Elections; 2024 by THG

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You are still in denial that crime has become a real problem across every major Democrat ran city and that the leadership is doing nothing to combat it and is instead actively taking steps to make the problems worse.

Chicago used to be a beautiful spot that I went to on a regular basis with my dad and brothers as a kid and with my friends as I got older. You couldn't even pay me to go there now. And that's despite the fact that all of the museums that used to be free entry cost a fortune to go visit today.

What's the plan? When are these cities going to be fixed?

Democrats have had uncontested free reign over them for 20 years now and they just get worse every year.

Stoking fears of crime is an age-old American election tactic, but it only works with cowardly voters, which the US has a super-abundance of, the most in the world. https://time.com/5846321/nixon-trump-law-and-order-history/

When you vote for Trump, try to remember that the US is not a police state, where the Federal government enforces local laws such as, oh, murder, assault/battery, robbery, car theft, burglary, you name it, Trump can't fix it.

Since when did policing become a Federal responsibility? If the state and local government can't handle it, too bad for their citizens but changing the President will not fix local problems -- the Constitution was deliberately set up so that the Federal government cannot do what your state is supposed to do.

The ugly truth is that the Federal government can't do a damn thing about Chicago crime, except in very special cases such as counterfeiting, enforcing Prohibition (but that's history), the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing (more history), the Branch Davidian Church in Waco violated every law about owning machine guns (even more ancient history) or ranchers claiming Federal land as their private property and refusing to pay their rent for grazing in National Forests.

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Sunday, April 23, 2023 1:55 AM

You're delusional dude.

There's video proof of it everywhere. Keep your head in the sand and keep voting for people who are going to make things worse then.

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Sunday, April 23, 2023 6:56 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're delusional dude.

There's video proof of it everywhere. Keep your head in the sand and keep voting for people who are going to make things worse then.

6ix, you have got local matters (crime rates in Chicago) all mixed up in your head with national matters. The local Republicans don't have any detailed plans to solve local matters beyond saying "Only I can fix it", but the National level Republicans do have a detailed plan for making the national government malfunction as much as they can. Here is the plan in the form of legislation.

Republicans finally announced their demands to stave off a default on our debt, and it’s brutal:

-Eliminate Pell grants for 80,000 students and reduce grant funding for millions of others

-Remove access to Head Start Programs and Child Care to 300,000 children

-Cut funding for 2,000 border agents, 11,000 FBI personnel, and hundreds of police

-Shut down 125 air traffic control towers (which would increase airport security wait times)

-Evict hundreds of thousands of families, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities from Section 8 housing

-Impose work requirements for social programs

-Block Biden’s student debt relief plan

-Repeal money for the IRS

-Remove Biden’s environmental protections, including nearly wiping out all of Biden’s clean tax credits

-Reduce access to veterans’ care + increase wait times for veterans receiving benefits

https://www.speaker.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LSGA_xml.pdf

6ix, at least look at the table of contents for this bill. For each thing the Democrats are doing, there is an item to undo the thing in this bill.

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Sunday, April 23, 2023 4:51 PM

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Vote Republican if you do NOT want control of greenhouse gases!

EPA to propose first controls on greenhouse gases from power plants

President Biden’s administration is poised to announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that could compel them to capture the pollution from their smokestacks, technology now used by fewer than 20 of the nation’s 3,400 coal and gas-fired plants, according to three people who were briefed on the rule.

If implemented, the proposed regulation would be the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, which generate about 25 percent of the planet-warming pollution produced by the United States. It would also apply to future plants.

Almost all coal and gas-fired power plants would have to cut or capture nearly all of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, according to the people familiar with the regulation, who asked not to be identified because the rule has not been made public.

The proposed rule is sure to face opposition from the fossil fuel industry, power plant operators and their allies in Congress. It is likely to draw an immediate legal challenge from a group of Republican attorneys general that has already sued the Biden administration to stop other climate policies. A future administration could also weaken the regulation.

It would not mandate the use of carbon capture equipment, a nascent and expensive technology; rather, it would set caps on pollution rates that plant operators would have to meet. They could do that by using a different technology or, in the case of gas plants, switching to a fuel source like green hydrogen, which does not emit carbon, according to the people familiar with the matter. But the regulation could lead to the broader adoption of carbon capture technology, the people said.

The proposal comes on the heels of two other Biden administration plans to cut tailpipe emissions dramatically by

1) speeding up the country’s transition to electric vehicles, and
https://web.archive.org/web/20230423165536/https://www.nytimes.com/202
3/04/13/climate/electric-vehicles-biden-epa.html

2) curb methane leaks from oil and gas wells.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230422232221/https://www.nytimes.com/202
1/11/02/climate/biden-methane-climate.html

If those three regulations are implemented as proposed, they would significantly reduce the planet-warming pollution created by the world’s largest economy. Together with the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, a law that is pouring $370 billion into clean energy programs, they would put the country on track to meet Mr. Biden’s pledge to cut the country’s emissions roughly in half by 2030, and to stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2050.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20230423162311/https://www.nytimes.com/202
3/04/22/climate/epa-power-plants-pollution.html

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Sunday, April 23, 2023 5:30 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're delusional dude.

There's video proof of it everywhere. Keep your head in the sand and keep voting for people who are going to make things worse then.
6ix, you have got local matters (crime rates in Chicago) all mixed up in your head with national matters. The local Republicans don't have any detailed plans to solve local matters beyond saying "Only I can fix it", but the National level Republicans do have a detailed plan for making the national government malfunction as much as they can. Here is the plan in the form of legislation.

Republicans finally announced their demands to stave off a default on our debt, and it’s brutal:

-Eliminate Pell grants for 80,000 students and reduce grant funding for millions of others

-Remove access to Head Start Programs and Child Care to 300,000 children

-Cut funding for 2,000 border agents, 11,000 FBI personnel, and hundreds of police

-Shut down 125 air traffic control towers (which would increase airport security wait times)

-Evict hundreds of thousands of families, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities from Section 8 housing

-Impose work requirements for social programs

-Block Biden’s student debt relief plan

-Repeal money for the IRS

-Remove Biden’s environmental protections, including nearly wiping out all of Biden’s clean tax credits

-Reduce access to veterans’ care + increase wait times for veterans receiving benefits

https://www.speaker.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LSGA_xml.pdf

6ix, at least look at the table of contents for this bill. For each thing the Democrats are doing, there is an item to undo the thing in this bill.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Half of those cuts are good. Half of them are bad.

This is no different than any other time either party does anything.

Both parties suck.

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Monday, April 24, 2023 8:40 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Half of those cuts are good. Half of them are bad.

This is no different than any other time either party does anything.

Both parties suck.

