You say that like it’s a bad thing.
I have been listening to a podcast for a few years now, All The President’s Lawyers, that is just to keep track of lawsuits and lawyer hijinks.
I know that Ken White, the guy behind Popehat, is involved in that podcast but I’ve never got around to actually sitting down and listening to one.
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I used to read a lot of Popehat.
He was the draw for me to listen to this podcast. I enjoy his humor. I also like his Make No Law podcast about 1st Amendment cases, though there hasn’t been a new one for nearly a year.
Same with Zuma here in South Africa. Zuma’s lawyery bill must now be somewhere south of millions.
So glad it’s not my bill. Zuma will try to stiff the taxpayer for his bill though.
So he’s South African Trump then?
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Right. How can it be if the choice is “not getting the client”, versus “getting the client who won’t pay when you lose his unwinnable case”?
If there is a way to make politicians accountable for their promises… I’m pretty sure that will stop all those scheißes promises totally dead.
So over politicians promising the sun, moon and stars just to get votes and get him/herself a place at the oinker feeding trough, and conveniently forgetting about all those promises made.
It’s a glitch from the captions not being synced to the slideshow, but it opens the question of “Is your cat vomiting because of Donald Trump?” He’s definitely not the cure for a vomiting cat, that’s for sure.
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Except so many times I don’t want them to keep their promises. Presidents aren’t supposed to “do” much. Congress makes the laws and the Executive Branch executes them.
Trump’s “X” bill, Biden’s “Y” bill. WTF, Congress makes the laws, Presidential sponsoring of bills annoys me. Now, since Congress has given away so much power it’s the bureaucracy that runs the country, so technically the President can have more power, but they also can end up with much less if they run an Irish Democracy against the president. Many of Trump’s decisions ran into this, up to and including the military lying about how many troops we had in Syria.
For most any political promise, there are people who oppose it, so that’s hardly a useful metric. And of course, there are more politicians than simply presidents.
In theory, we hold political figures accountable by publicizing their record and hammering them on ways in which they fall short, with fair elections weighing in judgment.
In practice, this relies on good journalistic practice, fact-checking, and a commonly accepted narrative on at least the fundamental facts. We now live in an era where everyone is getting an algorithmically tailored bespoke reality, and anything that doesn’t fit that is discounted, derided as “fake news,” or simply memory-holed.
It also relies on fair elections. I’m not sanguine about those, either.
Between media burying stories that don’t favor their candidate and amplifying ones that harm the opposition you hardly have to fiddle with the numbers. Control the information and you control the voting.
I still think ballot harvesting and mail in ballots need better controls and I’d like to see us all go back to paper ballots. Not to mention cutting down early voting to maybe the weekend before instead of a month.
Show me evidence of a significant problem this would solve and we can talk. But I have always voted by mail weeks in advance, since my first election in 1996. I have no interest in creating any extra steps to vote any more than I favor any extra steps to exercise free speech or religion. The bar should be minimally intrusive as necessary to prevent fraud. Otherwise, let the people vote their damnation.
I think there is a real danger and loss of control of the process in mailing out ballots that have not been requested as some states do. Especially when Democrats and Republicans have been caught rummaging through trash and mailboxes to get them and fill them out. Same with “helping” people fill in their ballots.
Hell, ive worked elections for years now and the people helping the extreme elderly skeeve the hell out of me. The dude you half carried in here barely knows where he is and basically signed an X on the assisted voting form. Whoever gets the voting team to them first gets the vote. Even if he is wearing MAGA hat and yelling slogans the person helping is sus as hell, lord knows who he really voted for. And vice versa to the boy scout escorting the demented woman in the pantsuit and the pussy hat… (Both of these exaggerated for effect, but Ive seen this near enough)
Not that I am in favor of a competency test for voting.
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hehehe, the ANC is butthurt over their loss of support and votes from their victims.
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So, Melania, we haven’t heard much from you lately. How do you feel about all the adulation your husband is receiving? That good, huh?
Hurry, hurry! Step right up, folks. Place your bets. Just one year until the 2022 election. Never in the history of this country have there been so many elections just flooded with fraud. Except the 2021 elections where Republicans won, of course.
The fraudsters are so sneaky that they’re gonna keep sneaking in undetectable fraud into elections. But The Donald is a master at detecting the undetectable fraud. He’s gonna sound the alarm! He’s gonna save our freedoms! It’s just a matter of when he sounds the alarm this time. Will he wait until the last minute? Or will he get a jump on the competition and start proclaiming there’s fraud now?
