The Long March to 11/24

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Go Kennedy?


Sap that toad, sap him dry.

A poll about feelings:
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Looking at Biden’s “very negative” numbers, I notice two apparent steps up.

One is in summer 2020 when it becomes established that he will be the Democrat candidate.

The other is in 2021 when it becomes plain that he is getting things done despite maga claims. It stabilizes at the 40% mark, matching the proportion of registered Republicans in the votership.
 
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printer

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Sure, but will you take a drug test?
Biden says he’s ‘happy’ to debate Trump
President Biden on Friday indicated he’s willing to debate former President Trump ahead of November’s election.

“I am, somewhere. I don’t know when, but I am happy to debate him,” Biden told Howard Stern on his radio show when Stern asked about the prospect.

Stern suggested to Biden that if he were standing on a stage next to Trump, he would say to the audience to “find me 11,000 votes so I can win the election,” a reference to a phone call Trump made to the Georgia secretary of state after losing the 2020 election.

“What are we debating?” Stern asked rhetorically, adding that he was astonished so many Americans still supported the former president.

Biden joined Stern, the nationally recognized shock jock, for a live interview in his New York City studio.

Biden and his campaign have largely avoided directly addressing the prospect of debates with Trump, even as the former president has insisted he will debate Biden as many times as possible before November’s election.

There are three presidential debates scheduled for the 2024 cycle, beginning in September, as well as one vice presidential debate scheduled.

Trump has for weeks pledged to debate Biden “any time, any place,” despite his refusal to participate in the GOP primary debates and his past hostility toward the Commission on Presidential Debates.

The former president has frequently railed against the commission, pointing to a technical issue with his microphone during a 2016 debate, complaining about moderators and blasting a decision to cancel a debate with Biden in 2020 after Trump tested positive for COVID-19 and refused to participate virtually.

Trump’s campaign earlier this month urged the commission to move up the timeline for planned debates to increase the number of faceoffs the two candidates have before Election Day, citing the start of early voting in many states.

Because, you know, Biden would be high on something.
 

OldMedUser

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The former president has frequently railed against the commission, pointing to a technical issue with his microphone during a 2016 debate
They should spell out a very strict rule that if either debater, (Debaters is on CBC radio right now :) ), starts making baseless attacks against the other their mic will be cut.

That way Biden gets to do all the talking. judge.gif

:peace:
 

printer

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Trump slams RFK Jr. in latest social media rant: ‘Wasted protest vote’
Former President Trump came out swinging against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday, despite weeks of amping him up over his likely November rival, President Biden.

In a series of post on Truth Social, Trump suggested Kennedy was put in the race to help Biden win reelection and claimed his running mate, Nichole Shanahan, is not a serious candidate.

“RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected,” Trump wrote, adding “A Vote for Junior’ would essentially be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way, but would only swing against the Democrats if Republicans knew the true story about him.”

In what seems like a reversal of previous comments, he signaled that he would even take Biden over Kennedy. Last month, the former president touted the long-shot candidate’s campaign as “great for MAGA,” referring to the “Make America Great Again” slogan he often uses.

“RFK Jr. is the most Radical Left Candidate in the race, by far. He’s a big fan of the Green New Scam, and other economy killing disasters,” Trump wrote at the time. “I guess this would mean he is going to be taking votes from Crooked Joe Biden, which would be a great service to America.”

“It’s great for MAGA, but the Communists will make it very hard for him to get on the Ballot,” he added in March.

His remarks come after a recent NBC News poll showed Kennedy’s campaign could actually harm Trump’s changes at returning to the White House.

Trump held 2-point lead over Biden in the head-to-head poll, released Sunday. But with third-party candidates added in, the incumbent took the lead. The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s polling average index shows Biden and Trump were tied at 41.3 percent support with Kennedy factored in
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Trump slams RFK Jr. in latest social media rant: ‘Wasted protest vote’
Former President Trump came out swinging against independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Friday, despite weeks of amping him up over his likely November rival, President Biden.

In a series of post on Truth Social, Trump suggested Kennedy was put in the race to help Biden win reelection and claimed his running mate, Nichole Shanahan, is not a serious candidate.

