Comments by "possumverde" (@possumverde) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1. Colorado doesn't have legal standing to even hear the suit to begin with.
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  2. A new record for lies told per minute...How can anyone believe this man's bs?
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  3. They used the wrong argument in the appeal. What he should do is appeal based on ineffective counsel. Some of the Prosecution's expert witnesses (especially the toxicology expert) made some very dubious claims that went unchallenged because the defense simply didn't understand the science and didn't put much effort into finding someone who did to assist him with the more technical aspects of the case.
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  4. Well, you shouldn't have married someone who thought it was a good idea to hide documents that had been subpoenaed.
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  5. @anthonylaflamme3630  Too bad it's an empty promise. Think about it. He has only one term available, so he doesn't have to worry about accountability for re-election, and with him refusing any more debates, he doesn't have to explain or defend any new enticements he throws out there for votes. Expect more juicy promises from him leading up to the election. Especially if he's polling behind.
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  6. ​ @Jsee66 Don't be so sure. It's primarily been a one sided relationship and they are quickly becoming far more trouble than they're worth.
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  7. The last time a President went off script when answering questions concerning a field they weren't an expert in, a President suggested that injecting bleach is a good way to prevent/treat an infectious disease...
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  8. ​ @BlueDrakma long range critical thinking is hard. Easier to just scapegoat domestically and let the next generations clean up the mess.
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  9. This one's not going away. Especially to anyone who saw the original TikTok ad they put out shortly afterward with images of him in section 60 without the family that invited him. It was clearly political and he's lying about it with a smile.
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  10. Yes, a boatload. Given everything they turned up, it would be an extreme outlier if it turned out not to be true. They were extremely thorough. Expect any suit against CNN to be quickly dropped as soon as the election is over.
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  11. ​ @really748 Most of the major issues over the last four years are the fallout for his bumbling as President. Ukraine and Covid especially. Also, his border policy violated international agreements we signed. Things are difficult when you actually have to do something and do it the right way.
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  12.  @IsaacCline-ru7ls  calling yourself humble means your not.
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  13. Most people are competent enough to not put themselves in a position requiring such "survival" to begin with...
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  14. With the amount of Ketamine he does, I doubt he'll notice it anytime soon.
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  15. No one is "letting" them investigate themselves. They're a sovereign nation, and thus no one can force them to allow an outside investigation. At best, the threat of sanctions could be used to possibly strong arm them into allowing such. But it would take years for them to have enough of an effect to matter.
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  16. His timing and delivery were garbage here.
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  17.  @vettevegas  Agreed Trump can hire his own supplemental security if he's unhappy and won't listen to that provided him by the taxpayers for activities that are beyond what his assigned detail can feasibly handle. We're not spending $500,000 per golf outing like we did when he was in office.
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  18. Gotta love a "hail Mary" like this from a defendant who knows they're screwed and now wishes they had taken a plea deal like some of their more intelligent co conspirators did.
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  19. It's an empty promise like the rest. He can say whatever he wants and not have to worry about backing it up since he's limited to one term. No re-election possibility means no accountabikity...He might as well throw in a minimum wage increase while he's at it.
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  20. He's only doing the GOP's bidding.
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  21. That might be asking too much from someone with the maturity of a 12 year old.
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  22. More like, you're not going to let local governments do what their constituents elected them to do...
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  23. Trump needs to supply his own supplemental security for large events and spur of the moment golf etc. Expecting his allotted detail to handle such things is silly and he doesn't warrant anymore taxpayer funded protection than he already has.
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  24. He won't officially. He may consult some attorneys to appear like he will though.
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  25. ​ @sabaha4637 even more childish than other responses of yours to other comments. Go get someone to change your diaper and let the adults converse.
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  26. ...and probably soon to be unemployed going by the current vote count.
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  27. Maybe ask the actual locals how they feel. Their economy is thriving with the extra workforce and consumer base.
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  28. What's childish is that so many American adults are so enraptured with a washed up con artist that they rejoice in a defense argument that they wouldn't accept from their kids... "They got away with it, why can't I?"
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  29. RFK was the choice for those who didn't like Trump or Biden. When Biden dropped out RFK lost a lot of votes to Harris. Regardless of who he endorses, at best half his remaining support base will go to Trump and that's not enough. If Trump wants any chance, he's going to have to stop ignoring independents, moderates, and centrists. He ignored them last time and stuck to the hard line right and it cost him the election. So far he's doing it again and expecting different results. There's a word for that behavior.
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  30. We ceased to be the land of opportunity (if we ever really were to begin with) long ago. These days, no amount of hard work and perseverance is guaranteed to be successful (or even break even.) Housing costs for the middle class and below alone are meant by design to eat up enough of one's income to make any sort of significant savings a near impossibility (especially if one is alone.) The vast majority live paycheck to paycheck and for them, one little hiccup can be enough to find themselves on the street. Combine that with our piss poor mental health system and what we have now is the result.
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  31. ​ @sabaha4637 Mommy, mommy, those kids did something too... Either defend his behavior with adult arguments or don't defend it at all.
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  32.  @ziff1066  Forbes doesn't want to get sued for libel.
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  33. This is another empty promise. He can only serve one more term and has refused another debate so he's completely free of accountability for any enticements he throws out there now. Expect even juicier promises to come.
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  34. No, the IDF has yet to provide any conclusive evidence to support their claims. Edit: They're mostly just releasing clips of indistinct underground areas and telling the viewer what to see.
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  35. They have many other responsibilities requiring their resources. Expecting a former President size detail to protect someone like Trump is silly. He should hire his own supplemental security for his high risk and spur of the moment golf games. Those are not the taxpayers' problem.
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  36. We were somewhat complicit with the holocaust as well... at least for a while.
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  37. No re-election concern because he can only serve one term means no accountability. Expect him to start throwing out all sorts of juicy policies. Now it makes sense why he refuses another debate. No having to defend any of his new enticements.
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  38. There's tons of video of people just climbing over the silly wall. Wall or not, the border is simply too large to successfully patrol for any reasonable cost. Programs to make them citizens would be more useful in the long run. Naturalized citizens tend to know far more about this country than the average born American anyway...sadly.
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  39. And weren't missing much. Dude came across like a complete amateur.
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  40. Military affairs has already said that he retired "as" a Sergeant Major. He was then reduced in rank for benefits purposes because he had not completed all the course work. He can honestly say he retired as a Sergeant Major but not that he is a retired Sergeant Major. Military technicalities... Edit: Also, one little slip up in a speech years ago is nothing to get hung up about... unless one is desperate to impune the character of someone with very little to impune.
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  41. He's been offered help by tech people who support him and he refused...Pretty much all of his upper staff quit...If he won't try to even defend himself, what does that tell you?
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  42. There are many metrics to consider when it comes to determining if a member nation is pulling their weight. The US accounts for ~34% of the total population of NATO countries yet pays only ~26% of the general operations funding for example. Looking at that metric alone, it might appear that we're the deadbeats. Every country in NATO is strategically valuable in their own way and they've all been raising their defense spending at least some each year in a good faith effort to eventually achieve the 2% goal (despite the abysmal state of world economics over the past 10 years since the agreement was made.) Trump's harping on the 2% GDP defense spending agreement is just one more in a long line of disingenuous arguments he knows his followers will praise him for without putting any significant thought into it.
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  43. ​ @Vorname_Nachnahme That's the IDF estimate. When asked how the IDF defines Hamas terrorist during anonymous. interviews, multiple soldiers (including officers) have said they've been told that anyone killed by the IDF is a terrorist. The real number is thought by most to be ~4,000 or so at the most.
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  44. @Dacangri2  The thing is, no one cares about debates except those who are already decided on who they're voting for. Like you've more or less pointed out, it's just a sporting event for fans to have something to argue about at work the next day.
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  45. Never thought I'd live to see a candidate whose behavior would even remotely bring the 14th amendment into play to begin with. Why anyone would even consider voting for Trump after all of his childish/possibly criminal behavior, I'll never understand. Granted, why anyone would think Biden is fit for another four year term equally baffles me. Neither candidate have any business being involved in this race. Both should just bow out gracefully and let the country start to repair the damage done by both.
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  46. We already have.
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  47. ​​​ @yolandayoung7462 If they want to work and become citizens eventually, more power to them. The country could use a little fresh, unentitled, blood. We've become stagnated with a country full of citizens who couldn't even pass the citizenship exam immigrants are given.
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  48. Empty promise like the rest. He can only serve one term now. No re-election chance means no accountability.
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  49. Already have them. It's called voting.
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  50. For what, saving taxpayer money by not making arrests whose cases would have to be thrown out? The law in question is unenforceable as long as the individual doesn't set foot on the justice's property or impede traffic to and from it (edit: the small handful of protestors dumb enough to do so were arrested.) The problem being that it applies "in or near" said property but doesn't define the distance that constitutes "near." The courts can't just arbitrarilly choose such a boundary distance after the fact. The law needs to tell protestors exactly where they can legally be so that they will know whether or not they're breaking it.
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  51. The green card/work visa demographic have almost all of the same responsibilities that citizens do and contribute significantly to the economy (as well as to tax revenues.) Allowing them some say on how their local government is managed seems like fair recompense for their contributions to me (especially in NYC where they account for ~9% of the population.) If it were federal or state level voting rights, then I could understand the concern but all of this uproar over letting them have a voice in the communities where the live and work...I'm just not seeing it. I wouldn't be surprised if this leads to a spike in those seeking to become full citizens once they've had a taste of having a meaningful voice in what goes on.
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  52.  @robertgolsong5522  No lies from her here.
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  53. @TheLastKentuckyIrregular9524  It's an empty promise like the rest. He only has one term available, so he can promise anything he wants without worrying about accountability for re-election. Also, with him refusing any more debates, he'll never have to explain or defend any enticements he throws out for votes now. Expect many more juicy promises from him leading up to the election.
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  54. If it weren't for blue states bailing Louisiana out with their federal tax money, the state would look more like a third world country than ot already does...
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  55. Bah, just put them to work helping to fix the power grid in return for naturalizing them.
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  56. ​ @PiperKFly1 He passed on the same invitation twice until it was election year. Then, in his original TikTok ad they put out shortly after the event before the story broke, they had footage of him without the family in various areas of section 60. Having seen the original ad and the fact that his staff behaved the way they did toward cemetary staff (and that they made ads of it at all) makes me think he just used the family's invitation as an excuse to make a campaign ad.
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  57. He brought this all on himself with his own behavior.
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  58. Yep... someone should have reminded his attorney the spaghetti needs to at least be partially cooked before such flinging. He couldn't have put much effort into this considering that a couple of the claims made in the motion can be debunked with ~5 minutes of research.
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  59. Yep, Virginia's actions were. Which is why the DoJ filed suit against Virginia. If you want to get mad, direct it at the incompetence in Virginia's handling of their voter registration. It's atrocious and this could easily have been avoided if they'd simply update their law to modern times like other states have.
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  60. They know that the further removed a variant is from the original strain(s) which vaccines or natural immunity were developed for, the less likely those variants will be affected much, if at all, by them. Eventualy variants will pop up that are different enough to require their own vaccine/natural immunity to combat them. Pretty much all viruses work that way.
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  61.  @db8684  Or start a work for citizenship program and properly expand our workforce, consumer and tax base, and boost our economy instead of wasting money on a losing battle.
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  62. ​@carrietapp9277 To do his job, he'd have to know what it is first. That would require him to actually read the Constitution and/or listen to the advice from his experienced aides/advisors who have. He showed no signs of being interested in doing either the first time around and there's no reason to think that would change were he get a second term.
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  63. Speak for yourself. What goes on globally will have a much greater effect on the country in the long run, than some of the overblown domestic issues currently being worried about by many.
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  64. You thought wrong. They simply ruled that the federal government/courts are responsible for interpreting and enforcing section 3 of the 14th amendment, not an individual state.
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  65. Getting tested weekly will be an acceptable alternative for responsible adults. If someone can't be bothered to do something that simple, then let them quit. They obviously have some growing up to do and they can do it elsewhere.
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  66. ​ @Notthisguyeither His mismanagement and lack of action during his term is what led to most of the problems that caused the inflation. Had he not sabotaged NATO and the US Military's interests in Europe, Putin would never have even considered invading Ukraine for example. Had he been quicker to respond to Covid 19, it would have lessened the impact as well. He never took it seriously and thus allowed it to get a quick foothold here that wasn't necessary forcing some form of costly economic bailouts to be needed.
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  67. It's not that the government can't afford to do something about homelessness, they simply don't care. The immigrants aren't the problem. This is coming from someone currently living in their car.
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  68. It does no good for someone who doesn't know the laws to begin with (like you apparently) to read the bills. The result will just be people labeling things they don't like as illegal when they're actually not...
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  69. Well, fine except for the nearly $1B in personal debt currently owned by Chinese interests...
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  70. ​ @Parrotgirl-tattoo It would be treated the same as tax revenues.
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  71. Who's currently losing her bid for re-election.
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  72. Little League park maybe. Lazy fly ball for high school and above.
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  73. Get rid of Netanyahu.
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  74. Because if they don't, people start accusing them of a cover up. They don't like these pointless early conferences either. It's just expected these days so they give them.
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  75. @truepatriots3860  She can't make outrageous promises. She can serve more than one term and has to worry about accountability for re-election. He only has one left, and with him refusing any further debates, he can promise whatever he wants and not have to explain or defend it.
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  76. ​ @Freedomfighters55 Actually, the designation of assault rifle is a thing as it has a generally agreed upon definition with a specific list of traits needed to qualify as one. It's the term "assault weapon" that can be defined however someone wants it to.
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  77. Probably not. He has no idea how to deal with problems he can't buy his way out of and he's too old to learn at this point.
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  78. Yep cheating the system by making it a nightmare for election workers in heavily populated urban areas (like the changes being made by these Republican led state legislatures will do) is the only way he'll have any chance of winning...
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  79. We'd get the same from them in a similar situation so who cares?
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  80. But the fact that even he supports Harris. A party he hates is very telling. You know you screwed up somewhere when you manage to turn Dick Cheney blue.
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  81. When experienced campaign staff look at the evidence and decide to walk away, the odds aren't good. Plus, CNN's researchers did a thorough job. Given all they turned up, it would be an extreme outlier were it not true.
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  82. I had almost forgotten the sweeping local changes brought about by Vietnam protests...
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  83. We have a signed agreement to defend them against Russian invasion. Get over it.
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  84.  @CCook-wv1gk  Do yours. Go find the original ad they put out. Not the recent one. At some point they left the family to go get footage of him in various parts of section 60 on his own for use in their ad.
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  85. Hmmm...Who to take seriously concerning infectious disease...an actual doctor or someone who once covered for a doctor's sex crimes...?
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  86. Because the ruling directly made caveats for Trump's specific behavior beyond just giving universal legal opinion. They're job was to lay out ground rules for the lower courts to use in their decisions. Instead, they all but told the specific courts handling Trump's cases how to rule on certain specific actions. It was about as obvious of an attempt to bail their buddy out as they thought they might be able to get away with.
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  87. I'm a states' rights person myself but after looking at how poorly the various state constitutions address elections along with the heavily biased election law changes being made in certain states, it really is time for the federal government to at least lay out some basic rules to make the process more uniform.
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  88. His own coworkers often heavily edit the majority opinions they let him write because he has no clue what he's doing. Also, Anita Hill told the truth.
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  89.  @quinnhunt6124  The business owners there don't seem to mind...They're thriving and expanding with the increased workforce and consumer base.
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  90. Those with green cards/work visas (until expired) are considered legal permanent residents of whatever local jurisdiction they live in (there are requirements concerning the minimum amount of time they've lived there etc. just like with anyone else who has moved to a new area.) In this case, they are considered legal permanent residents of NYC making them eligible to vote locally under this law. You however wouldn't be (unless/until you officially took up permanent residency there) thus preventing you from voting in their local elections. Edit: To have a green card/work visa, you must have a permanent address. That address is what decides the area where you are considered to be a permanent legal resident. (It's also used for driver's licenses, vehicle registration, etc.)
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  91. If they don't give them, they catch flak from people claiming a cover up... In the modern era, people expect to know everything about everything immediately. Unfortunately, any official who knows what they're doing will know that you can't say anything that hasn't been entirely confirmed or that might jeopardize the investigation since the press will run with it, add their speculations to it, and blow things out of proportion.
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  92. The virus's genome shows no signs that it is the product of genetic engineering. If it did leak from the lab, it would have come from a sample of a naturally occurring strain. A lab which specializes in coronavirus research is likely going to have such samples. Proving conclusively that the spread was the result of a leaked sample and not from a nstural source will be almost impossible.
