Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Is Unconstitutional, Says Federal Judge
Plus: Users surge on decentralized social media platform Mastodon, the fall of city drugstores, and more...
A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional President Joe Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt. In a decision issued yesterday, U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman ruled in favor of plaintiffs Myra Brown and Alexander Taylor.
Brown has student loans but is entirely ineligible for Biden's forgiveness program because her loans are privately held. Taylor has loans but is ineligible for the full $20,000 in debt relief. The Job Creators Network Foundation sued on their behalf, arguing that Biden's bailout plan violated the Administrative Procedure Act (which requires a period of public comment) and that the Department of Education lacks the authority to implement the program.
Pittman found that the program did not violate administrative procedure. Instead, he found that the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 ("HEROES Act")—which Biden used to justify his move—does not actually "provide the executive branch clear congressional authorization to create a $400 billion student loan forgiveness program." Bident's student debt relief plan "is thus an unconstitutional exercise of Congress's legislative power and must be vacated."
"In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone," Pittman wrote in his decision. "Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government."
In a statement yesterday, Job Creators Network Foundation President Elaine Parker said Biden's bailout "would have done nothing to address the root cause of unaffordable tuition: greedy and bloated colleges that raise tuition far more than inflation year after year while sitting on $700 billion in endowments. We hope that the court's decision today will lay the groundwork for real solutions to the student loan crisis."
Of course, this battle isn't over yet. The Department of Justice has filed an appeal, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said yesterday.
More than 26 million people have already applied for student loan forgiveness, she said, and the Biden administration will keep their information "so it can quickly process their relief once we prevail in court."
The Job Creators Network Foundation suit is one of several cases challenging the program. These include a lawsuit from six Republican-led states and one from the Cato Institute. "Cato's suit joins at least six others, with plaintiffs making various claims of harm," noted Neal McCluskey, director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom, in a blog post. "The ultimate aim of all the suits, though, is the same: To stop a move that is not only patently unconstitutional, but will inflict many painful costs on society."
"The constitutional issue is straightforward: The Constitution gives the power of the purse to Congress, but in declaring that it would forgive up to $20,000 in loans for households making below $250,000 a year, the Biden administration essentially created about $400 billion in new spending," McCluskey wrote late last month.
We KNEW that the #Biden Administration's #StudentLoanForgiveness program was illegal. We took them to court and the judge agreed –declaring the program illegal and vacating it.
Now, let's work on real solutions to the student loan crisis. https://t.co/xlss5pQRCe— Job Creators Network (@JobCreatorsUSA) November 11, 2022
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The decentralized social platform Mastodon is seeing an influx of new users. As Twitter's troubles continue, people are giving Mastodon a try. "Mastodon reached a million users earlier this week, up from under 400,000 before Musk closed the Twitter deal on Oct. 27," reports NPR. The Mastodon interface is similar to Twitter's, but rather than one centralized system, Mastodon is a federation of independently run servers, some more general and some centered around a region, profession, or interest. Each server—also known as an "instance"—comes with its own content moderation and privacy policies. Users pick a particular instance to join, but they can still follow and interact with people from other instances.
(A few Reason folks are on Mastodon now. You can find me at @enbrown@journa.host, Editor-at-Large Nick Gillespie at @nickgillespie@aus.social, digital marketing specialist Adam B. Sullivan at @adambsullivan@mastodon.social, and web technology director Justin Maurer is justinmaurer@mastodon.social.)
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Why are drugstores like Walgreens and CVS closing so many urban stores? Some tough-on-crime types are blaming shoplifting. But this is far from the whole story, suggests Henry Grabar at Slate. Drugstores in city centers are indeed closing:
Nationally, chain pharmacies declined by 6 percent between 2017 and 2021. Then came post-pandemic closures this year, and CVS' announcement that it would shutter 900 stores over the next three years, reducing "store density in certain locations" in order to respond to "changes in population, consumer buying patterns, and future health needs."
It's the end of an era: Decried by historic preservationists and independent merchants, the big chain drugstore took urban neighborhoods by storm as big-city populations rebounded in the 1990s and 2000s. They weren't just drugstores; they sold everything, seemingly everywhere, at all hours. For people without cars, they were a godsend. They were as convenient as a corner store, and what they lacked in friendly felines they made up for in huge selections and low prices. One such store was the colossal Walgreens that opened in Center City Philadelphia in 2013, offering Starbucks coffee and cut fruit over 26,000 brightly lit square feet. It was pitched as a "flagship for the pharmacy chain's pivot into American urban centers," wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer, and won over skeptics. The store closed in February.
But "contrary to the claims of law-and-order conservatives, big-city chain pharmacies are not closing because of shoplifting," writes Grabar. Shoplifting may be one factor, but much bigger trends are driving shutdowns. These include overzealous expansion in urban centers over the past few decades, pandemic-era changes in where people live and work, and people's growing reliance on online shopping for all sorts of products.
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Al Gore, Google Back Satellite Database To Track ‘Individual Emitters’ Of CO2
https://dailycaller.com/2022/11/10/al-gore-google-back-satellite-database-track-individual-emitters-co2/
Former Vice President Al Gore and Google’s nonprofit arm are funding Climate TRACE, an environmentalist nonprofit coalition that uses a satellite database to track “individual emitters” of greenhouse gases around the world.
Climate TRACE aims to track emissions from energy producers and other large sources of CO2 to fill “critical knowledge gaps” for governments and international bodies that rely on a “patchwork system” to monitor carbon emissions, according to its website. The nonprofit coalition uses satellite imaging, remote sensors and artificial intelligence to track greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation, manufacturing and road traffic. (RELATED: ‘Shady Deals’: UN Enlisted Google To Push Down Opposing Viewpoints On Climate Science)
“This is a way for climate activists, the United Nations and government bureaucrats to dig their claws into every aspect of industrial society by monitoring and penalizing producers,” Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot and former senior staffer on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “They’re demonizing emissions to create a ‘net-zero’ world where human prosperity and economic growth are evil.”…
Kulaks and wreckers must be singled out.
I imagine many billionaires will be conspicuously absent from the list. I also imagine the conspicuously absent will roughly correspond to the Epstein client list.
Epstein didn’t have “clients”. He had friends.
Friends like Donald Trump…
Friends like Bill Clinton. Trump actually kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago, Shrike. However, you wish you were one of Epstein’s “friends” there, pedo.
Yes, friends like Bill Clinton and Donald Trump. Both were friends of Epstein. I wonder what he did for them?
You think Donnie allegedly having a change of heart years later absolves him of whatever disgusting things he did when he was palling around with Epstein? Peedo apologist…
“Did she say anything about me?” Lol.
You think Donnie allegedly having a change of heart years later
The Lolita Express and Pedo Island didn’t exist much before that, but they sure did when Clinton visited them.
Shrike is a shameless liar. Even when he knows he is massively outclassed in terms of both knowledge and intellect.
He and Trump weren’t friends. He knew Trump. So did a lot of people. Epstein’s ‘friends’ were people like Bill Clinton and other prominent democrats, you fucking liar.
Now go kill yourself, before you rape any more children.
But Greenhut just said democrats were about private property, not punishing people.
Wait till they detect what Al Gore is emitting personally.
Pi wonder who emits more bullshit? Gore, or Biden?
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Hopefully it doesn’t track my neighbors after Chili and Bell Pepper night.
Sounds like a bunch of Marxists that need tracking themselves.
“The nonprofit coalition uses satellite imaging, remote sensors and artificial intelligence to track greenhouse gas emissions ”
I don’t need any of that. My golden rule: he who smelt it dealt it.
Climate TRACE aims to track emissions from energy producers and other large sources of CO2 to fill “critical knowledge gaps” for governments and international bodies that rely on a “patchwork system” to monitor carbon emissions, according to its website.
Plenty of room in their “critical knowledge gaps” to store CO2.
Now we know why elections need fortification.
You know who else dug his claws into every aspect of society?
A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt.
After the mid-terms.
In the WaPo comments, they’re all crying like kids who’ve had their candy taken away.
Pretty much the literal truth.
Oooohhh, I should pop over there and slake my thirst on their delicious, delicious tears.
Undeniably. But it is doubtful there was any collusion to do so, considering how scathingly critical the judge’s opinion was toward Biden’s executive overreach.
Collusion or not, it’s no coincidence that the Democrats got an unusually high boost from normally absent younger voters.
I agree that Biden’s motivation (partially, at least) was to pander to younger voters, but are there any actual statistics backing up that it worked?
Yes. Voter turnout in that demo was up.
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Is Unconstitutional
IMPEACH!
“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” Pittman wrote in his decision.
*snortle!*
Blasphemy!!!!
No one should be surprised by the decision. Spending bills have to originate in the House of Representatives. The President can’t legally spend 400 billion dollars just because he wants to.
It’s a good laugh reading the news articles that try to somehow make the case that the rules in the body of the Constitution don’t apply.
Electing a brain damaged stroke victim as a government representative .
Think about who would do such a thing.
How will he be different from his colleagues?
Taller?
A second head growing out of his neck?
He wears those hoodies to hide the bolts in his neck.
Didn’t Mary Shelly write a book about Fetterman (albeit, before he was born)?