There is a difference between the two political parties. Here is the ultimate and highest example I can prove: First, I am guessing that you didn't actually look at the Republican bill. Ten years into the future the bill says exactly how much can be spent:

‘‘(18) for fiscal year 2033, for the discretionary category, $1,608,788,000,000 in new budget authority;’’. That is from Page 8 out of 320 pages
https://www.speaker.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LSGA_xml.pdf

Planning how much the US government will spend 10 years into the future is insanity and stupidity written into law. At this point, you are supposed to realize that the Federal government can't predict what will happen next year, but they are forced to try because it takes more than a year to pass a spending budget. Ten years ahead? Congress is being absurd and ridiculous trying to predict that far into the future. No Democrat will vote for such nonsense, but I expect every Republican to vote Yes.

That is the main difference between the two political parties. The Republican politicians think they know to the precision of the closest million dollars what is impossible to know.

The Republicans show the same absolute certainty about climate change as they do about budgets. There are Republicans absolutely certain that climate change is a hoax. There are Republicans absolutely certain that nothing can be done about climate change even if not a hoax. There are Republicans absolutely certain that switching away from fossil fuels can't be done or if done they are certain it can't be affordable. There are no such Democrats absolutely certain, maybe with the exception of Senator Manchin, who sells coal. Manchin fits well with the Republican party, the party for absolutely certain people only.

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Monday, April 24, 2023 10:04 AM

Yeah. Right. Democrats actively destroy the value of the dollar. Thanks for summing that up so nicely.

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Monday, April 24, 2023 12:26 PM

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Yeah. Right. Democrats actively destroy the value of the dollar. Thanks for summing that up so nicely.

I assume that is a reference to inflation. You never have accepted the fact that inflation is going on all over the world, not just in the US, which means the Democrats aren't the cause of inflation.

Global inflation tracker: see how your country compares on rising prices
https://www.ft.com/content/088d3368-bb8b-4ff3-9df7-a7680d4d81b2

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Monday, April 24, 2023 1:50 PM

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And because this should be said every time the debt ceiling is mentioned, we really need to get rid of it. The time to argue about spending is when you buy stuff, not when the bills come due. Unless you're a deadbeat, you pay up if you've promised to, and you don't make your payment subject to random, changing demands. You said you'd pay. You pay. But if you are a Republican Congressman, you don't pay, i.e. you force the US Treasury to default on the national debt, or force a government shutdown.

Because the Republicans have done this many times before, there is a List of federal shutdowns at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_State
s#List_of_federal_shutdowns

There have also been funding gaps forced by anti-abortion advocates in Congress in order to ban using Medicaid dollars to pay for abortions. Some of those advocates used to be Democrats, but they switched to Republicans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_funding_ga
ps

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Monday, April 24, 2023 3:58 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. Right. Democrats actively destroy the value of the dollar. Thanks for summing that up so nicely.
I assume that is a reference to inflation. You never have accepted the fact that inflation is going on all over the world, not just in the US, which means the Democrats aren't the cause of inflation.

Incorrect. US Democrats, in tandem with the CDC are responsible for the inflation worldwide.

Period.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023 2:29 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. Right. Democrats actively destroy the value of the dollar. Thanks for summing that up so nicely.
I assume that is a reference to inflation. You never have accepted the fact that inflation is going on all over the world, not just in the US, which means the Democrats aren't the cause of inflation.

Incorrect. US Democrats, in tandem with the CDC are responsible for the inflation worldwide.

Period.

You remind me WHY your life went so wrong. Every Trump voter I know, and some Democrats, are constantly reminding me of the same thing. Whether the subject is inflation or how to safely cut down a tree, they know things that they obviously don't know. But when the tree falls on their storage building, smashing it flat, it is not their fault.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023 2:31 PM

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Vote Republican if you think the Supreme Court needs more justices like Neil Gorsuch!

For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.

Nine days after he was confirmed by the Senate for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, the then-circuit court judge got one: The chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s biggest law firms with a robust practice before the high court.

....Gorsuch did not disclose the identity of the purchaser. That box was left blank. Since then, Greenberg Traurig has been involved in at least 22 cases before or presented to the court, according to a POLITICO review of the court’s docket.

I hardly need to add that Gorsuch hasn't recused himself from cases involving Greenberg Traurig. Why would he? Republican Supreme Court justices appear to consider themselves above the law, and in practice it turns out that they are.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/25/neil-gorsuch-colorado-propert
y-sale-00093579

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023 6:10 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yeah. Right. Democrats actively destroy the value of the dollar. Thanks for summing that up so nicely.
I assume that is a reference to inflation. You never have accepted the fact that inflation is going on all over the world, not just in the US, which means the Democrats aren't the cause of inflation.

Incorrect. US Democrats, in tandem with the CDC are responsible for the inflation worldwide.

Period.
You remind me WHY your life went so wrong. Every Trump voter I know, and some Democrats, are constantly reminding me of the same thing. Whether the subject is inflation or how to safely cut down a tree, they know things that they obviously don't know. But when the tree falls on their storage building, smashing it flat, it is not their fault.

I paid for somebody to cut my trees down.

Some things you just shouldn't do yourself.

In the meantime, you're right here with me every day buddy. On a long dead fan forum with 6 active posters, bitching about the world.

We all know you aren't who you say you are.

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023 8:38 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

We all know you aren't who you say you are.

What I said is that I would write a story based on Indistinguishable from Magic http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=5185

The original is pretty good, but it is not based on physics. It could be rewritten using only what River Tam can already do, read minds and know the future. River is what sets Firefly apart from all other Sci Fi, rather than Mal, the Independence War, space cowboys, saloons, and cattle.

River is on Serenity for a reason that she has always known and that Mal never will and never could understand even if River carefully explained, over and over to that dimwitted, yet highly articulate and charming gentleman. But that makes perfect sense because River has clear goals in life (not yet revealed) and Mal doesn't (which he has revealed over and over that he doesn't have). We already know Mal doesn't have a clue as to what he is supposed to do with his life, just like most people who voted for Trump don't have a clue, either. They just stumble from tragedy to hardship to sorrow until they fall dead. That's why they voted for Trump, to give them purpose and meaningful life, but Trump knows nothing. He is only a conman and his followers are gullible.

6ix, I've seen a huge cross-section of Trump voters. Because of that, I don't have to know you in order to know everything important about you. I don't have to be River Tam to read your thoughts from a thousand miles away, despite you thinking your soul is very deep and your mind is so vastly intelligent.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023 8:48 PM

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Here is a story about the billionaire who is bribing a Republican Supreme Court Justice:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230425203756/https://theintercept.com/20
23/04/25/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-citizenship-st-kitts/

If you want more billionaires owning more justices on the Supreme Court then vote Republican in 2024!