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  93.  @scotteaton4868  Not entirely correct. Variants of viruses in general (including respiratory) do tend to be less potent (Edit: when it comes to mortality rate/symptom severity.) However, there's no mechanism which actually prevents the occassional emergence of a stronger strain. Given enough attempts (cases), such a variant could indeed pop up.
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  94. Probably because there's not a Republican candidate on the ballot and, with him being a centrist, he'll get most of the votes from moderate/centrist Democrats as well a any Republicans who bother to vote.
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  95. ​@dolozambra2242 Do you really think Fox, Forbes, WSJ, etc. don't have full time people trying to do just that. The scandals pop up in the GOP because that's what happens when a party gets taken over by a charismatic autocratic who hand picks candidates without vetting them properly.
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  96. No. Other not quite so off the wall stuff he's said since being in the public eye has come up but nothing like this. Up until now, the positions he's run for haven't really warranted a deep dive into such history from before he became a public figure.
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  97. ​@groovytuesday5222 Let the people decide how often they send a particular representative to Washington.
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  98. Quit censoring comments. It's bad enough that our institutes of higher learning are actively stifling discourse. We don't need the media doing as well. Quit being afraid of offending a faction who fully deserves such offense and let them fight their own battles.
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  99.  @rebeccahoward8927  She's not here. A better question is why is Trump allowed to lie?
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  100. ​​ @charlescoker7752 Why did Trump actively struggle against them to get in a fist pump photo op?
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  101. Trump should hire his own supplemental security. It's not fair to the Secret Service to have to protect someone who intentionally paints targets on their back with detail's the size of those allotted to former Preaidents and he does not warrant extra protection on the taxpayers dime. The Secret Service does have many other responsibilities and uses for their resources.
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  102. Tech people have offered to help him and he refused...
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  103. The majority of the population doesn't care. Move on.
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  104. She was in the right procedurally... just saying. Comer qualified for removal more than her.
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  105. ​ @stratostatic Actually, this ruling doesn't make that a necessity. The Constitution prevents someone who participated in an insurrection/rebellion from holding office. It doesn't say anything about running for it. The fact that the judge made a point of stating that former President Trump did participate in an insurrection may become significant down the line. There could be a situation where he gets elected to an office that he can't legally hold under Federal law. The judge's decision to make that seemingly unnecessary point could be a sign that they don't believe a conviction is necessary to keep him from actually holding office.
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  106. Yep. Why do business somewhere that actually enforces the law when there are plenty of red states out there where fraudulent business practices are overlooked in return for kickbacks.
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  107. ​ @amerikanviking  Actually, when Bloomberg used it in New York many in the low income areas said that while it was in effect, many dealers quit selling on the streets and worked out of buildings instead (they didn't feel safe in the open without a gun and with the cops being able to search them whenever they wanted, were afraid to carry one.) Also, gun crimes did drop a small but noticeable amount in those areas.
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  108. His campaign has released multiple versions of the story. The Army only one. I've seen the original ad released shortly after the event with the images of him in section 60 without the family. I know who I believe, and it's not him. He should just admit it and apologize. Is that so hard?
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  109. Any grown adult naive or disingenuous enough to invoke the "peacefully and patriotically" argument is an embarrassment to the country.
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  110. That decision was an affront to the laws of the land. A President does need some limited immunity in very limited areas. However, they went way over the line to specifically craft it in direct defense of Trump's actions which were clearly not legitimate situations for it to apply. Their bias couldn't be anymore obvious and still be even remotely defendable with straight faces by the "justices" who agreed with it.
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  111.  @TPWM  Keep telling yourself that and see how it works out.
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  112. You'd be surprised. Especially when it comes to questions on things a President isn't an expert in. It helps avoid things like Presidents suggesting that injecting bleach is a good way to prevent/treat an infectious disease...Biden's just not that good at not making it obvious.
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  113. Waste of effort on their part. They could have spent the entire time playing mobile games on their phones and it would have still been an acquittal. In fact, they did such a poor job, that they managed to convince an additional GOP Senator to vote to convict than the six that were expected.
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  114. It's like a fire sale to mitigate the extra costs and economic damage tariffs and other policies will create while still being able to cover their tax cuts for the rich... pathetic.
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  115. Other way around kiddo. It's the minority party who has to rig things to win and Republicans are the minority in the US. While the Dems are stupidly making ridiculous arguments against the new state election laws, said laws are intentionally designed to favor Republican candidates. They make it impossible for election workers in heavily populated urban areas (usually the bluest parts of a state) to do their jobs and will lead to rushed, inaccurate counts. That way, whenever a Republican loses, there's an exvellent chance that there will be enough inaccuracies in the urban vote to challenge it.
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  116. Indeed. Thankfully it failed and Trump was defeated. Had he been successful at his attempt to steal the election things would have really blown up...
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  117. Yep, opening a bill for debate is so frightening...Grow up or shut up
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  118. ​@btk1243 Most Trump supporters don't know anything about the law...or much of anything else.
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  119. @Danzvide  Apparently that's not saying much.
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  120. ​@ggary04 The 14th Amendment became law in 1866. The federal statute concerning insurrection and rebellion didn't come along until 1948. One could make a strong argument that since there was no insurrection/rebellion charge available to convict someone of when the 14th amendment was passed, the insurrection/rebellion bit it contained was intended to be a judgement call rather than require a conviction.
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  121. It was less biased than the anti-urban voter garbage being passed by Republican led state legislatures. Also, this was a vote to open it for debate, not pass it outright. To vote against it at this stage is simply a show of fear and weakness on the part of the GOP.
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  122. None of which will be put to any beneficial use toward his campaign. He knows he isn't going to win. That money is just going to go into his pockets.
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  123. Article 2, sec 1, clauses 2 & 3 only deal with various aspects of the electoral college process. Clause 4 is the only one of the bunch that addresses the setting of a specific day for something. Even then, it still only applies to aspects of the electoral college procedure and clearly gives the US Congress the power to set a uniform date for all states. See below. . Article 2, sec 1, clause 2 Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. Article 2, sec 1, clause 3 The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. Article 2, sec 1, clause 4 The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States. Also, Pretty much all states have changed their electior laws without direct action by their legislatures at some point. Texas seems to enjoy doing so on a fairly regular basis (ironic considering the suit they filed.) As for Pennsylvania, due to how vague their state constitution is worded concerning election procedure, it can be argued that not attempting to throw out the changes made was essentially the legislature giving approval of them. Beyond that, the "police powers" given the states by the 10th amendment when it comes to emergency health/safety etc. laws could be used to justify the changes in question.
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  124. There is no job needed. Expecting a former President size detail to protect someone like Trump is ridiculous. Especially at large events and spur of the moment golf games etc. Trump simply needs to provide his own supplemental security for such things and quit expecting the taxpayers to cover him. It would also help if he'd actually heed the warnings from his taxpayer supplied detail.
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  125. To be fair, they're not entirely wrong. There are quite a few things that could have been avoided or dealt with easier had Trump handled things better than he did.
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  126. How about making sure Americans have good basic healthcare in general before promising government involvememt with elective stuff... Also, I thought the throwing away of unused embryos counts as baby unaliving to evangelicals and the pro-life movement. I guess what counts as a person is subjective afterall.
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  127. The green card/work visa demographic contribute to the economy, are required to file tax returns, etc., and account for ~9% of New York City's population. As they pretty much share the same responsibilities as the rest of us with the only difference being citizenship status, is it really that un-American to allow them some say in how their local government is managed?
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  128. Your bar is set quite low...
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  129. And just raise it back up higher with tariffs and other Trump policies...
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  130.  @mmcgahn5948  Grow up kid
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  131. If it were actual money we were giving them, yes. The vast majority of that aid however, has been in the form of equipment that was bought and paid for in the past. When you factor in the actual cash involved divided among the number of homeless, it comes out to be maybe ~$20,000 at the high end (emphasis on the "maybe"). That may seem like a large number, but once you factor in the bureaucracy that will be needed to administer such aid, the fact that many homeless literally have nothing and will have to start from scratch, and that the foreign aid to Ukraine is not something intended to be a permanent expenditure while aid for the homeless would likely be a constant part of the budget, you end up with very little if any actual aid making a direct difference in a homeless person's condition. Trying to solve the homeless crisis by throwing money at it will be a far less efficient use of funds than the aid we send to Ukraine and others. Properly addressing the issue is going to require an overall shift in our views concerning mental healthcare and the homeless in general If anything is going to change. Until then, throwing money at it is pointless.
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  132. If it were a private employer, the courts might rule against it. Requiring state employees to be tested or vaxed is legit for public health issues.
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  133. It's better to use notes on questions concerning something the President isn't an expert in. It helps avoid things like a President suggesting that injecting bleach is a good way to prevent/treat an infectious disease...
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  134. I'm interested in voter fraud...far fetched alleged voter fraud with no legitimate evidence to support it, not so much.
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  135. DOGE isn't looking into anything. Their AI is.
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  136. Such a suspect is not a sovereign nation. Israel on the other hand, is. Thus, they are under no legal obligation to allow an outside investigation. The best we could do is threaten sanctions if they refuse but that would take at least a year or two to have enough of an effect to matter.
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  137. Joe Biden
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  138. Procedurally, she was in the right. Comer needs a refresher on how do his job apparently.
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  139. This comment section is absolutely deranged. Educate yourselves before becoming hatemongers and bigots.
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  140. That's rich. Dude dodged accountability his entire term.
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  141. At this point it's growing into a fine art...Sadly
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  142. Delusion can be treated
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  143.  @bigvision2058  It's not feasible to close our borders. Economically or manpowerwise. Walls do almost nothing. You need tons of guards and that doesn't even account for container ships etc. The better approach would be to drastically expand the immigration courts to start processing the ridiculous backlog that Trump's policies created. Process them quicker and most will be gone quicker without having to be housed far from the border for years. Also, that allows for legitimate asylum seekers to still have their chance at a better life.
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  144. Where are those 3,000 voters going to come from? It definitely won't be from the left and this will just be a reminder to moderate/centrist voters (the deciding votes in the 2020 election) of why they got rid of him last time.
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  145. @aaron-dd5zr  They quit because he refused to accept the help offered by tech specialists who were willing to donate their time. Anyone with a brain would have done the same at that point.
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  146. How sad for Melania to be married to Trump knowing his...
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  147. Learn how your government operates...
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  148. Blue won...
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  149. ​ @PBA8 Those in Ohio he's talking about are here legally and are working towards citizenship...
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  150. Lucky for him. Maybe she'll let him out with a pardon.
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  151. One of the white lynch mob tried to take a pistol away from one of the black men who had come as part of a group to help defend the jail holding the mob's target. A shot was fired, and both sides opened up on each other. The blacks just had better aim. They lost 2 and the white lynch mob lost 10. From then on, the white side went berserk.
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  152. And paid posters need like you need to stick to X and Facebook where you belong.
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  153. It's a no win situation. The country is split ~50\50 on which side to support.
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  154. What do you think these changes being made by Republican state legislatures are doing? As usual the Dems are stupidly focusing on the wrong part of those changes (IDs and claiming they're racist) but the laws are heavily skewed in favor of Republican candidates. They're intentionally designed to make handling elections in heavily populated urban areas (usually the bluest parts of a state) a complete nightmare for election workers and guarantee rushed, inaccurate counts. That way, when a Republican loses, there's an excellent chance that there will be enough inaccuracies with the urban vote to challenge the results.
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  155. He's an attention seeking little manchild for whom childishly grandstanding for votes is more important than potentially being a health risk to his colleagues.
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  156. I'm sure it will "trickle down"...
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  157. Exactly. It cost taxpayers ~$500,000 per trip to golf when he was in office and a lot of pre-prep on the part of his Presidential security. If he insists on spur of the moment golfing at different clubs against the advice of his taxpayer provided security, then he should provide his own additional small army to secure the sites on his own with his campaign or personal funds. Not our responsibility.
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  158.  @neil9383  His behaving like a petulant child is why prosecutors and judges are not inclined to cut him much If any slack
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  159. He's a pathetic hypocrite. Kentucky is one of the states that receive far more federal funds than they pay in federal taxes. Until he's willing to give an accounting of where all that money goes, he's got no room to talk about what gets funded.
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  160. Justice is why the sentence was overturned. The original trial judge made some very poor decisions and failed to ensure a fair trial. The key mistake being addressed was his failure to ensure as unbiased a jury as possible. One of the eventual jurors had made multiple social media posts calling for the bomber's death and complaining about being caught in the lockdown during the manhunt before jury selection even began. A couple of the other jurors had made similar but not quite as blatant posts as well. The whole thing is being misportrayed by the media and politicians. If SCOTUS does uphold the decision to overturn the sentence, all that will happen will be a redo of the sentencing phase using a fresh (properly vetted) jury. He'll most likely still get the death penalty. It's a good thing for the victims that the only issue used to support the overturning of the sentence was one that left it possible to avoid an actual retrial and just look at sentencing. The judge made some other decisions that could have easily been used to show that the entire process was tainted.
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  161. ​@TheMomseloc From 2000 up until Oct 7 2023, the IDF, on average, killed ~1,400 Palestinian civilians each year in Gaza and the West Bank (with a little help from illegal Israeli settlers in the latter.) Hamas took out that many Israeli civilians once only to have the IDF respond by murdering an additional ~35,000 Palestinian civilians (and likely most if not all of the unaccounted for hostages as well.) One could make a strong argument that, when it comes to murdering innocent civilians, Israel makes Hamas look like amateurs.
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  162.  @robertw1800  In 2016 he had to worry about re-election. Now he doesn't... There's absolutely nothing to hold him accountable this time. If you can't grasp that concept then your reasoning is nonsensical. Edit: On the upside he won't be as tempted to make bad deals in a desperate attempt to uphold his promises like he did with the Taliban and other decisions he made during re-election year.
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  163.  @ACommenterOnYouTube  It's more about them not making as many foolish mistakes as Trump will/did. A lot of the problems they faced could have been avoided or mitigated had Trump spent less time playing golf, crying about fake news, and actually read some of the stuff he was signing...Quick fixes only cause problems later. Given what they had to work with and Republican Congress members who were under orders not to work with them on anything, they did what they could.
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  164. It has to be done by the book or we're no better than him.
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  165. The US has no official language... We're free to speak what we want.
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  166. Nothing he can do. They're legal immigrants.
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  167.  @gigi6374  The federal moratorium did not actually apply to all evictions. Certain criteria had to be met in order to qualify. That said, the vast majority of people who were unable to pay their rent in full easily met the criteria. Also, State and local governments were able to add protections of their own if they felt it necessary. So in some areas, those who didn't meet the federal criteria may have been covered at the state/local level.
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  168. Traitor...
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  169. He knows because the same goes for all viruses and their variants. The further removed a variant is from the original strain(s) a vaccine or natural immunity were developed for, the less likely the variant will be affected fully if at all by them. It's one of the reasons vaccines are generally desirable. Gaining natural immunity requires actually catching the disease. Which, in turn, allows more chances for a new variant to emerge.
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  170. Either way, who cares? Putin can just go cry.
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  171. On the stand lies are perjury
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  172. It's his responsibility to address why his boss endorsed him without properly vetting him as well as his boss's ability to judge character. Passing the buck entirely to the NC voters is just a dodge.
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  173. Thinking of others excluding minors you mean... By vetoing this, legal guardians are not only free to have minors in their care forcefully sterilized, the government will even chip in on the cost.
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  174. Your concrete appears to be a little low on aggregate...
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  175. ​ @charlesvan13 Keep in mind that no proof to support these claims has been submitted and that a couple of the claims included in the motion take ~5 minutes of research to debunk.
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  176. He has refused help from tech people who support him...He's not even trying to disprove their article. A lawsuit would be pointless.
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  177. He'll be going to prison if he doesn't grow up and knock off childish bullsh*t like this. If any of those he tricked into getting onto those planes had already applied for asylum then they were technically here legally and his assisting in their removal from the jurisdiction prior to their immigration court hearing would make him party to multiple felonies. Also, his constituents might want to ask him how much of a kickback he got from the transportation company he paid $650,000 of Florida's money to fly just 50 people... $13,000 per person seems a bit...sus.
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  178. Like a 4th grader reading a report mommy wrote... how cute.
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  179. Sarcasm doesn't translate well in the internet
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  180. He's 77 years old and has never once taken responsibility for any of his actions. It's always someone else's fault. I do find it amusing that those who support him wouldn't let their kids get away with his childish behavior, but they'll whip out their wallets and flat out fund him to keep it up... Thankfully he'll be irrelevant soon... just another skid mark in the annals of history.
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  181.  @SandmanGotBeer  It would just be more chaos caused by putting unqualified people into positions because they support Trump.
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  182. If they're smart they'll just stay quiet and not take a stand either way. It's a lose/lose situation for them otherwise.
