The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

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One down. What a piece of work the son of RFK is. Same goes for the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has Sabotaged Early Voting in a Critical Swing State

The North Carolina Supreme Court tossed a grenade into the state’s election on Monday.

slate.com

The North Carolina Supreme Court tossed a grenade into the state’s election on Monday, violating both state and federal law to grant Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s cynical, last-minute removal from the ballot. Its 4–3 decision will compel election administrators to destroy nearly 3 million already-printed ballots that featured Kennedy’s name and redesign 2,348 different ballot styles across the state to accommodate the eleventh-hour change.

Kennedy did not file his request for removal until Aug. 27, five days after the deadline and four days after he withdrew. By that point, county election boards were already printing ballots. Under state law, the board of elections may refuse a “late” request to remove a candidate from the ballot when removal is no longer “practical.” Another state law compels election officials to mail ballots to service members and others living overseas by Sept. 6. North Carolina’s state elections director testified that redesigning the ballot would take 18 to 23 days. So removing Kennedy’s name from the ballot—then designing and printing substitutes—would require election officials to violate state law.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

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How does that saying go? Oh, yeah: You lie with dogs, you're bound to get fleas. Or something.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Ducks?! Since when was it bad to eat duck? I married into a SEA family and near every fancy dinner is topped off with duck. ()

Apparently,

Prior to the debate, the Trump campaign said in a news release that Haitian migrants had “reportedly been caught ‘decapitating ducks’ and hunting geese and other livestock in public parks—and even kidnapping residents’ pets—then eating them

Source of Trump’s Dog-Eating Immigrants Claim Unmasked

The poster got the story from a friend of her daughter who heard it from an “acquaintance of a friend.” Trump quoted her, but “I don’t have any proof,” says Patient Zero.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

"Reportedly" is a cute word. It's like allegedly-lite. =^-^=

 

[Isabeau]

Nice headline from the Philly Inquirer (1$ for 6 months sub).

The Trump-supporting governor who shot her puppy will be in Berks County tonight stumping for the former president

The South Dakota governor will speak at a Trump-sponsored town hall in Berks County along with North Dakota Gov. Doug Bergum.

www.inquirer.com

 

[Isabeau]

Also,

Scoop the Vote

campaigns.moveon.org

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act.moveon.org

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[Katheryne Helendale]

Pope slams both Harris and Trump as 'against life' and urges Catholics to vote for 'lesser evil'

Pope Francis has strongly criticized both U.S. presidential candidates over what he calls anti-life policies on abortion and migration.

apnews.com

Read into that as you will, I guess.

 

[Beebo Brink]

He needs to look to the mote in his eye & church, before worrying about who we elect for president.

 

[Isabeau]

Project 2025 Staffer's Viral Video on Abortion Massively Backfires

McEntee received over 11,000 comments on his video, mostly from women describing their own stories, or stories from relatives or friends, of brutal and horrific medical complications that have resulted from providers refusing to provide medically necessary abortion in red states for fear of prosecution.

 

[Soen Eber]

Pope slams both Harris and Trump as 'against life' and urges Catholics to vote for 'lesser evil'

Pope Francis has strongly criticized both U.S. presidential candidates over what he calls anti-life policies on abortion and migration.

apnews.com

Read into that as you will, I guess.

Obviously, you can be "a little bit anti-immigrant" just like you can be "a little bit pregnant". I guess that comes with Papal infallibility.

 

[Noodles]

Project 2025 Staffer's Viral Video on Abortion Massively Backfires

But but, the only reason women get abortion procedures is because they had painful promiscuous recreational sex with th express purpose of producing a baby to kill!

-- Project 2025 Staffers

 

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I gotta say, Loomer is the gift that keeps on fucking things up.



Republicans fear Laura Loomer is influencing Donald Trump

 

[Cristiano]

This makes me so angry. This asshole is now worried for her safety, and she “feels for the immigrant community”. Actions have consequences. Schools and other places in Springfield received bomb threats and had to close on Thursday and Friday, two days after Trump ranted about Haitians eating pets in front of 65 million viewers. It is insanity, and people are going to end up getting hurt or even killed.