Family Guy already did that one……
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/peter-discovers-that-he-has-a-vestigial-twin-growing-out-of-news-photo/461338381?language=es
I, for one, enjoy his long pauses. Gives me time to think about porn.
wouldn’t have thought anyone would find Senator Fester sexy
They make porn about horrific monsters now.
And that’s just the Twilight Saga.
If by monsters, you mean sparkly fairies.
Hey, Dahmer wanted to create a sex zombie so somebody must be into it.
Pres. Biden call Fetterman to offer congratulations:
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-call-to-congratulate-fetterman-lasts-three-hours-as-neither-can-form-a-coherent-sentence
Someone like Jackie, no doubt. Where is she? Is she here?
Did she win her election?
At least Biden and Fetterman are ALIVE. Unlike one PA pol.
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A state lawmaker in Pennsylvania has been reelected to another term in office on Nov. 8 despite already passing away last month.
State Rep. Tony DeLuca, a Democrat, died at age 85 on Oct. 9 due to lymphoma. The timing of his death was too late for election officials to change the ballots.
DeLuca had served as a representative in the Pennsylvania state legislature for 39 years. He received more than 85 percent of the vote in the 32nd District in Allegheny County. This accounted for nearly 14,000 votes on Election Day, and more than 7,000 votes via mail.
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The decentralized social platform Mastodon is seeing an influx of new users.
Milkshake ducking imminent.
I’m glad Mastodon is seeing an upsurge because it’s a good concept. But if they’re decamping there because they’re mad at Twitter for ending political censorship, they’re really going to hate Mastodon.
It is far harder to censor.
Good. Disenfranchised bitter wokies are my favorite culture war casualty. I would say the bitter clingers should open wider, but let’s face it, they’re already sucking a whole lot of cock.
In a shock to nobody, courts told the 2nd in command of the Oath Keeprs being tried for J6 was an FBI CI.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/11/10/bombshell-about-those-fbi-informants-concerning-jan-6-n657255
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_RzmjzP2GoM
I’m just gonna leave this here
It is the FBI manufacturing crimes to go after.
Comparisons to Whitmer kidnapping:
Same oversight agent.
2nd in command being a CI.
Media silence on FBI involvement.
The FBI needs a thorough purging. An enema of the state.
I bet our idea of purging the FBI differs.
Purge nothing. Dismantling is about all one can do at this point.
^ This
Carthago delenda est
I second that. After Ruby Ridge and Waco, Tx and especially after the FBI’s failure to reign in the mobs, aiding and abetting the murder of JFK and who knows what else, it’s best they are simply disbanded for good.
Tear it down, set fire to the rubble, sweep up the ashes, and salt the Earth, put up a sign. Compromise with the option to take your shit, leave, and never come back, or not.
Even if somebody were able to do all of that, I’d only expect them to get halfway through the ‘tear it down’ stage before their family members were charge with obstruction in the investigation of evidence the FBI fabricated.
Just need the right people in charge. Next time it will be different. The FBI has and always will be filled with political hacks. Get rid of it.
Yeah, the old FBI leadership was a real drag!
“A long, cool woman in a black dress…” 🙂
More info bad for Democrat’s narrative released immediately after the election.
“The informant, Greg McWhirter, served as the Oath Keepers’ vice president but was secretly reporting to the F.B.I…
The F.B.I. also had a confidential source in… the Proud Boys in the months leading up to Jan. 6.”
Golly, wonder if Sullum will have a column about these revelations?
The FBI infiltrating criminal conspiracies? Long may it continue.
Then the DNC should be full of FBI informants.
Who says it isn’t?
What criminal conspiracy, Shrike?
Informer…..
The “mob” literally passed right in front of the FBI HQ to get to the Capitol. What I want to ask is what the hell 10,000 FBI agents were doing inside the J Edgar Hoover building while what they claim was an insurrection was occurring 3 blocks away.
Planning the raid on Maralago?
US Quietly Asks Banks to Keep Some Ties With Russia, Even as Congress Balks
Our courts are fine. They shouldn’t be mocked. Alex Jones lawsuit hits 1.5 Billion over words.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/alex-jones-gets-assets-frozen-now-has-to-pay-almost-1-5-billion-to-sandy-hook-families
I remember when people actually had to prove monetary harm.
I look forward to Reason’s condemnation of this attack on speech.
Hahaha I’m just kidding.
Gay frog man bad.
I want to hear from our “left libertarians” about why this is okay, and not an unconstitutional assault on speech.
Jones refused to comply with his court-related obligations, so a default judgment was entered against him and he lost the opportunity to present a defence. Tough luck, eh?
Tough luck…
Speaking of which how the fuck did you luck out on getting back in after you ban, Shrike?
Shrike is a great argument for leaving pedos in gen pop.
Wow, it’s almost like the evidence doesn’t actually support your conspiracy theory…
He couldn’t comply with his court-related “obligations”. Nobody could and that was on purpose. Of course you actually know that.
Now tell us Shrike, why are you gloating about this unconstitutional assault on speech if you’re pretending to be libertarian here?
Defendants in civil litigation are required to follow the same rules of procedure, and for especially egregious violations they can suffer fairly draconian sanctions. Jones had legal representation, so he knew what he was required to do.
Of course, if the trial court really did overstep its authority there is every likelihood that Jones can successfully appeal, and eventually present his defences to the plaintiffs’ allegations of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, etc.
But he’d probably still lose at trial. Which he certainly knows.
Yeah, none of that answers the question about the unconstitutionality of the verdict.
Oh. So the courts are free to trample on his rights then. Great libertarian take shrike.
There are no “libertarian rights” to violate court procedures and avoid the related sanctions which apply to any defendant who does so.
Perhaps if he had been able to present a defence, we would have been able to have a discussion about how defamation affects free speech? Maybe next time.
Jesse don’t say anything about “libertarian rights”. He said “his rights” by which he was referring to his first amendment rights.
The figure was calculated by multiplying the $5,000 maximum penalty under state law by 550 million social media views Jones received in the three years following the shooting.
Because Social Media isn’t an editor, but a distributor. No, wait. I mean they own the content that they monetize unless the content becomes a liability, then the content producer is responsible for the content and platform is only responsible for monetizing the views that are exclusively owned by the platform. No, wait, wait… I got this. I got this. Their proprietary algorithm for flawlessly tailored content delivery is the reason they’re not responsible for any damages, the way my algorithm for “turn right at the end of the street” isn’t responsible for any damages. Regardless of whether it was me executing the algorithm directly, a self-driving car with me in the driver’s seat, someone else in the driver’s seat… the point is, we cant’ find algorithms guilty, much less the people designing and executing them… dammit! I mean systems run by the platforms that maintain the algorithms.
Shoplifting may be one factor, but much bigger trends are driving shutdowns.
SO STOP DEMONIZING SHOPLIFTING, MAGA CRETINS.
there may be some truth to this but why try to say it doesn’t happen when several stores said they were closing due to crime
Because they’re dishonest leftist hacks.
Who should we believe about why these stores are leaving, the people that run the stores, or some guy at Slate? Journalism!
This is just a repeat of what they did with the Boudin recall earlier this year. They found someone to aggregate and abstract a bunch of data that NYT could then turn around and boldly tell San Franciscans that their eyes were lying.
This “Ackshewally” nonsense from people living in New York is ridiculous. And in this case the obfuscation is a multi-step process.
1) Create a strawman: “contrary to the claims of law-and-order conservatives, big-city chain pharmacies are not closing because of shoplifting”. “Law-and-order” types have pointed to specific stores that are closing where corporate executives have referred to general lawlessness creating bad business environments- not just shoplifting. But ENB/Slate have recast this argument to be ALL big city pharmacies across the country, and solely about shoplifting.
2) And now they can just pull general data across the country and torture it to tell people they aren’t experiencing what they are actually experiencing.
And notice the “reasons” she gives for the closures. “Overzealous expansion”; “Pandemic Changes in culture”; “Shift to online shopping.”
In case it isn’t painfully obvious, none of those conditions is exclusive of general lawlessness. “Pandemic Changes” in big cities INCLUDED forcing stores to watch helplessly as people stole and destroyed property with wild abandon. Yes, there was much more, but the general lawlessness was a component of that Pandemic. “Shift to online shopping” also came BECAUSE of general lawlessness. People are going to Walgreens less because they do not want to be involved in massive smash and grabs. Because they do not want to walk down unsafe streets where they might get mugged or step in piles of shit and hypo needles.
Leftists love nothing better than to call it “Overzealousness” when a corporation risks capital and fails. They pretend that these corporations are just slinging around hundreds of millions of dollars, without any consideration of whether or not the ROI will work out. What they call “Overzealousness”, I call unanticipated changes in the economic conditions. And those unanticipated changes include dozens of largely Liberal cities deciding to let their business districts become lawless wastelands.
Truer words…I would love to see Ted Koppel read this from the ABC News Desk
When I’ve visited the place I grew up over the past ten years or so I recall being amazed that so many drugstores could exist so close together.
I won’t miss them.
(But I do miss Fry’s.)
Funny…I was just thinking yesterday about how much duller life is now that Fry’s Electronics shuttered their stores.
