on his staff, providing her with enough alcohol before their encounter that she felt dizzy and had double vision.:usacry :usacry :usacry :usacry
Pressure had mounted on the Royse City Republican to resign since Saturday, when the House General Investigative Committee released a 16-page report finding Slaton, who is 45 and married, had engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct with his aide. The committee of three Republicans and two Democrats recommended that Slaton be the first state representative expelled from the body since 1927.
Slaton's resignation, however, may not stop a planned Tuesday vote on a House resolution expelling him from office.
Patrick Krason, the treasurer for Ye’s, better known as [deadname redacted for your protection], still-active presidential campaign account, told a federal regulator he had resigned on Monday, alleging in a letter to the rapper-turned-candidate that campaign advisor Milo Yiannopoulos had possibly broken federal campaign finance law. Yiannopoulos denied the allegation.
The change signals a broader political shakeup for the rapper, also known as Ye, who has floated running for president again in 2024, although he has not filed a formal statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission. The Daily Beast reported last week that Yiannopoulos had returned to lead Ye’s political operation. Yiannopoulos, a longtime far-right provocateur, had previously worked with Ye’s campaign but departed in December, shortly before Krason was hired.
Krason had served as the campaign treasurer since December, and told the FEC that he had resigned in a Monday letter. All campaigns are required to have a treasurer to accept donations, make disbursements and file mandated reports with the agency.
In a separate letter addressed to Ye and obtained by POLITICO, Krason said he had been told he was going to be terminated by Yiannopoulos but was resigning before that was made official. He also said he had recently learned of a “potentially serious criminal transaction” involving the [deadname redacted for your protection] 2020 campaign, saying that Yiannopoulos “submitted falsified invoices and for expenditures that would be deemed unlawful” in November 2022, before Krason assumed the role as treasurer. He added that there was too much “personal animosity” for a professional relationship with Yiannopoulos.
Reached by phone, Krason said he felt he needed to leave Ye’s campaign following the personnel changes and due to concerns about Yiannopoulos outlined in his letter to Ye.
Yiannopoulos denied any wrongdoing by himself or the [deadname redacted for your protection] 2020 campaign to POLITICO, saying he was not going to “give any credence or ridiculous, ridiculous and easily disproven claims.” He suggested the allegations were a “venomous” attempt by the former treasurer to lash out while leaving the campaign. Ye could not be reached for comment directly.
The Texas shooter.
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1655629160956538896
“The truth has finally come out,” said Gregory Morey-Parker, who also accused Santos of stealing his scarf. An allegation, like so many others, that Santos denies.
The Texas shooter.FACT CHECK:
twitter.com/AricToler/status/1655629160956538896
Another weekend another protest from the left. All over an unhinged homeless. I'm sorry that he died but New Yorkers know what it's like to be attacked by a homeless man. This guy was ranting violently, throwing trash at passengers. Imagine being underground stuck in a car with nowhere to go as a mentally ill man SCREAMS AT YOU. Nope. The Marine did good work helping the people in that train car and I'm sorry that Neely died but protests over this? Absolutely ridiculous.
A New York Times opinion writer has been ripped for claiming that straphangers scared of “half-naked lunatics” menacing Big Apple subways need therapy for “imaginary monsters.”
Elizabeth Spiers sparked incredulity with her condescending response to the suggestion that a “polite society” is “one where people can safely ride the subway to work or take their children out in public without being accosted & menaced by half-naked lunatics.”
“Hi – New Yorker here,” wrote Spiers, who is also a Democratic pollster and NYU journalism professor.
“I’ve safely ridden the subway for 23 years and my child has never been menaced by a half naked lunatic, but these imaginary monsters in your head are addressable with therapy,” she continued.
Her tweet quickly went viral, seen more than 3 million times by Wednesday — with many questioning how serious she was.
“Not satire …,” one person wrote as others questioned if it was actually “a parody account.”
National Review writer Dan McLaughlin — to whose tweet Spiers had replied — was among those amazed that his critic had escaped seeing anything alarming for so long.
“If you’ve never encountered an alarming lunatic on the subway or its platforms, I question what city you’ve been traveling in,” McLaughlin tweeted.
“And how small your circle of friends must be if you don’t know anybody who’s experienced unhinged people in the subways.”
Others also noted how not seeing something firsthand does not mean it is not there.
“Exactly, Elizabeth! I feel the same way about tornadoes,” one person tweeted sarcastically.
“Everyone complains about them, but they’ve never bothered me. I’ve never even seen one and, frankly, I don’t really believe they exist.”
Spiers repeatedly doubled down on her views, replying to a flurry of critics to stand by her initial “imaginary monsters” claim.
She even dismissed someone who noted “all the videos showing mentally ill people in the middle of a psychosis.”
“All the videos? That you found on the Internet? That you have no idea where they came from or when they were shot? That you have not independently verified? And I’m the naive one?” she asked.
“My position is that the maybe two recent videos you’ve seen that are real,” she said. The two included the video showing the chokehold death of troubled vagrant Jordan Neely, said Spiers, who defended the subway system as suffering just “an occasional incident.”
“I see far more videos of unhinged people in Walmarts and it doesn’t make me think Walmarts are generally unsafe or stop going into them,” she wrote.
She even stuck by that when someone recounted recently seeing “a homeless guy pull his d–k out and pee off the side of one the subway tracks” at Grand Central in full view of women and kids at rush hour.
“Yeah I saw that s–t where I grew up. Except the guys weren’t homeless,” Spiers claimed dismissively.
When someone else noted how “everyone who’s ridden the subway in NYC for any amount of time has a crazy homeless person story,” Spiers maintained that she had similar experiences “everywhere I’ve ever lived.”
“I fail to see why homeless people on the NYC subway are any different from homeless people at the Walmart in my hometown and why anyone should consider either inherently dangerous,” said the proud “Alabamian/Rednexican.”
Noting a shift in her argument, the same person replied: “So it’s not ‘imaginary’ you just think people should be quiet about it.”
In one of her replies, Spiers conceded that “our subway system sucks.”
“But not because of safety issues. Albany loves blocking upgrades,” she insisted.
Another weekend another protest from the left. All over an unhinged homeless. I'm sorry that he died but New Yorkers know what it's like to be attacked by a homeless man. This guy was ranting violently, throwing trash at passengers. Imagine being underground stuck in a car with nowhere to go as a mentally ill man SCREAMS AT YOU. Nope. The Marine did good work helping the people in that train car and I'm sorry that Neely died but protests over this? Absolutely ridiculous.
did you know that there are actually no violent homeless people in the NY subway ever
:idont
https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/ny-times-writer-nyc-subway-fears-are-imaginary-monsters/QuoteA New York Times opinion writer has been ripped for claiming that straphangers scared of “half-naked lunatics” menacing Big Apple subways need therapy for “imaginary monsters.”
Elizabeth Spiers sparked incredulity with her condescending response to the suggestion that a “polite society” is “one where people can safely ride the subway to work or take their children out in public without being accosted & menaced by half-naked lunatics.”
“Hi – New Yorker here,” wrote Spiers, who is also a Democratic pollster and NYU journalism professor.
“I’ve safely ridden the subway for 23 years and my child has never been menaced by a half naked lunatic, but these imaginary monsters in your head are addressable with therapy,” she continued.
Her tweet quickly went viral, seen more than 3 million times by Wednesday — with many questioning how serious she was.
“Not satire …,” one person wrote as others questioned if it was actually “a parody account.”
National Review writer Dan McLaughlin — to whose tweet Spiers had replied — was among those amazed that his critic had escaped seeing anything alarming for so long.
“If you’ve never encountered an alarming lunatic on the subway or its platforms, I question what city you’ve been traveling in,” McLaughlin tweeted.
“And how small your circle of friends must be if you don’t know anybody who’s experienced unhinged people in the subways.”
Others also noted how not seeing something firsthand does not mean it is not there.
