Biden Thread

[rory_20_uk]

For the posterity of those non-Americans who haven't noticed, the Republican Party as an institution has conclusively committed to rejecting unfavorable electoral outcomes as presumptively illegitimate.

Remember what it's about.





Yes. Who said otherwise?

So... What's the big deal about what Russia have done? They are enthusiastically joining in the Great Game where the main loosers are poor people in other countries.

When does the USA taking responsibility - or even acknowledging what they're doing going to start? Aside from the film Team America.

[Montmorency]

So... What's the big deal about what Russia have done? They are enthusiastically joining in the Great Game where the main loosers are poor people in other countries.

It's technically a hostile military action, but in practical terms it doesn't change anything; it just reinforces the current American posture toward Russia (e.g. sanctions regime).

When does the USA taking responsibility - or even acknowledging what they're doing going to start? Aside from the film Team America.

We could change some of our behaviors in order to create more value for everyone.

[Montmorency]

Unless John Roberts is willing and able to persuade one of his colleagues to be more strategic, as he has in the past when there was a 5-4 Republican majority on the Supreme Court (there is now a 6-3 majority), American abortion rights will be liquidated by the end of the year - or at least, barring the worst case, in all but the 20ish most-Democratic states.
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-file...-organization/

Issue: Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.

EDIT: Incidentally, Mississippi's Supreme Court just struck down all ballot measures passed last year or scheduled, as well as the entire referendum system, because the language of the law mentions five Mississippi districts and Mississippi had four under the 2000 census (the system was put in place in 1990). Thus all ballot measures are invalidated. I mention Mississippi because that state's anti-abortion law is the issue of the Supreme Court case above.

[Hooahguy]

Definitely a low point in this country.

Flashback to all those people saying that Roe v Wade and SCOTUS in general would be just fine even if Trump got elected.

[ReluctantSamurai]

This is as funny as it is sad:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78w...an-biden-blame

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, who is up for re-election next year, sent an email to supporters Monday pointing the finger at Biden over the chicken restaurant’s supply chain issues, which the company said earlier this month were a result of “industrywide supply chain shortages.”

"Chick-fil-A has a sauce shortage. And you want to know why?" Stitt wrote. "Because of Joe Biden's radical liberal policies."

But wait....it gets better:

Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted a Breitbart article about Chick-fil-A’s sauce shortage and added: “Joe Biden is destroying America.”

“Is there no limit to how awful Biden’s America can get?” tweeted Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert.

So Sleepy Joe is responsible for limiting not only zesty buffalo, honey mustard, and ranch dips, but ketchup packets and computer chips.....

Meanwhile, back on the ranch:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/u...line-hack.html

Let me see.....honey mustard dip, or gasoline?

Other pipeline operators in the United States deploy advanced firewalls between their data and their operations that only allow data to flow one direction, out of the pipeline, and would prevent a ransomware attack from spreading in.

Industry analysts say many critical infrastructure operators say installing such unidirectional gateways along a 5,500-mile pipeline can be complicated or prohibitively expensive. Others say the cost to deploy those safeguards are still cheaper than the losses from potential downtime.

Knock-knock....anyone there?

[Montmorency]

For Capitol defendants’ attorneys, finding mitigating factors will be key in softening potential prison sentences.

Watkins, the “Q Shaman” Jacob Chansley’s attorney, said his client had Asperger’s syndrome and indicated that Chansley’s mental state — and the impact of Trump’s “propaganda” efforts — would play a role in his case.

“A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fucking short-bus people,” Watkins told TPM. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.”

“But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country. These aren’t bad people, they don’t have prior criminal history. Fuck, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since fucking Hitler.”

One particularly remorseful defendant, Anthony Antonio, was sick with a novel disease, “Foxitis,” when he entered the Capitol through a broken window on Jan. 6, his attorney Joe Hurley argued during an initial appearance earlier this month.

BTW conservatives, remember when I mentioned the importance of attending to people who got things right early and discarding those who never did?

[Montmorency]

Super-elderly liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer watched Ginsburg die last year yet has since January been vocally resisting calls to retire and be replaced.

Should we accept the proposition that public acceptance of judicial decisions is a per se good?” I asked Breyer. I provided a few examples of cases where it might be appropriate to resist the decision, such as if the Supreme Court “so dismantles our voting rights that we cease to have a meaningful ability to elect a government that is not led by the same political party the controls the Supreme Court.”

Breyer’s response to my question was twofold. The first was a warning about what can happen should the public turn away from accepting judicial decisions. “Go turn on the television set,” he warned, “and go look at what happens in countries that try to do without” a rule of law grounded in deference to judicial rulings.

Then he seemed to admit there may be circumstances where such deference should be abandoned, though only if those circumstances were truly extraordinary. “What about Hitler?” Breyer asked rhetorically, before denying that anyone currently on the Court reaches that bar — “We don’t have Hitler.”

Yeah, we're . The 'Quixotic institutionalists' in the Democratic Party will never support a remedy to the collapsing resiliency and prospective overthrow of their precious institutions (and all else), until the very point that the availability/possibility of remedy itself is withdrawn (i.e. when "we have Hitler").