Try MicroCenter. It’s Fry’s, but more like a respectable business instead of a jobs program for 30-year-old, listless, nerds who shrinkwrap returned, broken shit and pretend it is new.
I have defaulted back to Central Computer but that description of Fry’s was hilariously accurate; somewhat.
Have you been to the SuperMicroCenter off 101? I always mean to go but I figured it was more like Best Buy
And then there is Weird Stuff, but I am sure they have closed by now
Will I sound like a geezer if I mention the Radio Shack on Grant Road in Mountain View?
“(But I do miss Fry’s.)”
Fry’s became old right around the time I had kids and couldn’t spare the time their inefficiency wasted. You go to theme parks for the rides, not the food. And you go to Fry’s for the wacky architecture, not the electronics.
I built a lot of Wintel machines from the components Fry’s sold. It was the only place to get a decent selection of SCSI drives cheap
So did I. But then, I had time to buy shit, realize it didn’t work drive back to Fry’s, return it, get something else, etc.
The problem was that as the custom PC industry blew up, while Fry’s ability to stock inventory couldn’t keep up. So you go in with a parts list, and they don’t have half of it. At that point the listless nerd would look up shit in their inaccurate, 1990s database and give you a “compatible” part that they DID have in stock. You’d get home with your new stick of memory and install it only to find out that it doesn’t work. Why? Well, you don’t know. Maybe it isn’t compatible. Maybe it was burnt out by some overclocker, returned to Fry’s, shrinkwrapped and put into the database as “Sell to the next sucker who can’t find the RAM he came in for”.
Seriously, that shit actually was fun to me back before I had kids. Not so much when an hour to do shit is precious.
But I helped my son build his first PC for his 13th birthday. All the parts were bought at MicroCenter by knowledgeable, motivated, professional people who had compatibility tools that work.
Maybe it was burnt out by some overclocker, returned to Fry’s, shrinkwrapped and put into the database as “Sell to the next sucker who can’t find the RAM he came in for
I must have purchased a dozen SCSI drives cheap because someone who bought it didn’t realize it needed an Adaptec card and returned it which couldn’t sell at full price.
And to your point, there was no bigger “hold your breath” moment than the initial bootup and POST of a motherboard purchased from Fry’s. Was the board garbage or did I screw the jumpers up?
Good times…..
I’ll have to check them out. My son is 13 and he needs to learn some tech skills. Plus his little hands will fit inside the case much easier.
Remember Black Fridays at Fry’s? That was the only time I ever saw the store manager there working the returns like a short order cook. They had to have just raked it in, hand over fist on those days. People were in line at 1am waiting for them to open.
But I helped my son build his first PC for his 13th birthday.
I did the same thing. The boy really enjoyed it. Then he got a job at Frys while he was in high school which forever destroyed his interest in computer architecture and his faith in humanity.
I remember going to the Sunnyvale Fry’s to buy a CPU for a desktop I was building. I had a question but the employees were, as expected, useless. But, since it was right across the street from AMD, the customer standing next to me was, of course, a CPU engineer who had encyclopedic knowledge.
You’re absolutely right with that. More than a couple times a hardware engineer buying something there provided insight which I didn’t possess at the time and saved time and frustration
Out of curiosity, which theme did you like the most? The Mayan temple on Arques or the Country Western in Palo Alto?
Fremont didn’t have a theme (well….hot Desi fembots notwithstanding) and the one on Hamilton’s theme was shitty parking
The alien invasion in Burbank. The front of the store where you entered looked like a giant 50’s flying saucer had crashed into it. Inside you had little aliens on shelves, rayguns melting army jeeps and other 50’s B-Flick tropes scattered throughout.
I completely forgot that the Fry’s in Fremont had a Tesla Coil and a Jacob’s Ladder so their theme must have been Italian inventors
There was an awesome one in Fountain Valley that was Star Wars kind of themed IIRC.
Fry’s radio ads were hypnotic too…..when I was at GE Nuclear we used to gather around and salivate as they told us what we needed to come and buy
I live very close to the Arques site.
Leftists learned about finance from watching Scrooge McDuck.
And what’s wrong with shoplifters? My girl, she’s one too. When she wants something, man, she don’t want to pay for it. She walks right through the door…
Detransitioner Chloe Cole is about to embark on the first lawsuit against companies pushing medicine and surgeries on minors.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/detransitioner-chloe-cole-announces-intent-to-sue-kaiser-permanente-for-experimental-hormones-and-surgery
The letter finds that Kaiser “coerced” Cole and her parents into medical transition by “falsely informing” them that her gender dysphoria would not resolve on its own, despite considerable evidence that contradicts this claim, which was withheld from Cole and her family.
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“Chloe and her parents were never informed of the high rate of desistance for children diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” the letter stated. “Also, they were never informed of the high probability that Chloe’s gender dysphoria would resolve as an adult without hormone or surgical treatment.”
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Indeed, current evidence indicates that roughly 60–90% of children who identify as transgender but do not socially or medically transition will no longer identify as transgender in adulthood.
Detransitioning is sedition.
more like heresy.
Sure she had a mastectomy as a minor, but she didn’t have her penis cut off. Checkmate bitch.
— Mike Liarson
Damnit. Lost again.
Cdt crtical dolphin theory. They have set up a system where 70% of the planet is water. Dolphins are systemically privileged just by being dolphins
Ment to post in the thread below
“Indeed, current evidence indicates that roughly 60–90% of children who identify as transgender but do not socially or medically transition will no longer identify as transgender in adulthood.”
The problem here is that Trans Activists will insist that this is a bug, not a feature. Those kids who no longer identify as transgender did so because SOMETHING SOMETHING HEIRARCHICAL CIS-NORMATIVE PATRIARCHY SOMETHING forced them to conform. It is the type of conspiracy where the evidence disproving their theories is proof that they are right.
As jeff would say they are groomed to be heterosexual or cisgender. An argument he has actually used.
You didn’t just crush their transgendered soul, you *allowed* it to be crushed under the weight of an oppressive cis-gendered society.
What infraction will be manufactured to legitimize the scarlet letter he will have to wear.
Not to mention the Ass Eating crowd will pillory him until whatever mental ague that caused him to transition in the first place is dwarfed
Biologists Have Translated The Dolphin Language, And They Say It’s Filled With Slur Words For Humans
https://dashmacintyre.medium.com/biologists-have-translated-the-dolphin-language-and-they-say-its-filled-with-slur-words-for-9eb3c4ddb6a4
How many humans were eaten by dolphins? That’s what I thought, you fucking trawlbait.
Yet they still can’t define woman
When a guy dolphin takes you for a swim, he doesn’t care.
Biologists Have
Translatedmade up The Dolphin LanguageThey used fetterman and biden as their Rosetta atone.
Lol
After 2000 hours of Flipper on Nick at Nite, and you start to pick shit up.
Reading through the names, it actually makes a lot of sense…except for the one about “uses both brain hemispheres”. That one is bizarre.
I am not saying they DIDN’T make it all up- in fact the site looks like a parody. But when I read things like “External Testiculars” you can see how that could be derived from a study of their language. You can observe dolphins discussing sex and the idea of “Outside” and see how they consistently refer to humans using those same words.
What is interesting is other than the “Plastic Pooping” their derogatory references to humans are generally speciest bigotry (“Those guys get burned by the sun all the time! Losers!”)
How many times did they mention their leader, Dan Marino?
They think Don Knotts is still alive. He’s their acclaimed leader. (Don’t tell them, they’d flip out.)
In a stunning scientific and biological breakthrough, marine biologists based in Miami have finished translating a Gulf dialect of the language dolphins use to communicate with each other.
How hard could it have been to drop all the ending consonants, soften all the leading Ds, Ts, harden all the leading Js, and Ys, change the Xs to Ss, and roll all the Rs?
The old SpongeBob episode where all of the swear words are censored by dolphin speak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0ehBeCu0c
That was pretty classic and art imitating life
Actually, the dolphin swears only refer to MAGA humans.
I know those dolphins I kayaked with were talking shit about me!
Bitch is a dolphin love word.
If you think dolphins are bad, you should hear what your cat actually thinks about you.
Mostly, “If I was bigger I would kill and eat the bitch.”
Not a recession. Corporate America is just about to start massive layoffs.
https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/biden-celebrates-election-results-corporate-america-lays-workers-recession-looming
After the midterms.
Would it have mattered. 70% said the country was on the wrong path. Democrats don’t give a fuck. They will literally vote against their own admitted self interests. They say the country is bad. Inflation is bad. Biden is bad. Then still vote D.
It is hard to raise a kid when you can’t afford groceries, so vote for the person that will guarantee you a right to an abortion instead of the person making groceries affordable.
Fortified for your pleasure.
Abortion is the most important thing.
Yes, but they were stopping the end of democracy.
Realistically though, even though we’re salty that the Democrats weren’t completely destroyed, at least they don’t have the House and maybe not the Senate.
It’s a win.
Yeah, the hope for a big majority in both houses was to get some actual action against executive abuses, but I was expecting republicans to blow that anyway. Just stopping the insane spending is good enough for me.
Get rid of the democrats.
Factio Democratica delenda est.
Everything is terrible and Americans still voted D…with a senile president…in a midterm.