“Exactly, Elizabeth! I feel the same way about tornadoes,” one person tweeted sarcastically.
“Everyone complains about them, but they’ve never bothered me. I’ve never even seen one and, frankly, I don’t really believe they exist.”
Spiers repeatedly doubled down on her views, replying to a flurry of critics to stand by her initial “imaginary monsters” claim.
She even dismissed someone who noted “all the videos showing mentally ill people in the middle of a psychosis.”
“All the videos? That you found on the Internet? That you have no idea where they came from or when they were shot? That you have not independently verified? And I’m the naive one?” she asked.
“My position is that the maybe two recent videos you’ve seen that are real,” she said. The two included the video showing the chokehold death of troubled vagrant Jordan Neely, said Spiers, who defended the subway system as suffering just “an occasional incident.”
“I see far more videos of unhinged people in Walmarts and it doesn’t make me think Walmarts are generally unsafe or stop going into them,” she wrote.
She even stuck by that when someone recounted recently seeing “a homeless guy pull his d–k out and pee off the side of one the subway tracks” at Grand Central in full view of women and kids at rush hour.
“Yeah I saw that s–t where I grew up. Except the guys weren’t homeless,” Spiers claimed dismissively.
When someone else noted how “everyone who’s ridden the subway in NYC for any amount of time has a crazy homeless person story,” Spiers maintained that she had similar experiences “everywhere I’ve ever lived.”
“I fail to see why homeless people on the NYC subway are any different from homeless people at the Walmart in my hometown and why anyone should consider either inherently dangerous,” said the proud “Alabamian/Rednexican.”
Noting a shift in her argument, the same person replied: “So it’s not ‘imaginary’ you just think people should be quiet about it.”
In one of her replies, Spiers conceded that “our subway system sucks.”
“But not because of safety issues. Albany loves blocking upgrades,” she insisted.
CNN constantly complaining about Trump and hosting a town hall for him. They can't help themselves. And Trump mocks them for it, too. :dead
The guy refused to a peaceful transition of power, they called it fascistic, and now they're back on his nuts.
Why would they care?CNN constantly complaining about Trump and hosting a town hall for him. They can't help themselves. And Trump mocks them for it, too. :dead
The guy refused to a peaceful transition of power, they called it fascistic, and now they're back on his nuts.
True!
But also, if they didn't host him cons would be like WHY ARE THEY SILENCING CONSERVATIVES
You can't win.
(https://i.redd.it/ea4lwkpw7a0b1.jpg)
The chick with the glasses tho :drool :sicko :droolright in her tight arse :hump
Defund the FBI!https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1658251542263218176
Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Sunday teased a possible 2024 presidential run while declining to support Donald Trump’s campaign, becoming the latest onetime Trump appointee to distance himself from the former president’s third White House bid.:trumps
Perry, who unsuccessfully sought the 2012 and 2016 GOP presidential nominations, told CNN’s Jim Acosta in an interview that he hasn’t “written off” the idea of running for president in 2024, saying there was “a lot of time” before a decision would need to be made.
When asked if he believes Trump should be the Republican nominee next year, the former Texas governor said, “I’m still trying to sort that out for myself.”
“He may get to hear me call him names again,” Perry added, alluding to previous clashes between the two men in the 2016 Republican primaries. “If you’ll recall, I didn’t announce for president in 2011 until August, so we’ve got a lot of time left.”
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This Ron DeSoros face should be an emote btw :joker
A group of House progressives led by Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., have revived discussions at the federal level about giving reparations to Black Americans who descended from slaves and Americans of African descent.Now we're talking! :phil :jeb
Bush held a press conference on Wednesday unveiling her Reparations Now resolution, which declares "that the United States has a moral and legal obligation to provide reparations for the enslavement of Africans and its massive harm on the lives of millions."
She spoke alongside fellow Squad members Reps. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., as well as Senate candidate Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and freshman Rep. Summer Lee., D-Pa., and a host of activists from around the country.
"Black people in our country cannot wait any longer for our government to begin addressing… all of the harm it has caused since the founding, that it continues to perpetuate each and every day all across our communities, all across this country," Bush said.
"Let us speak this truth, uncomfortable as it may be: Our country was not founded on the principle that all people are created equal. It was founded at the expense of the lives, freedom and well-being of Black people, African folks who they stole."Oh. :fbm
"The truth is uncomfortable," Bush added, before explaining how slavery was an "integral part of our country's development."
"By 1831, the United States was delivering nearly half of the world's raw cotton crop as a result of chattel slavery. In 1861 alone, the value placed on cotton produced by enslaved Black people was $250 million, or more than $8 billion today. All of this happened not in spite of the federal government, but because of it," the St. Louis Democrat said.
riters' group PEN America and publisher Penguin Random House sued a Florida school district Wednesday over its removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities, the latest opposition to a policy central to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ agenda as he prepares to run for president.
The federal lawsuit alleges the Escambia County School District and its School Board are violating the First Amendment through the removal of 10 books from library shelves.
The case does not name DeSantis as a defendant though the Republican governor has championed policies that allow the censorship and challenging of books based on whether they are appropriate for children in schools, causing national uproar.
“Books have the capacity to change lives for the better, and students in particular deserve equitable access to a wide range of perspectives. Censorship, in the form of book bans like those enacted by Escambia County, are a direct threat to democracy and our Constitutional rights,” Nihar Malaviya, CEO of Penguin Random House, said in a statement.
Escambia County school officials did not immediately return a request for comment.
The lawsuit says the removals stem from objections from one language arts teacher in the county, and in each case the school board voted to remove the books over recommendations from a district review committee that deemed them educationally suitable.:usacry :usacry :usacry :usacry
The teacher's formal objections to the books appear to draw on materials compiled by a website that creates reports on books it deems ideologically unsuitable for children, according to the lawsuit.
In one example cited in the lawsuit, the teacher admitted she had never heard of the book “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky but filed an objection form to the novel that contained specific excerpts and phrasing from the book ban website.
Among the other removed books are “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, “The Nowhere Girls” by Amy Reed and “Lucky” by Alice Sebold. The lawsuit said more than 150 additional books are under review by the school board.
“In Escambia County, state censors are spiriting books off shelves in a deliberate attempt to suppress diverse voices. In a nation built on free speech, this cannot stand," said Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America. "The law demands that the Escambia County School District put removed or restricted books back on library shelves where they belong.”
The lawsuit asks that the district return the books to shelves immediately and permanently, and be prohibited from removing the books again. The lawsuit also seeks attorney fees and expenses.
Plaintiffs bring this lawsuit because that is exactly what is happening in
Escambia County. Books are being ordered removed from libraries, or subject to
restricted access within those libraries, based on an ideologically driven campaign
to push certain ideas out of schools. Further, the School Board is ordering the
removal against the recommendations of experts within the School District. This
disregard for professional guidance underscores that the agendas underlying the
removals are ideological and political, not pedagogical.
The actions of the School District and School Board also violate the
Equal Protection Clause because the books being singled out for possible removal
are disproportionately books by non-white and/or LGBTQ authors, or which address
topics related to race or LGBTQ identity. This is no accident. The clear agenda
behind the campaign to remove the books is to categorically remove all discussion
of racial discrimination or LGBTQ issues from public school libraries. Government
action may not be premised on such discriminatory motivations.
The barriers for students to access restricted books are significant. To
access them, a student—who could be as young as 5 years old—must find a librarian,
ask the librarian for permission to access a book that has been designated as
“pornographic” or otherwise unsuitable for school-aged children, and then wait
while that librarian verifies that the student, in fact, has parental permission to access
it. Forcing students to undertake these steps, and endure the stigma that goes along
with undertaking them, is having a profound chilling effect on students seeking
access to the restricted books.
As a consequence of this targeting of books by non-white and LGBTQ
authors, authors belonging to such groups are disproportionately hindered in their
ability to reach young audiences, including non-white and LGBTQ students.
