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Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

 
 
oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 04:22 am
@snood,
snood wrote:
Bill Cosby is guilty of drugging women and raping them.

Let's see some proof.


snood wrote:
He admitted to it in court under oath.

Cite?


snood wrote:
He got out of prison on a technicality that was exploited by expensive lawyers.

Progressives sure do hate civil liberties.
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hightor
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 04:23 am
HCR wrote:
Today, by a 6 to 3 vote, the Supreme Court handed down Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee saying that the state of Arizona did not violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) with laws that limited ballot delivery to voters, family members, or caregivers, or when it required election officials to throw out ballots that voters had cast in the wrong precincts by accident.

The fact that voting restrictions affect racial or ethnic groups differently does not make them illegal, Justice Samuel Alito wrote. “The mere fact that there is some disparity in impact does not necessarily mean that a system is not equally open or that it does not give everyone an equal opportunity to vote.”

The court also suggested that concerns about voter fraud—which is so rare as to be virtually nonexistent—are legitimate reasons to restrict voting.

We are reliving the Reconstruction years after the Civil War.

That war had changed the idea of who should have a say in American society. Before the war, the ideal citizen was a white man, usually a property owner. But those were the very people who tried to destroy the country, while during the war, Black Americans and women, people previously excluded from politics, gave their lives and their livelihoods to support the government.

After the war, when white southerners tried to reinstate laws that returned the Black population to a position that looked much like enslavement, Congress in 1867 gave Black men the right to vote for delegates to new state constitutions. Those new constitutions, in turn, gave Black men the right to vote.

In order to stop voters from ratifying the new constitutions, white southerners who had no intention of permitting Black Americans to gain rights organized as the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize voters. While they failed to prevent states from ratifying the new constitutions, the KKK continued to beat, rape, and murder Black voters in the South.

So, in 1870, Congress established the Department of Justice to defend Black rights in the South. It also passed a series of laws that made it a federal crime to interfere with voting and with the official duties of an elected officer. And it passed, and the states ratified, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, declaring that “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Immediately, white Americans determined to stop Black participation in government turned to a new argument. During the Civil War, the Republican Party had not only expanded Black rights, but had also invented the nation’s first national taxation. For the first time, how people voted directly affected other people’s pocketbooks.

In 1871, white southerners began to say that they did not object on racial grounds to Black voting, but rather on the grounds that formerly enslaved men were impoverished and were electing to office men who promised to give them things—roads, for example, and schools and hospitals—to be paid for with tax dollars. Because white men were the only ones with property in the postwar South, such legislation would redistribute wealth from white men to Black people. It was, they charged, “socialism.”

In 1876, white southerners reclaimed control of the last remaining states they had not yet won by insisting they were “redeeming” their states from the corruption created when Black voters elected leaders who would use tax dollars for public programs.

In 1890, a new constitution in Mississippi, which at the time was about 58% Black, restricted voting not on racial grounds but through a poll tax and a “literacy” test applied against Black voters alone. Mississippi led the way for new restrictions across the country. Although Black and Brown Americans continually challenged the new Jim and Juan Crow laws that silenced them, voting registration for people of color fell into single digits.

These laws stayed in place for 75 years. Then, in 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, designed to undo voter suppression laws once and for all. The VRA worked. In Mississippi in 1965, just 6.7% of eligible Black voters were registered to vote. Two years later, that number was 59.8%, although there was still a 32-point gap in registration between Blacks and whites. By 1988, that gap had narrowed to 6.3%, and in 2012, 90.2% of eligible Black residents were registered compared to 82.4% of non-Hispanic whites.

The Voting Rights Act was considered so important that just 15 years ago, in 2006, Congress voted almost unanimously to reauthorize it.

But the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts, who has long disliked the VRA, has chipped away at the law, cutting deeply into it in 2013 with the Shelby County v. Holder decision. And now, with three new justices appointed by former president Trump, the court has weakened it further.

To what end are we returning to the 1890s?

The restrictive voting measures passed by Republican-dominated legislatures are designed to keep Republicans in power. Today that means allegiance to former president Trump, whose Trump Organization and Trump Payroll Corporation were indicted by a New York grand jury today, along with Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, on 15 felony counts, including a scheme to defraud, conspiracy, grand larceny, criminal tax fraud, and falsifying business records.

