US Politics Thread 2021-24

[Jimbuna]

I can honestly say I can't blame him.

Hopefully it will stop almost endless legal cases.

Trump campaign announces 100,000 poll watchers and attorneys poised for election day

The Trump campaign has announced that they will have 100,000 poll watchers and attorneys ready to take action on election day as former president Donald Trump’s obsession with election security continues.

Mr Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election citing baseless allegations of fraud by Democrats, and he has made similarly evidence-free claims regarding what Democrats may do this November. Even in 2016, Mr Trump asserted that he only lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton because of fraud.

The Trump Campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) said in a Friday statement that they would launch “the most extensive and monumental election integrity program in the nation’s history”.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other...5bbada92&ei=65

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I can honestly say I can't blame him.

Hopefully it will stop almost endless legal cases.

I don't blame him one little bit. They seems to think it's a bad thing to make sure that elections are honest. They're just lucky he's not complaining about their amigos knocking off all the "old" conservative voters with what mysteriously walked out of the Wuhan lab. It could go very bad for them if the population started to suspect that.

[Rockstar]

I know nobody here will take the time to read H.R. 8035. Instead most will likely continue to believe it’s some kind of 60 billion dollar give away to Ukraine. ITS NOT. No way in hell would anyone in their right mind just give away 60 billion to a nation as corrupt as Ukraine. We also expect to be repaid. What it does is actually push our defense spending this year over the $1,000,000,000,000 dollar mark.

Specifically, the bill provides appropriations to the

Department of Defense (DOD),

Department of Energy science programs,

National Nuclear Security Administration,

Administration for Children and Families,

Department of State, and

the U.S. Agency for International Development.

supporting current U.S. military operations in the region,
the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative,
replacing defense articles that were provided to Ukraine,
reimbursing DOD for defense services and training provided to Ukraine,
the Foreign Military Financing Program,
economic support for Ukraine,
refugee and entrant assistance,
international narcotics control and law enforcement, and
the development and production of isotopes.

expand the authorities of the President to transfer defense articles and services from DOD to foreign countries or international organizations,

REQUIRE the President to transfer long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems to Ukraine,

The above is a big one because that feeble old man and his sidekick spank the boy wonder Jake Sullivan have so far refused to use presidential draw down authority and provide those missiles. In fact besides the 7 billion or so set aside for financial aid. The bill is actually forcing the president to get off his arse and start sending what he already had the authority to do but didn’t..

REQUIRE the President to enter into an agreement with Ukraine regarding repaying the United States for the economic assistance it has provided to Ukraine,

REQUIRE certain funds that are provided for Ukraine to be matched by other donors, and establish various oversight and reporting requirements for assistance provided to Ukraine.

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I can honestly say I can't blame him.

Hopefully it will stop almost endless legal cases.

Originally Posted by em2nought

I don't blame him one little bit. They seems to think it's a bad thing to make sure that elections are honest. They're just lucky he's not complaining about their amigos knocking off all the "old" conservative voters with what mysteriously walked out of the Wuhan lab. It could go very bad for them if the population started to suspect that.

The whole Trump/MAGA/Far Right GOP Dementia about non-existent "widespread voter fraud" is really very silly, stupid, and really very tiresome; in the years since the 2016 Presidential Elections (8 years and counting), no one has yet to present even a shred of definitive evidence any widespread fraud has occurred in th the US, certainly not at any level to overturn Dementia J. Trump's mad ramblings about some sort of steal; in the years since 2016, I have only heard of a few instances, all singular and not any sort of "conspiracy", and no more than a few dozen out of the millions of votes cast; oddly, a lot of the people caught casting illegal votes were GOP voters, some of whom thought they could "prove' the existence of "widespread fraud" by casting their own illegal, singular votes, which, of course, only resulted in the arrest and prosecution of those sad sacks when then existing systems, which apparently really does work without any need for further 'tweaking, caught them in their illegality; some of the others were the usual aberrations (voting for a dead relative, forging someone else's signature, etc.) and still there wasn't enough of those to even have any effect on the various elections since 2016 and 2016 inclusive (there was one case where a recent old widower cast a ballot for his deceased wife because, when he received her ballot in the mail, he felt that mailing it back completed would be his way of keeping her memory alive; I do hope whoever adjudicated his 'offense' cut him some slack)...


