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This guy could pay every Republican Congressman $1 million per year. No reason to think he isn’t (IRS says it doesn't collect $1 trillion per year and asked Congress for help; IRS didn't get the help. GOP filibustered the IRS.):
Meet the Multi-Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers.
Jeffrey Yass and his friends found a way to outwit horse racetrack bookies, according to interviews, records and news accounts. They’d wagered $160,000, gambling that, with tens of thousands of bets, they could nail the exact order of seven horses in three different races. It was a sophisticated theory of the racing odds, honed with help from a Ph.D. statistician who’d worked for NASA on the moon landing, and it proved right. They bagged $760,000, then the richest payoff in American racing history.
Yass and his friends repeated variations of the strategy at horse and greyhound tracks around the country. Then they decided to turn their focus from a world of hundreds of thousands of dollars to a world of billions: Wall Street.
Four decades later, the firm he and his friends founded, Susquehanna International Group, is a sprawling global company that makes billions of dollars. Yass and his team used their numerical expertise to make rapid-fire computer-driven trades in options and other securities, eventually becoming a giant middleman in the markets for stocks and other securities.
One crucial aspect of his ascent to stratospheric wealth has transpired out of public view. Using the same prowess that he’s applied to race tracks and options markets, Yass has taken aim at another target: his tax bill.
Yass paid an average federal income tax rate of just 19%, far below that of comparable Wall Street traders. Yass’ low rate is particularly notable because Susquehanna, by its own description, specializes in short-term trading. Money made from such rapid trades is typically taxed at rates around 40%.
Democratic Congressmen long tried to stamp out widely used techniques that seek to transform profits taxed at the high rate into profits taxed at the low rate. But Yass and his colleagues have managed to avoid higher taxes anyway. (By paying Republican Congressman to filibuster the changes to tax law.)
The tax savings have contributed to an explosion in wealth for Yass, who has increasingly poured that fortune into candidates and causes on the political right. He has spent more than $100 million on election campaigns in recent years. The money has gone to everything from anti-tax advocacy and charter schools to campaigns against so-called critical race theory and for candidates who falsely say the 2020 election was stolen and seek to ban abortion.
Gregg Polsky, a University of Georgia law professor and former corporate tax lawyer who was retained by ProPublica to review Susquehanna’s tax records, said the tax strategies were “very suspicious and suggestive of potential abuse that should be examined by the IRS.”
More at https://www.propublica.org/article/jeff-yass-susquehanna-tiktok-tax-av
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought the fossil fuel billionaire the ruling he’s always wanted.
June 30 2022, 12:36 p.m.
Today’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision restricting the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon emissions will benefit power plants and fossil fuel companies throughout the U.S. and profoundly hobble the government’s ability to address the worsening climate catastrophe.
The decision, written by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, finds that the EPA does not have the authority to impose caps on carbon emissions by mandating a shift to cleaner energy sources. The ruling means that Congress, rather than the EPA and its staff of scientific experts, will handle the critical task of curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
“Today, the Court strips the EPA of the power Congress gave it to respond to ‘the most pressing environmental challenge of our time,’” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissenting opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer. “Whatever else this Court may know about, it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. Yet the Court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions. The Court appoints itself—instead of Congress or the expert agency—the decisionmaker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.”
A number of energy magnates and fossil fuel trade groups pushed for the case that could kneecap the agency and boost their profits. But perhaps no one did more to bring West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency to the Supreme Court — or ensure that ultraconservative justices would be on the bench to decide in the companies’ favor — than Charles Koch.
The billionaire energy executive who reigns over Koch Industries is known for playing the long game. He bought up pipelines in advance of the fracking boom — and waited calmly until they delivered billions in profits. He invested in obscure, failing companies even though he knew that it would take years before they could add to his bottom line. And he has been cautious as he’s ventured into new markets — his empire now includes glass, pulp and paper, chemicals, agricultural products, and commodities trading — making small acquisitions to see if they’d be profitable before gradually taking over.
Such patience and strategic use of his enormous wealth have benefited Koch handsomely. His net worth has steadily climbed to more than $60 billion. Koch Industries, which makes more than half of its money from fossil fuels and owns refineries, petrochemical plants, and thousands of miles of oil and gas pipelines, is now the second-biggest privately held company in the country.
To ensure further growth of his riches even as science showed that the continued use of fossil fuels would accelerate climate disaster, Koch has funneled some of his vast fortune into an extraordinary network of political front groups, lobbying efforts, think tanks, and activist networks that aim to stifle climate action.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220630235944/https://theintercept.com/20
22/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Nightmare Scenario SCOTUS is Plotting For the 2024 Election Takeover
This scenario isn’t just plausible: it’s probable. GOP-controlled states are already changing their state laws to allow for it, regardless of how their people vote
Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced — a story that has largely flown under the nation’s political radar — that they’ll consider pre-rigging the presidential election of 2024.
Here’s how one aspect of it could work out, if they go along with the GOP’s arguments that will be before the Court this October:
It’s November, 2024, and the presidential race between Biden and DeSantis has been tabulated by the states and called by the networks. Biden won 84,355,740 votes to DeSantis’ 77,366,412, clearly carrying the popular vote.
But the popular vote isn’t enough: George W. Bush lost to Al Gore by a half-million votes and Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton by 3 million votes but both ended up in the White House. What matters is the Electoral College vote, and that looks good for Biden, too.
As CNN is reporting, the outcome is a virtual clone of the 2020 election: Biden carries the same states he did that year and DeSantis gets all the Trump states. It’s 306 to 232 in the Electoral College, a 74-vote Electoral College lead for Biden, at least as calculated by CNN and the rest of the media. Biden is heading to the White House for another 4 years.
Until the announcement comes out of Georgia. Although Biden won the popular vote in Georgia, their legislature decided it can overrule the popular vote and just awarded the state’s 16 electoral votes to DeSantis instead of Biden.
An hour later we hear from five other states with Republican-controlled legislatures where Biden won the majority of the vote, just like he had in 2020: North Carolina (15 electoral votes), Wisconsin (10), Michigan (16), Pennsylvania (20) and Arizona (11).
Each has followed Georgia’s lead and their legislatures have awarded their Electoral College votes — even though Biden won the popular vote in each state — to DeSantis.
Thus, a total of 88 Electoral College votes from those six states move from Biden to DeSantis, who’s declared the winner and will be sworn in on January 20, 2025.
Wolf Blitzer announces that DeSantis has won the election, and millions of people pour into the streets to protest. They’re met with a hail of bullets as Republican-affiliated militias have been rehearsing for this exact moment.
Just as happened when Pinochet’s militias shot into crowds as he took over Chile, Mussolini’s volunteer militia the Blackshirts killed civilians as he took over Italy, and Hitler’s volunteer Brownshirts did the same in Germany, their allies among the police refuse to intervene.
After a few thousand people lay dead in the streets of two dozen cities, the police begin to round up the surviving “instigators,” who are charged with seditious conspiracy for resisting the Republican legislatures of their states.
After he’s sworn in on January 20th, President DeSantis points to the ongoing demonstrations, declares a permanent state of emergency, and suspends future elections, just as Trump had repeatedly told the world he planned for 2020.
Sound far fetched?
Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced that one of the first cases they’ll decide next year could include whether that very scenario is constitutional or not. And at least 5 of the Republicans on this Court will almost certainly say that it is.
Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution lays out the process clearly, and it doesn’t even once mention the popular vote or the will of the people:
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress... [emphasis added]
“The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons … which List they shall sign and
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America Is Growing Apart
It may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America. That’s the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for labor unions and the chair of the Analyst Institute, a collaborative of progressive groups that studies elections. In a private newsletter that he writes for a small group of activists, Podhorzer recently laid out a detailed case for thinking of the two blocs as fundamentally different nations uneasily sharing the same geographic space.
“When we think about the United States, we make the essential error of imagining it as a single nation, a marbled mix of Red and Blue people,” Podhorzer writes. “But in truth, we have never been one nation. We are more like a federated republic of two nations: Blue Nation and Red Nation. This is not a metaphor; it is a geographic and historical reality.” . . .
The big story remains that blue states are benefiting more as the nation transitions into a high-productivity, 21st-century information economy, and red states (apart from their major metropolitan centers participating in that economy) are suffering as the powerhouse industries of the 20th century — agriculture, manufacturing, and fossil-fuel extraction — decline. (Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America’s economy. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/11/09/biden-voting-coun
ties-equal-70-of-americas-economy-what-does-this-mean-for-the-nations-political-economic-divide/ )
The gross domestic product per person and the median household income are now both more than 25 percent greater in the blue section than in the red, according to Podhorzer’s calculations. The share of kids in poverty is more than 20 percent lower in the blue section than red, and the share of working households with incomes below the poverty line is nearly 40 percent lower. Health outcomes are diverging too. Gun deaths are almost twice as high per capita in the red places as in the blue, as is the maternal mortality rate. The COVID vaccination rate is about 20 percent higher in the blue section, and the per capita COVID death rate is about 20 percent higher in the red. Life expectancy is nearly three years greater in the blue (80.1 years) than the red (77.4) states. (On most of these measures, the purple states, fittingly, fall somewhere in between.)
Per capita spending on elementary and secondary education is almost 50 percent higher in the blue states compared with red. All of the blue states have expanded access to Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, while about 60 percent of the total red-nation population lives in states that have refused to do so. All of the blue states have set a minimum wage higher than the federal level of $7.25, while only about one-third of the red-state residents live in places that have done so. Right-to-work laws are common in the red states and nonexistent in the blue, with the result that the latter have a much higher share of unionized workers than the former. No state in the blue section has a law on the books banning abortion before fetal viability, while almost all of the red states are poised to restrict abortion rights if the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority, as expected, overturns Roe v. Wade. Almost all of the red states have also passed “stand your ground” laws backed by the National Rifle Association, which provide a legal defense for those who use weapons against a perceived threat, while none of the blue states have done so.
The flurry of socially conservative laws that red states have passed since 2021, on issues such as abortion; classroom discussions of race, gender, and sexual orientation; and LGBTQ rights, is widening this split. No Democratic-controlled state has passed any of those measures.
Lilliana Mason, a Johns Hopkins University political scientist, told me that the experience of Jim Crow segregation offers an important reference point for understanding how far red states might take this movement to roll back civil rights and liberties—not that they literally would seek to restore segr
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After he’s sworn in on January 20th, President DeSantis points to the ongoing demonstrations, declares a permanent state of emergency, and suspends future elections, just as Trump had repeatedly told the world he planned for 2020.
Trump NEVER once said this.
Also, Trump will be your next President.
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Quote:Not if DeSantis kicks Trump's fat ass. By the way, Trump did say it and DeSantis can use it to kick Trump's fat ass. DeSantis can also blame Trump for the Supreme Court, which destroyed some very popular policies:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
After he’s sworn in on January 20th, President DeSantis points to the ongoing demonstrations, declares a permanent state of emergency, and suspends future elections, just as Trump had repeatedly told the world he planned for 2020.
Trump NEVER once said this.
Also, Trump will be your next President.
The supreme court adjourned on Thursday, after a week of decisions that blew up much of the framework of American policy and politics. The court’s targets were adopted in a few short years in the 1960s and 1970s.
Roe v Wade dates to 1973, the fruit of many year’s work by committed feminists. Thursday’s attack on the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gases guts the Clean Air Act, which in its strong form dates from 1970 – indeed, both that law and the EPA itself were the result of the first Earth Day protests in April of that year, which drew 20 million Americans (10% of the country’s population in those days) into the streets demanding action. Even firearms sanity, badly weakened once more in last week’s decision on concealed carry permits, reached its zenith in 1968 with the passage of the Gun Control Act in response to the assassinations of that turbulent year.
It’s pretty clear that some on the high court have other gains from that era in their sights: Justice Clarence Thomas singled out the 1960s protections for contraception, and the drive for equal rights for LGBTQ+ people that broke into the open at the Stonewall protests in 1969. And the court and conservative legislatures have worked steadily to undermine the protections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, restricting the franchise that the civil rights movement had once worked so powerfully to extend.
This attack on the political and cultural transformations of that remarkable period should remind us that with committed effort change really can come fast. All who witnessed these transformations now watch as they are washed away.
There are 70 million Americans over the age of 60 (and 10,000 more every day). They vote in huge numbers, and they have most of the wealth – about 70% of the country’s financial assets. So both Washington and Wall Street would need to worry if they re-emerged as a force for progress.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/03/us-supreme-court
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Not if DeSantis kicks Trump's fat ass. By the way, Trump did say it and DeSantis can use it to kick Trump's fat ass.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
After he’s sworn in on January 20th, President DeSantis points to the ongoing demonstrations, declares a permanent state of emergency, and suspends future elections, just as Trump had repeatedly told the world he planned for 2020.
Trump NEVER once said this.
Also, Trump will be your next President.
No. Trump didn't say it.
DeSantis won't kick Trump's ass. He's a hopeful for a future President, but the best thing he can do for himself is support Trump's reelection.
