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spacelazarwolf · 6 months
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i looked up the current candidates for the 2024 presidential election in the usa and it is. really fucking bleak.
democrats:
joe biden - current president. doing...ok. he's pro trans rights and has been doing some good stuff to fight climate change, but he's like a hundred years old and
robert f kennedy jr - seems to have decent opinions on a lot of policy, but thinks that chemicals in the water are making kids transgender and has suggested that covid is a conspiracy by ashkenazi jews and chinese people
marianne williamson - anti vaxxer apparently, also i guess thinks love is the only thing that will defeat trump
republicans:
ryan binkley - conservative pastor that thinks marriage is "between one man and one woman", anti choice, wants to Build A Wall
doug burgum - republican governor that has actively passed anti trans legislation, anti regulation (unless what you're regulating is trans people ig????)
chris christie - is apparently opposed to bans on gender affirming care, but vetoed a bill allowing trans people to change their gender marker, anti choice
ron desantis - i feel like i don't need to explain
larry elder - denies systemic racism and wants police to be harder on crime, anti crt and dei, pretty solidly anti trans
nikki haley - anti choice, extremely anti trans, anti immigrant, supports israel while also having an evangelical pastor who has a history of antisemitism and racism and queerphobia open for one of her events
will hurd - doesn't seem too horrendous, not noticeably anti trans, but supports 15 week abortion ban
asa hutchinson - great value brand trump
perry johnson - was republican candidate for governor of michigan but was disqualified due to fraudulent ballot signatures
mike pence - yeah
vivek ramaswamy - "anti wokeism", would pass a law requiring teachers to disclose to parents if they found out their kid is trans, supports bans on gender affirming care, wants to end sanctuary cities and address mental health through "faith based approaches", hedge fund bro
tim scott - said that america is not a racist country and the biggest problem facing black people is "fatherlessness incentivized by welfare", opposes same sex marriage and gender affirming care and thinks democrats are using school to "indoctrinate children"
corey stapleton - montana secretary of state, couldn't find much abt him
donald trump - donald trump
independent
cornel west (green party) - seems really cool actually but two party system will fuck him over
i hate the two party system so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
also congrats to the dems for yet another milquetoast kennedy, and congrats to the republicans for having the most racially diverse list of racist and transphobic candidates!!!
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olekciy · 10 months
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    A short reminder that Russia is imperialist, has been imperialist for a long time, and there's no way around that fact.
Sections of the Western left have developed a narrative according to which Russia has been gradually surrounded by NATO and that supposedly "provoked" Putin. It's increasingly difficult to sustain the notion that Russia is simply "defending itself" after 24 February 2022, but the thing is - the invasion did not come out of the blue. One needs a different narrative to understand what Russia actually is: an aggressive imperialist power alongside other imperialisms.
So, a different narrative:
- 1994: Russia, with US support, acquires Ukrainian nuclear arsenal in exchange for the assurances to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity
- 1997: Russia acquires the Sevastopol naval base and almost all of the ships (82%, to be exact)... in exchange for the assurances to respect Ukraine's territorial integrity!
- 2004: Russia meddles in Ukrainian presidential elections, fighting hard to force an undemocratic fraudulent outcome, but fails
- Mid-to-late 2000s: As punishment for Ukraine electing Yushchenko, Russia uses energy blackmail, a form of economic coercion not very different from the IMF and World Bank lending and conditionality
- 2008: NATO refuses to adopt a roadmap towards Ukraine's membership and in effect postpones the decision indefinitely. Ukraine's security is in no way guaranteed, while Russia has already demonstrated the propensity to use coercion to force Ukraine to do its bidding
- 2009: Dmitry Medvedev, then president, writes to Yushchenko that "Russia does not pose and cannot pose any kind of threat to Ukraine", so seeking NATO membership is stupid. Yea, sure
- 2014: Russia, which "does not pose and cannot pose a threat to Ukraine"... annexes Crimea. Really, Dima?? I thought you were for real??
