2022 elections. The steady march for sanity continues.

[Budley Doright]

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/oct/02/us-supreme-court-cases-monumental-impact-democracy
we have to keep the majority we have, and expand it by a few seats...or THIS^...
the day after the elections, impeachment proceeding need to be started against at least Kavanaugh and Barrett for being perjurous liars...and a separate investigation into clarence thomas and his fucking freak queen wife for all kinds of shit...from her influencing him with her radical views and associations, to him knowingly making rulings on issues he has personal involvement with, through her...
unless we want to end up living in gillead, with the government controlling every aspect of our daily lives, we have to fucking stop them here and now.

I hope you all can stop it Roger. I just started watching handmaids tale and old Marg was looking spot on o!

 

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... unless we want to end up living in gillead,

it has its compensations.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

it has its compensations.

you find Maynard G Krebbs attractive?
Dawn Wells was so hot...

 

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you find Maynard G Krebbs attractive?
Dawn Wells was so hot...

Naw; but he is brilliantly cast as the lovable simpleton. His companions are drop-dead.

 

[hanimmal]

This seems like something that would be easy for the Republicans to have set up as a false flag. The way he keeps saying 'they' are doing it to hurt him. There is something weird about the abortion costing $500 and she getting a check for $100 from him. Eventually it will be figured out, but it is something that I would focus on at all because the GQP had to have had something planned to highlight something that would trigger a bunch of guys wanting to find something to be mad about enough to vote.

The focus should just stick with how utterly more qualified in every way that Warnock is to be the senator of Georgia.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

This seems like something that would be easy for the Republicans to have set up as a false flag. The way he keeps saying 'they' are doing it to hurt him. There is something weird about the abortion costing $500 and she getting a check for $100 from him. Eventually it will be figured out, but it is something that I would focus on at all because the GQP had to have had something planned to highlight something that would trigger a bunch of guys wanting to find something to be mad about enough to vote.

The focus should just stick with how utterly more qualified in every way that Warnock is to be the senator of Georgia.

Is not realizing you're stupid a thing that becomes easier to accomplish, the stupider you are? I don't like people to think i'm a fucking idiot, and walker is about to try to win a position where he'll spend the next 6 years having his stupidity hammered home every time he opens his mouth. I don't think i could take that...but maybe walker is stupid enough not to realize that he's stupid enough

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

This seems like something that would be easy for the Republicans to have set up as a false flag. The way he keeps saying 'they' are doing it to hurt him. There is something weird about the abortion costing $500 and she getting a check for $100 from him. Eventually it will be figured out, but it is something that I would focus on at all because the GQP had to have had something planned to highlight something that would trigger a bunch of guys wanting to find something to be mad about enough to vote.

The focus should just stick with how utterly more qualified in every way that Warnock is to be the senator of Georgia.

the only thing i don't like about Warnock is his religious affiliation, but no one is perfect

 

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Is not realizing you're stupid a thing that becomes easier to accomplish, the stupider you are? I don't like people to think i'm a fucking idiot, and walker is about to try to win a position where he'll spend the next 6 years having his stupidity hammered home every time he opens his mouth. I don't think i could take that...but maybe walker is stupid enough not to realize that he's stupid enough

To the first sentence, yes.

It is one of the traits that separate stupid from simply dumb.

 

[CunningCanuk]

Is not realizing you're stupid a thing that becomes easier to accomplish, the stupider you are? I don't like people to think i'm a fucking idiot, and walker is about to try to win a position where he'll spend the next 6 years having his stupidity hammered home every time he opens his mouth. I don't think i could take that...but maybe walker is stupid enough not to realize that he's stupid enough

He is a great, although unintentional, ambassador for tighter concussion protocols in the NFL.

 

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He is a great, although unintentional, ambassador for tighter concussion protocols in the NFL.

This hits the nail right on the

… oh look!! Houses!

 

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New polling shows why Republicans scattered like pigeons from Graham's national abortion ban

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina thought he had hit a sweet spot last month when he introduced his 15-week national abortion ban. It was something Republicans could supposedly rally around and, yet, not as repulsive as a zero-tolerance national...

www.dailykos.com

In broad terms, Americans oppose a nationwide abortion ban by a 41-point margin, 27% support-68% oppose, including a 70% majority of independents and even a 49% plurality of Republicans (with 44% supporting one).

But Navigator also tested support for abortion bans using two different descriptions, one of which specified banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Described as a “national abortion ban, which would ban abortions in all 50 states without exceptions for the health of the mother” without mentioning the 15-week restriction, respondents opposed ban by 41 points, 25% support-66% opposed.

