I've heard some troubling things about pence, but since the source is john oliver's comedy show I don't know how much stock I put in them. But if they are true then I absolutely wouldn't want him for a president. Even being as close as he is makes me kinda nervous.
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I've heard some troubling things about pence, but since the source is john oliver's comedy show I don't know how much stock I put in them. But if they are true then I absolutely wouldn't want him for a president. Even being as close as he is makes me kinda nervous.
Well you can check out some of his bullshit on rationalwiki
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mike_Pence
There's a story (that I'm too lazy to search around for) that I read awhile go that goes into better detail detail regarding Pence's background and time as Governor of Indiana which was hilarious because his mother and brother were interviewed in that same story and they damned him with faint praise essentially.
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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Well you can check out some of his bullshit on rationalwiki
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mike_Pence
There's a story (that I'm too lazy to search around for) that I read awhile go that goes into better detail detail regarding Pence's background and time as Governor of Indiana which was hilarious because his mother and brother were interviewed in that same story and they damned him with faint praise essentially.
I just skimmed through that page, and if even half the shit there is true, then I definitely don't want pence anywhere near the presidency.
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I am inordinately pissed that after the Mueller testimony half the major news sites are covering how a 74-year-old man has trouble hearing.
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I am inordinately pissed that after the Mueller testimony half the major news sites are covering how a 74-year-old man has trouble hearing.
I remember a similar feeling on the day of 9/11 and seeing the news channels had made graphic bumpers for the attack before the sun had gone down.
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Death Penalty returns after two decades.
[http://arr directs federal government to reinstate death penalty,](http://arr directs federal government to reinstate death penalty,)
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I remember a similar feeling on the day of 9/11 and seeing the news channels had made graphic bumpers for the attack before the sun had gone down.
^ I remember that simply for the fact that for probably a good day and a half they wouldn't stop talking about it…..and unfortunately they haven't gotten better about not locking up entire newscasts (or the remainder of them) talking about stuff like there's an a treasure trove of information to focus on.
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An amusing bit of news from today's developing WTF Just Happened Today feed:
Trump gave a speech in front of a fake presidential seal that had been edited to look like the Russian coat of arms. The doctored seal swapped out the traditional bald eagle clutching arrows in its talons for a two-headed bald eagle clutching golf clubs. The two-headed eagle in the middle of the seal was similar to the coat of arms Russia has been using since 1993 and the preeminent symbol of the Russian empire dating all the way back to the 1600s and beyond. The speech took place in front of the doctored seal at a student summit hosted by the conservative group Turning Point USA. It is unclear how the swap was made or who is responsible. (The Guardian / Esquire)
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At least one person's already been fired for this screw up:
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/trump-russia-presidential-seal-tpusa-trnd/index.html
The individual responsible, a member of TPUSA's AV team, was let go in the wake of the incident. According to a source familiar with the event, the incident was just a terrible Google search mistake. TPUSA had event branding on the screens, but during a run through ahead of Trump's remarks a few hours before the event, the team was told they had to change the branding to a presidential seal, prompting a search for a high quality image.
"One of our video team members did a Google Image search for a high-res png (file) presidential seal," a source familiar with the incident said, adding that the individual "did the search and with the pressure of the event, didn't notice that it is a doctored seal."
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Argh, no one replied to my earlier post. I apologize if I annoyed anyone, I just want the thing I said debunked since to me it really felt like fear tactics/propaganda and trying to destroy Food Stamps to help people in need. When I see something that sounds bullshitty, I like to get more sources from people who can debunk that stuff. That's all, sorry for confusing anyone with what I said earlier. I know I have some conservative views, but this was not one of them, I believe people that make little people have access to foodstamps to help them in their time of need. I apologize again for the confusion.
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/07/24/day-916/ Mueller testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees in seven hours of back-to-back hearings about his report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by Trump. Mueller agreed that Trump's conduct was problematic, that the investigation did not exonerate Trump, and that Trump did not cooperate fully with the investigation. Mueller did not to go beyond the findings in his 448-page final report and declined repeatedly to offer his opinion on questions or even to read directly from the document.
that there was no obstruction and that it completely and totally exonerated him." Mueller replied: "That is not what the report said." Mueller confirmed that Trump had engaged in 10 instances of obstruction of justice, which Attorney General William Barr decided not to file charges for. Mueller also confirmed that Trump refused to sit for an interview. [[I]Editor's note: I had to look up what "exculpated" means, because I'm not a lawyer. You're probably not a lawyer either, so here's what it means: to "show or declare that (someone) is not guilty of wrongdoing." Curiouser and curiouser…] (The Guardian / NBC News / CBS News / Daily Beast / Axios / CNBC)
Well, this is good news, sorta of. Hopefully they can finally impeach Trump and hopefully his administration as well with this trial. It be cool to see Donald Trump walk out of the White House in handcuffs xD6/ Trump, meanwhile, claimed that Article II of the Constitution gives him "the right to do whatever I want as president." Article II grants the president "executive power." The comment came while addressing a crowd of teenagers and young adults at the Turning Point USA Teen Student Action Summit in Washington. Last month, Trump cited Article 2 as the reason why presidents can't be charged with obstruction of justice. Trump also bemoaned the duration and cost of Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. (Washington Post / Talking Points Memo)
This is actually quite scary that Trump even thinks like this, my God, this is what an actual dictator would say….