Of course, by annexing Crimea Russia not only makes all the previous statements that it "can never pose a threat to Ukraine" a ridiculous lie, but also breaks the 1994 memorandum and 1997 treaty. "We are the Kremlin. Our word is worth nothing"
- Crimea's annexation provokes armed separatism in Donbas that Russia supports and coordinates, including direct military command and control, and then completely subordinates Donbas "authorities", in effect occupying the region
- Ukraine's still not in NATO, its security is still in no way guaranteed, and the supplies of US weapons only begin in 2018. They are kept to a minimum... out of fear of provoking Russia!
- Nevertheless, on 24 February 2022 Russia launches a full-scale invasion to establish 100% control over all of Ukraine in one way or another. There is literally no military development on the ground that could have provoked the invasion. On Russia's part, it's a war of choice in exactly the same way the invasion of Iraq was a war of choice for the US in 2003.
Now, this is only the general outline. One should add Russia's drowning of Ukraine with spies and agents of influence, money to corrupt Ukrainian politicians and massive acquisition of Ukrainian assets to impose economic and political dependency.
These are well-known facts, but so many on the left refuse to see the story behind them. It's a story of decades of imperialist aggression, culminating in a war that cost 150,000 lives in 2022 alone. Any discussion of left-wing internationalism should begin with recognizing the reality of what Russia is and what it did.
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collapsedsquid · 14 days
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One​ possible outcome of the next presidential election is that a Democratic candidate wins a dispute-proof victory and is straightforwardly inaugurated. Another – perfectly likely – is that Trump runs again and is unambiguously re-elected in line with the law, even if most Americans don’t vote for him. But what if he, or a candidate like him, were to cheat, and he and his party threaded the needle to a victory endorsed by the key national institutions? Instead of today’s situation, in which there is a Democratic president and – to use Walter’s terminology – a downgraded superfaction of Trump supporters convinced by the lie that he was defrauded and should have won, you would have a Trump base accepting their champion’s fraudulent victory, and a liberal superfaction aware that the Republican head of state had stolen the presidency, that politicians, bureaucrats and lawyers had seized the apparatus of the American state, and that democracy had been killed. One of the strange things about the reaction to the invasion of the Capitol was how few of those dismayed by it speculated that they might one day long for just such an assault to succeed. Might a different mob storm into Congress to save democracy, rather than attack it? If an autocrat who has stolen an election is about to have his trashing of American democracy hallowed by Congress, all other recourse having failed, shouldn’t Democrats – or democrats, at least – take direct action? Liberal opinion in North America and Western Europe has tended to be gung-ho about pro-democracy protesters storming ruling institutions in other countries, notably Ukraine in 2014. But it’s one thing to imagine, as Walter encourages her readers to do, the gradual spread of white supremacist, anti-government terrorism across America against a democratic framework, until one day the progressive left, and the people of colour she suggests are likely to be targets of violence, arm and organise for self-protection. It’s another to wake up one morning and find that without any bloodshed or violence, without any seeming change in the smooth running of traffic signals and ATMs and supermarkets, without, even, an immediate wave of arrests or a clampdown on free speech, your country is run by somebody who took power illegally. Something must be done! But what, apart from venting on social media? And by whom? Me? In Ukraine, students and the liberal middle class found fighting allies among football ultras, small farmers and extreme nationalists. Such an alliance would be hard to pull together in the Euro-American world. Describing liberal protests against government corruption and malfeasance in Bulgaria in 2013, Ivan Krastev spoke of ‘the frustration of the empowered’ and an urban middle class that ‘risks remaining politically isolated, incapable of reaching out to other social groups’.