It is equally apparent that the books that have been targeted for removal,Or it would be, but cancel culture does not exist.
and which could be subject to permanent removal at any moment, are books in which
the central objection to their presence in the library is ideological, not pedagogical.
Indeed, because the School District is currently restricting access to virtually any
book that the challenger alleges contains sexual content or references the existence
of same-sex relationships or transgender persons—without regard to anything else
about the book’s contents—the School District is, in effect, giving private citizens
the unilateral right to restrict student access to books to which they object.
Durtschi’s third-grader would like to access and check out books thatApparently it violates free speech to allow one woman to complain the books are there but not another woman to complain the books aren't there.
are no longer available in her school’s library because of the book removals and
book restrictions. In particular, she would like to access and check out Too Bright
to See, Drama, and New Kid. Each of those books is currently unavailable or
restricted in her school library as a result of the actions of the School District and the
School Board.
146. Durtschi’s first-grader would also like to access and check out books
that are no longer available in her school’s library because of the book removals and
book restrictions. In particular, she would like to access and check out Tango, Aidan,
and Uncle Bobby’s Wedding. Each of those books is currently unavailable or
restricted in her school library as a result of the actions of the School District and the
School Board.
147. Durtschi herself would like those particular books, and others like them,
to be available to her children in their school library. It is very important to her that
her children have opportunities to be exposed to points of view, backgrounds, and
experiences different from their own. She believes such exposure is critical for
preparing them for participation in our wider society
PEN America has standing to sue to enjoin the Defendants’ book
removals and restrictions because the actions of the School District and School
Board have caused direct organizational injury to PEN America.
153. As a consequence of the national movement to remove books from
public school libraries based on political or ideological objections—including in
Escambia County—PEN America has had to reallocate significant financial
resources and time to addressing this issue and away from other priorities. For
example, PEN America has had to hire full-time staff to work solely on (a) tracking
and reporting on book removals, (b) supporting author-members who have concerns
about what is happening to their own books, and (c) responding to a consistent
onslaught of inquiries and notifications from parents, teachers, students and media
concerned about the situation regarding book removals and looking to PEN America
for insight and guidance. In addition, because of the focus on book removals, PEN
America has had fewer personnel dedicated to free speech education for youth or to
free speech issues on college campuses, two other areas related to education on
which PEN America has typically focused its resources
. Millions of books published by PRH are sold into Florida each year,Unlimited Commerce Clause ftw. :mouf
including to school districts and public libraries. PRH has standing to sue to enjoin
Defendants’ book removal and restrictions because certain of the books it publishes,
including books by Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Eric Carle, Kyle Lukoff,
Sapphire, and David Levithan, have been (a) removed from libraries within the
School District, and/or (b) subject to restricted access of an indefinite period pending
adjudication of a challenge. A publisher’s ability to publish and sell books freely is
affected when state or local officials restrict circulation or remove the publisher’s books.
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a student—who could be as young as 5 years old—must find a librarian, ask the librarian for permission to access a book that has been designated as “pornographic” or otherwise unsuitable for school-aged children, and then wait while that librarian verifies that the student, in fact, has parental permission to access it.:doge
permanently? in other words when the books get dog-eared and worn out and less relevant to modern sensibilities, the library is still required to spend state tax dollars on specific products from corporations in order to replace them?What part of some woman and her ugly dumb kids want books from the library are you not understanding? Is it the part where elected officials should not be able to overrule experts?
when library statistics show one or more of them are checked out less often than the majority of books, the school isn't allowed to make space for others, instead must perpetually keep room set aside for this specific albatross ruled on in this case?
Let the man relax! End the drug war! :usacry :usacry :usacry :usacryYou're not supposed to end the drug war by surrendering to it.
If you've got a better idea to end the drug war than by consuming all the drugs personally I'd like to hear it! :boloLet the man relax! End the drug war! :usacry :usacry :usacry :usacryYou're not supposed to end the drug war by surrendering to it.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1659012289633083392
:gopnik
https://twitter.com/bintcrubbs/status/1659980717760163842:obama
:doge
Notice congress isn't talking about the topic of the year, AI?
There's talk of AI replacing Hollywood writers. By the end of this decade AI will be able to read through whole bills and make ethical evaluations. It could literally make politicians outdated. Why are they not discussing this?
https://twitter.com/bintcrubbs/status/1659980717760163842
:doge
Notice congress isn't talking about the topic of the year, AI?
There's talk of AI replacing Hollywood writers. By the end of this decade AI will be able to read through whole bills and make ethical evaluations. It could literally make politicians outdated. Why are they not discussing this?
There was a senate hearing about it just the other day. Keep in mind they asked Sam Altman (of OpenAI) to appear who has a financial incentive to push back against open source development as it's competition and has been seen by various as wanting to 'lock in' their existing position by influencing regulation on smaller players.
When a senator asked how power wouldn't be concentrated in the few largest companies in the space, instead of mentioning the democratization of open source he went on to point to how his company has allowed democratization of AI (despite most of it being closed source and commercial).
His company co-authored a paper a few months back proposing measures like government restriction of sales of GPU hardware to consumers, restricted access to models and for users have a form of human ID to post generated content on social media—ostensibly to fight disinformation but conveniently would stifle open source developments which compete with their offerings. They amusingly cite a joke 4chan-trained text model a Youtuber made and used exclusively on 4chan for a few days as a bot as an example of non-theoretical 'influence operations'.
An alleged Google internal report leaked recently which is in line with the largest players' concerns that the open source community is progressing at a much more rapid pace than their timelines, while also being more agile since new developments have meant large trained models (which are very expensive to produce, meaning only the most well-funded could make them) are not always as relevant since smaller standalone and/or supplementary models can be made by the community and tailored to specific needs.
As for text models' use in government Congress already approved licenses of ChatGPT for 'creating and summarizing (https://fedscoop.com/congress-gets-40-chatgpt-plus-licenses/)' content.
https://twitter.com/bintcrubbs/status/1659980717760163842
:doge
Ruthkanda forever!
Clinton said she had a “very negative response” to my question.Senator solidarity. :patel
“Let me say a word about my friend and longtime colleague Dianne Feinstein,” she continued. “First of all, she has suffered greatly from the bout of shingles and encephalitis that she endured. Here is the dilemma for her: she got reelected, the people of California voted for her again, not very long ago. That was the voters’ decision to vote for her, and she has been a remarkable and very effective leader.”
“Here’s the dilemma: the Republicans will not agree to add someone else to the Judiciary Committee if she retires,” she continued, referencing Feinstein’s powerful committee membership. (When Feinstein was absent from the Senate for nearly three months this year recovering from health issues, it created a logjam on the narrowly divided Judiciary Committee, since Democrats were unable to confirm President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees without Republican support.) “I want you to think about how crummy that is. I don’t know in her heart about whether she really would or wouldn’t, but right now, she can’t. Because if we’re going to get judges confirmed, which is one of the most important continuing obligations that we have, then we cannot afford to have her seat vacant.”
“If Republicans were to say and do the decent thing and say, well this woman was gravely ill, she had just lost her husband to cancer… of course we will let you fill this position if she retires. But they won’t say that,” she continued. “So what are we supposed to do? All these people pushing her to retire: fine, we get no more judges? I don’t think that’s a good tradeoff.”
When I asked her again about the broader question of whether Democrats have allowed their leadership to get too old, she pushed back. “I do not believe in broad questions about age,” Clinton, age 75, said, adding that she also didn’t believe in term limits. “If you don’t want to vote for somebody, don’t vote for them. But don’t impose some artificial check on the voters. I don’t buy this whole debate. And frankly, a lot of the people pushing it, I don’t understand what their real agenda is, because part of it is a bank shot against Joe Biden. And I think Joe Biden has done a very good job.”
hit to the supply chains :trumpshttps://twitter.com/bintcrubbs/status/1659980717760163842
:doge
Ruthkanda forever!
