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Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

 
 
Wilso
 
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Reply Sat 27 May, 2023 09:18 pm
Are Trump supporters the stupidest fvcking people on earth?

https://deadstate.org/man-who-bought-over-2k-worth-of-trump-bucks-discovers-theyre-worthless-when-he-tries-to-cash-them-in-at-the-bank/
Builder
 
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Reply Sat 27 May, 2023 10:01 pm
@Wilso,
Nope, that would the dropkicks still lining up for their "booster" injections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=bFLPWWCAHfQ&feature=share
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BillW
 
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Reply Sat 27 May, 2023 10:03 pm
@Wilso,
You need no more proof!
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blatham
 
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Reply Sat 27 May, 2023 11:01 pm
@hightor,
Texas AG Paxton impeached. Vote 121-23.
BillW
 
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Reply Sat 27 May, 2023 11:10 pm
@blatham,
They're eating their own now!
blatham
 
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Reply Sat 27 May, 2023 11:27 pm
@BillW,
This guy has long deserved to be eaten. It says nothing good about the Texas GOP that it has come this late. Obviously the calculation was that he's now such an embarrassment that election results might be effected.
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blatham
 
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Reply Sat 27 May, 2023 11:30 pm
Quote:
The Republican-Backed Group Behind the Surge of GOP Election Lawsuits
By Caroline Sullivan

A red-tinted cork board with images of Karl Rove and Bill Barr; cutouts of Florida, Arizona, Ohio and Montana; excerpts from an amicus brief; a receipt and a paper that reads Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections connected by thread and pushpins.

In 2021, Republican affiliated groups and individuals filed seven voting and election lawsuits. Within the first eight months of 2022, similar groups had already filed 41 lawsuits, a number that would swell even higher by the end of the year.

Behind this surge in voting and election lawsuits you find elected officials, fringe candidates and more established and well-funded Republican organizations. From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Winooski, Vermont, from a state trial court to the U.S. Supreme Court, there is another constant: a right-wing legal group looking to tighten voting rules.

This group, Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), was co-founded in July 2022 by Karl Rove, a high ranking member of former President George W. Bush’s administration. Its top leadership includes the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) chief counsel, a member of the RNC’s Election Integrity Committee and former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr.

While focusing on technical elements of election policies, RITE consistently argues against voters and voting access under the guise of “integrity” and “security.”...
More Here
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Rebelofnj
 
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Reply Sun 28 May, 2023 04:33 am
@blatham,
I wasn't paying attention to what was happening in Texas, so I am shocked that a GOP controlled state House voted to remove a major GOP official (8 years as Texas attorney general) in a red state.

Republican-led Texas House impeaches state Attorney General Ken Paxton
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/27/1178606035/ken-paxton-impeachment-texas-house-republican-attorney-general-investigation
bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Sun 28 May, 2023 06:29 am
@Rebelofnj,
No more shocked than this Texan. He's been fighting off of the Feds since Obama was in office.
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blatham
 
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Reply Sun 28 May, 2023 08:18 am
@Rebelofnj,
Lots of political writing on this impeachment available. But I have my own theory that history has simply moved in a direction that disfavors the man. Just try to find an image of the guy where it doesn't look like his face was created by a budget AI program.

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230527163312-ken-paxton-impeachment-vote-0526.jpg?c=3x2

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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Sun 28 May, 2023 08:27 am
https://images.dailykos.com/images/1192843/original/trump_maga.jpg
hightor
 
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Reply Mon 29 May, 2023 03:46 am
Zardoz wrote:
Another day and another bigot. A first-grade teacher in Wisconsin is in the process of being fired because she had her first graders sing a song with the word rainbow in it. The song was Dolly Parton song. The district deemed the song controversial. The song imagines a world where everybody is accepted for who they are. The school superintendent told the teacher he is recommending to the school board she be fired.