The deep ironies in the GOP's war on 'voter fraud'
How many Republicans will get caught committing voter fraud before the GOP stops pointing fingers? -

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...024-rcna146434


In fact, there is at least one case where voter fraud did affect and election since 2016 and it happened in North Carolina in 2018 and the perpetrators were GOP politicians and their cronies; the fraud resulted in the voiding of the House election a need to redo the ditrisct's election:


‘This Smacks of Something Gone AwryÂ’: A True Tale of Absentee Vote Fraud -

https://www.politico.com/news/magazi...arolina-523238


...and, you know what, the NC GOP apparently thinks its a really good idea to run the politician who was part of the fraud for the same seat in 2024, even given his less than stellar track record:


Republican at center of 2018 ballot fraud scandal wins House primary in North Carolina -

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/polit...ary/index.html


...and Harris's gall is near Trumpian as he now seems to be claiming the 2018 incident was not the result of his own camp's illegalities, it was actually another "steal"

But in making his self-described comeback bid, Harris spun a Trump-like narrative. “In 2020, Democrats stole the election from President Trump. The year before, they did it to me,” Harris said in his announcement video.

The word shameless is far, far too mild...


There was also another instance in another state where a GOP election official tried to alter an election by sequestering (stealing) ballots, but he was caught before the election results were finalized and he was prosecuted...


Not a single one of the many Trump/MAGA/Far Right GOP mouthpieces who have claimed to have 'actual' "proof" of widespread voter fraud have been able to produce a single bit of verifiable proof/evidence to support their claims; some, like Giuliani, haven't even been able to do so to save their own necks, as in the defamation suits brought against him: if he really didn't want to be held liable for defamation, all he simply had to do was display his 'proof' and the cases would go away and he (and Trunp0 would be vindicated ( something that would produce orgasms for the MAGAts) and, yet, with their very lives, livelihoods, and freedom on the line they seem to refuse to let us in on the big scandal they say they have found; even Trump seems unable to pull the switch on the "big Reveal":


Trump cancels press conference on election fraud claims, citing attorneysÂ’ advice -
https://apnews.com/article/trump-geo...4cdf3422741c7c


...all Dementia J. Trump had to do was let the world see what proof he had for his version of the "truth" and there would be no trials and he could bask in the warm glow of "I told you so"; except for the MAGAts, who like the lemmings that they are, accept DJT's idiocy, the rest of the world see it is glaringly apparent that, as far as the supposed evidence of massive voter fraud, "there no there, there" and the whole vote fraud thing is, as the Trumpettes like to say "A big hoax!"...


For those who might be tempted to knee-jerk react and say my cites are just from the "mainstream media" and are invalid, maybe you should consider how a very well-known and, in Conservatives circles, cited and respected has been working very hard to root out all the villainous voter fraud they can find and seem to have a really, really hard time to make the numbers crunch in the Trump/MAGA/GOP Far Right's favor; I checked their results for my state of California, and, by my count, since 1993, they have come up with about 53 verifiable instances of election illegalities, which is not anywhere near "massive" in a state with tens of millions of citizens; in fact, their own website starts out with declaring 1,499 cases of voter fraud with 1, 275 convictions, a conviction rate a bit over 85%, so over a period spanning nearly 30 years, the best they could do in scrounging up "proof" over that time was around 1,500 cases or, based on about 30 years, about 50 cases a year...


A Sampling of Recent Election Fraud Cases from Across the United States -

https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud


So, The Heritage Foundation, not known for being Liberal by any measure, has been diligently seeking out malfeasance and illegality on a massive scale and has also, as with the despised "mainstream Media" efforts to investigate Trump/MAGA/Far Right GOP claims, come up with a gigantic 'nothing burger'...


Common sense and logic should make a few things obvious: a cabal to 'steal' an election on national level would, in today's media climate have leaked like a sieve and come to light; if there was wide fraud in the states, individual states would have most logically have found it and reported it; if there was any verifiable, truthful substance to the fraud claims, it would be in the very interests of the Trump/MAGA/Far Right GOP contingent to make them public and simultaneously vindicate their stance and crush the DEMS and yet they haven't - why not; as far as the media is concerned, mainstream or not, there is no shortage of hungry reporters and investigators who would give an arm and a legs to break a story a s big as verified widespread voter fraud - but there have been no stories- can millions of reporters and investigators seriously be working together to suppress the truth when actually report a big scoop like widespread fraud would make them famous, and most probably rich, beyond their dreams...


Just try using a little thought and common sense and logic; it will all be clear that what Dementia J. Trump is trying to feed you has no thought and common sense or logic...




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[Jimbuna]

Legal fees eat into Donald Trump’s funds as Joe Biden ups campaign spend

Donald Trump has been forced to scale back spending on his campaign as legal fees eat up three-quarters of the cash brought in by a key fundraising group.