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023 9:55 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

DNC PLANS TO ELIMINATE OPEN DEBATES AND TOWNHALLS

https://www.theepochtimes.com/rfk-jr-responds-to-dncs-plans-to-skip-pr
imary-debates-the-system-is-indeed-rigged_5218131.html

Clearly, Biden* is such a strong candidate he can best anyone in a head-to-head discussion! /snark

The thought of RFK Jr running against Biden* is just too much for THE DNC to stomach, so they're going to try and strong-arm Sleepy Joe into office. By limiting his feeble-mindedness to the public, they hope to continue the narrative that we have a strong, dynamic President would can legitimately win another election.
/snicker

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Tuesday, April 25, 2023 10:55 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

We all know you aren't who you say you are.
What I said is that I would write a story based on Indistinguishable from Magic http://www.fireflyfans.net/bluesun.aspx?bid=5185

The original is pretty good, but it is not based on physics. It could be rewritten using only what River Tam can already do, read minds and know the future. River is what sets Firefly apart from all other Sci Fi, rather than Mal, the Independence War, space cowboys, saloons, and cattle.

River is on Serenity for a reason that she has always known and that Mal never will and never could understand even if River carefully explained, over and over to that dimwitted, yet highly articulate and charming gentleman. But that makes perfect sense because River has clear goals in life (not yet revealed) and Mal doesn't (which he has revealed over and over that he doesn't have). We already know Mal doesn't have a clue as to what he is supposed to do with his life, just like most people who voted for Trump don't have a clue, either. They just stumble from tragedy to hardship to sorrow until they fall dead. That's why they voted for Trump, to give them purpose and meaningful life, but Trump knows nothing. He is only a conman and his followers are gullible.

6ix, I've seen a huge cross-section of Trump voters. Because of that, I don't have to know you in order to know everything important about you. I don't have to be River Tam to read your thoughts from a thousand miles away, despite you thinking your soul is very deep and your mind is so vastly intelligent.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Yeah. And I know a large cross section of TDS sufferers and I don't have to know a single other thing about you to know that you're a mindless cunt that parrots Legacy Media talking points all day, every day and doesn't have a single neuron firing in your brain.

Get fucked.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 6:14 AM

64% of voters do not want Trump.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 6:19 AM

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Yeah. And I know a large cross section of TDS sufferers and I don't have to know a single other thing about you to know that you're a mindless cunt that parrots Legacy Media talking points all day, every day and doesn't have a single neuron firing in your brain.

Get fucked.

I had to look up "TDS sufferers". Trump Derangement Syndrome. That's not what I've got. Decades before Trump came along, I noticed a huge portion of the American population needed to have their asses kicked for what they were when off work and how they acted on the job, but it took years for those worst people to gather themselves into a single group and vote for Trump. I noticed that you are trying to kill yourself with stupidity, just like every other Trump voter:

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I'm usually a numbers guy, but I'd rather not, when it comes to me.

Personally, this is just one more reason why I don't really care much if I live beyond 50 years old. The best days are far in the rear-view mirror, and the idea of living the rest of my life into old age having to count calories just to exist isn't appealing to me. If this doesn't stabilize and isn't going to be easy and something that I don't have to put a lot of effort into, I probably just won't bother. I already don't have a bad diet, but if I have to live off of tree sap and crickets to stay alive, count me out.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=65350&mid=1
172992#1172992

Malcolm Reynolds can't find his way through society. He is angry and rebellious all the time. For very little possible gain he takes suicidal risks with his crew's lives that sane people wouldn't. He would vote for Trump, the only man who can fix it, it being the Alliance or America, depending on which Universe you live in. With one vote for Trump, Mal's life fills with meaning, purpose, and direction.

Be proud, 6ix, that I compared you to Mal who does have some positive characteristics: his charm, his wit, his marksmanship. If only Mal could find work that pays better, he'd have a fine life once he leaves behind the bitterness about a long-lost war.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 6:47 AM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

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64% of voters do not want Trump.

What? No link? No poll cited?
Just making shit up? again?

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Just 33 percent of voters would reelect Biden in 2024: Fox News poll

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3692625-just-33-percent-of-voter
s-would-reelect-biden-in-2024-fox-news-poll/
Let's do the arithmetic: 67 pct wouldn't

And if the public saw more than controlled snippets of Biden, with his stories about how he was a(n) trucker/firefighter/astronaut once, irrational outbursts and obvious senility, you'd have a hard tome convincing most people that Biden was a sane choice.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 1:58 PM

Disney sues Gov. Ron DeSantis, alleging political retaliation

Walt Disney Co. is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over what it calls a “relentless campaign to weaponize government power” — a major escalation of the year-long clash between the entertainment giant and conservative governor.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/disney-sues-gov-ron-desantis-allegin
g-political-retaliation/ar-AA1anW7I?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=fa417cc85ff549ec84591d550fada3ee&ei=26

Can you believe this moron picked a fight with Mickey Mouse. Flordia's biggest employer. Can you say dummy? I can, I can say dummy. I got a buck says he now decides against running for president.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 2:04 PM

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Originally posted by THG:
64% of voters do not want Trump.
What? No link? No poll cited?
Just making shit up? again?

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Just 33 percent of voters would reelect Biden in 2024: Fox News poll

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3692625-just-33-percent-of-voter
s-would-reelect-biden-in-2024-fox-news-poll/
Let's do the arithmetic: 67 pct wouldn't

And if the public saw more than controlled snippets of Biden, with his stories about how he was a(n) trucker/firefighter/astronaut once, irrational outbursts and obvious senility, you'd have a hard tome convincing most people that Biden was a sane choice.

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A majority of voters don't want Trump back in office, polling shows

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 2:37 PM

Gov. Whitmer: The Biden WH focused on solving problems, not culture wars

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 3:09 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

a) "A majority" doesn't want Trump. That could be 51%. (No I didn't bother to listen to the video.) 67% don't want Biden. Most people don't want either one.
That's what makes RFK Jr so dangerous for the permanent state.

b) Why does Whitmer have to speak for Biden? Why doesn't Biden speak for himself? Oh, that's right... he can't.

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023 6:41 PM

Whitmer is a wicked, vile little woman.

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Thursday, April 27, 2023 12:41 PM

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a)
"A majority" doesn't want Trump. That could be 51%. (No I didn't bother to listen to the video.) 67% don't want Biden. Most people don't want either one.
That's what makes RFK Jr so dangerous for the permanent state.

b) Why does Whitmer have to speak for Biden? Why doesn't Biden speak for himself? Oh, that's right... he can't.

You pretend to be wise yet believe Whitmer speaking on Bidens behave somehow means he cannot speak for himself. You are speaking favorably for Trump in these threads. Why, can't he speak for himself?