Can anybody believe this is America? This is no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave. Political signs are no longer allowed in schools and no doubt a picture of a rainbow will be considered a political sign. Pictures of rainbows appear in several children’s books. I guess they will be banned by the bigots. The very idea that we should not all be accepted for who we are shows the problem. The alternative is that we make everybody conform to what the bigot’s idea of what a human being should be. The bigots are small minded people who live in fear of people that are different. Their solution is conformity, to squelch the differences. Rainbow will be the next dirty word that can’t be said in public. The first steps have been taken.
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Mon 29 May, 2023 05:01 am
https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/NRPDEWBB4JBALNQOA2TCSU7DM4.jpg
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BillW
 
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Reply Mon 29 May, 2023 12:18 pm
@bobsal u1553115,
This person looks like the walking dead. Must not have got his formula of ground up newborn this morning.
bobsal u1553115 wrote:

https://images.dailykos.com/images/1192843/original/trump_maga.jpg
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Mon 29 May, 2023 10:05 pm
Remember when Richard Nixon lost the 1960 Presidency because he needed a shave and he sweated on TV during his debate with JFK?

They caught him unawares with no handlers or makeup.
BillW
 
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Reply Mon 29 May, 2023 11:06 pm
@bobsal u1553115,
bobsal u1553115 wrote:

Remember when Richard Nixon lost the 1960 Presidency because he needed a shave and he sweated on TV during his debate with JFK?

They caught him unawares with no handlers or makeup.

Yes, it was the beginning of time, as we know it.
hingehead
 
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Reply Tue 30 May, 2023 01:01 am
@BillW,
Was there a problem with his dog Checkers too? (sorry before I was born) or did he actually turn that into a media win?
BillW
 
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Reply Tue 30 May, 2023 01:45 am
@hingehead,
It was the most complicated situation in the modern day history of politics. It was when he was running for Vice President with Eisenhower and helped win this election but may have been the straw that broke the camels back in his Presidency and got him impeached. As time went on, most people believed it was a bunch of bunk - which it most certainly was. Here is the opening of the Wikipedia article regarding this subject, it shows pure demagoguery of tbe worst kind:
Quote:

The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA), six weeks before the 1952 United States presidential election, in which he was the Republican nominee for Vice President. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. His place was in doubt on the Republican ticket, so he flew to Los Angeles and delivered a half-hour television address in which he defended himself, attacked his opponents, and urged the audience to contact the Republican National Committee (RNC) to tell it whether he should remain on the ticket. During the speech, he stated that he intended to keep one gift, regardless of the outcome: a black-and-white Cocker Spaniel that his children had named Checkers, thus giving the address its popular name.

Nixon came from a family of modest means, as he related in the address, and he had spent his time after law school in the military, campaigning for office, and serving in Congress. After his successful 1950 Senate campaign, his backers continued to raise money to finance his political activities. These contributions went to reimburse him for travel costs, postage for political mailings which he did not have franked, and similar expenses. Such a fund was not illegal at the time, but Nixon had made a point of attacking government corruption which exposed him to charges that he might be giving special favors to the contributors.



I recommend going to the article and reading it in full. Just lookup - Checkers Speech. You also see Nixon's dirty politics in action in the article, for instance, referring to his opponents as "Communists".
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 30 May, 2023 06:50 am
Nevada legislature blocks governor approving guns to those convicted of hate crimes after prison

Source: raw story

Sarah K. Burris May 29, 2023, 3:48 PM ET

The Nevada Independent reported Monday that the state Senate passed a veto override of Gov. Joe Lombardo (R-NV), who blocked a set of gun safety laws that would stop those convicted of a hate crime in the last ten years from getting a gun.

There were three Democrat-proposed gun control measures, the report explained, and the GOP governor vetoed all of them.

“I will not support legislation that infringes on the constitutional rights of Nevadans,” Lombardo said in a release Wednesday. “As I stated in my letters, much of the legislation I vetoed today is in direct conflict with legal precedent and established constitutional protections. Therefore, I cannot support them.”

The other gun legislation would criminalize bringing a gun within 100 feet of an election site and a measure that would raise the legal age to purchase a semi-automatic rifle and shotgun to 21. That bill also sought to close legal loopholes that allow for so-called "ghost guns."



Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/gun-safety-2660718443/
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bobsal u1553115
 
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Reply Tue 30 May, 2023 06:54 am
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxV8uX1XoAAn_f_?format=jpg&name=small
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