What does that tell you about republicans?
What does that tell you about republicans?
I don’t know, but it feels an awful lot like I’m going to get a hot take on all men from a woman who keeps going back to her abusive husband.
Not sure what you’re referring to. I would have preferred the red wave materialized over what we got, but republicans’ fealty to Trump and tired stolen election rhetoric is not playing with nonrepublicans. They are not the savior from the “lefty fascist” that so many here claim.
And Trump beat Hillary, what does that tell you about Hillary?
That she is as bad as a politician can be and people recognized that…eventually.
“Americans still voted D”
Did they really? Or is that just what the people “counting” the “votes” say?
Of course…
“WNBA star Brittany Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony.”
Griner’s harsh treatment gives the American bipartisan foreign policy establishment that much more justification to continue its proxy w—
Oh who am I kidding. The proxy war was going to continue regardless of one basketball player because it’s really about punishing the country they blame for Clinton’s loss. 😉
Again, I can’t stop drawing the parallel between Brittany Griner and the college basketball athletes that were caught shoplifting in China and were back in the States by the next day.
College basketball is a bigger money maker than the WNBA.
High-school basketball is a bigger moneymaker than the wnba
Fair.
Ditto lacrosse, soccer, hockey.
Boys [h]igh-school basketball is a bigger moneymaker than the wnba
And any inner city boys team from NYC, Chicago or L.A. with any kind of coaching would destroy the WNBA champs.
Like some under-15 boys team beat the US WNT in soccer. Same thing happened in Australia, where a boys under-15 team beat their women’s national team 7-0.
Canada women’s Olympic hockey lost three games in a row to men’s junior A hockey teams as it prepares for the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.
In 2014, the United States women’s Olympic hockey team prepared for the Games by scrimmaging against New England high school boys. Dexter Southfield, defeated the U.S. Olympians 6-3, following a 3-1 loss to the Salisbury School in Connecticut, a
2-1 win over the Taft School in Connecticut, and a 5-2 win over Saint Sebastian in Needham.
A kid’s lemonade stand that breaks even is a bigger moneymaker than the WNBA.
It’s lost about ten million a year since its inception.
-jcr
Hmm, I don’t remember the shoplifting story.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41910820
I misremembered: it was a couple of days before they were returned to the US, not a single day.
UCLA basketball players admit to shoplifting in China, thank Trump
https://archive.ph/duneG
What’s more amazing is that they actually called the cops vs using it as a shakedown for money ala Mexico
They were used to the shoplifting rules in LA.
Since when does communism mean people own stuff?
As a fan of Locked Up Abroad… maybe she should have been as well.
She is a prog who hates me for being white and male. I won’t waste a second caring what happens to her. Consequences, baby doll.
“WNBA star Brittany Griner…”
Star? I never heard of her until her arrest and the SJW’s demanding her release.
I was going to say that the WNBA has stars in the same sense that AA baseball has stars. Except then I realized that some AA players have a future in the big leagues.
Star? I never heard of her until her arrest and the SJW’s demanding her release.
Considering Idaho still uses a Heliograph to communicate to the outside world, that is par for the course
“Considering Idaho still uses a Heliograph to communicate with each other, that is par for the course.”
FTFY.
Touché
And she’s probably the highest profile WNBA player by a lot. I think most people have at least heard of her.
I hadn’t before any of this.
But I’d probably have a difficult time naming five current male NBA players, too. 😉
Truer words…..
At least they didn’t kill her, like Rocket Boy did with Otto Warmbier.
We should offer a trade for Griner. We send you to them, and tell them to go nuts with you, and they return Griner. A child rapist for a pot smoker? Win-win!
Do you think they would torture you before your execution?
Nice deflection.
As I recall, Warmbier was technically alive when he was released, but died soon thereafter from the treatment at the hands of the little fat guy’s government.
Swallwell saya the quiet part out loud, kids don’t belong to parents.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/dem-rep-says-parent-oversight-education-putting-patients-charge-their-own
Patients in charge of their own healthcare? How horrifying!
It is to many adult-children sheeple. They are eager for their preferred rulers to take full responsibility for health care, education, finance, jobs, and voting.
https://twitter.com/philthatremains/status/1591049334501482496?t=-X88JoTuuo_34IrfnCHRBQ&s=19
The left is a secular religion. It’s eschatology is man becoming god. The promised land is fully automated luxury communism. It has original sin, hierarchy. It has missionaries and devotees in the woke.
The Independents and Republicans need to realize that they’re up against a religion, not a political party, in elections.
Read McWhorter’s Woke Racism.
It takes a village.
For a stoning?
Are there any women here today?
I can only hope the next congress investigates him for espionage. So hopefully after 2024 he can be tried for treason and executed.
I really cannot wish enough ill will toward my representative. Him and his Brokeback fetish with the rodeo off 580 cannot die in a fire hot enough to cauterize the damage he has visited on the great state of California
There is a CA legal precedent where a private property mall owner was told he couldn’t stop proggies from handing out flyers on his private property since his private property is functionally the town square. Proggies loved that.
Twitter is HQed in CA.
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1591044534389149696
In California private properties can be public fora subject to California free speech protections. No one disputes this, only where the line is.
ENB your a dull intolerable hack. Nobody is going to go to your mastadon page
In news from the recursive universe: social media hacks are migrating to Mastodon to whine about Twitter.
Funny, she thinks she is a journo. She’s an aggregator of regurgitated hot takes and liberaltarian articles. In her protest of Twitter she only embedded one Tweet in the Roundup today. Zero from Mastodon where supposedly the true Blue Checks are flocking.
She doesn’t regurgitate anything libritarian
“liberaltarian”
Although he’s still being generous.
Wouldn’t be a normal day around here without a few commenters engaging in some ENB bashing to signal clique membership.
And you squawking in response
Mike’s hoping for a sandwich.
I had pictured Mike as ENB’s basement-dwelling son being all hurt because people made fun of his mama, so that sandwich thing still works.
“all hurt”
Not in evidence.
Lol. ENB propping mastodon only after the Musk takeover. Fucking hilarious. She doesn’t give a shit about free speech, just losing her walled garden with other journalists.
Of course leftists don’t care about free speech. They care that they won’t be able to censor dissenters.
Careful. She will dox you if you ask for a sandwhich
She makes shit sandwiches. It had to be said.
How is she with other wifely duties?
Don’t make ITL make us throw up again.
I don’t even want to know what ENB does for her “wifely” duties.
To be fair. Her husband probably does them.
Sandwich? She better quit her bitchin’, get back to the kitchen and bake me a goddamn pie!
She doesn’t give a shit about free speech, just losing her
walled gardenMen’s room wall shared with otherjournalistsjurinalists.FIFY
How John Fetterman won.
650k votes before the first debate with a friendly media hiding him. Also leftist ignorance that votes for a letter and not a person.
“The Eagles!!!”
Seriously, PA looks like a bunch of retards for electing this guy. I do agree that Oz was a mediocre candidate. Kathy Barnette would have been an ideal candidate for a state like PA. Attractive black women would have likely pulled some of the black vote.
The GOP is starting to pull in Latinos. Running a few decent black candidates would be an advantage, especially is certain states with large cities like Philly. I’m not saying they should run idiots like heels up Harris, but Barnette seemed better than Oz.
Gop actually had very good gains with Hispanics and black people this week. The lonely angry women kept dems from being swept. And recent indoctrinated students.
PA Democrats literally will elect a dead person, so electing Fetterman is not a stretch at all.
“How John Fetterman won.”
Fetterman won because Democrats are completely full of shit when it comes to their professed opposition to privileged wealthy straight white cis-males. You can be all of those things, plus a stroke victim, and it won’t hurt.
Why are you so opposed to fortified elections?
Arizona is still in the fortification process, and may be until next week.
Even MSNBCs analyst says lake is going to win as all of Hobbs favored areas are now in with a shit ton of votes left. And gop here is watching the returns like a hawk.
Yeah, Kari Lake isn’t going to put up with their shit.
Not with that rack she is sporting? Who could possibly oppose them?
They’re unstoppable!
Agreed, Lake wins. The real race is the Senate seat. Going to be tight.
Cardinals may have to bring in Jim Hart to rally the faithful
https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1591069176340226048?t=Nvwn_H7IHRQtJ5YJBIOj5g&s=19
It’s not Republican messaging. It’s not low-quality candidates. It’s not Trump. It’s not abortion.
It’s mass mail-in/drop-box voting. It’s as simple as that. And Republicans will never win another election unless it’s stopped.
It’s astounding to me that this isn’t obvious to more in Republican leadership, who seem to prefer finger-pointing and infighting over actually fighting back against the godless communist orcs trying to ruin this great country.
I’m not so sure of that. Florida has both, and yet Republicans won statewide and even in Miami-Dade County. Part of it is making sure all the votes are in by end of voting (polls close) on election day. States that do not do this (Illinois, I’m looking at you with a two-week after election day grace period and no postmark) will have the cheating and problems.
I thought FL got rid of drop boxes?