This should’ve at least gotten a pity filler like :stahp
CBS News has learned that North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is nearing a decision to launch a dark-horse bid for the White House, and has begun hiring political consultants who have advised previous Republican presidential campaigns, according to GOP sources familiar with the planning.(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Doug_Burgum_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-Doug_Burgum_%28cropped%29.jpg)
He's thinking maybe he'll get to be VP and hanged during the next Capitol insurrection.
Could you imagine if, in slim chances, Trump lost the primary? If he's denied 2020 election for so long no way would be concede the primary lmaoHe claimed almost all the way to the 2016 convention they were going to try and steal it from him even after the RNC had announced he was the nominee.
https://www.electionbettingodds.com/
Hillary Clinton
2.1% to win democratic nom
0.0% to win presidency
Michelle Obama
0.0% to win democratic nom
1.9% chance to win presidency
2. They basically tell donors that they’re pretending to run to the right of Trump right now so they can try to trick MAGA voters into supporting him but he fully plans on pivoting to the center if nominated.
HILLARY CLINTON: Look, if Trump wins, which I do not believe will happen (let me just quickly say that). If in some scenario that were to happen, it would be the end of democracy in the United States, it would be the end of Ukraine. It would become a --you know, he will pull us out of NATO if he wins again. And just like he pulled us out of the Iran deal, he pulled us out of the Paris Accords. He will pull us out of NATO.:usacry :usacry :usacry :usacry
And so when you asked this question, I mean, the list of potential disastrous outcomes is longer than I have time to go over with you, but it’s why we can’t permit it to happen.
https://twitter.com/wrong_speak/status/1665804004910153730A party is not nominating, and a country is not electing, a closeted gay man with no wife or children. :doge
dems in trouble if he gets the nom tbh
Social Conservatism in U.S. Highest in About a Decade
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38% say they are conservative on social issues, up from 33% last year
Highest percentage saying they are socially conservative since 2012
44% say they are economically conservative, also highest since 2012
The results are based on Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey, conducted May 1-24. The survey comes at a time when many states are considering policies regarding transgender matters, abortion, crime, drug use and the teaching of gender and sexuality in schools.
The increase in conservative identification on social issues over the past two years is seen among nearly all political and demographic subgroups. Republicans show one of the largest increases, from 60% in 2021 to 74% today. Independents show a modest uptick of five percentage points, from 24% to 29%, while there has been no change among Democrats (10% in both 2021 and 2023).
https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters/status/1667323188722962433
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/17/hamtramck-michigan-muslim-council-lgbtq-pride-flags-banned
So you are telling me that very intolerant religion is actually very intolerant?
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https://twitter.com/BigFish3000/status/1673544570242584576 (https://twitter.com/BigFish3000/status/1673544570242584576)
:trumps
nintex is the dutch ian miles cheong of the bore. except nintex is funny and taking the piss most of the timehttps://twitter.com/BigFish3000/status/1673544570242584576 (https://twitter.com/BigFish3000/status/1673544570242584576)
:trumps
The US has military attack plans for multiple countries. The sources from the meeting said Miley was making the argument that attacking Iran would be idiotic.
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that he is directing his state government to launch an inquiry into Bud Light's parent company, AB InBev, over its partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
DeSantis, who's running for the GOP presidential nomination, accused the beverage company of not following its "fiduciary duty" to shareholders and pensioners by collaborating with Mulvaney.
"When you start pursuing a political agenda at the expense of your shareholders, that’s not just impacting very wealthy people. It impacts hardworking people who were police officers, firefighters and teachers in terms of the pension," DeSantis said in an interview on Fox News.
He continued: "So we’re going to be launching an inquiry about Bud Light and InBev, and it could be something that leads to a derivative lawsuit filed on behalf of the shareholders of the Florida pension fund because at the end of the day, there’s got to be penalties when you put business aside to focus on your social agenda at the expense of hardworking people."
DeSantis said Florida had $53 million worth of InBev stock in Florida's pension funds of about $180 billion. The governor claimed that shareholders were affected after sales of Bud Light declined as a result of conservative backlash to the beer brand after it worked with Mulvaney.
Asked for a response, an Anheuser-Busch spokesperson told NBC News: "Anheuser-Busch InBev takes our responsibility to our shareholders, employees, distributors and customers seriously. We are focused on driving long-term, sustainable growth for them by optimizing our business and providing consumers products to enjoy for any occasion."
DeSantis' office pointed to a letter he posted on Twitter on Friday morning that he sent to the interim executive director of the State Board of Administration calling for an inquiry.
If Trump loses that's the end. The war in Ukraine will continue and escalate into a never-ending war Afghanistan situation, the world economy will be further wrecked by climate zealots and unnecessary conflict, crime and corruption will run rampant.
He's the same as the people he complains about. Utterly unhinged ridiculous.
Those in power knew that Ukraine did not have a force with enough training and weapons to pull off the counter attack. And they pressed on the attack anyway.If Trump loses that's the end. The war in Ukraine will continue and escalate into a never-ending war Afghanistan situation, the world economy will be further wrecked by climate zealots and unnecessary conflict, crime and corruption will run rampant.
Dude, are you for real? Have you heard Trump's "plans" to stop the Ukraine war in 24 hrs? When pressed for actual details (and if you take him at his word), escalation (the threat of it anyway) is the key to convince Putin to come and negotiate. Some escalation is bound to happen no matter who is US president in 2025.
That is if the war is not over by then. The Western alliance is more fragile than it looks when it comes to Ukraine. And Russia is on very shaky grounds economically and politically in the next few years. Sooner or later, negotiations are bound to happen no matter who is in the White House. We already have a rough outlook of how it will likely look like (some sort of rapid EU accession, Europe picking up most of the tab for reconstruction, US security guarantees instead of NATO membership, tough compromises on territory, some sort of token Chinese rubber stamp, flow of Western weapons continues).
If Ukraine does not make decisive gains soon, this is likely going to be a frozen conflict and 10-20 years from now, problems are bound to happen again since the peace was not won in a rush for a cease-fire.
Superman/Batman
Superman/BatmanLet's see his birth certificate. :hmph
Superman/BatmanLet's see his birth certificate. :hmph
The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.interlinked :smug
I still think Trump wins the nom but he's been coasting lately. If he had a legit contender he'd be in trouble, but I just don't buy DeSantis having the balls or talent to take him down. Trump is barely even running a campaign, it's just nonstop bitching online.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/
Where the republicans are going, they don't need school libraries.
Who needs freedom of knowledge when you have freedom of speech?
This comes as part of the new superintendent Mike Miles reform program, New Education System (NES).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt7IETJvFuUThis is fucking terrible it doesn't even match the rhythm or the song.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/Don't worry, the kids will be fine, Biden and a bipartisan Congress are pushing to protect them by wrecking the internet (https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/26/pass-it-pass-it-pass-it-pass-it-pass-it-the-president-says-about-a-bill-the-gop-says-will-be-useful-to-silence-lgbtq-voices/). :american
Where the republicans are going, they don't need school libraries.
Who needs freedom of knowledge when you have freedom of speech?
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/
Where the republicans are going, they don't need school libraries.
Who needs freedom of knowledge when you have freedom of speech?
THIS IS IT BOYS THEY GOT TRUMP
Bombshell after Bombshell. The walls are closing in.
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1685485239479468032 (https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1685485239479468032)
:trumps :rogan :six: :social
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1686085203347849217 (https://twitter.com/alx/status/1686085203347849217)
The regime is done
https://twitter.com/seth_hettena/status/1686750210180198400
https://twitter.com/seth_hettena/status/1686750210180198400
"Maybe" ?!?
Sounds like her tits do belong to him
https://archive.is/og9fv
Reading Brooks' columns is a waste of time and brain space (dishonest, flawed/twisted logic, willful ignorance). But given that he is an American "conservative" who publicly towed the party line for decades, he absolutely is one of the bad guys here. He and his ilk paved the road for Trump.
They've forced their values on to all of society with the premise that they alone are correct and that every where forward is better.This is literally what David Brooks believes. He's always believed that the elite, defined as people like him, are entitled to order all of society to please their personal interests.