Trump WANTS the job. DeSantis has no interest filling that seat with all of the problems that Democrats will be laying in his lap. He's still young. He's got plenty of time to let Trump and maybe even one other person fix all the shit that Democrats have been destroying before he gets the job.
I do find it hilarious that both you and Cap'n now have started talking positive about DeSantis. That's exactly what your Leftist Media Masters have been telling you to think and say.
I wonder if you even notice it when they do it anymore, or if it's just automatic?
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Every day just spells out more doom for Democrats.
Ba da ba ba ba..... I'm lovin' it!
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July 4, 2022 -- There is currently a documentary series on HBO Max called, The Way Down, which chronicles the religious (cult?) leader, Gwen Shamblin Lara. She founded and became wealthy from a large, evangelical church in Tennessee with a strange emphasis on weight loss. It’s a good series if you’re into the anthropological study of how so many seemingly normal people can fall for an obvious charlatan, but all that aside, you have to see her hair. It’s the biggest thing you’ve likely ever seen growing out of a living person’s head.
It’s difficult not to notice how many people in positions of dubious authority wear big, crazy hair. I’ve not made a scientific study of this but it seems to me that TV evangelists are traditionally the most famous for this and, since that group grew from the rural American faithful, the early ones were likely imitating a group that rural Americans already adored, country-western singers. But I think there is something deeper at work here than simple celebrity impersonation. I’ll get to that in a minute.
First, if you tune into any number of Christian preacher shows on TV, you’ll likely see the men strutting around with pompadours of power, while their wives are parading an imposing tower of protein above their pates as well. I’m not sure if this is a trick we borrowed from other species or if it is also evolutionarily ingrained in us, but it works. We see it in politicians of late, too. I think it is no coincidence that Donald Trump and Boris Johnson both sport absurd cockscombs.
Is it a coincidence that the leader of a troupe of apes is the male with the biggest, most colorful or bulbous face? . . . I think a similar concept is at play with politicians.
I’ve also noticed this trick works better with conservatives than with liberals and, not surprisingly, I have a theory about that, too. If you’re looking for a leader who is intelligent, well-educated, compassionate, who embraces science, honors the environment, and cares about making the world a better place, you’re going to go for the nebbishy guy with glasses, or the sensible, well-spoken woman with a sophisticated style. But if you’re looking for an authority figure, someone who will take charge and protect you from the myriad things you are afraid of (modern conservative politics are all about “fear of other”) you want the person who is in your face and can physically dominate and intimidate others. It’s also a common animal response when threatened to puff themselves up and make themselves look larger. Giant hair achieves this, too. It is intimidating to others, aggressive even. If you’re face-to-face with a person whose weird hairdo towers above you and you are a normal, polite person, you are at their mercy. They can say and do whatever they want because you’re using all your energy not to stare at their crazy hair or comment on it. You have no idea what they’re saying because you can’t stop thinking, Is this person serious?!
Additionally, outlandish costumes are a traditional sign of authority. Big hair can be seen as a tonsorial substitute for a uniform with a disco mirrorball of medals and brass buttons, and a big Napoleon hat or a crown. And the same subconscious assumption is at work here as it is in the animal kingdom: if this guy can rise through the ranks of successful powerholders looking like a complete idiot, and not get laughed out of the room, he must be a real badass! Plus, he’s easy to spot in a crowd, so I’ll have no trouble following him.
If America continues on its collision course with theocracy, and if Gwen Shamblin had not perished in a plane crash, she may have been its first female president. I suppose there is some small consolation in knowing we’ve dodged at least that bullet.
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I do find it hilarious that both you and Cap'n now have started talking positive about DeSantis. That's exactly what your Leftist Media Masters have been telling you to think and say.
How much does Ziggy pay you to say the dumbest sht imaginable? There's no other explanation.
Trump's time is over, get used to it. That leaves the Reps with .... who? I asked the same question about the Dems. No one is coming forward. They're all too scared. This could be an election where nobody wants anybody to win.
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July 4, 2022 -- There is currently a documentary series on HBO Max called, The Way Down, which chronicles the religious (cult?) leader, Gwen Shamblin Lara. She founded and became wealthy from a large, evangelical church in Tennessee with a strange emphasis on weight loss. It’s a good series if you’re into the anthropological study of how so many seemingly normal people can fall for an obvious charlatan, but all that aside, you have to see her hair. It’s the biggest thing you’ve likely ever seen growing out of a living person’s head.
It’s difficult not to notice how many people in positions of dubious authority wear big, crazy hair. I’ve not made a scientific study of this but it seems to me that TV evangelists are traditionally the most famous for this and, since that group grew from the rural American faithful, the early ones were likely imitating a group that rural Americans already adored, country-western singers. But I think there is something deeper at work here than simple celebrity impersonation. I’ll get to that in a minute.
Ha - funny stuff.
It's a near daily wonder how soooooo many Americans were duped by Trump for so long. Duped to the point of committing violence and risking lengthy jail time by breaking into the capital. The image of protestors trying to impale cops with an American flag is so heavy with irony and Message that it almost breaks the screen. These are the very people Trump had the least amount of respect for (if any). How does someone from the sticks think a slick, constantly lying super wealthy big city Real Estate dude is going to be on their side??? It's one of the great mysteries.
Don't forget facial hair, second. Big deal with the warring thugs in the middle east. And also Stalin's 'stache.
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July 4, 2022 -- There is currently a documentary series on HBO Max called, The Way Down, which chronicles the religious (cult?) leader, Gwen Shamblin Lara. She founded and became wealthy from a large, evangelical church in Tennessee with a strange emphasis on weight loss. It’s a good series if you’re into the anthropological study of how so many seemingly normal people can fall for an obvious charlatan, but all that aside, you have to see her hair. It’s the biggest thing you’ve likely ever seen growing out of a living person’s head.
It’s difficult not to notice how many people in positions of dubious authority wear big, crazy hair. I’ve not made a scientific study of this but it seems to me that TV evangelists are traditionally the most famous for this and, since that group grew from the rural American faithful, the early ones were likely imitating a group that rural Americans already adored, country-western singers. But I think there is something deeper at work here than simple celebrity impersonation. I’ll get to that in a minute.
Ha - funny stuff.
It's a near daily wonder how soooooo many Americans were duped by Trump for so long. Duped to the point of committing violence and risking lengthy jail time by breaking into the capital. The image of protestors trying to impale cops with an American flag is so heavy with irony and Message that it almost breaks the screen. These are the very people Trump had the least amount of respect for (if any). How does someone from the sticks think a slick, constantly lying super wealthy big city Real Estate dude is going to be on their side??? It's one of the great mysteries.
Don't forget facial hair, second. Big deal with the warring thugs in the middle east. And also Stalin's 'stache.
Yup. We were duped by 3.5 years of low gas prices, no new wars, acceptable employment numbers, acceptable inflation numbers.
Meanwhile, the asshole you voted for and his cadre of diversity hires he put everywhere have destroyed the economy, the supply chain, and American's hope for the future.
Trump isn't going anywhere. He's going to be your next President.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I do find it hilarious that both you and Cap'n now have started talking positive about DeSantis. That's exactly what your Leftist Media Masters have been telling you to think and say.
How much does Ziggy pay you to say the dumbest sht imaginable? There's no other explanation.
Trump's time is over, get used to it. That leaves the Reps with .... who? I asked the same question about the Dems. No one is coming forward. They're all too scared. This could be an election where nobody wants anybody to win.
Trump's time is over? lol
Then you follow it up with nobody wants to run.
Trump wants to run.
And you're right... Democrats have NOBODY to run.
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Trump's time is over? lol
Then you follow it up with nobody wants to run.
Trump wants to run.
And you're right... Democrats have NOBODY to run.
Trump wants you and every other 'Tard to think he is running so he can milk every last sent from you. How do you not see him for the Grifter he is?
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trump's time is over? lol
Then you follow it up with nobody wants to run.
Trump wants to run.
And you're right... Democrats have NOBODY to run.
Trump wants you and every other 'Tard to think he is running so he can milk every last sent from you. How do you not see him for the Grifter he is?
That's funny. I haven't given Trump a cent.
Let me ask you this... Why do YOU believe he's not going to run?
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Let me ask you this... Why do YOU believe he's not going to run?
From observing life arcs. Trump may actually *think* he's going to run, who knows what's in that rat's nest brain of his ($$), but he captured lighting in a bottle in 2016 because of extraordinary circumstances and timing, and those things are never going to align again. 2020 was a sign of how unique 2016 was. He lost to a complete underdog. Watch any sports? Teams have their time, they rise and fall. Always and forever. Some stay up longer than others but they always fall. Jan 6 was Trump's final last gasp at holding on, but it was also the start of his fall. He's older and even crazier now (wait until 2024). He's not on every channel or social platform, not getting as much notice, not like before. His schtick is old, he's old, his old supporters are distancing themselves or turning on him. The magic - whatever it was - is gone, and the novelty has been dulled by repetition. Shows and athletes and politicians come and go - always. Cya bye, go be a footnote.
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How the Democrats Forgot the New Deal and Paved the Way for Trumpism
Author Robert Kuttner on how Biden can keep American fascism at bay.
Kuttner Interview:
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/01/deconstructed-fdr-biden-new-deal-r
obert-kuttner/
In Robert Kuttner’s new book, “Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy,” he explains how we got to our present political inflection point, how high the stakes are, and what comes next.
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We got very, very lucky. There was an assassination attempt on Roosevelt’s life in Florida in January or February 1933 before he takes the oath of office, and the assassin gets within 6 or 7 feet of the president-elect and hits the mayor of Chicago by mistake who dies. Roosevelt is not struck.
And had the assassin’s bullet been true, the President of the United States in March 1933 would have been John Nance Garner, Cactus Jack, and we would not have had a New Deal.
We also got lucky in that Roosevelt was gradually getting more and more radicalized. He had been a liberal progressive governor of New York but he starts out campaigning against Hoover from the right for deficit spending. And it’s only during that period between the time of his election and the time of his inauguration that he really appreciates how bad things are, and how radical the remedies need to be. And then you have the first 100 days, of course, and a lot more. And you also have people pushing on Roosevelt from his left.
And, miraculously, it all comes together. We have a huge amount of regulation of finance. We have the invention of the modern housing mortgage system; four different New Deal agencies. We have public capital through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. We have social security. We have the Wagner Act, and within the space of a decade, complemented by World War II, when the state is even more powerful, we have the government in league with organized workers acting as a counterweight to capitalism.
And it works. It works. The New Deal gets the economy about halfway out of the Great Depression; World War II does the rest. It’s the very rare circumstance where we don’t have a depression after a war.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Let me ask you this... Why do YOU believe he's not going to run?
From observing life arcs. Trump may actually *think* he's going to run, who knows what's in that rat's nest brain of his ($$), but he captured lighting in a bottle in 2016 because of extraordinary circumstances and timing, and those things are never going to align again. 2020 was a sign of how unique 2016 was. He lost to a complete underdog. Watch any sports? Teams have their time, they rise and fall. Always and forever. Some stay up longer than others but they always fall. Jan 6 was Trump's final last gasp at holding on, but it was also the start of his fall. He's older and even crazier now (wait until 2024). He's not on every channel or social platform, not getting as much notice, not like before. His schtick is old, he's old, his old supporters are distancing themselves or turning on him. The magic - whatever it was - is gone, and the novelty has been dulled by repetition. Shows and athletes and politicians come and go - always. Cya bye, go be a footnote.
Okay, but none of that is actual reality. It's what your news sites tell you is reality.
Trump is the only ex-President that anybody has decided was worth keeping track of in favorability polling, and for more than a year now he polls more favorably than Biden* does.
If Trump decides to run, DeSantis isn't going to seriously run against him. And DeSantis is the only other person right now that the GOP would even consider letting a Primary challenge even happen. They're not going to do that for Ted Cruz. Why would the GOP have their own eating each other on stage when they can just sit back and let all of the Democrats with lower approval ratings than Trump eat each other in the months leading up to the election?
Democrats only have two options. Let the old senile man who will lose to anybody the GOP puts up there run again, or suffer the embarrassment of having to have a primary while one of their own is still President.
Many states aren't even going to have a primary if Trump runs. He's still technically the incumbent for the party.
This dog and pony show about January 6th amounts to nothing. All polling shows that even Democrats don't care about it with inflation and gas prices.
If Trump decides to run again, he will be re-elected as your President in 2024. Whether he's running against Biden or anybody else makes no difference. The Democrats don't have a single person who could beat him.
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Okay, but none of that is actual reality. It's what your news sites tell you is reality.
Um, yeah. Which things aren't real? Which news sites do I watch and how would you know?
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Trump is the only ex-President that anybody has decided was worth keeping track of in favorability polling, and for more than a year now he polls more favorably than Biden* does.