In AZ, we have a prop to require ID on the early, mail-in ballots. I do agree that the drop boxes and ballot harvesting are a huge issue.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/04/29/florida-legislature-passes-elections-reforms-targeting-voting-by-mail-drop-boxes/
The Florida Legislature approved along party lines a multitude of changes to the state’s elections laws Thursday night, including a ban on possessing multiple vote by mail ballots and restrictions on the use of ballot drop boxes. . The bill does not ban drop boxes, an idea DeSantis endorsed earlier this year. . It does not require someone show an I.D. when leaving a vote by mail ballot in a drop box, which elections supervisors warned would have created long lines.
These are similar to the reforms I agree with. If an ID is needed on election day it should be needed for an early ballot.
Should just be 2 weeks of drop off locations.
Meh, Mail In Voting* brings different problems, that are solved in different ways. You should be careful about calling for IDs because you actually don’t solve for the same problems with IDs.
First, look at the outcomes we are trying to achieve:
1) JesseAZ voted once
2) JesseAZ was eligible to vote
3) JesseAZ was the person who cast that vote
4) The vote counted was the one JesseAZ cast
In person voting presents a problem because all ballots are anonymous. Once they are in the box, no one knows if one of those ballot’s is Jesse’s or if it was stuffed in there by a precinct-captain. The way they audit for this is with “Check In” logs. JesseAZ checked in at Precinct A, and voted. Do the number of ballots match the people checking in? And obviously ID is important to ensure that JesseAZ doesn’t go from precinct to precinct impersonating other people and voting. 1 – 3 are solved for. 4 is mitigated by chain of custody that prevents that box from being opened (hopefully) and the ballots tampered with.
Mail in voting replaces these controls with a watermarked ballot. We know Jesse voted once because there is only one Ballot out there with his unique ID on it. We know JesseAZ was eligible to vote, because registration required his ID. The only thing we aren’t sure of is that Jesse is the one who cast the vote. There are multiple ways they try to mitigate that risk:
a. Jesse’s Signature is on the outside of the envelope, and verified against a signature on record when he registered.
b. The ballot was sent to Jesse’s residence.
c. The status of that ballot is viewable by Jesse at any time online- he can always confirm that his ballot followed the path he expected, and request a new one if he feels it has been hijacked.
For someone to affect MASS voter fraud, they would need to be able to collect many ballots from the mail, and forge their signatures. The key areas this is still a risk is in apartment buildings and nursing homes. And this is where I think we should ABSOLUTELY ban ballot harvesting precisely because it is the one attack vector left in the system.
* Note: When I say mail in voting, I mean legitimate mail in voting, not the random anonymous bullshit that was done in blue states in 2020.
It stops the lazy and uninformed voter who can’t even be bothered to drive to a quick location to drop it off. And ballot collection groups going door to door in dense urban areas to fill out and collect votes.
“2) JesseAZ was eligible to vote” in the district in which he is attempting to vote, where “eligible to vote” includes being properly registered and legally residing there
In Atlanta, there has always been issues with people trying to vote at a polling place near their workplace, rather than their proper polling place, which can result in them voting in the wrong elections (for House and local offices; obviously shouldn’t matter for Presidential, Senate, or other statewide offices).
“For someone to affect MASS voter fraud, they would need to be able to collect many ballots from the mail, and forge their signatures. ”
They could also “disappear” ballots for the other guy. Do I trust unionized postal workers to make sure that every mail-in-ballot they handle from houses sporting Republican signs in the front yard? I’m not so sure that I do. Nor do I trust that operatives might simply walk through neighborhoods opening mailboxes with the flag up, then making a decision if they find ballots in the box based on neighborhood, signs in the front yard, etc.
Getting rid of “wrong” ballots while they’re in transit (unsecured) doesn’t require all that forging and fake IDs, etc.
I’m not so sure of that.
Even not being so sure, it should still be done away with for plenty of other reasons, some of which you cite, even if only obliquely.
Again, 200 yrs. ago selecting representatives because you couldn’t poll everybody constantly on every issue they care to address and get a response in time to address them, made sense. Today, when you actually can poll everybody constantly on every issue they care to address and get a response in time to address it, the notion that we should keep pretending like we can’t is specifically to give people undue decision-making power.
This is important enough to highlight again:
“It’s not Republican messaging. It’s not low-quality candidates. It’s not Trump. It’s not abortion.
It’s mass mail-in/drop-box voting. It’s as simple as that. And Republicans will never win another election unless it’s stopped.
It’s astounding to me that this isn’t obvious to more in Republican leadership, who seem to prefer finger-pointing and infighting over actually fighting back against the godless communist orcs trying to ruin this great country.”
Conveniently unstated missing premise for which there is no evidence: mail-in/drop box ballots are all/mostly fraudulent.
How are they not, Shrike? What mechanism ensures their validity?
Now that I’ve identified the missing premise, you get to provide the missing evidence…
Is he allowed to have an actual audit to find it? Or just stop at a recount?
Of course not. Then they just keep ignoring that piece of the puzzle and continue making their claims of ‘most secure election evuh’.
“You need to provide evidence when we intentionally and deliberately decide to simply ignore everything”.
Funny, I do not see such empathy towards Alex Jones….
McConnell doesn’t want the majority, he’s happy being the Minority leader and his Chinese inlaws are happy too.
Fetterman can join along with Tony(Big Tony) DeLuca in forming their own party.
In case you don’t know, DeLuca died in October and was still elected.
Mail-in/drop-box voting strikes again.
DeLuca got 7000 early voting ballots, and 14,000 on election day.
Pro-choice activists want to put abortion on the ballot in more states.
Politicians, on the other hand, want to continue to run off the issue.
As the smoke clears from the midterms, and the Republican Party’s historic failure comes into focus, one thing is clear—election denial cost Republicans…
Uh-huh.
Republican Party’s historic failure
Is this the leftist narrative now?
It gives the democrats a mandate.
The do love their man dates. Tony in particular.
Not winning by a landslide is failure.
David French. He is broken.
After the long quote from Slate ENB felt obligated to link to a conservative and French is the only one she’s aware of.
She knows Cheney and the Dispatch people.
Notorious neocon and pet “conservative” David French will advance any establishment or left-wing narrative that you want, if you pay him enough. He’s principled like that.
He certainly obeys his pay masters wishes well.
Of course, ENB and progs won’t talk about the RNC dumping 10mil to save Murkowski in AK over her Republican opponent instead of using that money for Masters or any number of other Senate candidates. Nope, it’s Trumps fault.
I wonder how many other underhanded efforts Bitch McConnell backed against members of his own party, that he figured wouldn’t fellate him.
Book-industry activists should be careful what they wish for…
Worked out okay for Hitler.
…Waylon Bailey jokingly compared the pandemic to a zombie apocalypse. Then a SWAT team arrived at his house.
10 out of 10 courts agree, this is a good use of SWAT. Like the drug war, COVID had a Bill of Rights carve-out. If you look closely enough, you can also see a budding Climate Change exception.
You just can’t beat the penumbras.
So…. Mastodon has built an ecosystem of social media where different people have different moderation rules?
that should be hilarious.
Pretty sure Reason editors will avoid the free speech ones.
And flock to the ones that offer exclusive status of some kind.
Doesn’t sound that different from, say, Reddit.
It could work well, as long as there are clearly delineated areas so that a user can avoid the more hellscapish areas if the user so wishes.
On the other hand, hellscapes can be a lot of fun.
It is tempting to set up a Mastadon site named “hellscape”.
Cannot imagine problems with a far left social media platform. Sounds like a hoot. No wonder Reason adores it.
“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” Pittman wrote in his decision. “Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government.”
Silly judge, doesn’t he know that Democrats, and by extension, progressives, have no more use for a Constitution that restrains what they can do. Team D loves them a strongman, as proven by all the blue states that had multiple Covid lockdowns over the past two and a half years.
Massachusetts voters approved a “millionaire tax.”
You don’t get a nickname like Taxachusetts for nothing. Although, if it doesn’t already, it should probably come with an exit penalty or Connecticut is going to get a big new tax base.
Exit penalties can not be legal. Someone needs to take it to trial.
What is it with socialists and their Reichsfluchtsteuer?
And their Tödtaxdienst
There are no rules, only weapons.
Yall really need to try to learn this.
The US has had an expatriation tax since at least 1966. The sanctions and penalties for renouncing US citizenship have since then been tweaked several times to include various other draconian measures (including an attempt to bar entry to the US by any former US citizen who had renounced for tax reasons).
These have all been bipartisan measures, by the way.
And it was wrong then as it is wrong now, regardless of who passed the laws.
Correct.
Talking points update!
The liberals who want Trump to be the nominee in 2024 (because he’d be the easiest for any Dem to beat) have their new anti-DeSantis marching orders. Word on the street is Ron D. has a glass jaw.
How did he eat so much Thai food then?
LOL
Can’t wait to see the rest of the attacks. He used to be a teacher right? Watch them dig up some female former student who wore a loose fitting top that one time and she swears Ronny D. totally stared at her bra when she leaned over.
They already dug up the stories he partied with students (after they graduated).
https://www.salon.com/2022/11/06/desantis-roasted-by-former-students-at-georgia-boarding-school_partner/
OMG some former students didn’t like the way he taught. that is silly considering no teacher can satisfy all students
They tried. He was a “total jock” and “partied with students” according to Business Insider.