The indictment alleges that the schemes involve federal, as well as state and local, crimes. New York Attorney General Letitia James emphasized that the investigation is not over.

Republican lawmakers are lining up behind the former president so closely that last night,

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) threatened to take away the committee assignments of anyone agreeing to work on the select committee to investigate the events of January 6 that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is putting together after Senate Republicans filibustered the creation of a bipartisan independent committee.

(McCarthy’s declaration prompted Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who appears appalled at the direction his party has taken, to respond “Who gives a s--t?” He added: “I do think the threat of removing committees is ironic, because you won't go after the space lasers and white supremacist people but those who tell the truth.”)

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) nonetheless said she was “honored” to join the committee, along with seven Democrats. While it is unclear if McCarthy will add more Republicans, it will now get underway. The committee includes House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), both of whom showed extraordinary ability to assess huge amounts of material when they managed Trump’s impeachment trials.

That the Republicans have fought so hard against an investigation of the January 6 insurrection suggests we might well learn things that reflect poorly on certain lawmakers.

So, today’s news puts the American people in the position of watching as a political party, lined up behind a man now in legal jeopardy, who might be involved in an attack on our government, tries to cement its hold on power.

“Today’s decision by the Supreme Court undercuts voting rights in this country,” President Biden said, “and makes it all the more crucial to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore and expand voting protections.”

“Our democracy depends on it.”

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oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 04:25 am
@hightor,
Gosh. I guess the Democrats will just have to stop cheating in Arizona.
hightor
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 04:26 am
@oralloy,
Cite?
oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 04:27 am
@hightor,
Look at your article that I replied to, which shows that the Supreme Court is going to allow anti-cheating measures to go into effect in Arizona.

I assume you quoted it properly. This was your link:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-1-2021
oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 04:28 am
@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:
they are in fact intended to impede lawful voting in lawful ways by lawful voters.

That is incorrect. Preventing people from cheating does not impede lawful votes.


MontereyJack wrote:
cheating is an imaginary gokp bugbear, and has nothing to do with the onslaught of restrictive laws.

Wrong. Look at the way Al Gore tried to cheat his way into the White House back in 2000.

Democrats have a long history of trying to cheat.
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hightor
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 04:52 am
@oralloy,
Quote:
Look at your article that I replied to, which shows that the Supreme Court is going to allow anti-cheating measures to go into effect in Arizona.

You said " I guess the Democrats will just have to stop cheating in Arizona."

I'm looking for you to cite any cheating in Arizona.
goldberg
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 05:02 am
From the latest issue of The Economist.
The author of this article is not BLACK.

"Marko Arnautovic, a combustible Austrian striker of Serbian descent, slotted home the third goal in a 3-1 victory. He celebrated by screaming “I’m ******* your Albanian mother” at an opponent, knowing that North Macedonia is home to a large ethnic-Albanian population.



It was not the first such incident at Euro 2020, the delayed competition between 24 of Europe’s best national teams. Russia protested after Ukraine’s team wore kit with an outline of their country that included Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. In another game a Greenpeace protester sent debris spiralling onto people—nearly whacking the French manager—after misjudging his parachute landing. Rows about gay rights in Hungary, one of the hosts, rumble on. Before games some teams decided to take to their knees, to symbolise opposition against racism; others decided against. Some fans booed; others cheered. At Euro 2020, politics is everywhere.

Football, after all, is a potential ally of every ideology, a perfect canvas on which to project a worldview. Socialists can hail an industry in which nearly all the money goes to the workers. Statists can applaud how government-funded football camps on the edge of Paris churn out a stream of world-class footballers (albeit ones incapable of beating Switzerland). Capitalists point out that the sport’s explosion came thanks to free markets, allowing footballers to play wherever they liked and clubs to pay whatever they pleased. Autocrats are reminded that ends trump means, as football fans accept glory no matter how dodgy the money that bought it. Conservatives, meanwhile, can hold onto the sport as the last stand of the nation-state. Where there is attention there is politics, and football is simply too big to ignore.