What you engage in here is not intellectual, it's ridiculousness.

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Thursday, April 27, 2023 12:48 PM

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There’s a Remarkable Piece of Evidence in the E. Jean Carroll Trial

The federal judge presiding over the trial ruled that Carroll’s legal team could include the Access Hollywood tape as evidence to support her claim that Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. Evidence of a defendant’s general propensity for doing something is not usually admissible as proof that they committed a distinct act, but the judge decided that Carroll’s case falls within a federal exception to that norm: In civil cases “based on” an alleged sexual assault, the plaintiff can provide evidence that the defendant committed any other sexual assault.

And the Access Hollywood video can be read as exactly that kind of evidence, the judge ruled.

“A jury reasonably could find … that Mr. Trump admitted in the Access Hollywood tape that he in fact has had contact with women’s genitalia in the past without their consent, or that he has attempted to do so,” he wrote in his opinion allowing the tape as evidence.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/e-jean-carroll-donald-trum
p-rape-trial-access-hollywood-tape.html

6ix, Trump will be fine . . . as the 2024 GOP Presidential Candidate. I sure do hope you vote for Trump in the primary and general elections because that kind of misjudgment of character is so characteristic of you and your kindred, your people, the Trumptards of America.

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Thursday, April 27, 2023 1:45 PM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
a) "A majority" doesn't want Trump. That could be 51%. (No I didn't bother to listen to the video.) 67% don't want Biden. Most people don't want either one.
That's what makes RFK Jr so dangerous for the permanent state.

b) Why does Whitmer have to speak for Biden? Why doesn't Biden speak for himself? Oh, that's right... he can't.

THUGR: You pretend to be wise yet believe Whitmer speaking on Bidens behave somehow means he cannot speak for himself.

All you have to do is watch Biden* for ten minutes to realize that even a teleprompter confuses him. It get's HIlarious when he speaks extemporaneously.

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Photo Shows Biden Cheat Sheet With Reporter's Full Question Given In Advance
Another day, another example of the White House managing down to President Biden's sagging capability for extemporaneous thought and speech. This example comes via the New York Post. https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/biden-cheat-sheet-shows-he-had-advance-k
nowledge-of-journalists-question/

At a Wednesday press conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, a photographer captured Biden holding a cheat sheet that gave him the full text of a question he would be asked by Los Angeles Times reporter Courtney Subramanian:

“How are YOU squaring YOUR domestic priorities — like reshoring semiconductors manufacturing — with alliance-based foreign policy?”

To ensure he called on Subramanian, the cheat sheet also included her photograph. Even the sequence of questioning was choreographed, as the paper indicates she was assigned "Question #1."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/photo-shows-biden-cheat-sheet-repo
rters-full-question-known-advance

If you're too fucking lazy to go to ZH and follow the link to the original article, I included the link for you.

When you combine that with the DNC's decision to eliminate debates and townhalls, that pretty much nails down the question (if there ever was one) of Biden's competence.

FOR YOUR AMUSEMENT

The only President that I can remember who was almost as bad a meat-puppet as Biden* was GWB, a brain-burned dry-drunk who had many fingers stuck up his ass (Cheney, Feith, Rumsfeld, Wurmser etc). Like Biden*, he was just a public face for a cabal of neocons. THAT particular set were Zionists, energy-capitalists and petrodollar financialists whose policies overlapped on the Middle East, making Iraq an inevitable victim.

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You are speaking favorably for Trump in these threads.

You must have me confused wih someone else. Have I said ANYTHING favorable about Trump in this campaign season?

The best I can say about Trump is that he isn't Biden*.

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Thursday, April 27, 2023 7:21 PM

I'd love to see Biden* debate for 2024. Even dumbass diversity hires like Kamala and Pete could destroy him without even trying.

Biden cheat sheet shows he had advance knowledge of journalist’s question

https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/biden-cheat-sheet-shows-he-had-advance-k
nowledge-of-journalists-question/

Of course he did. All Democrats do. But Biden* is the only one who's mental functions are so depleted that he walks around flashing it in plain view of the camera's because he forgot what he was even holding. Yanno... like instructions where they have to capitalize "YOU" when telling him when to walk into the room, who to shake hands with and when to sit down and just shut the fuck up.

Joe Biden* is an embarrassment to himself, his office and his country.

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Friday, April 28, 2023 8:21 AM

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The Coming GOPocalypse
by David Frum

https://web.archive.org/web/20230426121650/https://www.theatlantic.com
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The Republican plan for 2024 is already failing, and the party leadership can see it and knows it.

There was no secret to a more intelligent and intentional Republican plan for 2024. It would have gone like this:

1). Replace Donald Trump at the head of the ticket with somebody less obnoxious and impulsive.

2). Capitalize on inflation and other economic troubles.

3). Offer plausible ideas on drugs, crime, and border enforcement.

4). Reassure women worried about the post-Roe future.

5). Don’t be too obvious about suppressing Democratic votes, because really blatant voter suppression will provoke and mobilize Democrats to vote, not discourage them.

Unfortunately for them, Republicans have turned every element of the plan upside down and inside out. Despite lavish anti-Trump donations by big-money Republicans, Trump is cruising to easy renomination. Rather than capitalize on existing economic troubles, Republicans have started a debt-ceiling fight that will cast them as the cause of America’s economic troubles. Worse for them, the troubles are fast receding. Inflation is vexing, but the recession that Republicans hoped for did not materialize: Instead, Joe Biden has presided over the fastest and steepest unemployment reduction in U.S. economic history since he took office in January 2021.

The big new Republican idea to halt the flow of drugs is to bomb or invade Mexico. Instead of reassuring women, Republican state legislators and Republican judges are signaling that they will support a national abortion ban if their party wins in 2024—and are already building the apparatus of surveillance and control of women necessary to make such a ban effective. Republican state-level voter-suppression schemes have been noisy and alarming when the GOP plan called for them to be subtle and technical.

It’s early in the election cycle, of course, but not too early to wonder: Are we watching a Republican electoral disaster in the making?

Biden’s poll numbers are only so-so. But a presidential election offers a stark and binary choice: this or that? Biden may fall short of some voters’ imagined ideal of a president, but in 2024, voters won’t be comparing the Democrat with that ideal. They will be comparing him with the Republican alternative.

An American must be at least 36 years old to have participated in an election in which the Republican candidate for president won the most votes. An American must be at least 52 years old to have participated in two presidential elections in which the Republican nominee got the most votes.

