American Politics from 2019 on

[Tero]

The small part players become the news. Because...social media. Politically hot topic but man was just "convenient" for her.

Trump DA Fani Willis says the (other) prosecutor she dated once said the only thing a woman can do for him is make a sandwich.

Willis testified during the contentious Thursday hearing that Wade's attitude on issues like that was a pain point for them while dating.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fani-wi ... ump-2024-2

[Tero]

Thecinternational Biden bribery shakedown. It was going to be "Hilary's emails" and her server for 2024. It fizzled.
https://www.threads.net/@vincedmonroy/p ... IwNjQ2YQ==

[Tero]

The polls don't seem to reflect elections well. Other than the factvthat they do, if you only count popular vote.

But I came to think of a new factor: what if the fact that a person chooses to answer to a poll only records the angriest voters?

[JimC]

It probably underrepresents people who couldn't give a shit either way...

[Tero]

Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.”

Trump’s Republican Party wants to end democracy. We must stop them.

https://www.threads.net/@accountablegop ... IwNjQ2YQ==

[macdoc]

running scared ??

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 234973931/

[Tero]

Putin doing a lot of looming. The gift that never stops. Trump tied to Putin forever.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/politics ... index.html

[Tero]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... n-election

poilitical ads likely to use AI

But US regulations aren’t ready for the boom in fast-paced AI technology and how it could influence voters. Soon after the fake call in New Hampshire, the Federal Communications Commission announced a ban on robocalls that use AI audio. The agency has yet to put rules in place to govern the use of AI in political ads, though states are moving quickly to fill the gap in regulation.


The US House launched a bipartisan taskforce on 20 February that will research ways AI could be regulated and issue a report with recommendations. But with partisan gridlock ruling Congress, and US regulation trailing the pace of AI’s rapid advance, it’s unclear what, if anything, could be in place in time for this year’s elections.

[Tero]

Do nothing speaker can refuse to swear in new democrats in 2025:
Consider that Johnson is still refusing to swear in Tom Suozzi (who recently won George Santos’ old seat), something Johnson apparently did to maintain enough Republican-majority votes to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas. (Johnson says they’ll swear him in this coming Thursday, but nobody’s holding their breath.)
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-new-ov ... open=false

[Svartalf]

wait, he CAN do that and not get impeached and made ineligible material?

[Tero]

wait, he CAN do that and not get impeached and made ineligible material?

They can go through that quicly and count the electoral votes. And reject them. Done. Then the Democrats can try to impeach. Too late.

[rasetsu]

wait, he CAN do that and not get impeached and made ineligible material?

He's in charge of impeachments as he's the speaker for the majority. You don't impeach for this stuff, anyway.

[Svartalf]

In my time that kind of behaviour would have called for multiple applications of 115 grains molybdotherapy

[L'Emmerdeur]

Jack Posobiec at CPAC: “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.”

Trump’s Republican Party wants to end democracy. We must stop them.

https://www.threads.net/@accountablegop ... IwNjQ2YQ==

Posobiec claimed later that 'some of' his 'end of democracy' yapping was 'satire.' It's the standard dodge that goons like Posobiec have been using for years now. 'What, I was just making a joke! You can't take a joke?' (Echoed by right wing media as here. Contrary to that report, several other reports say that Posobiec was not just 'holding up a fist.' He was clutching a neck chain with a cross pendant on it. 'Christian nationalism' Dominionism for the win.

Thom Hartmann reports on current thinking on how the Trumpist/Dominionist Speaker of the House Johnson and others can overturn the 2024 election if Trump loses again. It's not a joke.

'The New "Over the Top" Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024'

Now I’m hearing a new story from those the same GOP insiders [who told me of plans in 2020 for overturning that presidential election] (as well as other commentators) about Trump’s schemes for 2024. Here’s what I’m hearing Republicans are planning in the event Joe Biden wins re-election and Democrats hold the Senate and take the House this November:

First, Republicans need to make sure they’re in control of the House of Representatives on January 6th, 2025, when the new president will be certified.

To do that, even though Democrats might have won enough seats to take back the House in the 2024 election, Speaker Johnson will refuse to swear into Congress on January 3rd a handful of those Democrats, claiming there are “irregularities” in their elections that must be first investigated.

Consider that Johnson is still refusing to swear in Tom Suozzi (who recently won George Santos’ old seat), something Johnson apparently did to maintain enough Republican-majority votes to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas. (Johnson says they’ll swear him in this coming Thursday, but nobody’s holding their breath.)

Like Mitch McConnell withholding Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court for over a year, withholding certification of a handful of Democrats would be easy, legal, and completely immoral. There’s nothing Democrats can legally do to stop Speaker Johnson from pulling this off: he can postpone swearing a member in for as long as he wants.

That keeps Speaker “MAGA Moscow Mike” Johnson in charge of the House, so they can also refuse to accept the Electoral College certificates of election from a handful of states where they claim there are “problems.”

Keep in mind, Johnson was the guy who organized the wave of 138 House members who voted not to certify Joe Biden’s election in January of 2020. That’s why Trump wanted him as speaker.

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Then, regardless of how many votes Biden won by, electoral or popular, the House simply refuses to certify the electoral college votes of enough states that the minimum of 270 isn’t reached. Under the 12th Amendment, like with the election of 1876, that throws the election to the House, where each state has one vote.

While a majority of Americans live in a state run by Democrats, a majority of the states themselves are run by Republicans. Each state gets one vote for president in the House, and right now 26 state delegations are GOP-controlled, meaning that a majority of the House would simply vote to put Trump back into the White House, 26-23 (Pennsylvania’s delegation is 50/50). All totally legal.

Shades of the Rumpole manque-- 'Well, that's not illegal!'

[pErvinalia]

What a shit show this is going to be. Goodbye democracy.