You who are so unwise as to how this big world turns. Trump makes more money for other people - especially media owners and especially online - than just about anyone in living history. Actually, maybe the Kardashians make more for other people. Anyhow, if anyone is tracking Trump for any data point (like popularity) it's to make $. Simple. There is no other reason. And Trump has a rabid following, so baked in attention. Doesn't matter if you have ever donate a penny, your interest in his polling numbers on a daily basis adds to his bank account and to the sites that are professing to have that data. Times every MAGA with a computer or smart phone and cha-ching.
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If Trump decides to run, DeSantis isn't going to seriously run against him.
Fck yeah he will. He's got an ego and wants to be president. He's not going to wait. AND he smells blood in the water. He knows Trump is dead meat.
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Why would the GOP have their own eating each other on stage when they can just sit back and let all of the Democrats with lower approval ratings than Trump eat each other in the months leading up to the election?
Because ratings would be through the roof. Two fat mouthy fckers teeing off on each other, young versus old. It's total American TV. WWF in politics. Trump knows like any great advertiser attention is almost everything, way more important than message.
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Democrats only have two options. Let the old senile man who will lose to anybody the GOP puts up there run again, or suffer the embarrassment of having to have a primary while one of their own is still President.
Naw, any embarrassment is fleeting and not that great when you consider the alternative. In truth, you might read Dems today saying they'd vote Biden, but as we get closer they're going to be hoping for someone else. But whatever - if it came down to it I'd vote Biden on a ventilator over any Trump and I'm probably like most voters who hate Trump. I think Biden is as much toast as Trump though. I think we're in trouble if either wins.
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Many states aren't even going to have a primary if Trump runs. He's still technically the incumbent for the party.
You should contact DeSantis - he's running ads already that sure look like prez ads. Plus, you got Musk and Rogan pimping for him.
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This dog and pony show about January 6th amounts to nothing. All polling shows that even Democrats don't care about it with inflation and gas prices.
Too early. Both can change by 2024.
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If Trump decides to run again, he will be re-elected as your President in 2024. Whether he's running against Biden or anybody else makes no difference. The Democrats don't have a single person who could beat him.
Oh yeah? Michellllllle Ooooooooobama!
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I relish the idea of Michelle Obama running. That would be hilarious. Her time was the 2020 election. She missed her window of opportunity. The country is sick of Democrat politics and policy, you've lost the minority vote, and people want leadership... not woke diversity hires unfit for the job (*ahem* Kamala Harris).
Anyhow, I'm not even going to debate this with you any further. I'm right. You're wrong. Period.
And unlike Ted's endless Tick Tock threads, we actually have a date on this one. So until that day comes, I'll just be here to tell you that you're wrong every time you can't control your fingers from typing the impulses that your media mushified brain commands you to.
Do be a dear and stick around to take your lumps when this doesn't play out the way you wanted it to or you thought it would go.
I'm still waiting for Second to go back to the Cinema boards and take his on the hilarious loss of money for Disney that Lightyear turned out to be after he put down more personal attacks on me for daring to predict that it would be a flop when all the websites said it was going to be fabulous.
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So until that day comes, I'll just be here to tell you that you're wrong every time you can't control your fingers from typing the impulses that your media mushified brain commands you to.
No problem - no one would recognize you if you weren't being a total fckwad.
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Do be a dear and stick around to take your lumps when this doesn't play out the way you wanted it to or you thought it would go.
Man, you sure set the standard for taking lumps. Epic. How many times did you say Trump was guaranteed and you were going to drink liberal tears or some such BS? And then OPPS, you were totally, comprehensively embarrassed and humiliated. That wasn't bad enough for you though. Instead of owning it you made it EVEN WORSE by latching on to the "mail in ballot" conspiracy hoax that court after court - even Trump's SCOTUS - rejected almost out of hand. I should have been surprised you'd try that for cover, but you continue to show you have no shame or simple common sense.
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Quote:The GOP is less likely to lose next time. Why? Personnel changes to who counts the votes.
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How many times did you say Trump was guaranteed and you were going to drink liberal tears or some such BS? And then OPPS, you were totally, comprehensively embarrassed and humiliated.
Three weeks ago, retired appellate Judge J. Michael Luttig issued a loud and clear warning that our democracy is on “a knife’s edge.” Luttig, whose conservative credentials are unquestioned, accused Donald Trump and his allies of raging “a war on democracy” and warned that they pose “a clear and present danger” to our nation.
Trump and MAGA Republicans have looked at where they fell short last time. So, this cycle, they are going all in to take over the administration and certification of elections. In several key states — Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan — they are running Big Lie candidates for secretary of state.
Judge Luttig's statement:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/read-luttig-statement/index.ht
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:Is this a backhanded admission that Dem vote-counters swung the last vote?
Originally posted by second:Quote:The GOP is less likely to lose next time. Why? Personnel changes to who counts the votes.
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
How many times did you say Trump was guaranteed and you were going to drink liberal tears or some such BS? And then OPPS, you were totally, comprehensively embarrassed and humiliated.
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So until that day comes, I'll just be here to tell you that you're wrong every time you can't control your fingers from typing the impulses that your media mushified brain commands you to.
No problem - no one would recognize you if you weren't being a total fckwad.
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Do be a dear and stick around to take your lumps when this doesn't play out the way you wanted it to or you thought it would go.
Man, you sure set the standard for taking lumps. Epic. How many times did you say Trump was guaranteed and you were going to drink liberal tears or some such BS?
I guaranty you I never once said anything as faggy as that.
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And then OPPS, you were totally, comprehensively embarrassed and humiliated. That wasn't bad enough for you though. Instead of owning it you made it EVEN WORSE by latching on to the "mail in ballot" conspiracy hoax that court after court - even Trump's SCOTUS - rejected almost out of hand. I should have been surprised you'd try that for cover, but you continue to show you have no shame or simple common sense.
I wasn't wrong. It was mail-in fraud. It could only be orchestrated by faking a pandemic and destroying the economy.
The Democrats are reaping the rewards of that as we speak.
I'm cool with how it all went down.
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The post-Trump era has produced a library’s worth of books from people who had access to the rooms where decisions were made but kept quiet about the things they witnessed. The volumes mostly read as after-the-fact justifications for debatable behavior spiced up with a few damning anecdotes that feel too-little-too-late.
Tim Miller’s Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell is not one of those books.
Miller was a self-described GOP “hit man” for the Republican National Committee and an opposition research firm he helped start. Along the way he got quite comfortable operating within the trollish zero-sum norms of “the Game,” inflaming voters who weren’t in on the joke.
Tim Miller’s new book reveals the ways he and his fellow GOP operatives poisoned the national discourse.
What distinguishes Miller’s book from many other insider accounts is his willingness to put his own behavior under the microscope. This confessional tone gives the book its distinctive oomph and affords Miller the license to dissect with mordant wit the many varieties of rationalization that his colleagues in the GOP employed.
“America never would’ve gotten into this mess if it weren’t for me and my friends.” That’s the first sentence. It’s a great first sentence. For those who have not yet read this book, what do you mean by that?
Tim Miller: I meant that the people in the conservative media ecosystem were necessary if not sufficient for the degradation of our political discourse, and for this very tumultuous political world that we live in.
My life’s work, frankly, was a net drag on the country and on our society. This whole notion that there should be someone who is a specialist in defaming their political foes in the media is not something I look back on with any pride.
A guy that I barely even know wrote on my Facebook page about how I was degrading the discourse, and all my friends were talking about how big of a jerk he was. This was when I started America Rising, which is an opposition research firm. And I sit here now and look at it, and that guy was exactly right. You can’t look at America Rising or any of the affiliated organizations that just specialize in trashing political foes and think that it’s anything but degrading the discourse. Donald Trump really just supercharged this game of smearing people and bad-faith attacks on opponents and tongue-in-cheek attacks on opponents where the voters and the readers aren’t in on the joke. I was doing all of that. Just not to the same degree as he was.
More of the interview with Tim Miller at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/30/tim-miller-republica
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Essay: Lost hope after Supreme Court decisions? We’ve been here before.
U.S. Sen. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois explained the act’s purpose just days after the 13th Amendment was certified:
“That amendment declared that all persons in the United States should be free,” Trumbull said as he introduced the bill. “There is very little importance in the general declaration of abstract truths and principles unless they can be carried into effect, unless the persons who are to be affected by them have some means of availing themselves of their benefits.”
But the 1866 bill did little to ensure Black people would be fully welcomed into the social and cultural life of their nation. To insist that they be admitted to theaters, allowed to book hotel rooms, and granted passage aboard trains, Sumner introduced a second Civil Rights Act in 1870. Congress, now full of members from the South, debated it for five years. Passage came in 1875, just after Sumner’s death in Washington.
But enforcing the new law proved difficult. By 1883, five cases alleging violations of the act had arrived at the high court. Black persons had been denied admission to theaters in New York and San Francisco, denied seats on a train and refused lodgings in a hotel. The court voted 8-1 to find that exclusions based on race were merely civil wrongs, not leftover vestiges of servitude, and therefore did not violate the 13th Amendment. And as for the 14th, the justices declared it had power only to stop racial discrimination by the states, not by private businesses or individuals.
Only Justice John Marshal Harlan, a unionist (and former slaveholder) from Kentucky, dissented.
Thirteen years later, the court ruled even state-mandated discrimination didn’t necessarily violate the Constitution. It upheld a Louisiana law requiring railroad operators to supply “separate but equal” coaches for white and Black passengers. In Plessy v. Ferguson, the justices reasoned the laws left no true harm. “We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority,” wrote Justice Henry Brown of Michigan. “If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it.”
Again, only Justice Harlan dissented. Despite the demise of slavery, Harlan wrote that there remained in America a system adopted by “the states, by sinister legislation, to interfere with the full enjoyment of the blessings of freedom, to regulate civil rights, common to all citizens, upon the basis of race.”
Those bold words failed to win the day, and the majority’s argument in favor of racial discrimination would hold sway for more than a half-century. Racial segregation became the norm, especially — but not only — throughout the South. Together with the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, the holdings locked in place a system in America under which private citizens could discriminate at will, and state governments could enforce a separation that led to what seemed like a permanent underclass and second-class citizenship.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220709202111/https://www.houstonchronicl
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Rumors say he has illegal pics of his niece, is accused of masturbating in front of his niece
Beds, Russian Hookers and Ukraine...perhpas Hillary's Pissgate thing was not original meant for Trump but the Biden family, they never expected Jeb Bush to be a loser to Trump.
My apologies for the shit noises or music, I rarely if ever share tone deaf noisy electronic retarded CRAP Rap 'music' but maybe it is fitting here
https://gab.com/White__Rabbit/posts/108626756088319547
The Hunter Biden iPhone from hell telegram group has now gone. However telegram was bought out by islamic royals
Joe links and old Joe and Mommy knew about this stuff, missing guns
Hunter Biden seems out of his mind doing lots and lots of Drugs
Crack?
https://twitter.com/Phallustinian/status/1546286552086712322
demented sick family.
and early Joe was right to fight this drug culture, CRACK IS WHACK
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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Clarence Thomas
For decades, Thomas has had a deeply pessimistic view of the country, rooted in his reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. After the Supreme Court’s recent opinions, his dystopia is becoming our reality.
Like so much else in this country, the largeness of Thomas’s vision hinges on the smallest of claims: two clauses, all of thirty-eight words, in the second sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment. One is the due-process clause, which Thomas believes has been misread. In Thomas’s view, that misreading is a stain on the nation—and the reason for its fall.
The due-process clause, which prohibits the state from depriving anyone of “life, liberty, or property, without the due process of the law,” is the basis for the constitutional right to contraception, same-sex sexual conduct, same-sex marriage, and, until a few weeks ago, abortion. To some, it might seem strange that the clause contains an affirmative right to anything. Doesn’t it simply require that the state declare the law, set out a punishment for violating the law, charge a suspect for its violation, try him in court, and so on? That, as it happens, is Thomas’s view.
But there’s a second, more expansive, interpretation of the clause, which holds that certain rights are so intrinsic to “liberty,” so fundamental to what it means to be free, that they may never be abridged without a vital reason. It’s not enough for the state to dot its “i”s and cross its “t”s before it takes those rights away. The state should not take them away at all—unless it must. Among those rights is privacy, from which derive the rights to contraception and so on.
Most liberals and conservatives accept some version of this second interpretation—which is called “substantive due process”—but argue over which rights it protects. Liberals say abortion; conservatives say guns. Thomas rejects the entire idea of substantive due process. In his concurrence in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, Thomas calls substantive due process an “oxymoron” and a “legal fiction.” The due-process clause “guarantees process” only. Because it “does not secure any substantive rights,” he writes, “it does not secure a right to abortion.” The same goes for birth control, same-sex sexual conduct, and gay marriage.
Thomas’s argument against substantive due process is more than doctrinal. It’s political. In a speech before the Federalist Society and the Manhattan Institute which he gave in his second year on the Court, Thomas linked a broad reading of the due-process clause, with its ever-expanding list of “unenumerated” rights, to a liberal “rights revolution” that has undermined traditional authority and generated a culture of permissiveness and passivity. That revolution, which began with the New Deal and peaked in the nineteen-sixties, established the welfare state, weakened criminal law, and promulgated sexual freedom. The result has been personal dissipation and widespread disorder. Workers lose their incentive to labor. Men abandon wives and children. Criminals roam and rule the streets.