Despite this, over the past 30 years, the GOP has succeeded in leveraging its smaller share of the vote into a larger share of national power. That same 36-year-old American has lived half of his or her adult life under a Republican-controlled Senate, and even more of it under a Republican-majority House of Representatives. Through almost all of that American’s adult life, Republicans have held more than half of all state legislatures. Conservative dominance of the federal courts has become ever more total in the past two decades, culminating in the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Some of the Republicans’ leverage can be explained by the American electoral system’s tilt against metropolitan areas. Some of their success is due to luck. The GOP’s big year of 2010 also happened to be a redistricting year, so one successful election translated into a decade of more comprehensively gerrymandered state legislatures. (Democrats have not had a big win in a redistricting year since 1930.)

But the tilt is not infinite, and the party’s luck is running out. Republicans have suffered a series of heavy defeats since the rise of Trump: loss of the House in 2018, loss of the presidency in 2020, loss of the Senate in 2021, losses at the state level in 2022 (Democrats won net two governorships and net four legislative chambers).

Trump-era Republicans have difficulty absorbing and reacting to negative news. Led by Trump himself, they misrepresented 2016 as—in the words of his former adviser Kellyanne Conway—a blowout, historic landslide. They misrepresented 2020 as an election that they deservedly won, but that was stolen from them by fraud and chicanery. Out-of-office Republicans like Paul Ryan will acknowledge on CNN that Trump lost. But they won’t say it on Fox News. Trump’s own leading party rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, won’t say it. And if Trump is indeed the primary winner that he insists he is, what on Earth is the case for denying this political superstar the third nomination he wants?

The Democrats, by contrast, are a party that has trouble absorbing and reacting to good news. Few Democrats predicted that the party would do as well as it did in 2022. Most feel deep dread and anxiety about 2024.

Maybe it’s good to guard against complacency. The American electoral system’s tilt against Democratic-voting regions remains as pronounced as ever. The Senate map is especially unpromising for Democrats. Yet it’s also important to understand that although America is intensely and bitterly polarized, it is not evenly polarized.

The potential strength of the Democratic coalition is greater than that of the Trump coalition. The Democratic disadvantage is that their coalition spans a lot of groups that face extra difficulties casting a ballot: renters, college students, hourly workers, single parents, people who don’t own cars. The American voting system has been engineered to deter and discourage them.

If motivated to turn out, however, those deterred and discouraged blocs can swing elections. In 2018, 36 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds turned out, the highest level recorded. Their votes helped change control of the House. Turnout of this cohort in 2022 finished second only to what it had been in 2018, and those votes altered the political complexion of many state legislatures. The state that had the highest youth turnout in 2022 was Michigan—not so coincidentally, the state where Democrats scored some of their biggest gains, flipping both chambers of the state legislature from red to blue.

Chief among what motivates voters who face obstacles is hope. People will endure and overcome barriers when they feel that their vote can make a difference. If Democrats succeed in communicating hope in 2024 that young people can contribute to a decisive defeat of Trump and MAGA extremism, then that is what they will do.

This cycle, that hope is well founded. Republicans are doing everything wrong. They are talking to their voters about Trump’s personal grievances and about boutique culture-war issues that their own base does not much care about, such as the state of Florida’s “war on Disney.” At the same time, Republican leaders are confronting Democratic voters with extremist threats on issues they care intensely about: bans on abortion medication by mail, restrictions on the freedom of young women to travel across state lines, attacks on student voting rights, proposed big cuts to Medicaid and food stamps in the GOP debt-ceiling ransom demand. Republicans offer no economic message and no affirming vision, even as they make new moves to police women’s bodies and start a land war in Mexico. They are well on their way to earning a deep, nasty defeat—and the smell of that defeat may be an additional draw to the polls for the Democratic-leaning constituencies that will inflict it.

Of all the major-party candidates to run for president since 2000, only one scored worse than Trump in the popular vote: John McCain in 2008. That was not a personal verdict on McCain. He was running for a third Republican term in the throes of the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression and against the backdrop of the most grinding military frustration since Vietnam.

Biden’s reelection-announcement video, released yesterday, defines the principal issue at stake in 2024 as “freedom.” From the New Deal to Trump, “freedom” was a Republican slogan; “security” was its Democratic counterpart. But Trump, together with DeSantis, has completely rebranded the GOP as the party of bossing around women, minorities, and young people.

If Trump secures the GOP nomination to run for a second term in 2024, the conditions are all in place to transfer the title of “worst popular-vote loser of the century” from the great Arizona senator to the putsch-plotting ex-president. Trump’s own party is doing its part to deliver this debacle. Soon enough, all Americans will have the opportunity to do theirs.

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Friday, April 28, 2023 9:08 AM

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If you're too fucking lazy to go to ZH and follow the link to the original article, I included the link for you.

Trump at Risk of Being JAILED for BRAZEN Behavior Surrounding Trial

The federal judge overseeing the civil trial in which Donald Trump is accused of rape admonished the former president for a social media post in which he called the lawsuit “a made up SCAM.”

Trump could be “tampering with a new source of potential liability,” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan told one of Trump’s lawyers in court on Wednesday.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/26/judge-trump-rape-trial-scam-t
ruth-social-00093940

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Friday, April 28, 2023 10:04 AM

Trump will be fine.

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Friday, April 28, 2023 10:24 AM

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Trump will be fine.

Overall, 64 percent of U.S. adults said they do not want to see Trump become president again. That includes 92 percent of Democrats, 68 percent of independents and 27 percent of Republicans. At the same time, 34 percent of U.S. adults (including 71 percent of Republicans) want to see Trump get elected for a second term as president.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/as-biden-runs-for-president-agai
n-4-in-10-americans-say-hes-done-a-good-job

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Friday, April 28, 2023 12:23 PM

Yup. Campaign season hasn't even started. Same numbers can also be said about Biden* right now too.

None of those polls matter and will be much different once it's a rematch between Trump and Biden*, and it will be a rematch between Trump and Biden* unless Biden* loses the ability to talk by then.

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Friday, April 28, 2023 12:52 PM

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Yup. Campaign season hasn't even started. Same numbers can also be said about Biden* right now too.

None of those polls matter and will be much different once it's a rematch between Trump and Biden*, and it will be a rematch between Trump and Biden* unless Biden* loses the ability to talk by then.

It is NEVER TOO SOON for you to predict that Trump will win despite the Democrats' cheating. I am already hearing that from the Trumptards in Texas. They are also making dark threats, but keeping their voices low, of doing something violent, like blowing up Federal buildings and FBI offices. There is an angry-poor-white-trash revolution coming in 2024! The South will rise again in rebellion against the Libtard Yankees and George Soros and the Climate Change Hoax!

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Saturday, April 29, 2023 1:55 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yup. Campaign season hasn't even started. Same numbers can also be said about Biden* right now too.

None of those polls matter and will be much different once it's a rematch between Trump and Biden*, and it will be a rematch between Trump and Biden* unless Biden* loses the ability to talk by then.
It is NEVER TOO SOON for you to predict that Trump will win despite the Democrats' cheating.