You sure you want to retire the OBL parody? Instincts are still sharp. 🙂
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/former-students-ron-desantis-total-jock-partied-with-students-2022-11%3Famp
I might slip back into that voice on occasion.
At the end of the year I’ll probably dust off the old In 2022 Democrats never raised the minimum wage but did make Charles Koch $X billion richer routine. That bit worked so much better in 2021 though. In Biden’s first year it was like EVERY top billionaire got WAY richer.
I think we’re still just getting started with billionaires getting richer while everyone else gets poorer. Maybe a character based on fighting climate change for the sake of billionaires beachfront homes?
Apparently a fictional male character on a streaming show recently accused him of sexual assault / rape at a CPAC event.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1590855268803694593
No kidding. Always the same playbook.
I wonder if he has an legal recourse.
He should try to get a $1.5B defamation judgement. For each false claim.
I love Thai food.
What about Thai-stick?
With marinated chicken on it and peanut sauce? Yes.
The Cathedral thanks you for your devotion to following their orders.
Is Twitter heading for a collision with the Federal Trade Commission?
Mr. Musk, welcome to the wrong side of the deep state.
Sounds like the usual shallow-state big government overreach, not secretive deep state.
Do you even read what you post? Is shadow state your invevted term as you’ve often argued there is no deep state?
I read “swallow” state.
That’s what Dee’s hoping for.
Maybe time for JesseAz to get that vision checkup he’s been putting off.
This makes zero sense.
How John Fetterman won.
Lack of real scrutiny, same as most Democrats?
There was plenty of scrutiny of both candidates and in the end Fetterman looked better.
BTW – Rs are overlooking scrutiny on Walker in GA.
Because kick the poor people out of slum apartments is a good thing. Thank you Warnock.
Is that before or after they remove the corpses left there for days?
BTW – Rs are overlooking scrutiny on Walker in GA.
It’s RA-CYST to point out what a blithering fat-lipped moron Herschel is to our H&R Reason comment Snowflake squad of SJWs.
He can’t even pronounce “democracy” and Bushes it up to some unintelligible gibberish that would embarrass Dubya.
Double standards, you know. Conservatives cannot be criticized.
turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, a TDS-addled shitpile and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Democrats will vote for anything with a “D” next to it.
Fetterman proves it.
Well, at least you’ve moved on from screaming “stolen election” all the time.
I suggest you read this article:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/georgia-ballot-design-problems-and-what-do-about-them
In tightly contested elections, issues like these can end up making a massive difference.
You should think twice before putting words in peoples’ mouths.
A state lawmaker in Pennsylvania has been reelected to another term in office on Nov. 8 despite already passing away last month.
State Rep. Tony DeLuca, a Democrat, died at age 85 on Oct. 9 due to lymphoma.
#HeCan’tBreathe
“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” Pittman wrote in his decision. “Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I bet even second graders don’t hear that anymore.
No, they are learning what democrats consider government.
Their preferred braindead executive passes fringe party policies through fiat, and if anyone OTHER than their preferred candidate gets in, then democracy is officially declared ‘over’.
They love democracy so much, they cant let democracy get in the way of saving democracy.
“A few Reason folks are on Mastodon now.”
Of course you are. At least until you decide Mastodon is too icky for some reason.
It’s more complicated than Twitter, it’s decentralized, and less data mining and monetization, too. Moderating your own server is time consuming and tedious. There are practical and ideological reasons why many Twitter users won’t find the transition comfortable, and will prefer to leave the running of the server to others.
Im sure Journolist will have their own server for the editors here.
Sure, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can run their own Mastodon server, I believe. Writers, journalists, academics and intellectuals have more motivation to do so that the typical Twitter user. The character limits for messages on Mastodon are much larger, for example.
Correct me if I’m wrong but you seem to disapprove of writers here doing their own thing on Mastodon. Do you have the ideological disinclination to decentralized networks I was referring to, or you’d prefer writers here to stick with Twitter? Care to expand on your objections?
I’m trying to sign up on Mastadon to check it out. Have already run into a few hurdles that might stop your average person that isn’t terribly motivated from signing up:
– I had to pick from several iOS client apps with no compelling reason to pick any particular one.
– I had to pick a home server, again with no compelling reason to pick any particular one.
– The server I picked is failing to send a sign-up confirmation email.
I had to pick from several iOS
There’s your problem, right there.
I did manage to sign up. I had to switch to a different server since the email account verification simply wasn’t working on the first server I chose.
My impression so far is it has potential but it ain’t ready for prime time yet.
I just realized Mastodon (look, I learned to spell it correctly!) reminds me a lot of the days of BBS servers and FidoNet.
Not certain Mastodon could handle the volume if a bunch of Twitter users were to join right now:
https://nora.codes/post/scaling-mastodon-in-the-face-of-an-exodus/
Off topic / Amazon.com weirdness
It’s fascinating that it usually takes less time for Amazon to deliver me a physical package than it takes for the site to post one of my 5 to 10 sentence product reviews. I’m sure a few lines of code instantly reject any review that uses words like f— or c—. But beyond that, how badly written does a review have to be to get rejected? Are there Amazon employees who spend all day filtering out the 0.03% of reviews that fail quality control?
And yet, they are sending me an email to rate my transaction ~ 5 minutes after sending me the text to let me know it was delivered.
Did someone spoof your name? Because Sandra seems much too smart to use a superfluous accusative pronoun after deliver
Fortification ain’t just for voting.
“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone,” Pittman wrote in his decision. “Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government.”
Glad someone remembers.
Conveniently he remembered hours AFTER midterm voting closed.
But you can totes trust the system now!
You obviously didn’t look him up…
(Trump appointee)
In my country there is problem…..
Speaking of social media heilscapes:
https://gizmodo.com/kfc-germany-crispy-chicken-kristallnacht-fast-food-1849767616
“‘It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken,’ read the message from the fast food company’s app…”
KFC blamed it on evil algorithms.
Misek approves.
Germans were shocked. They know your supposed to eat pork on Kristallnacht!
NEIN!!!! VEGGIES ONLY!!!!
The FBI’s Transformation, from National Police to Domestic Spy Agency. Part One: “Disruption”
A Florida FBI agent blows the whistle on a Bureau that’s stopped worrying about making cases, shifting resources to a vast new mission: domestic spying without predicate. Part one of a series
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-fbis-transformation-from-national
One example involved a British doctor who’d been at J6. The suspect was not exactly Pablo Escobar. He did enter the Capitol, but surveillance showed he meekly stayed behind velvet ropes once inside, and under questioning was practically shaking with guilt over having taken a free Capitol tourist brochure as a souvenir. Though he seemed unlikely to be charged, he was booted from his medical practice after being interviewed, and Friend wondered if this even indirectly had been the point.
“I worried about the process being the punishment,” Friend says. “He lost his job. What does he get from us, if we don’t charge him? ‘Hey, you’re clear? The FBI found no wrongdoing, go pick up the pieces’?”
In the incident that led to Friend’s suspension, the FBI wanted to execute a SWAT raid on a subject who’d been communicating with the Bureau through an attorney and almost certainly would have come in voluntarily. Or, Friend thought, he could have been picked up in another, less dangerous way. The FBI however wanted a show.
“We’re gonna hit this house at six o’clock in the morning and throw flash-bangs and knock the door down and drive a Bearcat up on the front lawn,” recalls Friend, who had extensive SWAT experience and even worked the raid of Michigan militia members suspected of plotting to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
A Florida FBI agent blows the whistle
What’s up with Florida lately?
They were always a spy agency, though. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
Yeah but now they’re not even pretending they’re not.
No, the only difference is who the “undesirables” are now. They are acting like the FBI always has otherwise.
https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1590734970745917442
I wonder if Elon Musk soiled himself when I asked POTUS “How” the U.S. government could investigate Musk’s foreign business dealings?
“Oh, we have lots of ways,” Biden said with a wry smile.
That’s just Narrative.
DNC playbook. Use the federal agencies to investigate your opponents. Funny that they hate Nixon so much, since they’ve been imitating him for decades.
Ja!! Vee haff lots und lots of vays!
There is no student loan crisis. The price of a college education is going up because demand exceeds supply. Although colleges and universities may be “greedy” so are unions and union workers, business owners and employers, and government officials and politicians. Everyone who thinks she deserves a raise and more benefits, or that prices are too high for the things they want to buy is greedy. Greed is not an excuse to wail, “There oughta be a law.” For every law there are uncountable unintended consequences that then engender their own cries for more regulation.
Oh NOOOES!!!
“Emeryville mayor cancels Tesla tour over Musk’s Twitter policies”
[…]
““Tesla’s owner, Elon Musk, recently acquired Twitter, a social media platform used by millions of people for social and political discourse,” he wrote in part. “In the brief time since acquiring the company for $44 billion, he has used it to censor free speech, distort social discourse with disinformation, and institute new policies that have undermined other businesses, major political leaders, and everyday people who are vulnerable to online or personal harassment, misinformation or opportunistic actors.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/emeryville-mayor-cancels-tesla-tour-over-musks-twitter-policies/ar-AA13YQDQ
First, Emeryville is a one-by-nothing town, known mostly because its land is still cheap (by bay area standards), so Pixar built a campus there; this twit doesn’t seem to realize Musk was doing HIM a favor.
