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Elections; 2024
Friday, October 13, 2023 1:02 PM
THG
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: At least there's this ...Quote: Scalise Faces Uphill Battle For Speaker Amid Divided Republican Caucus https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scalise-faces-uphill-battle-speaker-amid-divided-republican-caucus ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Quote: Scalise Faces Uphill Battle For Speaker Amid Divided Republican Caucus
Friday, October 13, 2023 1:08 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: At least there's this ...Quote: Scalise Faces Uphill Battle For Speaker Amid Divided Republican Caucus https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scalise-faces-uphill-battle-speaker-amid-divided-republican-caucus ----------- "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM
Friday, October 13, 2023 2:43 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:Federal Court Asked To Address 14th Amendment Effort To Bar Trump Friday, Oct 13, 2023 - 11:00 AM Authored by Jonathan Turley, Legal academics are divided on the new popular theory that former President Donald Trump can be removed from ballots under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. While I respect many of the academics who view this as a credible interpretation, I have long opposed it as textually and historically flawed. In addition to some exaggerated claims of precedent, I view the theory as one of the most dangerous in my lifetime. One thing, however, we agree upon: it is time for the federal courts to rule on this theory to bring clarity to the election. That may now occur in West Virginia where Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wants a federal court to throw out a lawsuit attempting to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in the state. What is most striking about the filing is the accusation of judge-shopping by advocates like John Anthony Castro in seeking to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in the state. I have previously addressed the constitutional basis for this claim. It is, in my view, wildly out of sync with the purpose of the amendment, which followed an actual rebellion, the Civil War. The 14th Amendment bars those who took the oath and then “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.” It then adds that that disqualification can extend to those who have “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” The “disqualification clause” was written after the 39th Congress convened in December 1865 when many members were shocked to see Alexander Stephens, the Confederate vice president, waiting to take a seat with an array of other former Confederate senators and military officers. Justice Edwin Reade of the North Carolina Supreme Court later explained, “[t]he idea [was] that one who had taken an oath to support the Constitution and violated it, ought to be excluded from taking it again.” According to these experts, Jan. 6 was an “insurrection” and Trump gave “aid and comfort” to those who engaged in it by spreading election fraud claims and not immediately denouncing the violence. Polls have shown that most of the public view Jan. 6 for what it was: a protest that became a riot. One year after the riot, CBS News mostly downplayed and ignored the result of its own poll showing that 76 percent viewed it for what it was, as a “protest gone too far.” The view that it was an actual “insurrection” was far less settled, with almost half rejecting the claim, a division breaking along partisan lines. Nevertheless, Democrats have claimed that the 14th Amendment prevents Trump from running because he supported an “insurrection or rebellion.” They have argued that this long dormant clause can be used to block not just Trump but 120 Republicans in Congress from running for office. The lawsuit could offer a long needed judicial review and an avenue to the Supreme Court for a final ruling. Yet, what was most notable was this paragraph in the filing on the motives and means used by Castro: “Plaintiff John Anthony Castro filed this lawsuit as part of a multi-state litigation effort that he dubs “Operation Deadlock.” John Anthony Castro (@realJohnACastro), X (Sept. 20, 2023, 2:17 PM), https://bit.ly/48GyE9y. Castro’s supposed operation involves filing suit after suit— roughly two dozen so far —seeking to disqualify President Donald Trump from running for election again. Castro will then “sidelin[e] and neutraliz[e] the influence of conservative judges” by “nonsuit[ing] those cases” that are not assigned to “Obama-appointed or Clinton appointed judges.” Katherine Fung, Donald Trump’s Lawyers Get Stretched Even Thinner, NEWSWEEK (Sept. 19, 2023, 11:22 AM), https://bit.ly/3S2a25B; see, e.g., Notice of Dismissal, Castro v. Henderson, No. 2:23-cv-00617 (D. Utah Sept. 27, 2023), ECF No. 14 (Castro dismissing his suit after it was reassigned to a judge appointed by President Trump); but see, e.g., In re Fieger, No. 97-1359, 1999 WL 717991 (6th Cir. Sept. 10, 1999) (affirming sanctions against attorney who had “dismissed [his] cases so that he could select the judge”). Castro evidently hopes these efforts will “completely bankrupt [President Trump] by next summer.” John Anthony Castro (@realJohnACastro), X (Sept. 27, 2023, 8:40 PM), https://bit.ly/45gxpLq.”; Castro is running for the Republican presidential nomination. Recently, the Supreme Court refused to hear one of Castro’s cases. Castro has been open about forum and judge shopping to get liberal, Democratic judges to rule against Trump. Castro tweeted: “The fight is far from being over. We’re going to get the liberal 9th Circuit to kick Trump off the ballot in Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona. Coupled with the 1st Circuit kicking him off the Maine ballot, there’s ZERO path to 270. The Supreme Court can deny to hear the case but appellate courts cannot. I’m still pursuing decisions in the liberal appellate courts and there’s a full blown trial scheduled for October 20 in New Hampshire and a bench trial in Arizona on October 31.” I tend to favor broad standing rules, but Castro’s open effort to secure review from liberal, Democratic judges should offend not only these jurists but most Americans. Castro received a J.D. from the University of New Mexico and LLM from Georgetown University. Courts have universally denounced judge shopping. Most, like the federal court in northern Illinois, denounce the practice: “No one should be able to manipulate the assignment system in order to determine in advance which judge will get a case where the assignment is by lot.” Obviously “forum shopping” does occur. Lawyers will seek to file in the most favorable jurisdiction, including prosecutors. Yet, I have never seen a lawyer openly discussing the manipulation of filings in search of liberal judges to achieve a particular result. The filing is accusing Castro of actually withdrawing lawsuits when he receives a judge who is not reliably liberal. Castro must realize that he is insulting these liberal judges and making this already novel challenge even more difficult. However, it is an example of using cases to appeal to the court of public opinion. Castro knows that such raw political moves will thrill many in this age of rage. For advocates of the 14th Amendment theory, Castro could not be a worse figure to move this claim into the courts. He adds a noxious means to a novel theory to bar Trump from ballots. Of course, this is all being done by advocates who claim that they are defending democracy but denying the ability of others to vote for one of the leading candidates for the presidency.