But adding Graham's 15-week qualifier barely moved the needle. Described as a "national abortion ban, which would ban abortions in all 50 states after 15 weeks without exceptions for the health of the mother," the measure was still 38 points underwater, with 27% support-65% opposed.

In the end, a national ban is a national ban to two-thirds of Americans, no matter how Graham tried to dress it up.

Another key finding of the survey was that respondents found the prospect of a national abortion ban even more motivating than the overturning of Roe v. Wade itself.
...

 

[hanimmal]

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sports-violence-fb9b074edd2d9f1060dcbad1c95f30fb

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul was the victim of a violent attack in 2017 when his neighbor slammed into him from behind outside his Kentucky home. Earlier that year, Paul took cover when a gunman opened fire while GOP members of Congress practiced for a charity baseball game.

Paul revived those traumatic events in his bid for reelection this year, with an incendiary social media video attacking his Democratic challenger, Charles Booker. The video, released Monday shortly before a Senate campaign forum he declined to take part in, says outright that Booker “doesn’t believe in civil discourse, only violence.” It accuses the Black former state lawmaker of associating with members of the “radical left” who condone and perpetrate violence.

Booker denounced the ad, saying it includes “dangerous and dishonest rhetoric.”

“His ad grossly lies about me and, in a very sinister way, attacks several Kentucky citizens by name,” Booker said Tuesday. “Neither I, nor my campaign, have ever endorsed violence against any political candidate. It is despicable for Rand Paul to even insinuate that. As an elected official and candidate, my family and I have received death threats — this is not something I take lightly because I understand the issue intimately.”

The video was the latest eyebrow-raising tactic in a campaign featuring unconventional politicians. Booker appeared with a noose around his neck in an online ad soon after the spring primary to draw attention to Paul’s stance on anti-lynching legislation.

Paul’s video doesn’t mention unrest from the far right or the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In the wake of the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, law enforcement officials across the country warned about an increase in threats and the potential for violent attacks on federal agents or buildings.

The video was released as a preemptive attack against Booker shortly before the Democratic challenger appeared at a campaign forum aired on statewide television. Paul, who is seeking a third term in November, was invited but did not participate in the program.

Paul’s campaign scoured through social media to make its video claims that Booker’s campaign has “embraced people who celebrate and glorify” violence against Paul. It says a Booker volunteer tweeted a “graphic doctored image” of Paul with a broken neck. And it claims a woman featured supporting Booker in a social media video has referred to Paul’s attacker as her hero.

The senator suffered broken ribs and later underwent lung surgery for injuries he says he sustained in the attack. The assailant was given a prison sentence and Paul was awarded more than $580,000 in damages and medical expenses in his lawsuit against the man.

Booker said Tuesday that to associate him with Paul’s “violent altercation with his neighbor from five years ago is desperate, ridiculous, wholly offensive and unacceptable.”

“Rand Paul has used racially charged dog whistles throughout this campaign to paint a violent picture of me, instead of having the backbone to face me and the people of Kentucky on the merits of our vision for this commonwealth,” Booker said.

The video also references 2019 remarks by a Black Lives Matter leader in Louisville that appeared to condone violence against Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.

“Civil debate is an admired quality in a Republic but justifying, mocking, or celebrating violence, as documented in this video of Booker and his allies, should be rejected,” Paul said Monday.

During his Monday night appearance on Kentucky Educational Television, Booker accused Paul of “blowing the dog whistle” on public safety and policing issues. Paul’s campaign and his allies have tried to connect Booker with the “defund the police” movement.

“Rand Paul wants people to look at the color of my skin instead of my record,” Booker said.

Paul has frequently visited mostly Black neighborhoods during his Senate tenure, touting criminal justice reforms, anti-violence efforts and education initiatives.

When pressed during the KET program on whether he supports eliminating law enforcement budgets, Booker replied: “It doesn’t make sense to get rid of budgets for law enforcement or any government agency.”

Supporting “structural change,” he said, doesn’t equate to backing “any sort of abolishment.”

“When there’s a crisis, when someone’s in an emergency, we all want to call 911 and have someone in law enforcement come to our aid,” Booker said. “What we don’t need is that same agency we call to protect and serve us, kick in our door and shoot us in the dead of night.”

In 2020, Booker marched in protests sparked in part by the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot when police officers burst into her Louisville apartment during a narcotics investigation. They found no drugs. Booker ran for the Senate that year but narrowly lost in the Democratic primary.

 

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https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-sports-violence-fb9b074edd2d9f1060dcbad1c95f30fb
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Gobbels: Accuse your enemies of that which you are guilty of, Trump never invented projection.

