Quote by Magical_felix

Did you see them chanting FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT while pumping their fists at the RNC? Looking like Nazis for real.

The only items missing were the mosquito repellent tiki torches as seen in Charlottesville.

This wasn't a Sirhan Sirhan style of murder attempt. This was an uber staged secret service special, made for TV and slow motion replays.

I've seen fishermen accidentally hook themselves in their ears while casting multi treble hooked lures - which looked more gnarly than the cut on Trumplets ear.

It's a walk in the park to stand up on a stage and spew lies and hyperbole - Trump got away with doing just that on debate night. Nobody is holding his feet to the fire for the 30 plus lies he proclaimed.

But, but... her emails. ad nauseum

Here's a conspiracy occurring right in front of our eyes. From the liars aboard SCOTUS.

Five of the six justices who ruled that Trump has absolute immunity for “core” presidential duties sung a different tune at their confirmation hearings.

Collective amnesia seems to have struck the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, especially around the question: Is the president above the law?

Five of the six conservative justices who ruled to give the president absolute immunity for “core” presidential duties seem to have made contradictory statements during their Senate confirmation hearings.

“No man is above the law,” Neil Gorsuch told Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) during his confirmation hearing in 2017.

Gorsuch even doubled down, calling the court’s landmark 1952 decision in Youngstown v. Sawyer, which reigned in presidential authority, a “brilliant opinion.”

Similarly, Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate that “no one is above the law” during his 2018 confirmation hearing, according to CNN. Amy Coney Barrett concurred during her hearing, but like Kavanaugh, obfuscated on presidential pardons, according to The New York Times.

“That question may or may not arise, but that is one that calls for legal analysis of what the scope of the pardon power is,” Barrett told the Senate on the extent of the presidential pardon.

Kavanaugh told the Senate, “The question of self pardons is something I have never analyzed.”

In Samuel Alito’s confirmation hearing he told the senate that “no president, Democratic or Republican, no president is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone in this room.”

Alito also praised the Youngstown ruling, adding that during Watergate it was “the responsibility of the judiciary to hold fast,” in forcing President Nixon to abide by subpoenas.

Chief Justice John Roberts concurred, citing Youngstown as binding the president to the law.

“Senator, I believe that no one is above the law under our system, and that includes the president,” he said in his 2005 confirmation hearing. “The president is fully bound by the law, the Constitution and statutes. Now, there often arise issues where there’s a conflict between the Legislature and the Executive over an exercise of Executive authority, asserted Executive authority. The framework for analyzing that is in the Youngstown Sheet and Tube case, the famous case coming out of President Truman’s seizure of the steel mills.”

Presidential pardons, Youngstown and presidential immunity were not discussed in Clarence Thomas’ confirmation hearing.

Now that the Supreme Court has made any president into a king who chooses to corruptly use the power granted them by six Republicans on the Supreme Court, the next step will be to end all prosecution of Donald Trump, now and for forever.

Clarence Thomas — writing on behalf of the billionaires who have been bribing him, Alito, Cavanaugh, and Gorsuch — initiated the process with Friday’s “the president is a monarch” decision, reversing the Revolutionary War. He wrote in his concurring opinion:

“I write separately to highlight another way in which this prosecution may violate our constitutional structure. In this case, the Attorney General purported to appoint a private citizen as Special Counsel to prosecute a former President on behalf of the United States. But, I am not sure that any office for the Special Counsel has been ‘established by Law,’ as the Constitution requires.

“By requiring that Congress create federal offices ‘by Law,’ the Constitution imposes an important check against the President—he cannot create offices at his pleasure. If there is no law establishing the office that the Special Counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution. A private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a former President.”

In other words, Jack Smith should go back to the Hague and prosecute European war criminals, because American war criminals and fascists — as long as they hold the office of the presidency or are former Republican presidents — are now officially immune.

While Thomas’ opinion isn’t entirely reflected in the larger Court’s opinion, it’s reasonable to assume it’ll be the next step once a lawsuit against Smith’s appointment reaches the “fascist six.”

As many have speculated in the past 24 hours, President Biden could use his newfound powers to order the arrest and imprisonment of those corrupt Supreme Court justices for bribery, Donald Trump for any one of the hundreds of crimes he committed while in office and afterwards, and even rightwing talk show hosts for encouraging sedition.

But he won’t. He’s a good man who believes in the America we had before six corrupt Republican Supreme Court justices changed everything. So Biden will, no doubt, continue to hold to the old laws, consequences be damned.