They've forced their values on to all of society with the premise that they alone are correct and that every where forward is better.This is literally what David Brooks believes. He's always believed that the elite, defined as people like him, are entitled to order all of society to please their personal interests.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama
Interview with Obama historian. Good shit.
What's good about it. Very weird, oddly biased historical look at Obama.Shocking:
In 2019, Garrow read Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files about Martin Luther King Jr.[11][12] Garrow wrote an article about King, in part based on his interpretation of the FBI files, which he submitted to the Atlantic, the Washington Post, New York Times and The Guardian, all of which rejected it.[13] The article was published in the now-defunct British conservative magazine Standpoint. Garrow wrote that the files suggest King may have encouraged and failed to prevent sexual violence. He said that he was reassessing his view of King.
Many authors called Garrow's claim unreliable. Garrow's reliance on a handwritten note addended to a typed report is considered poor scholarship by several authorities. Peter Ling of the University of Nottingham pointed out that Garrow was excessively credulous, if not naive, in accepting the accuracy of FBI reports during a period when the FBI was undertaking a massive operation to attempt to discredit King as part of its COINTELPRO activities.[14] Garrow had earlier referred to Ling's work on King, widely considered authoritative, as "thoughtful, perceptive, and thoroughly well-informed".[15] Experts in 20th-century American history, including Jeanne Theoharis, Barbara Ransby of the University of Illinois at Chicago, N. D. B. Connolly of Johns Hopkins University and Glenda Gilmore of Yale University have expressed reservations about Garrow's scholarship. Theoharis commented "Most scholars I know would penalize graduate students for doing this." It is not the first time the care and rigor of Garrow's work has been called into serious question.[16] The long-time civil rights activist Edith Lee-Payne suggested Garrow may have published his work in the area to obtain "personal attention" for himself.[14]
On the right, there's the argument that Obama is the origin of wokeness, racial animosity, diversity, anti-American sentiment, etc; of course, none of them can point to a single thing Obama said or did that was hostile to whites. On the left there's an attempt to essentially erase Obama from history as a meaningless prelude to 2016. I saw a twitter thread over the weekend from some leftist making the argument that Obama didn't do one thing of note. Of course when confronted with Obamacare his response was "oh yea." Tens of millions of people gaining affordable health care coverage is apparently a nothingburger because it wasn't the desired policy version. And in the interview you link, Obamacare is mentioned once in a dismissive tone followed by a weird argument about how the only reason Obama cared about healthcare was in order to counter Hillary Clinton. Yes. The man put his presidency on the line in order to settle a primary election battle that he had already won. Huh.Amusingly I was going to split this to address both the right and left versions but I realized it's the same exact critique. It rejects history all these people knew at the time. Rightoids know Obama wasn't the origin for any of that stuff because they complained about it before him and they themselves have trumpeted the times Obama has criticized this stuff which he's done multiple times. Lefties have to reject history because Obama himself hasn't moved much and they supported him unconditionally at the time. That guys response about Hillary is especially nutty because Obama was to the left of Hillary in that primary on healthcare, he compromised back towards her position. All the soundbites of Obama attacking personal mandates to buy insurance are from when he was attacking Hillary's plan as not being good enough. And everything really forgets that Obama only had a House for two years, Congressional Democrats wanted to do so much in Biden's first two years because they still remembered 2010 being most of the same people. In 2009-10 they pretty lackadaisically considered themselves to have a new permanent majority, not spending the rest of Obama's terms without the House. (Even though it's what also happened to Bill Clinton.)
SAMUELS: I talked to the former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, who was defense minister when the Iran deal was moving toward completion. And I asked him, “Well, what do you think is motivating this? “ And he said, “Well, Barack Obama’s not a normal politician. He is this strange combination of a college professor and a person who has ideas about his place in history. He decided that this deal was going to be the reason Barack Obama was going to be on Mount Rushmore. And that’s the reason that they could never let go.” I think he was right.These kinds of Bill Kristol type dudes are so annoying and unlike Kristol most of them have no sense of humor. Not launching another illegal war in Syria as the number one legacy. My man assassinated two American citizens, including a minor, without due process along with the massive illegal surveillance program and all this dude can think about is how upset he is that Obama's Libya disaster wasn't repeated elsewhere. :lol
GARROW: The irony is that the number one legacy of the Obama presidency is going to be the failure to intervene in Syria and the failure to object to Russia taking Crimea and the Donbas.
What's good about it. Very weird, oddly biased historical look at Obama.Shocking:Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_GarrowIn 2019, Garrow read Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files about Martin Luther King Jr.[11][12] Garrow wrote an article about King, in part based on his interpretation of the FBI files, which he submitted to the Atlantic, the Washington Post, New York Times and The Guardian, all of which rejected it.[13] The article was published in the now-defunct British conservative magazine Standpoint. Garrow wrote that the files suggest King may have encouraged and failed to prevent sexual violence. He said that he was reassessing his view of King.
Many authors called Garrow's claim unreliable. Garrow's reliance on a handwritten note addended to a typed report is considered poor scholarship by several authorities. Peter Ling of the University of Nottingham pointed out that Garrow was excessively credulous, if not naive, in accepting the accuracy of FBI reports during a period when the FBI was undertaking a massive operation to attempt to discredit King as part of its COINTELPRO activities.[14] Garrow had earlier referred to Ling's work on King, widely considered authoritative, as "thoughtful, perceptive, and thoroughly well-informed".[15] Experts in 20th-century American history, including Jeanne Theoharis, Barbara Ransby of the University of Illinois at Chicago, N. D. B. Connolly of Johns Hopkins University and Glenda Gilmore of Yale University have expressed reservations about Garrow's scholarship. Theoharis commented "Most scholars I know would penalize graduate students for doing this." It is not the first time the care and rigor of Garrow's work has been called into serious question.[16] The long-time civil rights activist Edith Lee-Payne suggested Garrow may have published his work in the area to obtain "personal attention" for himself.[14]On the right, there's the argument that Obama is the origin of wokeness, racial animosity, diversity, anti-American sentiment, etc; of course, none of them can point to a single thing Obama said or did that was hostile to whites. On the left there's an attempt to essentially erase Obama from history as a meaningless prelude to 2016. I saw a twitter thread over the weekend from some leftist making the argument that Obama didn't do one thing of note. Of course when confronted with Obamacare his response was "oh yea." Tens of millions of people gaining affordable health care coverage is apparently a nothingburger because it wasn't the desired policy version. And in the interview you link, Obamacare is mentioned once in a dismissive tone followed by a weird argument about how the only reason Obama cared about healthcare was in order to counter Hillary Clinton. Yes. The man put his presidency on the line in order to settle a primary election battle that he had already won. Huh.Amusingly I was going to split this to address both the right and left versions but I realized it's the same exact critique. It rejects history all these people knew at the time. Rightoids know Obama wasn't the origin for any of that stuff because they complained about it before him and they themselves have trumpeted the times Obama has criticized this stuff which he's done multiple times. Lefties have to reject history because Obama himself hasn't moved much and they supported him unconditionally at the time. That guys response about Hillary is especially nutty because Obama was to the left of Hillary in that primary on healthcare, he compromised back towards her position. All the soundbites of Obama attacking personal mandates to buy insurance are from when he was attacking Hillary's plan as not being good enough. And everything really forgets that Obama only had a House for two years, Congressional Democrats wanted to do so much in Biden's first two years because they still remembered 2010 being most of the same people. In 2009-10 they pretty lackadaisically considered themselves to have a new permanent majority, not spending the rest of Obama's terms without the House. (Even though it's what also happened to Bill Clinton.)QuoteSAMUELS: I talked to the former Israeli prime minister, Ehud Barak, who was defense minister when the Iran deal was moving toward completion. And I asked him, “Well, what do you think is motivating this? “ And he said, “Well, Barack Obama’s not a normal politician. He is this strange combination of a college professor and a person who has ideas about his place in history. He decided that this deal was going to be the reason Barack Obama was going to be on Mount Rushmore. And that’s the reason that they could never let go.” I think he was right.These kinds of Bill Kristol type dudes are so annoying and unlike Kristol most of them have no sense of humor. Not launching another illegal war in Syria as the number one legacy. My man assassinated two American citizens, including a minor, without due process along with the massive illegal surveillance program and all this dude can think about is how upset he is that Obama's Libya disaster wasn't repeated elsewhere. :lol
GARROW: The irony is that the number one legacy of the Obama presidency is going to be the failure to intervene in Syria and the failure to object to Russia taking Crimea and the Donbas.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/david-garrow-interview-obama
Interview with Obama historian. Good shit.