Today, the left ties itself into knots over whether it should defend sexual minorities, dismantle the carceral state, or fight for social democracy. For Thomas, these are three fronts of the same war. To reverse the downward spiral of social decadence and patriarchal decay, conservatives must undo the liberal culture of rights, starting with the unenumerated rights of substantive due process.
Thomas has never made a secret of his belief that the rights revolution hit Black people especially hard, destroying the Black patriarch whom Black women, children, and communities need for protection and instruction. “The salvation of our race,” he declared in 1985, depends upon “the strength and the will of black men.” But welfare “takes your manhood away,” as his grandfather told him. Sexual freedom takes husbands and fathers away, he told the students at a Black college in Savannah. Liberal criminal-justice policies take sons and brot
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Let me ask you this... Why do YOU believe he's not going to run?
From observing life arcs. Trump may actually *think* he's going to run, who knows what's in that rat's nest brain of his ($$), but he captured lighting in a bottle in 2016 because of extraordinary circumstances and timing, and those things are never going to align again. 2020 was a sign of how unique 2016 was. He lost to a complete underdog. Watch any sports? Teams have their time, they rise and fall. Always and forever. Some stay up longer than others but they always fall. Jan 6 was Trump's final last gasp at holding on, but it was also the start of his fall. He's older and even crazier now (wait until 2024). He's not on every channel or social platform, not getting as much notice, not like before. His schtick is old, he's old, his old supporters are distancing themselves or turning on him. The magic - whatever it was - is gone, and the novelty has been dulled by repetition. Shows and athletes and politicians come and go - always. Cya bye, go be a footnote.
Lightning in a Bottle: The RealClearPolitics polling average shows Trump well ahead of his potential GOP challengers, averaging 53 percent of the vote, followed by DeSantis with 20.5 percent.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3559279-trump-says-hes-made-up-h
is-mind-about-2024-big-decision-is-if-announcement-is-before-or-after-midterms/
All he needs to do is be the Republican front runner. There's zero chance a Democrat is winning the Presidency in 2024 after Biden*.
And since most states aren't even going to put any challengers on a Primary ballot if Trump announces, it's going to be hilarious watching the Incumbent Party duke it out in primaries while they've currently got a sitting President* and Trump can just make fun of all the dumb shit and lies they're saying while they're all tearing each other down.
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How Hillary Clinton unleashed the Great Awokening
Time at last to refight the 2016 primary
by Matthew Yglesias
The 2016 presidential election was obviously an important moment in American history. But one important aspect that I think remains somewhat under-discussed is that the cycle, starting with the primary campaign, put the Democratic Party into a kind of wormhole of misperception that it has been struggling ever since to come out from.
This is a high-level narrative about 2016 that you rarely hear but that I think is broadly true:
• After eight years of Barack Obama serving in office, the national policy mood had — for predictable if somewhat mysterious thermostatic reasons — swung somewhat to the right.
• Rather than running a candidate who promised to be somewhat more moderate than Obama, Democrats nominated Hillary Clinton on a platform of being somewhat more progressive than Obama.
• Republicans, having lost twice in a row, nominated someone who agreed to abandon the conservative view on Social Security and Medicare while successfully fudging on dropping opposition to same-sex marriage.
• This combination of ideological repositioning and thermostatic public opinion should have set the stage for a commanding GOP victory, but their candidate was scandal-plagued and incompetent, so Democrats came this close to winning.
• The clear lesson for Democrats was to next time pander more aggressively to public opinion and for Republicans to nominate people with Trump-y issue positioning but who are not scandal-plagued buffoons.
Instead, Democratic Party elites shifted leftward on policy while rank-and-file Democrats decided the most important thing was to nominate a white man, and Republicans convinced themselves that Trump was some kind of political magician.
Part of the issue here is that Democrats have consistently chosen to interpret the fact that Trump is a scumbag as indicating that Trump is an ideological extremist, when these are just different questions. But I think in some ways the bigger and more unconsidered issues have to do with how the 2016 primaries played out. In particular, Clinton got spooked by Bernie Sanders’ stronger-than-expected early showing and decided to respond by outflanking him to the left on social issues. I believe that this backfired and caused Sanders to do better with moderate Democrats than he otherwise would have done and also bolstered his popularity with the general electorate.
But both Clinton and Sanders seemingly believed that her efforts in this regard were highly effective.
After the primaries, the Sanders team decided they needed to outflank the establishment by moving even further left on identity issues, and the establishment decided that front-loading identity issues was their ticket to holding an incipient socialist takeover at bay. So while the question in the 2016 primary was something like, “should we move left on identity or on economics?” the answer ended up being, “let’s do both.”
Misreading the Iowa caucus
I’ve run this backfire theory past some people involved in BernieWorld, and they think that I’m wrong.
But I think I’m right. The context, you have to remember, is that for most of 2015 the Sanders campaign wasn’t a real presidential campaign. Everyone understood that the primary was a Clinton coronation after the progressive wing failed to persuade Elizabeth Warren to run. Bernie was running a nominal protest race to draw attention to his key issues and to pin Clinton down on a couple of points like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But then he somewhat unexpectedly caught fire with young people. In part because of the clarity of his vision, but also in part, I think, because Democratic Party leaders had a mass forgetting about how angry people were over the Iraq War.
People being upset that Hillary Clinton went along with Bush’s war was the key issue in the 2008 primary, and she lost. People who wanted to see a mainstream Democratic Party woman elected president should have remained mindful of this and put forwar
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Wow. That's some epic revisionist history right there.
Kudos!
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"Jesus vs. Jeezus"
http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly050504.htm
Artist's Statement:
Drawing the "real" Jesus turns out to be tricky. The image carries a lot of baggage. We have absolutely no contemporary physical description of the man at all, and for some reason it's very important to everyone what he looked like. He has to be knowing, wise, compassionate, kind, stern, and humorous, all at once. Of course he ended up looking like Gandalf. My depiction is somewhat indebted to Chester Brown's characterization in his adaptation of the book of Mark in Yummy Fur-Christ as a fierce, high-browed, hatchet-faced desert prophet. In a moment of possibly misguided inspiration I gave him one blind eye, in imitation of Modigliani, who in his later portraits painted subjects he admired with one eye blank, turned inward, to suggest inner sight. Of course Christ wouldn't really have had a blind eye, or any other serious injury or deformity, because, duh, he could've healed it himself. The book of John, especially, is full of stories about Christ being mocked and chased away by crowds, so I'm sure we would've heard about the obvious contradiction if he'd had any physical infirmities.
Drawing Jeezus, on the other hand, was nothing but a good time: sanitized, kitschy, sentimental, racist, jingoistic-a big cheerful football player with twinkling blue eyes and feathered blond hair. I grew up in an Anabaptist sect that was persecuted early on for its insistence on the separation of church and state, so the sight of an American flag in church would have been tacky and offensive when I was a kid, to say nothing of Christ being draped in one. We were also one of the historic pacifist churches, so the image of the Prince of Peace wielding an M-16 is, to me, sort of obscene. But people actually pray over sporting events, imagining that God roots for one football team over another, they thank Him when they win Oscars, as though God were managing their Hollywood careers, so why not imagine that he's on our nation's side against all others? Pretty much everyone in every other nation-state in human history has believed the same thing.
More at http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly050504a.htm
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Wow.
There's not a single joke in there that hasn't been told 1,000 times before.
How easily impressed you are.
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Quote:If you read just one line from the Bible, you miss the meaning. For example, one sentence used in the comic "Jesus vs. Jeezus" from Matthew 22:21 is:
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Wow.
There's not a single joke in there that hasn't been told 1,000 times before.
How easily impressed you are.
“Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” Very easy to remember Bible verse.
But what does it mean? After reading the entire Bible chapter, Jesus means "Don't cheat when paying your taxes." East Texas Christians don't pay their taxes. They also vote for Trump, who doesn't pay his taxes. Not very Christian of Trump, is it?
When you read the entire chapter, Jesus' opinion is clear about Christians who are tax-cheaters:
https://www.bible.com/bible/114/MAT.22.NKJV
The Pharisees: Is It Lawful to Pay Taxes to Caesar?
15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might entangle Him in His talk. 16 And they sent to Him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and teach the way of God in truth; nor do You care about anyone, for You do not regard the person of men. 17 Tell us, therefore, what do You think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”
18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test Me, you hypocrites? 19 Show Me the tax money.”
So they brought Him a denarius.
20 And He said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this?”
21 They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”
And He said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
22 When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.
When Republicans read the Bible, it is always TL;DR. I think that is why Republicans cheat on their taxes. They never read enough scripture to know what it means.
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I'm not a Republican AND I don't read the Bible, you dumb motherfucker.
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Quote:I know so many people in East Texas who say they aren't Republicans, but they hate Democrats. They say they would vote for Trump again, they don't go to church, don't read the Bible, and they don't pay taxes because they cheat/they're poor. They are you, 6ix. (They also tend to not be married, but they may have children. "Why get married when it just ends with divorce?" is the kind of thing those Texans say. That's you, again, 6ix.)
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not a Republican AND I don't read the Bible, you dumb motherfucker.
Just so you get the point, 6ix, there are millions and millions of Texans exactly like you. They hate Democrats. They will vote for Trump, again. They don't pay taxes, either because of poverty or cheating. And they are nobody special. They are run-of-the-mill.
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Nobody cares dude.
Nobody believes one single lie you've ever told about yourself.
Second is a poorly written character.
And eventually you're going to get this handle banned off this site just like you got your other one banned.
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Quote:6ix, other things you've got in common with millions and millions of Trump voting Texans, besides the low economic status, the family problems that extend back generations and will go forward forever, is mediocrity and a short temper. By the way, I have not been banned under any other handle. You've got me confused with somebody else, which is another thing about Trumptards -- they are confused by the simplest ideas. Must be they are so brilliant. Just ask them about themselves and they will tell you how smart they are. Trump does the same, making him the biggest blowhard in America. And very likely the biggest tax-cheater.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares dude.
Nobody believes one single lie you've ever told about yourself.
Second is a poorly written character.
And eventually you're going to get this handle banned off this site just like you got your other one banned.
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No. You are Reaverfan.
P.S. Here's a list of all the times you've lost your temper that I was able to archive.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65116
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Repost of thread to HAKEN created on June 17, 2022 and updated on June 22nd, 2022.
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=65116
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NOTICE TO HAKEN: Second's Death Threats, Assassination Attempt Fantasies, Violent Posts, and other toxic behavior
The remaining members of Fireflyfans.net should not be subjected to Second's behavior, his calls for violence, his racism and his wishing death on others he doesn't agree with.
I'm asking Haken now to finally remove Second from these boards. Ever since his other handle Reaverfan was banned from Fireflyfans.net, his Second handle has devolved into little more than a violence fantasy factory.
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July 30, 2019: Death threat against President Trump
https://archive.ph/i73bY
October 31st, 2020: Death threat against Amy Coney Barrett
https://archive.ph/6nwD9
October 31st, 2020: Second death threat that day against Amy Coney Barrett
https://archive.ph/6nwD9
September 2nd, 2021: Death threat against the Supreme Court Justices
https://archive.ph/IJw76
April 28th, 2022: Death threat against President Trump
https://archive.ph/NFbSt
March 30th, 2022: Death threat against President Trump
https://archive.ph/L0Zeq
March 30th, 2022: Second death threat that day against President Trump
https://archive.ph/nVqVC
May 2nd, 2022: Second throws around the N word like he owns it
https://archive.ph/B8ocv
May 25th, 2022: Death threat against the Supreme Court
https://archive.ph/OaT3U
June 4th, 2022: Second wishes death on me (Under his Second handle, not his Reaverfan one)
https://archive.ph/J0RY6
June 5th, 2022: Death threat against President Trump
https://archive.ph/rIr6u
June 22nd, 2022: Second threatens to burn my house down in an Italian Mafia style "It would be a shame if your house burned down" kind of way.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220622232014/http://fireflyfans.net/mthr
ead.aspx?bid=18&tid=64666&p=7
July 13, 2022: Death threat against President Trump.
https://archive.ph/rX2bm
July 14th, 2022: Death threat against President Trump
https://archive.ph/pWizO
I decided at this time not to add the stuff that Kiki has archived on her own through this site, because there are no time stamps here and unless there is a way to find posts and date/time stamps on the administrative side to verify them, they were not archived offsite like the preceding posts were. Though I do know that her archival were things he said in the past, it is too easy to fake somebody else's posts by these means without an outside archival website and I will not enter them here unless asked for them.
At this point I ask Haken either to give a stern talking to at Second about his behavior, or just outright ban him from the site entirely. There is a line, and he has repeatedly crossed it under his Second handle nearly as frequently as he did under his unabashedly toxic Reaverfan handle after he lost it.
