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  #2531863 31-Jul-2020 09:25
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The Washington Post - Newsletter - today

 

The latest (headings only)

 

 

  • The U.S. economy suffered its worst quarter since at least 1875 as the pandemic took hold in the spring.

  • Congress's failure to reach an agreement on a new stimulus package could make the recession even worse.

  • More than 1,400 covid-19-related fatalities were reported Wednesday - about one death every minute ...

  • Trump reacted to Thursday's dismal economic reports by suggesting on Twitter that the country “delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???”.



 




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  #2531878 31-Jul-2020 09:32
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The Washington Post - The 5-Minute Fix - today

 


We’ve been over this, but I guess we’re going to go over it again, this time because the president suggested doing it: delaying November’s election.

 

President Trump alone can’t change Election Day’s date. Period. 

 

The Constitution says the election date is up to Congress, and Congress has set the date for Nov. 3. 

 

(Maybe that’s why Trump framed it as question, like an idea he’s posing to Congress.) 

 

Congress isn’t entertaining it.  Like, really not entertaining it. 

 

Here’s Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in response on Thursday: “Never in the history of the country, through wars, depressions and the Civil War, have we ever not had a federally-scheduled election on time. We’ll find a way to do that again this November 3rd.” ...

 

[Trump's] rhetoric about the election has gotten more extreme the lower he sinks in the polls. And that’s probably not a coincidence. ...

 




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  #2532166 31-Jul-2020 14:59
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The New York Times - Trump Might Try to Postpone the Election. That’s Unconstitutional.

 

By Steven G. Calabresi

 

Mr. Calabresi a professor at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law. 

 

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I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, including voting for Donald Trump in 2016. 

 

I wrote op-eds and a law review article protesting what I believe was an unconstitutional investigation by Robert Mueller. 

 

I also wrote an op-ed opposing President Trump’s impeachment.

 

But I am frankly appalled by the president’s recent tweet seeking to postpone the November election. 

 

Until recently, I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats’ assertion that President Trump is a fascist. 

 

But this latest tweet is fascistic* and is itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate. ...

 

President Trump needs to be told by every Republican in Congress that he cannot postpone the federal election. 

 

Doing so would be illegal, unconstitutional and without precedent in American history. Anyone who says otherwise should never be elected to Congress again. ...

 



 

*  fascistic - having or relating to extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practices.   😐

 

 




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  #2532240 31-Jul-2020 16:28
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I just wonder what Mr Calabresi was thinking when he backed the idiot till now? Bloody slow learner.

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  #2532260 31-Jul-2020 17:05
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linw:

I just wonder what Mr Calabresi was thinking when he backed the idiot till now? Bloody slow learner.



Just remember the voters spoke

Hilary Clinton symbolized a Washington insider, she ran on that experience as a Washington Insider, at a time when a lot of the voting public saw that as a negative. Simple as that.

Voters act on what affects them personally, not what they think might be wrong, or misguided or offensive. People vote on what affects them, not what offends them.

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  #2532276 31-Jul-2020 17:27
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The New York Times - Trump Might Try to Postpone the Election. That’s Unconstitutional.

 

 

Saw a neat observation earlier today that Trump might have to be "fumigated from office"...

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  #2532277 31-Jul-2020 17:30
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Batman: True. I now recall the bounty for Americans and Trump did nothing.


The alleged bounty. It’s not like the intelligence community doesn’t ever leak fake news (Iraqi Aluminum Tubes, leading to 000,000s of innocent Iraqi deaths and “wasting” trillions of American tax payers money and soldiers lives)

It’s interesting to think about who benefits from releasing such info. And interesting to think about why the Taliban didn’t require bounties to kill occupying invader forces for the prior 19 years)

What could Trump do? There is bipartisan support to make It virtually impossible to ever remove American troops. It’s literally the law that just passed with military budget - National Defense Authorization Act

What should he do? Target the GRU and start WWIII? Many republicans and Democrats actually want that.

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  #2532280 31-Jul-2020 17:36
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nathan:

Voters act on what effects them personally, not what they think might be wrong, or misguided or offensive. People vote on what effects them not what offends them.

 

Affect: produce effect upon. Voters act on what affects them.

 

Effect: Something that is produced by a cause. The effect of voting is an election.

 

 




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  #2532289 31-Jul-2020 17:59
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The Washington Post - Attorney General Barr had a really contentious hearing


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Attorney General William P. Barr testified Tuesday for the first time in his tenure in front of a critical congressional audience - a House Judiciary Committee with a Democratic majority - as the Justice Department faces questions from critics who say it is helping President Trump politically in ways ranging from policing and protests to intervening in criminal investigations of Trump allies. ...


Here are five takeaways from Barr’s testimony.  (headings only)


1. He is all in as a partisan player

2. Under increased scrutiny, Barr is not backing down from sending federal agents into cities

3. Barr doesn’t think police have a racism problem

4. Barr continued to cast doubt about voting by mail

5. Barr hesitates to say a president shouldn’t accept foreign help to get elected







What’s even more pathetic is the continued Resistance Theatre from some Dems during the Barr hearing. The Dems can’t let Russiagate go. 4 years later, no one cares but they still go on about it. It’s certainly easier for the DNC to explain Hilarys loss on Russia instead of navel gazing what actually happened and learning from their mistakes.

They have Barr there to answer questions, for only 9 hours, and instead of asking important things, things the voting public care about in this moment, they grandstand, they focus on the wrong issues

Politicians lack the skill to question an intelligent person like Barr. So instead of asking questions they give a speech.