“RFK Jr. is a Democrat ‘Plant,’ a Radical Left Liberal who’s been put in place in order to help Crooked Joe Biden, the Worst President in the History of the United States, get Re-Elected,” Trump wrote, adding “A Vote for Junior’ would essentially be a WASTED PROTEST VOTE, that could swing either way, but would only swing against the Democrats if Republicans knew the true story about him.”

In what seems like a reversal of previous comments, he signaled that he would even take Biden over Kennedy. Last month, the former president touted the long-shot candidate’s campaign as “great for MAGA,” referring to the “Make America Great Again” slogan he often uses.

“RFK Jr. is the most Radical Left Candidate in the race, by far. He’s a big fan of the Green New Scam, and other economy killing disasters,” Trump wrote at the time. “I guess this would mean he is going to be taking votes from Crooked Joe Biden, which would be a great service to America.”

“It’s great for MAGA, but the Communists will make it very hard for him to get on the Ballot,” he added in March.

His remarks come after a recent NBC News poll showed Kennedy’s campaign could actually harm Trump’s changes at returning to the White House.

Trump held 2-point lead over Biden in the head-to-head poll, released Sunday. But with third-party candidates added in, the incumbent took the lead. The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s polling average index shows Biden and Trump were tied at 41.3 percent support with Kennedy factored in
It’s the Democrats’ fault that there is this third-party loon whose greatest threat is to Democrats! See how devious they are!1!
 

hanimmal

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https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-milwaukee-election-leader-2024-5c01e26907b8de1d0bf97dd8303be9b8
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee’s election leader has been ousted by the mayor in a surprise move that comes just six months before Wisconsin’s largest city will be in the spotlight in the presidential swing state.

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced Monday that he would be replacing Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Claire Woodall with her deputy, Paulina Gutierrez.

Milwaukee has been at the center of attention in Wisconsin, a state known for close elections and where four of the past six presidential contests have been decided by less than a percentage point.

In 2020, former President Donald Trump and others were quick to cry fraud after late-arriving results from Democratic-dominated Milwaukee helped Joe Biden narrowly carry the state by just under 21,000 votes. Recounts demanded by Trump confirmed Biden’s victory.

The change has nothing to do with how Woodall ran elections, but instead had to do with “other issues internal to the election commission office and to city government that raised concern,” said the mayor’s spokesperson Jeff Fleming. He declined to say what those issues were.

“People see one side on this side of the camera, but there are other things on the other side of the camera that I also have to deal with and that’s exactly what I did with my decision,” Johnson told WISN-TV. He declined to elaborate.

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Woodall did not return messages seeking comment. Her replacement, Gutierrez, also did not return messages.

Woodall has been outspoken about the challenges she and other election officials have felt in recent years.

She has described being harassed and threatened after the 2020 election via email, phone calls and letters to her home — threats serious enough that she has an assigned FBI agent to forward them to.

The change came a week after Woodall’s former deputy, Kimberly Zapata, was sentenced to probation and fined $3,000 after being convicted of misconduct in office and fraud for obtaining fake absentee ballots. Zapata argued that she was acting as a whistleblower, exposing vulnerabilities in the state’s election system.

Johnson and others who work in elections stressed that the change would not affect how elections are run in Milwaukee.

“Paulina’s integrity and capabilities are ideally suited to this position,” Johnson said in a statement announcing the change. “She will lead the office at an important juncture when public scrutiny of the work of the department will be extremely high. I have confidence in her, and I will make certain the department has the resources it needs to fulfill its duties.”

Gutierrez has only been a staff member at the city election commission for a little over a year. Neil Albrecht, who led the office for 15 years before retiring in May 2020, has offered his assistance as a volunteer, Fleming said. Woodall took over for Albrecht in 2020 and had been leading the office until now.

Following his reelection in April, Johnson had to renominate all of his Cabinet-level positions for city council approval. That is why he decided to make the change at this time, Fleming said.

None of the city’s three election commissioners returned messages seeking comment. But Ann Jacobs, a Democratic member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission from Milwaukee, said she was surprised by the move.

“Changes like this are always challenging, but given how many elections Wisconsin has there’s no ‘good time’ for these sort of changes to happen,” Jacobs said. “I expect the office to be professional and to continue their work and that the election will be run smoothly and properly.”

Jacobs stressed that elections are run by teams of people.