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Archived posts after thread was created:
June 22nd, 2022: Second threatens to burn my house down in an Italian Mafia style "It would be a shame if your house burned down" kind of way.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220622232014/http://fireflyfans.net/mthr
ead.aspx?bid=18&tid=64666&p=7
His death threats / kill yourself posts to other fireflyfans.net members under the Reaverfan handle can all be found here:
1: 1/23/2021: https://archive.vn/Vt9GX
2: 1/23/2021: https://archive.vn/eZZPM
3: 1/23/2021: https://archive.vn/Nmigt
4: 1/24/2021: https://archive.vn/fvxGX
5: 1/25/2021: https://archive.vn/KApRQ
6: 1/28/2021: https://archive.vn/RjISM
7: 1/31/2021: https://archive.vn/glDW5
8: 1/31/2021: https://archive.vn/EkRc2
-: 1/31/2021: https://archiv
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Why 6ix’s Hispanic step-father would vote for Trump, explained on Twitter --
Start with Frank Wilhoit's famous formulation: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
In groups & out groups. Conservatism is about defending the privileges of current in groups; liberalism is about working toward a society of peers, in which all people are equal in the eyes of the law. That's the most basic division. Thing is, though, people truly & deeply committed to multiracial democracy are likely a minority even in the Dem coalition. Rather, the Dem coalition contains lots of groups that are currently shut out but *want in*.
When I worked at Grist I once went to a high-dollar fundraiser for ... Kerry? First Obama? Can't remember. Anyway, it was thrown by a gay group & I ended up chatting with one older gay guy -- maybe 50yo -- for quite a while. I'll never forget what he said.
He pointed to all the wealthy gay folks schmoozing at the party and said, "take a good look, David. In a few years they will all be Republican." I was like, what, why?! He said, "right now there's discrimination & abuse we have to fight. Once that changes and we're accepted we're all going to revert to voting for lower taxes. We're natural Republicans." I found that so harrowing. But it does highlight the fact that many out-groups, once they're let inside, will absolutely turn & defend the status quo. They will respond to being let in like so many do: by keeping others out. Lots of folks are not committed to breaking down the division between in-group & out-group so much as they're committed to *getting in the in group* & enjoying its hegemonic privileges.
This seems to me the intuitive way to understand how white Hispanics in Arizona or Cuban-Americans in Florida end up shifting to the GOP. They feel enough In that they are willing to crap on those Out, to defend the status quo against immigrants & professors & queers & etc.
Being in an out group is not ennobling -- it doesn't make you wiser or more compassionate. It doesn't guarantee you'll support true multiethnic democracy. It may just piss you off & cause you to strive to get in the inner circle.
This dynamic poses a problem for left politics generally. Some good portion of the coalition is just yearning to get in the winners' circle so they can quit associating with weak loser outcasts. They wanna be "white," with all that entails.
So anti-racism doesn't necessarily appeal to some Hispanic or Asian voters; wealth redistribution doesn't necessarily appeal to lower-income voters; etc. Many don't want a fair *system*, they just don't want to be on the ass end of the unfairness any more.
I kinda forgot why I started this thread, but I think it was mainly about the great "mystery" of Hispanics & Asians moving toward the GOP. Lots of people, esp. small-c conservative people, *hate* the idea of being in an out group, being a victim who needs defense. So as soon as the GOP stops (or just slows) actively shitting on them, they'll jump on board. They'll start yelling at libs about gender & shiftless welfare recipients. That's much more their comfort zone.
If there's one thing I've gotten from John Jost's books, it's that most people are conservative. Most engage in system justification. Most don't like the idea of overturning the status quo, even if they suffer from it. Left politics is always, always at a disadvantage.
David Roberts @drvolts 1:39 PM · Jul 16, 2022·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/drvolts/status/1548376803609174017
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LOL. That's funny.
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Blake Masters Is Peter Thiel’s Dream Candidate—and a Total Nightmare for Democracy
The right-wing tech giant, who has said he believes freedom and democracy are incompatible, has poured millions into his protégé’s Senate campaign.
He’s spending big to bend the American right to his will. He has also put at least $15 million behind Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance — another former employee, best known for his memoir Hillbilly Elegy — and helped arrange the Trump endorsement that secured Vance’s primary victory. In total, Thiel is supporting more than a dozen Republican candidates, most of whom have disputed the results of the 2020 election. And while he may soon have three senators whose rise he has helped fund — Vance, Masters, and Sen. Josh Hawley, another right-wing Stanford grad — it is Masters who would allow Thiel to effectively have a seat of his own.
More at https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/07/blake-masters-peter-thiel
-donald-trump-arizona-senate-mark-kelly/
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MotherJones crying about things it doesn't understand again I see.
*yawn*
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Quote:Too bad you don't understand that three employees of one multi-billionaire are about to be US Senators. One is already in. One more is guaranteed to be elected. The third is a coin flip - win/lose. All three owe their Senate seats to one guy who thinks Democracy should be replaced because it is obsolete technology.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
MotherJones crying about things it doesn't understand again I see.
*yawn*
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Too bad you don't understand that three employees of one multi-billionaire are about to be US Senators. One is already in. One more is guaranteed to be elected. The third is a coin flip - win/lose. All three owe their Senate seats to one guy who thinks Democracy should be replaced because it is obsolete technology.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
MotherJones crying about things it doesn't understand again I see.
*yawn*
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Maybe if Soros hadn't shown others how to buy up elections and put people unfit for office all over the country, we wouldn't see other people doing it now too.
This is what happens when you NEVER call out the bad actors in your party.
Go fuck yourself now.
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The House on Thursday passed legislation that would protect access to birth control. The vote was 228-195, with eight Republicans joining every Democrat in voting in favor. All 195 "no" votes came from Republicans. The bill will die in the Senate because it requires 60 votes, but not one Republican will vote for it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/birth-control-contraception-bill-pass-hou
se-vote/
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Originally posted by second:
The House on Thursday passed legislation that would protect access to birth control. The vote was 228-195, with eight Republicans joining every Democrat in voting in favor. All 195 "no" votes came from Republicans. The bill will die in the Senate because it requires 60 votes, but not one Republican will vote for it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/birth-control-contraception-bill-pass-hou
se-vote/
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Birth control isn't going anywhere you fuckin' dummy.
This isn't Ireland in the 1800s.
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Quote:You said the same about Roe v Wade, but the Catholic Church is opposed to Roe v Wade and the Republican Catholics on the Supreme Court had their way. The Catholic Church is opposed to many, many other things, including birth control. In case you didn't know: How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The House on Thursday passed legislation that would protect access to birth control. The vote was 228-195, with eight Republicans joining every Democrat in voting in favor. All 195 "no" votes came from Republicans. The bill will die in the Senate because it requires 60 votes, but not one Republican will vote for it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/birth-control-contraception-bill-pass-hou
se-vote/
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Birth control isn't going anywhere you fuckin' dummy.
This isn't Ireland in the 1800s.
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https://theconversation.com/how-the-catholic-church-came-to-oppose-bir
th-control-95694
The one Democrat who is a Catholic on the Supreme Court was well aware that striking down Roe v Wade was a Catholic victory. That one particular Catholic did not force her religion on all Americans. She called those Republicans who do force their religion on non-Catholics lying sacks of shit during their confirmation hearings in the Senate:
Quote:Page 207 of 213 https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
To reverse prior law “upon a ground no firmer than a change in the Court’s membership” — would invite the view that “this institution is little different from the two political branches of the Government.” No view could do “more lasting injury to this Court and to the system of law which it is our abiding mission to serve.” For overruling Roe, the Court would pay a “terrible price.”
The Justices who wrote those words were judges of wisdom. They would not have won any contests for the kind of ideological purity some court watchers want Justices to deliver. But if there were awards for Justices who left this Court better than they found it? And who for that reason left this country better? And the rule of law stronger? Sign those Justices up.
They knew that “the legitimacy of the Court is earned over time.” They also would have recognized that it can be destroyed much more quickly. They worked hard to avert that outcome in Casey. The American public, they thought, should never conclude that its constitutional protections hung by a thread — that a new majority, adhering to a new “doctrinal school,” could “by dint of numbers” alone expunge their rights. It is hard — no, it is impossible — to conclude that anything else has happened here. One of us once said that “it is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much.” For all of us, in our time on this Court, that has never been more true than today. In overruling Roe and Casey, this Court betrays its guiding principles.
With sorrow — for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection — we dissent.
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Quote:A Texas GOP lawmaker introduced a bill that would allow the death penalty for women who have an abortion.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Birth control isn't going anywhere you fuckin' dummy.
This isn't Ireland in the 1800s.
"The bill will end the discriminatory practice of terminating the life of innocent children, and will guarantee the equal protection of the laws to all Texans, no matter how small."
https://bit.ly/3cCplPq
KEN PAXTON
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
Advisory on Texas Law Upon Reversal of Roe v. Wade
For nearly half a century, Americans have lived under a legally incorrect and morally bankrupt court decision that created, out of thin air, a constitutional “right” to abortion. Roe v. Wade was an act of raw, partisan political will of unelected judges, and it had no basis in the text of the U.S. Constitution then or now. Today we celebrate Roe’s reversal, mindful that nothing can bring back the millions of lives lost since the Supreme Court federalized abortion policy and prohibited States from fully protecting their most vulnerable citizens. Thankfully, the current Court has finally acted to overturn this egregious act of unconstitutional judicial activism.
Texans want to know what to expect now that Roe is overturned. The answer is that without further action by the Texas Legislature, abortion will soon be clearly illegal in Texas. In 2021, the Texas Legislature passed the Human Life Protection Act of 2021 (“the Act”), which prohibits abortions in most circumstances and takes effect on the 30th day after “issuance of a United States Supreme Court judgment in a decision overruling, wholly or partly, Roe v. Wade. 410 U.S. 113 (1973), as modified by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), thereby allowing the states of the United States to prohibit abortion.”
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/execut
ive-management/Post-Roe%20Advisory.pdf
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Originally posted by second:Quote:A Texas GOP lawmaker introduced a bill that would allow the death penalty for women who have an abortion.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Birth control isn't going anywhere you fuckin' dummy.
This isn't Ireland in the 1800s.
"The bill will end the discriminatory practice of terminating the life of innocent children, and will guarantee the equal protection of the laws to all Texans, no matter how small."
https://bit.ly/3cCplPq
KEN PAXTON
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
Advisory on Texas Law Upon Reversal of Roe v. Wade
For nearly half a century, Americans have lived under a legally incorrect and morally bankrupt court decision that created, out of thin air, a constitutional “right” to abortion. Roe v. Wade was an act of raw, partisan political will of unelected judges, and it had no basis in the text of the U.S. Constitution then or now. Today we celebrate Roe’s reversal, mindful that nothing can bring back the millions of lives lost since the Supreme Court federalized abortion policy and prohibited States from fully protecting their most vulnerable citizens. Thankfully, the current Court has finally acted to overturn this egregious act of unconstitutional judicial activism.
Texans want to know what to expect now that Roe is overturned. The answer is that without further action by the Texas Legislature, abortion will soon be clearly illegal in Texas. In 2021, the Texas Legislature passed the Human Life Protection Act of 2021 (“the Act”), which prohibits abortions in most circumstances and takes effect on the 30th day after “issuance of a United States Supreme Court judgment in a decision overruling, wholly or partly, Roe v. Wade. 410 U.S. 113 (1973), as modified by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), thereby allowing the states of the United States to prohibit abortion.”
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/execut
ive-management/Post-Roe%20Advisory.pdf
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First, Abortion isn't Birth Control. You know full well that the bill they're trying to pass has nothing to do with Abortion and focuses on Contraception.
Second, there was nothing you posted here that backed up your claim that anybody is trying to force the death penalty on a woman who has an abortion.
If it was in your shady link, post the real link. Don't anybody click on the bit.ly link that Second posted.
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Quote:The Texas Legislature is not in session until next year, but the law is written and ready to pass over the objections of every Democrat. A few lines from the law:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
First, Abortion isn't Birth Control. You know full well that the bill they're trying to pass has nothing to do with Abortion and focuses on Contraception.
Second, there was nothing you posted here that backed up your claim that anybody is trying to force the death penalty on a woman who has an abortion.
If it was in your shady link, post the real link. Don't anybody click on the bit.ly link that Second posted.
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This Act may be cited as the Abolition of Abortion through Equal Protection for All Unborn Children Act.
SECTION 4. Section 151.002(a), Family Code, is amended to read as follows:
a living human child, from the moment of fertilization on fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum, is entitled to the same rights, powers, and privileges as are secured or granted by the laws of this state to any other human child.
(This is where the law says abortion is homicide without saying abortion is homicide, which is political poison, but a prosecutor can read this law and charge the woman with homicide, or even murder.)