Donald Trump, of course, will not be so restrained. The parallels between last week’s Supreme Court decision and Germany’s Enabling Acts — which were similarly ratified by the German Supreme Court right after Hitler took power in March, 1933 — are startling.

That collection of laws ruled that whatever Hitler said in the context of an “official act” instantly became the law of the land. For all practical purposes, as the nation’s leader he became immune from prosecution under the laws that applied to every other normal German or elected politician.

In a very real sense, therefore, one could argue that the six corrupt, bought-and-paid-for Republicans on the Supreme Court just initiated the process of the Nazification of America.

By any reasonable standard, including the code of ethics by which every federal judge must live and operate, at the very least Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito should have recused themselves from this decision. Thomas‘s wife, after all, was an actual participant in the attempted overthrow of our government for which Trump is being prosecuted, and Sam Alito and his wife proudly proclaimed their loyalty to that seditious overthrow attempt by flying flags to that effect.

And, had those two not been so vociferously arguing on behalf of Trump and his fascist proclamations and crimes, it’s remotely possible that, at the least, Barrett and Roberts may not have gone along with this morally and politically criminal decision.

But the “well-bribed two,” after ruling last week that their bribes were merely “gratuities,” prevailed, and we live now in a new America that would be unrecognizable to Washington, Jefferson, Paine, Hamilton, or Adams.

It’s been said so often that it’s now almost a cliché, but it is no longer possible to even feebly deny that, of our two political parties, one is still devoted to our Founders’ ideal of a secular democratic republic and the other, the Republican Party, is fully committed to a form of government last seen on this continent in the Confederate states when they ended democracy, instituted a brutal police state, and fought a war to try to destroy democracy in the north.

It’s been often noted that this November’s election will be the most important in our history. Tragically, alongside the election of 1860, that is now irrefutably true.

If ever there was a time to volunteer with one of the many fine organizations, or join your local Democratic Party, to help encourage people to vote this fall, that time is now. It will be our last chance.

--Thomas Hartmann (The Hartmann Report)

Quote by joe71

A "bad night?" That's what you say about someone who has mental illness or the early stages of dementia. We can't afford a President who has "bad nights" when he's 81, and plans to remain in office until he's 86. God help us all.

A cold explains his hoarse throat; it does not explain a total inability to speak coherent thoughts and sentences. But your sentiment is the dominant one emerging from the party machinery and the media they control, so ...

Looks like these fucktards who run the party are going to "run this train into the wall," as Rowan put it. And Trump will win. Humanity is doomed.

I'm sure all Americans have forgotten about the 4 years of bad days and bad nights, Donald Trump unleashed upon America. His decisions during that timeframe are still haunting the USA today and will for quite some time - but that doesn't mean we have to elect him to the Presidency again.

Perhaps we just need to reacquaint ourselves with the damage this human filth unleashed on the country when he was calling the shots. (not to mention how he mishandled COVID19) -

Following a debate performance from President Joe Biden that failed to solidify his ability to defeat ex-President Donald Trump in November, several newspapers and Democratic leaders have called on the president to end his re-election bid — but one conservative is shutting those calls down.

Anti-Trump Lincoln Project adviser and former Republican consultant Stuart Stevens, in a Sunday op-ed published by the New York Times, argues, "For all the talk of Mr. Biden’s off night, what is lost is that Mr. Trump missed a great opportunity to reset his candidacy and greatly strengthen his position."

Stevens is baffled by many Democratic leaders' failure "to rally around a wildly successful president after one bad night."

Is this how Americans see themselves? When we watch the American flag carried at the Olympics in Paris, are we to feel ashamed, not proud?

When Ronald Reagan was president, he believed that to be born in America was to win life’s lottery. Now, in Trump’s America, are we victims, chumps, losers?

I don’t think so. Mr. Trump has difficulty expanding his base because most Americans are still proud to be Americans. Most Americans do not wake up mad at the world, fearful to go outside their homes. What is it that you are supposed to hate the most — the record-high stock market or low unemployment?

The veteran GOP consultant also argues:

The Republican Party is at war with the modern world, and it is losing.

What happened when Republicans attacked Nike for its endorsement deal with Colin Kaepernick? Nike made a fortune.

How is it possible to get in a fight with Disney, the happiness company?

This is a party that thought it was a good idea to go after Taylor Swift when it was already suffering from problems with female voters over the death of Roe. Seriously?

While Biden may have stumbled, Stuart points out that his opponent "unleashed a virulent anti-American rant," proving, "The America he lives in is a postapocalyptic hellscape of violence, with people 'dying all over the place' — more 'Mad Max' than 'morning in America.'"