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  183. It's not racist but the new laws being passed by these Republican led state legislatures are heavily skewed in favor of Republican candidates. They're designed to make it almost impossible for election workers in highly populated urban areas (usually the bluest areas of a state) to manage and guarantee rushed, inaccurate counts. That way, whenever a Republican loses, there's an excellent chance that there will be enough inaccuracies in the urban vote to challenge the results.
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  184. Property crime rates are higher so far than they were in 2022. However, violent crime rates have significantly decreased. Also, even with the increase in the property crime rate, said rate is still well below the national average.
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  185. Jail, no. Off the bench, definitely. He was never qualified for the position to begin with.
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  186. Need a legal license for that. He lost his.
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  187. A legend for his incompetence and poor behavior... His own coworkers heavily edit the majority opinions they let him write because he doesn't know what he's doing.
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  188. The taking of rights won't stop at taking away a woman's right to abortion. If not nipped in the bud there, the right will continue to strip rights under the guise of some imagined moral majority until we have a pseudo theocracy rather than a republic. Then we will all just have to hope that all of our morals perfectly align with the bishops in power. It is an issue that strikes at the heart of what this country was supposed to be. A place to get away from religious oppression. Not one to praise it.
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  189. And Trump turned out to be such a fine outstanding man... he did his SA-ing in a much more appropriate manner...
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  190. They didn't really have any choice but to allow them to enter. Officers were getting injured at the doors and it was clear that they weren't going to be able to hold so they fell back hoping to bottleneck the mob and contain them in the lobby.
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  191. ​ @rhymereason3449 The US Constitution prevents an insurrectionist from holding office not running for it. That essentially makes attempts to keep him off the ballot at the state level pointless.
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  192. He's absolutely right on this. They crossed the line.
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  193. They don't need to. That's what their aids are for. The vast majority of the wording is just legalese so they split it up among aids to read and summarize. If representatives actually had to read every bill in full, nothing would ever get done.
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  194. The narrow immunity likely comes from leaked documents that showed that (despite what they were saying in public) the Pakistani government had actually given permission "under the table" for the strikes and in a handful of them they even provided to location to hit. Edit: Besides, it's not an issue that Trump supporters should want to bring up since Trump did the same thing when he ordered the drone strike on that Iranian general in Baghdad. The primary difference being that he didn't even have tacit permission from the Iraqi government.
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  195. We should trade Trump for the remaining hostages.
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  196. She's an embarrassment to the state of Tennessee. She spent nearly the entire time Trump was in office trying to become one of his exalted fluffers. Despite him obviously wanting nothing to do with her. She just wouldn't take the hint. She's the political equivalent of a desperate old cougar looking for prey at the local bar...and always going home unfed.
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  197. If someone can't be bothered to be tested weekly (the alternative to getting vaxxed in this plan) then they have some growing up to do and can find employment elsewhere while doing it.
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  198. ​ @jasoncamenzind513 And the towns economy is thriving and expanding as a result of the added workforce and consumer base. Don't blame immigrants because they're willing to move to Ohio when few Americans are.
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  199. Some people would rather have a President who behaves like an adult and isn't in love with the sound or their own voice...
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  200. Yet still not as bad the Trumpublicans...
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  201. With the poor quality of their work over the last few years, they've pretty much earned unemployment.
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  202. He would have destabilized NATO and our rapid response hub with base closures in Germany and then said. "Mr. Putin, please don't take advantage of this ~2 year window of opportunity I created for you to invade one of your neighbors..." oh wait... that's pretty much what he did.
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  203.  @lettucearsebiscuits8375  He did veto Congress's attempt to pull us out of the Syrian Civil War though.
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  204. Kentucky is always near the top of the list when it comes to states that receive more federal money than they pay in federal taxes...Unless he wants to address how all of that money is being spent, he'd do well to keep his mouth shut. Bad things happen to the political careers of those who unnecessarilly draw too much attention to the grift occurring in their own state.
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  205. He's not dependent on the federal taxes from blue states to survive like most of his state is. Without those "nutjobs" many of his constituents would be living in third world country conditions...
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  206. No, Vance. They'll call you a racist when you make up stories about immigrants in order to fuel hysteria against particular nationalities etc. If you want to talk actual policy like, how you plan to fill the very significant economic hole that will be left after mass deportation, or how you plan to pay for that along with the deportation and fully manned full border security afterwards to keep them out, we're all ears..
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  207. He's the only one of the three who isn't delusional and actually behaves like an adult.
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  208. The courts will side with the state on this. If it were private employers it'd be different but public employees being required to be tested or vaxed is legit for public health reasons.
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  209. There's not time for a legal team to prepare a suit before the election and as soon as the election is over, it will be dropped entirely.
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  210. Other than the fact that it was a pro Trump fraud that the system prevented as intended and thus not exactly a high priority given all the other rudiculousness they've been dealing with, who says it's buried? An investigative agency which plays with it's hole cards showing isn't going to be a very successful tool for law enforcement.
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  211. They're doing Giuliani a favor by letting the Hunter email bs go away quietly. The last thing he needs right now is to be charged with falsifying evidence.
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  212. Some have tried. NDA's are part of employment contracts for those types of jobs so they can't say anything if they wanted to.
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  213. Doing his job.
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  214. Well, when people have to spend so much of their pay just to have a roof over their heads and food on their tables thanks to corporate collusion and price gouging that they can't afford anything else, then, yeah, the economy is screwed. Trump is a friend of the corporations, not the people so if he gets elected, it will definitely get worse. I don't like Harris, but middle class tax cuts and the reining in of corporate abuse will be more beneficial to the people than the nothing Trump has proposed thus far. As long as she remembers to make up for the revenue loss by dropping some of the breaks given to the wealthy simply because they're wealthy.
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  215. He won fair and square. He and his administration simply screwed the pooch with this particular policy change by not properly planning ahead before making it. Hopefully they'll learn from their mistake (something Trump's administration rarely ever managed to do) and avoid flustercucks like this in the future.
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  216. The 22nd amendment would limit him to serving only one more term.
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  217. Not possible.
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  218. Umm...They control the House, Senate, and White House while the right has now formed a fatal split that will take at least a decade, likely two, to repair and become politically relevant again. If you count not being able to ban someone who will never win another election anyway from holding future office a win, you need some work on your definition of "win." Also, there's a strong chance Trump's actual legal problems will finish him off well before 2024 anyway. All the Senate Republicans accomplished by selling out in this impeachment was denying the left their cherry on top. The ultimate pyrrhic victory...rejoice...
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  219. ​@lynettetaravella2578 Trumpublicans are the RINOS. They've hijacked the party from it's rational contingent and turned it into a mimicry of some crazy far right European party.
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  220.  @screwthecrewofpoliticians8921  Meh, we'll see. As it currently stands, the difference is less than 0.5% which will mean an automatic recount under Colorado election law. Either way, to have such a well funded incumbent end up getting blindsided by such a close vote against an opponent who is essentially a political "nobody" (a one time city councilman) means her constituents don't exactly consider her all that and a bag of chips. In 2020, her margin of victory was ~10% / ~10,000 votes.
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  221.  @screwthecrewofpoliticians8921  The original talley of any election of significant size is highly likely to be slightly inaccurate due to human error. That's why pretty much every state has automatic recount thresholds built in to their laws (usually somewhere in the <1% difference range.) There's nothing nefarious about it. It's just that maintaining an accurate working count while also having to operate the polling places etc. splits the attention of workers and thus makes them more prone to error than doing a recount after the fact where all they need to focus on is the count.
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  222. In regards to this specific issue, this administration is at least trying to do something. Trump would likely side with Israel just like he sides with Russia concerning Ukraine. He's a sucker for morally questionable strong arm leaders.
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  223. Banks and the others refused the original offer for a bi-partisan committee. They only reason they've changed their mind now is that they caught some unexpected backlash from their constituents for that refusal. As for Banks and Jordan, they were chosen by the Republicans for their troll value/mancrushes for Trump, not their merit and because the Dems (predictable and warranted) refusal to accept them can be spun into some more unnecessary manufactured drama.
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  224. Someone who would resort to childish stunts that set bad examples for their constituents is pretty much the opposite of what we need. Dude's got some growing up to do before he should be entrusted to represent his constituents.
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  225. It's more disturbing to see how woefully inadequate and in some cases how obviously biased state election laws are...I'm for states' rights but if states refuse to fix their problems and, in the case of these heavily biased anti-urban voter laws being passed by Republican led state legislatures, actually take steps to discriminate against certain demographics, then it's up to the federal government to address the situation. The Constitution clearly gives the federal government the power to do so and until now they've been nice and tried to let the states do it themselves. The states have simply failed on this issue.
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  226.  @SteveFrench_420  The Constitution clearly gives the federal government the right to address this issue. If you don't like it. Leave.
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  227. Society is f'd up when they think it's acceptable to place the imaginary rights of a non-person ahead of a woman's right to the 13th amendment's protection from involuntary servitude. Luckily, SCOTUS's incompetent decision also has the side effect of making secession a state matter as well so the pro-choice states can simply take advantage of that and leave the union if they wish. Considering that said states account for the vast majority of the federal tax revenue, the anti-abortion states might run into some problems when it comes to providing for all of the forced children who will quickly fill up their trailer parks...
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  228.  @nargaflarga  That doesn't always get around it. "Alleged" is what you use if someone has been indicted/arrested for something. You have to be real careful with claims unless you have substantial evidence to back them up. Unless you want to risk legal action and/or the reputation of your organization. Granted, Forbes reputation is leaning toward tabloid over the last few years so maybe they will risk such a story.
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  229. When the Trump administration was secretly making deals with the Taliban and allowing the Afghan government to release thousands of Taliban fighters as part of their desperate attempt to fulfill a campaign promise, when did they even include their own party, much less the Democrats in the decision. Don't forget, it's was Trump's actions that forced a rushed plan to withdraw on Biden's part.
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  230. So much bluster... so little substance. ICE and DHS are currently on pace to deport fewer people than Biden did.
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  231. @Jasonmcglovon  If he would just admit it and apologize, it would go away faster. The more he denies it, the longer it will follow him.
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  232. Of course you're not going to get a useful answer. Doing so would only benefit Putin. We'll know when it's prudent for us to know. Move on to legitimate issues.
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  233. There was always going to be a mass deportation. The change made by Biden was simply that those requesting asylum will be allowed to remain on our side of the border until their request is processed. Very few of those requests will be successful and the rest will be turned away. The children do complicate things a bit. However, had Biden's administration put more effort into planning ahead before making the policy change, even that aspect could have been handled smoothly and without causing this mess.
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  234. It is. He gets his marching orders directly from Trump's campaign managers now. No deviation from the script allowed. Kind of sad for someone who was once a never Trumper.
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  235. It's a shame she'll go down in history negatively for the regime she chose to serve. She's actually fairly skilled. Oh well, bad decisions are bad decisions.
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  236.  @hollykrentz1401  Much, much easier said than done... The manpower needed alone would be immense and they'd need to be paid, trained, and equipped. It's something only Congress could accomplish as they control the money. A Preaident could issue an executive order to close it, but it would be almost entirely ineffective without the funding to make it actually happen. Without blocking the entire border with guards, those turned away at the official entrances would simply enter illegally and completely undocumented only making things worse. At least those going through the entrances are being processed and given hearing dates in immigration court.
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  237. Anyone who thinks it's acceptable to violate a woman's right to the 13th amendment's protection from involuntary servitude deserves whatever violence happens to come their way. There should be no sympathy for those who stick their noses into other people's business only to cry foul when said noses get deservedly punched in response. Anti-abortion folk are free to not have one. They're free to speak out against it. They are not free however, to force their subjective beliefs onto others. Period. Those who try better be ready to back their pathetic ways up with more than just the ramblings of incompetent/rogue SCOTUS "justices." Luckily, the incompetent five of SCOTUS accidentally gave pro-choice states the ability to legally secede with their Dobbs ruling. Anti-choice folk better pray that said states don't take advantage of that opportunity. Considering that they account for the vast majority of federal tax revenues, it might be a little tricky for the remaining union to afford all of the forced children who will quickly fill up their trailer parks...
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  238. ​ @acrane1100 In thousands of civil court verdicts carrying and giving birth has been referred to as work. The 13th Amendment outlaws forcing one to do work against their will (imvoluntary servitude). Abortion bans do exactly that. There is a clear tie to the slavery issue and the issue should never have been sent to the states since it is already indirectly protected under the US Constitution.
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  239. ​ @independentears Actually, genetically, a baby is a little less than half the man's...Slightly more than 50% comes from the mother. The mother also puts in far more effort to bring it into the world as well.
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  240. ​ @independentears Correct. It fits the definition of a parasite for the majority of it's time as a fetus as it cannot survive on it's own and offers no benefit to the mother for the resources it consumes. It even causes extreme stress on the mother's body and potentially threatens her long term health and even life. Harsh way to view it...but accurate.
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  241.  @independentears  The prohibition of involuntary servitude under the 13th amendment. Thousands of civil court verdicts have referred to carrying and giving birth as work and one can't be forced to do work against their will. Abortion bans do exactly that. There are a couple of so far successful cases that were moving through the courts based on that argument but the progressives won't help fund them because they aren't based on a woman's rights. Just rights in general. The cases have stalled out for lack of funding having yet to be ruled against in any of the courts they've gone through. Some of which had pro-life judges presiding.
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  242. Grow up
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  243. At a time when centrists/moderates are most needed, they're all giving up...
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  244.  @turtlevader  and minors can live in fear with the knowledge that there's nothing preventing their guardians from having them forcefully sterilized.
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  245. to zero
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  246. He's awful good at crime...don't know about tough.
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  247. Better someone who does nothing than someone who does harm.
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  248. Well, for the terrorism bit. It's was Trump's intentional sabotage of NATO stability and our rapid response hub in Germany which directly encouraged a rise in activity. Also, without said sabotage, Putin would never have considered invading Ukraine. That's just one example of how his bumbling and in some cases inaction set the table for many of the problems Biden's administration had to face. He basically set a time bomb to go off right after the new owners took ownership. It didn't help when his bootlickers in the house and senate began actively thwarting attempts to put out the fire on his orders. He was willing to let the country burn simply to have political ammo to use on those of his supporters who never think more than five minutes into the past or future.
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  249. Maybe if he'd come clean and apologize...
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  250. Surviving 4 more years with Mrs. Donald J. Putin as President is not going to be easy... Hopefully we'll be able to make amends with our allies afterward
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  251. They have him on multiple attempts to violate the Impoundment Control Act. Making any commitments to Gaza without Congressional Approval also violates the Constitution... I mean, Trump's sycophants in Congress would never allow it, but the6 do have more than enough to warrant articles of impeachment... in just a little over two weeks.
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  252. It's more of a covid bill tham any of the garbage they passed when they controlled the Senate. I understand that most people who still actively support/defend the GOP have absolutely no understanding of what's actually in this bill (or any grasp on reality whatsoever in some cases) and will simply trust what anyone with an R next to their name tells them, but there are a handful of Americans who have actually bothered to read the bill and know that the GOP is full of shit when it comes to their claims concerning this bill. If you think crying over your loss of control and making your unwarranted and untrue claims about this bill out of childish spite are going to help you in the 2022 mid terms, be prepared for disappointment. If you can't bring yourselves to be part of the solution, you could at least quit being part of the problem. The unnecessary bits of the bill that cost enough to really matter have been removed. Move on.
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  253.  @TheCowboylogic  How about reading the Constitution and learning how the government power is structured before you "think"...and preferably vote as well.
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  254. The "pro-life" community deserve to be "attacked." They're nothing but a bunch of holier than thou virtue signalers attempting to force their subjective beliefs onto others by corrupting what was intended to be a secular legal code. I'm not exactly a fan of abortion myself but I have no sympathy whatsoever for people who insist on sticking their noses into other people's business only to cry foul when said noses get deservedly punched in response. Those who are anti-abortion are free to not have one. They're also free to voice their opinions against it. They are not however, free to force their beliefs onto others. Period. Abortion bans clearly violate (among other things) the 13th amendment's protection from involuntary servitude. A woman cannot be forced to do the work of carrying and giving birth against her will. There are hundreds if not thousands of rulings where the courts classified carrying and giving birth as a form of work in their arguments. If it's work then the 13th amendment covers it. If the 13th covers it, the 10th amendment can't. Thus, SCOTUS had/has no constitutional grounds to send it to the states. Interestingly, their incompetent ruling also has the side effect of making secession a state matter as well since it isn't addressed in the constitution and is only blocked by a single SCOTUS precedent whose argument is invalid to begin with (Texas v White.) It would be a bit of ironic justice if the pro-choice states chose to take advantage of the situation and leave the union. Said states happen to account for the vast majority of federal tax revenues. It would be a shame if the remaining union were no longer able to pay SCOTUS justices their salaries...or for their protection...and then there's all of the federal assistance nearly all of the "pro-life" states depend on...it'd be a shame.