. . . as legislators, to fulfill our oaths of office to the United States Constitution, so help us God, by disavowing the legal fiction that the constitution prohibits this state from exercising its reserved police powers to prohibit and criminalize homicide and from exercising its constitutional and God-given duties to provide equal protection to all persons within its jurisdiction;
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/HB03326I.pdf
If you won’t click bitly https://bit.ly/3cCplPq then copy and paste this, being sure to include the final -/ in the URL: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jun/28/instagram-posts/head
line-about-texas-lawmakers-anti-abortion-bill-/
6ix, your next gambit is to say the Texas law doesn't mean that abortion is murder and, besides, the Republicans won't enforce it. But it does means abortion is murder and Republican prosecutors will enforce it erratically, arbitrarily and capriciously against their political enemies.
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6ix, your next gambit is to say the Texas law doesn't mean that abortion is murder and, besides, the Republicans won't enforce it. But it does means abortion is murder and Republican prosecutors will enforce it erratically, arbitrarily and capriciously against their political enemies.
I already said what I am going to say about it.
You've said a lot and still refuse to post anything to back it up.
It's alright. Democrats are finished anyhow. Nobody cares about this either.
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• Abolish the Electoral College.
• Overturn Citizens United.
• Preserve Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms.
• Strike down union-busting ‘right to work’ laws.
• Require political candidates to disclose their tax returns for the previous 10 years.
• Preserve capital gains and inheritance taxes.
• Strip churches and the NRA of their tax-exempt status.
• Maintain a robust public education system.
• Institute free college for all who qualify academically.
• Ban lobbyists from campaign donations or tax exemption. Regulate their access to politicians.
• Create a nonpartisan watchdog group to oversee redistricting, to prevent gerrymandering.
• Impose term limits on political office.
• Draft some modem equivalent of the old FCC Fairness Doctrine.
• Institute common-sense federal gun control laws. Mandate universal background checks.
• Institute universal, single-payer healthcare.
• Protect abortion rights and Planned Parenthood.
• Restore robust environment protections.
• Restore adequate funding for scientific and medical research, the State Dept, and the UN.
• Preserve net neutrality.
• Treat simple illicit drug use as a civil matter, rather than criminal.
• Legalize recreational marijuana nationwide.
https://ifunny.co/picture/abolish-the-electoral-college-overturn-citiz
ens-united-preserve-dodd-frank-IvyaB1Ni9
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How many people work for the government?
About 3 million people work for the federal government; 5 million for state governments, and 14 million for local governments.
https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-how-many-people-work-for-the-govern
ment/
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That graph does an excellent job showing how many taxpayer dollars are wasted.
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Today the House voted on a bill to protect access to contraception.
Almost entirely thanks to Democrats, it passed. 194 House Republicans opposed it.
It’s 2022. How are they opposed to access to birth control?
https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1550270150053892096
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It makes you wonder what was ACTUALLY in the bill that 194 people would vote against it since nobody has a problem with contraception.
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Quote:Wonder no more, 6ix! Here is the text for H.R.8373 - To protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It makes you wonder what was ACTUALLY in the bill that 194 people would vote against it since nobody has a problem with contraception.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8373/text
By the way, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said that he would be pleased with overturning/reversing/nullifying all previous court decisions ruling that state laws forbidding contraception were NOT constitutional. In Thomas' opinion the states can do whatever they please about contraception because the word "contraception" is not in the Bill of Rights.
H.R.8373 was written to stop Clarence Thomas and the other Catholics Republicans on the Supreme Court, but they won't be stopped because no Republican Senators will vote for it. The bill was received in the Senate on 07/21/2022 but there has been no action, yet, because the Democrats know for sure that the Republicans will filibuster the bill for the same stupid reason Clarence Thomas gave: the word "contraception" is not in the Bill of Rights and therefore any state that wishes to forbid contraception can make it illegal as the Catholic Church wants.
The House will vote Thursday to protect access to contraception nationwide after Clarence Thomas suggesting overturning it.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-legislation-ens
hrine-right-contraception-federal-law-rcna39167
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Wonder no more, 6ix! Here is the text for H.R.8373 - To protect a person’s ability to access contraceptives and to engage in contraception, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It makes you wonder what was ACTUALLY in the bill that 194 people would vote against it since nobody has a problem with contraception.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8373/text
Cool. Thanks.
I figured it out.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/117th-congress/house-rep
ort/420
The House passed these bills together.
Here's the other one with the pertinent parts underlined:
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H. Rept. 117-420 - PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 8294) MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION - PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 8294) MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION, AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2023, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 8373) TO PROTECT A PERSON'S ABILITY TO ACCESS CONTRACEPTIVES AND TO ENGAGE IN CONTRACEPTION, AND TO PROTECT A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER'S ABILITY TO PROVIDE CONTRACEPTIVES, CONTRACEPTION, AND INFORMATION RELATED TO CONTRACEPTION; PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H.R. 8404) TO REPEAL THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT AND ENSURE RESPECT FOR STATE REGULATION OF MARRIAGE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
I won't explain how the internet works and let you click the links you need to on the page you provided to connect the dots.
Fuck your gaslighting.
Either that, or tell the people you get your news from to fuck their gaslighting.
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Oh... And I should add...
Unlike YOU, I know FULL WELL and will admit that this type of bullshit is pulled on both sides of the aisle every single day. It's how most of the anti-American-people shit gets rammed through. With leverage.
I don't even blame Democrats for doing this here. It has been their job from the beginning to pull this shit, just like it has been the Republicans to do the same.
I blame the GODDAMNED LEGACY MEDIA for NEVER telling us the truth about anything.
They know that collectively we are so fucking stupid and self-centered that nobody asks any fucking questions about anything and the few who do would just be ignored by everyone else for talking about it.
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Quote:As per usual, you didn't even read what you're quoting. https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/117th-congress/house-rep
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I won't explain how the internet works and let you click the links you need to on the page you provided to connect the dots.
Fuck your gaslighting.
Either that, or tell the people you get your news from to fuck their gaslighting.
ort/420
The Republicans in Congress would have prevented that bill on Contraception from being voted upon, but the report says that debate would be limited to one hour. If there had been no limit, the Republicans would be making amendment after amendment to prevent the Contraception bill from ever coming to a vote this year. The report says "Although the resolution waives all points of order against provisions in H.R. 8373, as amended, the Committee is not aware of any points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature." Prophylactic means the Republicans cannot screw House Bill H.R. 8373 to prevent a vote on contraceptives.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by second:Quote:As per usual, you didn't even read what you're quoting. https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/117th-congress/house-rep
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I won't explain how the internet works and let you click the links you need to on the page you provided to connect the dots.
Fuck your gaslighting.
Either that, or tell the people you get your news from to fuck their gaslighting.
ort/420
The Republicans is Congress would have prevented that bill on Contraception from being voted upon, but the report says that debate would be limited to one hour. If there had been no limit, the Republicans would be making amendment after amendment to prevent the Contraception bill from ever coming to a vote this year. The report says "Although the resolution waives all points of order against provisions in H.R. 8373, as amended, the Committee is not aware of any points of order. The waiver is prophylactic in nature." Prophylactic means the Republicans cannot screw House Bill H.R. 8373 to prevent a vote on contraceptives.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Everything you just said wasn't in the official paperwork and you pulled it out of your ass.
I simply posted what was actually in the official paperwork.
You are fucking tool and having a conversation with you about anything is a waste of time and effort.
After November, your party is dead. You will never see Democrats in power for the rest of your lifetime.
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Quote:You're not worth quoting. I finally see why the hell your life got into so much trouble. 6ix, you will not live to be as old as the now dead-as-a-door-nail Rush Limbaugh (70), another nonstop talker who the Dittoheads couldn't see was a big fat idiot. You're completely fucked up, 6ix.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
6ix, why do angry poor white trash, aka Trumptards, die young? Some hints from the article: In poor neighborhoods, immigrants have the highest life expectancies
In 2017, foreign-born life expectancy reached 81.4 and 85.7 years for men and women, respectively. That’s about 7 and 6.2 years longer than the average lifespan of their U.S.-born counterparts.
Research shows that the difference between immigrants and the U.S.-born has widened substantially over time. The fact that immigrants are doing well suggests that there is a capacity to thrive in the U.S., but the U.S.-born aren’t fulfilling that potential. (Trumptards die young because they are negligent and they live stupidly.)
Income matters even more between the poor and the rich. We've known for a long time that this is probably the single biggest factor in longevity. Rich people have life expectancies nearly a decade longer than poor people.
https://jabberwocking.com/in-poor-neighborhoods-immigrants-have-the-hi
ghest-life-expectancies/
Trumptards are dying:
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
https://web.archive.org/web/20220726134232/https://www.slowboring.com/
p/tackling-americas-weirdly-short-life
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They're calling themselves Christian Nationalists now. I prefer Nationalist Christians, that way we can call them Nat-C's for short.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG
I am being attacked by the godless left because I said I’m a proud Christian Nationalist.
These evil people are even calling me a Nazi because I proudly love my country and my God.
The left has shown us exactly who they are.
They hate America, they hate God, and they hate us.
6:05 PM • 7/25/22 • Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1551705165983621120
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You're not worth quoting.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not going to hold my breath on that one, dipshit.
You're a fucking idiot and a serial liar.
Get fucked.
The Democratic Party is dead.
Tick Tock
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The Dystopian Myths of Red America
July 25, 2022
The Big Lie about the election is embedded in an even bigger lie.
Desensitization is an amazing thing. At this point most political observers simply accept it as a fact of life that an overwhelming majority of Republicans accept the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen — a claim with nothing to support it, not even plausible anecdotes.
What I don’t think is fully appreciated, however, is that the Big Lie is embedded in an even bigger lie: the claim that the Democratic Party is controlled by radical leftists aiming to destroy America as we know it. And this lie in turn derives a lot of its persuasiveness from a grotesquely distorted view of what life is like in blue America.
Urban elites are constantly accused of not understanding Real America™. And, to be fair, most big-city residents probably don’t have a good sense of what life is like in rural areas and small towns, although it’s doubtful whether this gap justified the immense number of news reports interviewing Trump voters sitting in diners.
But I’d argue that right-wing misperceptions of blue America run far deeper — and are far more dangerous.
Let’s start with the politics. The other day The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel, reporting from the campaign trail, noted that many Republican candidates are claiming that Democrats are deliberately undermining the nation and promoting violence against their opponents; some are even claiming that we’re already in a civil war.
Some (many?) of these candidates have been winning primaries, suggesting that the G.O.P. base agrees with them. Actually, I’d like to see some surveys along the lines of those showing that most Republicans accept the Big Lie. How many Republicans believe that President Biden and other leading Democrats are left-wing radicals, indeed Marxists?
Relatedly, I’d like to know how many Republicans believe that Black Lives Matter demonstrators looted and burned large parts of America’s major cities.
Now, the reality is that the modern Democratic Party is a mildly center-left coalition, consisting of what Europeans would call social democrats, and relatively conservative ones at that. To take one measure, I can’t think of any prominent Democrats — actually, any Democratic members of Congress — who have expressed admiration for any authoritarian foreign regime.
This is in contrast to widespread conservative admiration for Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who recently denounced other Europeans for “mixing with non-Europeans” and declared that he doesn’t want Hungary to become a “mixed-race” country.
On the domestic violence front, a study by the Anti-Defamation League found that 75 percent of extremist-related domestic killings from 2012 to 2021 were perpetrated by the right and only 4 percent by the left.
Finally, about B.L.M.: The protests were, in fact, overwhelmingly peaceful. Yes, there was some arson and looting, with total property damage typically estimated at $1 billion to $2 billion. Here’s one point of comparison. Back in April, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, pulled a political stunt at the border with Mexico, temporarily imposing extra security checks that caused a major slowdown of traffic, disrupting business and leading to a lot of spoiled produce. Total economic losses have been estimated at around $4 billion; that is, a few days of border-security theater appear to have caused more economic damage than a hundred days of mass protests.
Yet pointing out these facts probably won’t change many minds. Nor does there seem to be any way to change the perception, also alluded to in that Post article, that a lax attitude toward law enforcement has turned America’s big cities into dangerous hellholes. It’s true that violent crime rose during the pandemic, but it rose about as much in rural America as it did in urban areas. And despite that recent rise, violence in many cities is far lower than it was not long ago.
In New York City, homicides so far this year are running a bit below their 2021 level, and in 2
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Trump returns to DC with apocalyptic speech: ‘Our country is going to hell’
The former president addressed a conservative think tank in Washington, where he painted a picture of a Democrat-run nation overrun by criminals and the homeless
IKER SEISDEDOSEL PAÍS, Washington - JUL 27, 2022 - 05:51 EDT
Donald Trump on Tuesday returned to Washington DC for the first time since leaving office, over a year and a half after the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill currently under investigation by a congressional committee.
Speaking at an event organized by the America First Policy Institute, a think tank he helped fund, the former president delivered a speech riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods in which he exaggerated the achievements of his administration, presented himself as a victim of the system, and focused on public safety, law enforcement and protection of the border with Mexico.
“Our country is going to hell, and it’s going to hell very fast,” he asserted, painting an apocalyptic landscape of crime-ridden cities controlled by Democrats that have become “war zones.” Trump described green areas taken over by homeless encampments, stores where criminals steal merchandise with complete impunity, and “sadists who prey on children and are released on bail.”