Stuart emphasizes, "My one plea to my new friends abandoning Mr. Biden is simple: Suck it up and fight. It’s not supposed to be easy."

The mini-micro plastics in my blood, help the flow through the clogged arteries I've earned from 30 years of smoking weaponized cigarettes.

It's a win win win.

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Quote by DanielleX

Biden needs to be replaced quickly. Some of the debate was just really uncomfortable viewing. I don't know how practical it is for the Democrats to replace him? D

Dude had a bad night. It's reported he had a head cold. The last 3.5 years have been 180 degrees better in the opposite direction than the 4 years of Trump which preceded Biden.

He's been delivering in the Presidency aspect for the last 3.5 years. Trump tried to overthrow the government and a valid election the last time he was in power.

Vote for whomever you wish.

Vote for Trump and you'll get the exactly what you want.

Vote for Biden and you'll get exactly what you don't want but will settle for because the other dude is a fucktard magnet of the 3rd order who will sell America out to the highest bidder and that president doesn't give one fuck about you or your family.

In a 'normal year' I would vociferously oppose Rick Wilson... But the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Quote by HornyBill

GQP?

GOP - Grand Old Party

GQP - Grand Qanon Party

No shit, when exactly, was America great. When was that period of time which Trump and his magats want to take us all back to?

Before women could vote? Before minorities could vote? When..?

https://www.rawstory.com/anti-trump-penzeys/

https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/

Why did Anthony Kennedy resign from the Supreme Court in 2018 at the age of 82, instead of holding on to that revered position for as long as he could - like Ginsburg succeeded in doing?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/07/12/untangling-the-links-between-trump-deutsche-bank-and-justice-kennedys-son/

Quote by RowanThorn

Deliberately misreporting earned foreign income, over reporting charitable donations, and under the table bonus payments received. It’s actually all available publicly at this point.

I fail to note actual nepotism or insider trading in any of this.

Insider trading is what made Nancy Pelosi famous. If you want to point out the nepotism aspect - compare it to the nepotism shown to Jared and Ivanka Kushner by former President Orangutan - then maybe I can believe you.

Quote by Dani

Out of curiosity, is there a reason every time I challenge your devotion to the Democratic party, you immediately jump to assuming my belief system and then make up a shit ton of "counterpoints" on my behalf to which I don't subscribe?

I ask because I've made it abundantly clear that I believe the two-party system is fucked. The Democrats become more right-leaning by the day because they're a self-serving party just like the others. Refusal to hold one's party accountable leads to the shit show that is our current election system. Downplaying the missteps of the party to which you're loyal to point the finger at another is ignorant at best.

I'm honestly baffled at why you feel so threatened every time someone rightfully points out how the Dems have been such a letdown while also acknowledging that no one sane with this country's best interests in mind wants Trump anywhere near American government. I don't need to be convinced of this, as I'm fully aware. But also, the Dems fucking suck. Biden is a shit show, just less so than Trump...for the most part.

Being a better choice than Trump as your main running point is fucking insane.

You're right and I apologize for my hastily written screed which was posted as one long wall of text, instead of being broken up to only include the 1st paragraph and the last sentence of said screed.

I wasn't attempting to jump to assumptions with regard to you. I do not know you at all, anymore than I know Felix or Rowan or anyone else on this website.

I know how you feel about the two party system in America. I used to feel the same way, but which nation in the 'free world' has a better system when it comes to elections?

I cannot help the fact that I'm (assuming again) 30 years older than you and have been politically and socially awake since I was 19 years old and out in the world, beginning to experience - in my face, the horseshit which you have had to endure every day of your life. I grew up, extremely sheltered and privileged and I for sure did not know this until a few years of being exposed to it - every day. I can identify with the term: woke - and it appalls me that others of my generation - who may have been as sheltered as myself - and many who weren't - are offended by that word and what it means today.

I think Bill Clinton won his 1st election because: A plurality of Americans of voting age had grown sour on the Reagan Revolution and the ensuing 4 year administration of former CIA chief George H W Bush. Clinton could talk for hours without use of a teleprompter and make reasonable sense. Quicker on his feet than anyone else in the Republican party and for sure in the Democratic Party (he chose Gore not because Gore was an orator, but because Gore had good ideas but didn't know how to communicate them - and a lot of marginalized people (by the Reagan/Bush years) would vote for a Clinton/Gore ticket instead of Clinton/some other Democrat. Clinton also took several positions which were farther to the right than Reagan or Bush had been for the previous 12 years. He cut them off at the pass by doing so - and sent the Democratic party far to the right of Jimmy Carter/Lyndon Johnson and JFK.

