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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:07 pm Post subject:
Remember when the largest ever aid package in us history was handed to Trump and the first thing he did was kick out the Government Watchdog.. hmmm how does that happen... where did that money go.. into Trump and Republican and Putin coffers?
If they take control nobody will be held accountable for the billions and billions of dollars in theft under Trump.. along with daily Pledge of Allegiance songs to the Trump Family
Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 6054 Location: My own little piece of reality
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:53 pm Post subject:
ChefLinda wrote:
Also, state Republicans keep writing more and more laws to restrict women every day. So this is going to stay in the news -- if the media covers it and Democratic politicians keep calling attention to it.
For example, Red states don't want women leaving the state to get an abortion in a Blue state. So they are now writing laws to restrict women's travel! I mean how does that work? If a woman wants to go on vacation or travel for business or drive to a shopping mall across the state line, will they have to get permission from the government first? Will they have to show papers from their doctor showing they are not pregnant? So a woman calls United Airlines to book a flight. Is the agent going to ask: are you pregnant before selling you a ticket? So not only did abortion get repealed, all right to privacy went out the window. This is not going back to the 1950's this is going back to the 1750's. This is some real bull-(bleep).
This is going to get progressively crazier and deadlier. And more anti-Democratic by the day.
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Chip Franklin.com @chipfranklin
Mississippi legislators openly discuss using dogs at airports to sniff women leaving the state.
The dogs can tell if a woman is pregnant.
_________________ “There is always light if only we're brave enough to see it, if only we're brave enough to be it.” --Amanda Gorman
^^This is the conversation when McCarthy said he thought Putin paid Trump.. in this Paul Ryan lays out the plan Russia uses to politically take over countries and it is what is happening here imho.
(Presidential Historian Breaks Down 'The Week That Changed America')
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The Supreme Court wrapped up its term with a number of blockbuster rulings on abortion, guns, religion and climate. Presidential historian Michael Beschloss dives into “the week that changed America.”
Also, state Republicans keep writing more and more laws to restrict women every day. So this is going to stay in the news -- if the media covers it and Democratic politicians keep calling attention to it.
For example, Red states don't want women leaving the state to get an abortion in a Blue state. So they are now writing laws to restrict women's travel! I mean how does that work? If a woman wants to go on vacation or travel for business or drive to a shopping mall across the state line, will they have to get permission from the government first? Will they have to show papers from their doctor showing they are not pregnant? So a woman calls United Airlines to book a flight. Is the agent going to ask: are you pregnant before selling you a ticket? So not only did abortion get repealed, all right to privacy went out the window. This is not going back to the 1950's this is going back to the 1750's. This is some real bull-(bleep).
This is going to get progressively crazier and deadlier. And more anti-Democratic by the day.
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Chip Franklin.com @chipfranklin
Mississippi legislators openly discuss using dogs at airports to sniff women leaving the state.
The dogs can tell if a woman is pregnant.
The Republican Party has gone full Nazi Fascist now. All voters should be alarmed because it's obvious they aren't going to stop unless voters stop them. This is not how Democracy is supposed to work.
1/ The Nightmare Scenario SCOTUS is Plotting For the 2024 Election Takeover: 2/ 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.
3/ 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:
4/ 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.
5/ 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.
6/ 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.
7/ 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.
8/ 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.
9/ 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).
10/ 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.
11/ 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.
12/ 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.
13/ Just as happened when Pinochet’s militias shot into crowds as he took over Chile, when Mussolini’s volunteer militia the Blackshirts killed civilians as he took over Italy, and Hitler’s Brownshirts did in Germany, their allies among the police and Army refuse to intervene.
14/ 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.
15/ 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.
16/ Sound far fetched?
17/ 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 it almost certainly is.
18/ 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:
19/ “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...
20/ “The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons … which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
21/ “The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President…”
22/ It’s not particularly ambiguous, even as clarified by the 12th Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
23/ Neither mentions the will of the people, although the Electoral Count Act requires each state’s governor to certify the vote before passing it along to Washington, DC. And half of those states have Democratic governors.