“The administration of elections isn’t something that is dependent on one person,” she said. “It is dependent on the workflow, the task flows and the operations of an entire office.”
 

hanimmal

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I was curious about who took over the above person's post, looks like whoever they replaced thought it was a good idea to be a 'whistleblower' trying to prove Trump's bullshit con was real. Turns out she should start blowing the whistle on how it is not allowed and there are consequences to trying to screw with our elections, and what she was told was a vulnerability was bullshit so don't try and stop lying about it.

Ah well Trump loses at least one vote in Milwaukee.

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-ballot-fraud-trump-trial-c6b568d58e2ad7121566c3734ab5d851
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A jury found a former Milwaukee election official accused of obtaining fake absentee ballots guilty Wednesday of misconduct in office and fraud, rejecting her arguments that she was trying to expose vulnerabilities in the state’s election system.

Prosecutors charged Kimberly Zapata in November 2022 with one felony count of misconduct in public office and three misdemeanor counts of election fraud. The jury found her guilty in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on all four counts after starting deliberations Wednesday morning.

Zapata faces up to five years behind bars when she’s sentenced on May 2.

Zapata was serving as deputy director at the Milwaukee Election Commission in October 2022 when she used her work-issued laptop to obtain three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers, according to a criminal complaint. She sent the ballots to Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, an election conspiracy theorist, two weeks before the state’s gubernatorial and legislative elections.

Brandtjen has advocated for decertifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Wisconsin and has espoused conspiracy theories supporting her position.

Active military personnel do not have to register to vote or provide photo identification to obtain absentee ballots in Wisconsin. Zapata told investigators that she was stressed over death threats commission staff had been receiving from election conspiracy theorists and she wanted to shift their attention to real flaws in the system.

Her attorney, Daniel Adams, had argued during a two-day trial that Zapata saw herself as a whistleblower and didn’t mean to hurt anyone. Assistant District Attorney Matthew Westphal countered that Zapata went rogue and broke the law rather than sharing her concerns with state election officials, reporters or legislators.

“She is not a whistleblower. She’s not exposing information. She’s committing election fraud,” Westphal said during his closing arguments Wednesday morning. “As a society we cannot tolerate people who break the law when there are multiple legitimate means to raise those same concerns.”

Adams declined to comment through a receptionist at his law office after the verdicts were handed down.

The case against Zapata mirrors one against Harry Wait, a Racine man who requested and received absentee ballots in the names of legislators and local officials in July. Wait also said he wanted to expose vulnerabilities in the state’s elections system. He faces up to 13 years in prison if convicted on two misdemeanor counts of election fraud and two felony counts of identity theft.

Milwaukee, home to the largest number of Democrats in Wisconsin, has been a target for complaints from former President Donald Trump and his supporters, who made unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud to attack Biden’s 2020 victory.

Heading into the state’s April 2 presidential primary, Wisconsin is once again one of a few battleground states crucial for both sides in the November presidential election.

Brandtjen faces her own legal troubles. The Wisconsin Ethics Commission last month recommended felony charges against Brandtjen and a fundraising committee for Trump, accusing them of efforts to evade campaign finance laws during an attempt to unseat GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
 

hanimmal

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So, Trump starting a riot in the attempt to try to halt the certification of the presidential election in his stupid attempted coup is cool, and SCOTUS is quick to say he must stay on the states' ballots that take issue with it, but as of yet I haven't heard a peep about Ohio trying to keep Biden in order to own the libs.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-biden-ballot-ohio-0bef3376ee6abbad9cb324e725a1e3a2
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The question of whether Democratic President Joe Biden will appear on Ohio’s fall ballot has become entangled in a partisan legislative fight to keep foreign money out of state ballot campaigns, a year after cash tied to a Swiss billionaire boosted a successful effort to enshrine abortion rights in the solidly red state’s constitution.

On Wednesday, against the backdrop of a festering Republican leadership fight that’s roiled lawmaking since last year, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s proposal to ban foreign money from initiative campaigns became the poison pill that prevented a final solution for adjusting an Aug. 7 ballot deadline that precedes the Democratic National Convention.

Thursday marked the last day legislators could pass the fix with a simple majority, and no sessions were held.

