Once again, I just want to say that lavish gifts to Supreme Court justices shouldn’t just be “disclosed.” They should be banned, outright. This should not be a radical position.
@rbreich
Many years ago I realized that if the #Mafia ever designed a political system it would look EXACTLY like the US.
Judges for life, easily bought.
Elected Police Chiefs, easily bought.
Electoral colleges, easily bought. etc.
It did not affect most folk too much, life had to go on in order to skim the cream from the top. But now Russia had outbid the Mafia they WANT the system to collapse.
June 29, 2017 – Donald Trump attacked TV news host Mika Brzezinski on Twitter, saying he had once seen her when she was “badly bleeding from a face-lift.” #TrumpIsAPig
June 29, 2020 – Trump retweeted a video of a white couple threatening peaceful protesters outside their St. Louis mansion. The man brandished a semi-automatic rifle, and the woman pointed a handgun at the crowd.
Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it's not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....
All this circle jerking over RCV is missing the point that the #fascist#GOP isn't going to allow you to have RCV & have already made it illegal in at least 5 states.
Did you know? When SCOTUS said in 1937 that the Social Security Act was unconstitutional, President Roosevelt didn’t ask people to vote harder in the next election, he told the Supreme Court he’d add more justices until they backed off, which they did. — We can still do that.
June 28, 2020 – Trump tweeted, then deleted, a video that showed a supporter of his shouting “white power” at anti-Trump protesters at The Villages, a Florida retirement community. “Thank you to the great people of The Villages,” he wrote in his tweet.
If Biden were to perform so poorly tonight that he was rendered unelectable, the Dems would replace him and win in November. If Trump were to perform so poorly tonight that he was rendered unelectable, the #GOP would send a bunch of cringe fundraising emails about how the debate was 'rigged', keep Trump, and lose in November — Peter Henlein #quotes#quote#Democrats#VoteBlue
One of my Republican colleagues just said the boxes containing national security secrets that were seized at Mar-a-Lago were stored in a safe manner. This is the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago with over a dozen boxes of national security secrets. You are living on Fantasy Island. That’s were cults live so that makes sense — Rep Eric Swalwell #quotes#quote@MAGAcult#HouseRepublicans#GOP#NationalSecurity#TrumpCrimes
"Shelby Busch — chair of #Arizona ’s delegation to the #Republican convention — was in court trying to learn the identities of local #elections workers. Under oath, she said she was unaware of any #threats that had been made against the people who helped run the last presidential #election...
"Busch has framed her quest to unearth election fraud in #Arizona — which has been debunked by independent investigators — in the language of a religious holy war.
"If she's out there, you know, giving hand jobs and being a granny, she ought to be drug tested. Prostitutes are drug tested, why not Hand-Job Granny, Lauren Boebert?"
Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) going after Chick-fil-A for not being racist enough. It’s probably worth noting that Dan is a racist who was a founding donor to Gab, the preferred White Supremacist’s social platform. Plus, he’s a traitor to the U.S. Who the fuck voted for this piece of shit?!? I want names!
June 27, 2020 – Reports emerged that staffers of Tulsa’s BOK Center, which hosted Trump’s June 20th rally, affixed DO NOT SIT HERE, PLEASE! stickers to arena seats to create social distancing. Before the event, however, Trump’s campaign had thousands of the stickers removed.
DC Campaign to Submit Over 40K Signatures for Open Primaries, Ranked Choice Voting ( ivn.us )
Seeing as how some people here on Lemmy get upset at any mention of Ranked Choice Voting and respond that, in their opinion, it's not perfect, and that we should therefore keep the voting system we have while we debate which alternative is perfect for several decades, allow me to preemptively respond....
IRS plans to make its free tax filing program permanent ( edition.cnn.com )