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https://twitter.com/DanielleForPA/status/1314033735558455297?s=20Somebody on 11th Hour last night made a Freudian slip,
When referring to the "cemetery er ceremony" in the Rose Garden. It was really funny 😄.
I didn't know that about Boris. Fuck.
I don't think it's a trick, but I do think it's a gambit.
He's counting on people rallying around him in his moment of crisis, and playing the martyr. And I'm not sure that enough people have the sense not to be sucked in.
Also, who's going to speak Ill of him during his heroic struggle? Who's going to continue to mention his performance in that debate.
I think it's an act of desperation on his part because he would literally rather die than lose.
In any event, I think the timing is good for him and bad for us.
I just came back to this news after relaxing with a little YouTube.
Whether he actually has it or not, I think it's some sort of whacko con, and a desperate last ditch effort to get reelected.
I honestly think he'd rather die than be a "loser". If he takes Biden down with him, he'll see it as a double victory, even if it's through a haze of sedation on a ventilator.
Now I need to calm down with some Bacardi.
She's an "originalist" who thinks that the 14th and 15th Ammendments are illegitimate. From DKos.
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As far as the 14th Amendment goes, it includes what are now referred to as the Citizenship Clause, the Privileges Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the Equal Protection Clause. In short, it says that everyone born in the United States is a full citizen, with the full rights due to a citizen, and cant be deprived of those rights unless theyre given due process of law. All of this makes the 14th Amendment integral to questions of citizenship, and foundational for Civil Rights legislation. Its such an important amendment, that legal scholars have called it the second Constitution for its attempts to tear out the elements of slavery built into the original document. Among other things, the Supreme Court has made it clear that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 rests entirely on the authority granted to Congress by the 14th Amendment.
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Back in 2011, The Atlantic took a look at this question and how conservative Republicans became 14th Amendment deniers. For some Republicans, the 14th Amendment was viewed as being only intended to help those who had been directly enslaved, and not applicable to future generations. This view has become common in right-wing media, and sorry as that sounds, its not even the most radical view. The even uglier approach has been to outright challenge the validity of 14th Amendment because members of Confederate states were not seated in Congress when the amendment was proposed just after the end of the Civil War. Because of this, say the deniers, the Congress itself was illegitimate, and so anything it recommendedincluding the 14th and 15th Amendmentsare illegitimate.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/26/1980903/-Why-Trump-s-expected-Supreme-Court-nominee-believes-all-Civil-Rights-legislation-is-illegitimate
Some quotes from Amy's writings, Congress has to decide whether to rely on the power conferred by the possibly illegitimate Fourteenth Amendment. The originalist legislator might have to face questions such as the legitimacy of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What happens when the SCOTUS starts throwing out Constitutional amendments that are foundational to the functioning of moders society?
I trust myself and my mother,
and other white women whose politics I'm familiar with, as well as a number of public figures. I can't speak to anyone else.
How about white men, the Dicks of the world?
I'm always very happy to see Mike Steele speak out, and
as much as I've loathed Bill Kristol in the past, and very likely in the future, I think he's doing an outstanding job with RVAT.
Mike Steele was on fire last night on the 11th Hour. We need as many hands on deck as possible right now IMO.
Start about 1:22 min in.
Postal police union sues DeJoy for limiting mail theft enforcement authority
Per the union, USPS implemented the change on Aug. 25, a day after DeJoy testified to Congress amid mounting concerns that policy changes he implemented were delaying mail service and could jeopardize record numbers of mail-in ballots expected in the presidential election.
The union argues that this unilateral change by USPS managers violates the collective bargaining agreement with the Postal Police Officers Association. The union is asking a judge to block the policy change pending arbitration and to declare that USPS leaders acted outside of their statutory authority.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/postal-service-police-union-sues-dejoy-414537
I can't believe it. A police union that's actually trying to do something positive. I didn't even know that Postal Police Officers were a thing.
This is much more upbeat than his 2016 one.
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