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@Stranger:
I read something about millionaires getting on foodstamps, but is there any truth to it?
Looking it up via Mother Jones
Rep. Mike Conaway (R.-Texas), ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, doubled down on the fraud claim. “A system that allows millionaires to receive these benefits is a system in desperate need of reform,” he declared in a Tuesday statement. “I applaud President Trump, Secretary Perdue, and the rest of the administration for their work to fix this out-of-control policy.”
According to the the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the USDA’s “own data show that only about 0.2 percent of SNAP benefits went in 2017 to households with monthly disposable incomes—net income after deducting certain expenses like high housing and child care costs—above the poverty line.” CBPP adds: “SNAP has some of the most rigorous program integrity standards and systems of any federal program.”
At a Tuesday press conference to explain the department of agriculture’s latest plan to cut eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, USDA secretary Sonny Perdue pointed to a case in Minnesota. There, he said, “a millionaire recently enrolled in the program, simply to highlight the waste of taxpayer money.”
Worry not, oh taxpayer. Perdue was there to hawk a new proposed rule to take care of that problem, while ejecting 3.1 million people, 8 percent of recipients, from the program, for a savings of $2.5 billion to the federal budget. My colleague Hannah Levintova has the details of this latest policy wizardry.I don't know about the truth of the story (the millionaire guy was used as a witness by Republicans in Minnesota's House of Representatives which of course sets off red flags). But they're using that as pretext to cut millions of people off of foodstamps who're are of course not rich all to fix a problem that's next to nonexistent.
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I just want to understand where the hell the fear tactics of millionaires are getting on foodstamps is coming from.
From the same place regarding the massive problem of black people & hispanic trying to legally vote…..nowhere.
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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Basically it's bullshit with the obvious goal of screwing people over because only the wealthy are supposed to get government aid while everyone else has to do with less or simply go without.
Ah, joyful. Well, thanks for trying to explain. Though I wish I knew more about that weird "millionaire" from MO getting on foodstamps in the first place, but doesn't matter, if you make little money, you need help with it. Yeah, hopefully this won't go anywhere and foodstamps should be fine where it is.
What I don't understand is why do so many Republicans don't want to help poor people? Don't they don't have any empathy or try to put themselves in their shoes at all? Just how inhumane can you be? What happened to caring about the American people and being patriotic which used to be the Republican's motto?
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What I don't understand is why do so many Republicans don't want to help poor people? Don't they don't have any empathy or try to put themselves in their shoes at all?
Being that some of them come from old money and therefore don't know what's it like to work for less than $10 an hour while some do come for poor or middle class backgrounds but forget that once they get a taste of the rich life, it's going to be hard for them to feel compassion for the less fortunate.
Even more so when they're getting paid by rich types who essentially lobby for some of these poor hating policies.
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On Mueller again, I find this news a little promising: Mueller testimony drew almost 13 million U.S. TV viewers
The Nielsen data does not include viewers who streamed the hearing on computers or mobile phones, or those who watched in bars and other public places.
The biggest audience for the Mueller hearing was on Fox News, which drew some 3.3 million viewers, according to the data.
So, at the very least I can take that a lot of people saw this thing. Whether or not they took the right message though is anyone's guess.
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also re: Republicans and poor people, there's the "bootstraps mentality" where people are told "pull yourself up by your bootstraps"; basically some of them think being poor is a result of being lazy and not working hard enough.
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The thing is that privilege by it's nature is invisible.
The privilege of going to college and not worry about debt or working.
The privilege of a full supermarket.
The privilege of knowing that you can find the medicine that you need, the privilege of being able to afford the medicine that you need.
The privilege of being able to stop working and not worry about income or deportation.
