Only Congress can overturn a Supreme Court decision, so holding onto the presidency, House, and Senate this fall represent the only way to quickly deal with this out-of-control rightwing Court...
Checking one's voter registration will simply not be enough. Millions of new voters must be signed up and motivated to show up (or mail in a ballot) in November. There must be an overwhelming Democratic victory giving us the House, Senate, and presidency or we will be mired in questions and controversies for the next four years.
This Supreme Court has gone so overboard that I think we need to expand the court. My preference is one Justice for each Federal District. I think there are 13 at the moment. Should be based on something solid or the next administration could add more and more justices.
The trouble is they lie, with abandon. They tell Americans they stand for freedoms most people value and since most Americans are "asleep at the wheel," they are believed. There is nothing off limits. Truly, most of us who are reasonable and live on Earth 1, never thought Roe v. Wade would be overturned. The so-called conservative justices insisted it was settled law during their Senate hearings. Don't believe a single assurance these people offer, unless it is to further limit our freedoms, deliver power and wealth to those who generally don't need either and won't share with ordinary folks. We are cattle to these people and we exist to serve "our betters." This has been the cruel way of this world for centuries. Indeed, we have had a brief period where our middle class grew and thrived, but why would you think the powerful would want to increase that trend? When we earn too much money for our own goods, become too well educated, when we have the disposable income that allows us more discretionary power over our own lives, we become a threat to their dominion over us and this must change. Don't think for a minute the Republicans will do anything to help the middle and lower classed, it is their policies that have largely created the circumstances we find ourselves in now while they tell us it is essentially our own faults (synonymous with the Democratic Party).
Nothing this court decides would surprise me at this point. If Biden does not win along with Democratic majorities in both houses, we will lose many of the rights we take for granted, including the right to speak our minds in this format. Keith olbermann, HCR, and David Feldman also had comments I recommend to shed more light on the situation since the debate. Thanks Thom for reminding us another right which is at stake, the right to marry the person we choose.
We agree, this emboldened court will continue to strip us of our hard earned rights and opportunities. They don't want us to be successful, unless we do their bidding, which means we help them enforce their agenda on their peers.
NC Ashe County Democrats held a successful door knocking campaign on Saturday. Considering this is rural country, we still knocked on 257 doors. Chuck Hubbard is running against Virginia Foxx in the house, throw him some money if your able to! ;)
Overcoming history and tradition should be a PRIORITY if it interferes with Equal Justice Under Law. That phrase is carved into the Supreme Court building, and it gives SCOTUS a four word job description.
The LGBTQ+ folks have been contributing to and serving this nation in every capacity possible in the last 250 years. They pay taxes. They can be drafted in the time of war and have served in every war we've had.
So, oh hell no, they are not going back to the 1900's or any other century!
That phrase "One nation under God" should be "One nation under law, indivisible with liberty and equal justice for all."
Thanks for the warning on this one, Thom. This Report needs to be shared---they all do.
Thiel is like a lot of Log Cabin Republicans and evenLibertarians like Andrew Sullivan. they don't marry, and they believe that their wealth and social status renders them immune/
I've seen Bolivian on Bill Maher, vehemently defend the gay right to marry, then take off on Transgendered..The hypocrisy of I got mine and fuck you use to astound me, especially with the anti immigrant Hispanics. like Joe Arpaio. and there is that right wing extremist naturalized congresswoman from Texas 18th, Mayra Flores, who is for the most extreme right wing positions on everything including immigration.
I personally know another, a Panamanian naturalized via his mother, who is as MAGAt as hate filled they come.
That's a very good ad. I think I understand how Trump was able to look better than Biden at the debate. Trump's strategy was to throw so many whoppers at Biden, so fast, he wasn't able to respond, before another was served up. I've seen other GOP members that use that strategy, apparently it has become a GOP go to strategy, when cornered. Their goal is to confuse their opponent. If they throw enough lies, that take a lot of explaining to unpack, they can overwhelm anyone trying to explain what the truthful position is. It works well for capturing low information spectators.
It was a disgusting debate strategy, used by a deeply morally & disgustingly corrupt conman, that fools the gullible and the insatiably greedy. But not critical thinking people, with compassion, and those that actually care about our country and know the actual backgrounds of these men; and not what right wing media pundants and Donald Trump want us to believe.
They use that tactic on substack as well, Richard. On Robert Reich, they hurl more charges than one can coherentlhy respond to. Thom's as well, the Putin troll that does by Barry and claims to be D.O. especially his comments are a smorgasboard of attacks.