All four Republican and Democratic leaders at the Statehouse still say they’re confident the president will appear on Ohio’s ballot. It’s the how and when that remain a mystery.

Senate Republicans wanted to use Biden’s predicament as leverage to pass a ban on foreign nationals contributing to ballot campaigns.

The legislation stemmed from the involvement in a pair of heated ballot campaigns last year of Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire who has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years into 501(c) nonprofit organizations backing liberal U.S. political causes. A January report issued by LaRose found that over $207 million flowing from Wyss-backed entities went to three groups that, in turn, donated a combined $3.9 million to help pass November’s Issue 1, the abortion measure, and to thwart an earlier proposed constitutional amendment that would have made passing it more difficult.

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In order to garner the necessary Republican votes to help Biden out, Republican Senate President Matt Huffman said a compromise was struck to combine the foreign nationals legislation with the language adjusting the ballot deadline. Both proposals were folded into another bill allowing candidates to pay for child care with campaign funds.

After fractious debate, the measure cleared the Senate along party lines. Democrats called combining the measures “a dirty trick” and “the worst kind of politics.”

Huffman said: “Eventually Joe Biden is going to be on the ballot through whatever means. I think that’s fair for us to come together and also say no foreign money in Ohio elections.”

But GOP House Speaker Jason Stephens, who depends on the support of minority Democrats to keep his job, had been working on a different solution.

Stephens had in mind a “clean” bill that called for moving this year’s ballot deadline to Aug. 23, the day after Democrats’ convention. It also included a long-term solution allowing extensions in future years when either party’s nominating convention falls less than 90 days before the election.

This would be the third time since 2012 that Ohio has had to change its ballot deadline to accommodate conflicts faced by presidential candidates of both parties.

But that House plan stalled after it was informally passed, and when Stephens declined to call a vote on the Senate’s ballot fix, the chamber erupted. Fellow Republicans aligned against Stephens jeered and booed. Some cried, “Shame!”

LaRose, who initially identified the calendar glitch, issued a statement condemning the House’s inaction. Though the chamber’s majority is Republican, he said it appeared that “Democrats are more interested in protecting foreign billionaires who want to bankroll Ohio’s elections than in getting their presidential candidate on the ballot.”

He pointed out that the House still has time to act with an emergency vote, which requires a two-thirds majority and allows a bill to become effective immediately.

On Thursday, LaRose took his criticism further — bringing up Wyss by name.

“There’s one person at this point who’s responsible for keeping Joe Biden off the ballot in Ohio, and it’s a Swiss billionaire you’ve probably never heard of,” he said in a statement. He alleged Democrats have “become dependent on Wyss’s dark money to fund everything from their ballot campaigns to their fake news operations.”

State Sen. Bill DeMora, a Columbus Democrat, accused LaRose of politicizing his office and said blaming Democrats for the lack of a ballot resolution is “almost so sad it’s funny.”

”It is not the Democrats’ fault that the Republicans are infighting and can’t govern, but the Secretary is just trying to please right-wing extremists instead of doing his job to avoid further embarrassment,” he said in a statement. “This debacle falls squarely on the MAGA cult Republican supermajority in both chambers who only hold power because of the unconstitutionally gerrymandered maps that LaRose voted for.”

Wyss was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1935. He now lives in Wyoming.
 

Fogdog

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So, Trump starting a riot in the attempt to try to halt the certification of the presidential election in his stupid attempted coup is cool, and SCOTUS is quick to say he must stay on the states' ballots that take issue with it, but as of yet I haven't heard a peep about Ohio trying to keep Biden in order to own the libs.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-biden-ballot-ohio-0bef3376ee6abbad9cb324e725a1e3a2
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Tying a book keeping task that has to be done in order to carry out an election with a nongovernmental political objective and dressing the whole thing up with demagogue histrionics is so MAGA.

