You know, for all the talk about Hunter and drugs, it's interesting that whenever the terms "cocaine" or "drugs" trend on Twitter, so does Don Jr, without fail. Why is it constant projection with the tzees?
https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1485324675622359051?s=20
Right out of the Trump playbook.... What do you do when a majority of the voters reject you? You double down and cozy up to dictators.
People dislike Bolsonaro so much that they would much rather vote for the ultra corrupt Lula. The idea is that most know he was corrupt, but he got stuff done and the country was in much better shape under his leadership. However, it is unlikely that Lula can even run given all his legal issues. There has been a significant shift of politicians from the left to the center in Brazil recently, which means some potential anti-Bolsonaro vote splitting. It remains to be seen who will actually run against Bolsonaro.
https://twitter.com/OliverStuenkel/status/1484483357295665164?s=20
Dems need to somehow get all these African American judges Biden has appointed in one room, take a picture of them and distribute it to every black hair cutting place in America adn every black church. That alone would get another I dunno 500k people to vote.
Senate Judiciary Committee
@JudiciaryDems
In one year, President Biden has nominated as many Black women to serve on the federal appeals courts as there were in all of U.S. history when he first took office.
Flagpole wrote:
Fat hurts wrote:
Right. And I'm amazed at how I've obviously touched a nerve with the Trumpers here.
This is not some conspiracy theory about how Trump is a secret murderer. The is evidence right out in the open. Trump was trying to kill Pence and it was plain for everyone to see.
At 2:24pm on January 6th, 2021, a violent mob of terrorists was inside the capitol. At that moment, Trump directed that mob to kill Mike Pence.
Because Trump was careful with his wording, it would be hard to get a conviction in court. But we all know what Trump was doing in that instant. And the mob definitely got the message as they started chanting, "Hang Mike Pence!".
Donald Trump is guilty of attempted murder.
I agree. He will not be charged with that though (unless they have some info on that that I just can't imagine).
IMO, the only way he would be charged with attempted murder would be if an actual plot to kill Pence is uncovered. I don't think such a plot existed.
However, it is possible that the January 6th commission uncovers conversations or documents that show Trump was speculating about what would happen if Pence were dead or incapacitated before the electoral vote count was completed. It's actually kind of murky as to who could take Pence's place. So Pence's death would put the whole process into chaos. Therefore, if they were planning for that scenario then it might prove Trump's state of mind when he sent that tweet to the terrorists.
Short of that, Trump will never be charged with attempted murder even though he is clearly guilty of that crime.
Trollminator wrote:
nonequals wrote:
It really was the perfect test of American character:
Test 1: Let's make an incredibly obviously horrible human being president and see if he maintains significant popularity?
Grade: Fail
Test 2: Let's have him followed by a run-of-the-mill, long track record, no huge skeletons in the closet, moderate politician of the other party and see if roughly half the country will still talk themselves into the second guy being absolutely horrible? So bad that they're willing to go back to the autocrat - or at a minimum, support the party that is led by and supports the autocrat.
Grade: Fail
The Founding Fathers would be SO, SO ashamed.
Well, I blame the Founding Fathers, the electorate vote system is terrible. The other problem of course is minority rule resulting from disproportionate representation of the people in the Senate and Congress. Just imagine if we had a more democratic voting system - no Bush and no Trump, no concentration of power in the hands of a few Senators, etc. This is the real failure of America - it is simply not democratic enough and clearly there isn't much defense against further anti-democratization.
One of these days I need to learn more about our founding, I guess. I'm extremely under-informed on the subject (my fault), but over the years I've repeatedly heard about how they were very much afraid of tyrants and such. If true, it's surprising and disappointing that they came up with such a relatively leaky system against a tyrant wanna-be.
Relatively ignorant folks like me had our first big lesson during impeachment, when we learned that if the President fully "owns" either chamber, he's largely above the law and/or any reasonable standard of behavior.
And before that, that ALL of those wise men left it to a future FREAKIN' DoJ MEMO as to whether or not a President was, for all intents and purposes, above the law !!!
"We're talkin' memos? Memos? NOT laws? Memos, we're talking memos?!" (Iverson?)
Non-Trumpers: Feel free to let me know what I'm missing.
agip wrote:
Dems need to somehow get all these African American judges Biden has appointed in one room, take a picture of them and distribute it to every black hair cutting place in America adn every black church. That alone would get another I dunno 500k people to vote.
Senate Judiciary Committee
@JudiciaryDems
In one year, President Biden has nominated as many Black women to serve on the federal appeals courts as there were in all of U.S. history when he first took office.
It's "funny" how behavior that one would normally consider negative can be something for which you end up hoping for (in vain). As in, (minority speaking), "That fat, rich, white/orange, probably racist guy? I ain't voting for him (in a million years) !!!"
And yet........
