Thomas and Alito will cheerfully support the right of the God-King to tell the post office that first class mail must not be delivered to registered Democrats at all, because unitary executive.
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Wow, yeah that would be an insanely crazy expansion of that theory. Currently it means the president being able to operate outside of any parameters within the executive branch. But expanding that to mean he now takes over something the Constitution specifically gives to the states alone would be ruling that we're now under a dictatorship. I'm sure the Elon Musks and Peter Thiels and tte other billionaires giving the lavish gifts and vacations to Thomas and Alito would love it, but I don't think the other conservatives on the court are ready yet to go that far. Or I sure hope not.Originally posted by LVAllen View PostComment
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But he wouldn't be giving directions over the election - merely the operation of the postal service under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970. Again - unitary executive. Sure, the Postmaster General got yeeted out of the Cabinet to prevent Presidential tomfoolery in mail operations, but the Board of Governors gets largely appointed by the President, which means that the President can fire any of them he chooses, 'cause none of them sit on the Fed. And presto change-o, the express grant of authority in the Constitution to Congress to regulate the post office becomes just another arm of the White House.Originally posted by BlueK View PostComment
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Whistleblower says USPS system Trump ordered for mail ballots is flawed and untested
An anonymous federal official warned in a whistleblower complaint this week that the technical system the U.S. Postal Service built for mail voting is flawed, untested and likely to cause major disruptions in this fall’s midterm elections if it is implemented.
creating chaos in the election? That's the whole point.Comment
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I think this article is correct about the midterms.
"November 3 may be even worse for the Republicans than the conventional wisdom now predicts. There are three groups of voters who matter in this election, and each of them is going to punish Trump severely.
The first is people who have always thought he was a fascist goon and an imbecile, and who would go out to cast a vote against him and his minions even if it meant voting for Homer Simpson. We are turbo-charged to get to the polls, and there are millions of us.
The second is the swing voters who were, to be frank—oh, okay, let’s put it slightly more politely—naïve enough to believe that Trump could lower prices and fix the economy. They know now that Trump cannot do that; he possesses no such magic wand. Would that they had known in November 2024. But they know now, and those who bother to vote will vote 80, 90 percent against Trump and his party.
Third is the BMPs: the Betrayed MAGA Pigeons. They’re not the same as swing voters. Unlike swing voters, they were never going to think for five minutes about voting for a Black woman in 2024. But to feel okay about themselves, they had to build a case for Trump in their brains that justified their Trump vote, even made it a righteous protest against the status quo. Core to the BMP justification were a few central ideas: that Trump would improve the economy; that he was right on immigration and heads needed to be cracked; that Kamala Harris was the real warmonger, and Trump would calmly keep the peace.
Well, that defense against reality has been crushed like a grape under a tire. Trump has failed on the economy. He’s gone way too far for these people on immigration (Joe Rogan this year compared ICE to the Gestapo). And finally, the Iran war destroyed it. Trump and the Republicans are losing the “manosphere,” a process Sidney Blumenthal described with coruscating precision on this site a couple weeks ago. But they’re losing many other segments of MAGA-land as well that simply can’t believe he started a war; let alone an obviously stupid war that we’re losing; let alone at the behest of Benjamin Netanyahu, as the Israeli prime minister just bragged on Israeli TV.
The first two groups will turn out in droves against Republican candidates. The third group won’t do that. But it, dispirited and confused, simply won’t turn out. And their absence, I think, is what will be decisive. There will be no defense against the onslaught.
...we may need to start paying more attention to Senate races in states like Kansas, where Democratic preacher Adam Hamilton is in a near dead heat with GOP incumbent Roger Marshall. In Nebraska, a recent poll has independent Dan Osborn running even with GOP incumbent Pete Ricketts. One recent Arkansas poll was close. In Florida, everybody laughs off the democratic socialist who won the Democratic nomination. But she pulled off a stunning upset in the Democratic primary, and she did it without running a single television ad. And the appointed Republican incumbent is knee-deep in that Medicaid scandal involving the governor’s wife.
I’m not predicting Democratic wins in the last two states. I am saying that a wave is building. And the man toward whom the wave is heading looks out on the ocean and sees calm, pacific seas. He’s delusional, spent, incapable of responding to reality. In the next two months, all that is only going to get worse—and more apparent to the American people."
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Please make it happen"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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Donald Trump, who wears terribly-fitting suits and dyes his own hair, is calling Ken Paxton an ugly bastard.Comment
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Trump is now just outright bribing people to vote for GOP candidates. It’s not unusual for candidates to make promises, even Biden made monetary promises with his $2000 stimulus plan, but Trumps is just an outright bribe. I wonder how the Fed feels about another possible $1.2 trillion being created and dumped into the economy…"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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I’d buy that for a dollar…Originally posted by Moliere View Post
the only difference between Biden and him is that he is shameless in saying what it is while Biden tried to lie his way through his bribe.
Still remember the words. “No New Taxes”..Comment
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Are you referring to these?Originally posted by dabrockster View Post
I’d buy that for a dollar…
the only difference between Biden and him is that he is shameless in saying what it is while Biden tried to lie his way through his bribe.
Still remember the words. “No New Taxes”..
In late December 2020, Congress had just approved a $600 check. President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats had pushed to increase that amount to $2,000, but the effort was blocked by the Republican-led Senate. Biden used this deadlock as a campaign tool, arguing that a Democratic-controlled Senate was necessary to clear the roadblock and deliver the full amount.During his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden repeatedly pledged that no individual or household making under $400,000 a year would see their taxes raised
The federal tax increases they actually passed—such as the 15% Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax and the 1% stock buyback tax—were legally levied only against massive corporations, not individual wage earners.Comment
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Hey, don’t bother bringing facts to a political discussion with WhatAboutBrock.Originally posted by chrisrenrut View Post
Prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark “egg on your face”! -- Moss
There's three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city; and never go near a lady's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, everything else is cream cheese. --Coach FinstockComment
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Student Loan Forgiveness, Free Food, Free Tuition, Increased Free access ACA..Originally posted by chrisrenrut View Post
Nevermind Dhole’s constant whining about whataboutism. That always swings one way for that dhole.. I mean, “No New Taxes” was a GOP Presidential promise..
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I hate this man so much.Originally posted by Moliere View Post"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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