What's good about it. Very weird, oddly biased historical look at Obama. I've noticed a two front war on this. On the right, there's the argument that Obama is the origin of wokeness, racial animosity, diversity, anti-American sentiment, etc; of course, none of them can point to a single thing Obama said or did that was hostile to whites. On the left there's an attempt to essentially erase Obama from history as a meaningless prelude to 2016. I saw a twitter thread over the weekend from some leftist making the argument that Obama didn't do one thing of note. Of course when confronted with Obamacare his response was "oh yea." Tens of millions of people gaining affordable health care coverage is apparently a nothingburger because it wasn't the desired policy version. And in the interview you link, Obamacare is mentioned once in a dismissive tone followed by a weird argument about how the only reason Obama cared about healthcare was in order to counter Hillary Clinton. Yes. The man put his presidency on the line in order to settle a primary election battle that he had already won. Huh.
Then there's the obsession with "Obama's women." I can't help but notice obvious racial undertones in this obsession, and it's confirmed with the conflation/comparison between Obama's university girlfriends and MLK's mistress. As if those are the same things. As if this is two black men with one public face, who lived different lives privately with other women. I'd have no issue with delving into previous relationships - something that's common in biographies - if the framing wasn't so deliberately ugly.
From this side of the world
edit: I think the bulk of the population is "center-left" on economics and "center-right" on socialcultural positions, Trump's power in 2015-16 is that through sheer confusion he was able to appear as if he held these positions. He got everything to focus on free trade and immigration, so he appeared to Hillary's left when she championed global capitalism. On the other axis, she and the media were so insistent on portraying him as far-right on all this stuff when a decade earlier he was to her left on everything that it actually helped sell his new conversion to what was actually not the minority position.
They brought out Hillary Clinton, you know it's fucking over.reminds me of shosti :pacspit
https://twitter.com/TVNewsNow/status/1691264086607085568 (https://twitter.com/TVNewsNow/status/1691264086607085568)
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:girlaff
PD you were right about DeSantis.
Is DeSantis the worst primary candidate of all time?I don't know, is he going to drop out before Iowa like Kamala? He could easily still do better than Elizabeth Warren.
Yeah but neither Kamala nor Warren slipped from polls beating out the top choice candidate (in many cases) to getting a measly 10% and becoming third place. In those well received polls he was in 30% range. Now he's barely in the 10's.Harris was second to Biden in July 2019 after "I was that little girl" (27-15) though Sanders and Warren overtook her after a week and she began the slow decline to irrelevance. Warren was actually ahead of Biden for one day (26.6-26.4) and second (above Bernie) from late September-late November 2019. Harris finished with 0% and Warren finished with 8% and zero states including coming in third in her own state.
Cross your fingers everyone florida might finally get destroyed this week
Trump is literally latching on any demographic to replace single white women(https://i.imgur.com/A7U4jR3.png)
Maybe don't wish for the pain of others.
I figured you'd be more sympathetic about boiling hot water bubbling up and harming loved ones, James.
https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1696895348503892275 (https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1696895348503892275)
Trump just keeps going up in the polls :doge
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1697258754260304194 (https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1697258754260304194)
As he posts more and more clips :lol
I figured you'd be more sympathetic about boiling hot water bubbling up and harming loved ones, James.
because of my avatar?
I figured you'd be more sympathetic about boiling hot water bubbling up and harming loved ones, James.
because of my avatar?
The rabbit.
When will the Democrats pull the plug on Biden.When did the Republicans pull the plug on Trump? (https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html)
Biden is the first president in how many generations to not get his party shit wrecked in the midterms despite being the party in power.They lost the House.
Biden is the first president in how many generations to not get his party shit wrecked in the midterms despite being the party in power.They lost the House.
Point missed.
Point missed.I didn't miss the point, I challenged something false that was said.
https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1703267381978726506(https://i.imgur.com/k4WEE7m.png)
:birb these are bore level tactics :neogaf(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7FTQEeWgAARk6u?format=jpg&name=small)
You have to hand it to the Democrats, all they managed to do is get Trump in New York for 2 days in a row to complain about the migrant issue during the only possible time the entire city would agree with him :doge
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1708930154372735254 (https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1708930154372735254)
https://twitter.com/PU28453638/status/1709215354201764001 (https://twitter.com/PU28453638/status/1709215354201764001)
immigration from mexico has been much lower than in the past. the people going to the southern border are from further south of mexico.
my brother used to work driving a bus for field workers. they are brought in from mexico legally to work. he would drive all the way down and pick them up, then they live in shitty motels here during the season and go back after. at any time they can just decide to not go back.
the border stuff is nonsense on so many levels.
tell what to new york city?immigration from mexico has been much lower than in the past. the people going to the southern border are from further south of mexico.
my brother used to work driving a bus for field workers. they are brought in from mexico legally to work. he would drive all the way down and pick them up, then they live in shitty motels here during the season and go back after. at any time they can just decide to not go back.
the border stuff is nonsense on so many levels.
Tell that to New York City.
Meanwhile, if the United States enforced its borders, it would affect Mexico and Central America, etc. And those countries would be forced to deal with disenfranchised populations that have nowhere to go.
I don't think Americans should be punished because other countries aren't as awesome.
“They’ve taken essentially a 50-50 state and drawn a map where 80 percent of voters will have a Republican member of Congress,”As a reader points out
As of October 29th, 2022, North Carolina had about 7.4 million registered voters. Specifically:
2,495,097 or 34% were registered Democrat;
2,637,581 or 36% were registered Unaffiliated;
2,221,179 or 30% were registered Republican;
North Carolina’s 14 congressional seats are evenly split between Democrats and Republicans after a temporary map was created following the top court’s decision to throw out a Republican-proposed map. The new map would probably flip at least three of those seats to the GOP, which could also help give them control in a U.S. House where Republicans hold a narrow 221-212 majority.
Because of a recently passed budget resolution, communications about the redistricting process among state lawmakers are not subject to freedom of information requests, making it more difficult for the public to know what was considered with the maps. Legislators can destroy their communications concerning the map’s design when they see fit.
[...]
In 2022, when the state Supreme Court threw out Republicans’ proposed map, those communications proved relevant in the legal challenges to showing that, according to the court, the new borders were illegal partisan gerrymanders.
The redistricting is also likely to help Republicans’ attempts to keep the seat of Rep. Tricia Cotham, who switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in April, giving the GOP a razor-thin supermajority.
“It is clear as day,” Klein [Southern Coalition for Social Justice] said. “Anybody who knows anything about North Carolina knows the Senate map is going to deprive North Carolina’s Black Belt of any representation.”
Democracy abolished in North Carolina:Draw us a map that would maintain democracy, Occam. :society
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/25/north-carolina-redistricting-map-passed-republicans/Quote“They’ve taken essentially a 50-50 state and drawn a map where 80 percent of voters will have a Republican member of Congress,”As a reader points outQuoteAs of October 29th, 2022, North Carolina had about 7.4 million registered voters. Specifically:
2,495,097 or 34% were registered Democrat;
2,637,581 or 36% were registered Unaffiliated;
2,221,179 or 30% were registered Republican;
just draw a map that makes it so the people I personally choose will win and that's a perfect democracy :pimpJust dissolve the people and elect another. :trumps
tell what to new york city?immigration from mexico has been much lower than in the past. the people going to the southern border are from further south of mexico.
my brother used to work driving a bus for field workers. they are brought in from mexico legally to work. he would drive all the way down and pick them up, then they live in shitty motels here during the season and go back after. at any time they can just decide to not go back.
the border stuff is nonsense on so many levels.