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afloweroutofstone · 5 months
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To the extent that this is true, it's good news. Posting the text since Tumblr isn't letting me post the link like usual for some reason
U.S. to ease sanctions on Venezuelan oil for freer presidential election
Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero and Karen DeYoung. Washington Post. October 16, 2023.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — The Biden administration and the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have agreed to a deal in which the U.S. would ease sanctions on Venezuela’s oil industry and the authoritarian state would allow a competitive, internationally monitored presidential election next year, according to two people familiar with the breakthrough talks. The sanctions relief is to be announced after Maduro’s government and Venezuela’s U.S.-backed opposition sign an agreement to include commitments by the socialist government to allow a freer vote in 2024, the people said. They’re expected to do that during a meeting in Barbados on Tuesday with U.S. officials in attendance. Maduro, who claimed victory in a 2018 election widely viewed as fraudulent, would agree to a process for lifting bans on opposition candidates running, one of the people said, though it is not clear how quickly that process would take place. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the talks. A senior administration official said the deal did not include plans to unfreeze Venezuelan assets currently held in the United States. The U.S. is likely to put a time limit on any sanctions relief so that it could be reversed if Maduro didn’t comply with his end of deal. Maduro would commit to accepting international electoral observations and opening up media access for the elections. It was not clear if the deal would also involve the release of political prisoners in Venezuela. The meeting in Barbados is to be announced Monday morning. The delegations are to arrive this afternoon. If the deal is signed, the U.S. government is prepared to announce the lifting of certain oil sanctions against Venezuela, the two people said. The sanctions relief could include a general license for Venezuela’s state-owned oil agency to resume business with the United States and other countries.
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saywhat-politics · 1 month
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Donald Trump's attorney requested to propose a new judgment on Wednesday in the former president's civil fraud trial ruling, in which Judge Arthur Engoron ruled that Trump will be fined roughly $355 million.
Context:
In a lawsuit filed in September 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump, his two adult sons Donald Jr. and Eric, The Trump Organization and two firm executives, Allen Weisselberg and Jeff McConney, of fraudulently overvaluing assets to secure more favorable bank loans and taxation deals.
On Friday, Engoron ruled that Trump will be fined roughly $355 million and barred from doing business in New York for three years after a monthslong civil trial from late last year into early January. The trial was to decide the damages Trump would face after Engoron found that he committed fraud by inflating the value of his assets. The other defendants in the case have also faced financial penalties and been barred from doing business in New York for periods of time.
Trump, the current GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential election, has maintained his innocence in the case and claimed it was politically motivated.
On Wednesday, Clifford Robert filed a letter in the New York City civil court addressed to Engoron which argues Trump was "deprived" of the chance to speak out against the ruling before it was filed.
According to court records, Roberts requested the chance to propose a "counter-judgment" to Engoron's ruling, adding that it would be "contrary to fundamental fairness" if not allowed to submit a counter-judgment.
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1americanconservative · 2 months
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Your fascist government just CONFIRMED the Department of Homeland Security is a criminal organization. 25% of all 2020 mail-in-ballots, equaling 420, 987 CONFIRMED to have NO signature match. And this is just in Maricopa County alone.
https://x.com/Real_RobN/status/1756345604287218115?s=20
Tom Fitton
"our results indicate that Trump would have won the Electoral College in the 2020 U.S. presidential election had fraudulent mail-in ballots not been counted."
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beardedmrbean · 3 months
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s attorney general on Monday ordered national Democratic party leaders to stop calling the state’s unsanctioned presidential primary “meaningless,” saying doing so violates state law.
The cease-and-desist notice came three days after the co-chairs of the Democratic National Committee’s rules committee told New Hampshire party leaders to “educate the public that January 23rd is a non-binding presidential preference event and is meaningless.” In a letter to Chairman Ray Buckley, they also called the primary “detrimental” and said “non-compliant processes can disenfranchise and confuse voters.”
But Attorney General John Formella said it’s the DNC that is in danger of harming voters. Formella, appointed by Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, did not say whether he is considering criminal charges, but his office later said he hasn't ruled it out. He released a statement saying the comments amount to an illegal attempt to deter voters from participating in the primary and cited state laws against criminal solicitation and voter suppression. The latter, a felony, makes it illegal to attempt to deter someone from voting based on fraudulent, deceptive or misleading information.
