General Politics Discussion VIII [ARCHIVED] • Page 1108

There was legit legislation to make the Fluffernutter the official MA state sandwich a few years ago lol.

 

Butter burgers in Wisconsin are legit, Jim’s steaks as referenced are awesome, but Baltimore crabcakes take the, uh, cake. Crabcakes everywhere else really are gross.

 

Boo

 

Nate not understanding that with 95% efficacy, we want as many people vaccinated as possible

 

Yeah we also don't know how long immunity from the vaccine lasts yet. I'm gonna be interested to see more data from the trials over the next 6-9 months as some of those very first people to get vaccinated start getting sick.

 

Never heard it called that, but we fucked with the peanut butter/marshmallow sandwich up in Alaska. Been eating them ever since

 

I wonder how they are going to decide how to move to each group for vaccinations. Obviously, the first priority is healthcare workers, and then essential workers, elderly, and other high risk groups. But it’s pretty clear that a good portion of them aren’t going to want the vaccine. So at what point do they move forward and making it available to more groups in the general public even though all of those people from those groups haven’t gotten the vaccination? Has the process with that been talked about at all?

 

I'm trying to go to Iceland in the summer. As long as I can get it before then.

 

Good site

https://www.senatordavidperdue.com/...A2hl9Pwvp_3_fUQR0PxicGfqYVPLbgshPv6VQVdTZk2Cs

 

There’s about 8 words in there that Trump would never use/doesn’t understand.

 

Thinking about it, it's amazing (and completely unsurprising) that Joe "there is no excuse for violence of any kind" Biden has been completely silent around the violence of the pro-Trump protesters in DC. If people loot a Target following the state murder of a member of their community, that provokes immediate condemnation, but when the far-right, in a massive temper tantrum after a failed attempt at a coup, stabs four people, assaults cops, and vandalizes a church in a manner that has been likened to the KKK's cross burning by the church's pastor, we get 24 hours of silence on the issue

 

Somehow, I feel like she would be an improvement over Rubio if she challenged him and won

 

I think it's hilarious that the whole family got chased out of NYC.

Florida is such a hellhole of a state with such corruption that they fit right in down there

 

Trump Allies Eye Long-Shot Election Reversal in Congress, Testing Pence

 

Lol they're just doing theater at this point. They know damn well the democratic house will vote against it

 

I hate TMZ so much: United Airlines Explains Booting Family Over Toddler Refusing to Wear Mask

 

Wow they caused her to delete her account in fear of being fired from her job. Fuckers ruined a source of income for her

 

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Liberals Were Right to Fear the Supreme Court’s Election Intervention

What the Court didn’t say matters too. Despite the public plea of at least one high-profile member of the Supreme Court bar, the justices never forcefully repudiated Trump’s postelection conduct; instead, they issued brief, anodyne orders in these matters that did not discuss the merits. Condemning frivolous litigation brought in service of a president’s slow-motion coup attempt feels like a low bar for a high court to clear, and its failure to do so is itself a sort of silver-lining victory for certain Trump acolytes. On Friday night, the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, characterized the justices as having “dodged” the case’s substance with a “procedural ruling,” defiantly asserting that “the indictment on this election and its integrity still stands.”

troublingly pervasive among Republican politicians and voters. And although the Court may not have been willing to overturn an election that Trump lost by such wide margins, the groundwork is now in place for the justices to bless a new era of voter suppression. Depending on how effective these efforts are, the Court might not need to bother with the possibility of intervening in the next close election—Republicans will just win it outright.


It is unequivocally good that the Court didn’t deliver a 20th-anniversary redux of Bush v. Gore after all. But the justices are not civic heroes for turning Trump away at the courthouse door, or champions of the rule of law for not laying waste to the democratic process. They appear to be savvy partisan operators, unwilling to expend their political capital to rescue a soundly beaten candidate whose support they no longer need, fully aware that they can accumulate even more goodwill merely by not confirming the very worst fears about how the Court will wield its power. With Trump’s postelection gambit all but over, the greatest trick the conservative legal movement can hope to pull off is convincing people that it was never really a threat.