45th President of the United States, Donald Trump (Vol. 10)
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Electro1980 said:
3) a large number of Republicans treat the constitution as a sacred text and the authors as almost infallible, saint like, people and the words as religious dogma to not be questioned, only interpreted.
Not to be questioned, except when it suits them - e.g. 2nd Amendment...twister said:
Electro1980 said:
3) a large number of Republicans treat the constitution as a sacred text and the authors as almost infallible, saint like, people and the words as religious dogma to not be questioned, only interpreted.
Not to be questioned, except when it suits them - e.g. 2nd Amendment...The 4th is basically dead.
Georgia's legacy of voter suppression is driving historic Black turnout: Changing demographics in the Atlanta suburbs and an explosion of civic engagement among first-time voters could turn the state blue for the first time in decades.
Almost every Black Georgia voter queuing up at the polls has a story about 2018.
Most waited for hours in lines that wrapped around their voting locations. Some were removed from the voter rolls arbitrarily, forcing them to fill out confusing provisional ballots on Election Day. Others stayed home altogether and — after watching Democrat Stacey Abrams lose the gubernatorial race by fewer than 60,000 votes — regretted that decision.
Voters interviewed by POLITICO said anger over perceived voter suppression tactics is fueling their eagerness to cast early ballots. And indeed, Georgians are voting in numbers never seen before in the state’s history. Since Oct. 12, the first day of early voting, a staggering 2.7 million voters have cast a ballot — a nearly 110 percent increase from 2016. Beyond that, Democrats are organizing caravans, volunteering as election workers and serving as poll watchers. This level of enthusiasm is also a reflection of apprehension about the election: Voters here are turning out in waves.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/georgia-v...
Almost every Black Georgia voter queuing up at the polls has a story about 2018.
Most waited for hours in lines that wrapped around their voting locations. Some were removed from the voter rolls arbitrarily, forcing them to fill out confusing provisional ballots on Election Day. Others stayed home altogether and — after watching Democrat Stacey Abrams lose the gubernatorial race by fewer than 60,000 votes — regretted that decision.
Voters interviewed by POLITICO said anger over perceived voter suppression tactics is fueling their eagerness to cast early ballots. And indeed, Georgians are voting in numbers never seen before in the state’s history. Since Oct. 12, the first day of early voting, a staggering 2.7 million voters have cast a ballot — a nearly 110 percent increase from 2016. Beyond that, Democrats are organizing caravans, volunteering as election workers and serving as poll watchers. This level of enthusiasm is also a reflection of apprehension about the election: Voters here are turning out in waves.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/georgia-v...
Democrats are coming after Ron Johnson in 2022.
With the presidential election not yet even in the books, Democratic opposition is already lining up to run for the Republican’s Senate seat two years from now in Wisconsin.
Democrat Tom Nelson, Outagamie county executive and a former state Assembly majority leader, has officially launched his bid for the 2022 Senate race, Nelson announced to POLITICO. He has already filed his papers, making him the first prominent challenger nationally to declare a 2022 run in what’s sure to quickly become a high-profile Senate contest.
Johnson, a second-term senator who hasn’t said whether he’ll run again, has been an adamant defender of President Donald Trump — and Democrats think that record will not play well in the perennial battleground in 2022.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/wisconsin...
Not just an adamant defender, more a willing participant in the attempt to manufacture dirt
With the presidential election not yet even in the books, Democratic opposition is already lining up to run for the Republican’s Senate seat two years from now in Wisconsin.
Democrat Tom Nelson, Outagamie county executive and a former state Assembly majority leader, has officially launched his bid for the 2022 Senate race, Nelson announced to POLITICO. He has already filed his papers, making him the first prominent challenger nationally to declare a 2022 run in what’s sure to quickly become a high-profile Senate contest.
Johnson, a second-term senator who hasn’t said whether he’ll run again, has been an adamant defender of President Donald Trump — and Democrats think that record will not play well in the perennial battleground in 2022.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/wisconsin...
Not just an adamant defender, more a willing participant in the attempt to manufacture dirt
Sam.M said:
twister said:
Electro1980 said:
3) a large number of Republicans treat the constitution as a sacred text and the authors as almost infallible, saint like, people and the words as religious dogma to not be questioned, only interpreted.
Not to be questioned, except when it suits them - e.g. 2nd Amendment...The 4th is basically dead.
This is shocking, but not too far-fetched https://twitter.com/MeidasTouch/status/13208986263...
The Trump administration is fighting in federal court to block states from giving billions of dollars in emergency food stamps to the lowest-income Americans during the coronavirus crisis.