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/07/25/day-917/
1/ Following Robert Mueller's testimony and warnings about Russia's continued attempts to interfere in U.S. elections, Senate Republicans blocked two election security bills and a cybersecurity measure. Democrats attempted to pass two bills by unanimous consent on Wednesday that would require campaigns to notify the FBI and the FEC if they receive offers of assistance from foreign governments. The other bill would let the Senate Sergeant at Arms offer voluntary cyber assistance for the personal devices and accounts of lawmakers and their staff. Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith blocked all three of the bills without giving any reason for her objections or indicating whether she blocked the bills on behalf of herself or the GOP caucus. Mueller testified yesterday that "The Russian government's effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious" and that "it wasn't a single attempt. They're doing it as we sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign." (The Hill / CNN)
2/ Mitch McConnell blocked the two election security measures on Thursday, arguing that Democrats are trying to give themselves a "political benefit." McConnell called the House-passed legislation "so partisan it received just one Republican vote over in the House," adding that the election security legislation is being pushed by the same Democrats who pushed the "conspiracy theory" of Trump and Russia. (The Hill / CNN)
3/ The Senate Intelligence Committee found that "the Russian government directed extensive activity, beginning in at least 2014 and carrying into at least 2017, against U.S. election infrastructure at the state and local level," according to the committee's report on Russian interference. The report recommends that Congress provide additional funding for states to secure elections once the $380 million appropriated in 2018 is spent. (NPR / Bloomberg / Axios / The Hill)
4/ The House Oversight and Reform Committee authorized subpoenas for senior White House aides official work communications sent via personal email and cellphone. The White House refused to turn over the messages voluntarily earlier this month. Democrats have raised questions about whether Jared Kushner's WhatsApp communications with foreign officials, Ivanka Trump's use of a private email account to conduct official business, and Stephen Bannon's use of a personal mobile device for White House business violated the Presidential Records Act. (Politico / Washington Post / Axios)
5/ The Trump administration threatened a travel ban against Guatemala unless the nation agrees to the safe third country deal, which would require migrants from El Salvador and Honduras to seek asylum there than in the U.S. Guatemala backed out on the immigration deal earlier this month when Guatemala's high court blocked its government from signing the deal with the United States. The White House is looking at the authority already granted to the executive branch to suspend classes of people it considers detrimental to national interests. (NPR / Wall Street Journal)
6/ The Justice Department will resume executing prisoners awaiting the death penalty for the first time in 16 years. Attorney General William Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons set execution dates for five men on federal death row who have exhausted their legal appeals. Their executions are to be carried out in December and January. (Washington Post/ New York Times / ABC News / CNN)
7/ The House passed the budget deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and set budget levels for two years. The legislation raises spending by $320 billion above limits set in a 2011 budget law and suspends the debt ceiling until the end of July 2021. 65 Republicans joined the Democrats in the 284-149 vote. 132 Republicans voted against the bill, despite Trump's endorsement. The House vote sends the measure to the Senate, which is expected to pass it in the coming days and send it to Trump’s desk. Trump is expected to sign it. (New York Times / Wall Street Journal / Washington Post/ CNBC)
8/ Trump, his company, and three of his children must face part of a lawsuit alleging they used their family name to scam people into joining a multilevel marketing scheme. A federal judge said the Trumps and their investors in a Trump-endorsed company called American Communications Network could be liable for claims of fraud, false advertising, and unfair competition. The suit claims the Trumps received millions of dollars in secret payments from 2005 to 2015 in exchange for endorsing ACN and then conned people into believing that Trump thought their investments would pay off, when the Trumps' real goal was simply to enrich themselves. (Reuters / Bloomberg)
9/ Trump's pick for assistant treasury secretary for public affairs repeatedly suggested Obama was secretly a Muslim who was sympathetic to America's enemies. Monica Crowley made the comments online between 2009 and 2015. Trump originally tapped Crowley in December 2016 to be the senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council before she withdrew herself from consideration after it was reported that she plagiarized portions of her 2012 book and portions of her 2000 Ph.D. thesis. (CNN)
10/ Trump appeared in front of a fake presidential seal that had been edited to look like the Russian coat of arms. The doctored seal swapped out the traditional bald eagle clutching arrows in its talons for a two-headed bald eagle clutching golf clubs. The two-headed eagle seal is similar to the coat of arms Russia has been using since 1993 and the preeminent symbol of the Russian empire dating back to the 1600s and beyond. Additionally, instead of "e pluribus unum," the scroll above the eagle appears to say "45 es un titere," which roughly translates from Spanish to mean "45 is a puppet." (The Guardian / Esquire / USA Today / CNN)@Stranger:
This is actually quite scary that Trump even thinks like this, my God, this is what an actual dictator would say….