 

[hanimmal]

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

FUCK...i hate Lowes, but it looks like i'll be buying my hardware from them in the future, because FUCK HOMEDEPOT

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1578195914056904704

 

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Federal judge says DeJoy changes to postal service before 2020 election harmed delivery
A federal judge found on Wednesday that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s changes to the U.S. Postal Service before the 2020 election harmed mail delivery.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled that the U.S. Postal Service failed to seek the advice of the Postal Regulatory Commission, as was required, before making the substantial changes that resulted in slowed delivery.

Sullivan noted that the several states, counties and cities who filed suit against DeJoy and the Postal Service had shown that the delays affected their ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and provide safe alternatives to in-person voting.

“Indeed, after the changes were implemented, the record shows that service scores precipitously declined in late July and had not fully rebounded by October 2020,” Sullivan wrote, concluding that the harm caused was “fairly traceable” to the agency’s changes.

In June and July 2020, DeJoy implemented several significant changes to the U.S. Postal Service. As part of an initiative to optimize the number of sorting machines, the agency eliminated several hundred machines in a two-month span.

The agency also sought to reduce unearned overtime, eliminate late and extra trips, and move sorting to the afternoon to start routes earlier. The U.S. Postal Service’s general counsel also told many states that if they did not pay first class postage on ballots that voters might not receive them in time to return them by mail.

Most of these changes were reversed or paused in the following months. The agency halted the removal of sorting machines until after the 2020 election and instructed its employees to prioritize election mail no matter the paid class.

The initiative to move to move sorting to the afternoon was completely scrapped, while the efforts to reduce overtime and late and extra trips were clarified to note that the overtime and additional trips were not banned. However, the effects lingered, with confusion over the “conflicting messaging.”

While Sullivan ruled partly in favor of the group filing suit, he rejected several other claims, including that the Postal Service intended to impair the administration of the election.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service noted in a statement to The Hill that the agency remains “fully committed to the secure, timely delivery of the nation’s Election Mail.”

“Any suggestion that the Postal Service or anyone in Postal Service leadership, up to and including the Postmaster General, at any point in time was not fully committed to supporting our democratic process is inconsistent with the facts and our performance in 2020 and 2021,” the spokesperson added.

Federal judge says DeJoy changes to postal service before 2020 election harmed delivery

A federal judge found on Wednesday that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s changes to the U.S. Postal Service before the 2020 election harmed mail delivery. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan rule…

thehill.com

 

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Federal judge says DeJoy changes to postal service before 2020 election harmed delivery
A federal judge found on Wednesday that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s changes to the U.S. Postal Service before the 2020 election harmed mail delivery.

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled that the U.S. Postal Service failed to seek the advice of the Postal Regulatory Commission, as was required, before making the substantial changes that resulted in slowed delivery.

Sullivan noted that the several states, counties and cities who filed suit against DeJoy and the Postal Service had shown that the delays affected their ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and provide safe alternatives to in-person voting.

“Indeed, after the changes were implemented, the record shows that service scores precipitously declined in late July and had not fully rebounded by October 2020,” Sullivan wrote, concluding that the harm caused was “fairly traceable” to the agency’s changes.

In June and July 2020, DeJoy implemented several significant changes to the U.S. Postal Service. As part of an initiative to optimize the number of sorting machines, the agency eliminated several hundred machines in a two-month span.

The agency also sought to reduce unearned overtime, eliminate late and extra trips, and move sorting to the afternoon to start routes earlier. The U.S. Postal Service’s general counsel also told many states that if they did not pay first class postage on ballots that voters might not receive them in time to return them by mail.

Most of these changes were reversed or paused in the following months. The agency halted the removal of sorting machines until after the 2020 election and instructed its employees to prioritize election mail no matter the paid class.

The initiative to move to move sorting to the afternoon was completely scrapped, while the efforts to reduce overtime and late and extra trips were clarified to note that the overtime and additional trips were not banned. However, the effects lingered, with confusion over the “conflicting messaging.”

While Sullivan ruled partly in favor of the group filing suit, he rejected several other claims, including that the Postal Service intended to impair the administration of the election.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service noted in a statement to The Hill that the agency remains “fully committed to the secure, timely delivery of the nation’s Election Mail.”

“Any suggestion that the Postal Service or anyone in Postal Service leadership, up to and including the Postmaster General, at any point in time was not fully committed to supporting our democratic process is inconsistent with the facts and our performance in 2020 and 2021,” the spokesperson added.

Federal judge says DeJoy changes to postal service before 2020 election harmed delivery

A federal judge found on Wednesday that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s changes to the U.S. Postal Service before the 2020 election harmed mail delivery. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan rule…

thehill.com

I hope it is enough for DeJail.

 

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