Residents of Pennsylvania and California have sued President Donald Trump’s Agriculture Department over a policy that has kept roughly 40 percent of households who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from receiving any emergency benefits during the pandemic. After being ordered by a federal judge last week to proceed with the payments in the Pennsylvania case, the department is continuing to appeal.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/trump-blo...
Residents of Pennsylvania and California have sued President Donald Trump’s Agriculture Department over a policy that has kept roughly 40 percent of households who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from receiving any emergency benefits during the pandemic. After being ordered by a federal judge last week to proceed with the payments in the Pennsylvania case, the department is continuing to appeal.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/trump-blo...
Another failure by Barr
A federal judge on Tuesday denied the Department of Justice’s effort to intervene in a defamation lawsuit brought against President Donald Trump by E. Jean Carroll, a longtime magazine columnist who has alleged he raped her, paving the way for the case to proceed.
Judge Kaplan’s order denying AG Barr’s last-minute maneuver to save President Trump from discovery in the E. Jean Carroll rape defamation case.
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.n...
They have managed to delay the case all year though and it won't be heard until after the election
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/27/politics/e-jean...
A federal judge on Tuesday denied the Department of Justice’s effort to intervene in a defamation lawsuit brought against President Donald Trump by E. Jean Carroll, a longtime magazine columnist who has alleged he raped her, paving the way for the case to proceed.
Judge Kaplan’s order denying AG Barr’s last-minute maneuver to save President Trump from discovery in the E. Jean Carroll rape defamation case.
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.n...
They have managed to delay the case all year though and it won't be heard until after the election
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/27/politics/e-jean...
Electro1980 said:
Just like the bible. The evangelical Christians will happily condemn “the left” for any perceived “sin” and yet support a hateful, gluttonous, greedy man who has had multiple marriages destroyed by affairs and admits to sexually assaulting women. The selective interpretation is part of what makes it so religious.
He is a hateful, gluttonous, greedy man, but he's their hateful, gluttonous, greedy man.Remember the trumpettes saying Biden didn't have policies, whilst ignoring Bidens published policies and skipping over that trump had none...
Trump’s Second-Term Agenda? Slogans Over Details
President Trump’s norm-shattering ways now extend to a refusal to tell voters how he will spend another four years in the White House.
This time around, Mr. Trump has struggled to make the election about anything other than himself.
For months, his advisers have pushed him to lay out a vision for a second term, putting out news releases for him that promise a mission to Mars, a “manned presence on the moon,” and the “world’s greatest infrastructure system.” Those proposals, though lacking in detail, have been driven in part by the campaign’s internal polling, which shows that voters want to hear his plans.
But “the vision thing,” as George H.W. Bush once called it, takes up little time at the president’s rallies.
Instead, Mr. Trump has promised more of the same, and warned that the alternative could be scarier. The problem of running with little new to say has been most pronounced in the campaign’s throwback of a slogan: “Make America Great Again, Again.”
Even some supporters remain uncertain of what Mr. Trump plans to do with a second term.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/us/politics/tru...
Trump’s Second-Term Agenda? Slogans Over Details
President Trump’s norm-shattering ways now extend to a refusal to tell voters how he will spend another four years in the White House.
This time around, Mr. Trump has struggled to make the election about anything other than himself.
For months, his advisers have pushed him to lay out a vision for a second term, putting out news releases for him that promise a mission to Mars, a “manned presence on the moon,” and the “world’s greatest infrastructure system.” Those proposals, though lacking in detail, have been driven in part by the campaign’s internal polling, which shows that voters want to hear his plans.
But “the vision thing,” as George H.W. Bush once called it, takes up little time at the president’s rallies.
Instead, Mr. Trump has promised more of the same, and warned that the alternative could be scarier. The problem of running with little new to say has been most pronounced in the campaign’s throwback of a slogan: “Make America Great Again, Again.”
Even some supporters remain uncertain of what Mr. Trump plans to do with a second term.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/us/politics/tru...
Anecdotally some Trumpettes are sticking their heads over the parapet; on the local paper's Farceberk 'letters' page and on the Herald letters page, citing the usual "Biden's a demented creepy sleepy hair-sniffing corrupt communist manchurian candidate and Trump's being treated very unfairly by the media" script. Surprising number of fellow travellers cheering them on. Bots or just the small percentage of loons who also believe that Q s
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t?Edited by hidetheelephants on Tuesday 27th October 15:49
Many people have said that Kavanaughs argument, denying voters last night, was flawed, full of errors.
Brett Kavanaugh’s stunning opinion last night should be a huge story today. It cast aspersions on mail ballots. It’s riddled with errors. It endorses a theory too radical for the Bush v. Gore majority. It’s a preemptive attack on our election’s integrity.
