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by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:24 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: World News Thread
Replies: 779
Views: 179525

Re: World News Thread

Here is video apparently showing Bolsonaro's supporters attacking a mounted policeman and his horse, knocking the policeman to the ground where he is beaten. Brazilian authorities are investigating the nation's former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for "selling embezzled watches at a shopping mall...
by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:21 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

The Biden-Harris campaign is trying to reach Nikki Haley voters:

by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:12 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

Donald Trump today shared an image of President Biden bound and gagged in the back of a pickup truck. This was in the form of video of two pickup trucks driven by his supporters on a rainy highway. What struck me as much as the violent image of Biden was how the official American flag is overshadowe...
by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:25 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

To be sure, there have been previous calls from both the left and the right for the repeal of the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution. The 22nd Amendment, which was approved by Congress in 1947 and ratified by the states and made effective in 1951, prohibits a president from serving mor...
by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:46 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

Republican budget proposals " call for cutting federal spending on health care by $4.5 trillion over the next decade. That's four times as much as the GOP envisioned cutting in its 2017 bill to repeal the ACA" -- that was the "skinny repeal" bill that the late Sen. John McCain fa...
by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:21 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
Replies: 320
Views: 60063

Re: Trump Indicted for January 6

I think some kudos may be due to Seth Abramson because, as I recall, he was arguing pretty early on that, contra claims that President Trump merely considered appointing Jeffrey Clark to the role of Acting Attorney General, as see, e.g., the summary of that incident in Wikipedia: Attempted appointm...
by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 8:48 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Replies: 1964
Views: 246576

Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)

Donald Trump has made no public remarks about the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsing, and his only social media post about it, ironically, was to share Sean Hannity's claim that President Biden hasn't said enough about it. It's been three days. What gives? There's so much one of the two leading can...
by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
Replies: 4031
Views: 490397

Re: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions

Attorney Lin Wood is being investigated in Georgia because he may voted illegally there. There's a woman serving five years in Texas for voting illegally in 2016. Here's hoping. Sadly, the real charge that led to Crystal Mason being given a five year sentence was "VWB" (Voting While Black...
by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:39 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
Replies: 4031
Views: 490397

Re: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:47 am I wonder how the amount got out? I would think that would be confidential.
Reporters probably guessed that the insurance company was involved and found someone there who was willing to spill the beans.
by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution : A judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman, Brian K. Pritchard, violated state election laws when he voted nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence. Pritchard, a conservative talk show host, m...
by N.E. Brigand
Fri Mar 29, 2024 5:44 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

President Biden said this at his big New York fundraiser with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton last night:

"Harry Truman said: 'If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.' I got one, and it bit a secret service agent."
by N.E. Brigand
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:58 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

(I've also seen online reports that when speaking to CPAC earlier today, Trump referred to his wife Melania by the name Mercedes. I suspect that may be an error in the reports, because CPAC is run by Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes. His speech is 80 minutes long, and I haven't listened to the wh...
by N.E. Brigand
Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:28 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions
Replies: 4031
Views: 490397

Re: 2020 Election: Predictions, Results and Reactions

Possibly for the last time: Matt Schlapp . Carlton Huffmann, the 2022 Herschel Walker campaign staffer who sued Schlapp (and others) for Schlapp allegedly groping him, has dropped his lawsuits: In a statement on Tuesday, Huffman said he was discontinuing his lawsuits and issued an apology for bring...
by N.E. Brigand
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:07 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Chaos in Congress
Replies: 595
Views: 49519

Re: Chaos in Congress

The AP reports that Rep. Troy Nehls, Republican of Texas, is being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for matters related to his 2022 campaign.
by N.E. Brigand
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:05 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: Chaos in Congress
Replies: 595
Views: 49519

Re: Chaos in Congress

An unexpected retirement for Democrats: Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire, who's been in the House since 2013, has announced she's not seeking reelection this year.
by N.E. Brigand
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:02 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections
Replies: 920
Views: 112991

Re: 2022 U.S. Congressional (and Other) Elections

[Kyle Griffin on Twitter : "An Arizona judge has rejected Kari Lake's election lawsuit, affirming governor-elect Katie Hobbs' win." Today the judge in the case ordered Kari Lake to pay Katie Hobbs more than $33,000 as reimbursement for Hobbs's payment to expert witnesses, but he did not s...
by N.E. Brigand
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

A new CNBC poll finds Donald Trump leading President Biden 46%-45%. While that's still not good, it is a shift of five points in Biden's direction since December. Notably, for the first time for this poll since 2021, a majority of Americans think the U.S. is not heading into a recession.
by N.E. Brigand
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:20 pm
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

Yeah a vote for RFK Jr. in any given state is effectively a vote for the candidate who wins that state. Thus the 50,000 people who voted for Jill Stein in Michigan in 2016 gave the state to Donald Trump, who beat Hillary Clinton there by 11,000 votes. That is: the Green Party candidate helped the gu...
by N.E. Brigand
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:45 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

In Alabama tonight , Marilyn Lands, a Democratic candidate who lost by seven points in 2022, won a special election for the state house with a campaign in which she "openly discussed the abortion she had more than 20 years ago after her fetus tested positive for a rare genetic condition" ...
by N.E. Brigand
Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:34 am
Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Replies: 939
Views: 69833

Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread

*sigh* So not only is Trump a shoe salesman, he's now hawking bibles. This is probably behind a paywall but I'll put it here anyway. NYT: Trump’s Newest Venture? A $60 Bible. :puke: How can people eat this up and not feel used and tainted? In part: On Tuesday, Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican ...