I’m Starting to Understand What Cassandra Must’ve Felt Like
The Germans in the 1930s had no idea what was coming. WE DO! History affords us that knowledge and we can stop this madness in its tracks, yet all the major media outlets are still treating this election like it’s some innocuous horse race, not the difference between remaining a free (if imperfect) United States and a full-blown, nuclear-armed fascist dictatorship led by a narcissistic, delusional madmen. The country’s smoke detector is going off and it seems everyone is ignoring it!
WTF is wrong with people?!?
VOTE BLUE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS UPON IT. BECAUSE IT DOES!
To Those Who Celebrate…
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
The court has ruled on presidential immunity. “A former president is entitled to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his “conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority,” the ruling says. “There is no immunity for unofficial acts.”
So, a president is not fully immune. Personal acts aren’t immune, presidential acts MIGHT be immune, but there is some presumption of immunity for official acts.
Obviously this presumption of immunity is nowhere in the Constitution. The originalists are definitely being original, and boy are we eff’ed; so much for Republican arguments that judges shouldn’t legislate from the bench. The argument now is going to be about what is or is not “an official act.”
I wish that the SCOTUS made it clear what is an official duty (you know, like duties as defined in The Constitution) versus everything else, but they didn’t, and so here we are.
There is no way the DC trial gets underway before the election.
The decision is here. I’m reading the dissenting opinion first, and oof. Sotomayor writes that the majority’s grant of immunity “reshapes the institution of the presidency” and “makes a mockery of the principle” that “no man is above the law.”
We are totally eff’ed in the dark.
Justice Jackson:
The majority of my colleagues seems to have put their trust in our Court’s ability to prevent Presidents from becoming Kings through case-by-case application of the indeterminate standards of their new Presidential accountability paradigm. I fear that they are wrong. But, for all our sakes, I hope that they are right.
In the meantime, because the risks (and power) the Court has now assumed are intolerable, unwarranted, and plainly antithetical to bedrock constitutional norms, I dissent.
UPDATE 1:
“You can hear the echoes of Richard Nixon saying, ‘If the president does it, it is not illegal.’” — MSNBC’s Katy Tur
VOTE BLUE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT…BECAUSE IT DOES!
An Open Letter to America
Dear America,
Don’t do it. Don’t.
You know what I’m talking about, don’t give up on Joe Biden because of one bad night, one awful night. He stumbled, he mumbled, his voice was hoarse, so is that the reason to give up on him and just had the presidency to a convicted felon, sexual predator and con artist?
I say No, and you should say it, too.
Think on some things … the 81-year-old Catholic is fighting for women to have the right to make their own health care decisions, while the 78-year-old felon appointed three justices to the Supreme Court who … overturned Roe v Wade—for which The Felon said, out loud, “I did that”—… who decided that bribing government officials is really just a gratuity but being homeless is a crime … who voted to allow judges, not scientists or environmental experts decide about climate change and polluting our air and water … who can decide on drug safety … banking regulations … aviation safety …. and if you’re an LGBTQ+ American and think that the right won’t come for equality and marriage, think again.
Do you really want Clarence Thomas, well, actually his wife, and Sam Alito making those choices for you?
Do you want to elect a guy who has said, out loud, that he would be a dictator on Day One; who has said all he really wants to do is punish his enemies; who has told big Oil he will give them tax breaks if they support him. Does that sound like a man who cares about We The People?
I’ll stand with the old guy who took on a pandemic and saw us through it; who gave America its lowest unemployment rate in fifty years … who lowered inflation more than any other country in the G7 and added more than 16 million jobs. He’s working for us, and he may be a bit tired and old, but he isn’t doing the job alone; a vote for Joe is a vote for his administration that will see to it that his efforts go on.
I will vote for that man and his team.
I will not vote for the man who promised to build a wall at the southern border and have Mexico pay for it, and then didn’t. I will not vote for a man who promised to overturn Obamacare and give us all the greatest healthcare system ever, and then didn’t; I will not vote for the man who touted his fabulous infrastructure bill and then did nothing. I will not vote for the man who claimed he won the election in 2020, and filed nearly 70 lawsuits to overturn that election, and lost every single time; I will not vote for the man who claimed that he, and not former President Barack Obama, had passed the Veterans Choice Act; I will not vote for the man who swore and that he and his campaign did not collude or cooperate with Russia, even though Robert Mueller found cooperation and explained that he did not investigate “collusion”, only “conspiracy” and “coordination”.
I will not vote for a rapist; I will not vote for a racist who called Nazis in Charlottesville “good people.” I will not vote for a man who sexually abused and then defamed E. Jean Carroll; I will not vote for a man who p[aid off a porn start for a sexual encounter in order to win an election. I will not vote for a con artist who stole money from people at a university he named after himself.