The former president, whose hush money trial will begin hearing evidence in New York on Monday, is directing roughly the same amount of money to his legal troubles as he is to convincing voters ahead of November’s election.

Figures released by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) revealed that Save America, one of the political action committees that funds Mr Trump’s campaign, spent nearly $3.7 million on legal-related expenses in March. That amounted to nearly three in every four dollars it raised.

Meanwhile, the Trump campaign spent the same amount, $3.7 million, on getting out the vote last month, the figures showed.
That left the presumptive Republican nominee far behind Joe Biden, who spent $29.2 million on his campaign in March, including a barrage of media buys in swing states.

The figures will concern Republican leaders, as Mr Trump’s ability to campaign in person will be limited over the next six to eight weeks, as he is forced to attend court in New York every day except Wednesday.

It comes as polls show that Mr Biden has cut Mr Trump’s lead significantly since February, with the New York Times showing him just one point behind, compared to five at the beginning of the year.

Mr Trump emphasised the impact the New York court case would have on his campaign in his latest fundraising email on Sunday. “In just 24 hours I’ll be back in Biden’s corrupt court to fight for my freedom – and yours,” supporters were told as they were asked to chip in what they could.

“The biggest impact is that it is keeping him in the news for something bad and preventing him from doing normal campaign stuff,” said Christopher Galdieri, professor of politics at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire.

“Biden was in Pennsylvania, which is the swing state of swing states for days.

“It has to be terrible and frustrating for [Mr Trump]. He looks miserable and is bored out of his mind. He is realising this is his life for the next month or so.”

Apart from lambasting the trial when he arrives at court, the former president has reached out to voters with visits to fast-food restaurants, where startled customers have been given a close-up view of the presumptive presidential nominee.

Last week, Mr Trump descended on a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta and bought a round of 30 milkshakes for startled diners.

These pit stops, in which Mr Trump signed autographs, have gone viral and have been seen by millions of voters on social media.

Details from the FEC filings show that Mr Trump’s political committees have spent $16.7 million on legal fees this year, with more than $50 million from Trump-supporting Maga Inc, which was earmarked for campaigning, being transferred to help Save America meet the legal bills.

The impact of the Trump cash crunch will also be felt by Republican candidates with the Republican National Committee prioritising Save America – now used exclusively for legal fees – ahead of the needs of candidates in congressional races.

Spending by the respective campaigns in recent months has illustrated the extent of Mr Trump’s difficulties.

His team spent $6 million on media advertising since the beginning of the year, compared with $45.2 million by the Biden team.

While Trump campaign spending has slowed down, Biden’s has increased sharply with, for example, $6.9 million being poured into a text-messaging blitz.

Mr Trump will be the centre of media attention on Monday with the start of the hush money trial, investigating allegations he falsified business records to cover up a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

Much will hinge on the evidence from Mr Trump’s former fixer, Michael Cohen, who was jailed for his part in the alleged scheme to pay off Ms Daniels.

The 77-year-old former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges.

Alan Dershowitz, who defended Trump in his impeachment trial, said that the 12 jurors selected for the case did not bode well for the former president.

“This is a bad jury for Donald Trump,” he said, arguing that the “best he’s likely to do is a hung jury”.

“I think it’s too much of a New York Times, TikTok jury. This is maybe the best you can do with a New York jury pool, but it’s not a good jury for Donald Trump.”
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...65ced850&ei=45

[Rockstar]

What does the whole Biden/Build Back Better/Far Left DNC Dementia have in common with Nazis?

https://rumble.com/v3q89ls-hundreds-...te-insurr.html



Columbia rabbi warns Jewish students to go home, don’t come back to campus because of ‘extreme antisemitism’
https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-new...ampaign=nypost

[Rockstar]

Raise your hand if you forgot how the Biden/Build Back Better/Far Left DNC Dementia is still issuing combat medals in the Red Sea, that the majority of Suez Traffic is still diverted, and that this is all helping retail prices to rise higher and higher and higher.
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[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

States ranked by reliance on Federal aid. CA ranks 42nd.
https://www.moneygeek.com/living/sta...al-government/

Why argue with people who clearly have...issues?

[em2nought]

Maybe "they'll" use FISA to keep track of some foreign friends of the radical faculty at our so called institutions of higher learning instead of engineering something Russia, Russia, Russia against Trump allies instead? Probably not, "they'll" just keep spying on people waving American flags.

[Otto Harkaman]

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Otto Harkaman

I think he makes a valid point that these machines only provide an illusion of security. I’d also wager most of them are probably installed where the crime rate is low already amd a strong police presence nearby. That way none of the hoodies can steal or vandalize the new wonder tech.