US Election 2020

[Cunt]

No, its the fact that the US is set up just far enough away from democracy so that the 51% can't vote away the rights of the other 49.

I mean, think of how silly it would be if someone from New York had equal say about a border between Texas and Mexico than someone in Texas...now THAT would seem crzay.

[Tero]

The catch was Medicare part B. Still run by insurance companies. The part A is essentially free.

[laklak]

Yeah, A is a shit plan, but it is a free starting place.

[Tero]

It gets the poor folks emergency room. You might survive a small heart attack that way.

Granted you still get ER with no insurance, but some more extended care, doctor visits and so on are covered.

[L'Emmerdeur]

I mean, think of how silly it would be if someone from New York had equal say about a border between Texas and Mexico than someone in Texas...now THAT would seem crzay.

Funny you should say that. Three different Texan Representatives, one of them a Republican, all with districts along the border, have stated their views on this.

'A Texas congressman from the border says Trump should fix our existing security system instead of funding a "14th century solution called a wall"'

'Texas Congressman calls border wall useless'

'Even GOP Congressman on Texas Border Says Wall Is a Waste'

I expect you won't bother clicking on those links though. They aren't 4chan, Daily Caller, or Breitbart.

[Cunt]

I expect you won't bother clicking on those links though. They aren't 4chan, Daily Caller, or Breitbart.

I put anything you write on par with InfoWars.

Maybe a little below. At least Alex Jones is willing to take off his shirt for us.

[Forty Two]

Kamala has bigger hands...er crowds...than Trump's angry white guys in MAGA hats.

However, he highlighted Harris’s rally size, calling it “Obama-esque.”

“To get a crowd that size and that much energy and, by the way, a huge selling point for her is gonna have to be, ‘I can go crowd for crowd with Donald Trump because Donald Trump does his rallies, I can do it too. I can generate that kind of energy,” Stirewalt told the panel.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/huge-s ... -stirewalt

Time after time, when progressives urged her to embrace criminal justice reforms as a district attorney and then the state’s attorney general, Ms. Harris opposed them or stayed silent. Most troubling, Ms. Harris fought tooth and nail to uphold wrongful convictions that had been secured through official misconduct that included evidence tampering, false testimony and the suppression of crucial information by prosecutors.

Consider her record as San Francisco’s district attorney from 2004 to 2011. Ms. Harris was criticized in 2010 for withholding information about a police laboratory technician who had been accused of “intentionally sabotaging” her work and stealing drugs from the lab. After a memo surfaced showing that Ms. Harris’s deputies knew about the technician’s wrongdoing and recent conviction, but failed to alert defense lawyers, a judge condemned Ms. Harris’s indifference to the systemic violation of the defendants’ constitutional rights.

Ms. Harris also championed state legislation under which parents whose children were found to be habitually truant in elementary school could be prosecuted, despite concerns that it would disproportionately affect low-income people of color.

Ms. Harris was similarly regressive as the state’s attorney general. When a federal judge in Orange County ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional in 2014, Ms. Harris appealed. In a public statement, she made the bizarre argument that the decision “undermines important protections that our courts provide to defendants.” (The approximately 740 men and women awaiting execution in California might disagree).

In 2014, she declined to take a position on Proposition 47, a ballot initiative approved by voters, that reduced certain low-level felonies to misdemeanors. She laughed that year when a reporter asked if she would support the legalization of marijuana for recreational use. Ms. Harris finally reversed course in 2018, long after public opinion had shifted on the topic.

In 2015, she opposed a bill requiring her office to investigate shootings involving officers. And she refused to support statewide standards regulating the use of body-worn cameras by police officers. For this, she incurred criticism from an array of left-leaning reformers, including Democratic state senators, the A.C.L.U. and San Francisco’s elected public defender. The activist Phelicia Jones, who had supported Ms. Harris for years, asked, “How many more people need to die before she steps in?”

Worst of all, though, is Ms. Harris’s record in wrongful conviction cases. Consider George Gage, an electrician with no criminal record who was charged in 1999 with sexually abusing his stepdaughter, who reported the allegations years later. The case largely hinged on the stepdaughter’s testimony and Mr. Gage was convicted.

Afterward, the judge discovered that the prosecutor had unlawfully held back potentially exculpatory evidence, including medical reports indicating that the stepdaughter had been repeatedly untruthful with law enforcement. Her mother even described her as “a pathological liar” who “lives her lies.”