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  255. Biden's comeback win from mail in voting was nothing odd. In fact it was predictable using information available an hour or so after the in person vote was completed. Due to Trump's major campaign blunder of actively discouraging mail in voting, there was a consistent bias between in person and mail in results in the swing states. Trump received ~80% of his total votes in said states from the in person vote, while Biden received ~40% percent of his. Those ratios were consistent in states where mail in ballots were somewhat close to in person ballots in number. Regardless of who ultimately won the state. In states that weren't allowed to do any counting of mail in ballots until election day, a situation was created where the in person ballots were all tallied before the mail in vote count began. The following example wiil give an idea of just how strong of an effect that can have. Let's say we have a swing state where early counting wasn't possible and we know that the final total will be 1 million votes split evenly between Biden and Trump. If Trump gets 80% of his total from in person, he'll have 400k votes once the in person vote has been tallied. While Biden's 40% would have him at just 200k. Trump has twice as many votes after in person and would appear to be running away with it. However, we know that it will end in a tie. Pretty big difference and yet it's what would be expected given the data available and the unique conditions covid precautions created for this election. With a little effort, an amateur statitician with a decent grasp of the quirks of this election could have predicted Biden's eventual win once the in person data was posted on election night. I would barely call myself an amateur and my calculations from ~1:30 am est on election night ended up very close to the final results (I had NC just barely going to Biden and Ga barely to Trump which ended up being the opposite.) Trump's professionals (with better access to the data and far better skills with statistics) would have known almost immediately after the in person results were available that he had lost. Which is why he held that silly press conference in the middle of the night calling for mail in counts to be stopped while he still appeared to be running away with it.
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  256. The Republicans in general passed on the original offer for a bi-partisan committee. The only reason they now want one is because they misjudged their constituency's views on the matter and suffered some backlash as a result. Also, Jordan and Banks were chosen for their troll value/size of their Trump boners, not their merit. If the Republicans aren't going to take committee apointments seriously, they don't deserve to have their complaints over the matter taken seriously.
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  257. That's a press secretary's job...
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  258. Sounds fine to me. As soon as Trump loses for a second time, the GOP will have to drop him and then the chaos will go away with time as his lackeys get voted out as well. Then, Congress will be able to actually pass fixes to our problems.
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  259. There's footage of far more people simply climbing over that useless wall. The only thing important is making sure it gets cancelled (and that we get some of our money back from the shady companies that got some of the contracts.) The maintenance costs alone will be ridiculous if we are dumb enough to complete it.
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  260. Tulsi is a naive and out of touch politician who thinks selling out the center will gain her power. Trump will discard her and RFK the moment he no longer has use of them.
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  261. A medical discharge would be more appropriate. There's nothing honorable about being selfish.
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  262. ​ @Doug_Hefernen  Which was Iran's money to begin with.
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  263. The evidence was thoroughly laid out in the CNN article and tech people have offered to help him refute it but he refused...
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  264. ​ @bayly1977 Everyone is a RINO the moment they disagree with Trump or one of his endorsed candidates. It's why so many moderate and centrist Republicans aren't interested in voting for Trump.
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  265. Yeah, they fell really hard...They control the House, Senate, and White House while the Republican party is now fatally split and will lose voter turnout among their moderates and votes from right leaning independents, centrists, etc. Bang up job there...rejoice in your...victory?
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  266. RFK and Tulsi are pretty much gone from the picture... Parading them around didn't bring Trump any boost in the polls so he has little use for them. RFK has even been trying to get back on the ballot in some states.
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  267. The allegations have to actually be true. Considering that a couple of the claims made in the motion take ~5 minutes of research to debunk (the claim that the grand jury didn't recommend that he be indicted for example), the defendant's history of spreading disinformation and outright lies related to the stolen election conspiracy theories, and the timing of these claims, this reeks of a desperation "hail Mary" attempt from a defendant who knows they're screwed.
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  268. How does something as illogical/counterintuitive as requiring 60 votes to go to a vote on a bill that only needs 51 votes to pass undermine federalism? Early on both the House and Senate used the "previous question" rule (essentially requiring only a simple majority vote to end debate on a bill and go to a vote) and things worked just fine (and have continued to do so in the House ever since.) If you dig into the history behind it's change in the Senate, you'll find that it had it's origins in impeachment shenanigans involving Aaron Burr, not as a way to level the playing field for the minority party as the popular myth claims. With such an illegitimate history, would it not be better to return it to it's originally intended design? Edit: If you truly believe the filibuster is necessary to protect federalism, here's a suggestion. Propose legislation that would increase the vote majority needed to pass bills in the Senate from 51 to 60 and see how many pro filibuster members you can get to support it. The end result would be the same as a filibuster only without the need for hours of inane babble from random Senators on irrelevant topics. As such, those in favor of the filibuster should have no problem backing such a bill.
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  269. The vast majority of people on both sides can't even see the real problem with these new voting laws being passed by Republican led state legislators. What makes you think letting them pretend they know what they're doing by leaving it up to their decision would even remotely end well?
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  270. True. Trump is a pretty bad judge of character and often recommends frivolous lawsuits to deflect accurate allegations...
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  271. ​ @Freedomfighters55 That's was pretty much my point... Assault rifles have a generally accepted definition and thus exist as such for everyone. Assault weapons on the other hand do not have an agreed upon definition and thus don't exist as such for everyone. In short, assault rifles exist while assault weapons don't.
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  272. @noora Those refugees granted asylum status/green cards will likely end up contributing more to the economy and their communities in the long run than you ever have or ever will. Unlike a lot of natural born citizens, Legal immigrants/asylees tend to actually be grateful for the opportunity at a better life they have here and a good work ethic to show it.
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  273. I hope the fantasy of being on a transition team was worth selling out the center for her and RFK. Any legitimacy either once had is now gone. Even if they snap out of it once Trump has no more use for them and unceremoniously tosses them aside, it'll be a long hard road back.
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  274.  @timmyturner6575  Most mature adults aren't interested in circle jerks, political or otherwise.
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  275. Please tell me his timing and delivery are usually better than they were here. He completely bombed.
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  276. ​ @ManessahIsrael Nah. They don't have to get that directly involved. Youtube and most of the news channels are so terrified of them that they willingly censor the comments on their own.
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  277. That's why so many people believe Trump and his supporters are dangerous to the country. On many occasions you all just refuse to accept reality simply because you don't want to.
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  278. He'd need a law license for that and he seems to have...misplaced his.
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  279. There's nothing unconstitutional about it. You had a candidate arrange a secret backroom phone call with state election officials in which he had direct conversation with said officials and requested that they "find" him enough votes to change the outcome. That is straight up illegal, no question. That's why one of said officials covered their a** by recording the call and releasing it to the public. There's not a single thing in the US Constitution that can protect him here, but there are some things in Georgia's Constitution that forbid this type of interference. Give it up already. The man's a criminal... and anyone who buys one of his overpriced bibles needs to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask themselves if this is the kind of man they want to throw their lot in with.
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  280. Roughly 25% of Americans consider themselves Republican. 53% of that would be 13.25%. That's not exactly a huge percent. Around 39% consider themselves Republicans or independents who lean toward Republican. 53% of that would be ~20.7%. Still not exactly huge.
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  281. Going by his first term he'll just screw things up more with a second term. Neither he nor Biden have any business being in the race. They're equally detrimental for the country just in different ways. As for us being finished, if we don't start voting more moderates and centrists into Congress/the White House, then yeah, we will eventually finish ourselves off within a generation or so.
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  282. Unless new restrictions to the use of the bombs we send them are added to the deal (especially when it comes to those in the 2,000 lb. category which make up 60% of the shipment being withheld), anyone who votes in favor of this will be risking war crimes charges from the ICC when all is said and done. Any military in the world with 2,000 lb. or heavier bombs in their arsenal will tell you that the IDF's consistent (ab)use of such munitions in densely populated areas to destroy everything within a ~10 block radius just to take out a single building is simply criminal...and yet, the Trumpublicans in the House want to send them more...
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  283. He's in favor of a pseudo theocracy and whatever else Trump tells him he's in favor of. A sad fall from grace for a onetime never Trumper.
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  284. It's illegal terrorism. Only Israel can get away with it.
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  285. I prefer honesty.
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  286. Lol
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  287. They were probably facepalming due to the irony of Trump (the candidate who actually openly attempted to tamper with the election and improperly pressured state election officials in an attempt to change the result,) being seen by so many of his cultists as the one fighting election fraud...
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  288. He told him, he already had the full security he was getting under the budget and rules of the Secret Service.
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  289. Bah. The incompetent five SCOTUS "justices" accidentally made it legal for states to secede with their idiotic Dobbs ruling. Pro-choice states can simply leave the union to it's inevitable demise as a failed theocracy if they want. Considering that pro-choice states account for the vast majority of federal tax revenue, what's left after they leave will have a very difficult time affording all of the forced children overflowing from their trailer parks...
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  290. I wish the news would quit portraying this as a decision concerning the use of the death penalty. The actual case they're looking at involves whether or not the original trial was fair based on decisions made by the judge presiding over it. Sadly, it wasn't. It was a slam dunk case but for some reason the judge still felt the need to make some very poor decisions which violated the bomber's right to a fair trial in pretty blatant fashion. If SCOTUS makes their decision based on the law instead of emotion, they'll pretty much have to uphold the overturned sentence. That doesn't mean the killer won't get the death penalty. It simply means they'll have to redo the sentencing phase with a fresh jury (and hopefully a wiser judge.) Regardless of whether or not one believes the death penalty is warranted, the right to a fair trial must always be respected to maintain the legitimacy of our criminal justice system.
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  291. Bah, the Republicans chose Jordan and Banks for their troll value not their merit. If they'd rather play games than take committee apointments seriously, they don't deserve to be taken seriously themselves.
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  292. Making any promises he can come up with that sound good because he doesn't have to worry about keeping them for re-election. Desperation at it's finest. Edit; And now we know why he's refused anymore debates. That way he never has to explain how he'll make up the lost tax revenue etc. on any new enticements he makes. He could have announced this at any time. The time he chose speaks volumes.
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  293. Good luck convincing real Republicans to vote for a Trumpublican.
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  294.  @somelikeithot38  What's plain to see is that "no shirt, no shoes, no service" is a health/safety measure and does not discriminate against any "protected" demographic.
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  295. They reported a story and gave thorough evidence to back it up. Any morality involved with said story, the individual reading it brings with them.
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  296. Why do we need a spoiled little manchild who considers childishly grandstanding for votes to be more important than the health of his colleagues?
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  297. Walk outs have been part of state politics since the country has existed. Abraham Lincoln even participated in one as a state legislator. They serve a function similar to a filibuster.
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  298. Of course they slammed them. It's an election year... moving on.
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  299. They're holding him accountable for his behavior, and for once in his life, he can't simply throw money at his problems and make them go away. It had to happen eventually.
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  300. He'll drop any pretense of legal action as soon as the election is over. CNN's evidence was overwhelming and experienced campaign staff don't quit over scandals unless they know there's truth to them.
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  301. Too humane. It's more fitting to just let them suffer the slow agonizing death they've brought upon their party with their unethical behavior.
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  302.  @FilmFlam-8008  Don't be so sure. They're economy hasn't been this good in over a decade now that their population is getting closer to what it was before ~30,000 people left well before any immigrants showed up.
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  303. We've already got enough attention seeking brats in Congress. We don't need more. Especially not one for whom childishly grandstanding for votes is more important than the health of his colleagues.
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  304. Many who voted for him were voting for the Democratic platform not Biden in particular. The hope being that, unlike the previous President, this administration would put qualified people on their cabinet/at the heads of various agencies and actually let those people do their jobs. Also, the left moved away from creating cults of personality around their Presidents following JFK's time in office and therefor know enough not to put much weight in what they have to say concerning fields they aren't experts in.
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  305. Sadly, they're still more patriotic than immature children who have hijacked the right. No self respecting adult would accept the "they got away with it, why can't I?" defense from their own kids, much less a President. Have fun looking yourselves in the mirror over the next couple of decades while the left controls the country. If enough of you grow up, you might become politically relevant again by then...
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  306. They already have too many (what should have been avoidable) expenses to deal with thanks to their power grid fiasco. They don't need to waste more on that silly wall. People have been easily climbing over/tunneling under the completed parts since they were built. Considering the cost versus effectiveness of it, they (and/or the federal government) would be much better off reevaluating the border situation and finding a more effective use for that money.
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  307. He doesn't need, or care, about us. He intentionally threw the 2020 election because he didn't want to deal with all of the messes he made/did nothing to pre-emptively thwart during his first term. Now he wants to ride in, do nothing intelligent, blame it all on his opponents, and get his name in the history books as a two term President for his ego...using his power to avoid prison if allowed. You can have him. The majority of us will pass.
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  308. A reminder. Any commenter with a - and then random letters and numbers after their name is a paid "bot". The bit after the name is their pay code. Ignore them or point them out for what they are but take nothing they say seriously.
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  309. By destabilizing NATO and throwing our rapid response hub in Germany (for both European and Middle East action) into chaos, he directly encouraged a rise in terrorist activity. Not only that, Putin would never have considered invading Ukraine without Trump's intentional sabotage efforts. How dare him try to use his "lack of terrorism" as part of his campaign. He should be ashamed of himself.
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  310. That comment won't age well.
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  311. The evidence provided in the article is overwhelming...
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  312. Probably a representative of the GOP they're willing to sacrifice to the MAGA mob in order to get their message across to Robinson publicly. This comes after multiple NC news stations reported that many tech people supporting Robinson have offered to help him clear his name but he refused to accept.
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  313. ​@ohmymcmc lol... no he wasn't. JFK was doing everything he could to get himself unalived. For the months leading up to it, he had been constantly overruling their safety protocols. It finally caught up with him as desired.
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  314. They should vacate their thrones...er...benches after a generation at least. By then they've lost touch with the active generations and can no longer properly represent them in their interpretations. Law, unfortunately, is an art, not a science, and artist tastes change over time.
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  315. There's a difference between wanting it closed (open to legit traffic of course) and thinking that doing so will ever be feasible (it won't anytime soon if at all.) There are more efficient/beneficial approaches that could be made concerning the immigration issue but they would likely have to be bipartisan and it doesn't look like that will happen anytime soon.
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  316. House arrest with the same general restrictions that are given to prisoners (especially when it comes to internet use/leisure activities.)
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  317. It's a silly topic. Giving out such information can only help Putin. Those who need to know, know. We can wait.
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  318. It will matter greatly for us over time.
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  319. ​ @_Rick___Grimes_ MAGA and Trump support weak appeasement and isolationism...because none of them paid attention in history class.
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  320. ​ @Genethagenius The state decision is idiotic. For starters, they're invoking the 14th amendment to do something it can't even do to begin with. Nowhere is being on a ballot mentioned. One can't hold office or be the elector to the office (essentially be declared the President elect by Congress) but nothing prohibits being on a ballot. Beyond that, their ruling invokes the 14th amendment which is a federal law and must be applied equally to all. It cannot be invoked by individual states. Now, if Colorado had a similar law in their state constitution then this could potentially be legit. They don't have such a law.
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  321. He's done an excellent job. It's takes dedicated effort to raise one's state's number of covid cases 10% higher than the national average.
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  322. ​​ @papawheelie5576 The only significant differences between he and Trump is his lesser charisma and net worth. Beyond that and some relatively unimportant differences in policy, DeSantis is essentially just a younger, less skilled version of Trump only with a bit more mental stability and slightly less ego.
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  323. ​ @bayly1977 far more than just his user name. He used a lot of accurate information in his public profile as well.
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  324. Yep, they've successfully protected themselves from the urban vote in the states whose Republican led legislatures are passing anti-urban voting laws...not exactly something to be proud of.
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  325.  @lisechristensen4714  Exactly, the city needed the expanded workforce and consumer base to replace what it had lost over the years prior to the immigrants coming in. If they want to work and live there when many Americans clearly don't, more power to them. The growing pains with the schools, hospitals, etc. will get fixed once they can leverage the economic growth to do so.
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  326. People have been easily climbing over/tunneling under the completed parts since they were built. Compared to it's cost (including future upkeep) versus efectiveness, the wall will be a waste of money. These Senators are just playing for some political capital. The border situation needs to be reevaluated to find a more effective use for the money.
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  327. Up until the election is over. Then he'll drop it either way.
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  328. Your point? Anytime a head of state or similar dies in office, it is customary for other nations and the UN to send condolences. International relations are never going to smooth out if everyone keeps choosing to be petty in such situations.