There wasn’t one single question effectively asked about what’s happening across the country like in Portland. Pathetic.

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  #2532297 31-Jul-2020 18:16
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I don't think Joe is the best candidate, but at least he has a clue. Like I said, I would have loved to have seen Bernie win the nomination, but I think some of his ideas may not have been entirely palatable for a number of Americans.



Getting rid of Trump also gets rid of evil fascists like Miller, brain-dead nepotistic "non-appointments" like Jared/Ivanka, a VP who's an anti-science religious zealot.  There's a long list of truly awful human beings enabling Trump.  


 



They’ll simply be replaced with Biden’s pathetic version of the same thing

We are likely to get a truely disgusting warmongering humanbeing like Susan Rice

Biden’s kids will be traveling on AF1 and doing more quid-pro-quo deals in China and Ukraine.

Mike Bloomberg - world bank - what could go wrong

Jamie Dimon - JP Morgan CEO in Treasury

Plus all the Never Trump grifters from the Lincoln Project - people like Rick Wilson are political leaches, leaders in the Lincoln Project have Consultancies that specialize in corporate outsourcing to China, and consult non how to do business with Russia getting around the embargo’s

Restoring these corrupt bankrupt norms can’t be much better. These are the same grifters that ruined America before being rebooted.

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  #2532302 31-Jul-2020 18:23
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Today Trump paid tribute to Herman Cain, the former Republican presidential candidate whose death of covid-19 was announced on Thursday. 

 

Cain had tested positive for the coronavirus days after attending - unmasked - a Trump campaign rally last month in Tulsa.




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  #2532303 31-Jul-2020 18:24
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nathan:

 

They’ll simply be replaced with Biden’s pathetic version of the same thing

 

OK, you go on and on and on about how the Democrats are just as corrupt as the Republicans and Joe Biden is as bad or even worse than Trump. So what is your answer? Do you have one? How would you fix it?

 

 




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  #2532309 31-Jul-2020 18:27
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nathan: warmongering humanbeing like Susan Rice [...] Mike Bloomberg [...] Jamie Dimon [...] Lincoln Project [...] Rick Wilson

 

 

One common factor I've noticed among NZ right-wing conspiracy theorists is an absolute obsession with US politics, presumably because most of the right-wing conspiracy theories come from the US. They know more about obscure US politicians and... whoever some of those people mentioned above are than they know about their own country's politicians. I was once watching some US program that had cameos from US politicians on it and the conspiracy theorist in the room knew every single one of them and why they were bad by sight. I thought one of the guys might look a bit like Joe Biden, but couldn't be sure. Of the rest, I had no idea.

 

 

They were, for example, able to tell me in great detail what a horrible person something-something-Cortez is. I then asked them who the deputy leader of the NZ National Party was and they had no idea.

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  #2532319 31-Jul-2020 18:38
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nathan: warmongering humanbeing like Susan Rice [...] Mike Bloomberg [...] Jamie Dimon [...] Lincoln Project [...] Rick Wilson


One common factor I've noticed among NZ right-wing conspiracy theorists is an absolute obsession with US politics, presumably because most of the right-wing conspiracy theories come from the US. They know more about obscure US politicians and... whoever some of those people mentioned above are than they know about their own country's politicians. I was once watching some US program that had cameos from US politicians on it and the conspiracy theorist in the room knew every single one of them and why they were bad by sight. I thought one of the guys might look a bit like Joe Biden, but couldn't be sure. Of the rest, I had no idea.

They were, for example, able to tell me in great detail what a horrible person something-something-Cortez is. I then asked them who the deputy leader of the NZ National Party was and they had no idea.


I really struggle with being labeled a conspiracy theorist, when everything I stated is fact.

Im not in NZ, I’m in US. I’m not right wing. I’m not a conspiracy theorist - please feel free to point out anything that I’ve said, that you consider to be a conspiracy theory

I know those people are horrible, because of their actions thru the Obama and Bush regimes.

I can’t understand how pretending they’re not horrible benefits anyone

Please understand that you can be anti Trump and also hate Biden and despise the corrupt DNC. Politicians earn voters vote, none of the top 5 things I care about, to make America better will be done by Biden, I can’t vote for someone who puts corporations before workers, so I’ll be one of the 50% of Americans that don’t vote this year, or waste my vote on Greens or Libertarian


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  #2532327 31-Jul-2020 18:49
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Rikkitic:

nathan:


They’ll simply be replaced with Biden’s pathetic version of the same thing


OK, you go on and on and on about how the Democrats are just as corrupt as the Republicans and Joe Biden is as bad or even worse than Trump. So what is your answer? Do you have one? How would you fix it?


 



I don’t have the answers, but I can see the problem more clearly than most
Just pretending the Democrats are any better is cognitive dissonance
Dems are Republicans and Republicans are now regressive

I do think Biden is better than Trump, but that’s an extremely low bar. Trump is going to lose, not because people are voting Biden, but against Trump

The feeling I get is, Nathan stop posting because we don’t want to hear these uncomfortable truths?

If I could do anything, I’d introduce term limits, ban gerrymandering, try to get corporate bribe donations out, Introduce approval voting, get rid of the electoral college, let released Felons vote, modernize the physical voting registration system, make it easier for other parties to start - Id love to see a Populist party comprised of populists like Dem AOC and Republican Matt Gaetz

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