“Regardless of whether the DNC refuses to award delegates to the party’s national convention based on the results of the January 23, 2024, New Hampshire democratic Presidential Primary Election, this New Hampshire election is not “meaningless,’” Formella said. Statements to the contrary are false, deceptive and misleading.”
New Hampshire’s secretary of state scheduled the primary in accordance with a state law that requires both the Republican and Democratic primaries to be held at least seven days before any similar contest. But that put the state at odds with the DNC’s calendar, which starts with a primary in South Carolina on Feb. 3 followed by Nevada. Aimed at giving Black and other minority voters a larger, earlier role, the schedule also moves Michigan into the group of early states voting before Super Tuesday on March 5, when most of the rest of the country holds primaries.
President Joe Biden, who sought the changes, kept his name off the ballot in New Hampshire, though Democrats have organized a write-in campaign on his behalf.
Republicans will kick off the nominating process with the Iowa caucus on Monday. New Hampshire’s primary eight days later will be a crucial opportunity for GOP candidates to show they can remain competitive against former President Donald Trump, the early front-runner for their party’s presidential nomination.
A spokesperson for the DNC declined to comment Monday. Buckley, the New Hampshire chairman, released a statement reiterating that the secretary of state followed the law in picking the date.
“Well, it's safe to say in New Hampshire, the DNC is less popular than the NY Yankees,” he said. “Nothing has changed, and we look forward to seeing a great Democratic voter turnout on January 23rd.”
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On Friday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted to elect Lara Trump as its new co-chair, along with Michael Whatley as the committee's new chairman. The move comes as the RNC works to conduct an overhaul of the party's central committee, following years of disappointments under former RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel's leadership.
Lara Trump is the eldest daughter-in-law to former President Donald J. Trump, who has emerged as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. She is married to Eric Trump and the couple has two children.
Speaking to the RNC as its new co-chair, Lara Trump unveiled a $100,000 check that had been given to the committee by a donor and asserted the importance of raising money ahead of the election in November.
In addition to Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, the RNC's operations will be headed by Chris LaCivita, who is a top adviser to the Trump campaign.
Whatley, who was also unanimously elected on Friday to replace McDaniel, pledged to expand efforts to address key concerns heading into November. This includes ensuring the election is free from potential fraudulent activity by deploying poll watchers, workers, and judges to oversee the casting of ballots and ballot tabulations in real-time.
"The Republican National Committee will be focused like a laser on getting out the vote and protecting the ballot," said Whatley in his acceptance speech. "If our voters don’t have confidence that our elections are safe and secure, nothing else matters… Over the next eight months, the RNC will work hand in glove with President Trump’s campaign."
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lieslab · 6 months
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Introducing: N0 B0DY, N0 CRIM3
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As the leader of a mafia, known as Stray Kids, Bang Chan's most important job is protecting his investments. As the presidential election rolls around in the United States of America, it's nearly the same as every other year. The only difference? One of the presidential candidates has promised that he'll do whatever it takes to get rid of Stray Kids if he's elected. After winning the election and getting put in office, tensions continue to rise between the president and Stray Kids.
Kiera Campbell, daughter of the newly elected president, hates her father. Having to obtain the perfect public image, her life is filled with lies. A grand illusion created by her parents, all she wants is to be free. She'll do anything to attempt to have a normal life. It's a hazy dream that she's been chasing since she was a child. She'll do anything, even if it means putting her life in danger.
Exposed secrets, a fraudulent assassination, pointed fingers, a kidnapping, and a twisted romance between two people who come from incredibly different backgrounds, what's the worst that could go wrong?
The answer is everything and so much more.
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N0 B0DY, N0 CRIM3 is a fanfic that is currently on Wattpad and Ao3.