Trump, who is flirting with a new presidential run in 2024, promised to impose the death penalty for drug traffickers if he returns to power. “America first must mean safety first,” he said, supporting being “tough, nasty, mean if we have to, to restore public safety.” He also supported a return to “stop and frisk” policies and attacked the “ridiculous” idea of defunding the police.
Trump referred to “the anti-police narrative of the radical left” as “the big lie,” in a sarcastic reference to the way the media refers to the conspiracy theory he still espouses, according to which the 2020 election was stolen from him. “Have you ever heard that expression before?”
It was the first time in 566 days that Trump was seen in a public act in DC. The last time had been January 6, 2021, when he harangued thousands of his followers to march on Capitol Hill in a bid to influence the certification of the electoral votes that gave the presidential victory to Joe Biden. The insurrection that followed, which endangered the lives of hundreds of police officers, is the target of a criminal investigation by the Department of Justice, as well as a probe by a congressional committee that last Thursday provided evidence that during the three hours that the assault lasted, Trump sat back and did nothing to stop the violent mob, even though he was “the only person on the planet capable of sending them home.”
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2022-07-27/trump-returns-to-dc-with-apo
calyptic-speech-our-country-is-going-to-hell.html
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Lies, lies.
November is coming.
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"It's a transitory iceberg.
Thank me for the $0.16 you saved on your July 4th, 2021 barbecue, you fuckin' ingrate."
~Joe Biden*, probably
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Trump Got Burned by a Major Mistake in His First Term. He Won’t Make It Again.
(It is quite possible that any populist Republican would exploit Schedule F. It’s not just Trump. )
There’s a reason authoritarians target the bureaucracy. Once they have it under their control, they are better able to stifle dissent and criticism, reward friends and punish enemies, using the levers of government to maintain power. In his first term, Donald Trump largely failed to take control of the administrative state, that sprawling web of agencies that keeps the federal government running. To be sure, he ignored scientists and punished bureaucrats. But Trump’s officials largely lacked the capacity to manage the institutions they were charged with leading.
Trump will not make the same mistake twice. According to Jonathan Swann’s blockbuster two-part Axios report, the former president is currently overseeing plans to build a government based on personal loyalty to him. Trump’s weapon to disembowel government is an executive order he signed shortly before the 2020 election: Schedule F. It allows a president to force tens and potentially hundreds of thousands of career officials to become political appointees, stripping them of job protections. In short, it allows the president to fire civil servants who fail his political loyalty test.
Trump ran out of time before he could implement Schedule F, and Biden rescinded it. But if Trump wins in 2024, an aggressive purge of the civil service will be one of his first priorities.
When he was elected Trump’s use of the “swamp” and “deep state” terminology tapped into conspiracy theories much the same way that he tapped into birtherism, albeit more symbolically than with a strategic intent. He still hired institutionalists, like James Mattis and John Kelly, and even allowed some bipartisan Obama appointees to remain in place.
By the end of his first term, Trump absolutely understood the importance of controlling the bureaucracy. He became convinced that career public servants were responsible for his first impeachment. While Trump largely blocked political appointees from co-operating with the impeachment investigation, a number of career officials did testify.
The White House followed through on a promise of payback against these officials, publicly attacking some, removing them from positions, and denying promotions to the degree the law allowed. It is easy to imagine that with Schedule F, Trump’s payback would have been more comprehensive, simply firing all the officials who dared to respond to Congress, as he did to the inspector general who forwarded the whistleblower complaint about Trump’s withholding arms to Ukraine.
Trump struggled to direct the government because he lacked a deep bench of talented and loyal appointees. In Axios, Swann documents the massive scale of operations in place intended to not just fill existing appointments, but replace careerists by taking advantage of Schedule F.
There are multiple overlapping organizations in Trump World, a fully stocked army of loyalists ready to take control of government: the Center for Renewing America, Conservative Partnership Institute, Personnel Policy Organization, the American First Policy Institute, and the old standby of the Heritage Foundation. They are not just building a database of resumes; each institution has drawn on personnel involved in creating Schedule F and looks forward to exploiting it. Millions of dollars from conservative donors, including the Koch network, are funding their efforts. They are also funding a barely-disguised attack on American democracy.
Proponents of Schedule F presented it as a way of improving government performance by firing poor performers, and improving political responsiveness. Swann’s detailed reporting shows that the goal, instead, is a form of authoritarian control. This is reflected in a primary desire to take control of the national security and justice apparatus. Trump’s inability to capture these institutions stymied his coup attempt. If the top lawyers are Trump l
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I can't wait for Trump to get in there and fire 50,000 people.
All of those poor diversity hires will have to go back to Starbucks for jobs.
If Starbucks will even take them.
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Quote:I look forward to Trump firing the auditors at the IRS, who have been trying to get him to pay taxes. Senator Ted Cruz agrees. He tweeted so last week:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I can't wait for Trump to get in there and fire 50,000 people.
All of those poor diversity hires will have to go back to Starbucks for jobs.
If Starbucks will even take them.
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Jayne Cobb (or Adam Baldwin who plays Jayne) Retweeted Senator Ted Cruz @tedcruz
Quote:5:53 PM · Jul 29, 2022·Twitter Media Studio
Democrats want 80,000 more IRS agents.
That’s like asking for an infestation of locusts and lice!
Instead, we should ABOLISH the IRS!
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1553151691729641473
It is a fact that about $1 trillion per year in taxes are not collected from wealthy. But with Senator Ted Cruz’s suggestion to abolish the IRS, no taxes will be collected from the wealthy.
Rich people and corporations need to pay up, says IRS head as agency looks to collect $1 trillion in unpaid taxes – April 13, 2021
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-wealthy-people-corporations-1-trillio
n/
"Wealthy tax cheats have proven that with enough attack-dog lawyering, they can litigate the IRS into submission and rip off working taxpayers for big money," said Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden in Tuesday's hearing. The Internal Revenue Service has seen a dramatic decrease in funding and staff in recent years and its commissioner suggests the United States is missing out on collecting as much as $1 trillion a year.
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Whatever, idiot.
I didn't listen to you the last 1,000 times you made that post. Not listening to you now either.
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Quote:You've bragged about not paying taxes. Trumptards I know brag about the sneaky ways they cheat on their taxes.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Whatever, idiot.
I didn't listen to you the last 1,000 times you made that post. Not listening to you now either.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You've bragged about not paying taxes. Trumptards I know brag about the sneaky ways they cheat on their taxes.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Whatever, idiot.
I didn't listen to you the last 1,000 times you made that post. Not listening to you now either.
I've never bragged about not paying taxes that I owe, which you are insinuating here, liar.
I've said that I'm never going to make more than the standard deduction for the rest of my life and I will not be paying FEDERAL taxes, because I don't agree at all with how they spend that money. I brag because I've set myself up for a life where I have a house and car that are mine and zero debt to anybody else so I can EASILY do that for the rest of my life whenever I feel the need to work without ever having to worry about how what small amount of bills and cost of living I have will be paid.
I still have to pay property taxes. I still have to pay sales taxes. With a measly $1,000 state tax deduction I will still have to pay state and local taxes when I work.
Go fuck yourself, idiot liar.
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Quote:Four other things, beside cheating on their taxes, that all Trumptards I know do, are
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I've never bragged about not paying taxes that I owe, which you are insinuating here, liar.
I've said that I'm never going to make more than the standard deduction for the rest of my life and I will not be paying FEDERAL taxes, because I don't agree at all with how they spend that money. I brag because I've set myself up for a life where I have a house and car that are mine and zero debt to anybody else so I can EASILY do that for the rest of my life whenever I feel the need to work without ever having to worry about how what small amount of bills and cost of living I have will be paid.
I still have to pay property taxes. I still have to pay sales taxes. With a measly $1,000 state tax deduction I will still have to pay state and local taxes when I work.
Go fuck yourself, idiot liar.
1) brag about their moral/mental/spiritual superiority,
2) brag about how well they are supporting themselves,
3) brag about their honesty (despite me knowing as a fact they are stone cold liars, but they don't know I know who they really are)
4) complain that Democrats are immoral/stupid/liars/criminals/etc.
6ix, you did all 4 things in this one comment. Once again, 6ix, you are completely predictable because I know Texas Trumptards without having known you. And I also know why their family/financial/work life is screwed up beyond all reason, even if they have no clue why life is aggravating for them, other than it is all the fault of Democrats. In small doses, you Trumptards are entertaining me in your never-ending soap operas and family dramas, as is Trump himself.
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Four other things, beside cheating on their taxes, that all Trumptards I know do, are
1) brag about their moral/mental/spiritual superiority,
Not a brag. It's just a simple truth that I am morally, mentally and spiritually superior to you. Ted is morally and spirtually superior to you. It's not hard to do at all.
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2) brag about how well they are supporting themselves,
Yeah. Maybe I shouldn't be bragging so hard. That's easy too.
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3) brag about their honesty (despite me knowing as a fact they are stone cold liars, but they don't know I know who they really are)
Oh... You know who I really am, do you? By all means, go ahead and doxx me right now, Arthur.
I know who you are too. The only difference is, I'm not lying.
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4) complain that Democrats are immoral/stupid/liars/criminals/etc.
They are. It's an objective fact.
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Quote:Trumptards don't pay $1 trillion in taxes each year. Trump paid only $750 per year in taxes before he was President and less after he was elected because he cheated.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Donald Trump's Tax Returns Expose 'Lying, Cheating Felon,' 'Art of the Deal' Co-Author Says
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-tax-returns-expose-lying-cheati
ng-felon-art-deal-author-tony-schwartz-says-1534532
It is what Trumptards do. When asked for comments, Trump denied everything. Meanwhile, all Democratic Presidents provide proof they paid all their taxes.
Presidential Tax Returns
https://www.taxnotes.com/presidential-tax-returns
The President and Vice President release their 2021 tax returns - April 15, 2022
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/2022/04/15/the-pr
esident-and-vice-president-release-their-2021-tax-returns/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards don't pay $1 trillion in taxes each year. Trump paid only $750 per year in taxes before he was President and less after he was elected because he cheated.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Get back to me when you get Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates to pay their share, fucktard.
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Quote:Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos paid a true tax rate of 0.98% as his wealth grew by a staggering $99 billion between 2014 and 2018; he reported just $4.22 billion in reported income during the same period.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards don't pay $1 trillion in taxes each year. Trump paid only $750 per year in taxes before he was President and less after he was elected because he cheated.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Get back to me when you get Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates to pay their share, fucktard.
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0.98% of $99 billion is $1 billion. Trump paid $750. Trump is a crook, but then every Trumptard is a crook. Until Democrats treat crooks like they should be treated, America will be in deep trouble.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2021/06/08/richest-americans-
including-bezos-musk-and-buffett-paid-federal-income-taxes-equaling-just-34-of-401-billion-in-new-wealth-bombshell-report-shows/?sh=454e08537fe1
'i don't pay taxes because i'm smart' - trump
Trump brags about not paying taxes - Sept 26, 2016
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/26/trump-brags-about-not-paying-taxes-tha
t-makes-me-smart.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos paid a true tax rate of 0.98% as his wealth grew by a staggering $99 billion between 2014 and 2018; he reported just $4.22 billion in reported income during the same period.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards don't pay $1 trillion in taxes each year. Trump paid only $750 per year in taxes before he was President and less after he was elected because he cheated.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Get back to me when you get Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates to pay their share, fucktard.
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False.
Jeff Bezos has much more complex tax structure than your average prole's 1040.
Don't try to gaslight your betters you little fucking worm.
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Quote:ProPublica has got everything on the billionaires that Trumptards hate.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
False.
Jeff Bezos has much more complex tax structure than your average prole's 1040.
Don't try to gaslight your betters you little fucking worm.
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ProPublica can't get Trump's records or the records of any other billionaire loved by Trumptards since Trump loving billionaires are crooks.
Crooked billionaires Peter Thiel, Charles Koch, all the Trumps, etc. never share income tax forms with journalists because, you know, they are crooks.
6ix, you have no ideas. You are hollow.
The "Secret" IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never
-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
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Originally posted by second:Quote:ProPublica has got everything on the billionaires that Trumptards hate.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
False.
Jeff Bezos has much more complex tax structure than your average prole's 1040.
Don't try to gaslight your betters you little fucking worm.
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ProPublica can't get Trump's records or the records of any other billionaire loved by Trumptards since Trump loving billionaires are crooks.
Crooked billionaires Peter Thiel, Charles Koch, all the Trumps, etc. never share income tax forms with journalists because, you know, they are crooks.
6ix, you have no ideas. You are hollow.
The "Secret" IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never
-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
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Dude. I know how taxes work.
Jeff Bezos' little fake income he gives himself is a joke.
Fucking AOC knows more about money than your stupid non-business-owning ass.
Maybe you should just parrot whatever dumb shit comes out of her mouth and than nobody can say that you're dumber than her.