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  329. Well, the Republicans in Congress just voted down a bill securing IVF rights for Americans when their leader is out there pretending to support such rights...so maybe it's better for the Republicans that he didn't mention it.
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  330. ​ @alwaysinmyheart8639 Intentionally spreading lies/disinformation and secret backroom attempts to pressure a state's election officials into altering the vote total goes a wee bit further than simply questioning the result.
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  331. Israel is a sovereign nation and thus under no legal obligation to allow an outside investigation.
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  332. We wear masks primarily to limit the amount of respiratory droplets exhaled and thus lessen the spread of it by those who are infected and don't realize it or who can't remain quarantined. Taking his off like that is the equivalent of saying he doesn't care about possibly putting everyone there at risk.
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  333.  @chaseviking5096  This attention seeking manchild of a politician was perfectly capable of wearing a mask and, unlike you, I guarantee you he's well aware of the effectiveness of doing so and knew that taking his off wouldn't affect his chances of catching the disease enough to worry about but would increase the risk to others if he happened to be infected (surgical masks may only prevent the inhalation of as little as ~20% of respiratory droplets but as long as both the nose and mouth are covered, they at least catch ~70% of those exhaled by the wearer...~95+% if worn perfectly. There are tons of studies going back decades on it.) Why do you think surgeons wear them? This douchebag taking his off like that is the equivalent of flipping his colleagues a bird only that bird could also be a potential risk to their health. It's childish behavior from someone supposedly qualified to represent his constituents in Congress. Politicians do unfortunately have to find ways of getting idiots to vote for them. Prioritizing that over the health of his colleagues however, is not the proper way to go about it (and sets a poor example for his constituents.) I've already had the stupid disease and short of variants, I doubt I can catch it again anytime soon, but he and I would have had some words afterward had I been one of those near him. It's the principle of the thing. We just managed to get rid of a President with the maturity of a 12yo. We can definitely do without such people in Congress as well.
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  334. No, they don't. Why would we want to bother with the ridiculous upkeep costs of something so useless? Edit: Also, there were a lot of shenanigans with who got the contracts and their connection to Trump and friends. Much that was already wasted on it will likely be reclaimed when the court cases are done.
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  335. Why? Someone has to protect the House Trumpublicans from their own stupidity.
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  336. Probably around the time that people realize money doesn't exist and economics is just a game.
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  337. The moron really should curb the wannabe Mussolini posing. It's not going to do him any favors when it comes time for his sentencing for kidnapping, trafficking, and misuse of funds... Edit: Also, speaking of funds... His constituents should look into how much of a kickback he received from the transportation company he paid $650,000 of Florida's money to fly just 50 people who weren't even in Florida to begin with. Paying $13,000 per person to go from Texas to Martha's Vineyard seems a bit...sus.
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  338.  @khabbad  Any of those he flew who had already requested asylum (and there were at least a few) were technically here legally. Assisting in removing them from the jurisdiction where their immigration court hearing would take place under false pretenses and across state lines could be classified as kidnapping and is definitely trafficking. If he wants to be President or even just be taken seriously, he needs to stop pulling childish stunts. They may let this one slide but what he did was illegal and if he keeps it up, he's going to go to far and get burned eventually.
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  339. Waste of time and resources. The border's simply too big, and even if it could be somewhat secured, they'd just find another way in. As poor as our infrastructure has become, a better idea would be to set up some sort of program where they can apply for jobs related to improving it with a proper wage and taxes withheld etc. in return for citizenship (and immediate family members) after a set period of time.
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  340. No, it's fundamentally Un-American to have an elected Congress member who's so constitutionally illiterate that they think free speech protections apply to private businesses...
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  341. This is Virginia's fault for incompetence in handling voter registration.
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  342. It's hard for tabloid news to find good talent.
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  343. ​@DavidBenAvraham88 From 2000 up until the Oct 7 attack, The IDF killed ~1,000 Palestinian civilians per year on average in Gaza. When you throw in the West Bank, the per year average surpasses the casualties of Hamas' attack. The IDF had since killed over 30,000 more. When it comes to murdering women and children, Israel makes Hamas look like amateurs.
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  344. He refused help from tech people who support him... He's not even trying to disprove the CNN article.
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  345. He was a never Trumper who bent over and spread his cheeks for the VP nomination. If that isn't someone who can be manipulated, I don't know what is...
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  346. ​@brianjungen4059 Well, combine Vance going after Walz with Trump's sickening attack on McCain back in the day and it doesn't look good when it comes to their combined... decorum concerning vets. Vance should have ignored his orders from Trump's campaign managers and simply left it alone. Stick to the issues. This is going to cost them votes.
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  347.  @82saw3  No, It's what I watched him do. That farce he pulled with Ukraine violated almost every bit of the Impoundment Control Act and was far more than necessary to boot him out via impeachment. He survived only because the Republican led Senate gave him a pass. Combine that with everything always being someone else's fault whenever anything went wrong as well as his business history of throwing others under the bus to save himself (even his own father at one point) and what you have is spoiled little rich kid who never one had to take responsibility for his actions his entire life. The exact opposite of someone with accountability.
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  348. Please do not breed...
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  349. Should have just used General McAuliffe's classic reply of "Nuts!"
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  350. And then he threw it all away.
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  351. She should be worried. Tennessee's voting system is designed to discourage urban voters. Were that to ever change, people like her would be out of a job.
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  352. Political scientist isn't a real profession. It's the equivalent of arm-chair quarterback.
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  353. Tech people have offered to help him try to prove the allegations false and he has refused. What else is the GOP supposed to do with him if he won't even take steps to clear himself.
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  354. How can a man who tried to sabotage our European and Middle East rapid response hub in Germany (and partially succeeded) as well as did all he could to destabilize NATO, even remotely try to make it sound like he was good for our military. His bumbling around is what opened the door for Putin to invade Ukraine. Had he thought for a moment the US or NATO could have reponded as quickly as they could prior to Trump's meddling, he never would have tried it. Of all people, Trump has no business ever being commander in chief of any military ever, anywhere. 0:16
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  355. Slippery would be more accurate.
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  356. Completely pointless... Walkouts aren't illegal. They merely violate House rules. As such, the only thing law enforcement could do when such an "arrest" is made would be to return the Representative to the House. Regardless, it's a moot point since Texas law enforcement only has jurisdiction to make such arrests in state (which is why the House members left the state.)
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  357. It ain't 100% effective.
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  358. He only vetoed it because it was poorly worded and too broad when it came to the government's power. Had it been better designed, he wouldn't have hesitated to sign it. No governor would want to allow parents/guardians to have minors in their care forcefully sterilized. Especially when doing so would also require the state to chip in on the cost.
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  359. Comedian wise, he just didn't sell it. Gotta learn to read the crowd and not get rattled by a cold audience.
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  360.  @pg_jem  One desperate to expand their audience beyond edgy kids because NetFlix is sniffing around.
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  361. That was a long time ago before Trump corrupted him.
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  362. It would take longer than the time to election to build any suit. He may start his counsel on preparing one but he'll drip it shortly after the election either way. I doubt he wants to end up paying CNN's legal fees as well.
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  363. Unfortunately the unconstitutional ruling on that matter will not be moved on from so easily. In their stupidity, the six SCOTUS Justices responsible for it inadvertently removed OSHA's ability to enforce far more than just the vaccine mandates...
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  364. It's a strategic ploy. It won't have time to go anywhere before the election and he'll drop it soon after.
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  365. That's equally true for the "right" as well. People have to drop this childish polarization nonsense and start using a little critical thinking.
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  366. That would mean every election we've ever had would be forfeit...There's always a tiny amount of fraudulent/invalid votes to be found in any election. Things are just too big and complicated to prevent it all. To date, no one has ever shown proof of a large scale fraud capable of affecting the outcome. It's just a given that there will be a small but acceptable margin of error involved.
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  367. So he'd rather put on a completely pointless trial where the outcome has already been decided (acquittal on purely political grounds) just like the Senate Republicans did for Trump's first impeachment... brilliant... just brilliant. How about instead, he quit his disingenuous bs grandstanding and start working on ways to pull the state he represents out of the gutter.
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  368. Only if the answer fit his agenda. Otherwise, he would just do what he did at OSU.
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  369. But still nowhere near as chaotic as it was under Trump.
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  370. For those capable of reading and thinking more than 5 minutes ahead, there's nothing wrong with this bill. The false information spread about it has just been ridiculous. They may not be the best people we've ever voted for but they're better than the alternative by far. I will say that old Mitch's strategy of putting us all to sleep with his droning turkey tone is an interesting strategy though. If you can't beat then, bore them to death...
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  371. Ah... the mental 12 year olds of MAGA...
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  372.  @TheRougeChef  Speak like a child, get called a child.
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  373. ​@knothead35 Lying about it when it's found however is not past behavior.
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  374.  @Garapetsa  State legislatures are most certainly not making elections more fair and honest. The laws being passed by Republican led state legislatures are intentionally designed to make voting and the jobs of election workers in highly populated urban areas (the bluest areas of the states) a nightmare while adding no significant hardships to rural areas (the red areas.) It's pathetic and most of those supporting such changes have either not bothered to read the new laws completely, are too dense to understand the overall effect of what they've read, or are simply dishonest.
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  375. Everyone knows that.
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  376. Say what you will, but at least the private sector earnings get reported...
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  377. What exactly does Johnson think Biden can do? What he's asking would require more funding for the SS and that has to come from Congress, not the President. The current budget can't absorb the cost without taking agents off their current duties and devoting much funding. Every golf trip Trump took in office cost the taxpayer ~$500,000 after all and they were planned in advance. It would take a small army to secure a course on short notice.
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  378. If SCOTUS didn't govern themselves under "anything goes" rules, yeah. It would be called bribery.
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  379. The policies aren't the problem. It's the piss poor planning and preparation prior to implementing them where he and his administration have screwed the pooch. This border mess could have gone smoothly and without the mess had they simply had the proper infrastructure in place to handle it from the start. If they'll take the lesson Biden (hopefully) learned from his fall on the stairs and approach things more slowly and methodically from now on, they'll be more successful with their future goals. There's no point in rushing things if you don't have to.
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  380. ​ @harryfarber6435 I wonder if Trump will take credit for wrecking the economy with mass deportations like what happened when Georgia drove their immigrant population out years ago...and then wished they hadn't almost immediately.
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  381.  @PBA8  Real Americans
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  382. ​@tirana625 Better than $1B to China. That's how much of Former President Trump's debt is now owned by Chinese interests. To be fair, he only owed said interests ~$850M while he was in office...
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  383. Are you being disingenuous or do you just have the reasoning abilities of a child? The officers along the outside perimeter were spread far too thin so they fell back to the building. When officers were getting injured at the doors and it became evident that they couldn't hold back the mob there, they fell back hoping to contain the them in the lobby by taking advantage of the bottlenecks that would have to be traversed by those wanting to go any further into the building. When they realized they couldn't hold there either, they switched from trying to stop the mob to just slowing them down in order to buy time for the VP and Congress members to be evacuated. At no time were any of them invited in.
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  384. I notice he didn't mention the Congressional gym's cost...or any of the other perks he and his co-workers receive. Rand Paul, like McConnell, represents a state best known for reeking of horse...and receiving far more federal money than they pay in federal taxes...'nuff said.
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  385. High turnover rates are bad enough in the fast food industry. We don't need them in our government as well. People simply need to start doing a little more than looking at the letter besides someone's name and/or paying attention to campaign ads when it comes to choosing who to vote for.
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  386. It's sad when an excuse that children use and parents disregard is apparently legitimate in politics...to many of those same parents no less... Since when is the "they got away with it, why can't I?" defense legitimate? Especially when the thing the others supposedly got away with wasn't even a true analog to what the crybaby making the excuse did...
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  387. When they make a ruling with so little Constitutional support that five out of six of them don't even want their names attached to the majority opinion, they pretty much become irrelevant anyway.
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  388. The federal law prohibiting protesting SCOTUS justices is unenforceable (and anyone qualified to be such a justice should know that.) It applies "in or near" their property but does not define "near." As a result, as long as protestors don't set foot on their property or impede traffic to and from it, arresting them would be pointless as the case would have to be thrown out. The courts can't just arbitrarilly pick a distance as the boundary of "near" after the fact. The law needs to be clear so that protestors know exactly what the legal limit is.
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  389. Tell it to the jury that chose the amount.
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  390. You're in the minority.
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  391. Virginia was incompetent in handling their voter registration (in multiple ways) and ended up violating federal law. The court can only rule on the case against the State. It doesn't have the authority to block registrations.
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  392. ​ @DrDangerPuppy Have fun going to jail for filing false claims...
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  393. A corrupt god maybe...
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  394. Someone might want to check and see if these Senators (and/or their family/friends) stand to benefit financially from it's completion... People have been easily climbing over/tunneling under the completed parts since they were built. In terms of effectiveness versus cost, the wall (and it's future upkeep costs) is a waste of money. It would be better to reevaluate the border situation and find a more effective use for it.
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  395. Not at all. Both of their bot armies as well as those of other BRICS nations are pushing hard for Trump online.
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  396.  @NunyoBudness  The Venezuelans are here legally as well and are not criminals as his debate lies implied. The vast majority are refugees from their dictator who came here seeking freedom only to find a tyrant running for President scapegoating them for votes.
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  397. We're going to get economically destroyed by this baffoon...
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  398. I hope one of the adults present had some words with this little manchild in the parking lot afterwards. We wear the masks primarily to hinder/prevent ourselves from spreading it to others via exhaled respiratory dtoplets in case we are infected and don't know it or can't remain quarantined. Taking his off like that tells those there that childishly grandstanding for votes is more important to him than being a potential risk to his colleagues' health.
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  399. Not entirely. They were arguably right about the specific argument used in Roe v Wade being too weak to stand. However, They did not do their due dilligence when it came to determining if the constitution contained any other protections/rights that might apply to abortion in some way. There are. For example, bans on abortion (prior to 24 weeks at least) violate the 13th amendment's prohibition of involuntary servitude. There are hundreds if not thousands of rulings where the courts have recognized carrying and giving birth as a form of work (rulings where the mother was given the final say under the argument that she would be the one to have to do the work of carrying and giving birth.) If it's work, then the 13th amendment indirectly covers it (no one can be forced to do work against their will.) If the 13th covers it, then the 10th amendment can't apply. Thus SCOTUS would have no constitutional grounds to send it to the states.
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  400. Project much. Trump is the master gaslighter.
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  401.  @MarkDillard-t7f  Yes he does need Congress. They control the money. Executive orders can't create their own funding. They have to work within the existing budget for the relevant agency(s). Said budgets are already maxed on the restrictions he has already put in place with orders. Trump would run into the exact same problem he just doesn't mention that to his supporters when making his promises.
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  402. Virginia's incompetence in handling their voter registration is where any blame for this deciaion lies. They somehow registered 1600 people who marked non citizen on dmv forms. They then chose to remain in the dark agea by using years old dmv forms which don't always get updated when someone becomes a citizen instead of simply cross referencing the federal citizenship database like other atates do. Also, unreliable robo mailing of notifications for somwthing as important as someone's right to vote is unacceptable. Finally, they knowingly violated the federal 90 day window hoping to use an old superceded state law as an excuse. The court had no choice but to block their purge. The people of Virginia really should consider replacing some of their incompetent State Goverenment over this.
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  403. This was a vote to open it for debate, not to pass it outright...
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  404. He probably shouldn't bring Ukraine into it. He was acting as an illegal representative of the US when he failed to uncover anything there.
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  405. Not funny...more like sad. The judge of character in who the GOP backs since Trump came along has been atrocious.
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  406. He'd just ignore God's help like he did his detail's warnings that the course was not secure and requests for time to secure it. No amount of help can overcome arrogance and hubris indefinitely.
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  407. Nah, Ginny's the pimp. He's just the...
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  408. Abortion bans violate the involuntary servitude part of the 13th amendment.
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  409.  @jgr7487  Thousands of civil court verdicts have referred to carrying and giving birth as work. The 13th Amendment prohibits involuntary servitude which is being made to do work against your will. Abortion bans force women who want abortions to do work against their will. Abortion bans violate the 13th Amendment.
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  410. We're fine. A subsect of the population is just prone to hysteria.
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  411. To those saying Congress needs them first... They already have them. It's called elections. Besides, the average House member only serves for a little over four (two year) terms and Senators, a little less than two (six year terms.) Both are well below the average length of a SCOTUS Justice term.
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  412. Our border is simply too large to successfully patrol for any reasonable cost. Figuring out what to do with them once they're here is the better alternative.