Starring:
Bang Chan: A mafia boss with an incredible amount of parental issues that isn't quite sure how to handle his emotions, so he comes off as cold and emotionless.
Lee Know: An undercover spy/interrogator who knows exactly what to say to manipulate people. (He also makes delicious food that everyone loves.)
Changbin: An ex-military sniper with anger issues that happens to be in a hit-man group. Sometimes he tortures people, but to be fair, they usually deserve it.
Hyunjin: A nepo baby with an art gallery. When he's not painting, he's laundering money, when he's not doing that, he's being dramatic as per usual.
Han: An undercover spy/interrogator with crippling anxiety. It's not easy going undercover when your brain is against you.
Felix: Chan's right hand man who has so much trauma that it's turned him into a mixture of the joker/the mad hatter. He's a sucker for lollipops.
Seungmin: A sarcastic hacker that is so good at his job, he probably knows all your secrets even if you don't know. Email? Social media? Government office page? Just tell him what you want and he'll do it.
I.N: A pyromaniac who accidentally discovered his love for fire one day and never looked back. When he's not creating homemade bombs and blowing shit up, he's putting his fashion degree to good use and designing clothes.
May also contain:
*Changbin and Lee Know with motorcycles (and a police chase)
*Explosions
*High stakes and adrenaline pumping scenes
*Female rage
*Parental issues
*Chan's father as America's most wanted criminal
*Felix playing cupid
*Forbidden love
*A slow burn romance
*The crippling realization that maybe you shouldn't trust any of the characters
*Murder
*Violence
*Screaming, crying, feet-kicking, and giggling scenes (or so I have been told)
And my personal favorite:
No happy ending
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mariacallous · 3 months
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The exiled leader of Belarus’ democratic opposition is warning the United States that abandoning Ukraine in its fight against Russia and its President Vladimir Putin would threaten the security of all of Eastern Europe.
“Belarusian people and Ukrainians are facing the same enemy – imperialistic ambitions of Russia. And we have to fight the sentiment together,” Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told CNN’s Chief National Security Analyst Jim Sciutto.
“Without free and independent and safe Ukraine, there will be no safe Belarus. But also vice versa. Without free Belarus, there will be constant threat to all our neighbors in the whole region,” she added.
Tsikhanouskaya’s husband was imprisoned after announcing he would challenge Belarus’ longtime leader, Alexander Lukashenko, in the 2020 presidential election. She ultimately ran in his place in an election widely considered fraudulent.
Tsikhanouskaya fled with her children to Lithuania in the same year, after Lukashenko’s government, with aid from Russia, forcefully stamped down pro-democracy protests.
Tsikhanouskaya says she has few details about her husband’s safety in prison, sharing with CNN, “I haven’t heard about my husband since March this year. [The] lawyer is not allowed to visit him, letters are not delivered. So I am not sure if he is alive.”
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Lukashenko has deepened ties with Putin, and Belarus – a former Soviet nation – has become a key ally and strategic partner in the fight, with Russian forces using Belarus as a launchpad for invading Kyiv.
This week, Tsikhanouskaya traveled to Washington D.C. for meetings with lawmakers to advocate for increasing pressure on Lukashenko’s regime and countering Putin, including continuing to provide military and security support to Ukraine.
Her meetings with the State Department are the first of what both sides have described as a “comprehensive strategic dialogue” between US officials and the exiled democratic leaders of Belarus.
The United States can play a “crucial role” in Belarusian pro-democracy efforts, Tsikhanouskaya said, but she expressed fear that a new American president could undo diplomatic progress.
Responding to the presidential campaign of former President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly spoken warmly of dictators including Putin, she said she hoped he would be defeated in 2024.
“We need [to] help Ukrainians to win this fight against Russia until the next elections in the USA,” she said.
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soberscientistlife · 10 months
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The Washington Post drops bombshell on Donald Trump, reveals that a new analysis of Trump’s statements just found that Trump has become “more extreme” and less tethered to reality” since his deadly January 6 insurrection.