Yes, several writers have explained this rhetorical device the Republicans are using against us. We were naive to think Trump would debate fairly. The American people deserve to watch a fair debate focusing on policy, but the Republicans will never win an honest debate on policy as their policies are contrary to what most Americans prefer and on most issues.
Let’s focus on the big picture such as this issues and many others instead of the insanity of dumping Biden and starting a civil war between Dems. That’s just what the GQP wants.
I have been watching with growing alarm how the media pundits are hashing and rehashing this “breaking-news-shiny-object” story. I’ve gotten to the point that I just turn off the programs I usually watch. I got to thinking last night after switching from MSNBC to HGTV because I’d had enough (yet again!) that it all seems too slick, too focused, too many “an unnamed source said….”. I don’t go in for conspiracy theories & the like, but it struck me that it reminded me of a “disinformation operation” to stir sh*t up and cause confusion & doubt. Most of the folks I know & many online commenters, while acknowledging Biden is old (he knows it too!), stand firmly in support of his candidacy, so that got me to wondering…. Dunno, but I’d sure hate to discover in the coming months or years that meddling by bad actors, such as was uncovered inMueller’s report, had taken place.
If we are not able to help our fellow Americans understand that this is an "activist" Supreme Court that will take us back 100 years, we stand to lose (over a several year span if the Republican Party controls the levers of government) most or all of what has been achieved since the days of FDR. This court's ruling on presidential immunity was for one purpose alone: to elevate the "unitary executive" to a position where he is untouchable and functions like a monarch. The current incarnation of the Republican Party has shown us it cares little, if at all, for the welfare of ordinary Americans, preferring to hand power and control to the small class of powerful and often wealthy so they may continue to grow in wealth and power off of the backs of working Americans. Families can and will continue to be split up, Christian Nationalism will become the "state religion," and for that matter you can forget about supporting other democratic regimes against the growing worldwide threat of fascist authoritarian leaders. And, for those of you who read this far, don't count on your social security and medicare benefits remaining intact. While they will probably have to strip us of more Constitutional rights before they can simply take our SS and Medicare, do expect them to come after these. Fascist authoritarians do not value human life, except as servants who will bow down and do their bidding. Didn't Trump tell a rally audience he only cares about their votes recently? He is growing bolder and is the beneficiary of about 50 years of so-called activism from the base.
A daunting task right now given the public impression of Joe Biden. He and the democrats have a lot of work to do to overcome that. We shall see how that works out throughout the summer ahead.
Terrance, IMHO the public “impression” might be a bit different if SO MANY media pundits weren’t relentlessly harping on it hour after hour, day after day. I saw the debate, I saw him falter in trying to respond to a torrent of lies & bombast. I also searched for and read the transcript as soon as it was available, and if it weren’t for the optics, it made sense and covered the issues—no lies by Biden that I could ascertain. If the pundits acknowledged the “poor delivery” or “off day” and then covered what he SAID instead of running all kinds of “what if” scenarios, we would have been better off and calmer as a result. Just my 2 cents.
You are most correct. But it is sensationalism that makes the media the most money and they will squeeze that for all it's worth. They don't care who is running for president. It's all about how much money they can make right now, today. Clickbait is the moneymaking new enterprise for the mainstream media now. Nothing else matters, not even the truth. The truth only matters if it makes a lot of money.
Agree & that’s how we got TFFFG in the first place…if MSM had covered him honestly w/ investigative journalism and facts, we might not be in the middle of this mess. As the old saying goes “if it bleeds, it ledes” (“lede” being a journalistic term).
I totally agree with your assessment of the Supreme Court. In fact, liberals and all citizens that still believe in a fair-minded administration of "the rule of law" have been given a mission by this Court; to 'dismantle the fascist state'; that the GOP has been building. It's rooted in the sector of conservative government that the GOP uses, to obscure their intent, and much of that intention has been executed thru "deep state" projection, a classic misdirection scheme, rivaling the effectiveness of that of the third Reich and of Joseph Stalin.
This whole fascist movement started with the Powell Memo fuse, established in the early 70s, a few decades later Chief Justice Roberts & Moscow Mitch lit that fuse, with Citizens United; now with a voting public, conditioned with decades of fascist rhetoric coming out of the billionaire beholding GOP, we have 6 Fascists on the Court, eagerly tearing down 250 years of evolving Constitutional Law, and blowing up Stare Decisis.
Obergefel should be slam dunk, for anyone that has ever bothered to read the "equal protection clause" of the 14th amendment, & any "normal" Court. (Obviously this court's fascist wing reads the Constitution the same way they read their fundamentalist Bible, "selectively.")
