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surprised no Open VLD voters so far.

Transmission-Joy Division

I mean, he really isn't, though that has nothing to do with paying off a porn star, which is pretty tame compared to most political corruption. I think the fact that he is a 100% psychopath and completely deranged in general are more disqualifying. Still consider him the lesser of two evils in this election, but that doesn't mean I think he's fit to serve.

Democrats don’t get that many voters who are considering going for Trump actually don’t like Trump but just dislike Biden and the Democrats more . Like yes they are correct that very few people outside Trump’s cult actually likes Trump anymore but they completely underestimate how disliked Biden is at the current moment .

It’s why if Biden really wanted to win he’d :

- take Executive Action on the border

- take action on law and order by pushing to pass federal legislation that would criminalize hard drugs , shop lifting , and other property crimes if state and local governments aren’t willing to do it .


If he did this he’d easily defeat Trump but no the fact is he’d rather not do anything on this either because he’s a super weak leader or he is extremely cynical and believes he can get away with doing nothing on either issue because voters dislike Trump and the GOP more . It’s probably a combination of both but by doing so they have also made it more likely that Trump can win again

There was a bill proposed by a Republican Senator that would have solved this issue but your party killed because Trump wanted it killed. Your party does not exist anymore. It has become the Trump Party.

That bill would not have solved this issue but this is classic democrats shifting blame . It was Biden who :

- Ended the remain in Mexico Asylum policy that was working well

- halted deportations which created an invitation for people to come in

- suing states who are trying to actually disincentivize illegal immigration

- refuses to send the military to the border


Joe Biden has done all these things so it’s actually lol to shift blame the way he has done .

No, it's not Democrats shifting blame. It's you and your party refusing to accept responsibility for an issue YOU wanted to continue so your cult leader could use it. You are more than willing to blow up the United States because you, much like Trump-and small children the world over-refuse to accept responsibility and say "No, you!" Whenever someone punctures your 'reasoning'.

The only difference between you and Trump is he says the quiet parts of your party out loud. Christ, at least he has the guts to be upfront about how much of a bigot he is.

I did not want this bill as it was only something pro amnesty republicans wanted and I’m not one . Anyway house republicans did pass a bill that the senate refuses to take up of you want to play this game but at the end of the day this problem because bad on Joe Biden’s watch and because of his policies .

The Senate DID take up H.R. 2. It Failed. TWICE. Move on.

     Most people don't care that much about foreign policy. The policy polling question that should be asked but never is is "will this issue affect your vote"?

Good point.

I have ZERO sympathy for alvin bragg. I do have sympathy for all the people who have been mugged, knocked out, stabbed, pushed onto subway tracks, etc. in Manhattan because mr. bragg decided not to prosecute actual crimes and let dangerous individuals back on the streets. I am a strong believer in karma.

Crime especially violent crime is low in NYC you rw hack
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-march-2024-crime-statistics.amp

You realize that talking point is complete BS? It's debunked a million times and you red avatars only continue to prove how much a bubble you live in. Left wing prosecutors like mr. bragg refuse to prosecute crime and as a result, police don't bother to arrest actual criminals. hence, you have so many instances that are never even reported. and you can thank alvin bragg for that

Except I mentioned the stopping mechanism to any potential dictatorship.

No, you didn’t.

To turn a democracy into a dictatorship one of 3 things needs to happen:

1. Change the Constitution. This is the straight forward way to do so but its pretty much impossible to change it here though partisan means

2. Rig Elections which again the federal government does not have here. Elections are run by the states not the federal government and the electoral count reform act pretty much made it impossible for congress to throw out electoral votes. Really you need the courts to go along with you here and SCOTUS has shown time and time again that they would not

3. Have the leadership of the military and intelligence agencies on your side. Trump is not even close to having this and its simply impossible to make both completely loyal in just 2 years (which is when the midterms would be).

Did the Tuskegee airmen really support going all the way over to Europe and fighting Hitler, at a time when African Americans were so poorly treated by the US government, or was it all just an elaborate hoax?

On December 7, 1941, did Doris Miller think to himself, "these Japanese torpedo bombers don't really concern black people like me, I'll just #WalkAway"?

SigmaDos poll for the conservative newspaper El Mundo

https://twitter.com/electografica/status/1797022409733657000?t=zztBcf1LzuqZFIlrK...

Apparently there exists the perception that PP and PSOE will finish virtually tied on next Sunday's elections (it'd be a failure for Feijóo), as the PSOE is taking advantage of Milei's attacks and aims catching voters from its left (the conflict between Sumar and Podemos is very damaging). The list of the far-right youtuber Alvise could win 2 seats or more, probably at the expense of Vox. I would bet the latter will get more votes than Irene Montero's list (she will be elected,  that's for sure) and everything points the results will be disappointing for Sumar...

Meanwhile Von der Leyen avoids mentioning the Amnesty Law at the EPP campaign event in Spain and Catalan separatists ate still in a state of shock


https://twitter.com/EnricJuliana/status/1797198928930033676?t=hGSLm6ubw07mbUoIv9...

 

[Obviously, he won’t both because I think he genuinely respects the rule of law and because it would be an irreparable messaging cluster**** politically speaking.]

Biden should just pardon him the day after the election.

No, he shouldn’t.  This would be even more corrupt than Clinton’s pardon of Roger Clinton and Trump’s pardon of Charles Kushner.*  If Hunter Biden is convicted and said convictions survive appeal then Biden should respect the rule of law.  If Biden flagrantly abuses his pardoning power in such a manner, then he should be impeached and removed from office.  Obviously, he won’t both because I think he genuinely respects the rule of law and because it would be an irreparable messaging cluster**** politically speaking.  

Honestly, I think federal pardons should have an eight member oversight board where half of the members must be appointed by the previous President on their last day in office (as in the prior individual to hold the office) and half by the current President on their first day in office (with a tie or a vote without all eight members present resulting in a denial of the pardon).  The board would not be able to recommend or otherwise suggest/nominate candidates for a pardon, those would have to come from the President, but they could veto Presidential decisions to grant a pardon or commutation.  Obviously this will never happen since it would require a constitutional amendment, but it’d fix a lot of issues with Presidential pardoning power, but I digress.

*Of course, these were far from the worst abuses of Presidential pardoning power by Clinton and Trump.  With Clinton you had the rightly infamous Marc Rich pardon and Susan McDougal getting pardoned as a reward for refusing to answer certain questions during her grand jury testimony about whether Clinton committed perjury during her trial (he almost certainly did so).  

With Trump you had Roger Stone (after the equally corrupt commutation of his sentence to keep him out of prison), Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn and George Papadopolous as a reward for not flipping on him.  The pardons of Paul Erickson and Alex Van Der Zwaan simply because he didn’t want any Mueller-related convictions to stand except for people who truly flipped, the politically-motivated pardon of convicted murderer Clint Lorance (soldier convicted of numerous crimes including convictions for murder x2, attempted murder, obstruction, and witness tampering) were all also deeply corrupt.

Are you kidding? Of course Biden's gonna pardon Hunter. That's his son! What parent wouldn't? Of course, Biden has enough political sense not to do so until after the election, but it's gonna happen if Hunter's convicted. And if he'd re-elected, Biden could pair that with a Trump pardon in exchange for Republicans not going after him.

I have no plans on leaving. Whoever is in the White House has little bearing on my day to day life.