I will not vote for the man who told us to drink bleach during COVID; who didn’t tell us a flashlight could kill the virus; who told us it would be over by Spring, but by Spring we were piling up dead American bodies in refrigerator trucks outside hospitals.
I will vote for Joe Biden, a decent human being who has worked harder than any president, given the mess he inherited from The Felon, to make life better for all of us. I will vote for the man who lowered prescription drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices; who signed gun safety legislation into law ; who oversaw more Americans getting healthcare. I will vote for the man who passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that helped us fund basic necessities like rent and groceries during the pandemic; I will vote for the man who also extended a $300 a week federal unemployment benefit for some 9.7 million people out of work during the pandemic; a man who temporarily expanded the child tax credit program, who allotted $7.25 billion for small business loans and $128 billion in grants for state educational agencies.
I will vote for the man who teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention —with scientists and doctors not GOP political hacks—to administer and track COVID-19 vaccinations across the country. I will vote for the man who passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law to repair the nation’s roads, bridges and railways, bring high-speed internet to rural communities and more.
I will vote for the man who passed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 and allocated $53 billion in federal funding to manufacture semiconductor chips in the U.S. instead of relying on China to produce them.
I will vote for the man who passed the Build Back Better Act, a massive social spending bill that included major health care reform, universal pre-kindergarten and paid family leave, $550 billion dedicated to combatting climate change and more, paid for in part by increased taxes for corporations and the uber rich; not from the taxes on We The people, but from the wealthiest of Americas and corporations who, under that lest president, received massive tax breaks.
I will vote for the man whose Inflation Reduction Act tackled inflation by reducing the federal deficit, promoting production of certain goods and limiting the cost of some prescription drugs; the package also included $369 billion for a climate initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote lean energy technologies; $300 billion in new revenue through a corporate tax increase; $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service to hire new agents, modernize its technology, audit the wealthy and more.
I will vote for the man who has stood up for Ukraine in its quest to be free from Russian autocracy while the GOP and the former president stand by bloodthirsty Vladimir Putin.
I will vote for the old guy who had a bad night at a debate, but who spoke from the heart and promised to keep fighting for us. And if that old guy decides he wants to step aside, I will still support him and the party that wants to work for us and not for The Felon.
And I hope America will follow suit.
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And With This, I’ll Say Goodnight
Remind You of Anyone?
Quote of the Day
Someone Just Got Schooled
It’s Not Just You, Johnny!
Right?!
In Its True Form
Well, This Explains It
“The leading shareholder in Warner Brothers Discovery is John Malone, a multibillionaire cable magnate.
Malone describes himself as a ‘libertarian’ although he travels in rightwing Republican circles. In 2005, he held 32% of the shares of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. He is on the board of directors of the Cato Institute. In 2017, he donated $250,000 to Trump’s inauguration.
Malone has said he wants CNN to be more like Fox News because, in his view, Fox News has ‘actual journalism’. Malone also wants the ‘news’ portion of CNN to be ‘more centrist.”
He’s also the largest individual land owner in the country.
IT WAS A SET UP.
For trump.
Happy Pride Weekend, Y’All!
Thank you, Dark Brandon! We love you!
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Friday Morning After the Debate Debacle
Here’s Who Should REALLY Drop Out of the Race
From Palmer Report:
Immediately after the Biden-Trump debate ended, numerous talking heads on MSNBC and CNN either suggested that Biden should drop out of the race, or claimed that discussions were underway for Biden to drop out of the race. Shortly thereafter, the New York Times published an op-ed calling for Biden to drop out. The rationale from all of them was the same: after Biden’s debate performance, he supposedly had no chance of defeating Trump.
But a funny little thing like reality is now coming into play. Some of these same outlets had focus groups that declared Biden the winner of the debate. And in the first major post-debate poll released, Biden has gained a point and is now ahead of Trump.
These are just individual data points, but they fall precisely in line with what one could have reasonably expected. Neither Biden nor Trump came off well in the debate, so it therefore wasn’t going to help or hurt either one of them by any meaningful measure.
So here’s the real question. When the dust settles and we see that the debate didn’t hurt Biden at all, will MSNBC and CNN and the New York Times all agree to drop out of journalism? At the least they should all formally apologize to their audiences for what was at best an incredibly clueless take suggesting that they have no idea how politics even works, and at worst an intentionallyfull of crap take suggesting that they were misleading their audiences on purpose.
Just Sayin’
A Message to the MSM Announcing that Joe is Finished…
FOX May Have Provided the Syringe, But CNN Handed it to MAGA on Thursday Night
I Don’t Know Whether To Laugh Or Cry At This One
As If Anyone Here Needs Reminding
More Fallout
Vomiting It All Up
All I Can Say Is…
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