The Chevron deference decision is just a naked fascist power grab, as is Dobbs, which amounted to, little more than the 6 fascist members of the court, cramming their deeply indoctrinated religious and political ideologies down the throats of every other American; all of us in the majority, that is. The Court, & the Christofascists they side with, are totally blind to the 1st amendment's religious Separation Clause.
The only back stop we have left is to keep on voting Democrat until we have a large enough, 2/3 majority (with a Dem POTUS) to cut the head off this Project 2025 & fascist arm, of this Supreme Court serpent; by rebalancing the court.
Anti-Roe had all along been a way to get low info voters and religious zealots to vote against their interests, the real agenda all along was to install corporate fascism, the proof is in the pudding, with the Chevron deference decision.
As far as Biden goes, I have no qualms about him being our future president, he is a 1000 times better than Trump, even if Biden slept thru half the day; for all but the morbidly wealthy that is. Added to that, his VP is also, easily 1000 times better, and likely, has learned a lot from her mentor, Joe Biden.
What likely happened to Joe Biden at the debate, I've experienced before, while debating other slick, low moralality, deceptive conservatives. Their strategy is to throw so many fantabulous lies at you, so fast, that you're still thinking about the last one when the next one comes at you. For people that tend to be fact based, this is very disconcerting. I don't think even media checking could have done much to alleviate such a deluge of lies.
Predators, and game in the wild, use this same strategy to confuse. Duck hunters are familiar with the concept and must resist the urge to flock shoot, and pick out individuals instead.
What I think happened to Biden was he had so many "big lies" thrown at him, so rapidly, that coupled with his not feeling well, and adding to that, his speech impediment, the lies overwhelmed his capacity to deal with them effectively. (Who among would be prepared to counter 90 minutes of non stop whoppers?) I think Donald Trump & his corrupt, fascist, immoral GOP synchophants had planned this strategy, it seems to be a Republican thing, in the age of Trump fascism.
Finally, our intensely corrupt Supreme Court, today, after months of stalling, in order to obstruct justice in favor Trump, gave Trump immunity for any acts that can be adjudicated as, in some way, "official". Taking us a long leap towards, what these sad, clown, Court jesters have as their final goal, an exclusively GOP fascism. Finally, Donald Trump's insatiable "dictator envy", and desires to have power equivalent to leaders more like Vladimir Putin & Kim Jong Un are being answered for him by this activist, fascist Court, that has no business in ever making such decisions.
We have a very good Constitution that has served, (many of us in white world well), unfortunately it has always been victimized by people of exclusionary prejudice and rapacious greed, and exploited for more wealth and power. Super predators like Charles Koch and other billionaire predators have learned how to beat the Constitution's provisions for oversight and equal protections, by funding elections, lobbying, capturing media and using law school endowments to further their ambitions,thru indoctrination, with pernicious use of bribery. Money is a tremendously corrupting influence on morality, rivaled only by fundamental religiousity. We have the worst elements of both, doing their utmost to dismantle and tear down our democracy.
Remember this when a Republican says they can run government better, they are only talking about, for rich people, and that's very questionable. The degree of narcissism required to obtain fantastic wealth is usually exclusionary to any compassion for, more ordinary people. President Biden isn't BSing anybody when he says Donald Trump is a serious threat to our country & was incompetent as a president, if you believe otherwise, the propaganda arm, or the corruption arm, of the GOP & Russia has worked over your thinking.
It is an exceedingly corrupt court indeed that would obstruct justice on a case that involves a president accused of espionage. Not only should Judge Cannon recuse, but she should be brought up on charges of aiding & abetting espionage and obstructing justice and should be arrested by the FBI.
Cannon's Trump espionage case is of such national gravity, it should have been placed on a rocket docket. The last case even remotely of such extreme national importance, for the future of our country, was the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, in the 1950's, this case should warrant at least as much attention and should be at least treated every bit as seriously.
It all really demonstrates if enough money is thrown at an issue, wealthy people can buy anything, including integrity at the heights of our government and our legal system.
Richard, the supreme Court is ruled by six traditional radical Catholics, who have their own agenda, and that agenda is identical to that of the Federalist Society which is ruled by Radical Traditional Catholics like Leonard Leo.
The are part of an ecumenical organization called Domininism, it has Protestants and Catholics, and it has made inroads into the service academies, starting when Mega Churches moved into Colorado Springs after the Air Force Academy opened it's doors.