Oh honey... That's not what I'm doing here.

I know the Democrats are going to cheat using the en masse unsolicited mail-in-fraud / ballot harvesting system they set up during Covid and exploited during the last two election cycles. EVERYBODY knows that the Democrats are going to cheat using the en masse unsolicited mail-in-fraud / ballot harvesting system they set up during Covid and exploited during the last two election cycles.

But now that you've set it up for him and Trump has finally embraced it, it's going to be jammed so far up your asses you'll be gargling on it.

You were warned. Now it's too late for you.

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Monday, May 1, 2023 4:59 AM

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Trump explains why he was treated worse than Abraham Lincoln — who was assassinated

For the second weekend in a row, Fox host Mark Levin continued showing videos of his conversation with Donald Trump. Among the things Trump thought the Fox audience needed to know is that he was treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was killed before leaving office.

Trump began by saying that former President Andrew Jackson was treated very badly after he broke previous treaties, stole land, and forced the march of Native Americans to "Indian Territory." That land was then taken from the Native tribes and became known as Oklahoma.

"Abraham Lincoln, they say, was, you know, he had a civil war going on," Trump educated Levin. "But Abraham Lincoln was just vilified. But now they say Trump got treated the worst of all."

He never explained who "they" were.

"Because what they did was come up with phony stuff. Russia, Russia, Russia. It was all hoaxes. The Mueller witch hunt, which turned out to be 'no collusion.'"

That isn't what Mueller found. He never looked into Trump's potential collusion with Russia. What he did document were at least ten instances of obstruction of justice, which Trump has never been tried over.

"And they had the laptop, they could have figured that out because on the laptop, if you look at it, you could have figured that out easily," Trump said.

It's unclear what he was talking about, as there was never a "laptop" that belonged to Trump that was part of the Mueller probe. It's possible that it was classified information, but it never made it into the Mueller report. He might be confused about the laptop that was just seized from his staffer involved in the classified documents scandal.

Lincoln was reelected in his second bid for president, unlike Trump. It was the following year that he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth.

See the clip of the interview below or at the link here.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-life-worse-than-lincoln/

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023 10:46 AM

Fox News Legal Analyst Pans Trump 2024 Bid: He ‘Can’t Win’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-legal-analyst-pans-tr
ump-2024-bid-he-can-t-win/ar-AA1aDeUL?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=20406f4dd8914089b96df345cfb06861&ei=113

Simple...

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023 2:55 PM

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Fox News Legal Analyst Pans Trump 2024 Bid: He ‘Can’t Win’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-news-legal-analyst-pans-tr
ump-2024-bid-he-can-t-win/ar-AA1aDeUL?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=20406f4dd8914089b96df345cfb06861&ei=113

Simple...

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That's what they said in 2016, and Hillary Clinton was a much tougher opponent than an 82 year old Biden* who is already suffering from visible signs of dementia will be when we're in the middle of Great Recession 2.0.

What happened to your trials, dummy? Didn't work out the way your Legacy Media Masters told you that they would, huh?

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The ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Is Eating Away at Republicans’ Brains and might change the 2024 Election outcomes

Republican politicians — from presidential contenders to anonymous state legislators — are monomaniacally focused on banning books, fighting “wokeness” and harassing transgender people. Some Republicans are even still denying the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, doubling down on the election-related conspiracies that hobbled many Republican candidates in the midterms.

Not only do Americans not care about the various Republican obsessions — in a recent Fox News poll 1 percent of respondents said “wokeness” was “the most important issue facing the country today” — but a large majority say that those obsessions have gone too far. According to Fox, 60 percent of Americans said “book banning by school boards” was a major problem. Fifty-seven percent said the same for political attacks on families with transgender children.

It is not for nothing that in Biden’s first TV ad of the 2024 campaign, he took specific aim at conservative book bans as a threat to freedom and American democracy.

And yet there’s no sign that Republicans will relent and shift focus. Just the opposite, in fact; the party is poised to lurch even farther down the road of its alienating preoccupations. On abortion, for example, Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, says candidates need to address the issue “head-on” in 2024 — that they can’t be “uncomfortable” on the issue and need to say “I’m proud to be pro-life.”

But the Republican Party has veered quite far from most Americans on abortion rights, and in a contested race for the presidential nomination, a “head-on” focus will possibly mean a fight over which candidate can claim the most draconian abortion views and policy aims.

There’s more: DeSantis is in the midst of a legal battle with Disney, one of the most beloved companies on the planet, and House Republicans are threatening the global economy in order to pass a set of deeply unpopular spending cuts to widely used assistance programs.

Taken together, it’s as if the Republican Party has committed itself to being as off-putting as possible to as many Americans as possible. That doesn’t mean the party is doomed, of course. But as of this moment, it is hard to say it’s on the road to political success.

As for Joe Biden? The current state of the Republican Party only strengthens his most important political asset — his normalcy. He promised, in 2020, that he would be a normal president. And he is promising, for 2024, to continue to serve as a normal president. Normal isn’t fun and normal isn’t exciting. But normal has already won one election, and I won’t be surprised if it wins another.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/opinion/ron-desantis-woke-mind-viru
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023 10:36 AM

Democrats are the woke mind virus.

We're done with your bullshit.

Whatever companies don't end up going bankrupt in 2023 will be cutting a lot of staff and hopefully learning some lessons before they go bankrupt too.

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Democrats are the woke mind virus.

We're done with your bullshit.

Whatever companies don't end up going bankrupt in 2023 will be cutting a lot of staff and hopefully learning some lessons before they go bankrupt too.

6ix, please tell me more about your various mental illnesses because you are so fascinating. No, you are not. There is specifically a mental illness Trump has:

Has Anyone Been Sued More Than Donald Trump?

An examination of the unique set of factors that may have led him to be involved in thousands of lawsuits.

Donald Trump has faced an incredible number of lawsuits in his life. In 2016 USA Today found that Trump and his businesses were involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts over the three decades before that.

Some of those legal troubles are, notably, going on as we speak, while he’s running for president. Trump was recently indicted by the Manhattan district attorney’s office, he’s currently under trial for rape, and he’s facing two more federal investigations that could very well announce an indictment any day now. All in all, Forbes found that there are at least 40 active legal challenges facing the former president and his businesses.

That got us wondering: Has anyone been sued more times than Trump? What’s the most someone has ever been sued in the U.S., anyway?

Googling the question doesn’t get you very far. The results are mostly stories about the world’s most litigious man (allegedly! Please don’t sue us): Jonathan Lee Riches, who has filed over 4,000 lawsuits, according to ABC News. When the Guinness Book of World Records awarded him the world record for most lawsuits filed, he—guess what?—sued them.