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  413. And a fat wallet...while his constituents are dependent on the federal taxes from blue states to keep them from looking more like a third world country than they already do...
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  414. Trump has no place for moderate and centrist conservatives in his vision of America. Both her and RFK were bought on because Trump is losing that demographic's vote. Whether he wins or loses, they will be discarded the moment they question him on anything.
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  415. @blksbth1  You'll never see a bit of it and his mass deportation plan will skyrocket food and housing prices far beyond what inflation and price gouging have already if it passes. You'll need every promise he makes to keep from starving.
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  416.  @markoakley2508  Considering that the lab specializes in coronaviruses and bats (which make up ~20% of all mammal species) are a prime source of them, it would be odd if they didn't have bats...
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  417. If this is the best they've got, it's no wonder the state is so poor...
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  418. Begone paid bot
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  419. Israel won't take us seriously unless we restrict the tap, and Hamas won't listen as long as the tap continues to flow as it does. The Republicans and some Democrats in Congress refuse to even lessen the flow, so unless Trump loses and his grip on the GOP is broken, there really isn't a bargaining chip in this for us to play. Both sides will rightfully just continue to do their thing and ignore us.
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  420. The evidence they provided is solid.
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  421. You don't.
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  422. I'd be awkward too if I were in the mess he's currently in in his home country and was having to sell my soul to Musk and the current administration in hopes that it would save me...
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  423. Interesting that he doesn't mention that the same judge stated that former President Trump did participate in an insurrection. That could become a problem for him in the future. The Constitution prevents anyone who participated in an insurrection/rebellion from holding office. It doesn't say anything about running for it. We could end up in a situation where he gets elected to an office he can't legally hold. That would definitely be...interesting to watch.
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  424. ​@martyolson9433 He's alive in spite of his own insistence on going against his detail's suggestions. If he keeps doing arrogantly stupid stuff like that, he's going to get an agent(s) or himself killed just like JFK did and it will be his fault. When you know people want you dead, an intelligent/sane person would make more prudent decisions concerning their activities. He even fought against his agents trying to get him off the stage at the first attempt so he could get in a photo op (which he then sold on a coin as a fundraiser). If one didn't know better, they'd think he was trying to die.
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  425. It's indiscriminate terrorism and Israel should be sanctioned just like all other terrorist organizations.
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  426. They are. This is the modern world not the early 1900's. We tried isolationism and it didn't work.
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  427.  @jared30  That's Forbes for you. Classic tabloid journalism.
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  428. President's can't pardon civil suits...only federal criminal convictions.
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  429. He'll drop it as soon as the election is over. Just a strategic play on his part to appear innocent to his supporters.
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  430. Because it goes toward his boss's judge of character and lack of a vetting process when determining who to back...
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  431. What's to report. The Republicans in Congress won't allow the only bargaining chip we have to play with the Israel mess, and only a fool would negotiate with Putin at this point. Both problems will continue. One because it needs to (Ukraine) and the other because the right wants it to (Israel v anyone they feel like)
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  432. Nearly, if not actually, impossible given all the evidence involved. There's a reason he's been refusing offers of help from tech people who support him.
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  433.  @bucklejrjjbg8197  Have you looked at the actual evidence presented in the CNN article? It goes much further than just that. Once he files a suit against CNN, they will be able to subpoena the final bits of evidence that would nail it down. So if he continues to refuse help from tech people who support him and doesn't actually file a suit, you'll have your answer for sure.
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  434.  @Hexagonal_Goblin  I'd love to hear a therapist's justification for treatments which risk/cause the permanent sterilization of a minor. Which is essentially what you get if puberty blockers are used or an actual sex change operation is performed.
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  435. Well, if the US hadn't stolen their oil early on, they probably would have been a much better off country...just saying.
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  436. I wish the Dems had split this bill into multiple parts. There are quite a bit of good changes included in it but they get overshadowed by some of the less legitimate things.
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  437.  @ACommenterOnYouTube  He mishandled the initial outbreak of Covid leading to crushing medical debt and death for many that could have been avoided and made the long term ramifications of it much worse than they needed to be. He made horrible deals with the Taliban in a desperate attempt to fulfill an unwise campaign promise at any cost. He violated international agreement with his immigration policy, he put three lackey SCOTUS Justices on the bench who have made a mockery of the court, He greatly lessened our ability to defend our middle eastern and European interests by intentionally destabilizing NATO and disrupting our rapid response hub in Germany with his foolish base closure order (giving Putin the green light to invade Ukraine), He violated Impound Contril Act in every way imaginable, was weak in dealings with our enemies in general, and badly tarnished our image and sense of reliability with our friends, persecuted and purged his party's moderates and centrists, chose the opinion of politicians and "legal experts" over those of the individual (setting a horrible precedent for individual freedoms), put a hit out on his own VP, and tried to overthrow the people's choice for President. That's just while he was in office. My favorite was his admission during the debate that he would back down to the nuclear dictators of the world whenever they threaten to use nukes. In general he bred chaos when sanity was responsibility was needed.
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  438.  @billgerhart633  On the rare occasions in his history that that has been true, he always did it the wrong or easy but flawed way. Vote for him at yours and all of our risk.
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  439. Someone might want to point out to Chip some of the other rulings Thomas has stated in interviews he wants to overturn. Along with the ruling protecting gay marriage, he also wants to toss those prohibiting states from banning contraceptives and criminalizing whatever they deem to be "sodomy." Personally, I can't see how anyone would defend an arrogant a** like Thomas who thinks the government should be allowed to meddle in what consenting adults choose to do in their bedrooms and prevent them from practicing proper safety while doing so...
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  440. Violating a House procedural rule (which their actions indirectly do) is not a crime. If "arrested" they would simply be returned to the House. No other punishment is possible. It's moot anyway since Texas law enforcement only have the jurisdiction to make such arrests in state (which is why those who walked out left the state.) Edit: Walkouts serve a function at the state level similar to that of the filibuster at the federal level. There's nothing immature about it. Abraham Lincoln even participated in one early in his political career.
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  441.  @seanthegod4585  The immigrants he's talking about are here legally and the people of the area don't want them gone... This is just him doubling down on the lie he told during the debate because he can never admit he's wrong about something. Thanks to him, cities in Ohio have been getting bomb threats and had to close schools because of angry MAGA folk who actually believe his nonsense.
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  442.  @GladiatorSlows  Your Ontario argument is pointless. With no control group to compare to there's no way that data can be used to determine the effectiveness of the mandates. There is however plenty of data from many studies going back decades that clearly show that surgical masks are effective at trapping all but the smallest aerosol respiratory droplets exhaled by the wearer. Which generally accounts for ~40% to ~70% of the total volume of said droplets depending on whether the person is talking, coughing, etc. The droplets that are trapped are those that would otherwise settle on surfaces, clothing, etc. Since, respiratory droplets are the primary method of spread for covid 19 (and pretty much all viral respiratory illnesses) preventing just 40% from entering the environment is obviously a better approach than doing nothing...especially when it only requires a minor inconvenience to do so. Edit: Also, South Dakota was the only US state that didn't implement any precautions and, though being near the bottom of the list for both population and population density, they rank in the top 10 when it comes to cases per 100k and deaths per 100k. In fact, their number of deaths and cases are ~40% higher than the national average. Oregon on the other hand went heavy on the precautions and their numbers are all well below the national average.
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  443. Probably better for him if it isn't broadcast on mainstream channels...People might get curious as to what all the federal funds going to his state are actually being used for. Kentucky is one of the states which pays far far less in federal taxes than they receive in federal money.
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  444. Bluster at a brick wall.
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  445. If he pulled that childish stunt near me, he'd be looking for some of his teeth.
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  446. ​@CM-np6ru VPs are to be seen not heard. They never do much of anything so that they don't accidentally complicate things. Their primary reason for existence is that of an understudy/to draw the vote of certain demographics.
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  447.  @nomoreBS-hun  No it's pretty obvious when you've lived through many administrations... VPs never do much other than preside over joint sessions of Congress, cast the very rare tie breaking vote, and make pointless public appearances (and occasionally do some relatively unimportant ambassador type junk). They are picked to patch weak spots in voter demographics and to sit around hoping the President doesn't die or end up incapacitated long enough to have to transfer power for any significant amount of time. Simply read their powers in the Constitution...I've mentioned more than it does. Edit: For historical example, they waited forever to give Bush the elder any power when Reagan was shot and incapacitated. He was picked only because he had headed the CIA at one point and looked good on the ticket for national defense during the cold war. No one bothered to inform Truman of the nuclear program until well after FDR died. He was picked to pull the common man/midwest vote. Quayle misspelled potato and pretty much disappeared from the public eye from then on. I don't think anyone knows why he was picked and he quickly faded away afterwards. etc.
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  448. When answering questions concerning a field a President isn't an expert in, giving prepared answers is the intelligent thing to do. It's a good way to avoid things like a President suggesting that injecting bleach is a good way to prevent/treat an infectious didease...
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  449. Yeah...use a camera drone for the footage and some editing software next time...
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  450. Nothing heroic about being selfish and stupid.
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  451.  @joepoole4922  The Secret Service is fine. Trump just expects the small detail assigned to former Presidents to do too much. He needs to quit being a cheapskate and start hiring his own supplemental protection for large events and spur of the moment golf games at clubs with poor security. We spent $500,000 per golf trip on him as President. We aren't required to spend such on him now.
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  452. If he'd shut his big mouth and quit acting like a petulant child maybe. As is, all his behavior is accomplishing is the loss of moderate, centrist, and independent votes and those are the votes that will decide the race. Just like in 2020.
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  453. Voting for those who say they'll spend less would just be voting for either liars or fools.
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  454.  @pianomusic4you  Exevutive orders can't create their own funding and closing the official entrances without being able to guard the full border tightly would only make things worse as those getting properly processed and given immigration court hearing dates now would simply cross illegally without any of that and be untrackable.
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  455. Too bad she's so naive when it comes to the dangers of personality cults. I've lost a little respect for her now. I guess being from Hawaii isolated her from such things. Though it is strange that she's apparently never studied how the Nazi personality cult around Hitler were able to corrupt Germany by convincing the majority of the otherwise well-meaning population that what they were doing was right...
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  456. @owebeejaun  Pretty much, yep. Debates are nothing but childish charisma checks. Everyone already knows where the opponents stand on the issues and whatever "plans" they claim to have to achieve them will ultimately be unrealistic yet will still end up being content fodder for the news media, late night talk shows, and social media. All of which will be used as ammo in break room arguments. Which will also be pointless because those arguing will be the ones who knew who they were voting for long before the debate. The rest will simply hit the restroom, or hop outside to smoke/vape and make fun of the fools in the argument.
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  457. If Trump loses a second time, things will eventually get back to normal. The GOP will have to give up on the MAGA chaos after that and the real Republicans can wrest back control.
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  458. Kennedy would know... when he's mugging for the camera in committee hearings, etc., he can give anyone in DC a run for their money when it comes to being insulting, and a look at how little he has done for his constituents versus the income he has leveraged for himself through his position places him near the top of the cheapskate list as well.
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  459. To put on such a staged and entirely unnecessary farce for political brownie points knowing full well the backgrounds of some of the witnesses present, is simply sick. The "man" owes many apologies. Meanwhile, his state continues to wallow in the gutter while he lives high on the hog...
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  460. DOGE is the epitome of the road to 🔥👹🔥 being paved with good intentions...
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  461. It will likely be upheld. School boards and local governments in all states have generally been the ones to issue precautions when it comes to school systems dealing with infectious disease outbreaks. It simply makes more sense that way since outbreaks can be worse in some areas than others making the one size fits all approach of handling such things at the state level very inefficient at the very least. Edit: For example, my county along with a few others had two nasty flu epidemics hit the region in the early/mid 90's with both leading to two week shutdowns of our public schools in the heavily affected counties implemented by the school boards/local governments. The same flu didn't hit other areas anywhere near a bad so shutting all schools in the state down would have been silly as would forcing those that closed to remain open via a broad state law since they only accounted for a handful of the state's total counties.
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  462. They're evidence is overwhelming...
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  463.  @Rich-yj4ub  The world population growth rate was less than 1.1% prior to covid 19. It's not necessarilly that big of a deal but if able to catch it multiple times year to year due to new variants, the combined mortality rates could tip that to the negative. Also, covid 19 leaves behind scar tissue in the lungs of at least ~1/3 of it's cases. Decreased lung function makes other systems work harder which can cause minor medical conditions to become moderate conditions etc. In the long run, (again if it can be caught multiple times yearly) the added strain on world healthcare systems could cause them to collapse. Economies would likely suffer as well due to lost man hours due to health issues etc. Not trying to be a doomsayer but all politics aside, an extremely infectious disease like this can do more damage over time than one might think. Especially if it's number of variants is allowed to grow quickly early on.
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  464. None to be had in a civil suit.
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  465. Falling for the "they got away with it, why can't I?" excuse as an adult, when it wouldn't fly if your kids used it, isn't exactly something to be proud of...especially since Trump's behavior wasn't really a true analog to what the Dems do. Well, the right will have plenty of time to realize their mistake while the Dems control things for at least the next 12 to 16 years. It'll take about that long to repair the split between the immature side and the mature side of the Republican party. Assuming it survives long enough to be repaired...it may already be too far gone.
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  466. Can they outright "win"? Probably not without actual boots on the ground from other countries. Can they hold out long enough to make it no longer worth the effort from Russia? Yes. Regardless, we're pot committed at this point and can't afford to allow Putin to bluff his way into another "victory" like he did in Crimea. He needs to be put in his place now before he can get enough of his nuclear arsenal functional to take seriously, or it's going to cause major problens for us down the line.
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  467. Nah. It went his way because technically the US Constitution only says that an insurrectionist isn't eligible to be President. It doesn't directly state that one can't run for President. Essentially, the ineligibility occurs at the federal level not the state so if a state's election laws allow for someone to be on the ballot/a legitimate "write in," and they won, their eligibility wouldn't be checked until the electoral votes are being counted to determine the President elect. Thus, the issue wouldn't be a matter for the courts to decide until Congress invalidated a state's votes claiming ineligibility of the candidate under the 14th amendment. That's when the courts would have to interpret the law concerning what constitutes being an insurrectionist in a legal sense (do they need to have been convicted of it etc. Edit: The President's room and board as well as other expenses (including salary even if they refuse to accept it) are paid for via tax dollars. Thus, the President is an employee of the people. The original motivation for the law was to prevent ex-Confederates from holding public office again. In that context, an intent of allowing one to hold the highest office possible while blocking them from any other makes no sense.
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  468. Rand's state is one of the biggest offenders when it comes to misuse of federal funding...and yet he didn't mention any of that grift in his presentation...
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  469. There's nothing his sycophants in Congress can do about it (other than make themselves look even more pathetic than they already do perhaps). He broke the law and was found guilty by a jury of his peers (and this is just the beginning). Congress has no business getting involved in any of it. His toadies are finally starting to realize that they went all in on a losing hand and are now panicking at the thought of it all crashing down around them. That's what happens when you value charisma more than integrity... it's a shame they have to learn that the hard way.
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  470. ​@lqdfuzion2914 Nah, his childish refusal to ever accept responsibility for his actions along with his petulant tantrums have pretty much lost him the centrist and moderate votes he'll need if he wants any chance of winning. Also, his flop of a rally in the South Bronx clearly showed that he can't count on enough Hispanic and Black votes to bail him out. His campaign is doomed. Though he'll be more than happy to pocket the money his supporters insist on throwing at him... and he'll be laughing at them all the way to the bank.
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  471. Why? Everyone is already aware of where the candidates stand on the issues. Debates are only useful to candidates whose only strength is their charisma.
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  472.  @onedayatatime007  Breaking a House procedural rule is not a crime.
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  473.  @kimberlygarrett1485  The only thing they've violated is a House procedural rule. Even that's a little questionable since walkouts aren't directly prohibited by such rules. The rules merely give the authority to compel their attendance.
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  474. Censuring someone for doing their job... Childish behavior like this is a great way to lose votes from moderates, centrists, and independants. The demographics which decided the 2020 Presidential election and will do the same in 2024...
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  475. That's nice.
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  476. The look in BiBi's face. He got ninja looted...
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  477. ​ @scottheath9460 Because no one cares about Lt. Governors enough to look into their background much... Skeletons like this don't pop up until you run for a nationally visible office. Then people put some time and effort into digging.
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  478. ​ @thebridesons5516 His entire upper campaign staff left and he has refused help from tech people who support him...
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  479.  @scottheath9460  You're view of her maybe. I've never seen her present herself that way. Trump on the other hand does go out of his way and even off topic sometimes to puff himself up.
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  480. @Furryfeather  unless he can play it to his advantage...selling golden bibles as a fundraiser for example.