Back around 1998 I was on a forum, and one member, a Dominionist, (Christian Reconstruction warned that they will restore order.
The movement was founded by R J Rushdoony and Ted Cruz father Rafael.
William, scary, no?? Some time back I came across what is called the Seven Mountains Mandate, which seems part & parcel w/ Domininism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate. I find it odd/interesting/coincidental that it it came to be around the same time (just after) that now famous Powell Memo which ended up guiding so much of the Reagan (and R’s) policies (to this day).
Thanks Barbara and thanks for the link. Apparently this ideology comes under many names.
I've laid into Islamism quite a bit, but religious fundamentalism comes in all flavors, it is simply a tool of social control, and social control by men..
The whole thing is as old as time itself, when men called themselves priests or whatever, would wash, garland a virgin, rape her, dress her in white and then sacrifice her (to seal her mouth).
Motives are disguised by "sacred texts", men who use something called god as a sock puppet, but the real purpose is social control, and social control starts at the personal level, and it starts with total control over women and children.
Augustus Caesar knew that, and thus his law of Pater Familia which gave the husband life and death control over his wife and children.
The closest I can come to any “religion” is “may the Force be with you”. I was, IMHO, fortunate to be raised in a three-generation-secular family (now going on 5 gens deep), so nothing to distance myself from, tho I’m all for folks following their own path/choices. Just yesterday for the first time since Covid abated, I was visited by a new pair of proselytizing folks knocking on my door. I’ve always had, as I did today, a pleasant conversation whilst stating clearly my stance. Instead of a WatchTower pamphlet, I was given a business card with a url to check out—something new, so not sure if they’re the same outfit or not. I asked them if they knew about Project 2025 & they did not; I suggested they look into it and, if they believed in choices as they’d indicated, they might want to push back against it with their votes. Worth a try!!!
Thanks for Sharing Barbara, I wasn't raised religiously, though Mom (a single mom) sent us to the nearest church, because they gave food baskets at Xmas and Thanksgiving to the poor members of the church,. However I read the Bible cover to cover at age 12, and without an adult telling me what this or that was suppose to mean, and because I had read books like the Odyssey by Homer at age 8, I realized that the whole thing as a giant, and horrible fable, the incest, murder, genocide ordered by a god, who evidently was not able to kill himself, but needed help from mortal men, was a little too much.
BTW COVID has not abated. My wife and I have had 7 vaccinations with Moderna, she went on a trip to visit her family and picked up a gift in the airport.. COVID. this is day 5, and I am doing well, at least we haven't had those awful respiratory problems. Thanks to the shots, basically we were dealing with a flu. Will self test this afternoon, I have to go to the market, so let's hope.
And as the twisted six on the absconded court pace their playout to embrace the Nazi program of hating and harshly punishing the homosexuals, carefully paced to control public reaction, things will be set free and happening in Bubbaville. Bubba won't wait, nor will he be held much accountable. Even with all the alarms about forests getting thinner, Bubba can always find a tree.
It is my humble opinion that this insurrection is being fueled by the hatred of gay people! I don't think the religious lunatics will ever accept the gay people until they are all raised together in agnostic villages from babies!
We cannot make the closed-minded, whose brains do not function properly virtuous! They are sadists! The human part of their mind was circumcised when they went to religious training.
We can either accept that fact or try to force them to be human! That is what this whole insurrection is about. The Christians hate the queers so much that they don't care if Trump steals all of our money and we end up looking like 50 of the worst Nations on Earth!
We need a leader that will let the gays all live together, have self supporting penal colonies and self-supporting poor farms that are humane. Bring back manufacturing and stop overpopulation! Neither Trump or Biden are up to the task. Trump is up to stealing the national treasury though and enslaving everyone he hates!
Gay folks are always a target of fascists, however they are not the only targets, they are merely a convenient target that will foment anger and hatred. If you can get people to ignore their higher, rational mind and retreat to their animal instincts, you create a MAGA movement.
Checking one's voter registration will simply not be enough. Millions of new voters must be signed up and motivated to show up (or mail in a ballot) in November. There must be an overwhelming Democratic victory giving us the House, Senate, and presidency or we will be mired in questions and controversies for the next four years.
That's exactly what FT6 does. Only group that just registers Democrats. Meanwhile DNC and other groups concentrate on GOTV.
You can do it yourself. https://voterizer.org/
We still have the capacity to sweep. Register more Democrats.
https://www.fieldteam6.org/
This Supreme Court has gone so overboard that I think we need to expand the court. My preference is one Justice for each Federal District. I think there are 13 at the moment. Should be based on something solid or the next administration could add more and more justices.