So I reached out to a few law professors who specialize in complex litigation, and they couldn’t think of anyone who has been entangled in as many lawsuits, as both a plaintiff and a defendant, as Trump. It’s “definitely unprecedented” for a former president, said Jed Shugerman, a law professor at Fordham University School of Law.

Trump has built up a massive public profile as a businessman and now a former president, and some experts think that it’s emboldened him to sue, even threatening people that cross him. “One thing that makes Donald Trump unique is that he doesn’t shy away from litigation. He relishes it. For him, it’s what I’ve always thought of as an overall strategy to elevate his public profile,” explained Adam Zimmerman, a law professor at Loyola Law School. If a lawsuit Trump has initiated turns sour, he usually turns it around and blames the court system—the same argument he uses when someone else sues him.

Trump’s large number of legal entanglements is particularly impressive because it’s not exactly easy to bring a lawsuit in the U.S. The legal system is expensive, with a huge assortment of court fees, plus the cost of hiring a lawyer. It also moves pretty slowly. But, somehow, none of that has deterred Trump. “I find it really surprising that Trump is able to pay for this much litigation and that people continue to take the risk of representing him,” said Alexandra Lahav, a law professor at Cornell Law School.

It’s surprising, in part, because Trump has a reputation for not paying his legal bills. One of Trump’s lead lawyers for his second impeachment trial quit just days before it was set to start over a compensation dispute, according to Axios. Trump and his businesses have faced at least 60 lawsuits over unpaid wages, including 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. He’s earned a reputation of stinginess, and his recent federal election filings indicate he’s turning to his presidential campaign for help, spending about $10 million from his Save America PAC to pay for personal legal fees.

On top of all that, Trump doesn’t have the greatest success rate in court. An analysis by the Associated Press found that over 30 of the lawsuits brought by Trump’s campaign and allies were rejected or dropped out of the roughly 50 filed in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.

Trump’s use of the country’s legal system is aggressive, and he’s been called out for it. Last year, when U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks dismissed a lawsuit Trump filed against his former rival Hillary Clinton, he sanctioned members of Trump’s legal team over intentional abuse of the legal system and said Trump’s allegations were “political grievances masquerading as legal claims.”

Zimmerman agreed that Trump’s legal strategy is one of a kind. “He’s unique because he’s a business figure and a political figure and he’s used the court system to further both of those aims at the same time. I can’t think of a lot of people who are quite like that.”

But there are, of course, others who have racked up a high volume of lawsuits.

Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, and Bernie Madoff were all accused of misdeeds that affected dozens (or, in Madoff’s case, thousands) of people and resulted in large lawsuits. Weinstein had more than 30 women join a civil lawsuit over sexual misconduct, while Epstein also faced a lawsuit representing 23 victims of sexual abuse. Madoff was convicted of defrauding as many as 37,000 people in 136 countries over four decades.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice—who recently announced he’s running for U.S. Senate—also has a history of being sued. A ProPublica investigation found that over the past three decades, Justice and his network of coal mining companies received more than 600 lawsuits over unpaid bills.

Zimmerman explained that it’s generally rare to find individuals who are sued as much as Trump, because a singular person’s actions don’t typically affect large swaths of people in a way that could invite so many lawsuits. But Trump has recently managed to do just that, Shugerman said. Consider Trump’s actions after the 2020 election—including the infamous phone call in which he pressured the Georgia secretary of state to “find 11,780 votes.” “It’s going to have a mix of federal jurisdiction and state jurisdiction, with lots of different crimes to investigate,” said Shugerman. That leads to even more litigation. Trump is under investigation not only by Georgia’s Fulton County district attorneys over alleged election law violations, but also by the Department of Justice on suspicion of unlawful interference in the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election.

It’s usually large entities—for example, corporations—that see this many lawsuits, because they have a much larger reach if they engage in misconduct. For example, child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church resulted in thousands of lawsuits—in California alone, nearly 700 lawsuits have been filed against the institution over the past three years. There’s also oil giant BP, which was responsible for the enormous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that resulted in over 4,000 lawsuits from 2018 to 2021.

These are lawsuits brought over allegations of serious, documented harm, and they’re what our legal system is intended for. However, there have been plenty of less serious suits. In 2006 Allen Heckard tried to sue basketball legend Michael Jordan and Nike for $832 million because he allegedly felt he was a Jordan look-alike and was sick of people mistaking him for the athlete. There’s also the infamous McDonald’s “hot coffee” lawsuit, which resulted in $2.7 million in punitive damages.

These cases may make it seem as if the U.S. is becoming a more litigious place, but that’s not actually true. Lahav told me that the number of lawsuits filed in federal courts has decreased over the past 20 years, as have filings in state courts. “There have been a lot of tort reforms, legislation that has passed that makes it very hard for people, even people who are severely injured, to sue,” said Lahav. “We have a lot of problems in the U.S., but too many people suing is not our problem.”

So far, the Trump team has managed to spin the former president’s legal woes into campaign-strategy gold. Over a two-week period, after news of a looming indictment by the Manhattan district attorney was made public, Trump’s campaign raked in $15.4 million. Then, mere hours after Trump was indicted last month and charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree by the state of New York, he gave a speech from Mar-a-Lago, where he painted himself as the victim. His campaign also began selling indictment merch, including a T-shirt with a fake mug shot, free with a $47 campaign contribution.

“The only crime I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” said Trump to his supporters at Mar-a-Lago. “This is a persecution, not a prosecution.”

The courts will decide whether or not that’s true.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/has-anyone-been-sued-more-
than-trump.html

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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.

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Are you laughing because Trump sued thousands of people because he is off his rocker? Crazy Trump can't control himself but he can afford to lose so many lawsuits because he has too much money since he doesn't pay income tax.

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I'm laughing because you have mental problems and you deserve them because karma is a bitch and you're a garbage human being.

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Congress in 1917 capped the size of the federal debt. Over the years, Congress has raised the debt ceiling scores of times, most recently two years ago, when it set the cap at $31.4 trillion. We hit that amount on Jan. 19 and are being told that the “extraordinary measures” Treasury has available to get around it are about to run out. When that happens, all hell will break loose.

Taking advantage of that prospect, congressional Republicans are threatening to do nothing unless the administration agrees to slash many government programs their party has had in its sights. If the president caves into their demands, they will agree to raise the cap — until this crisis occurs again. Then, they will surely pursue the same game of chicken or, maybe more accurately, Russian roulette.

Ignoring one law in order to uphold every other has compelling historical precedent. It’s precisely what Abraham Lincoln did when he briefly overrode the habeas corpus law in 1861 to save the Union, later saying to Congress, “Are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?”

