@cindyweinstein Maybe CBS is just really scared of violent MAGA terror if they'd dare to reveal JD Vance's falsehoods & defamatory statements. If that were the case, CBS should've turned down the request to "moderate" a televised discourse between Trump's accomplice & to-be VP Tim Walz (which would be a duel between untruth & truth anyway). And CBS should've made its worries about possible violence from MAGA supporters public to all the nation, to DHS & FBI.
At the debate Kamala Harris showed the former presidential office holder, that she's the boss wearing the pants.
“Have you ever seen a man castrated on television before?”
"From the moment she strode on stage and extended her hand to the cowardly germaphobe, she was wearing the pants—the Alpha Male and Big Swinging Dick, to use just two more of the hoary images favored by men of Rafshoon’s vintage. In retrospect, it’s hard to see how Harris could become the first woman president without first crushing this poor excuse for a man."
👍👍👍👍 Oh look, there are still a couple of real Republicans patriotic & loyal enough to the Constitution, American democracy & the Rule of Law to not kiss the ring of the dementing orange Gotti & his insurrectionary gang members.
Some swing-state Republicans promise to certify the election results even if the convicted felon loses.
Gloria von Thurn und Taxis (abbreviated Gloria TNT), who Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito took "concert tickets" worth $900 from (how much more did he & other Leonard-Leo justices accept from her before the Dobbs decision, but didn't disclose?) is not just another simple conservative woman. She's a militant anti-abortionist slamming Pope Francis for being too liberal & she maintains close ties to right-wing extremists like Steve Bannon, the German AfD & other right-wingers, who eg held a meeting discussing the deportation of German citizens & residents with migration background. Sometimes she's even hosting such extremists at her palace in Regensburg, Germany.
An online article by the Swiss news outlet Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 2023 even titled "Mascot of the right: Right-wing populist Gloria von Thurn und Taxis". Excerpt: "... Not only are her views similar to those of the partly right-wing extremist AfD, in general she's free from any fears to get in touch with the right fringe. In the past she also hosted AfD politicians in he St. Emmeram palace in Regensburg, with about 500 rooms bigger than Buckingham Palace. Aside from Orban, the princess considers obsessive liar Donald Trump to be one of the few, "who are telling the truth". ..."
Supreme Court justices shouldn't have close ties to extremist networks or even be part of those. Nor should they ever take gifts of whatever value from members of extremist networks.
P.S.: As mentioned before, alongside Alito, SCOTUS justice Kavanaugh also met with Gloria TNT (some call her "von Thurn und Toxic").
A German princess, a cardinal, anti-LGBTQ activists, Catholic fundamentalist mullah Leonard Leo & his SCOTUS-six teaming up as "The Illiberal Avengers" to overthrow "too liberal" Pope Francis & turn back time of liberty - for & against everyone.
From November 2019: "... Last week, two of the Supreme Court’s most ardent Catholic justices, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh, met at the court with an odd trio of visitors: Brian S. Brown, who runs several anti-gay advocacy groups; German Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, once known as a 1980s party girl; and Gerhard Ludwig Müller, a right-wing German cardinal who has said publicly that a “homosexual network” inside the church is responsible for the clergy sexual abuse scandals. ... Justice Alito has also publicly rubbed shoulders with other high-profile conservative Catholics who are viewed as Francis opponents. In 2017, John Gehring, Catholic program director at the nonprofit think tank Faith in Public Life, attended a $1,250-per person, two-day conference of American Catholic elites at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. The event was sponsored by the Napa Institute, a Catholic nonprofit founded by billionaire Timothy Busch, a lawyer who made his fortune in estate planning for the 1 percent. In 2011, Busch co-founded the Napa Institute to train Catholics to defend their faith in an increasingly secular society, and last year, launched the Napa Legal Institute to provide legal services for Catholic nonprofits. The Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo is on its board. Even so, Gehring was surprised to find Alito in the audience for Busch’s kick-off speech back in 2017. Busch has been a big player in what Tom Roberts, executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter, describes as the “hostile takeover” of the US Catholic church by right-wing billionaires. ..."
What makes Dick Cheney & his daughter Liz support the Dem ticket? Because, like the Bushs they do know, that for fake political apprentice, homelandless convicted felon & likely Russian asset Trump politics is neither a civic duty nor a higher calling, but merely a way to escape enforcement of justice & the laws - as he was told by circles eager to hold & abuse power to the advantage of oligarchic donors he would be able to when holding presidential office.