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  481. One need only analyze the IDF's battle plan for this war to realize that destroying Hamas and rescuing the hostages are not their primary concern. This is a thinly veiled attempt at a land grab via genocide/ethnic cleansing. Nothing more.
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  482. ​ @Bottomfeederonfire Have any of those posts been web archived years ago?
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  483. Well, the Republican party is far more pro-Israel than the Democrats...
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  484. The documents found might be copies with the originals already having been accounted for by the archivist. Especially those held by the two former VPs.
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  485. The military should (and already does) require vaccinations against infectious diseases seen to be a threat to their overall effectiveness. In this case, being vaccinated for covid is by far the best course of action statistically. Refusal is a wholly selfish act which puts more than just the individual at risk and selfish soldiers tend to be unreliable soldiers. Also, given the statistics, the decision not to get vaccinated shows a significant lack in judgement and thus could lead to increased unreliability and poor decision making which could in turn put the individual and those around them at even greater risk. For the sake of order, discipline, and cohesion, those in the military who refuse to get vaccinated should receive medical discharges and let that be the end of it.
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  486. A first year law student would know that this case and all of the others are completely legit. Those who have graduated and passed the bar would also know never to represent Trump as he has a tendency to sabotage his own defense with his big mouth and a habit of not paying his legal counsel.
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  487. ​ @gaiagoddess8009 That has yet to be officially determined and since there's a federal statute addressing rebellion/insurrection common sense would lean toward needing a conviction of such to be disqualified. It's a moot point anyway since the 14th amendment says nothing about being on a ballot to begin with. One simply cannot hold office or be the elector to office (essentially be declared President Elect by Congress.) no powers over being on a ballot exist within the amendment.
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  488.  @DonaldKDever  He can't deport these people. It's out of his or any President's hands and he knows it. This is just more bs for uneducated votes.
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  489. Won't save Giuliani.
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  490.  @Bullrider33Outdoors  President's can't pardon civil suits...
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  491. Once the GOP regains it's sanity and quits playing childish games, yes.
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  492. Lesson three, don't fill out the site profile with accurate information and use a burner email account at least. And lesson four, just don't make an actual account on a pron site to begin with.
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  493. Can't pardon a civil suit.
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  494. Political scientist = arm-chair quarterback.
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  495. ​@HikingWithCooper It was a federal crime for him to withhold aid from Ukraine without informing Congress but they let him get away with that too. His supporters don't care about the law.
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  496. Did it to himself.
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  497. There will be no suit prior to the election and he'll drop any pretense at one soon after...unless he wants to end up paying CNN's legal fees along with his own.
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  498. Reagan was the first to start "borrowing" from the Social Security general fund. As for the inflation, that was unavoidable thanks to covid 19. Even if Trump had won in 2020, that was an inevitability. When it comes to solar power, we've known since the 70's that we were going to have to ween ourselves off of dinosaur juice eventually and just kept putting it off for the next generation to deal with. Ultimately the answer to your overall question is that we did it to ourselves. As an aside, it's going to cost us more to keep immigrants out than it will to let them in. If we really want to fix the problem, we should just institute a work for citizenship program and use it to start repairing and replacing our crumbling infrastructure. We've got plenty of room for more people and the money we spend trying to catch them and throw them back only to have them return is just money wasted.
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  499. ​ @lindaschipansky4429 Because they aren't weak appeasers like some who make bad deals that come back to haunt us later.
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  500.  @shawnm3941  Someone who liked the company of a man who had been separated from his wife for over a decade at the time. Both of whom were seeing other people during that time. Big whoop...
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  501. The majority of the world would simply see their leader choose a side and unleash the country's law enforcement/military on those supporting the other.
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  502. You don't elect the person who put the tacks on the road in the first place, that's for sure. Trump never intended to win in 2020. He knew the messes he made would be a nightmare with no good fixes and intentionally threw the election to leave it to someone else. His plan was to spread lies about a stolen election for sympathy votes in 2024. All he cares about is going down in history as a two term President. If re-elected, he has no plans. He'll do nothing but blame the left for everything and then ride off into the sunset without caring one bit for anyone other than himself.
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  503. ​ @markc1456 <----And there's the fascist...
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  504. He had to come here. Canada doesn't allow convicted felons to enter the country. Trump literally can't go to Canada.
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  505. ​ @bobmiller7103 I you do your research, Mexico has been breaking up those large caravans for awhile now. They made an agreement with the US to do so earlier this year. Trump, as usual, was just trying to take credit for other people's work...and looking for an excuse not to go through with his stupid tariff bluff.
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  506. If it's forced, yes.
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  507. Walkouts aren't illegal.
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  508.  @jimmyg645  That's not really relevant when it comes to the legality of the walkout but to answer the question, no. Their $221 per diem pay should be docked until they return.
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  509.  @jimmyg645  I agreed that their pay should be docked until they return. That said however, an argument can be made that they are doing the job their constituents hired them to by preventing this bill (which the majority of their constituents are against) from coming to a vote. Walkouts serve a similar purpose at the state level that the filibuster does at the federal level. They're both used by the minority party to block a vote. Even Abraham Lincoln participated in one early in his political career. It's not exactly an illegitimate tactic.
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  510. Not if he keeps pulling childish stunts like this.
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  511. It matters. Of all people, I never thought Dick Cheney would ever endorse a Democratic candidate. It tells me Trump has Trump has alienated even more than just the moderates and centrists of what used to be the Republican party.
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  512. ​ @GH-cd6oq and even Trump's too far right for him...
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  513. What would you do as President of a country split ~50\50 on which side to support?
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  514. And he should be. As should all moderate and centrist Republicans. Trump's persecution and purging of that demographic of his own party shows that he has no place in his vision of America for the center or the left. It's far right or you're a second class citizen.
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  515. Those being attacked deserve every bit of it and more. It takes a sick. twisted mind to think that it's acceptable to deny a woman her right to the 13th amendment's protection from involuntary servitude. Active anti-choice people are nothing but holier than thou virtue signaling scum. The decent folk of this country have never tried to force your ilk to have abortions and have grudgingly put up with your inane religious babble against the practice. What have we received in return? You murder doctors and nurses for doing their jobs. You use your lobbying groups to buy/corrupt our government and thus the highest court in the land, and then you cry foul whenever you get called on your bullsh*t. You anti-choice people are the ones that wanted a war, not the pro-choice. Well now you're going to get what you wanted and you're just going to have to deal with it.
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  516.  @MarkDillard-t7f  That's rich coming from a paid bot sitting on their butt somewhere doing a meaningless job...
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  517. A whole fleet of them.
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  518. It's also comical that they are legal immigrants protected from being snatched up by the law of the land. He's pandering for votes with lies here and you fell for it.
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  519. Only if you want the Dems to win again.
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  520. If the taking of personal rights would end there maybe not. It won't. Unless nipped in the bud now, the right will continue to try and turn this country into a pseudo theocracy. The exact thing it was created not to be. It's an existential issue for the country and thus very important. Followed by the housing crisis and corporate price gouging of necessities. Issues the Republican party won't even acknowledge exist and simply laugh at any who do while calling them communists.
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  521. Biden's been visible and doing his job. The news just has their cameras pointed elsewhere. Besides, there's nothing he can do about this. He'd have to pull SS off of their current duties and/or get additional funds from Congress. Neither of those need to happen. If the former President wants to ignore his current detail's warnings and do unnecessarily dangerous things, he can provide his own supplemental security with campaign or personal funds.
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  522. ​ @NakedSageAstrology Nope. Congress would have to provide additional funding for such protection for Trump. It's not absorbable under the current SS budget.
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  523. How much do you get paid per propaganda comment?
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  524. So Trumpublicans account for 13.25% to 20.6% of Americans...meh.
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  525. You're wasting your time. The people happy about this outcome are "adults" who will accept an excuse from their former President that they wouldn't accept from a child. "They got away with it, why can't I?" They'll have plenty of time to think about what they've done though. The right will be politicaly irrelevant for at least a decade now thanks to the split they caused. Assuming it survives at all.
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  526. Texas might be better off putting them to work helping to fix their pathetic power grid...
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  527. There won't be time before the election for a legal team to build a suit and he'll drop the matter shortly afterwards. This is just a ploy to appear "innocent" up until the election to all those who still refuse to actually look at the evidence.
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  528. Was. No hospital will have him since he started selling snake oil.
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  529. ​@stephaniekerr You do know that from 2000 up until the Hamas attack, the IDF killed close to 1,000 Palestinian civilians per year on average in Gaza. Throw in those killed in the West Bank over that period and that yearly average surpasses the number of civilians killed/taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7th...when it comes to murdering women and children, Israel makes Hamas look like amateurs.
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  530. Trump set the table for most of the problems faced over the past four years with shortsightedness and inaction during his easy four years in office and has yet to say how he plans to fix things if elected this time around. Until he comes up with something feasible to offer, he should not be considered Presidential material. Any jack @ss with extreme charisma can run an attack campaign. Beyond middle school student council elections however, such campaigns should never be enough to win the majority of votes.
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  531. Probably because he pulled a Kennedy and overruled them on their safety protocol. Which he's had a habit of doing ever since he was in office.
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  532.  @lady2550  There was no way for any of them (especially Trump) to know that the situation was safe. Only an idiot would do what he did, and anyone who would respect an idiot for being and idiot...well...
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  533. Walkouts aren't illegal.
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  534. @Blurb777  I'd agree with you were the deck not intentionally stacked against such legal entry based entirely on political whim toward various nationalities and the process not unnecessarily far more time consuming than in the past solely for the purpose of hoping they'll either be dead before it's complete or they'll just give up rather than wait seven to ten years. The current system just plays games with people's lives for no good reason. Also, many of those Trump claims are here illegally are asylum seekers and as such did come here legally and are in the country legally. If he has a problem with the time it takes to process their requests to determine if they stay or go, then he can complain to a mirror because it was his own policies that led to an astronomical spike in the immigration court backlog slowing things down. By international agreement, asylum seekers are to be kept on the "safe" side of the border until their request is processed.
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  535. He's alive in spite of his decision to go against his detail's warning that the course he chose for his unscheduled game was not secure. It would take a small army to secure a golf course on short notice. If he wants that, he can pay for it. Especially if he's going to ignore his taxpayer provided security.
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  536. How about long time red senators and representatives cut down on the deficit between the money spent on their states and the money collected from their states? They perpetually keep their people in poverty by not encouraging economic growth and just using the taxpayers of other states to subsidize them.
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  537. The National Guard approach would be a far more effective use of the money being wasted on building this wall (and maintaining it in the future.) People have been easily climbing over/tunneling under the completed parts since they were built. These Senators know it's a waste of money compared to it's effectiveness and are just playing the situation for votes.
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  538. Nah, this is just a ploy. There isn't time for a legal team to prepare a suit prior to the election and afterward, it won't matter either way. However far it gets before then, he'll drop it shortly after.
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  539.  @Magravated  The deadlines would never survive SCOTUS. Edit: They would put unnecessary hardships on areas with high population density which would lead to rushed, inaccurate counts. Since said areas also happen to be the bluest parts of your state, there would be a very strong case for party based voter suppression.
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  540. Doing his job.
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  541. What were they thinking? Milei? Really? I guess it's true. Musk really is an idiot with a chainsaw... and like Milei all that will be left behind is worthless sawdust.
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  542. Both she and RFK will be discarded as soon as convenient to Trump. If he somehow pulls off a win. They'll be on the "transition" team and then gone. More likely, he loses and partially blames them for not bringing him the votes he paid them to.
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  543. Trump has no clue how to fix the economy...He could definitely make it worse though. You have to remember that he's a con artist, not a businessman. He knows how to play some loopholes in the tax code and make himself money at the expense of others. He does not know how to make himself and others successful at the same time.
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  544. Because all he's done since working for Trump is lie and scheme you mean.
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  545. He's not the same person he once was. All he does is lie and scheme since working for Trump. Trump seems to have that effect on people.
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  546. No legal license...
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  547. Straight to hell
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  548. Because she was a dumb*ss and tried to enter the hallway through the hole in the glass despite multiple warnings that anyone doing so would be shot. That hallway was one of the planned potential evacuation routes for Congress members, the Vice President, etc. and those defending it were the rear guard of one such evacuation. Their job was to prevent any of the insurrectionists from entering and that's what they did.
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  549.  @snoopreport672  If nothing else, an angry mob doesn't need to be armed to be a threat worthy of lethal force. If you let any of them through simply because they don't have a visible weapon, you have to let them all through. Which would negate the whole purpose of having secure evacuation routes in the first place. They gave her more leeway to save herself than they were really required to in that situation with their multiple warnings. Ultimately, she let mob mentality overpower her ability to reason and it cost her her life. It's sad, but that's the risk you take when you allow yourself to become part of an angry mob. If you truly believe your argument and aren't just trolling, there are still plenty of countries in this world that are lawless and chaotic enough to make falling to mob rule a legitimate possibility (and in some cases, an inevitability.) Perhaps you should consider relocating to one of them.
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  550. Take it off around me and you'll be eating it.
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  551. Then he should just come clean and apologize...The evidence CNN compiled is overwhelming.
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  552. Because the ruling shouldn't even apply to those it does...The six SCOTUS Justices ruled based on personal/political opinion rather than Constitutional law. They know it too. That's why five out of six of them didn't want their names attached to the majority opinion...it's arguments would be complete garbage even if their ruling were actually Constitutional (which it's not.)
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  553. ​ @garyjackson3531 That comment won't age well.
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  554. One more thing he apparently failed to do...going by the utter lack of a red wave. It appears as though the Dems will hold the Senate and House.
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  555. He'll likely point out that he tried to pressure Israel into negotiating by blocking an arms shipment but was forced to release it by Republicans in Congress...If he feels like revealing an uncomfortable truth.
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  556. Kentucky is literally one of the states which receive far more federal money than they pay in federal taxes. I wonder if the little hypocritical hobbit would be willing to account for what all of those funds are being spent on?
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  557.  @Jobfilm1  Yes, but what classifies as murder is subjective. The majority of the population do not consider abortion to be murder.
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  558.  @Jobfilm1  The definition of human is subjective. Personally, mine requires at least development to the point of higher brain function capability/sentience. That doesn't occur for quite awhile with a fetus. Prior to that, it's a mindless machine under construction that can't survive on it's own. That's not a human, it's a fetus.
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  559. Keep them blinders on...
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  560. We have no official language. Get over it.
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  561. They work for their constituents. Since the majority of said constituents are against this legislation, an argument could be made that they are doing their jobs by walking out to prevent a vote on it.
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  562. Given the data, it's the best course of action when it comes to the military (who already had ~17 mandated vaccines before covid 19 even came along.) Infectious diseases can greatly affect the military as a whole when it comes to effectiveness. Refusal to get vaccinated (along with taking other precautions as well if required) against one that is deemed a threat to military effectiveness is a completely selfish act that puts more than just the individual at risk and selfish soldiers tend to be unreliable soldiers. Also, given the statistics, refusal shows a significant lack of judgement which can lead to further unreliability and increased risk. Those who refuse it for reasons other than a legitimate medical exemption perhaps, should be medically discharged and let that be the end of it. (Those with medical exemptions should probably be assigned desk/non combat related jobs when feasible.)
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  563.  @lindaparker1043  Going by Texas covid data from January to October of last year, the vaccinated were ~10 to ~30 times (depending on the variant) less likely to catch it than the unvaccinated (with similar ratios for deaths/hospitalizations.) Fewer people catching it means fewer people spreading it...
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  564. The business owner should add "Catholic weddings" to their not going to do it list as well.
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  565. It's just frustration with the lack of anyone he can throw under a bus along with his inability to buy his way out of trouble like he has for pretty much his entire life.
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  566. Prove it. It's called plausible deniability and we'd get the same from them in a similar situation.
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  567. ​ @mitchellcrane9809 Only because he had it easy. Whoever won in 2020 was in for a nightmare due to Trump's inept handling of things and often just plain inaction. That's why he threw the 2020 election and concocted his nonsense about a stolen election. He planned on skipping the hard part then coming back in 2024 with no real intentions of actually fixing anything. If elected, he'll spend all four years blaming his opponents for his failures, finish his goal to sabotage NATO and the US Military, and then ride off into the sunset giving no effs about this country. His only true objective is to go down in history as a two term Preaident for his ego.
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  568.  @andrewknudson7712  She's recently laid some of her economic policy plans out... which is what prompted Trump to start throwing around the Communist attacks here. That's more than Trump has laid out. He just continues whispering sweet nothings. That won't win him an election as independents, moderates, and centrists want to hear plans, not vague promises.
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  569. MAGA standards are woefully low... It reflects on his boss's judge of character and lack of a vetting process when picking people to back. Both of those are important factors to being President. Passing the buck to the NC voters only is a pathetic dodge.