And then we get some turd-level mendacity right there.
That’s show elon.
Quaking in his boots, I’m sure.
“he has used it to censor free speech, distort social discourse with disinformation, and institute new policies that have undermined other businesses, major political leaders, and everyday people who are vulnerable to online or personal harassment, misinformation or opportunistic actors.”
People keep making these claims but i have yet to see any proof of it. And how could he undermine businesses in less than a week the Musk must be something special or those businesses were failing all ready
he has used it to censor free speech, distort social discourse with disinformation, and institute new policies that have undermined other businesses, major political leaders, and everyday people who are vulnerable to online or personal harassment, misinformation or opportunistic actors.
Wait, is this about Musk? Because that reads like what Twitter was doing before Musk took over.
“Because that reads like what Twitter was doing before Musk took over.”
Well, they are allowed to be mad about it now that they don’t have 100% control over such things.
It’s called “projection”…you know, the thing.
“…People keep making these claims but i have yet to see any proof of it…”
You won’t.
Remember Tony claiming “Trump is the worst criminal in the US”?
Lefty shits (like Tony and turd) lie without shame.
I haven’t commented about Musk but I do find him interesting.
What I love about him is that he was a CA progressive who dared buck their orthodoxy on speech and COVID. Well, good for him.
And told them via his actions – “Fuck you, I’ll just vote Republican”.
Bravo!
If only you had even half the brain Musk has.
1 by nothing
No shit. It is literally the example of “Don’t Blink” like Oakland needed buffer between it and Berkeley. Emeryville is essentially an AMD theater, a giant Ikea and Trader Joe’s
Meet the Bay Area mayor who wants to persuade you to get rid of your car
https://www.transittalent.com/articles/index.cfm?story=John_Bauters_3-30-2022
Didn’t they tell us this, like 25 years ago or something? It’s always 8, 9, or 10 years.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3730949-analysis-world-has-9-years-to-avoid-critical-climate-change-threshold/
Full of the usual BS and the typical suspects.
the paraphrase the aphorism about fusion;
“climate change is the big disaster of the future, and it always will be”
I just wish they would drink the poison coolaid when they are wrong – the way other cults have in the past.
Just like so many Doomsday Soothsayers have to modify their end of the world date schedule…
NY City and Florida were supposed to be under water 10 years ago talk about “Historic Failures”
Sports Illustrated cover was Florida Marlins Park underwater
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan Is Unconstitutional, Says Federal Judge
one out of 10,000 aint bad!
Buttplug suffers shrinkage.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/uk-on-the-brink-of-recession-after-economy-contracts-by-0point2percent-in-the-third-quarter.html
The U.K. economy contracted by 0.2% in the third quarter of 2022, signaling what could be the start of a long recession.
Doing chicken wrong. Misek smiles.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63499057
The fast-food chain sent an app alert on Wednesday, saying: “It’s memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!”
Is Twitter heading for a collision with the Federal Trade Commission?
The answer is yes, but not for the reasons provided.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/facebook-perks-part-meta-downfall
Citing unnamed employees, The New York Times reported in March that Meta was curbing its free laundry and dry cleaning services for employees. The tech giant also pushed the time that workers in the office qualified for a free dinner back by 30 minutes to 6:30 p.m., after the last shuttle of the day left, according to the outlet
Sad these children can’t even do basics like laundry.
I don’t blame anyone that uses a wash and fold service. You fit three rows of t-shirts in a drawer because it’s all folded smartly and my socks all match.
Dinner before 7pm?! Oh the humanity!
The new Rust Belt…
https://abc7news.com/tech-layoff-tracker-bay-area-layoffs-meta-elon-musk/12434385/
For a growing number of companies, we are starting to see not just mass job cuts but second and third rounds of cuts are being made. These include Stripe, which cut around 1,000 in November after laying off around 50 people (from TaxJar, a Stripe acquisition) earlier this year.
Learn To Code!
World always needs ditch diggers.
I hope with all hope that the Republicans take the ruling against student debt as a way to prove they want to do something good. I think there is a real desire to fix the entire higher education issue. If congress came up with a plan that limited government-backed loans to the current average cost of in-state public tuition costs and then set it to increase or decrease by the metrics used for the cost of living adjustments it would help. I even think most people would get on board with forgiveness if it came from Congress and the forgiveness was only for interest that was greater than prime at the time the loan was taken. Meaning, we have the computer power to determine what everyone would have paid had their loan been locked at the prime rate at the time of the loan. If at this point you have paid more than that, everything else is forgiven. Thus technically no one is getting their college tuition forgiven just interest. If you hadn’t paid that much yet, your payments are adjusted accordingly and you move forward paying off the remainder of the balance and interest at the prime rate of when you took out the loan. Again no one has their principal forgiven, they just refinanced the loan at a favorable rate.
It solves the problem going forward and helps fix past issues.
Why is your solution always for the government to do something? Stop federally backing the loans. Let colleges provide their own loans.
It’s a solution that can actually happen. Yes, no federally backed student loans would be ideal but that isn’t going to happen and if that is the proposal it fails from the get go. If a compromise is made that addresses the issue then we can get progress made.
get rid of the department of education. problem solved.
Student loan problem is an easy fix: simply get government out of the loan business, and allow those loans to be discharged via bankruptcy.
The way it is now, there’s no consequences to universities for jacking up tuition. It is precisely this absence of consequences which has led to skyrocketing prices. They raise prices because they can. They then reinvest that profit in useless, non productive positions. A couple decades ago (not sure exactly) the student:admin ratio was an average of 1:30. Now it’s 1:3. That’s insane.
Yup. They charge what the market will bear like every other business. But the market is completely ridiculous because government keeps shoveling more money into that hole.
Housing is similar. With 30 year fixed mortgages available to most people, prices increased hugely.
“A couple decades ago (not sure exactly) the student:admin ratio was an average of 1:30. Now it’s 1:3. That’s insane.”
Not insane and not unexpected. If you look at the US navy, for example, you’ll find similar trends in the enlisted:officer ratio, and field:staff officer ratio. I think it’s a universal trend in all bureaucratic institutions as they become larger and more complex.
How is that not insane? How are colleges becoming larger and more complex than 25 years ago? Pretty much in ways that add nothing to their supposed core mission of education.
” How are colleges becoming larger and more complex than 25 years ago?”
More students, more published papers, more faculties, bigger budgets, closer relationships with foreign institutions, more research, more paper work, more departments, more complicated and expensive equipment, there must be thousands of ways colleges are becoming larger and more complex. Whole new fields of study are arising all the time. Metallurgy, software engineering, queer studies, black studies, popular culture, cryptography, film making, creative writing.
I studied some linguistics in college and there was a fairly large selection of European and Asian languages, classical and modern, to choose from. No native American languages, though. No Algonquin, Cree, Cherokee or Navajo. Now that’s changed. And it’s not as if older studies fade away. The classics, Sumerian, Old English, Middle English, and Modern English, theatre, math, geography, music etc etc all continue to be taught. University literally means everything.
If a private corporation did this, they’d go out of business or at least make a good start in that direction.
The core mission isn’t education, or at least nothing you’d recognize as such.
There are many missions. For many professors, publishing and research is more important to them than teaching students. Many students are more interested in partying, sports scholarships, resume padding, networking, job seeking etc than study. It’s safe to say however that some students are curious and serious about expanding the horizons of their knowledge. These are the dangerous ones and we don’t like them.
The Twitter freakout is just hilarious and awesome.
If this all ends up making more people use other platforms for similar purposes, I think that’s a good thing. Having Twitter be the one and only for most purposes was a problem. I wonder if it will last or if everyone will slink back to Twitter after their tantrum and hope no one notices?
Like all the H’wood lefties who somehow couldn’t find the airport to fly to Canada if Trump was elected?
“I wonder if it will last or if everyone will slink back to Twitter after their tantrum and hope no one notices?”
I wouldn’t be surprised if all those who’ve been banned by Twitter over the years are already rejoined it. Mastodon is more complicated, decentralized, communistic (FOSS) and requires more effort and attention on the part of it’s users. If you don’t mind Musk data mining and spamming you, then Twitter will do fine.
I’ve never used Twitter and I’m not about to start. I’m just amused by the whole situation. I’ll be perfectly happy if Twitter fails under Musk, or turns into a nasty sewer of insults and flame-wars or just becomes a freer version of what it has been. It would also be great if more people started using more decentralized, less advertising driven platforms.
Could be worse:
1. Lonnie un-bans Trump from Twitter.
2. Troof Social collapses into irrelevance after Trump’s return to Twitter.
3. Twitter collapses anyway.
That’s also a perfectly acceptable outcome.
Win-win.
“…would have done nothing to address the root cause of unaffordable tuition: greedy and bloated colleges that raise tuition far more than inflation year after year while sitting on $700 billion in endowments…”
Whoever wrote this needs to be put in a chair in the corner until s/he finishes at least Economics in One Lesson.
Senate GOP fears another Trump disaster in Georgia runoff
Senate Republicans are worried that former President Trump may derail their chances of winning the runoff election in Georgia next month if he announces his 2024 presidential campaign in the next few weeks, and again thrusts his unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud into the spotlight.