The so-called "international money" those Ohio MAGA illiberals are voicing grievance about comes from this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansjörg_Wyss
His background:
Wyss was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1935. His father sold mechanical calculators and his mother was a homemaker. He was brought up in a flat with two sisters.[3] After receiving a master's degree in civil and structural engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 1959,[4] Wyss earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1965. Following that, he worked in various positions in the textile industry, including as a factory engineer and project manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey and the Philippines.[4][5]
Wyss also worked in the steel industry in Brussels, Belgium.[4] During his time working in that industry, Wyss ran a side business selling airplanes. Through one sale, he met a surgeon who had co-founded Swiss medical device manufacturer Synthes.[6] After that meeting, Wyss spent two years learning about the medical device industry. He then founded and became president of Synthes USA in 1977.[5]


The complaint:
In 2014, Wyss said he carried only a Swiss passport and did not have a U.S. green card.[26] As of 2021, The New York Times wrote, he "has not disclosed publicly whether he holds citizenship or permanent residency" in the U.S.[39]

He now lives in Wyoming and is an active philanthropist who gives to many causes. environmental, social, political and science.

Yes, he's apparently not a US citizen but nobody is saying his contributions were illegal nor were the funds actually Swiss. The guy has lived in and actively managed businesses in the US for about 50 years and built his fortune here, coming to the US from Swiss lower income family. Given the tolerance Republicans have accepting donations and leadership from from outright corrupt criminals, the Ohio Republican's rhetoric about "international funds" is laughable. The source of their complaint is the embarrassment Ohio GOP men, who seem to come straight from the pages of A Handmaid's Tale, experienced when the people of Ohio told them to get government regulations out of women's right to bodily autonomy.

And so, they want to bitch, moan and make noise using the upcoming primary ballot as a megaphone to air their grievances.
 
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cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Tying a book keeping task that has to be done in order to carry out an election with a nongovernmental political objective and dressing the whole thing up with demagogue histrionics is so MAGA.

The so-called "international money" those Ohio MAGA illiberals are voicing grievance about comes from this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansjörg_Wyss
His background:
Wyss was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1935. His father sold mechanical calculators and his mother was a homemaker. He was brought up in a flat with two sisters.[3] After receiving a master's degree in civil and structural engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 1959,[4] Wyss earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1965. Following that, he worked in various positions in the textile industry, including as a factory engineer and project manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey and the Philippines.[4][5]
Wyss also worked in the steel industry in Brussels, Belgium.[4] During his time working in that industry, Wyss ran a side business selling airplanes. Through one sale, he met a surgeon who had co-founded Swiss medical device manufacturer Synthes.[6] After that meeting, Wyss spent two years learning about the medical device industry. He then founded and became president of Synthes USA in 1977.[5]




The complaint:
In 2014, Wyss said he carried only a Swiss passport and did not have a U.S. green card.[26] As of 2021, The New York Times wrote, he "has not disclosed publicly whether he holds citizenship or permanent residency" in the U.S.[39]

He now lives in Wyoming and is an active philanthropist who gives to many causes. environmental, social, political and science.

Yes, he's apparently not a US citizen but nobody is saying his contributions were illegal nor were the funds actually Swiss. The guy has lived in and actively managed businesses in the US for about 50 years and built his fortune here, coming to the US from Swiss lower income family. Given the tolerance Republicans have accepting donations and leadership from from outright corrupt criminals, the Ohio Republican's rhetoric about "international funds" is laughable. The source of their complaint is the embarrassment Ohio GOP men, who seem to come straight from the pages of A Handmaid's Tale, experienced when the people of Ohio told them to get government regulations out of women's right to bodily autonomy.

And so, they want to bitch, moan and make noise using the upcoming primary ballot as a megaphone for to air their grievances.
It’s morbidly fascinating to watch Democrats expel and prosecute their bad apples— while Rs suppressed investigations into their currently unthroned god-emperor’s efforts to bribestort dirt on his political opponents out of Ukraine. (and continue to downplay their recorded instances of big corruption while trying to impeach Mayorkas and Hunter on smoke-and-mirrors, or even absent, charges.)

Meanwhile, Gan the Chancre continues to pursue scorched-earth lunacy in one of our republic’s most august bodies. A silver lining has appeared in the apparent breaking-off of the maga-before-honor minority from the roster of Republican congresspersons. Democrats need only a few counterrenegade Rs to get on with the overarching program of passing legislation. Perhaps the days of the complete Republican deadlock of Congress are ending. Would be nice, and can only assist Biden and a number of maga-opposing candidates in eroding R seats past their ability to implement their program of minority rule.