But it gets worse…
The report accuses Trump of “not only never acknowledging his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, but over time his false claims of rampant fraud have become more elaborate. In the past, he attacked the expansion of mail voting during the pandemic to suggest the Democrats could have inflated their tallies; now he claims (falsely) to have definitively found millions of fraudulent ballots stuffed into drop boxes."
The report ends with this chilling quote from New York University historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarian movements:
“When authoritarian leaders lose office, they come back, like, 10 times worse — they never get less extreme, they always get more extreme. January 6 was a profoundly radicalizing event for the base, for the GOP and for Trump himself, because even assaulting the Capitol you could get away with. His campaign events have to be seen as that of an extremist radicalizing people and emotionally reeducating people to hate people.”
More indictments coming soon
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therealtruthalways · 1 month
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Check this out… Truth Social has been approved for an IPO by the SEC.
Trump's stock in the company could be worth upwards of $4 billion, which he will be allowed to sell after 6 months.
Everyone was wondering how Trump would post the $400 million bond to appeal the fraudulent New York civil trial, now we have our answer. Trump could also sell stock in order to finance his Presidential campaign.
Democrats who thought Trump would be bankrupted or imprisoned before the 2024 election are having a meltdown.
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jonstewartstuff · 1 month
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It was the quip that saved a presidency: In 1984, Ronald Reagan’s triumphant march to reelection faltered as concerns emerged about the president’s age and mental sharpness. Reagan was 73, but often seemed much older. In his first debate with Democratic rival Fritz Mondale, Reagan was scatterbrained and wandering in his speech, giving halting and digressive answers. This display energized Mondale’s challenge and created a possibility that the Democrat could pick up independent voters and win the election. The cognitive decline of the president became the hot topic of conversation, not just a staple on news programs but also the source of innumerable gibes from talk-show hosts and comedians.
Reagan, a cagey performer if nothing else, responded to his sinking numbers by not by running away from criticism and ridicule but by turning it into a punch line. In the second debate, Reagan, with the assurance and relaxed pacing of professional actor, joked, “I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” The line was met by laughter from all—including Mondale, although not without an internal groan. MSNBC election correspondent Steve Kornacki reports that Mondale “has said since then that that moment, he knew the election was over and that was it.”
Humor helped save Reagan in more ways than one. It’s not just that his banter helped make light of his greatest weakness. Jokes are a powerful tool for helping people make peace with their anxieties. They lower the room temperature. This can be true of some hostile jokes as well as self-deprecation. When Johnny Carson, Robin Williams, or Saturday Night Live mocked Reagan as a doddering codger, they also helped make the president seem grandfatherly and safe. From Reagan’s point of view, better to be known as benignly dotty than run on his actual record as the extremist promoter of counterrevolutionary violence and unchained plutocracy.
The lessons of Reagan’s deflecting worry about his aging through jokes are being ignored by Democrats as Joe Biden’s run for reelection is met by increasing press scrutiny of the president’s aging.
On Monday, Jon Stewart returned after a nine-year absence to hosting The Daily Show, the political comedy show that turned him into a national star during the presidency of George W. Bush. For his first segment, Stewart focused on the fact that the presumptive presidential nominees of the 2024 race, are the two oldest candidates ever to run for the presidency. Although Biden and Fuckface Von Clownstick are both senior, Stewart did not equate them. He noted, “Joe Biden isn’t Fuckface Von Clownstick. He hasn’t been indicted as many times, hasn’t had as many fraudulent businesses, or been convicted in a civil trial for sexual assault, or been ordered to pay defamation, had his charities disbanded, or stiffed a shit-ton of blue-collar tradesmen he’d hired. Should we even get to the ‘grab the pussy’ stuff? Probably not.”
The underlining theme of Stewart’s monologue was clear: Biden’s age is a concern, but Fuckface Von Clownstick is also old and a far worse candidate in every way. This is a message that helps Biden and the Democrats, since it confronts fretting about Biden’s age (a concern that polls consistently show is shared by a large majority of Americans) but contextualizes them to make Biden’s reelection seem like the right choice.