24/ Which brings us to the Supreme Court’s probable 2023 decision. As Robert Barnes wrote yesterday for The Washington Post:
25/ “The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will consider what would be a radical change in the way federal elections are conducted, giving state legislatures sole authority…
26/ to set the rules for contests even if their actions violated state constitutions and resulted in extreme partisan gerrymandering for congressional seats.”
27/ While the main issue being debated in Moore v Harper, scheduled for a hearing this October, is a gerrymander that conflicts with North Carolina’s constitution, the issue at the core of the debate is what’s called the “Independent State Legislature Doctrine.”
28/ It literally gives state legislatures the power to pre-rig or simply hand elections to the candidate of their choice.
29/ As NPR notes:
30/ “The independent state legislature theory was first invoked by three conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices in the celebrated Bush v. Gore case that handed the 2000 election victory to George W. Bush.
31/ “In that case, the three cited it to support the selection of a Republican slate of presidential electors.”
32/ Those three were Rehnquist, Scalia, and Clarence Thomas, now the seniormost member of the Court. They wrote in their concurring opinion in Bush v Gore:
33/ “The federal questions that ultimately emerged in this case are not substantial. Article II provides that “[e]ach State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors.” …
34/ “But as we indicated in our remand of the earlier case, in a Presidential election the clearly expressed intent of the legislature must prevail.”
35/ That doctrine — the basis of John Eastman and Donald Trump’s effort to get states to submit multiple slates of electors — asserts that a plain reading of Article II and
36/ the 12th Amendment of the Constitution says that each state’s legislature has final say in which candidate gets their states’ Electoral College vote, governors and the will of the voters be damned.
37/ The Republicans point out that the Constitution says that it’s up to the states — “in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct” — to decide which presidential candidate gets their Electoral College votes.
38/ But the Electoral Count Act requires a governor’s sign-off, and half those states have Democratic governors. Which has precedence, the Constitution or the Act?
39/ If the Supreme Court says it’s the US Constitution rather than the Electoral Count Act, states’ constitutions, state laws, or the votes of their citizens, the scenario outlined above becomes not just possible but very likely.
40/ After all, the Constitution only mentions the states’ legislatures — which are all Republican controlled — so the unwillingness of the Democratic governors of Michigan, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to sign off on the Electoral College votes becomes moot.
41/ Under this circumstance DeSantis becomes president, the third Republican president in the 21st century, and also the third Republican President to have lost the popular vote election yet ended up in the White House.
42/ This scenario isn’t just plausible: it’s probable. GOP-controlled states are already changing their state laws to allow for it, and
43/ Republican strategists are gaming out which states have Republican legislatures willing to override the votes of their people to win the White House for the Republican candidate.
44/ Those state legislators who still embrace Trump and this theory are getting the support of large pools of rightwing billionaires’ dark money.
45/ As the highly respected conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig recently wrote:
46/ “Trump and the Republicans can only be stopped from stealing the 2024 election at this point if the Supreme Court rejects the independent state legislature doctrine …
47/ “and Congress amends the Electoral Count Act to constrain Congress' own power to reject state electoral votes and decide the presidency.”
48/ I take no satisfaction in having accurately predicted — in March of 2020 — how Trump and his buddies would try to steal the election in January of 2021. Or how the Supreme Court would blow up the Environmental Protection Agency.
49/ Trump’s January 6th effort failed because every contested state had laws on the books requiring all of their Electoral College votes to go to whichever candidate won the popular vote in the state.
50/ That will not be the case in 2024. As we are watching, the Supreme Court — in collaboration with state legislatures through activists like Ginny Thomas — are setting that election up right now in front of us in real time.
51/ We damn well better be planning for this, because it’s likely coming our way in just a bit more than two short years.
(SCOTUS Religious Extremists Rapidly Eroding Separation Of Church And State In USA)
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Writer Mark Joseph Stern joins the MR crew to talk about the recent SCOTUS opinions and rulings on Carson v Makin and Kennedy v Bremerton which continue to blur the lines between church and state. The Majority Report crew discuss Carson v Mankin and the implications of the ruling as secularism is interpreted to be as anti-religion. The crew also talk about how the Supreme Court ruling on Kennedy v Bremerton diminishes the Lemon test.