Friday, October 13, 2023 6:36 PM
Friday, October 13, 2023 7:14 PM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Friday, October 13, 2023 7:51 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Until something like this happens the House is paralyzed. Without a speaker, they can't vote on anything — not budgets, not so much as a post office renaming.
Saturday, October 14, 2023 10:16 PM
Quote:Ethical concerns are casting a shadow over President Joe Biden as he seeks reelection amid investigations into his son Hunter and an impeachment inquiry, with a poll showing that 35% of U.S. adults believe the president himself has done something illegal. An additional 33% say they think the Democratic president behaved unethically, but not illegally. And 30% say Joe Biden did nothing wrong, according to the poll. The results of the survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reflect both a vast political divide and skepticism about the morality of government leaders.
Quote:President Joe Biden made another visit to Philadelphia on Friday, a place that he comes to frequently and a state that's vital to his reelection in 2024. But with just under 13 months until the presidential race, new polling shows the president may have a Pennsylvania problem. The president's trip to Philly on Friday was at least his 15th since he's taken office, but the latest polling shows that Pennsylvanians are looking for more from the commander-in-chief. "It looks better and better for Donald Trump here," Jim Schultz, former White House counsel for former President Donald Trump, "but there's a lot of game to be played between now and then." A Quinnipiac poll released last week shows Biden narrowly trailing Trump in a hypothetical matchup in the commonwealth. The same poll found Biden's favorability rating among Pennsylvanians sits at just 39%.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 3:03 PM
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Thursday, October 19, 2023 5:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Cope more, bitch. Trump will be your next President.
Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:07 AM
JAYNEZTOWN
Thursday, October 19, 2023 12:09 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Cope more, bitch. Trump will be your next President.Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son. Tell that to your 450-pound brother and Fatso Trump, 6ix. Or your drunk past self.
Thursday, October 19, 2023 3:50 PM
Quote:Trump is leading Biden in head-to-head races in five of the seven swing states: Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Biden leads in Nevada, and it’s a tie in Michigan. Making matters worse for Biden: They’re all states he won in 2020, except for North Carolina. All of Trump’s leads are within the margin of error for those states, but his cumulative advantage across the seven swing states is a significant 4-point lead — outside the poll’s 1-point margin of error.
Friday, October 20, 2023 3:00 PM
Friday, October 20, 2023 3:10 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Texas Republicans backing away from MAGA group that's 'infested' with Hitler fans
Monday, October 23, 2023 12:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: The media is just trying to fill your mind with nonsense as the Hitler fans on your side including Nanci Pelosi defend Hamas, you dumb fuckin' tool.
Monday, October 23, 2023 12:23 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: The media is just trying to fill your mind with nonsense as the Hitler fans on your side including Nanci Pelosi defend Hamas, you dumb fuckin' tool.You’re Not Imagining It: Support for Political Violence Is Growing Donald Trump’s vitriol is having an impact.
Monday, October 23, 2023 12:32 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Fuck off, tool.
Monday, October 23, 2023 12:50 PM
Monday, October 23, 2023 2:32 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: The above is just another very stupid response from a very stupid person. -------------------------------------------------- Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.