In Europe the sport has always been political with a small “p”. Football offers a more glamorous story of European integration than the lawyers and officials grinding the continent together in Brussels and Luxembourg. UEFA, the sport’s administrator on the continent, started life in 1954 as European politicians were scouting for means to make war impossible. Like its duller sibling, the European Coal and Steel Community, which preceded the EU, UEFA’s main creator was a Frenchman who had to win over holdouts and sceptics for his idea of regular international events. (Typically, British teams skipped the first few tournaments, only joining later.) There was a difference. Europe’s economies were melded together to stem competition between countries; UEFA was founded to promote it. An Italian official panicked that playing each other “risked exciting national passions” a decade after such passions had left millions dead. And national passions were indeed unleashed, thankfully in a much less deadly manner. Flags are waved and, occasionally, Albanian mothers are insulted, but in a pantomime of once fatal feelings. When it comes to European integration, football is the animalistic id to the EU’s rational superego.

Yet the global pre-eminence of European football is a product of that integration. The EU’s free-movement rules meant countries could no longer limit foreign labour. Domestic second-raters could be replaced with better, cheaper foreign players. The Bosman ruling in 1995 from the European Court of Justice let players leave a club without a release fee at the end of a contract. Wages shot up as clubs battled to attract players. TV cash poured in as the quality of the game improved. International owners, attracted by a mixture of prestige and reputation-laundering rather than profitability, bought up clubs. While Europe has slowly become a backwater for business in general, it is dominant in football. The top leagues are all in Europe, which has led to international success, too: European teams have won five of the past six world cups. For a continent obsessed with its shrinking place in the world, football offers an arena where it is still supreme.

UEFA tries to create a politics-free environment for its lucrative tournaments. But its choice of sponsors has already ruled that out. Many Europeans have probably not heard of Nord Stream 2, a controversial pipeline running from Russia to Germany, which has set Angela Merkel’s government against both her eastern neighbours and America. Yet they may know Gazprom, the Russian state-owned gas company helping to build it. It sponsors both the Champions League, where elite European clubs compete, and Euro 2020. Its azure logo gleams from every surface. In exchange for its money, Gazprom receives a glut of corporate tickets, allowing executives and business partners to scoff canapés and mingle with dead-eyed models paid to attend. More importantly, sponsorship associates Gazprom primarily with football rather than being a limb of a gangster state. Even UEFA is keen on politics in football, for a price.

On a continent where the facets of nationhood are blurring, be they banal (customs arrangements), the everyday (currency) or the emotive (borders), football is a way of clinging on. Belgian national identity extends to a king, a large pile of debt and its surprisingly good football team. A hipster analysis of Croatia’s path to independence starts with Dinamo Zagreb’s Zvonimir Boban aiming a flying kick at a Yugoslav policeman during an on-pitch riot in 1990 and ends with Davor Suker dinking Denmark’s goalie in Euro 96, its first tournament as an independent country. When Czechoslovakia won the championship in 1976, the team was dominated by Slovak players, kick-starting a successful push for independence, argues David Goldblatt, a historian of the sport. At its best, international football is a bastion of a benign, diluted nationalism; a place where politics can be a carnival, rather than a rally. At its worst, it is an arena where carefully buried political disagreements are dug up—particularly if Mr Arnautovic is playing. "
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goldberg
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 05:06 am
@Walter Hinteler,
I don't even care if far-left liberals want to learn other languages or not. They are dense if you ask moi.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 05:16 am
@hightor,
hightor wrote:
I'm looking for you to cite any cheating in Arizona.

Perhaps my words were ill chosen. How about: “I guess now we’ll be able to have confidence that the Democrats aren’t cheating in Arizona.”

Previous to these new laws no one had any idea whether or not the Democrats were cheating in Arizona.
farmerman
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 05:23 am
@oralloy,
or better yet "Weve created a scenariothat hasnt occured and have legislated aginst it"

GOP is assembled from the biggst bunch of fascist criminals since el Duce
goldberg
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 05:37 am
From Fox News.

MSNBC's Joy Reid calls border crisis 'nonexistent,' slams Noem, DeSantis for sending National Guard

MSNBC host Joy Reid scolded Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for sending the National Guard to Texas to aid what she insisted is a "nonexistent crisis" at the southern border.

Noem announced on Tuesday that she, among other governors, was having the National Guard deployed to the Lone Star State amid the lack of urgency from the Biden administration to quell the surge of migrants from Central America.

Reid took shots at "The Roaming Noem" on Thursday's installment of "The ReidOut."