Just to help with that, from the "President Supervillain" Twitter, presenting that statement if it were being spoken by the Red Skull:
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https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/07/26/day-918/
[h=1]Day 918: Warriors[/h]
1/ The House Judiciary Committee said it would petition a federal judge to unseal Robert Mueller's secret grand jury evidence. Chairman Jerry Nadler argued that it's essential that Congress "have access to all the relevant facts" – including witness testimony – in order to fully investigate potential abuses of power by Trump and his inner circle before deciding whether to recommend articles of impeachment. The petition does not seek the public release of the grand jury evidence. The committee will also continue its investigation during the House's six-week summer recess and is working to obtain testimony from former White House counsel Don McGahn. Nadler said he is going to court today and again next week to file a lawsuit to force McGahn to testify. (New York Times / Politico / Washington Post)- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will make a decision regarding impeachment in a "timely fashion," denying that she is trying to "run out the clock" on the issue. Pelosi's comment came shortly before Nadler said the House Judiciary Committee had already "in effect" been conducting an impeachment inquiry. (NBC News)
2/ Russia targeted the election systems in all 50 states in 2016, the Senate Intelligence Committee's new report on election interference concluded. Officials believe that Russians probably "scanned" systems in every state for "election-related web pages, voter ID information, election system software, and election service companies." The investigation found that Russia's interference began as early as 2014 and continued into at least 2017, but there was no evidence that votes were changed or that any voting machines were compromised. (New York Times / Washington Post)
Day 917: The Senate Intelligence Committee found that "the Russian government directed extensive activity, beginning in at least 2014 and carrying into at least 2017, against U.S. election infrastructure at the state and local level," according to the committee's report on Russian interference. The report recommends that Congress provide additional funding for states to secure elections once the $380 million appropriated in 2018 is spent. (NPR / Bloomberg / Axios / The Hill)
3/ Active duty military personnel are stationed within feet of migrant adults and children inside Border Patrol facilities. The proximity could lead to violations of the 140-year-old federal law that prohibits active duty troops and military personnel from coming into direct contact with migrants or from being used as law enforcement. Soldiers stand on elevated platforms throughout large rooms inside the facilities where detained migrants are held. Troops were originally assigned to the facilities to conduct periodic welfare checks of the migrants detained inside, but officials say that arrangement has evolved into a continual presence watching over them. (NBC News)
4/ Several U.S. Marines were arrested at Camp Pendleton and charged with human smuggling and other offenses for allegedly transporting undocumented migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. The migrants in question told border agents they had agreed to pay the Marines $8,000 to take them north of the border to Los Angeles and eventually to New Jersey. The Marines could face charges in military or federal court. None of the Marines in question had served in support of the Southwest Border Support mission. (NBC San Diego)
5/ The U.S. government will pay between $15 and $150 per acre to American farmers hurt by Trump's trade war with China. The latest aid package will cost $16 billion, with farmers in the South expected to see higher rates than those in the Midwest. The assistance will be distributed beginning in mid-to-late August, and payment will be disbursed based on their geographic location instead of the crops they produce. (Reuters)
6/ The Justice Department approved the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint after the two companies agreed to create a new wireless carrier by selling assets to satellite-TV provider Dish. The attorneys general for 13 states are trying to block the $26 billion merger with an antitrust lawsuit, arguing the deal could leave consumers with higher cellphone bills. T-Mobile and Sprint are the third- and fourth-largest wireless companies in the U.S. (New York Times / Wall Street Journal)- Day 749: T-Mobile executives involved in the company's merger with Sprint last year have booked more than 52 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel since then. Newly obtained records from the hotel show T-Mobile executives booked more nights than previously reported, sometimes staying in rooms that cost up to $2,246 per night. Trump still owns the hotel, despite turning day-to-day control over to his sons Eric and Don Jr. (Washington Post)
- Day 775: T-Mobile spent $195,000 at Trump's Washington hotel after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April. Before news of the deal broke on April 29, 2018, only two top officials from T-Mobile had ever stayed at Trump's hotel. (Washington Post / Reuters)
7/ U.S. economic growth didn't hit Trump's 2018 target of 3%, according to revised government data that showed a slower pace of expansion in the final quarter than previously estimated. Trump called the report "not bad." Gross domestic product was up 2.5% in the fourth quarter of 2018 from a year earlier, but down from a recent estimate of 3%. (Bloomberg / Wall Street Journal / CNBC / New York Times)
8/ Trump attacked Fox News after the network's pollsters showed him losing a handful of hypothetical matchups against 2020 Democratic candidates. Trump claimed that Fox News had been "Proud Warriors!" during the 2016 campaign but the "new Fox Polls" are "so different from what they used to be." The national survey said Trump would lose to Biden by 10 percentage points and to Bernie Sanders by 6 points. It also showed him beating Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris by 1 point. The poll's margin of error is 3 percentage points. (Politico) -
Guess it's now SCOTUS legal to use military funds however you want if Congress doesn't give the funds for the things they specifically go to for funding.