I thought that Republicans were the party of individual freedoms. I guess it's only individual freedoms for Republicans.
The trouble is they lie, with abandon. They tell Americans they stand for freedoms most people value and since most Americans are "asleep at the wheel," they are believed. There is nothing off limits. Truly, most of us who are reasonable and live on Earth 1, never thought Roe v. Wade would be overturned. The so-called conservative justices insisted it was settled law during their Senate hearings. Don't believe a single assurance these people offer, unless it is to further limit our freedoms, deliver power and wealth to those who generally don't need either and won't share with ordinary folks. We are cattle to these people and we exist to serve "our betters." This has been the cruel way of this world for centuries. Indeed, we have had a brief period where our middle class grew and thrived, but why would you think the powerful would want to increase that trend? When we earn too much money for our own goods, become too well educated, when we have the disposable income that allows us more discretionary power over our own lives, we become a threat to their dominion over us and this must change. Don't think for a minute the Republicans will do anything to help the middle and lower classed, it is their policies that have largely created the circumstances we find ourselves in now while they tell us it is essentially our own faults (synonymous with the Democratic Party).
Nothing this court decides would surprise me at this point. If Biden does not win along with Democratic majorities in both houses, we will lose many of the rights we take for granted, including the right to speak our minds in this format. Keith olbermann, HCR, and David Feldman also had comments I recommend to shed more light on the situation since the debate. Thanks Thom for reminding us another right which is at stake, the right to marry the person we choose.
We agree, this emboldened court will continue to strip us of our hard earned rights and opportunities. They don't want us to be successful, unless we do their bidding, which means we help them enforce their agenda on their peers.
NC Ashe County Democrats held a successful door knocking campaign on Saturday. Considering this is rural country, we still knocked on 257 doors. Chuck Hubbard is running against Virginia Foxx in the house, throw him some money if your able to! ;)
On one day in March, FT 6 signed up 11,000 new North Carolina Democratic voters during the FT 6 summit.
https://www.fieldteam6.org/summit-2024
Overcoming history and tradition should be a PRIORITY if it interferes with Equal Justice Under Law. That phrase is carved into the Supreme Court building, and it gives SCOTUS a four word job description.
The LGBTQ+ folks have been contributing to and serving this nation in every capacity possible in the last 250 years. They pay taxes. They can be drafted in the time of war and have served in every war we've had.
So, oh hell no, they are not going back to the 1900's or any other century!
That phrase "One nation under God" should be "One nation under law, indivisible with liberty and equal justice for all."
Thanks for the warning on this one, Thom. This Report needs to be shared---they all do.
Peter Thiel -- slitting his own throat. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/02/peter-thiel-tied-dark-money-group-helping-bankroll-super-pac-spending-on-2022-election/
Vance just did his best to convince people Russia is going to win in Ukraine. You can bet Putin wants Trump to pick him. Disgusting!
Thiel is like a lot of Log Cabin Republicans and evenLibertarians like Andrew Sullivan. they don't marry, and they believe that their wealth and social status renders them immune/
I've seen Bolivian on Bill Maher, vehemently defend the gay right to marry, then take off on Transgendered..The hypocrisy of I got mine and fuck you use to astound me, especially with the anti immigrant Hispanics. like Joe Arpaio. and there is that right wing extremist naturalized congresswoman from Texas 18th, Mayra Flores, who is for the most extreme right wing positions on everything including immigration.
I personally know another, a Panamanian naturalized via his mother, who is as MAGAt as hate filled they come.
Here’s a new Biden campaign ad about the debate.
Please share widely especially with the bed-wetters and pearl-clutchers.
https://youtu.be/U-XXfex0_3Q
That's a very good ad. I think I understand how Trump was able to look better than Biden at the debate. Trump's strategy was to throw so many whoppers at Biden, so fast, he wasn't able to respond, before another was served up. I've seen other GOP members that use that strategy, apparently it has become a GOP go to strategy, when cornered. Their goal is to confuse their opponent. If they throw enough lies, that take a lot of explaining to unpack, they can overwhelm anyone trying to explain what the truthful position is. It works well for capturing low information spectators.
It was a disgusting debate strategy, used by a deeply morally & disgustingly corrupt conman, that fools the gullible and the insatiably greedy. But not critical thinking people, with compassion, and those that actually care about our country and know the actual backgrounds of these men; and not what right wing media pundants and Donald Trump want us to believe.