Kamala Harris & Tim Walz are the patriots not bending their knees to the mass-murderous mob boss in the Kremlin. They never offered to lay their services & the ideals of America obediently at the feet of the Russian regime, just so they could build towers with their names on them in Moscow, near the Kremlin.
Trump did.
It was Trump, who put his name on a tower in Baku/ Azerbaijan the construction of which allegedly aided Iran's Revolutionary Guards to launder dirty money. Money Trump secretly takes while hypocritically publicly condemning those "investing" it.
Dirtiest business Kamala Harris & Tim Walz are having no business in.
"... ...unbeknownst to the Bushes of the Republican Party, the GOP had fundamentally changed in the eight years that Barack Obama served as president. The Republican base no longer wanted someone who viewed politics as a civic duty and a higher calling; they wanted someone who viewed it as a professional wrestling pay per view.
Donald Trump ran as much against the Republican Party of George H.W. Bush (and his sons) as he did against the past eight years of Obama during the 2016 GOP primaries. ..."
@timo21@blabberlicious Is JD Vance spreading nonsensical, often tragicomical deprecated word salad really any less weird than Trump? I'm not convinced he is. 😎
@blabberlicious@timo21 At least at that they're very seasoned. But still unelectable. Who'd want their word salad on the table for hungry mouths to be fed anyway? Yuck! 🤢
@GreenFire@TruthSandwich@8124@rameshgupta@marcelias Today Germany, thanks to U.S. & allied forces' WWII intervention & victory seems to be better protected against demagogues & fascists than America, rebuilding on the Weimar Constitution, which was said to be the most liberal democratic constitution at its time, except for allowing an anti-democratic president to take office.
Germany's Constitution & Freedom of Expression today:
"Article 5 [Freedom of expression, arts and sciences]
(1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.
(2) These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons and in the right to personal honour.
(3) Arts and sciences, research and teaching shall be free. The freedom of teaching shall not release any person from allegiance to the constitution."
@GreenFire@TruthSandwich@marcelias Isn't the fundamental issue rather, that the existing "two-party system" is a system of one party supporting the Rule of Law, the Constitution, the people indiscriminately as government's sovereign, & the Rule of the People aka democracy — and another ("grand ole") "party" hostile to everything Abraham Lincoln ever stood for, including his adamant refusal to ever be either slave or master, which was his understanding of democracy?
Isn't the real issue rather, that one of the parties is an anti-constitutional, anti-democratic & anti-Union (=>Federal Republic) entity, that kicked out every one of its members, who formerly supported the United States & associated laws, norms, rules & values? And that such entities actually don't belong into U.S. Congress?
@GreenFire One precondition to make overwhelming voter turnout happen is to successfully challenge "traditional" methods of systematic electoral fraud like brazenly legislated voter suppression, gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, in the courts. Like what @marcelias & many others are excellently & thankfully very busy with.
What's been "legislated" doesn't naturally mean it's legal and/or constitutional at every level.
We all know, that today's "GOP" aims at denying as many voters as possible their fundamental right & opportunity to vote — which is completely unacceptable for every true democrat.
🤔 So Trump claims he hasn't been an "Officer of the United States", who would be amenable to the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment's Section 3, potentially disqualifying him from running for & holding public (presidential) office. He's freaking wrong!
And he should know damn better. As he's himself officially & publicly been insisting on being treated like an "officer" in court.
Just like now-AG Garland certainly remembers his own time on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which wrote: "President Trump removed the suit to federal court under the ***federal officer removal statute***, 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1)." in K&D LLC v. Trump Old Post Office LLC and Donald J. Trump.
Wow! The International Criminal Court today made public it has *issued two arrest warrants* against Russian presidential dictatorial war-aggressor *Vladimir Putin* & his "Commissioner for children's rights" in Putin's office, *Maria Lvova-Belova*, for war crimes involving the criminal deportation & transfer of children to Russia.
Reminder: According to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article II *forcible transfer of children from one group to another*, committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group constitutes the crime of genocide!
@selzero Older Mark Twain in a speech to the Knights of Labor:
"Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat."
So Trump is seeking to abuse the UAW for a photo-op to present himself as an acceptable non-criminal, who never routinely & purposefully fails to pay workers?
Don't fall for his deceptive & abusive bullshittery!
"The biggest lie ever told in American politics is the claim that Donald Trump cares about working people.
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