I'm usually focused on all of the idi** white "moderates" who vote for Trump/Rs, but am then periodically reminded that, SOMEHOW, 99.99% of blacks and latinos DIDN'T vote against him.
nonequals wrote:
agip wrote:
Dems need to somehow get all these African American judges Biden has appointed in one room, take a picture of them and distribute it to every black hair cutting place in America adn every black church. That alone would get another I dunno 500k people to vote.
Senate Judiciary Committee
@JudiciaryDems
In one year, President Biden has nominated as many Black women to serve on the federal appeals courts as there were in all of U.S. history when he first took office.
It's "funny" how behavior that one would normally consider negative can be something for which you end up hoping for (in vain). As in, (minority speaking), "That fat, rich, white/orange, probably racist guy? I ain't voting for him (in a million years) !!!"
And yet........
I'm usually focused on all of the idi** white "moderates" who vote for Trump/Rs, but am then periodically reminded that, SOMEHOW, 99.99% of blacks and latinos DIDN'T vote against him.
Hopefully it goes without saying, but when I said "negative" above it was referring to someone voting against a white person simply because they're white (or fat, or orange)......not the "probably racist" part. Pretty sure that that is OK !
nonequals wrote:
Trollminator wrote:
Well, I blame the Founding Fathers, the electorate vote system is terrible. The other problem of course is minority rule resulting from disproportionate representation of the people in the Senate and Congress. Just imagine if we had a more democratic voting system - no Bush and no Trump, no concentration of power in the hands of a few Senators, etc. This is the real failure of America - it is simply not democratic enough and clearly there isn't much defense against further anti-democratization.
One of these days I need to learn more about our founding, I guess. I'm extremely under-informed on the subject (my fault), but over the years I've repeatedly heard about how they were very much afraid of tyrants and such. If true, it's surprising and disappointing that they came up with such a relatively leaky system against a tyrant wanna-be.
Relatively ignorant folks like me had our first big lesson during impeachment, when we learned that if the President fully "owns" either chamber, he's largely above the law and/or any reasonable standard of behavior.
And before that, that ALL of those wise men left it to a future FREAKIN' DoJ MEMO as to whether or not a President was, for all intents and purposes, above the law !!!
"We're talkin' memos? Memos? NOT laws? Memos, we're talking memos?!" (Iverson?)
Non-Trumpers: Feel free to let me know what I'm missing.
yeah lots of things:
1/ the electoral college was supposed to stop a trump from taking office. Fail.
2/ the senators, who weren't supposed to be elected, were supposed to be a steadying force for long 6 year terms. Fail.
3/ The DOJ memo that says it will not indict a sitting president has not been judged constitutional or not. Who knows. it might be tossed by SCOTUS eventually.
4/ The founders didn't want parties to be so powerful. They didn't come with a way to keep them weak though.
5/ This is arguable, but without the electoral college, the union may never have happened. It gave each state more power in the Federal system. Without it, some states may never have signed up for the USA. But that;s a maybe.
Anyone still supporting democrats at this point is a Christian hating piece of trash.
Democrat AND Christian is impossible.
You cannot be both.
Raphael Warnock is a classic example of a non-Christian democrat piece of trash.
nonequals wrote:
Trollminator wrote:
Well, I blame the Founding Fathers, the electorate vote system is terrible. The other problem of course is minority rule resulting from disproportionate representation of the people in the Senate and Congress. Just imagine if we had a more democratic voting system - no Bush and no Trump, no concentration of power in the hands of a few Senators, etc. This is the real failure of America - it is simply not democratic enough and clearly there isn't much defense against further anti-democratization.
One of these days I need to learn more about our founding, I guess. I'm extremely under-informed on the subject (my fault), but over the years I've repeatedly heard about how they were very much afraid of tyrants and such. If true, it's surprising and disappointing that they came up with such a relatively leaky system against a tyrant wanna-be.
Relatively ignorant folks like me had our first big lesson during impeachment, when we learned that if the President fully "owns" either chamber, he's largely above the law and/or any reasonable standard of behavior.
And before that, that ALL of those wise men left it to a future FREAKIN' DoJ MEMO as to whether or not a President was, for all intents and purposes, above the law !!!
"We're talkin' memos? Memos? NOT laws? Memos, we're talking memos?!" (Iverson?)
Non-Trumpers: Feel free to let me know what I'm missing.
Even the criminal enterprise known as the GQP gets caught off guard sometimes at just how much criminality and anti-democracy the base is willing to tolerate. A perfect example was the immediate tough response of top Rs in the few days after Jan 6. They must have thought the base was overwhelmingly against trump's incitement of the insurrection. Little did they know that kind of blatant treason was totally accepted and my how quickly they changed their rhetoric.
Trollminator wrote:
nonequals wrote:
One of these days I need to learn more about our founding, I guess. I'm extremely under-informed on the subject (my fault), but over the years I've repeatedly heard about how they were very much afraid of tyrants and such. If true, it's surprising and disappointing that they came up with such a relatively leaky system against a tyrant wanna-be.
Relatively ignorant folks like me had our first big lesson during impeachment, when we learned that if the President fully "owns" either chamber, he's largely above the law and/or any reasonable standard of behavior.