I'm going to stop here before you think I'm lecturing you - I'm not. I don't have the cajone's to even try to do that.

I was elated a few years back when I jumped you in that chat room to 'welcome' you back. Seriously. It's never been my intention to try to start shit with you.

Jack on the other hand...

Quote by Magical_felix

I’m sorry but this is like deciding to go on a diet while stranded in the desert with only junk food to survive. We need to find our way out of the desert (end the maga movement) then go on a diet (vote for more progressives). Vote in enough progressives to do to the Democratic Party what the MAGA movement did to the Republican Party.

This whole third party vote now to help Trump win and cement the idea that being MAGA stupid wins, is dangerous.

I've voted in every election (every 2 years) since 1978. Now you know how old I really am.

The only time (in hindsight) I feel I ever threw away my vote was 2016, when I wrote in: Bernie Sanders. I figured Hillary was going to crush Trump. But I felt Sanders would have crushed Trump - they both were campaigning on popularism and Bernie was far to the left of either Trump or Hillary, supporting actual progressive planks. There were many things I did not care for - concerning Clinton, and her advanced age was the least of those issues. Bernie was older than she was.

I'm not making that mistake again. But yeah, voting for the lesser of two evils is a tough pill to swallow when you're standing inside that tiny voting booth. But I know what a catrastrophe mutliple felon Trump would be if he 'won' a 2nd term. Social Security and Medicare are both standing at Trump's guillotine, along with more future tax cuts for the super wealthy and corporations - which will be picked up by the middle and lower social classes in America. Again.

Just take a peek at the GQP Project 2025. They wish to remake the entire USA to shoehorn into their image of what's great about the new America under their guardianship.

Quote by Dani

This Biden boner shit is weird.

I'll be on your standby for your next "I've been around for ages, and you youngins don't know like I know" rant.

If that's all you gather from skimming my posts concerning Biden vs Trump, you'd be better served ignoring everything that flies off my fingers. I campaigned for Bernie Sanders in 2015-16 until he dropped out of the nomination race. I also supported Bernie in 2020, again, until the Dems shut the door on him.

We can thank Joe Biden for many political catastrophes - such as Clarence Thomas making it onto the Supreme Court - after Biden joined with Republicans to humiliate, ignore and crush Anita Hill's testimony in 1991. You should probably also thank Obama for selecting Biden as his running mate in 2008 - which further elevated the verbal gaff-machine in the Dem party.

There's plenty of blame to go around when it comes to the Israeli/Palestine relationship since 1948. I have never read any positive solutions/suggestions for how Biden/America is supposed to proceed with dealing with the nationalistic warmongers who are large and in charge of the Israeli military and law enforcement. Perhaps America shouldn't have been supporting Israel with billion$ of discounts to purchase state of the art weaponry from American manufacturing profiteers. Trump didn't end any of that during his first term in office, but neither have any US Presidents going back nearly 75 years.

I get that you would feel safer if NATO was completely disbanded and all member nations split apart and Europe was ripe for the picking by Putin's war machine. Trump and Biden are a couple of assholes, they've both made numerous bad decisions over the entirety of their lifetimes. But Biden has never attempted a coup nor acted like a dictator.

For my entire lifetime, there has been at least one major war occurring somewhere in this world. And when there hasn't been one, two or three major wars (Iran vs Iraq, Korea vs NATO, genocide on the African continent in multiple different countries, Central American wars fought by proxy America/Soviet Union, too many wars and skirmishes for me to keep track of. It appears that humans are good at procreation and at killing & maiming one another.

My Biden boner is born of not wanting to see Trump anywhere near the oval office again. But you be you, youngling.

Quote by RowanThorn

People do tend to remember supporting a genocide, yes.

That's exactly what the Trump administration did - to our fellow Americans from the earliest days of Covid 19 beginning to spread until he took his last special treatment to fix him up after his own Covid health struggles. Genocide.

Quote by Hasabrain2

Whatever your own political beliefs. In the hush money case, what do you think the jury will decide? I have intentionally left out hung jury.

Incidentally - that wasn't a Hush Money trial - it was an Election Interference trial (the 2016 Presidential election, in point of fact). Warts like you want to dumb shit down for people. Call the damned thing what it was/is - Trump was trying to subvert yet two more admittedly nasty personal stories about his own behavior from the American voting public. He'd had a 10 month long sexual and emotional affair with Karen McDougal - former Playboy playmate.