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Quote:I’m not sure what Americans were like in the 18th and 19th century, but they have to have been a lot tougher, less whining, less self-important and paradoxically more exceptional without thinking they were exceptional than Americans of today.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Dude. I know how taxes work. (. . . crude American petulance . . .)
Even Americans born well into the 20th century had a stoic quality and a modest sense of their own importance that seems to have been washed out of our culture. Not many WWII veterans left, but the ones I’ve met spoke about their battles at Normandy or in the South Pacific as just something that needed to get done. The people I knew who lived through The Great Depression said it was tough but made light of their own hardships.
Much of our citizenry today resemble loud spoiled children, whining and whingeing at every inconvenience, and trotting out opinions on the most complex matters with zero formal training or any in-depth research. I fear that to other countries we look like one of those screaming toddlers having a fit in a very public place. Sort of an international cringe.
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/08/crude-american-petulance
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Can Inflation Reduction Save the Planet?
by Paul Krugman
Aug. 1, 2022, 7:00 p.m. ET
After all the false starts and dashed hopes of the past two years, I’m reluctant to count my chickens before they’ve actually been signed in the Oval Office. Still, it appears that Democrats have finally agreed on another major piece of legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act. And if it does become law, it will be a very big deal.
First, would the law, in fact, reduce inflation? Yes, probably — or at least it would reduce inflationary pressures. That’s because the legislation’s increased spending, mainly on clean energy but also on health care, would be more than offset through its tax provisions; so it would be a deficit reduction act, which other things being equal would make it disinflationary.
But you want to think of the Inflation Reduction Act as being like the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, which probably did strengthen national defense a bit but mainly benefited America by investing in the nation’s future. This bill would do the same, and maybe even more so.
To understand why this bill inspires so much hope, it’s helpful to understand what has changed since Democrats’ last big effort to deal with climate change, the 2009 Waxman-Markey bill, which passed the House but died in the Senate.
The core of Waxman-Markey was a “cap and trade” system that would, in practice, have operated a lot like a carbon tax. There were and are good arguments for such a system, which would give companies and individuals an incentive to cut emissions in multiple ways. But politically, it was easy to portray it as an eat-your-spinach plan, one demanding sacrifices from ordinary workers.
With the failure of Waxman-Markey, the Obama administration was reduced to a much more limited agenda, one that relied on carrots rather than sticks — tax breaks for clean energy, loan guarantees for companies investing in renewables. I think it’s fair to say that most economists didn’t expect these measures to achieve much.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the climate apocalypse: There was revolutionary progress in renewable energy technology, probably jump-started, at least in part, by those Obama-era policies. In 2009, electricity generated by wind power was still more expensive than electricity generated by burning coal, and solar power was more expensive still. But over the next decade wind power costs fell 70 percent, solar costs 89 percent.
Add in plunging battery prices and it has become possible to see the outlines of an economy that achieves drastic reductions in carbon emissions with little if any sacrifice, using electricity generated by renewable energy — as opposed to burning fossil fuels — to heat and cool our buildings, run our factories, power our cars and more.
The climate portion of the Inflation Reduction Act is, for the most part, an attempt to accelerate that energy transition, mainly by offering tax credits for the adoption of low-emission technologies, including electric vehicles, but also by offering incentives to use less energy in general, notably by making buildings more energy efficient.
There’s every reason to believe that these measures would have large effects. Unlike fossil fuels, which have been around for a long time, renewable energy is still an “infant industry” with a steep learning curve: The more we use these technologies, the better we get at them. So providing incentives for clean energy now will make that energy a lot cheaper in the future.
And support for electric vehicles also helps solve a chicken-and-egg problem, in which drivers are reluctant to go electric because they aren’t sure they’ll find charging stations, and businesses don’t provide many charging stations because there aren’t yet that many electric cars.
The point is that while the climate and energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act — about $370 billion over the next decade — would be only about 0.1 percent of projected gross domestic product over the same period, they could well have a
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Krugman is a piece of shit, soyboy worm of a man.
Fuck Krugman.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I’m not sure what Americans were like in the 18th and 19th century, but they have to have been a lot tougher, less whining, less self-important and paradoxically more exceptional without thinking they were exceptional than Americans of today.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Dude. I know how taxes work. (. . . crude American petulance . . .)
Even Americans born well into the 20th century had a stoic quality and a modest sense of their own importance that seems to have been washed out of our culture. Not many WWII veterans left, but the ones I’ve met spoke about their battles at Normandy or in the South Pacific as just something that needed to get done. The people I knew who lived through The Great Depression said it was tough but made light of their own hardships.
Much of our citizenry today resemble loud spoiled children, whining and whingeing at every inconvenience, and trotting out opinions on the most complex matters with zero formal training or any in-depth research. I fear that to other countries we look like one of those screaming toddlers having a fit in a very public place. Sort of an international cringe.
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/08/crude-american-petulance
.html
Sounds like you are describing Democrats on TikTok and Twitter.
Go ahead and check them out.
I'll wait.
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Viktor Orbán laid out his dark worldview to the American right — and they loved it
The European Union’s only autocrat came to CPAC Dallas and sold American conservatives on a vision of a Western civil war.
About two weeks ago, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a speech in which he declared “we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.” On Thursday afternoon, he gave the opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, a bookend to former President Donald Trump’s closing address this weekend at the influential right-wing gathering.
That Orbán took the marquee spot at American conservatism’s most prominent jamboree despite his recent mask-off moment — one that led a longtime Orbán adviser to resign, calling his speech “worthy of Goebbels” — is a testament to his country’s place in the US right’s imagination. Under Orbán, Hungary has become for them something like what the Nordic countries are for some progressives: an idealized model of what they hope America could become. The most important difference is that the Nordic countries are firmly democratic, while Orbán’s Hungary very much is not.
Orbán was careful to reject charges of both racism and authoritarianism in his CPAC speech, mocking such accusations as “fake news” produced by “idiots.” Yet if you listened to his speech carefully, the dark heart of his project was plainly apparent: a conspiratorial belief that “globalists” were driving the West to the brink of cultural suicide, paired with an open acknowledgment that conservatives “cannot fight successfully by liberal means.”
More at https://www.vox.com/2022/8/5/23292448/orban-cpac-dallas-2022-speech-tr
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Viktor Orbán laid out his dark worldview to the American right — and they loved it
The European Union’s only autocrat came to CPAC Dallas and sold American conservatives on a vision of a Western civil war.
About two weeks ago, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave a speech in which he declared “we do not want to become peoples of mixed-race.” On Thursday afternoon, he gave the opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, a bookend to former President Donald Trump’s closing address this weekend at the influential right-wing gathering.
That Orbán took the marquee spot at American conservatism’s most prominent jamboree despite his recent mask-off moment — one that led a longtime Orbán adviser to resign, calling his speech “worthy of Goebbels” — is a testament to his country’s place in the US right’s imagination. Under Orbán, Hungary has become for them something like what the Nordic countries are for some progressives: an idealized model of what they hope America could become. The most important difference is that the Nordic countries are firmly democratic, while Orbán’s Hungary very much is not.
Orbán was careful to reject charges of both racism and authoritarianism in his CPAC speech, mocking such accusations as “fake news” produced by “idiots.” Yet if you listened to his speech carefully, the dark heart of his project was plainly apparent: a conspiratorial belief that “globalists” were driving the West to the brink of cultural suicide, paired with an open acknowledgment that conservatives “cannot fight successfully by liberal means.”
More at https://www.vox.com/2022/8/5/23292448/orban-cpac-dallas-2022-speech-tr
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Sounds like he's on to something.
The fact that Vox has a problem with it only solidifies that.
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Quote:Trump matches Orbán, even exceeds him, in understanding just how far you can go once you’ve convinced your followers that their nation’s very survival is at stake.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sounds like he's on to something.
The fact that Vox has a problem with it only solidifies that.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump matches Orbán, even exceeds him, in understanding just how far you can go once you’ve convinced your followers that their nation’s very survival is at stake.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sounds like he's on to something.
The fact that Vox has a problem with it only solidifies that.
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The city I grew up in has had two drive by shootings this summer as well as a guy who got shot inside his house for yelling out the window at 4:30AM when he woke up to noise and saw 4 hooded thugs in his neighbor's driveway breaking into his car. It used to be a nice neighborhood.
Democrats are spending record amounts of money and destroying the value of the dollar and still managing to turn the US into Mexico.
Nobody needs any convincing.
Get fucked.
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Quote:Orbán, whose speech opened the conference in Dallas that Trump will close, has complained bitterly against Jews. Funny how the next country over from Orbán's country blamed all its problems on Jews. Funny Republicans blame their problems on Democrats. Funny how that works.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The city I grew up in has had two drive by shootings this summer as well as a guy who got shot inside his house for yelling out the window at 4:30AM when he woke up to noise and saw 4 hooded thugs in his neighbor's driveway breaking into his car. It used to be a nice neighborhood.
Democrats are spending record amounts of money and destroying the value of the dollar and still managing to turn the US into Mexico.
Nobody needs any convincing.
Get fucked.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Orbán, whose speech opened the conference in Dallas that Trump will close, has complained bitterly against Jews. Funny how the next country over from Orbán's country blamed all its problems on Jews. Funny Republicans blame their problems on Democrats. Funny how that works.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The city I grew up in has had two drive by shootings this summer as well as a guy who got shot inside his house for yelling out the window at 4:30AM when he woke up to noise and saw 4 hooded thugs in his neighbor's driveway breaking into his car. It used to be a nice neighborhood.
Democrats are spending record amounts of money and destroying the value of the dollar and still managing to turn the US into Mexico.
Nobody needs any convincing.
Get fucked.
As a Democrat, you're not a protected class. How dare you compare yourself to a Jew for being a Democrat?
Get fucked, worm.
Meanwhile, in reality...
I've got about 10,000 posts here from you that are examples of Democrats blaming all of their problems on Republicans. Funny how that works, huh?
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Quote:Democrats Are Running as Opposition Party
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Meanwhile, in reality...
During the 2022 midterm, there are a couple of ways in which the Democratic appeal is essentially that they will act as a counterweight against an out-of-step Republican party.
1) The first involves the Supreme Court. Historically we refer to the legislative and executive as the “political branches,” as opposed to the supposedly apolitical judiciary. The general public no longer sees the Court that way. In a Quinnipiac University survey, 63 percent of voters agreed that “the Supreme Court is mainly motivated by politics.” And a Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that 74 percent of adults say the Court has become “too politicized.”
If people regard the Court as a political branch that is overreaching what the public wants, then they may view the midterms as a way to check it.
2) Another target for checks and balances is Donald Trump. In normal times, voters would not see any need to check the loser of the last presidential election. But these are not normal times. Trump is likely to run in 2024 and has already said as much.
Most Republican voters believe the lie that Trump won the 2020 election and as we saw on January 6, some of them are willing to act on that delusion. Trump and his followers are openly trying to stock Congress and state governments with election deniers. Many of them will be in office next year. Accordingly, a vote for Democrats is a vote against a powerful foe — not an incumbent administration, but a government-in-waiting and its accomplices.
More at https://www.thebulwark.com/democrats-are-running-as-opposition-party/
3) People notice that Trumptards are unemployed assholes with guns shouting that climate change is a hoax and abortion is murder. Do people want to vote for the candidates favored by assholes? Not unless they are assholes, too!
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Former President Donald J. Trump told his top White House aide that he wished he had generals like the ones who had reported to Adolf Hitler, saying they were “totally loyal” to the leader of the Nazi regime, according to a forthcoming book about the 45th president.
“Why can’t you be like the German generals?” Mr. Trump told John Kelly, his chief of staff, preceding the question with an obscenity, according to an excerpt from “The Divider: Trump in the White House,” by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, published online by The New Yorker on Monday morning.
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals
How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220808133145/https://www.newyorker.com/m
agazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Democrats Are Running as Opposition Party
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Meanwhile, in reality...
No. No they aren't.
It's been 16 straight years of Democrats getting everything they wanted, even while Trump was in office.
They've fucked up the schools, they've fucked up the economy, they've fucked up foreign relations, they've fucked up immigration, they've fucked up criminal punishement, they've fucked up corporate culture, they've fucked up anything that Americans used to find enjoyable in life.
And then they went and fucked up every aspect of entertainment, so there's almost nowhere you can even go to get a break from them anywhere.
You are not the Opposition Party when you run everything (into the ground).
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Quote:I heard the same complaints against Democrats from my East Texas relatives continuously from 1965 until today. Every problem was the fault of Democrats. When Republicans took control of the county government and state, still the same complaint that problems were the fault of Democrats. I know my relatives. Their problems couldn't be corrected by any elected official, but my relatives aren't the kind that understand they and well known local people living close-by (a greedy employer, an incompetent manager, a cheating-lying store owner) are the real problem, not some Democrat they heard about in the news. But my relatives are afraid of these very real people they see all the time. My relatives are much braver and more vocal attacking people they will never know in person.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
They've fucked up the schools, they've fucked up the economy, they've fucked up . . .
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