'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians

The woman behind an early Facebook post that helped spark baseless rumors about Haitians eating pets told NBC News that she feels for the immigrant community.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Noodles]

This makes me so angry. This asshole is now worried for her safety, and she “feels for the immigrant community”. Actions have consequences. Schools and other places in Springfield received bomb threats and had to close on Thursday and Friday, two days after Trump ranted about Haitians eating pets in front of 65 million viewers. It is insanity, and people are going to end up getting hurt or even killed.

'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians

The woman behind an early Facebook post that helped spark baseless rumors about Haitians eating pets told NBC News that she feels for the immigrant community.

www.nbcnews.com

Yeah, screw this stupid bitch.

All she had to do was not tell racist lies.

Literally all she had to do was not lie and not be a shitty racist

Fucking easy peasy.

And she failed.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Yeah. This was posted to r/columbus a few weeks ago. Most posts were about what a menace geese are. Then the alt-right grabbed it.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Yeah. This was posted to r/columbus a few weeks ago. Most posts were about what a menace geese are. Then the alt-right grabbed it.

Lengthy but entertaining critique of the alt-right, Trump and JD Vance, with reference to the Haitians ate my pets nonsense

Now Haiti is a country that we here in the United States have ruined for a couple centuries, which has resulted in it being the sort of place where Haitians might be compelled to leave, even though human beings really don't usually want to leave their homes and have to face extreme and compelling circumstances before they would even consider such a thing. And yes, "compelling circumstances" is what we here in the United States have provided to Haiti! This won't be a history lesson, but there's good reason to believe we ruined Haiti for centuries for the crime of being a nation of enslaved people who threw off the oppressors that enslaved them and started to govern themselves. Read up on Haiti; we had help from other countries, but we here in the United States aren't the good guys, in aggregate. We're the other thing. You might say we're oppressors, aligned with the oppressors they overthrew.

Oppressors are people who do oppression. Oppression is when humans modify their natural human systems, so that instead of delivering what a natural human system typically delivers (which is the shared value that all humans generate simply by being humans within their societies, simply by being who they are), it instead delivers harm and pain and exclusion to certain targeted people.

Oppression takes the natural value those targeted people provide and keeps it for the oppressors, and then gives the victim of the theft harm and pain and exclusion and death, in order to keep them in their place and force them to go on producing stolen value for the thieves, which makes slavery the purest form of oppression there is. And, again, Haitians were enslaved people who threw off their oppressors, and we can, if we squint at history's page, observe the ways that people who rely upon oppression for fortune and identity have never really forgiven them for it.

But Haitians aren't the only oppressed people.

Conservatives are oppressed too. They'll tell you all about it. So many, many, many people oppress conservative. We should look at who those people are, and the form that oppression takes.

https://www.the-reframe.com/its-time-to-oppress-conservatives-2/

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Soen Eber]

Yeah, screw this stupid bitch.

All she had to do was not tell racist lies.

Literally all she had to do was not lie and not be a shitty racist

Fucking easy peasy.

And she failed.

I feel more sad than angry:

“I’m not a racist,” she said through heavy emotion, adding that her daughter is half Black and she herself is mixed race and a member of the LGBTQ community. “Everybody seems to be turning it into that, and that was not my intent.”

People say and do stupid things, thinking it's a joke, thinking it won't spread, that there won't be consequences. But there's an entire industry out there grabbing every piece of puffery they can find and inflating it, creating an outrage-industrial complex from the background noise of stupidity and mild hate that people can just latch onto, without thinking or taking the time to care. I'm angry, too, about the people that are inflating these things for profit, the fools that believe them, but also sad, that even things the authors think are silly and stupid that won't go anywhere get caught up in all of this. I'm not defending her or people like her, but "the machine" can ruin the lives of people who otherwise might just outgrow it.