While none of the Dems have the balls to do it, I'd LOVE to see something like Medicare-for-all partially financed by Military funds. And when the GOP screams about it, they could simply turn it around and say 'Hey, we went to you. You didn't want to fund it. So we just took the money from the military. After all, that's what Trump did".
In reality this does suck because not only does it do NOTHING to solve the immigration crisis, it simply hurts the military. And though a part of me hopes this does start help some of the military families that blindly follow Republicans to start asking questions about how he's hurting the military directly, I doubt they will. At least not until he's well out of office.
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Anybody who thinks that SCOTUS wouldn't immediately toss out this precedent for a Democratic President doesn't know the Roberts Court.
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Abolish the Suprme Court
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Outside of death or retirement none of far as I know.
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The entire point of a lifetime appointment is to put them above whatever the current politics are, and that's legit… but it probably should have a maximum limit of like 20 years or something all the same just to make sure people that are senile and have no idea what the world is like currently, or rapists appointed decades ago, aren't in their forever..
They CAN be impeached and removed in theory, but that hasn't happened since 1804.
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Being that some of them come from old money and therefore don't know what's it like to work for less than $10 an hour while some do come for poor or middle class backgrounds but forget that once they get a taste of the rich life, it's going to be hard for them to feel compassion for the less fortunate.
Even more so when they're getting paid by rich types who essentially lobby for some of these poor hating policies.
Oh >_< In other words greed. If I was rich I would try to help people, specifically homeless people that live on the street, but I guess not everyone sees it that way, which quite sad unfortunately.
The entire point of a lifetime appointment is to put them above whatever the current politics are, and that's legit… but it probably should have a maximum limit of like 20 years or something all the same just to make sure people that are senile and have no idea what the world is like currently, or rapists appointed decades ago, aren't in their forever..
I agree, they shouldn't be there forever, same with members of Congress. Be nice to switch out, especially in terms of governing law.
They CAN be impeached and removed in theory, but that hasn't happened since 1804.
Oh, I didn't know that. So, that can be some good news if Democrats get control of the presidency and Congress. Though…. they probably need some sort of evidence to get rid of them though...
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Kavannagh lied during his hearing and is credibly accused of rape, but the issue is going to be three years old by the time Dems are potentially in power, so its probably never going to be addressed.
Also, Ginsburg and Breyer, both appointed by CLinton, are in their 80's, so they're probably ready to retire but obviously holding out for a Dem president, so appointing a new justice o two might be an issue pretty quickly in 2021. But since we had the Garland seat stolen it'll be a loooong time before we have another chance to tip the scales back.
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Just wanted to point out that, although the SCOTUS is not exactly in the Dems' favor right now, they have managed to pass some good rulings recently…...some.
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Hello, interested in American Politics even though I’m from Australia.
So, on a scale of 1 to 10, how close is this picture to representing America today?
@Robby:Kavannagh lied during his hearing and is credibly accused of rape, but the issue is going to be three years old by the time Dems are potentially in power, so its probably never going to be addressed.
Also, Ginsburg and Breyer, both appointed by CLinton, are in their 80's, so they're probably ready to retire but obviously holding out for a Dem president, so appointing a new justice o two might be an issue pretty quickly in 2021. But since we had the Garland seat stolen it'll be a loooong time before we have another chance to tip the scales back.
Also, could someone clearly explain the evidence against Brett Kavanaugh specifically, I know the general details, but I don’t really have a concise explanation of it all. Thanks.
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Also, could someone clearly explain the evidence against Brett Kavanaugh specifically, I know the general details, but I don’t really have a concise explanation of it all. Thanks.
He's a college frat boy that drank a lot and raped a lot of women. And also yells at anyone that dares question him. Those women came forward to testify against him, because such a man shouldn't be a supreme court justice. The republicans voted for him anyway, instead of literally anyone else. Including two women who believed the accusations but towed the party line anyway, who then got large paychecks shortly after..
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Kavannagh lied during his hearing and is credibly accused of rape, but the issue is going to be three years old by the time Dems are potentially in power, so its probably never going to be addressed.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/3/another-kavanaugh-accuser-admits-fabricating-rape-/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/friend-of-dr-ford-felt-pressure-to-revisit-statement-1538715152
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/christine-blasey-ford-scrubbed-social-media-profile-before-sending-letter-detailing-alleged-sexual-assault-book
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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/3/another-kavanaugh-accuser-admits-fabricating-rape-/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/friend-of-dr-ford-felt-pressure-to-revisit-statement-1538715152
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/christine-blasey-ford-scrubbed-social-media-profile-before-sending-letter-detailing-alleged-sexual-assault-book
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/03/christine-blasey-ford-changing-memories-not-credible-kavanaugh-column/1497661002/If only there had been an FBI investigation that interviewed all 40 individuals, I'm sure it could have cleared Kavannagh's good name, and explained his lousy temper and history of drinking I mean, he had nothing to hide, why wouldn't he want such an investigation to exonerate him?