With over 360 days until the next election, that’s over 360 chances to win if you guess right. What do you win? Why, this brand new MAGAA hat. No, these aren’t factory mistakes, they’re Make America Great Again, Again hats. Thanks to the Department of Redundancy Department for sponsoring these hats.
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C’mon man, Stacey Abrams, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore deserve recognition for claiming that their elections were frauds too!
Al Gore may have a point, but he’s moved on to making millions by pushing Climate Change.
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The second largest line item in the Democrat Spending Plan would allow the top 10%, mostly 5%, to deduct state and local taxes against their income.
This single adjustment saves the rich more than the other taxes raised. While the middle class gets to spend the additional money on taxes and can hardly take advantage of this deduction.
The plan raises the cap for 4 years, and then (we promise this will happen) lowers it even lower than todays 10k for 6 years after that.
Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-N.Y.), one of the measure’s proponents, said the $10,000 SALT cap imposed in 2017 represented a sudden change in the tax code and imposed an undue burden on his constituents, pushing some high-income residents to leave the state.
Yes, because your state taxes are so high they aren’t affordable unless they can then reduce their federal tax burden.
Build My donor’s Bank Accounts Back Better.
Also, waiting on all the retractions and apologies and unblocked Twitter accounts from the Steele Dossier being proven to be utterly invented. I’d hold my breath, but I don’t like passing out.
“Don’t you think he looks tired?”
Mike Lindell gave himself a deadline of Thanksgiving for bringing his case to the Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election and get Trump reinstated. In the days leading up to it, he had been going to different states to get their Attorney Generals to sign on. (Or is that Attorneys General? The plural version of that job title is confusing to me.) The lawsuit had a lot of fill-in-the-blank entries like “[your state here]” in preparation for getting the AGs to sign on.
He didn’t get much response (he said he had the support of “upwards of six” before) and other media isn’t covering and helping his efforts enough, so in retaliation, he pulled his pillow ads off Salem Media.
This occurred towards the end of his 96-hour “Thanks-a-Thon” livestream. Though he did go through the 82 pages of his complaint he wants to file with the Supreme Court, the end result is the livestream wasn’t much more than a pillow sale. But he said this:
“I am not selling my products on Salem Media any more. I can’t.” … “If I lose friends over it and they don’t listen and they lose sales — I lose a lot of sales by doing this. I lose a ton. My employees are going, ‘Are you sure you know what you’re doing, Mike?’ It don’t matter to me because we lose our country.”
Oof. That’s the sound of a man whose employees are concerned about where the company they work for is headed. I think they can see he’s driving them towards a cliff and now he’s said getting Donald Trump back in the White House is more important than they are.
From an objective standpoint, I can kind of see that. There are times when you make sacrifices in order to do what you think is right. What Lindell has lost sight of is he is going to sacrifice not only his company and his reputation, he is going to sacrifice the livelihood of all of his employees. Actually, I should just strike out the first seven words of that last sentence because he never had sight of it in the first place. Helping Donald Trump was his goal right from the start and he was willing to do it no matter what it takes. If that means he loses his company, so be it. He’s saving the USA, after all.
I just watched the the tweet where he makes the initial threat to pull the ads and the thing I spotted right away is Lindell is making it a requirement that support for his Supreme Court case must accompany showing his ads. They can’t be separate.
Did Salem Media sign a contract with Mike Lindell saying, “We will play your ads and provide coverage for your Supreme Court case” or did the contract say, “We will play your ads”? If there was no stipulation in about political support or no amendment to the contract to add it later, all Salem Media was obligated to do was show the specified number of ads at the frequency contracted.
Take 30 seconds to watch this clip of Mike Lindell at the end of the livestream. Watch how he goes in 10 seconds from encouraging others to participate to starting to realize how badly things are right now for what he’s been working on so hard for so long. Five seconds later, it sounds like he gives up and turns it over to the audience to make use of his materials and do what he couldn’t do. Maybe that’s the point where he found out that the livestream had only been viewed 9,164 times on YouTube.
I’m not optimistic that this is the moment where he finally starts to wake up. He created a “legal offense fund” (officially an “election integrity” group) on Friday where if you donate a little as $10, you get a copy of his book. He’s not going to abandon that.
Whatever he comes up with for “the path forward” will be the same thing as we’ve seen time and time again. He’ll convince himself that there’s a different way to make Trump be president again and all he has to do is just try harder and it will work this time for sure, you’ll see. And just about the time he might be ready to give up, all Trump has to do is tell him again what a great guy he is and Lindell will be re-energized and ready to continue the good fight.
He’ll keep on going, just like countless other victims of scams who refused to listen to the warning signs and only stopped when they went broke.