For a president to pick the lesser of two evils when no other option exists is the essence of constitutional leadership, not the action of a tyrant. And there is no doubt that ignoring the debt ceiling until Congress either raises or abolishes it is a lesser evil than leaving those with lawful claims against the Treasury out in the cold. Entrusting the president to decide which of the government’s promises to honor and which creditors to stiff is a power that the Supreme Court denied him when it handed down a 1998 decision that prevented him from vetoing line items within a budget.

In any event, Section 4 of the 14th Amendment prohibits the president from permanently stiffing our creditors — even those required to wait their turn after the Treasury runs dry. So even if Speaker Kevin McCarthy and those pulling his strings succeed in making some of those creditors wait, it wouldn’t eliminate our debts; it would merely replace them with I.O.U.s. And that’s just debt in another form.

All Congress would have done is create economic catastrophe on top of constitutional crisis — and without securing compliance with the debt ceiling that Republican claim to want.

More at https://web.archive.org/web/20230508134727/https://www.nytimes.com/202
3/05/07/opinion/debt-limit.html

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I'm laughing because you have mental problems and you deserve them because karma is a bitch and you're a garbage human being.

6ix, you wrote 'Trump will be fine' a thousand times. Trump will not be fine. He is deranged:

“Not My Type” -- Donald Trump’s astonishing deposition in the E. Jean Carroll trial pretty much says it all.

Trump’s deposition is a defense attorney’s worst nightmare. In the video of Donald Trump’s October 2022 deposition for the E. Jean Carroll trial, he comes off like a petty, resentful liar, making a series of unforced errors so blatant it almost seems he is trying to lose his case.

The video was Trump’s only appearance in the civil trial in which he stands accused of raping and defaming Carroll; his last opportunity to register his intent to take the stand expired on Sunday. The jury heard closing arguments on Monday, yesterday, and will now deliberate on a verdict.

Watching clips from the deposition, which Carroll’s attorneys played for the jury last week, it is easy to see why Trump and his legal team decided to keep him off the stand. His performance suggests he is incapable of even pretending to go through the motions of a humble, respectful round of questioning with a female attorney, much less convince a jury that he is not the kind of guy who would rape someone in a department store dressing room.

In one clip, Trump is confronted with the 2005 Access Hollywood tape — another piece of evidence that was presented to the jury — in which he contended, on a hot mic, that “When you’re a star, they let you do it.” (“It,” you may recall, is kissing women without seeking their permission and grabbing them “by the pussy.”)

“Well, historically, that’s true with stars,” Trump responds in the deposition.

“It’s true you can grab them by the pussy?” Carroll’s lawyer, the prominent women’s rights attorney Roberta Kaplan, asks.

Trump replies, “Well, that’s what — if you look over the last million years, I guess that’s been largely true. Not always, but largely true. Unfortunately, or fortunately.”

It is hard to decide which part of Trump’s self-defense is more absurd and less self-exonerating: the part where he suggests that he was merely explaining to Billy Bush the regrettable history of men using their fame to sexually abuse and exploit women, or the part where he suggests that such abuse may be fortunate. Fortunate! Neither part quite makes Trump seem like a credible defendant who disapproves of sexual assault.

Elsewhere in the deposition tape, Trump answers a question from Kaplan about his claim that Jessica Leeds, who testified last week that Trump forcibly kissed and groped her on an airplane in the 1970s, “would not be my first choice” to “go after.” Then, unprompted, Trump goes on to assess Kaplan’s sexual desirability. “You wouldn’t be a choice of mine either, to be honest with you. I hope you’re not insulted,” he said.

He went on, “I wouldn’t, in any circumstances, have any interest in you.”

This is the former president up to all his old tricks: low-key glorifying sexual assault, attempting to demean a woman wielding power in his vicinity by delivering a sexist, sexualizing insult. None of it should surprise anyone who has paid attention to Trump’s conduct over the course of his life. But somehow, his inability to change his behavior even a little bit to protect himself from a damaging jury verdict suggests new levels of impulse non-control. He had to simply refrain from mocking a woman’s appearance for the duration of one single deposition, which is occurring because another woman has accused him of rape — and he can’t. Or he can’t fathom the possibility that he may experience a consequence of his actions.

A third astonishing moment of the deposition makes a factual point that could clinch the defamation charge.

“That’s Marla, yeah. It’s my wife,” Trump says in the video, pointing to a photo taken in the 1980s. He is pointing to a woman who is depicted chatting with him in a group that includes his then-wife Ivana and Carroll’s then-husband John Johnson. The woman he is pointing to—while calling her his “wife”—is Carroll herself. Trump only realizes that he has mistaken his accuser for his ex-wife Marla Maples when his lawyer corrects him.

You can almost hear Kaplan’s glee as she confirms what Trump said. To prove that Trump has defamed Carroll, her legal team must prove that he was lying when he made the statements that allegedly damaged her reputation. One of those statements was that Carroll was, according to Trump, “not my type,” and thus unlikely to have been a target of his sexual interest. By confusing Carroll for Maples — who was demonstrably Trump’s “type,” because she was his wife — Trump seems to have proved his own statement false.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/05/e-jean-carroll-rape-trial-
donald-trump-video-deposition.html

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The Reason Donald Trump Can’t Be Destroyed

There’s not really an incentive for Donald Trump to modify or normalize his behavior. Why would he? In fact, I suspect his popularity would wane if Trump normalized.

Bear in mind: Donald Trump is currently on trial for allegations of rape. Think about that. On trial for rape. And it’s barely gaining traction in the news cycle. That’s how different the standard is for Trump.

And frankly, Trump deserves credit for crafting that standard. His outlandish behavior has been consistent enough to suggest authenticity. Similarly, he has never apologized for his behavior. He owns it and his base eats it up. The result has been the anomalous politician who can, roughly speaking, do and say what he wants.

Trump’s appeal, in large part, depends upon him acting more outlandishly than his contemporaries. The behavior all relates back to the 2016 election when Trump stormed into the political conversation with his brash and unorthodox behavior. Trump set himself apart from a crowded GOP field – a field that failed to take Trump seriously – by consistently behaving in a headline-grabbing way. That’s what worked for him. Saying disparaging things about Carly Fiorina, Jeb Bush, or John Kasich. That’s what earned Trump the nomination. Speaking more brusquely about the southern border and John McCain and NAFTA. While the GOP field was adhering to the rigors of accepted decorum, Trump was speaking as if he were three beers deep at the local sports bar. And the voters loved it.

Trump’s personal conduct was so deviant relative to the Washington norms or the standards of his peer politicians that it became easier and easier to believe that Trump’s executive conduct would also be deviant relative to the Washington norms or the standards of his peer politicians – which is exactly what voters wanted at the time.

More at https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/05/the-reason-donald-trump-cant-be-de
stroyed/

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