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If only there had been an FBI investigation that interviewed all 40 individuals, I'm sure it could have cleared Kavannagh's good name, and explained his lousy temper and history of drinking I mean, he had nothing to hide, why wouldn't he want such an investigation to exonerate him?
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Kavanaugh also had a massive list of ethical complaints against him that were dismissed when he became a Supreme Court Justice. If he were on any other Court besides SCOTUS, he would have had to answer for them.
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If Republicans disregarding credible rape allegations in order to get a reactionary on the Supreme Court sounds shocking, please look into the saga of how Thomas got on the court.
Speaking of Thomas, I wonder if Trump's shortlist of Federalist Society scumbags for the SC includes any young black guys.
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You're mixing up a bit player with the credible woman who actually testified on tv and took a lie detector test. (And has received death threats over it.) The crazy out there anonymous story was always crazy sounding and suspicious. Its the other people that are believed and credible. ….That the FBI never looked into or followed up on because they were restrained from doing literally anything for the whopping one week they had to investigate before moving onto giving someone with a bad temperament a lifetime postion. .
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/11/ford-did-not-recant-accusations-against-kavanaugh/
Also, use some newsites that aren't super right leaning. Only one of the five you used could be considered mdoerate or neutral.
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The Kavanaugh situation was quite interesting.Christines public testimony was strong. Especially when she said that she told her Husband many years ago and also her therapist. That was quite convincing. But doubts came up when Avanetti came around with his gang-rape accusation. At this point, it got ridiculous…knowing Avanetti.
So i doubt her from that point forward, also because i know that it is easy to fake accusations and make them kinda work. If they can create the biggest hoax in the world, russia probe, and keep that lie alive for 3 years, then they can easily manipulate small crimes too, to frame the people. So i heavily doubt everything when it comes from a trump hater. They come up with the wildest dreams, like Jussie Smolett.
Russia probe, if anyone learned anything new from the mueller hearing, then it is mueller himself. He had almost no clue about the whole story...maybe because it is hard to keep track of lies. I expected more, to be honest. Even though i do not believe in the collusion and especially not in obstruction of justice( this is just plain stupid and they know it better than me), but i had the hope that Mueller wasnt as biased as he seemed to be. So for him to be in the FBI is a shame and bad for the county.Finally Trump is able to swap the money. That lawsuit was stupid and never had a chance of success. It is in his power to do that. He is allowed to do that. No courts necessary for that conclusion. Disgrace that it even was before the SC. But of course, they want to stall, so that they can ride longer on the "the poor childs in cages" wave. For them its funny, for the Trump administration its freaking hard to handle the situation.
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You know, I'm watching the news and it's really weird that Trump started a tirade against a bunch of U.S representatives and their cities are garbage about one week after he accused a bunch of U.S representatives of being unpatriotic for calling the U.S garbage. If he planned any of this, you'd think he'd space these moves out a little more. :getlost:
Edit: Oh, and Trump tried to liken himself to the first responders today. Great.
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Why should he plan this? Trump just reacts. If he gets attacked then he unloads too. The Squad was constantly attacking him and declared him a racist.
When congressmen pay more attention to a hoax, then caring for their cities, then he should call them out. He is the leader and he can say that they ought to do their job.
And Trump is right, they have shitholes. You know it, i know it and also the congressmen know it.Death penalty…if there is no doubt that the person commited a horrible crime, then i am all for it. But for me, it needs to be 100%. Not easy to prove i guess. There are of course ups and downs, but saving money, saving resources and cutting down CO2 a bit are objectively good things, imo. But really, it needs to be 100%.
I am kinda torn apart about the gun law. If they forbid guns entirely, then probably only law abiding citizen will give them up. So the bad guys then have it easier to rob, harm and murder the "good" ones. Guns can do bad things, bad also good things. If i knew my freaking crazy neighbor has a gun, then i probably would also have a gun. Its a doom loop.
So i am not against or for guns. What i am for is that they should restrict the gun law and make it more difficult to get a gun.--- Update From New Post Merge ---
Edit: Oh, and Trump tried to liken himself to the first responders today. Great.
Man, America is doing amazing under trump if people complain about Tweets. If that does not speak for his success :)
@KageKageKing you sure have problems…
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We do complain about tweets down here in Brazil as well and no one would say things are amazing down here.
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Ignore the troll, people.
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It gets pretty hard for me by now to ignore people who defend a disgusting man that has no class whatsoever, who spouts hate and lies in Every.Fucking.Tweet.Every.Fucking.Day.