While Stewart did show clips of Biden’s misspeaking (saying Mexico when he meant Egypt and uttering the words “chocolate chip cookies” with an unsettling glee more worthy of a Muppet than a commander in chief), these were more than balanced by clips showing Fuckface Von Clownstick under oath forgetting key details of his life (including the question of whether he has a good memory) and also making comments outlandishly unhinged from reality (that if he lost the election the state of Pennsylvania would be renamed).
Stewart concluded, “Biden’s lost a step, but Fuckface Von Clownstick regularly says things at rallies that would warrant a wellness check.”
Stewart’s segment was fundamentally pro-Biden, a shrewd use of comedy to address unease while also, as Stewart at his best always does, keeping the big political picture in mind. It’s a way to address the age issue on pro-Biden terms but still maintain the trust of independents and nonpartisan Democrats, who are the swing voters in danger of abandoning Biden or staying home.
Unfortunately, Democratic Party partisans, with their characteristic habit of shooting themselves in the foot, reacted to Stewart’s monologue in the worst possible way: with strident denunciation for breaking the party line.
Rolling Stone reported that “more centrist Democrats, including those most likely to have appended ‘Blue Wave’ and ‘Resistance’ labels to their social media accounts in the Fuckface Von Clownstick years, were appalled at what they saw as a betrayal by one of their own.”
One Stewart critic, Democratic Party consultant Tom Watson Stewart tips on how to do comedy, tweeting:
Here’s how you do age-related Biden humor. TV Host: Joe Biden is so old. Audience: How old is he?! TV Host: Joe Biden is so old that he didn’t just promise to abandon the defense of western Europe against Putin and the Russians. <rimshot>
With all due respect, Watson’s joke was convoluted, confusing, and witless. Watson would do well to cling with dear life to his day job.
This cohort of seething and bitter liberals need to get a grip. Their defensive response to a comedy routine betrays their brittleness, fear, and weakness. It’s far more hurtful of Biden than anything Stewart said.
Stewart’s routine was not a “both sides” muddying of waters, although Stewart has been guilty of that in the past. His monologue deftly made the pro-Biden argument without demanding that voters ignore their own eyes and ears, which show that the president is in fact aging.
Whatever Stewart’s fault, when he’s at his best he mixes political insight with a robust, hearty wit. This was the Stewart on display in his routine about the aging of the presidency. Biden has some talent for self-deprecation. He should co-opt Stewart’s approach and encourage his most blinkered supporters to learn to take a joke.
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President Trump Special Counsel “Election Interference Case” in DC Suspended Indefinitely
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February 2, 2024
In the ridiculous federal election interference case in D.C., President Trump’s attorneys argued to the DC Circuit appellate court that President Trump holds inherent constitutional immunity. In essence, because President Trump was acquitted by the Senate of claims he incited or instigated the January 6, 2021, events, lawyers arguing under the constitution that only impeached and removed presidents can be criminally prosecuted.
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The initial 3-judge panel of the court has taken up the appeal, and all subsequent lower court activity was suspended until the constitutional issue is resolved. Again, if President Trump does not have immunity, then all preceding and future presidents can be criminally prosecuted for any/all events and decisions while holding office. This is a core issue, and the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has to tread very carefully with these ramifications at the forefront.
The decision of the 3-judge panel could also be followed by a full en-banc review by all judges in the circuit. Then, depending on their decision, it could -likely will- go even higher to the U.S. Supreme Court. All of this takes time, and the initial 3-judge appeals court have not provided any hints on their timeline.
Apparently, as a consequence, the entire trial of the case has been removed from the lower DC court docket. The removal took place within the last few days, and the Washington Post noticed the removal. This removal means the timing of the case, if at all, is completely unknown now.