(Two secret service agents say they heard claim Trump angrily demanded to go to Capitol)
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Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didn’t get his way, according to two Secret Service sources who say they heard about the incident from multiple agents, including the driver of the presidential SUV where it occurred.
(Law professor who taught Merrick Garland predicts he will indict Trump)
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Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law professor who taught Attorney General Merrick Garland, predicts that Garland will indict former President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection.
(US President Joe Biden vows to protect women travelling for abortions - BBC News)
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US President Joe Biden has said that women travelling for abortions will be protected by the federal government.
Millions of women in the US lost the constitutional right to abortion in June, after the Supreme Court overturned its 50-year-old Roe v Wade decision.
Google has also said it is taking steps to remove data from users' location histories that could be used to prosecute people for visits to US abortion clinics.
71 percent don’t want Biden to run for reelection: poll
He shouldn’t. However dems need to start getting some new blood out there or it will be Biden vs warren vs DwSantis. In which case ron would beat either imho
I think Trump will beat out DeathSantis.
He'll come up with a catchy nickname for him. Make up a juicy story about him. And it'll be a wrap.
Republicans want their Presidents to act like pro-wrestlers talking trash and hyping up their next fight. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
Joined: 15 Sep 2012 Posts: 29387 Location: La La Land
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 9:52 am Post subject:
Republican obstructionism means we only have 2 operating branches unless a Republican is President.
This is the price we pay for electing a Black President I guess?
McConnell is a disgusting, sad man. He's up there with Reagan in terms of the damage done to our country. From a Utilitarian perspective. _________________ "Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better”
71 percent don’t want Biden to run for reelection: poll
He shouldn’t. However dems need to start getting some new blood out there or it will be Biden vs warren vs DwSantis. In which case ron would beat either imho
I think Trump will beat out DeathSantis.
He'll come up with a catchy nickname for him. Make up a juicy story about him. And it'll be a wrap.
Republicans want their Presidents to act like pro-wrestlers talking trash and hyping up their next fight.
Biden would kill to run against DeSantis.
The problem with the GOP is that no Republican who can win the nomination can win nationally.
A Paul Ryan or John Boehner would be a very tough opponent in 2024 - but would get creamed in the GOP primaries.
DeSantis, Abbot and the other current GOP hopefuls are barely palatable in their own states. DeSantis, in particular won his last race by 0.03 percent in an election rife with GOP voter suppression. _________________ On Lakersground, a concern troll is someone who is a fan of another team, but pretends to be a Lakers fan with "concerns".
71 percent don’t want Biden to run for reelection: poll
He shouldn’t. However dems need to start getting some new blood out there or it will be Biden vs warren vs DwSantis. In which case ron would beat either imho
I think Trump will beat out DeathSantis.
He'll come up with a catchy nickname for him. Make up a juicy story about him. And it'll be a wrap.
Republicans want their Presidents to act like pro-wrestlers talking trash and hyping up their next fight.
Biden would kill to run against DeSantis.
The problem with the GOP is that no Republican who can win the nomination can win nationally.
A Paul Ryan or John Boehner would be a very tough opponent in 2024 - but would get creamed in the GOP primaries.
DeSantis, Abbot and the other current GOP hopefuls are barely palatable in their own states. DeSantis, in particular won his last race by 0.03 percent in an election rife with GOP voter suppression.
Doesn’t matter, they will all get in line. And their state legislatures will do the rest. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
The only way to stop Fascist GOP from permanently controlling government and courts is win at least 2 more Senate seats in November and hold the House; then new Senate agrees to nuke filibuster and proceeds to pass Women's rights (including abortion), Voting rights, Election reform bills already waiting; then convince Biden to immediately expand the Supreme Court and appoint 4 liberal justices so that the GOP 2024 scheme to get SCOTUS to bless stealing elections from voters and handing over to state legislatures never becomes a reality.
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