"It would appear that our inaugural Absolute Worst is jealous of all the attention that our two record-holders, Republican Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Florida's Ron DeSantis and so she's sending South Dakota's National Guard troops roaming, deploying them to the southern border of Texas, joining MAGA sycophant DeSantis and the governors of Iowa and Nebraska in sending ‘help’ to the border," Reid said. "50 National Guard troops are being deployed in response to Greg Abbott's plea for more border security for a nonexistent crisis."

Reid accused Noem's announcement of being a "word salad" of "GOP talking points," mocking her statement when the governor said, "My message to Texas is this: help is on the way."

"Actually Kristi, your message is ‘I’m running for president in 2024. This is how I pander to the MAGA crowd and check the box on immigration fearmongering to compete with Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis. Yay!'" Reid mocked the South Dakota governor.

The liberal host then drew attention to how Noem's deployment of the National Guard was going to be funded by a "private" donor, who turned out to be billionaire GOP donor Willis Johnson.



"So there you have it! This is where we've come to, America!" Reid exclaimed. "A super-wealthy political donor is paying for American soldiers to deploy on a military mission with political undertones… It's certainly not in the best interest of South Dakotans. It's totally political theater."

Gov. Noem slams Biden administration for ban on Mount Rushmore fireworksVideo
She continued, "So Kristi Noem, for offering up South Dakota's National Guard as mercenaries for a wealthy donor to stoke nativist fears and curry favor for your own political aspirations, you, my dear, are tonight’s Absolute Worst."

When reached for comment, a spokesman for Gov. Noem pointed to remarks she made about the need to send the National Guard to the southern border on Thursday morning's "Fox & Friends."

"Typically, securing the border would be the responsibility of the federal government, but our federal government is not doing their job and we know that we have dangerous people crossing the border," she told Lawrence Jones.

"We have a lot of drugs coming into our country. We have a lot of human trafficking going on. The governors of Texas and Arizona have asked us for help. And this is a mission that National Guard is trained and equipped and does with excellence. So when they made the request to me, I started running the protocols asking if we had volunteers in my National Guard that would want to do this mission and had more than I could possibly anticipate."

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, has joined with Republicans in the state to push the Biden administration on the issue, calling the situation a "humanitarian crisis."

This KK-looking Joy Reid is also a far-left gosling. I'm pleased to know that she is only KK-looking TV news anchor working at MSNBC. MSNBC has other feeble-minded liberals hating conservatives; Joy Reid is the stupidest one. KKK.

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oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 05:44 am
@farmerman,
It’s impossible to know whether it’s occurred or not. But it’s perfectly appropriate to legislate against cheating in elections.
hightor
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 05:47 am
@oralloy,
Quote:
But it’s perfectly appropriate to legislate against cheating in elections.

Yes, if you make it difficult for people to vote it will make it difficult for them to cheat. Brilliant!
oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 05:54 am
@hightor,
Making people show a secure ID before voting doesn’t make it difficult for them to vote.
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goldberg
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 06:08 am
Our beautiful earth has two troubling issues that need to be sorted out. One is the blackization of pop culture in the form of atrocious rap music. The other one is the Islamization of Europe in the form of floods of illegal immigrants from Asia and other African nations heaving with Muslim believers.

I think they are going to destroy our beautiful earth unless people do something to keep it in check. Black racists also want to grind down non-black people.
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oralloy
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 06:09 am
What illegal immigrants are you referring to?
snood
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 06:10 am
@hightor,
hightor wrote:

Quote:
But it’s perfectly appropriate to legislate against cheating in elections.

Yes, if you make it difficult for people to vote it will make it difficult for them to cheat. Brilliant!


Among themselves they drop the facade that they care about the integrity of elections and are open about just doing whatever keeps the most Democrats away from ballots.

I think I could respect it a little if they were just honest about it.

It’s kind of the same as the way I feel about racists. I’d rather deal with the ones who will scream the n-word at me than those who try to throw the rock then hide their hand.

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goldberg
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 06:18 am
@oralloy,
I truly feel sorry for South Africa. It was the richest nation when white people still ruled it. It became another poverty-stricken one after black people there started fawning over scatty black politicians. They also voted for them . Accordingly, white people were forced to leave.
Region Philbis
 
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Reply Fri 2 Jul, 2021 06:29 am
@goldberg,

i thought you were leaving ...
 

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