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WASHINGTON – Former president Donald Trump’s March 4 trial date on charges of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election has been dropped from the public calendar of the federal court in Washington, a sign of what has long been anticipated — that his claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution would delay his trial while it remains on appeal.
The change did not appear on the official criminal case docket before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who has made clear since Trump filed his appeal on Dec. 7 that all trial deadlines would be suspended while he challenges the case. On appeal, Trump is arguing that the government does not have authority under the Constitution to bring charges against him for actions he took while president after the 2020 election through the Jan. 6, 2021. (read more)
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In addition to the challenges within these core issues, the Lawfare approach by Jack Smith, Mary McCord and Andrew Weissmann, faces multiple additional hurdles.  These are all issues that surface when Lawfare, the application of twisted legal theory intended to manipulate public opinion, runs into the reality of ever-increasing scrutiny from courts.
Combine these fraudulent legal theories with the reality that President Trump’s status is almost certainly “presumptive presidential nominee” in the eyes of the entire judicial branch, and things change.  The pretending justification for the Lawfare claims now hit the non-pretending and visible reality of political intent.
The judicial scrutiny gets even more focused, and the explanations demanded as justifications to target President Trump increase.  As the calendar of the November election gets closer Jack, Mary and Andrew will have to rely on ideologically aligned black robes to maintain their Lawfare pretense.  Some of the robes will not be comfortable with the demands of Jack, Mary and Andrew.
Some of the robes may not pretend, and that poses a problem for Jack, Mary and Andrew.
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delaccors · 1 month
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Guys, I have never write anything serious, actually. But maybe this time I do it.
Tomorrow is the day where Presidential Election and also Legislative Election take place. And also coincidentally in the same day as Valentine's Day.
One of the candidates, the president was the one who kidnapped and killed a lot of college students back in the 90s, where Indonesia's New Order happened. His vice president candidate is the current First Son of the current President and also his uncle paved his way to be the candidate because he was one of judge in Constitutional Court of Indonesia.
Rumor has it, the President and the First Lady wanted him to be the candidate. Hell, even the President met with them at Sunday in a hotel where the campaign meeting happened.
In other words, a murderer and a nepo baby will have a big chance to lead Indonesia.
Because there are data that support their fraudulence in campaign period.
Even in quiet period like this where Dirty Vote, a documentary about General Election Commissions' skewness, was uploaded and revealed a lot of problems with it. Hell, they even stopped the exit poll for Indonesians who live abroad. The reason was to wait until February, 14th.
Bullshit.
I have never been this scared before. I remember Padme's word, "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause." I really don't want Indonesia's democracy and freedom to die. I don't want my parents to suffer. I don't want my sister to suffer to lose a lot of her friends. I want to be free, to criticize my government without worrying that someone is watching me.
Especially rice's prices are rising now, due to be used as social assistance by Mr. President so the people will vote his son. It should be done in COVID-19 era, not at this time.
I know that Tumblr is always been USAmerican-centric, but this will probably the last chance Indonesia will have free democracy and its freedom. So, I don't know what I should ask you to do. Just pray for us that we will be fine is enough. Just support your Indonesian friends if you have any.
Thank you for reading this. I'm sorry if it's too long.
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The justices leave in place an appeals court ruling that partly upheld sanctions arising from a lawsuit claiming that presidential election results in Michigan were rigged.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected appeals brought by Trump-allied lawyers who faced legal sanctions for baselessly alleging in court that the 2020 election in Michigan was fraudulently won by President Joe Biden.
By rejecting the appeals, the court left in place a June 2023 ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that partially upheld the sanctions.
Prominent cheerleaders of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election including Sidney Powell and Lin Wood were among the nine lawyers who initially faced sanctions for filing the lawsuit. Powell called the group "the Kraken."
The appeals court upheld sanctions against seven of them, including Powell and Wood.
The lawyers were ordered to pay legal fees, undertake new legal training and were referred to their respective state bar associations for any disciplinary procedures.
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