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It's also pretty hard to ignore someone defending a dumbass that does things like trashes a city for it's crime, cleanliness, & economic problems all the while said dumbass is from New York which is no stranger to any of those three problems.
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Speaking of: [https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/07/29/day-921/
[h=1]](https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/07/29/day-921/)Day 921: Critical[/h]
1/ Trump called Elijah Cummings a "brutal bully" and his Baltimore-based district a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" that "is considered the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States. No human being would want to live there." Trump also called Cummings, a black civil rights icon, a "racist." Trump's tweets appeared to be in response to a Fox & Friends segment on the same topic that ran earlier in the day, which included images of rundown and neglected apartment buildings in Baltimore. As chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cummings has initiated most of the investigations into the Trump administration. Last week, Cummings was authorized to subpoena work-related text and emails by White House officials, including Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Trump called Cummings' "radical 'oversight' […] a joke!" (Baltimore Sun / New York Times / Washington Post / Washington Post / The Hill)- Trump denied being a racist, saying that "there is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know, that Elijah Cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district." Trump added: "Dems always play the race card when they are unable to win with facts." (BBC)
- The Baltimore Sun responded to Trump: "Better to have a few rats than to be one." The editorial accused Trump of deploying "the most emotional and bigoted of arguments" against a Democratic African American congressman from a majority-black district. (Baltimore Sun / Washington Post)
- Four years ago, Trump criticized Obama for not doing enough to address problems in Baltimore. Trump claimed at the time that "I would fix it fast!" (Washington Post)
- Trump attacked Rev. Al Sharpton, calling him "a con man" who "Hates Whites & Cops!" Sharpton had tweeted a photo of himself at an airport with the caption: "headed to Baltimore." (New York Times)
- Day 917: The House Oversight and Reform Committee authorized subpoenas for senior White House aides official work communications sent via personal email and cellphone. The White House refused to turn over the messages voluntarily earlier this month. Democrats have raised questions about whether Jared Kushner's WhatsApp communications with foreign officials, Ivanka Trump's use of a private email account to conduct official business, and Stephen Bannon's use of a personal mobile device for White House business violated the Presidential Records Act. (Politico / Washington Post / Axios)
2/ Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney defended Trump's attacks, saying that some people will be offended by anything Trump says and that he was "fighting back" against "illegitimate attacks about the border." Mulvaney argued that Trump's use of "infested" to attack Cummings had "nothing to do with race." Trump, however, has repeatedly used "infested" to attack places in which the majority are people of color. Trump previously told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley to "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came," suggested that John Lewis' district was "in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested)," referred to Africa as "Ebola-infested," and called California a "ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept." (Politico / Axios / Washington Post / Mediate)
- Day 907: Trump told four liberal congresswomen of color to "go back" and "fix" their "broken and crime infested" countries. All four are American citizens and born in the United States, except for one, who became a refugee at age 10 when a civil war devastated Somalia. While he did not mention them by name, Trump's tweets were directed at the members of the so-called "squad," who were elected to Congress in 2018: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. Republicans remained largely silent after Trump's attack. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, called the tweets "xenophobic" and accused Trump of reaffirming his plan to make "America white again." (New York Times / Associated Press / Washington Post / Wall Street Journal / Yahoo News / CNN)
3/ Jared Kushner owns more than a dozen apartment complexes in Baltimore that have been cited for hundreds of code violations and provide substandard housing to lower-income tenants. Since 2013, Kushner Cos. has owned nearly 9,000 rental units across 17 complexes that generate at least $90 million in annual revenue. In 2017, Baltimore County officials revealed that apartments owned by Kushner Cos. were responsible for more than 200 code violations – all accrued in the span of the calendar year – and repairs were made only after the county threatened fines. (Washington Post / Baltimore Sun / New York Times)
- Trump's eateries in New York were recently fined by health inspectors for "evidence of mice or live mice" in and around the kitchen and other "critical" violations. (New York Daily News)
- House Republicans scheduled their yearly policy retreat at a downtown Baltimore hotel in September despite Trump calling Baltimore a "very dangerous & filthy place." Trump is expected to speak at the retreat. (Washington Post)
4/ Dan Coates will step down as director of national intelligence next month. Coates frequently pushed back against Trump on foreign policy issues, including on Russia and North Korea. Trump said he would nominate John Ratcliffe to replace Coates, who will officially leave his post on Aug. 15th. It's unclear whether Ratcliffe will be confirmed by the Senate, since he has no background in intelligence. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr "cautioned the president's advisers that he considered Mr. Ratcliffe too political for the post." Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, meanwhile, warned that it'd be a "big mistake" for Senate Republicans to "elevate such a partisan player to a position that requires intelligence expertise and non-partisanship." Trump was, reportedly, "thrilled by Ratcliffe's admonishment of former special counsel Robert Mueller in last week's House Judiciary Committee hearing." (New York Times / Washington Post / Reuters / NBC News / USA Today / NPR / Axios / Politico / CNN / New York Times)