He then Stormy Daniels to shoot his load (maybe) in about 20 strokes.

The first AFFAIR lasted for 10 months, the 2nd encounter (which we know about thanks to Catch & Kill by the Nat'l Enquirer) lasted maybe 3 minutes before the obese fuckstick ran out of energy and assaulting stamina and probably farted then rolled his 62 year old - walrus shaped body off the 26 yr old porn star. Both of those dalliances occurred while his former centerfold wife was preggers with his future frankensteinian 3rd male offspring.

Trump - a Republican in the Newt Gingrich mold of Family Values.

Biden will be 81, Trump will be 78...Trump acts like a demented maniac who we damn sure know - creates chaos every other day.

Biden doesn't create controversy or attempt to bend the constitution and normalcy to his own narcissistic needs.

Biden inherited:

The deadly mess of Covid19 which Trump (advocating weird cures and remedies like deworming paste for horses, disinfectants directly into the bloodstream & ultraviolet rays shot into people's orifices) claimed was a nothinburger, when in fact, Covid killed hundreds of thousands of Americans while Trump did NOTHING except babble about stupid remedies and moronic cures.

An 8 dollar increased US deficit - thanks to Trump and his egregious spending on wars (he inherited) and trillions of tax cuts for the wealthy (Trump instigated).

But all people are going to remember is - Israel bludgeoning the Gaza Strip. They won't remember Hamas killing and kidnapping over 1500 Israelis.

Vote for Trump and Trump's own criminal chaos or vote for Biden and Israeli chaos. And Ukraine chaos while Trump wanted to give 1/3rd of Ukraine to his puppet master - Putin.

Vote for Trump or anyone but Biden - and you give your thumbs up to more of this fucking bullshit.

https://thesixthmovie.com/

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/jan-6-generals-lied-ex-dc-guard-official-523777

a new hotrod

https://medmartonline.com/patient-lifts/manual-lifts/genesis-400-hydraulic-lift

This coming ROEvember will mark the beginning of the end of the Republican party. Trump's going into the dumpster fire of the rest of his life. The Senate is gaining Dem seats and the House will be swept by the blue tsunami which has been repeatedly coming ashore since 2018.

Fuck with American's civil rights and especially with abortion in the manner which they have - that's their death knell. Even MAGA/Republican women and girls have gotten abortions in the past and were quite thankful they had that right in their hip pocket at the time.

I've been a Democratic voter for 40+ years. I've seen good presidents and bad presidents. This is why I'm voting for Biden:

Secure Act 2.0

Veterans Act

Infrastructure Act

Inflation Reduction Act

CHIPS and Science Act

Cap on insulin costs for millions of Americans, not just a few thousand (like Trump did)

Medicare allowed to negotiate for better pricing.

Unemployment has been less than 4% for 23 consecutive months.

Stock markets are at new all time highs.

Inflation is heading downwards and the U.S. is doing much better than other countries.

Infrastructure is being upgraded in every state.

Job growth in Biden’s first three years outperformed any previous president.

330,000 new jobs added in March 2024

270,000 new jobs added in April 2024

3.56 million jobs added during Biden’s time in office.

The economy is growing at 5.2%, a faster rate than when trump was president.

The number of uninsured Americans hit an all-time low of 7.2% in the second quarter of 2023, while the number of people who signed up for an Obamacare plan for 2024 surged to 21.3 million.

Net worth has climbed under Biden.

By any measure, Biden has been an effective President, operating without weekly chaos and trying to tear NATO apart - and Biden has earned my vote for another 4 year term.

I campaigned in 2020 for Bernie Sanders right up until it was evident that Biden was going to be selected to represent the Democrats.

I'd still like to see Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in cabinet positions where they can provide their leadership and experience best.

The Israeli situation is not one of Biden's making - tell us how you'd handle things Mr Thorn, were you large and in charge.

The ongoing criminal conspiracy which is the Trump Organization. A mom & pop real estate company which never builds anything substantial at fair rates, as the Trump Org simply stiffs all the contractors who dare to work for Trump - and then they all get shafted. But, they know how to protect their backsides from Johnny Law:

https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits

I don't suppose anyone ever thought to unveil this new chatroom set up on a server which wasn't in production and thus live - so the admins could experiment and fine tune or make changes to what would be a 95% completed chat product before it was rolled out to the production chat servers. Like how 100% of the rest of the computing world (with any credentials and experience) would choose to roll out a new product. Instead this is like Microsoft rolling out a new OS and asking the current customer base to make suggestions to improve the lousy 1st efforts.