...My opinion has now changed to the point that I now believe that she is biased in Trump's favor.

#25 | Posted by FedUpWithPols

YOU THINK!!!!

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One thing that is always said but is wrong is that Trump took the documents to Mar-a-lago. He didn't, National Archives did.

#2 | Posted by fishpaw

There are pictures of Trump aides loading 'banker boxes' full of documents onto a private jet.

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My understanding is that the 'leaked' document related to the Idaho abortion case doesn't actually show that the Court will be making any sort of ruling on the merits of the case, but rather they're simply letting the appellate decision stand, which was that Federal law superseded state law thereby requiring that medical facilities must also take into account the health risks to the women if the medically required abortion was not performed. Currently the Idaho law only allows an abortion if the women's life was at imminent risk.

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He can now go and write his tell-all book...

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I'm slightly diabetic and test my blood glucose every morning. Since I'm on Medicare, by 'Part B' covers the cost of the test strips 100%, but if I didn't have medicare it would cost me $180 for a 90-day supply. Back when I was still working, before I retire and went on Medicare, my employer-provided insurance only covered about half the cost of the test strips.

They talk about drugs, like Insulin, being a rip-off, how about the test strips, at $2 each. And if you're a serious diabetic on Insulin (I'm only on oral meds) you have to test your glucose several times a day.

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And this was the event where Kellyanne Conway claimed that 8,000 had showed-up. The church, which could seat maybe 300 or 400, was only partially full, and then, as already noted, the attendees were predominantly white, having been invited by a local MAGA group when they heard that Trump was going to be there. The pastor admits that when he tried to get members of his own congregation to attend, that he was greeted mostly with laughter and disbelief.

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I thought we had to wait until someone was dead before we started naming public edifices and such after them?

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I don't know how much money the RNC has already spent on this shindig but if Trump is going to get booed or bombarded with negative TV coverage, they might want to kick the 757 out of its hanger at Palm Beach International and hold their convention there, for free.

#27 | Posted by Twinpac

It still wouldn't be free. Trump would charge them for moving the plane and rent for the use of the hanger, at about seven or eight times the going rate for other venues.

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And on a clear day, you still can't see the other side (Canada), although I've tried, from the top of Brockway Mountain Drive, the highest point at the most Northern part of Michigan, above the shores of Lake Superior on the Keweenaw Peninsula:

Trump is now attacking Milwaukee as a horrible place to hold the Republican National Convention. I suspect part of this stems from the fact that several major businesses associated with Wisconsin have refused to sponsor the convention, choosing not to donate money to the RNC to help cover their costs. The company at the top of that list is Kohl's, who's headquartered in Wisconsin, but who has refused to even consider getting involved in the convention. And now there's people demanding that Republicans boycott Kohl's over their refusal to be a sponsor at this years convention.

When it comes to finding a large city to host the RNC convention, according to what Republicans have said about these same cities, it might be getting harder and harder to find one where the locals would be supportive. And as for what some might assume to be somewhere in a friendly state, take a look at Texas. From what Texas Republicans have said over the last couple of elections, I doubt that Houston will be on their list anytime soon. If their vilification of large urban areas continue, you may see future RNC conventions being held in places like Boise or Anchorage.

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I was in Sault Ste. Marie, MI two weeks ago, we were in this watering hole cutting it up with the locals, this guy says to us "I don't know when it'll be warm enough to use my pool this year because of all this global warming....." and then he rolled his eyes.

#13 | Posted by tres_flechas

It was 80 in Houghton, Michigan, a couple days ago, and that's a lot further North than Sualt Ste. Marie.

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Another bit of good news that we won't hear anyone on the Right talk about before the election. After all, America is supposed to have gone to hell under Biden and nothing works anymore.

BTW, how many emergency infrastructure projects have we seen go to completion ahead of schedule over the last 3 1/2 years? And Trump couldn't pull-of an 'infrastructure week' even once in four-years.

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We've not had a 'smog alert' here in SoCal in something like 25-years. When we first moved here in 1980, there were several alerts each year and days when they would close schools so that children could stay indoors at home. However, over the years, the air has gotten much cleaner and today, even when driving up toward L.A., the sky is so much cleaner looking than years past.

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Besides, a lot of rich people, including Trump, manage to go years without paying taxes, and they're proud of the accomplishment.

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If the IRS accepts the postmarked date, why shouldn't the election board?

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I mean, it's not like he's hailing a cab...

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Actually, the United States is one of those countries which will not allow a convicted felon to enter. However, the problem is, he's already here.

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Coming this fast, we at least we know that it's NOT a hung jury.

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And now we have Justice Clarence Thomas, on the 70th anniversary of the landmark case, 'Brown v Board of Education', claiming that it was judicial overreach by the Court, making this claim in his concurrence of this week's Court ruling which allows South Carolina to use a Congressional map which all of the lower courts had agreed was formulated to explicitly dilute the minority vote in the state. Thomas claimed that the Court's "extravagant uses of judicial power" to end racial segregation in the 1950s and 60s was misguided despite the 9-0 ruling in Brown, which declared that separate but equal was unconstitutional. You can't help but wonder if somewhere along the line, Thomas himself didn't benefit from this ruling. After all, he's freely admitted that he would not have gotten into Yale Law School if it had not been for the university's affirmative action program, another concept which he's fought against ever since he made it to the high Court.

I've heard that there's activity in some communities with respect to the Brown decisions where they hope that a case could be made to bring it before the Court once again, while the conservative bias remains intact. And that's not the only long held precedent that well-funded groups out there are focusing on, including Griswold, Lawrence and perhaps even Loving, which would really be ironic, particularly with respect to Thomas.

With that in mind, you have to ask yourself, why did Thomas even bring up the Brown decision in this latest case? Was he sending some sort of message or was he laying the groundwork with a citation that could be referenced in some future case which was challenging Brown?

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It's bad enough that web browsers have a 'history' feature ;-)

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Note that I posted this item an hour before this thread was posted, or at least that's what the time stamps indicate:

The European Union on Tuesday approved a plan to hand Ukraine the profits generated by frozen Russian central bank assets.

Posted by LampLighter

Sounds about right...

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So much easier to apply leverage. I suspect that, like the Georgia RICO case, we're going to see some of these people making a deal, if for no other reason than to lessen their financial exposure.

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Note that the campaign video was posted Monday afternoon, but by Tuesday morning, it had been taken down.

Gee, I wonder why?

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Maybe the Republicans are right, there is extensive voter fraud in the country. The good news; all they have to do to find it is look in a mirror.

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