Trump’s critics in the GOP establishment are blaming him for their disappointing performance in Tuesday’s election, in which Republican candidates lost key races across the country and Republican turnout fell short of expectations.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3730275-senate-gop-fears-another-trump-disaster-in-georgia-runoff/
Fatass Donnie is the Dems best hope.
This is what I was talking about yesterday.
Trump, who you should despise far more than Walker (you gave Trump 100% of the blame for America’s disastrous 2020 economic metrics), earns relatively mild name-calling like “Fatass” and “Con Man.”
Walker, who might become one of 50 or so GOP Senators, gets far more vicious terms like “retarded child.”
Just admit it. You dislike Republicans in general but the nonwhite ones piss you off that much more because you find them ingrates and traitors. Don’t you know what MY party does for YOUR people?! Same reason you hate C. Thomas more than S. Alito even though their rulings are probably similar on cases you care about.
No, Herschel Walker offends me on an intellectual level. I never thought such a childish moron with the brain of a 8 year old might represent me in the Senate.
Tim Scott would be just fine. I want to trade with South Carolina.
Edit – and Neil deGrasse Tyson? I wish I was as smart as he was.
Right. Your comment history says otherwise, Shrike.
C’mon. Prove you are no racist.
Say “Herschel Walker is smarter than InsaneTrollLogic.”
Prove it.
I just have to say I’m smarter than you. That’s not hard.
Racist.
Really, that’s all you got, fucktard?
ML got it right just below. You failed.
Now I would still kick ML’s ass in a debate. But I might have to concentrate.
I would crush you like a bug.
BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Stop making me laugh so hard.
“Herschel Walker is smarter than Mother’s Lament”
Now what the fuck does that prove, Shrike?
It indicates a tiny amount of self awareness on your part.
Hohoho, zing…
But seriously, what the fuck does that prove?
turd lies; it’s all he ever does.turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
“No, Herschel Walker offends me on an intellectual level.”
I told you, turd lies, but forgot to mention the lies can be amusing.
Imagine turd possessed of anything that might be confused with an “intellectual level”! What a hoot!
is the election to decide which candidate is the smartest? this is the first I’ve heard of that.
Plug got towel-snapped in gym locker room still has nightmares about football players
Racist Obama hates black people!
Barack Obama Mocks Herschel Walker As A ‘Celebrity’ Who ‘Wants To Be A Politician’ In Brutal Takedown
https://okmagazine.com/p/barack-obama-mocks-herschel-walker-celebrity/
But, it’s OK for Obama to back a “pastor” whose church kicks people out of its apartment building for owing as little as $125.
Nice try, sock puppet masturbater, but no Clinton cigar for you.
Pay yo bill, brah. Don’t be a deadbeat.
turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
Dude, I’m head of a condo HOA. We don’t go after people until they’ve been late for several months, and certainly not for as little as $125.
But, it’s OK for Obama to back a “pastor” whose church kicks people out of its apartment building for owing as little as $125.
Yes, pay your rent or get the fuck out. It’s called personal responsibility and tough love.
Well, his white half is definitely racist.
“Just about every Republican politician seems obsessed with two things — owning the libs and getting Donald Trump’s approval,” he told the crowd. “That’s their agenda, it is not long, it is not complicated and, at least to me, it is not very inspiring.
Obama is implying Herschel is one of Trump’s slaves needing his approval.
Wow, you guys should demand his white half be cancelled. It’s half-white privilege you know.
Thinking of slaves…
How many socks do you have here anyway, Shrike? I’ve lost count.
Do you live in GA or something? Why are you always bringing up this guy?
Because SPB2 aka Shrike is in love with Walker and just can’t bring himself to admit it since he usually goes for something much younger.
Yes, progressives are racists. Thanks for finally acknowledging that.
>>A few Reason folks are on Mastodon now.
take that, Elon!
>>How John Fetterman won.
Christ I went to high school in New Jersey and even I am not so fucking unlearned as the Pennsylvania electorate … morons
Mail in ballots. People voted before the first debate.
Philadelphia holding back its ballot count until after everyone is done so a ballot drop can be made.
they’re still retards. he’s been a walking invalid for months
Seems exceedingly likely that not everybody who voted mail in is alive by the time the election is over either. What an interesting conundrum.
Both Walker and Fetterman are reflections of the same thing when it comes to politics.
I”d vote for Fetterman if he was a free market libertarian. Who cares if he’s a brain-damaged loon? But he’s not a free market libertarian. He’s a fucking stalinist and the libs voted for him because of that, not his brains.
Same for Walker. I’d vote for Walker if he was a free-market libertarian and I could count on him to vote against all the spending bills and military interventions and government expansions and eliminate the bloated executive branch, regardless of his 80 IQ. But he’s not. He a fucking big-gov christian who will CERTAINLY vote for maintaining the drug war, foreign wars and the like. The republicans in Georgia voted for him for that reason not because of his brains.
I love how the governors of FL, GA, and TX bragged about how great their respective economies are. And rightfully so.
But the US economy is in SHAMBLES according to wingnuts. Like the worst ever.
The collective GDP in the other 47 states is maybe 2/10 of a point lower. With declining populations vs FL/GA/TX.
Oh, I know its Bullshit Season.
Gotta love politics.
The economy isn’t the worst ever. It’s just in that zone where you’d be shitting on it nonstop if Biden had an (R) after his name.
Hey Peanuts look how terrible this Biden economy is! It’s so bad even legendary liberal capitalists like Buffett and Gates and Bezos and Page and Ballmer and Brin have all lost billions this year! When those studs can’t make a buck you know times are tough!
In fact that’s why I thought my OBL gimmick was weaker in 2022 than 2021. Last year the top 10 richest guys were all doing well. This year I had to ignore how badly most of them were doing and focus on Charles Koch.
The economy is very strong.
Inflation in this case is caused by high demand and less supply.
It is why gold is down in price.
Bullshit.
https://www.kitco.com/news/2022-11-10/Gold-sharply-up-as-USDX-U-S-bond-yields-plummet-after-cooler-CPI.html
Gold and silver prices are solidly higher in midday U.S. trading Thursday, with gold scoring a 2.5-month high and silver a 4.5-month high, following a U.S. inflation report that came in just a bit cooler than market expectations and in turn pushed the U.S. dollar index and U.S. Treasury yields sharply lower. December gold was last up $38.60 at $1,737.90 and December silver was up $0.323 at $21.66.
Oh, how’s that gold price, Buttplug?
https://www.kitco.com/news/2022-11-11/Gold-prices-have-room-to-run-as-sentiment-turns-solidly-bullish-after-best-week-in-two-years.html
The gold market is ending the week with a more than 5% gain as prices hold solid support above $1,750 an ounce. Heading into the weekend, December gold futures last traded at $1,768 an ounce.
turd lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.
also this place is enough of a joke without dragging David French up the stairs
Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003 (“HEROES Act”)
The “Don’t Say Eros” Act.
Of course it’s unconstitutional and was never going to become a reality. It was a bare naked abuse of power to get the toddlers to vote, and it worked.
Honorable Justices…
Is possibly the USA’S only hope.
Fuck Joe Biden.
725 days.
No shit!
The only thing that surprises me is there is still a Federal Judge left that believes in the Constitution, separation of powers, and is not corrupt.
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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢀⣸⣿⣿⡿⠿⡯⢙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⡀⡀⠄⢀⣀⣉⣉⣉⠁⠐⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠄⠄⠄⠄⠁⣿⣿⣀⠈⠿⢟⡛⠛⣿⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠈⠁⠰⣄⣴⡬⢵⣴⣿⣤⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠄⢀⢄⡀⠄⠄⠄⠄⡉⠻⣿⡿⠁⠘⠛⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠄⠄⠈⠻⠄⠄⠄⠄⢘⣧⣀⠾⠿⠶⠦⢳⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⡀⢀⡀⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠻⢣⣶⡒⠶⢤⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⠄⢘⣿⣦⡀⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠉⠛⠻⠻⠺⣼⣿⠟⠋⠛⠿⣿⣿
⠋⠉⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢻⣿⣿⣶⣄⡀⠄⠄⠄⠄⢀⣤⣾⣿⣿⡀⠄⠄⠄⠄⢹
⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢻⣿⣿⣿⣷⡤⠄⠰⡆⠄⠄⠈⠉⠛⠿⢦⣀⡀⡀⠄
⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠈⢿⣿⠟⡋⠄⠄⠄⢣⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠈⠹⣿⣀
⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠘⣷⣿⣿⣷⠄⠄⢺⣇⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠸⣿
⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠹⣿⣿⡇⠄⠄⠸⣿⡄⠄⠈⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⣿
⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢻⣿⡇⠄⠄⠄⢹⣧⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠘
Trump does suck. And that’s fine! He makes all the socialists in DC, and they are all socialists, squirm, and so he’s totally worth it. DC sucks way more than Trump. If the Russians nuked DC, I would feel relieved! That’s how bad DC sucks. So trolling the garbage people of DC with Donald Trump is just… a pleasure really. Support Trump. Chuck a molotov Cocktail into DC and watch everyone squirm… again.