Monday, October 23, 2023 3:28 PM
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Monday, October 23, 2023 6:31 PM
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 6:50 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Go ahead and make a bet on that, dummy. Maybe you'll win some money.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 9:35 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Go ahead and make a bet on that, dummy. Maybe you'll win some money.I swear that Trumptards do not have different values than Democrats. What Trumptards do have are different hallucinations about reality. Democrats make the same class of mistakes about reality by living in a dream where they can persuade/reward/teach Trumptards to achieve better lives by telling them to stop smoking, eat less, read a library book, etc. That cannot succeed because Trumptards think that Democrats are the only real obstacle to a better life for Trumptards. I am in the third group which knows as a fact that Trumptards are the only real obstacle to a Trumptard living better. No amount of teaching, rewarding, or persuading will change a Trumptard. If Trumptards would individually fix what is wrong with themselves, they would achieve the American Dream. Since Trumptards aren't introspective about their defective habits, the American Dream will be denied to them, since they have absolute certainty that nothing needs fixing inside their heads. It is always somebody else, usually a Democrat, who needs fixing, never themselves . . . The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 1:52 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Your "teaching" is the brainwashing you got, idiot. There isn't a single thing I could learn from a piece of shit like you. The fact that you think half the country doesn't have any vices because they vote Democrat is the only thing anybody needs to know about you to know that you're a brainwashed cultist.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 3:58 PM
Quote: Tom Emmer Becomes Next House Speaker Nominee
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 7:07 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Your "teaching" is the brainwashing you got, idiot. There isn't a single thing I could learn from a piece of shit like you. The fact that you think half the country doesn't have any vices because they vote Democrat is the only thing anybody needs to know about you to know that you're a brainwashed cultist.Does it ever cross your mind that a Trumptard's life is difficult
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 8:16 PM
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 9:59 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Jack lives on government handouts. That being the case, he can't possibly own a house.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 6:42 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: SECOND, you post as if you'll live forever. It'll be shock when you realize you're drawing your last few breaths, but by then it'll be too late, for you.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 7:01 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Have fun at work tomorrow bitch. I'll be napping.
Quote:Had you asked me that morning if Republicans would accept defeat if Joe Biden won by over 8 million votes and north of 300 electoral college votes, my answer would have been simple: What else could they do? They wouldn’t like it, but when you walk off the field of the Super Bowl, the score is the score. Endless hours would be spent by the despondent losing fans analyzing what could have been done differently, but none of it would matter. The final scoreboard was never wrong. I should have known better. Any faint hope I had that the Republican Party might seize on a Trump defeat as an impetus to self-correct was quickly destroyed. I watched Republican senators and congressmen I’d help elect, men and women I knew to be sane and decent, refuse to acknowledge what grade-school children knew to be true: Donald Trump had lost the 2020 race. When I spoke to a few, I heard variations of “We’re just humoring him. What harm can it do?” Soon their answer would come as they ran for their lives from domestic terrorists their leader had called to action and their complicity had emboldened.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 7:05 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: SECOND, you post as if you'll live forever. It'll be shock when you realize you're drawing your last few breaths, but by then it'll be too late, for you. You won't understand not being afraid to die, would you? Trumptards are fearful but that is not a good strategy . . . unless you see yourself as a fat rodent in a barn full of thin and hungry cats:
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 11:38 AM
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 11:44 AM
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 12:03 PM
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 12:12 PM
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 1:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by THG: Yep... T Petition to remove Trump from Minnesota ballot heads to court
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 7:40 PM
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 7:53 PM
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 7:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Meanwhile, in clown world... Joe Biden* strips himself off the New Hampshire primary ballot. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-new-hampshire-primary-ballot/ You stupid fuck. You were warned about that months ago. You had plenty of time to avoid this.
Quote:But the Biden team doesn't seem worried. Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez wrote in her letter to New Hampshire Democrats, "The president looks forward to having his name on New Hampshire's general election ballot as the nominee of the Democratic Party after officially securing the nomination at the 2024 Democratic National Convention where he will tirelessly campaign to earn every single vote in the Granite State next November. New Hampshire state Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley tweeted in response to the president's decision, "The reality is that Joe Biden will win the NH FITN Primary in January, win renomination in Chicago and will be re-elected next November."
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 8:11 PM
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 10:59 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: The new Speaker of the House is Rep. Mike Johnson. He says: Women have abortions after a baby is born Trump won the 2020 election Jan. 6th was a "legitimate protest" Covid was a hoax and vaccines are dangerous Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme" Cut Medicare Climate change is a hoax https://twitter.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1717146576597000274 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Thursday, October 26, 2023 7:58 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: He's one of your guys. Uniparty trash.
Thursday, October 26, 2023 9:49 AM
Thursday, October 26, 2023 12:10 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: He might not be as backward as an islamic but New House Speaker Mike Johnson is a Bible-Science guy who once funded a Noah's Ark theme park
Thursday, October 26, 2023 12:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: 6ix, every Trumptard I know is a fucking scumbag. Some hide that fact better than others, but if I look, there it is because decent people would not vote for Trump, who also has a long and detailed record of being a scumbag, a record that other scumbags ignore/discount because their personal life is worse or no better than Trump's. Why are Trumptards' lives full of sound and fury? Then I remember that scumbaggery causes their personal dramas.
Friday, October 27, 2023 7:11 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6ixStringJack: Fuck off, gutter trash. Nobody cares about the opinions about the biggest asshole in the RWED. Here's your detailed record:
Friday, October 27, 2023 7:18 AM
Friday, October 27, 2023 10:40 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: The new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, wants to make America a Christian theocracy
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