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  570. In this case you should tell them to actually read the laws...The stuff being passed by Republican led state legislatures is extremely biased against the urban population (the bluest vote in pretty much all states.) While there are parts of this federal act that don't need to be there, to refuse to address the issue at all at the federal level is childish on the part of the GOP.
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  571. The bots are strong in this comment section...
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  572. Way to pass the buck for his boss's poor judge of character and lack of a vetting process before endorsing someone. Spoken like a true old school politician.
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  573. And he keeps pushing them away...it's almost as if no one wants to win this election...
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  574. It was a waste of time and will continue to be so for any other attempts like this at the state level. The US Constitution prevents someone who participated in an insurrection/rebellion from holding office. It says nothing about their running for it. As long as a candidate meets the requirements of a state's constitution when it comes to being placed on the ballot, that candidate can be on the ballot. Were a state to end up electing a candidate who is not eligible to hold office under Federal law, they would likely be forced to enact the procedures under their state constitution concerning results which constitute an undecided election or risk essentially having their electoral college votes invalidated.
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  575. It would be pretty pointless to read it before they start hammering out the specifics through debate. They have rough outlines available on how much funding is going to various aspects of infrastructure. Once debate gets going, we'll get a better picture.
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  576. ​ @SkeletonQuay5 This isn't the 1980s... Miami is a joke and has been for quite awhile.
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  577. Yep, and it in no way protects a candidate who has his party force a state's election officials to take a backroom phone call in which said candidate directly asks said officials to "find" him enough votes to change the outcome. That's illegal in every state in the Union. Criminal conspiracy is not and never has been protected speech.
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  578. It is for covid relief. It's just more than the band-aids the previous bills have been. The majority of the cost is targeted at long term recovery and reopening. In the long run, it's going to take more than just cash payments to fix this mess. The so called pork makes up like 0.05% of the bills total cost yet people bitch about it like it's the end of the world...The GOP are just being spiteful with the false information they've been spreading about this bill. They're overdue for a diaper change.
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  579. Biden can't do anything like what they're asking without additional funding, and executive orders can't create funding. Johnson can try to get Congress to pay for it with our money if he wants...good luck with that.
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  580. Every press secretary ever.
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  581.  @tanyaracco9668  No, it's not...
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  582.  @silentmajority8365  The amount of guards necessary would be immense (all the tech can do is say "Hi we see you, welcome to the country") and that doesn't even cover those that come by sea in containers etc. Our borders are too massive and would take the whole US Military to lock down and probably then some at a time when the military can't even meet it's quotas. Also, under international agreement, asylum seekers have to be accepted. Something Trump's "remain in Mexico" policy violated and only got a pass because of covid. It's not as easy as you would think. Especially the funding. A President could issue all the executive orders they want but they can't approve additional funding for them. They have to work within the existing budget for the relevant agency(s) and the money isn't there for a proper lock down. Nowhere near.
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  583. Israel's nukes. We've had a quiet agreement with them for decades where they won't include the use of their nuclear arsenal in their military doctrine as long as we continue to support them.
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  584. I expect him to grow a pair and negotiate on Ukraine's side. Not from a submissive position.
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  585.  @lisamaloof5772  Because they have officially requested asylum and meet the standards as laid out by our immigration laws and international agreements. Two things Trump cares nothing for. Also, at least the Haitians are helping rebuild Springfields dead economy after they lost ~30,000 people well before any immigrants started showing up.
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  586.  @ErikDayne  The cost might not be a complete waste. The sheer lunacy of it's handling is somewhat entertaining... in a train wreck sort of way.
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  587. He has refused help from tech people who support him. Tells me all I need to know.
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  588. He also enabled terrorists by destabilizing NATO and throwing our rapid response hub for Europe and the Middle East in Germany into chaos. The man's a menace.
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  589. They are. For the long run. Not just quick fixes that only end up causing more problems later. This is the modern world not the early 1900's. Isolationism doesn't work.
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  590. He's definitely a good politician. He continues to line his pockets with money while his state remains one of the poorest in the country. If it weren't for the blue states bailing them out with their federal tax money, even more of his state would look like a third world country than it already does.
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  591. Nice strategy to try and appear innocent to those who refuse to actually look at the evidence. Any suit will not get anywhere before the election so he'll be free to drop it afterward to avoid having to pay CNN's legal fees...
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  592.  @kseke25  Replace the 30,000+ Americans who left the city long before the migrants ever came. Currently the economy is thriving and expanding with the increased workforce and consumer base. Something the city needed. Just like any city that experiences a population boom, schools, hospitals, etc. get overwhelmed for awhile (happened in my area years ago when we ended up quadrupling in population in ~12 years with a lot coming early on). Eventually, the economic upturn gets leveraged into school and hospital expansion etc. and the problem works itself out. It's called growing pains. It doesn't matter what the color of their skin or origin is. Assimilation takes place over time if allowed to without hysteria, bigotry, etc. Things don't happen overnight.
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  593.  @henrybroadnax6430  They came here legally under asylum claims that must be processed to determine their long term status. Until that occurs, they're legal. Learn the laws of your land and the international agreements we've signed.
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  594.  @henrybroadnax6430  You said they came here illegally... The vast majority of Haitian immigrants in Springfield went through the asylum requesting process the proper way and thus came here legally.
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  595. Monopolism and collusion at the corporate level is making a comeback and the Conservatives historically label any attempt to fight it as Communism/far left socialism.
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  596. A security clearance generally isn't needed to view the cover sheet of a classified document (which is all anyone other than those with the proper clearance have seen...except any Trump may have shown that is.)
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  597. The wall doesn't work. People have been climbing over/tunneling under the completed parts since they were built. This is just grandstanding for votes on the part of these Senstors (wouldn't be surprising if they were somehow tied to it's completion financially as well.)
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  598. I can respect his military service...this is just pathetic though. I've seen footage of far more people simply climbing over that stupid wall...
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  599.  Matt 88  The overall goal of the laws is to make managing elections in highly populated urban areas (usually the "bluest" areas of a state) nearly impossible by stacking all sorts of little restrictions and deadlines on them which can't be met while not increasing the hardships on the rural areas (usually the "redest" areas in a state) in any significant way. The focus on race, ID, etc. is just classic Dem stupidity and shameless manipulation of minority voters. If they would have focused on the real problems, they likely could have gotten more people on their side...
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  600. ​ @kennethoneal9938 Yeah, it pretty much is.
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  601. The problem is that the schizophrenic methodology being used by those cyberninja clowns negate the legitimacy of the audit. The only thing they're accomplishing is the further embarrassment of our country.
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  602. It wouldn't need to be mandated if there weren't so many adult age children out there refusing to take basic common sense precautions against a highly contagious, rapidly mutating respiratory virus simply out of political spite...act like children, get treated like children.
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  603. Article 1 section 4 says it's up to government (Congress specifically.)
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  604.  @rhiannonbittle1454  Hosea 13:16... At least modern abortions are performed more humanely and don't include the post birth variety like those commanded by your god...
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  605. President's can only pardon federal criminal convictions. This is civil. Giuliani is SOL...and still waiting on the $2M Trump never paid him for his legal services.
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  606. Because doing so means accepting that a sizable portion of the population would rather childishly refuse to take basic precautions against an extrememly contagious rapidly mutating respiratory virus out of political spite than grow up and return to reality...
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  607. Maybe, just maybe, Trump should have listened to his security detail's warnings not to play at such a poorly secured course on short notice without giving them time to secure it. All the protection in the world can't do much if you refuse to listen to them. Also, the detail allotted to former Presidents is not large enough to protect someone like him. Perhaps he should consider hiring his own supplemental protection with campaign or personal funds.
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  608. Countries whose militaries are actually competent.
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  609. 20 years ago none of the states had millions of mail in ballots to count on top of the in person vote. Also, the states that took so long all had election laws that prevented them from counting their mail ins until election day (some couldn't even sort them in preparation for counting until then.) As a result, the count at the end of election night was heavily skewed in Trump's favor as on average, around 75% to 80% of his total votes came from the in person vote while only around 60% of Biden's did.
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  610. Nothing says compassion like the forced sterilization of minors.
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  611. The BRICS countries all have their internet bot armies pumping out pro-Trump spam. That should tell you who the dedollarization candidate is. He's been friendly with almost every single one of their dictators and they all love him.
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  612. ​ @charlesljones2454 Yep. Trump's counsel should consider themselves lucky if they make through this bs without being disbarred for making nonsense arguments like this. Judges don't tend to be very fond of attorney's who knowingly waste the court's time with arguments a first year law student would know are bogus.
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  613. ​ @scotthooper4170 Don't be so naive kid. This has never been about defending themselves, freeing hostages, or even directly destroying Hamas. This was always meant to be a land grab via ethnic cleansing. Nothing more. One need only analyze the IDF's battle plan to see that Israel's stated goals do not fit with the methods being used to supposedly obtain them. A prime example being their unnecessary (ab)use of 2,000 lb. bombs in densely packed residential areas to destroy individual buildings that could easily be dealt with by using much smaller munitions. The only reason for such overkill is if the goal is to cause as much collateral damage and civilian casualties as possible while still maintaining some form of plausible deniability when accused of genocide/ethnic cleansing. As for the human shield argument, there may be some merit (though in urban warfare, civilians will be caught up in it whether intentionally or not.) That said, even if a "human shield" situation were involved, no Hamas member would expect Israel to level up to a ten block radius simply to destroy one building. With the use of appropriate munitions, such a situation would see all in the targeted building dead with maybe a handful more from damage to immediately adjacent buildings. By using a 2,000 lb. bomb instead, you're looking a destruction/casualty rate at least ~50 times greater (possibly as much as ~100 times). That is not an approach you would take if one of your goals was to free hostages as they will likely be held in such areas and thus die from "friendly fire" (which is exactly what has happened to most if not all, of the unaccounted for hostages.) It's also not what one would do if limiting civilian casualties and collateral damage is a goal. Also, consider the IDF's battle strategy for each city. First, they take out the hospitals. Then, they destroy the utilities and housing making the city unlivable and forcing the civilians to flee south. Once that's accomplished, they regroup a bit and then do the same thing with the next city and the next city etc. That is not an efficient way to go about freeing hostages or generating Hamas casualties. All it's good for is herding civilians like cattle in to smaller and smaller areas until their population is extremely dense, they have nowhere left to go, and no resources to sustain themselves. With something like that as a goal, the obvious purpose would be genocide/ethnic cleansing. In fact, it's just a slight variation on how the early stage of the Armenian genocide played out. If continued, the IDF's next phase will simply be to lock them down and let starvation and disease do their dirty work for them. One final thing. From 2000 up until Oct 7 2023, the IDF killed ~25,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. Hamas killed ~1,200 and took ~200 hostages once. Even when you add in the small handfuls of Israelis Hamas killed over that time, you're still looking at at least a 20:1 ratio in favor of Israel when it comes to civilians killed (which has since spiked to ~55:1)...and Hamas are the truly genocidal faction in this?
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  614. Because VPs are to be seen, not heard.
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  615. ​ @a.a.staffing5272 Trump had it easy. He would have failed harder if he had the messes that were dropped into Biden's lap. Trump knew it was coming too (he caused a lot of it due to inaction/stupidity during his term). That's why he intentionally threw the race in 2020 and then started his nonsense "stolen" claims in hopes of rallying support for 2024. He wanted someone else to deal with it so he could ride in on a white horse. Were he to win, he will just ride out the four years for posterity (being in the history books as a two term President is all he cares about) and not give a flip how it ends up. That's why he won't give any legitimate specifics on what he plans to do. He just keeps whispering sweet nothings into his supporters ears.
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  616. They could probably use a little Preparation H about now.
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  617. When in the election process those requirements are applied is a bit of a gray area. An argument could be made that states could include someone on their ballot who isn't eligible at the federal level but does meet the criteria under their state's election laws and that the question of eligibility only comes into play when the US Congress counts the electoral college votes. Edit: Essentially, the US Constitution says that an insurrectionist is ineligible to be President. It doesn't straight up say that they can't run for President.
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  618. ​ @jasonrobbins4227 The US Constitution really only says that an insurrectionist isn't eligible to be President. It doesn't directly address whether or not they can run for President. As the US Constitution gives the power to manage elections to the states (which includes criteria for being included on the ballot or written in), it is theoretically possible that someone ineligible to be President at the federal level could still end up on a state's ballot/be a legitimate "write in" due to their meeting the necessary requirements listed in the state's election laws. Were such a candidate to somehow win, their ineligibility would be addressed when the US Congress counts the electoral college votes to determine the President elect with any votes for an ineligible candidate being challenged and rejected. In this particular situation, were Trump to be included on a state's ballot and win and those electoral college votes rejected by Congress due to claimed ineligibility, said ineligibility would then become a matter for the federal courts to decide.
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  619. @user-dm4yx3iz5f  Yeah, it's a bit crazy but common sense isn't always involved when it comes to the law. Even Constitutional law. In this case if it's decided at the state level, gou run into the possibility that in one case the judge rules one way but a judge in another state where this argument is being made rules the other. If you wait until the EC count, you have one all encompassing case handled with a single ruling. Also, whenever possible, you want the federal government to stay as far out of a state's electiontion laws as possible so that you don't have them dictating who a state's population can and can't choose to represent them.
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  620. Nah, Judge Judy for SCOTUS
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  621. People voted for the Democratic platform, not necessarilly Biden in particular (the position of President was never meant to be that important in the first place.) More Americans consider themselves to be Democrats or lean toward the Democrats than those who consider themselves Republicans or lean toward Republicans. It's been that way for awhile now. The only difference is that those on the left who normally don't bother voting finally decided to do so since it was easier to do so in many places due to the increase in mail in/early voting options. Edit: Trump lost partially due to his inexplicable campaign blunder of actively discouraging mail in voting but mostly because his party is the minority party.
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  622. @chrislast  It is genius, but not for the reasons you think. He has only one term available to him, so he can promise anything he wants and not have to worry about accountability for re-election. On top of that, his refusal to do any more debates means he doesn't have to explain or defend any new enticements he throws out there. He's free and clear to promise the moon with no worries.
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  623.  @salex9482  to poop on maybe. In 50 years, historians will rank him near the bottom of the list. Probably second worst.
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  624.  @bev7439  Also, the locals of the area have not asked for such help, nor do any but a tiny minority want the immigrant population removed (their economy has picked up significantly and is expanding). In fact, many are angry with Trump over it thanks to all the bomb threats to their schools they've been getting since he started this mess.
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  625. It's not unconstitutional (article 1 sec 4 gives Congress the power to make such changes) and anti-american is a bit of an exaggeration but there are a few things that would be better off being left out.
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  626. Trump can't save him. Presidents can only pardon federal criminal convictions. This was civil.
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  627. People have been easily climbing over/tunneling under the completed parts since they were built. Something does need to be done about the border situation but when comparing cost versus effectiveness, the wall (and it's future upkeep) will be a waste of money. These Senators know this and are just playing for extra support from their constituents that don't. It wouldn't be surprising if they also happen to stand to benefit financially from it's completion as well.
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  628. They need to be threatened. They've built themselves a dictatorship where they think they decide how checks and balances work. When they get out of hand, they're supposed to answer to Congress, not themselves.
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  629. Break the law, get a jury trial, get convicted, go to jail. Trump's always ranting about criminals coming here and yet he's already promised to release criminals solely for political purposes.
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  630. They're here legally, he can't do 💩 and he knows it. He's just pandering for votes with lies as usual.
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  631.  @JamesbaconFiyah  "Keep" implies he has a habit of actually doing so. The evidence says otherwise.
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  632. The US accounts for ~34% of the total population of NATO countries yet we pay only ~26% of the general operations funding. There are many metrics to consider when determining whether or not a member country is pulling it's weight. Trump's just using this disingenuous 2% of the GDP for defense agreement because he knows most of his supporters never put much thought into anything and will thus fall for his bs rather than see him for the traitor he is.
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  633. Just doing their job...very thoroughly in this case.
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  634. This is a pathetic manchild grandstanding for votes.
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  635. To be fair, accurate tracking of ballots for the purposes you mention will always be low priority. Unless you want to double or triple the amount of election workers in each state. I've always been a bit amazed that even bother trying at all considering everything else they have to do.
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  636. He has enough as it is. In fact they did an excellent job here given the circumstances. Besides, the President can't do anything about it without pulling SS off their current duties or getting additional funding from Congress to hire more and fund their operations. None of that needs to happen. The former President can use campaign funds or personal funds to hire supplemental security when he wants to do unnecessarily dangerous things.
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  637. When did he need to compromise?
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  638. They all have term limits except for SCOTUS. It's called elections.
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