The Supreme Court just assured that abortion rights will remain the #1 issue in those states, like Texas, where their legislatures have created an environment where women are bleeding-out in their cars, while sitting in the parking lot outside of their local ER. If your argument is that life is so sacred that abortion for any reason is not only wrong but a criminal offense, how about the life of the mother?

BTW, lets look at that concern for sacredness of life in those same states when it comes to capital punishment. You can't have it both ways, if life at conception is to be protected, then ALL LIFE is to be protected, period. You claim that only God has the power of life and death, OK, then do away with capital punishment, since that is nothing more than state-sanctioned murder. Either all life is sacred or it's not.

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The DOJ is not allowed to START an investigation or initiate a court proceeding within 90-days of an election. However, the election case against Donald Trump has been in the works for over a year and therefore is NOT impacted by the DOJ rule. What happening now was underway a lot longer ago than 90-days.

And yes, I do read history and am aware of what's going on and how Trump attempted to circumvent the will of the people and how he continues to do so today, with the help of those who only listen to him and who are themselves ignorant of history.

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It appears that the IDF may be taking out Hezbollah leaders as fast as they're appointed.

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The Supreme Court ordered Judge Chutkan to review the charges being brought against Trump to determine what is and what is not considered part of his duties as president, and the only way to do that was to have the charges spelled out in black & white in a formal indictment, which is what Jack Smith did. His filing to the judge had been presented first to a grand jury, which found that there was probable cause to issue an indictment. The judge and Smith were only complying with the ruling from the Supreme Court. As for the publication of the redacted version of the filing, under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution, the defendant, and the public, has the right to see, in a timely manner, what charges were laid out in an indictment. The judge was simply doing what it was that she would have done for any other defendant.

From the judge's point of view, who the defendant is or what their position is in society is irrelevant. Trump is being treated like any other person under indictment in a federal court of law.

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I wonder how much Trump's cut is?

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I wonder how much Trump's take is?

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At a rally in Michigan today, Trump promised the crowd that he would win the state, just like he did in 2020.

Trump lost Michigan by over 150,000 votes in 2020.

Trump also said that while mail-in ballots contributed to the election being stolen from him in 2020, for 2024, since Michigan has already started to send out mail-in ballots, that perhaps this year, the state's voters should consider using them. Well, which is it, are mail-in ballots susceptible to fraud or not? You can't have it both ways.

Note that Michigan is a 'no excuse' state. That is, any registered voter can request a mail-in ballot and they are NOT required to provide a reason for doing so.

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Trump is now blaming the Secret Service, saying their new security procedures are scaring people away from attending his rallies (I guess those magnetometers are making some people think twice).

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Trump claimed, standing in front of a partially-full room, that he was only candidate who could fill a venue of that size. He may have been right, but just NOT on THAT day.

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Well low and behold, there's only ONE Bible currently 'in print' which meets this exact specification, the so-called 'Trump Bible', from which Donald Trump is personally paid a 'royalty' for every copy sold. Gee, how convenient.

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This is now all a moot point since the union has agreed to go back to work tomorrow.

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Vance has finally answered the question he was asked at the Debate, "Who won the 2020 election?"

And his answer, Donald Trump.

He also refuses to commit to accepting the outcome of the 2024 election. This alone should disqualify him from ever holding national office.

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There's talk that Trump was upset with Vance's debate performance, or at least how the pundits were talking about his debate performance, that is that it was civil and on topic and everything that Trump's performance agasint Harris in their debate was NOT. And like what Josh just stated, some Republicans are starting to discuss how they might move Trump out of the front seat of the campaign. And some of big donors are coming to believe that they can get everything they want with Vance, without any of the baggage that inevitably would come along with Trump and his family.

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Considering how Trump has condemned Kamala for not doing one-on-one interviews, Trump himself has not done one since last year, and now he's blown off '60 Minutes'. I think the reason for that was that he was worried that the VP debate was going to go poorly and he wanted to be free to attack CBS over that, which would have been complicated if he was still going to be doing a one-on-one with them. So he sacrificed the chance to go, in essence, back-to-back with Kamala, all so that he was free to attack the media and make them the villain in everything that's not going exactly the way he thinks that it should be going.

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The biggest issue I had with JD Vance was that if someone had just awakened from a four-year coma and they had listened to Vance during the debate tonight, they'd come away thinking that Kamala Harris had been President for the last 3 1/2 years. I don't think Vance mentioned Biden's name once during the entire debate. In fact, on more than one occasion, he explicitly referred to the 'Kamala Harris administration'.

On one of the networks they'd had a 'viewing party' at a community college in Michigan and one of the students that they interviewed after the debate commented about this very thing, that Vance seemed to think that everything that's happened, or not, over the last 3 1/2 years, was the responsibility of Kamala Harris. This student suggested that Vance needed to take a refresher class in Civics where he'd learn the extent of the power, or lack there of, of a Vice-President.

Now I'll admit that Vance sounded a lot more sane than Trump (a relatively low bar to jump over) but he still avoided answering most questions and when he did answer, he got it wrong, like claiming that he has NEVER wished for a nationwide ban on abortion (they have tape of him saying it). And the biggest question he never answered, "Who do you think won the 2020 election?"

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You have to give Flake credit for being one of the original 'never-Trumpers' and he's not deviated from that position ever since.

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A bit of trivia, Jimmy Carter is the first American President to be born in a hospital.

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I wonder how many Jamie McGregor's are out there...

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The Republicans just can't help themselves. They have to cheat at all levels.

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Of all the former military officers out there, General McChrystal should have the biggest and most personal reason for NOT wanting to endorse a DEMOCRATIC nominee for President, yet he's endorsing Kamala Harris. This sends a message that will be hard to ignore.

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In fact, in a debate on Fox, Harris would have much more to gain than Trump, in fact, he would risk losing much more. After all, most of the people who watch Fox News already support Trump so if he comes-off as weak or not able to stand-up to Kamala, it's his base that would be watching. At the same time, if Harris does comport herself well, she has a chance of picking up support from a group, which under normal circumstances, isn't even seeing or hearing what she's actually out there telling people. If a debate on Fox drew their traditional audience, it could a positive opportunity for Harris, but only a downside risk for Trump.

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Trump has a meeting with Zelinski on Friday.

What are the chances he comes out of that and supports Ukraine lol......and totally confuses/upsets his base?

Don't put it past him.

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During his meeting today with Ukrainian President Zelensky, Trump couldn't help himself, he just had to brag about the great relationship that he has with his friend Vladimir Putin.

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You can't help but wonder whether the Saudi's and other foreigners are counting on Trump winning to get a 'return on their investment'.

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That seems a bit nasty...

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Trump goes all in for the Russian vote:

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