5/ The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can use $2.5 billion in Pentagon money to expand the border wall with Mexico. In a 5-to-4 ruling, the court lifted a lower court order that blocked the four contracts the Trump administration had awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for the projects had been frozen by lower courts while a lawsuit over the money proceeded. (New York Times / Politico / Associated Press / Washington Post)
6/ The Trump administration didn't include analysis that more than 500,000 children would lose eligibility for free school meals under a proposed change to the food stamp program. When the Department of Agriculture proposed last week to end food stamp benefits for 3.1 million people by changing eligibility and automatic enrollment, the agency did not include its own estimate that more than 500,000 children would also lose eligibility for free school meals. Currently, children whose families receive food stamps are automatically enrolled in a federal program that offers free breakfast and lunch at school. The two programs are automatically linked to reduce paperwork to ensure that children receive all of the food assistance they qualify for. (NBC News)- Day 915: The Trump administration proposed ending food stamp benefits for 3.1 million people by tightening eligibility and automatic enrollment. The current rule allows residents in 43 states to be automatically eligible for food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) if they receive benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The new rule would require people who receive TANF benefits to pass a review of their income and assets to determine whether they are eligible to receive food from SNAP. Removing 3.1 million people from SNAP would save the federal government about $2.5 billion a year. About 40 million low-income people received SNAP benefits in 2018. (Reuters / Bloomberg / CNN / Washington Post)
7/ More than 100 Democrats in the House have called for impeachment proceedings against Trump to begin. A total of 107 House Democrats have publicly supported the move, including 12 since Mueller's testimony last week. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said Trump "richly deserves impeachment," but that it was too soon to begin the process despite Trump having "violated the law six ways from Sunday." (NBC News / Politico / New York Times / Axios)
poll/ 47% of American said Mueller's testimony made no difference in their views about impeaching Trump. Among Democrats, 48% said they are more likely to support impeachment that could ultimately lead to Trump's removal from office. 3% of Republicans said they were more likely to support impeachment. 71% of Americans said that they had either read, seen or heard about Mueller's testimony last week. (ABC News) -
Takto: The Democrats are stupid, Trump is playing 3D chess.
Also Takto: Why should Trump have to plan something? He just reacts.
 You know what I miss? Even though Bleach was terrible, at least we had Attack from Behind. That shit was hilarious.Takto: It's the democrats in congress who are to blame for not passing funding to help the migrants in
concentrationdetainment.Also Takto: I'm not talking about legislation, just funding. Why can't the legislative branch get anything done other than legislation?
Takto: I don't understand the whole black and white mentality, I only see in shades of gray. Also Takto: Anyone who dislikes Trump is as bad as a flat earther. -
Takto: The Democrats are stupid, Trump is playing 3D chess.
Also Takto: Why should Trump have to plan something? He just reacts.
[qimg]https://media1.tenor.com/images/c8af49d1ca430b5ab51c3d03f78787d6/tenor.gif?itemid=11205346[/qimg] You know what I miss? Even though Bleach was terrible, at least we had Attack from Behind. That shit was hilarious.Takto: It's the democrats in congress who are to blame for not passing funding to help the migrants in
concentrationdetainment.Also Takto: I'm not talking about legislation, just funding. Why can't the legislative branch get anything done other than legislation?
Takto: I don't understand the whole black and white mentality, I only see in shades of gray. Also Takto: Anyone who dislikes Trump is as bad as a flat earther.It's like those websites that track the Trump tweets where an old one rails on Obama only for a later one to show him doing exactly what he was complaining about.
Given who you're mocking, that seems fitting.
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Those tweets aged horribly in such a hilarious way. I'm sad the name Nostradumbass isn't used more often.
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This CNN debate might as well have been on Fox News, because the dishonest framing, lying and constant attacks coming from the moderators is un-fucking-real.
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Warren is still my favorite, and has been continuously proving why in this debate(even if the moderates keep cutting her off). She's easily the most articulate and knowledgeable about policy.
But I do have to say, Bernie is doing EXTREMELY well in debating tonight.
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Warren is still my favorite, and has been continuously proving why in this debate(even if the moderates keep cutting her off). She's easily the most articulate and knowledgeable about policy.
But I do have to say, Bernie is doing EXTREMELY well in debating tonight.
Yeah, they seem like the clear winners tonight. Instead of going against each other they spent much of the night taking down the weaker candidates (lol Deleany). It seemed like the best outcome.
I also love the use of "Republican talking points" as a negative.
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Either your link is busted or the tweet got taken down.
