Please explain to me like I'm 5 how Trump has endless flaws but could apparently easily win

because his base sticks with him no matter what he does, but apparently it's terrible if the Dem base is sticking with Biden.

Why is Trump's horribleness such an easier sell than Biden being old?

Is it just the electoral college and that the deck is stacked against Dems and it's harder for us to win? So apparently the media can't give us a freaking break???

Supreme Court strips SEC of key enforcement power to penalize fraud

Source: CBS News

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the Securities and Exchange Commission in a dispute over the agency's ability to use in-house tribunals to seek civil penalties against defendants for securities fraud, stripping the agency of a key enforcement tool.

The court ruled 6-3 against the SEC in the case, finding that the Seventh Amendment entitles a defendant to a jury trial. The court split along ideological lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the conservative majority.

"A defendant facing a fraud suit has the right to be tried by a jury of his peers before a neutral adjudicator," Roberts wrote for the court. He said that allowing the executive branch to play the role of prosecutor, judge and jury — as in enforcement proceedings conducted by the SEC internally — is the "very opposite of the separation of powers that the Constitution demands."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor authored a dissenting opinion, a summary of which she read from the bench. Joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sotomayor wrote that for years, Congress has allowed an agency to impose civil penalties and warned the majority's decision would unleash "chaos." She criticized the ruling as a "power grab."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-sec-jarkesy-securities-fraud/

Curious-- how many of you would vote for a Democratic candidate if they were convicted of a felony during their

election year and refused to drop out of the race?

I mean-- why is this even a question? WTF is wrong with Republicans?

Also-- where is the media on this????????????? Has any media organization told Trump to drop out?

Livestream Abruptly Ends As Laura Loomer Calls For Democrats to be Executed

Source: Mediaite

A broadcast by right-wing podcaster Tim Pool was cut short when guest Laura Loomer, an outspoken white nationalist and conspiracy theorist, called for Democrats to be executed. On a recent Timcast IRL YouTube stream, Pool reacted to the 34 guilty verdicts against former President Donald Trump.

“I’ll put it this way: should Democrats be in jail? No question. When Donald Trump gets elected, should he start locking them up? No question. Should there be lists of Democrats who need to go to jail? One hundred percent,” Pool said, continuing:

POOL: The reason for that is, they’ve committed crimes. We need to make sure that when Donald Trump wins, we’ve got an attorney general, a deputy attorney general, a head of the CIA and the FBI. Kash Patel would be fantastic. We can have, for attorney general, there’s some names floating around. And, then they can start having their investigators and the feds issuing subpoenas, pulling up evidence, and with real evidence, bring them to judges for warrants. Then these people can spend three years of their lives fighting tooth and nail against the government for crimes they committed and we can prove. And the reason why we put them on trial is, we can show the whole world we will uncover what you’ve done, we will make sure everybody knows, and you will be held accountable for it.

LOOMER: Not just jail, they should get the death penalty. You know, we actually used to have, the punishment for treason in this country —

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/livestream-abruptly-ends-as-laura-loomer-calls-for-democrats-to-be-executed/

World leaders 'outraged' by deadly Israeli strike on Rafah tent camp

Scoop: U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel

Source: Axios

The Biden administration last week put a hold on a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, two Israeli officials told Axios.

Why it matters: It is the first time since the Oct. 7 attack that the U.S. has stopped a weapons shipment intended for the Israeli military.

The incident raised serious concerns inside the Israeli government and sent officials scrambling to understand why the shipment was held, Israeli officials said.

President Biden is facing sharp criticism among Americans who oppose his support of Israel. The administration in February asked Israel to provide assurances that U.S.-made weapons were being used by Israel Defense Forces in Gaza in accordance with international law. Israel provided a signed letter of assurances in March.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/05/05/israel-us-ammunition-shipment-hold

Please call Congress & tell them to support aid to Ukraine NOW!

Trump posts that people's fear that he's "Another Hitler" or a dictator Is "Reason for Hope"

The article described in this Meidas Touch piece is beyond nauseating.

Trump's RNC officially kills the GOP's mail-in voter effort

Source: https://www.msnbc.com

In a victory for the extremist wing of the Republican Party, it looks like Donald Trump’s hand-picked leadership team at the Republican National Committee has officially scrapped the GOP’s plan to encourage early voting this election cycle. Instead, the party is taking steps to prioritize legal challenges to voting systems ahead of November.

As part of the layoffs and budget cuts carried out this week by the newly installed leadership team, they are shuttering a program dedicated to mail-in voting, according to The Washington Post. The significance, of course, is that Trump has pushed false claims that mail-in voting is rife with voter fraud since 2020, months before he lost the election to Joe Biden. Ever since the election, Trump has continued to spread conspiracy theories that mail-in voter fraud cost him that race. In reality, there’s ample evidence that allowing people to vote by mail doesn’t have a partisan effect (and if it does, data shows the impact appears to favor Republicans).

Nonetheless, the Post reported that the “Bank Your Vote” program, which was designed to encourage Republicans to vote early, is over with: "A nationwide network of community outreach centers, once a fixture of the party’s efforts to attract minority voters, will be shuttered or refocused on get-out-the-vote efforts. The much heralded “Bank Your Vote” program, aimed at getting Republicans to vote early, will shift to a “Grow The Vote” program focused more on expanding the party’s outreach to less likely Trump voters."

Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel was a staunch supporter of the "Bank Your Vote" program, which may be one of the many reasons she was ousted. The “Grow the Vote” program appears to be a way for Republicans to continue their mission of getting “low information, low propensity voters” — specifically those who don’t typically vote — to the polls this November. (It’s like Republicans have just rediscovered voter outreach or something.)

Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/main-in-voting-bank-your-vote-republicans-rcna143291

The Hur transcipt shows Biden to be a very intelligent, caring and dedicated man

"I have read the transcript. I suggest you do too. It left me with the impression of a hyper-intelligent, joking, caring man who is dedicated to "doing things right," as he interprets them. He also loves his family. And he likes to tell long stories. I can personally relate."

https://x.com/magi_jay/status/1767605816687829159?s=20

This thread is great
"Here is Biden describing the file-drawer problem in biomedical research, such that he is telling Hur that he has identified a problem in the field: the non-publication of non-significant scientific results. This is graduate-level knowledge. Then he goes further & discusses NIH $."
https://x.com/magi_jay/status/1767596427394404756?s=20