Tell that to New York City.
Meanwhile, if the United States enforced its borders, it would affect Mexico and Central America, etc. And those countries would be forced to deal with disenfranchised populations that have nowhere to go.
the idea of "securing" the southern border is just another dumb wedge issue. it goes no where.
people look at a map and think it's some simple task. likely it would cost more to do than whatever it is you think you'd be getting out of it.
Although there are still a bunch of economic issues I'm pretty confident that a recession has been avoided in the US.
Iowa Caucus - CNN Entrance Poll:Once Taylor Swift ties the knot and gets knocked up this whole thing will turn around.
Support for Nationwide Abortion Ban:
Support 58%
Oppose 36%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOi2cYz5nXE
In case you haven't seen Trump's actual campaign video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIYQfyA_1Hc
I appreciate your kind thoughts in the other thread, but your response here is a reminder of why I have you on ignore.
American government spends more on military than the eight or nine next countries combined. We spend plenty of money on projecting our Will worldwide. The police have plenty of guns. Homeland security has an unprecedented level of interdepartmental access, communication, and collaboration that was never intended in the initial charters of those agencies. Their power is effectively unchecked. Obama, a centrist Democrat, originally planned to not renew PATRIOT Act, provisions, but was pressured into renewing by the intelligence apparatus.
Why give up power once you have it?
It never happens.
Transforming the Democratic Party into a conservative group has already happened. They are not representing progressive voters. When viewed from anywhere else in the free world, America has a wildly conservative government. Obama was considered conservative by the EU. Hillary would have been even more so.
Trump wasn’t right about shit. Trump wasn’t even right about his own people, which is why he constantly kept having to replace his own appointees. If he was ever close to accurate on anything, it was almost certainly a product of the Venn diagram overlap of these two concepts: a broken clock is still right twice a day, and a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters will eventually produce Hamlet. The man run his mouth so much that he may have accidentally said something correct at some point.
Respect is earned.
You’re encouraging following politician, who literally encourage an insurrection, failed to stop the insurrection, and encourage violence that his own political gatherings.
You want to go to California and New York to shut the fuck up? Go look at what the population distribution looks like and think what would happen if the electoral system didn’t represent all of these poor states that are so insanely reliant o federal funds. There’s nothing resembling one-citizen-one-vote representation in government, we are trapped in system that was developed to represent slaves as property, maintained to this day.
You’re declaiming all kinds of liberal incursions on a conservative lifestyle, inventing inflammatory causes like pink hair in the military, when regulations do not even allow for that. Miss me with your invented bullshit.
Until recently you were a transsexual, and when that didn’t work out for you, you figured it can’t work out for anybody and started trying to figure out how to remove their rights. Instead of hating everyone else in the world, realize that you don’t like yourself very much, work on that and solve your own shit before you start tying to tell everyone else what to do.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1750219664683126954 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1750219664683126954)
They tried everything to pump up Haleys numbers including having Biden supporters vote for Haley in the GOP Primary as a vote against Trump.
The result?
Donald Trump has the highest number of votes in the NH primary ever.
Exceeding even Bernie Sanders record 2016 result.
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A new global gender divide is emerging
In the US, UK and Germany, young women now take far more liberal positions on immigration and racial justice than young men, while older age groups remain evenly matched. The trend in most countries has been one of women shifting left while men stand still, but there are signs that young men are actively moving to the right in Germany, where today’s under-30s are more opposed to immigration than their elders, and have shifted towards the far-right AfD in recent years. It would be easy to say this is all a phase that will pass, but the ideology gaps are only growing, and data shows that people’s formative political experiences are hard to shake off. All of this is exacerbated by the fact that the proliferation of smartphones and social media mean that young men and women now increasingly inhabit separate spaces and experience separate cultures.
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A new global gender divide is emerging
Too often young people’s views are overlooked owing to their low rates of political participation, but this shift could leave ripples for generations to come, impacting far more than vote counts.
Most young men are probably not interested in making America great again, but they do feel acutely the need to secure a place for themselves in a culture that readily identifies male advantage but ignores the challenges young men face. Out of a sense of increased insecurity, more young men are adopting a zero-sum view of gender equality — if women gain, men will inevitably lose. It's an outlook that makes them defensive, encourages them to ignore or overlook enduring challenges women face in society, and can even spur misogyny. As one 35-year-old man told Pew in 2022 about #MeToo: "Too many people are taking advantage of a serious situation because it's trendy or they are greedy or just want attention." And this attitude has real-world consequences: In the online gaming world, 75% of Gen Z women have reported experiencing harassment.
But both genders are feeling increasingly precarious — and it's causing them to drift further apart. A recent Washington Post editorial lamented what this growing political divide means for dating and marriage: If Gen Z men and women can't agree on politics, it's going to get harder for them to find a partner. But if anything, that understates the problem. Based on our interviews, there appears to be a growing eagerness among both young men and women to blame their problems on each other. And a society in which men and women see their interests as irrevocably opposed is not one that can last.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1750219664683126954 (https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1750219664683126954)
They tried everything to pump up Haleys numbers including having Biden supporters vote for Haley in the GOP Primary as a vote against Trump.
The result?
Donald Trump has the highest number of votes in the NH primary ever.
Exceeding even Bernie Sanders record 2016 result.
Why is NYP stanning for Trump? I thought New York hates Trump through-and-through.
Any explanation how the Chinese end up at the Mexican border and not just sneak into South Korea or whatever?
That's quite a trip for a poor illegal migrant. :doge
No I'm curious how they would arrange such a long trip.
In Europe it's the human traffickers from Turkey who ship them from Africa/Turkey to the EU shores in pirate vessels and rafts, then a couple of countries let them 'pass' to Germany, The Netherlands etc either by train, car or bus.
It's a relatively short distance from the refugee camps in Libya / Turkey to the coast of Greece, Italy, Spain etc. . The trip takes a couple of days max.
I looked it up and China and Mexico is about 15 days by boat and 16 hours by plane but lets assume they use boats as that is what most migrants do.
It isn't cheap to organize and it's a very long distance.
more asian pussy in the country? not seeing the problem tbh :rejoiceNo I'm curious how they would arrange such a long trip.
In Europe it's the human traffickers from Turkey who ship them from Africa/Turkey to the EU shores in pirate vessels and rafts, then a couple of countries let them 'pass' to Germany, The Netherlands etc either by train, car or bus.
It's a relatively short distance from the refugee camps in Libya / Turkey to the coast of Greece, Italy, Spain etc. . The trip takes a couple of days max.
I looked it up and China and Mexico is about 15 days by boat and 16 hours by plane but lets assume they use boats as that is what most migrants do.
It isn't cheap to organize and it's a very long distance.
If you watch the video the rich (middle class) ones fly to Mexico directly.
Others go to south america and then travel north.
What's this, another night of multiple bad losses for republicans in special elections, including losing George Santos' former congress seat. Another election of dems out performing polls and 2020/2022 republican districts going blue.
:doge
This amendment [the Thirteenth], as well as the Fourteenth, is undoubtedly self-executing, without any ancillary legislation, so far as its terms are applicable to any existing state of circumstances.US Supreme Court, 1883.
‘WHEN I use a word,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
But Alice objected, ‘The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
And Humpty Dumpty airily replied, ‘The question is which is to be master, that’s all.’
The Constitution empowers Congress to prescribe how those determinations should be made. The relevant provision is Section 5, which enables Congress, subject of course to judicial review, to pass “appropriate legislation” to “enforce” the Fourteenth Amendment. See City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U. S. 507, 536 (1997). Or as Senator Howard put it at the time the Amendment was framed, Section 5 “casts upon Congress the responsibility of seeing to it, for the future, that all the sections of the amendment are carried out in good faith.” Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., at 2768.