As the Senate was voting to elevate Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court on Monday night, the immediate stakes for the entire country were made suddenly clear by a critical election ruling from the court she now joins. On Monday night, Justice Brett Kavanaugh released a radical and brazenly partisan opinion that dashed any hopes he, as the Supreme Court’s new median justice, might slow-walk the court’s impending conservative revolution, while also threatening the integrity of next week’s election. In an 18-page lecture, the justice cast doubt on the legitimacy of many mail ballots and endorsed the most sinister component of Bush v. Gore. America’s new median justice is not a friend to democracy, and we may pay the price for Barrett’s confirmation in just eight days.
Monday’s order from the Supreme Court blocked a federal judge’s order that had tweaked Wisconsin’s voting laws in light of the pandemic. The judge directed election officials to count ballots that were postmarked by Election Day but received by Nov. 9, finding that the unprecedented demand for mail ballots combined with Postal Service delays could disenfranchise up to 100,000 voters. An appeals court blocked his decision on Oct. 8, and on Monday, SCOTUS kept it on hold by a 5–3 vote. The court offered no majority opinion, but Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh all wrote concurrences. Justice Elena Kagan penned a trenchant dissent joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/brett-...
Brett Kavanaugh’s stunning opinion last night should be a huge story today. It cast aspersions on mail ballots. It’s riddled with errors. It endorses a theory too radical for the Bush v. Gore majority. It’s a preemptive attack on our election’s integrity.
As the Senate was voting to elevate Amy Coney Barrett to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court on Monday night, the immediate stakes for the entire country were made suddenly clear by a critical election ruling from the court she now joins. On Monday night, Justice Brett Kavanaugh released a radical and brazenly partisan opinion that dashed any hopes he, as the Supreme Court’s new median justice, might slow-walk the court’s impending conservative revolution, while also threatening the integrity of next week’s election. In an 18-page lecture, the justice cast doubt on the legitimacy of many mail ballots and endorsed the most sinister component of Bush v. Gore. America’s new median justice is not a friend to democracy, and we may pay the price for Barrett’s confirmation in just eight days.
Monday’s order from the Supreme Court blocked a federal judge’s order that had tweaked Wisconsin’s voting laws in light of the pandemic. The judge directed election officials to count ballots that were postmarked by Election Day but received by Nov. 9, finding that the unprecedented demand for mail ballots combined with Postal Service delays could disenfranchise up to 100,000 voters. An appeals court blocked his decision on Oct. 8, and on Monday, SCOTUS kept it on hold by a 5–3 vote. The court offered no majority opinion, but Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh all wrote concurrences. Justice Elena Kagan penned a trenchant dissent joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/brett-...
hidetheelephants said:
Anecdotally some Trumpettes are sticking their heads over the parapet; on the local paper's Farceberk 'letters' page and on the Herald letters page, citing the usual "Biden's a demented creepy sleepy hair-sniffing corrupt communist manchurian candidate and Trump's being treated very unfairly by the media" script. Surprising number of fellow travellers cheering them on. Bots or just the small percentage of loons who also believe that Q st?
They have a point, he is all those things. It's very clear to see that the MSM treats Trump gets very differently to Biden, Harris, Pelosi etc. I enjoyed the recent CNN clip where they had grown sufficient balls to question Pelosi's blocking of the Covid aid, she was clearly expecting the usual softballs.t?LimSlip said:
hidetheelephants said:
Anecdotally some Trumpettes are sticking their heads over the parapet; on the local paper's Farceberk 'letters' page and on the Herald letters page, citing the usual "Biden's a demented creepy sleepy hair-sniffing corrupt communist manchurian candidate and Trump's being treated very unfairly by the media" script. Surprising number of fellow travellers cheering them on. Bots or just the small percentage of loons who also believe that Q st?
They have a point, he is all those things. It's very clear to see that the MSM treats Trump gets very differently to Biden, Harris, Pelosi etc. I enjoyed the recent CNN clip where they had grown sufficient balls to question Pelosi's blocking of the Covid aid, she was clearly expecting the usual softballs.t?You question softballs for others, the tangerine toddler had a hissy fit when he was asked "are you ready for some tough questions" It was a rhetorical question and he still threw his toys out of the pram before the interview even started.
Argleton said:
I'm officially calling it, Donald J. Trump for 4 more years.
You can quote me here and say "he was right" in a week, or whenever it is.
He may lose the popular vote again but the electoral college will swing it.
Trump for 2020 Make America Great Again!
Why do you say that?You can quote me here and say "he was right" in a week, or whenever it is.
He may lose the popular vote again but the electoral college will swing it.
Trump for 2020 Make America Great Again!
Have you got some inside information or is it just what you desire?
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