They use that tactic on substack as well, Richard. On Robert Reich, they hurl more charges than one can coherentlhy respond to. Thom's as well, the Putin troll that does by Barry and claims to be D.O. especially his comments are a smorgasboard of attacks.
Yes, several writers have explained this rhetorical device the Republicans are using against us. We were naive to think Trump would debate fairly. The American people deserve to watch a fair debate focusing on policy, but the Republicans will never win an honest debate on policy as their policies are contrary to what most Americans prefer and on most issues.
Let’s focus on the big picture such as this issues and many others instead of the insanity of dumping Biden and starting a civil war between Dems. That’s just what the GQP wants.
I have been watching with growing alarm how the media pundits are hashing and rehashing this “breaking-news-shiny-object” story. I’ve gotten to the point that I just turn off the programs I usually watch. I got to thinking last night after switching from MSNBC to HGTV because I’d had enough (yet again!) that it all seems too slick, too focused, too many “an unnamed source said….”. I don’t go in for conspiracy theories & the like, but it struck me that it reminded me of a “disinformation operation” to stir sh*t up and cause confusion & doubt. Most of the folks I know & many online commenters, while acknowledging Biden is old (he knows it too!), stand firmly in support of his candidacy, so that got me to wondering…. Dunno, but I’d sure hate to discover in the coming months or years that meddling by bad actors, such as was uncovered inMueller’s report, had taken place.
The 4th estate is hanging by a thread.
Most of Europe truly remembers/understands the threat of fascism.
We better win this election or it's game over for our American experiment in democracy. Register and GOTV!
If we are not able to help our fellow Americans understand that this is an "activist" Supreme Court that will take us back 100 years, we stand to lose (over a several year span if the Republican Party controls the levers of government) most or all of what has been achieved since the days of FDR. This court's ruling on presidential immunity was for one purpose alone: to elevate the "unitary executive" to a position where he is untouchable and functions like a monarch. The current incarnation of the Republican Party has shown us it cares little, if at all, for the welfare of ordinary Americans, preferring to hand power and control to the small class of powerful and often wealthy so they may continue to grow in wealth and power off of the backs of working Americans. Families can and will continue to be split up, Christian Nationalism will become the "state religion," and for that matter you can forget about supporting other democratic regimes against the growing worldwide threat of fascist authoritarian leaders. And, for those of you who read this far, don't count on your social security and medicare benefits remaining intact. While they will probably have to strip us of more Constitutional rights before they can simply take our SS and Medicare, do expect them to come after these. Fascist authoritarians do not value human life, except as servants who will bow down and do their bidding. Didn't Trump tell a rally audience he only cares about their votes recently? He is growing bolder and is the beneficiary of about 50 years of so-called activism from the base.
A daunting task right now given the public impression of Joe Biden. He and the democrats have a lot of work to do to overcome that. We shall see how that works out throughout the summer ahead.
Bingo. That’s the subject of today’s Daily Take, in fact… it’ll be up in a few hours…
Terrance, IMHO the public “impression” might be a bit different if SO MANY media pundits weren’t relentlessly harping on it hour after hour, day after day. I saw the debate, I saw him falter in trying to respond to a torrent of lies & bombast. I also searched for and read the transcript as soon as it was available, and if it weren’t for the optics, it made sense and covered the issues—no lies by Biden that I could ascertain. If the pundits acknowledged the “poor delivery” or “off day” and then covered what he SAID instead of running all kinds of “what if” scenarios, we would have been better off and calmer as a result. Just my 2 cents.
You are most correct. But it is sensationalism that makes the media the most money and they will squeeze that for all it's worth. They don't care who is running for president. It's all about how much money they can make right now, today. Clickbait is the moneymaking new enterprise for the mainstream media now. Nothing else matters, not even the truth. The truth only matters if it makes a lot of money.
Agree & that’s how we got TFFFG in the first place…if MSM had covered him honestly w/ investigative journalism and facts, we might not be in the middle of this mess. As the old saying goes “if it bleeds, it ledes” (“lede” being a journalistic term).
I totally agree with your assessment of the Supreme Court. In fact, liberals and all citizens that still believe in a fair-minded administration of "the rule of law" have been given a mission by this Court; to 'dismantle the fascist state'; that the GOP has been building. It's rooted in the sector of conservative government that the GOP uses, to obscure their intent, and much of that intention has been executed thru "deep state" projection, a classic misdirection scheme, rivaling the effectiveness of that of the third Reich and of Joseph Stalin.