Congress’s Section 5 power is critical when it comes to Section 3. Indeed, during a debate on enforcement legislation less than a year after ratification, Sen. Trumbull noted that “notwithstanding [Section 3] … hundreds of men [were] holding office” in violation of its terms. Cong. Globe, 41st Cong., 1st Sess., at 626. The Constitution, Trumbull noted, “provide[d] no means for enforcing” the disqualification, necessitating a “bill to give effect to the fundamental law embraced in the Constitution.” Ibid. The enforcement mechanism Trumbull championed was later enacted as part of the Enforcement Act of 1870, “pursuant to the power conferred by §5 of the [Fourteenth] Amendment.” General Building Contractors Assn., Inc. v. Pennsylvania, 458 U. S. 375, 385 (1982); see 16 Stat. 143–144.
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This case raises the question whether the States, in addition to Congress, may also enforce Section 3. We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency.
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But nothing in the Constitution delegates to the States any power to enforce Section 3 against federal officeholders and candidates.
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The respondents nonetheless maintain that States may enforce Section 3 against candidates for federal office. But the text of the Fourteenth Amendment, on its face, does not affirmatively delegate such a power to the States. The terms of the Amendment speak only to enforcement by Congress, which enjoys power to enforce the Amendment through legislation pursuant to Section 5.
This can hardly come as a surprise, given that the substantive provisions of the Amendment “embody significant limitations on state authority.” Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer, 427 U. S. 445, 456 (1976). Under the Amendment, States cannot abridge privileges or immunities, deprive persons of life, liberty, or property without due process, deny equal protection, or deny male inhabitants the right to vote (without thereby suffering reduced representation in the House). See Amdt. 14, §§1, 2. On the other hand, the Fourteenth Amendment grants new power to Congress to enforce the provisions of the Amendment against the States. It would be incongruous to read this particular Amendment as granting the States the power—silently no less—to disqualify a candidate for federal office.
Allowing Colorado to do so would, we agree, create a chaotic state-by-state patchwork, at odds with our Nation’s federalism principles. That is enough to resolve this case. Yet the majority goes further. Even though “[a]ll nine Members of the Court” agree that this independent and sufficient rationale resolves this case, five Justices go on. They decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this Court and petitioner from future controversy. Ante, at 13. Although only an individual State’s action is at issue here, the majority opines on which federal actors can enforce Section 3, and how they must do so. The majority announces that a disqualification for insurrection can occur only when Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. In doing so, the majority shuts the door on other potential means of federal enforcement. We cannot join an opinion that decides momentous and difficult issues unnecessarily, and we therefore concur only in the judgment.
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To allow Colorado to take a presidential candidate off the ballot under Section 3 would imperil the Framers’ vision of “a Federal Government directly responsible to the people.”
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Although we agree that Colorado cannot enforce Section 3
What the Court did—and I’m referring to all nine justices here, including the ones who wrote concurrences—was make up a holding utterly unmoored from the text or history of the provision it was interpreting, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. That bottom-line holding: “States have no power to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency.” The justices who wrote separate concurrences—the Court’s four women—seemed to agree with at least this statement of the holding, as far as the presidency is concerned.
But here’s the problem. The Fourteenth Amendment does not say that. It could have—but it doesn’t. It says, in Section 5, “Congress shall have power, to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article,” meaning all of the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment. But just because Congress has the power to enact legislation to enforce each of the Fourteenth Amendment’s various provisions—which include, most notably, the guarantee of “the equal protection of the laws” in Section 1—doesn’t mean that state officials, or federal or state judiciaries, are disempowered to apply the Fourteenth Amendment. To the contrary, because the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, they have a duty to do that. State officials and state courts have an obligation not to “deny to any person within [the state’s] jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,” regardless of what Congress does or doesn’t do.
So now Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment is the only provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that may require some congressional action to be enforced, at least in some circumstances. The justices effectively carved out Section 3, without any textual or clear historical basis for doing so.
The Court didn’t even reach that result in a way that makes any sense. Section 3 can be enforced by the states, the Court held, but not for federal offices. Where does the Fourteenth Amendment say that? Where does it say, or even suggest, that federal officeholders are different from state officeholders as far as disqualification is concerned? It doesn’t. The best the Court does is quote an earlier opinion, as well as Justice Joseph Story’s Commentaries, to point out, “Because federal officers owe their existence and functions to the united voice of the whole, not a portion of the people, powers over their election and qualifications must be specifically delegated to, rather than reserved by the States.”
That’s all well and good, but that statement doesn’t bear anything approaching the weight the Court places on it. Because it’s the federal Constitution, not any invention of the states, that says that insurrectionists who violate their oath to support the Constitution can’t hold any federal or state office. And the federal Constitution is binding on the states—always. Which is why the Court recognized that the states could apply—must apply, presumably, because, again, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land—Section 3 to oath-defying insurrectionists who seek state office. But if Section 3 must be applied by the states when they conduct state elections, how is it that they must not do so when the office is federal?
I guess I should stop with the logic, because there really isn’t a lot of it in the Court’s opinion.
Additionally, as I pointed out above, the Fourteenth Amendment was previously understood to be "undoubtedly self-executing", meaning congressional action (while possible) is not required for it to come into effect.No, it can't be "self-executing" to create positive law. This is not how American law works. It's "self-executing" in terms of striking down state and federal laws that violate it. The 14th could bar the Confederates because Congress had declared the states in rebellion in 1861 and barred them from office in 1862. Congress additionally enforced that provision with new law in 1870 so it clearly was not fully "self-executing" even despite the prior existing acts. (That same law also re-enacted the 1866 Civil Rights Act because of doubts that it was constitutional pre-14th something that should be unnecessary if the provisions were self-executing.) States had to ratify the 14th Amendment to be declared out of rebellion with their state constitutions approved by Congress so Congress already had a check on state enforcement that they re-enforced in 1870 by allowing the President to declare martial law.
“What the hell am I watching right now?” a Trump adviser asked, mid-Britt remarks.
“Creepy,” one of the Republican pollsters noted.
A lawyer working in the Trump orbit says the performance reminded them of public-access television, and a senior House congressional aide remarks that it was “cringe”-inducing to watch and likely destined to be turned into a “lame [Saturday Night Live] skit” this weekend.
“I’ll give Biden this — he at least gave a better speech than Katie Britt,” one national Republican consultant said bluntly.:trumps
Is it also self-executing in regards to a rogue court that tries to limit it? So you have no issue with the five concurrences that went beyond the scope of the question and neutered part of the 14th Amendment?Again, you aren't even reading the Supreme Court from 1883 in context of what it's saying. You're plucking out a sentence then changing the meaning to match your ignorance.
Anyway, I didn't get the self-executing part from Conway or the Lincoln Project (both of whom didn't mention it), I found it looking for precedent and previous rulings.
What Trump did on January 6th was self-evidently an act of insurrection, he tried to prevent the lawful transfer of power and thereby violated his oath of office. Of course the court skirted commenting on Trump's actions.
"However, it is entirely within the power of those who establish and adopt the constitution to make any
of its provisions self-executing, that is, operative without any necessity for further legislation"
https://ia803406.us.archive.org/1/items/westlaw-20-full-text-items-for-american-jurisprudence-2d/Westlaw%20-%207%20full%20text%20items%20for%20American%20Jurisprudence%202d.pdf
In 1883 the Supreme Court declared the 14th Amendment to be self-executing.
Ergo, if an act of insurrection is self-evident no further legislation is required for the perpetrator to be automatically barred from holding office again unless congress exempts him. Which it hasn't.
lol
For example, after Brown schools did not just automatically desegregate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_resistance
Or to use another example, this is why states still had abortion bans that could reactivate after Roe was reversed, because there's no federal legislation on it.