The big problem remaining is the Extreme Court (and some reliably illiberal circuits.) The only solutions I see to that are contaminated by both my ignorance of Federal jurisprudence and my strong sentiments about their doings. It surely makes for interesting times.
 
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Fogdog

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It’s morbidly fascinating to watch Democrats expel and prosecute their bad apples— while Republicans suppressed investigations into their currently unthroned god-emperor’s efforts to bribestort dirt on his political opponents out of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Gan the Chancre continues to pursue scorched-earth lunacy in one of our republic’s most august bodies. A silver lining has appeared in the apparent breaking-off of the maga-before-honor minority from the roster of Republican congresspersons. Democrats need only a few counterrenegade Rs to get on with the overarching program of passing legislation. Perhaps the days of the complete Republican deadlock of Congress are ending. Would be nice, and can only assist Biden and a number of maga-opposing candidates in eroding R seats past their ability to implement their program of minority rule.
If, as has been said many times, democracies behave like a pendulum that swing from left to right and back again. If this is true then let us look at what that model looks like:

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The pendulum's velocity is highest at the vertex or zero position. At each apex, or maximum absolute displacement, velocity is zero. I think we reached the right side apex during Trump's presidency in 2017-ish. It feels like we are hardly moving at all and that is not wrong but to believe we are stuck there is to fall into the prisoner of the moment fallacy. Movement to the left will pick up speed and soon people will be complaining about how we are moving too fast to the left.

Such is democracy.
 
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hanimmal

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Tying a book keeping task that has to be done in order to carry out an election with a nongovernmental political objective and dressing the whole thing up with demagogue histrionics is so MAGA.

The so-called "international money" those Ohio MAGA illiberals are voicing grievance about comes from this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansjörg_Wyss
His background:
Wyss was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1935. His father sold mechanical calculators and his mother was a homemaker. He was brought up in a flat with two sisters.[3] After receiving a master's degree in civil and structural engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 1959,[4] Wyss earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1965. Following that, he worked in various positions in the textile industry, including as a factory engineer and project manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey and the Philippines.[4][5]
Wyss also worked in the steel industry in Brussels, Belgium.[4] During his time working in that industry, Wyss ran a side business selling airplanes. Through one sale, he met a surgeon who had co-founded Swiss medical device manufacturer Synthes.[6] After that meeting, Wyss spent two years learning about the medical device industry. He then founded and became president of Synthes USA in 1977.[5]




The complaint:
In 2014, Wyss said he carried only a Swiss passport and did not have a U.S. green card.[26] As of 2021, The New York Times wrote, he "has not disclosed publicly whether he holds citizenship or permanent residency" in the U.S.[39]

He now lives in Wyoming and is an active philanthropist who gives to many causes. environmental, social, political and science.

Yes, he's apparently not a US citizen but nobody is saying his contributions were illegal nor were the funds actually Swiss. The guy has lived in and actively managed businesses in the US for about 50 years and built his fortune here, coming to the US from Swiss lower income family. Given the tolerance Republicans have accepting donations and leadership from from outright corrupt criminals, the Ohio Republican's rhetoric about "international funds" is laughable. The source of their complaint is the embarrassment Ohio GOP men, who seem to come straight from the pages of A Handmaid's Tale, experienced when the people of Ohio told them to get government regulations out of women's right to bodily autonomy.

And so, they want to bitch, moan and make noise using the upcoming primary ballot as a megaphone for to air their grievances.
"Quick manufacture a national crisis that we actively cause (state Republicans not putting Biden on the ballot) and use our government resources to help set up a 'both sides' troll because to deflect from our being co-opted by Putin"
 

Fogdog

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New York City, population: 8.3 million
the Bronx population: 1.4 million

Attendees at a Trump rally in the Bronx: not official but the permit was for 3500

The incredibly shrinking crowd size:

Newsmax: 30,000
Trump Campaign: 25,000
Attendees to free hot dog event in NYC: 24,000, reservation required and it sold out quickly.
New York Post (the standard for exaggeration of all things Trump): 7,000 to 10,000
Rally Permit was for 3,500
Daily Beast: 1.000

What the GOP posted:

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Arial view:


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For reference, this is what a crowd size of 5,000 people looks like

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Based on that, Trump's rally wasn't even 3,000. This in a city of 8 million.
 
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