And before that, that ALL of those wise men left it to a future FREAKIN' DoJ MEMO as to whether or not a President was, for all intents and purposes, above the law !!!
"We're talkin' memos? Memos? NOT laws? Memos, we're talking memos?!" (Iverson?)
Non-Trumpers: Feel free to let me know what I'm missing.
Even the criminal enterprise known as the GQP gets caught off guard sometimes at just how much criminality and anti-democracy the base is willing to tolerate. A perfect example was the immediate tough response of top Rs in the few days after Jan 6. They must have thought the base was overwhelmingly against trump's incitement of the insurrection. Little did they know that kind of blatant treason was totally accepted and my how quickly they changed their rhetoric.
POD
That was the final defeat of the actual conservatives.
They thought sedition in the name of trump was bad. But the base has shown them that sedition in the name of trump is actually good.
Date that as the end of Reagan Conservativism.
Real Obvi wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
Sally, get real. She made that one comment (and she was WRONG to have said so), but that was IT. She conceded immediately and DID NOT MEDDLE (as I said). She did not try to illegally take power. Don't be insane.
Telling Sally, "Don't be insane" is a bit like telling a sphere, "Don't be round."
True. I am trying to be kinder and gentler.
Prof. Racket wrote:
Newt is a media whore and will say anything to try to remain desperately relevant. Wouldn't take a single thing he says seriously
Still dangerous what he said (because Fox viewers eat that sh!t up), but about him, you are 100% CORRECT!
nonequals wrote:
Trollminator wrote:
Well, I blame the Founding Fathers, the electorate vote system is terrible. The other problem of course is minority rule resulting from disproportionate representation of the people in the Senate and Congress. Just imagine if we had a more democratic voting system - no Bush and no Trump, no concentration of power in the hands of a few Senators, etc. This is the real failure of America - it is simply not democratic enough and clearly there isn't much defense against further anti-democratization.
One of these days I need to learn more about our founding, I guess. I'm extremely under-informed on the subject (my fault), but over the years I've repeatedly heard about how they were very much afraid of tyrants and such. If true, it's surprising and disappointing that they came up with such a relatively leaky system against a tyrant wanna-be.
Relatively ignorant folks like me had our first big lesson during impeachment, when we learned that if the President fully "owns" either chamber, he's largely above the law and/or any reasonable standard of behavior.
And before that, that ALL of those wise men left it to a future FREAKIN' DoJ MEMO as to whether or not a President was, for all intents and purposes, above the law !!!
"We're talkin' memos? Memos? NOT laws? Memos, we're talking memos?!" (Iverson?)
Non-Trumpers: Feel free to let me know what I'm missing.
We can't dismiss the memo. It shows the warped state of mind of the Trump White House. Not sure we will ever find out who wrote it, but it was probably Stephen Miller or Boris Epshteyn if I had to guess. Though there are others from that administration who were nutso also. And let's be clear, it would have broken the law had it been implemented...a VERY authoritarian move.
tommy johnson wrote:
Anyone still supporting democrats at this point is a Christian hating piece of trash.
Democrat AND Christian is impossible.
You cannot be both.
Raphael Warnock is a classic example of a non-Christian democrat piece of trash.
What a load of crap. YOU aren't doing this, but a person COULD make the argument that Christianity as practiced has moved away from where it once was (and where it SHOULD be)...supporting liberal ideology of supporting the poor, turning the other cheek, judging not, demonizing the very wealthy. Jesus supported people, not property. Most Christians today (in the US anyway) support their property over people, guns over conversation, tax cuts for the rich but not any help for the poor...and that last one is freakin' nuts for someone who says they are a Christian.
Flagpole wrote:
tommy johnson wrote:
Anyone still supporting democrats at this point is a Christian hating piece of trash.
Democrat AND Christian is impossible.
You cannot be both.
Raphael Warnock is a classic example of a non-Christian democrat piece of trash.
What a load of crap. YOU aren't doing this, but a person COULD make the argument that Christianity as practiced has moved away from where it once was (and where it SHOULD be)...supporting liberal ideology of supporting the poor, turning the other cheek, judging not, demonizing the very wealthy. Jesus supported people, not property. Most Christians today (in the US anyway) support their property over people, guns over conversation, tax cuts for the rich but not any help for the poor...and that last one is freakin' nuts for someone who says they are a Christian.
Incorrect. Anyone voting democrat is guilty of murdering the unborn. Democrats have rejected Christ and embraced democrat evils. Judgement Day awaits all democrats.
The integrity of our elections is under serios threat when we have "elections officials" like this...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elections-official-accused-murdering-her-224100897.html
Poster, you watch U.S. financial markets all day. You pay attention to what Biden does or does not do. A few hours ago, N.A.S.D.A.Q. was down about 4 1/2% and S&P 500 was down about 3 1/2%. Most U.S. equities finished up today. What happened? Did Biden somehow get Putin to pull all of Russian tanks away from Ukraine border?