In 2015, when the case reached the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, Ms. Harris’s prosecutors defended the conviction. They pointed out that Mr. Gage, while forced to act as his own lawyer, had not properly raised the legal issue in the lower court, as the law required.

The appellate judges acknowledged this impediment and sent the case to mediation, a clear signal for Ms. Harris to dismiss the case. When she refused to budge, the court upheld the conviction on that technicality. Mr. Gage is still in prison serving a 70-year sentence.

That case is not an outlier. Ms. Harris also fought to keep Daniel Larsen in prison on a 28-year-to-life sentence for possession of a concealed weapon even though his trial lawyer was incompetent and there was compelling evidence of his innocence. Relying on a technicality again, Ms. Harris argued that Mr. Larsen failed to raise his legal arguments in a timely fashion. (This time, she lost.)

She also defended Johnny Baca’s conviction for murder even though judges found a prosecutor presented false testimony at the trial. She relented only after a video of the oral argument received national attention and embarrassed her office.

And then there’s Kevin Cooper, the death row inmate whose trial was infected by racism and corruption. He sought advanced DNA testing to prove his innocence, but Ms. Harris opposed it. (After The New York Times’s exposé of the case went viral, she reversed her position.)

All this is a shame because the state’s top prosecutor has the power and the imperative to seek justice. In cases of tainted convictions, that means conceding error and overturning them. Rather than fulfilling that obligation, Ms. Harris turned legal technicalities into weapons so she could cement injustices.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opin ... stice.html

[Tero]

She won't put Trump in jail then. Just the ankle monitor for 6 months at Mar a Lago. Ivanka is too old to abuse and get much.

[Cunt]

She won't put Trump in jail then. Just the ankle monitor for 6 months at Mar a Lago. Ivanka is too old to abuse and get much.

I hope no-one ever treats you the way you treat these strangers.

[Tero]

Ex-president Trump will be happy to give speeches to all girl scout troops.

[Svartalf]

girl scouts should be honored to be pussy grabbed by a former president

[L'Emmerdeur]

I put anything you write on par with InfoWars.

Maybe a little below. At least Alex Jones is willing to take off his shirt for us.

Wounded me you have. To the bone.

This is convenient for you though, not to waste time disparaging the sources I provide. The fact that they're linked in my post is enough. The person who loves to put down anybody who disagrees with Trump's agenda (or notes the self-evident fact that Trump is a despicable person) as mindless NPCs fixated on 'orange man bad' is apparently himself fixated on 'L'Emmerdeur NPC; L'Emmerdeur bad.'

You seem determined to present yourself as a caricature of a close-minded blowhard. Congratulations, you're doing a fair job of it.

You've been harping on about something to do with somebody named McKnew. Provide a link to your source. I'll check it out, I assure you.

[Cunt]

I can't find her, and may be misremembering the name. She was a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast, and did work with the US government finding out what was being done to interfere. Much of it was connected to the 'Internet Research Agency'. I did find an article on that...

https://thinkprogress.org/here-are-some ... f62a59c05/

So I forgot the doc, but what she described was basically assholes hacking their way into the media. They tap everywhere, looking for an opening, then use that.

It's not going to be stopped by better 'media security' (such as facebook removing accounts) since the whole point is to get around those measures.

It's an arms race, and this particular one was done using very similar methods, but no-one is talking about the initial poster of these stories, or how they were promoted. That posting/promoting method worked its way into a crack in people which allowed this to get REALLY wide attention.

Of course, there are lots of assholes exposed, but not necessarily the right ones.

Can you say who started this? Who duped the media into thinking their favourite kind of story was happening?

[L'Emmerdeur]

The existence of the Internet Research Agency isn't news to me. I've posted several items about them, some of which can be found by doing a search for 'troll farm.' Here's another:

'The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018'


Old 'InfoWars' L'Emmerdeur, that's me.

[Cunt]

The existence of the Internet Research Agency isn't news to me. I've posted several items about them, some of which can be found by doing a search for 'troll farm.' Here's another:

'The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018'


Old 'InfoWars' L'Emmerdeur, that's me.

OK, so forget the IRA, just consider their methods.

Then have a look at who started this. Think about CNN et al as hapless idiots, manipulated by someone who works like the IRA.

Who started it? The Covington thing, I mean. Why is THAT not the story? Was this a way to attack MAGA which failed? Or an attack by republicans meant to erode trust in CNN?

Who started it? To me, the most important question about that event. Nothing else about it was particularly 'newsworthy' (except maybe how hard the media fell on their faces)