This whole fascist movement started with the Powell Memo fuse, established in the early 70s, a few decades later Chief Justice Roberts & Moscow Mitch lit that fuse, with Citizens United; now with a voting public, conditioned with decades of fascist rhetoric coming out of the billionaire beholding GOP, we have 6 Fascists on the Court, eagerly tearing down 250 years of evolving Constitutional Law, and blowing up Stare Decisis.
Obergefel should be slam dunk, for anyone that has ever bothered to read the "equal protection clause" of the 14th amendment, & any "normal" Court. (Obviously this court's fascist wing reads the Constitution the same way they read their fundamentalist Bible, "selectively.")
The Chevron deference decision is just a naked fascist power grab, as is Dobbs, which amounted to, little more than the 6 fascist members of the court, cramming their deeply indoctrinated religious and political ideologies down the throats of every other American; all of us in the majority, that is. The Court, & the Christofascists they side with, are totally blind to the 1st amendment's religious Separation Clause.
The only back stop we have left is to keep on voting Democrat until we have a large enough, 2/3 majority (with a Dem POTUS) to cut the head off this Project 2025 & fascist arm, of this Supreme Court serpent; by rebalancing the court.
Anti-Roe had all along been a way to get low info voters and religious zealots to vote against their interests, the real agenda all along was to install corporate fascism, the proof is in the pudding, with the Chevron deference decision.
As far as Biden goes, I have no qualms about him being our future president, he is a 1000 times better than Trump, even if Biden slept thru half the day; for all but the morbidly wealthy that is. Added to that, his VP is also, easily 1000 times better, and likely, has learned a lot from her mentor, Joe Biden.
What likely happened to Joe Biden at the debate, I've experienced before, while debating other slick, low moralality, deceptive conservatives. Their strategy is to throw so many fantabulous lies at you, so fast, that you're still thinking about the last one when the next one comes at you. For people that tend to be fact based, this is very disconcerting. I don't think even media checking could have done much to alleviate such a deluge of lies.
Predators, and game in the wild, use this same strategy to confuse. Duck hunters are familiar with the concept and must resist the urge to flock shoot, and pick out individuals instead.
What I think happened to Biden was he had so many "big lies" thrown at him, so rapidly, that coupled with his not feeling well, and adding to that, his speech impediment, the lies overwhelmed his capacity to deal with them effectively. (Who among would be prepared to counter 90 minutes of non stop whoppers?) I think Donald Trump & his corrupt, fascist, immoral GOP synchophants had planned this strategy, it seems to be a Republican thing, in the age of Trump fascism.
Finally, our intensely corrupt Supreme Court, today, after months of stalling, in order to obstruct justice in favor Trump, gave Trump immunity for any acts that can be adjudicated as, in some way, "official". Taking us a long leap towards, what these sad, clown, Court jesters have as their final goal, an exclusively GOP fascism. Finally, Donald Trump's insatiable "dictator envy", and desires to have power equivalent to leaders more like Vladimir Putin & Kim Jong Un are being answered for him by this activist, fascist Court, that has no business in ever making such decisions.
We have a very good Constitution that has served, (many of us in white world well), unfortunately it has always been victimized by people of exclusionary prejudice and rapacious greed, and exploited for more wealth and power. Super predators like Charles Koch and other billionaire predators have learned how to beat the Constitution's provisions for oversight and equal protections, by funding elections, lobbying, capturing media and using law school endowments to further their ambitions,thru indoctrination, with pernicious use of bribery. Money is a tremendously corrupting influence on morality, rivaled only by fundamental religiousity. We have the worst elements of both, doing their utmost to dismantle and tear down our democracy.
Remember this when a Republican says they can run government better, they are only talking about, for rich people, and that's very questionable. The degree of narcissism required to obtain fantastic wealth is usually exclusionary to any compassion for, more ordinary people. President Biden isn't BSing anybody when he says Donald Trump is a serious threat to our country & was incompetent as a president, if you believe otherwise, the propaganda arm, or the corruption arm, of the GOP & Russia has worked over your thinking.
It is an exceedingly corrupt court indeed that would obstruct justice on a case that involves a president accused of espionage. Not only should Judge Cannon recuse, but she should be brought up on charges of aiding & abetting espionage and obstructing justice and should be arrested by the FBI.
Cannon's Trump espionage case is of such national gravity, it should have been placed on a rocket docket. The last case even remotely of such extreme national importance, for the future of our country, was the espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, in the 1950's, this case should warrant at least as much attention and should be at least treated every bit as seriously.
It all really demonstrates if enough money is thrown at an issue, wealthy people can buy anything, including integrity at the heights of our government and our legal system.
Richard, the supreme Court is ruled by six traditional radical Catholics, who have their own agenda, and that agenda is identical to that of the Federalist Society which is ruled by Radical Traditional Catholics like Leonard Leo.
The are part of an ecumenical organization called Domininism, it has Protestants and Catholics, and it has made inroads into the service academies, starting when Mega Churches moved into Colorado Springs after the Air Force Academy opened it's doors.
Back around 1998 I was on a forum, and one member, a Dominionist, (Christian Reconstruction warned that they will restore order.
The movement was founded by R J Rushdoony and Ted Cruz father Rafael.
If curious browse this site, hair raising
https://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/fundienazis/royal_race.htm
William, scary, no?? Some time back I came across what is called the Seven Mountains Mandate, which seems part & parcel w/ Domininism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate. I find it odd/interesting/coincidental that it it came to be around the same time (just after) that now famous Powell Memo which ended up guiding so much of the Reagan (and R’s) policies (to this day).
Thanks Barbara and thanks for the link. Apparently this ideology comes under many names.
I've laid into Islamism quite a bit, but religious fundamentalism comes in all flavors, it is simply a tool of social control, and social control by men..
The whole thing is as old as time itself, when men called themselves priests or whatever, would wash, garland a virgin, rape her, dress her in white and then sacrifice her (to seal her mouth).
Motives are disguised by "sacred texts", men who use something called god as a sock puppet, but the real purpose is social control, and social control starts at the personal level, and it starts with total control over women and children.
Augustus Caesar knew that, and thus his law of Pater Familia which gave the husband life and death control over his wife and children.
The closest I can come to any “religion” is “may the Force be with you”. I was, IMHO, fortunate to be raised in a three-generation-secular family (now going on 5 gens deep), so nothing to distance myself from, tho I’m all for folks following their own path/choices. Just yesterday for the first time since Covid abated, I was visited by a new pair of proselytizing folks knocking on my door. I’ve always had, as I did today, a pleasant conversation whilst stating clearly my stance. Instead of a WatchTower pamphlet, I was given a business card with a url to check out—something new, so not sure if they’re the same outfit or not. I asked them if they knew about Project 2025 & they did not; I suggested they look into it and, if they believed in choices as they’d indicated, they might want to push back against it with their votes. Worth a try!!!
Thanks for Sharing Barbara, I wasn't raised religiously, though Mom (a single mom) sent us to the nearest church, because they gave food baskets at Xmas and Thanksgiving to the poor members of the church,. However I read the Bible cover to cover at age 12, and without an adult telling me what this or that was suppose to mean, and because I had read books like the Odyssey by Homer at age 8, I realized that the whole thing as a giant, and horrible fable, the incest, murder, genocide ordered by a god, who evidently was not able to kill himself, but needed help from mortal men, was a little too much.
BTW COVID has not abated. My wife and I have had 7 vaccinations with Moderna, she went on a trip to visit her family and picked up a gift in the airport.. COVID. this is day 5, and I am doing well, at least we haven't had those awful respiratory problems. Thanks to the shots, basically we were dealing with a flu. Will self test this afternoon, I have to go to the market, so let's hope.
And as the twisted six on the absconded court pace their playout to embrace the Nazi program of hating and harshly punishing the homosexuals, carefully paced to control public reaction, things will be set free and happening in Bubbaville. Bubba won't wait, nor will he be held much accountable. Even with all the alarms about forests getting thinner, Bubba can always find a tree.
It is my humble opinion that this insurrection is being fueled by the hatred of gay people! I don't think the religious lunatics will ever accept the gay people until they are all raised together in agnostic villages from babies!
We cannot make the closed-minded, whose brains do not function properly virtuous! They are sadists! The human part of their mind was circumcised when they went to religious training.
We can either accept that fact or try to force them to be human! That is what this whole insurrection is about. The Christians hate the queers so much that they don't care if Trump steals all of our money and we end up looking like 50 of the worst Nations on Earth!
We need a leader that will let the gays all live together, have self supporting penal colonies and self-supporting poor farms that are humane. Bring back manufacturing and stop overpopulation! Neither Trump or Biden are up to the task. Trump is up to stealing the national treasury though and enslaving everyone he hates!
Gay folks are always a target of fascists, however they are not the only targets, they are merely a convenient target that will foment anger and hatred. If you can get people to ignore their higher, rational mind and retreat to their animal instincts, you create a MAGA movement.
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