Current Affairs 2024 POTUS race
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Hinchcliffe's Corner
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I think I like @bicycleheader 's response best to every post by the Intentionally Idiotic 2. The 
is posted consistently and appropriately.
is posted consistently and appropriately.
So does DeSantis think he can change bits of the constitution ( in this case the 14th amendment) by executive order?
Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” extending the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states. The amendment authorized the government to punish states that abridged citizens’ right to vote by proportionally reducing their representation in Congress. It banned those who “engaged in insurrection” against the United States from holding any civil, military, or elected office without the approval of two-thirds of the House and Senate. The amendment prohibited former Confederate states from repaying war debts and compensating former slave owners for the emancipation of their enslaved people. Finally, it granted Congress the power to enforce this amendment, a provision that led to the passage of other landmark legislation in the 20th century, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Congress required former Confederate states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition of regaining federal representation.
Passed by the Senate on June 8, 1866, and ratified two years later, on July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws,” extending the provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states. The amendment authorized the government to punish states that abridged citizens’ right to vote by proportionally reducing their representation in Congress. It banned those who “engaged in insurrection” against the United States from holding any civil, military, or elected office without the approval of two-thirds of the House and Senate. The amendment prohibited former Confederate states from repaying war debts and compensating former slave owners for the emancipation of their enslaved people. Finally, it granted Congress the power to enforce this amendment, a provision that led to the passage of other landmark legislation in the 20th century, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Congress required former Confederate states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition of regaining federal representation.
Martin Alvito
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You can't see this Supreme Court holding that the writers of the 14th Amendment just forgot to put in sunset provisions on the birth clause like the 1808 ones in the Constitution, because it's obvious from context what the writers meant?
tsubaki
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100%, in fact they are probably just waiting for the right case to come along that they can use to unpick it.
I think I like @bicycleheader 's response best to every post by the Intentionally Idiotic 2. The
Agreed. And I didn't know that "neg rep" is back (in a sense), it seems if you get more fingers than other reactions, you have a negative reaction score, as Toffee_Clown does.
Martin Alvito
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You’d have thought this was a fairly obvious question to prepare for.
Martin Alvito
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It makes sense. Kucinich was always kind of an idiot, but he was a principled idiot. He was the kind of guy you respect for dying alone on that hill.
This is why I found it so hard to believe that he would accept this job. It ran against everything he ever stood for.
For a man that appears very concerned about what vaccines do to peoples bodies RFK jnr seems remarkable incurious about what non-doctors advise him to put into his .
He told me that he’s surrounded by “integrative medical people”—naturopaths, osteopaths, healers of all sorts. “A lot of them think that they can cure me,” he said. Last year, Kennedy traveled to Japan for surgery to try to fix his voice. “I’ve got these doctors that have given me a formula,” he said. “They’re not even doctors, actually, these guys.”
I asked him what, exactly, he was taking.
“The stuff that they gave me? I don’t know what it is. It’s supposed to reorient your electric energy.” He believes it’s working.
I asked him what, exactly, he was taking.
“The stuff that they gave me? I don’t know what it is. It’s supposed to reorient your electric energy.” He believes it’s working.
Martin Alvito
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Can we agree that the COVID thread is settled law until the nimrods show up in a thread, or RFK Jr. becomes viable? I strongly felt like we did work in that one.For a man that appears very concerned about what vaccines do to peoples bodies RFK jnr seems remarkable incurious about what non-doctors advise him to put into his .
He told me that he’s surrounded by “integrative medical people”—naturopaths, osteopaths, healers of all sorts. “A lot of them think that they can cure me,” he said. Last year, Kennedy traveled to Japan for surgery to try to fix his voice. “I’ve got these doctors that have given me a formula,” he said. “They’re not even doctors, actually, these guys.”
I asked him what, exactly, he was taking.
“The stuff that they gave me? I don’t know what it is. It’s supposed to reorient your electric energy.” He believes it’s working.
I just feel like we are all too likely to echo chamber this one in unhelpful ways.
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Toffee_Loaf
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Maher Slams 'Arrogant' Press Over RFK Jr. Coverage As 80% Of Dems Want Biden To Debate
Bill Maher slammed the mainstream media over their biased coverage of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"I want to take issue with the media because it incenses me how they write about you," Maher told Kennedy on an episode of Maher’s podcast, "Club Random," released Sunday.
"In Chat With Musk, Kennedy Pushes Right-Wing Ideas and Misinformation," Maher said, citing a NY Times headline from June 5.
"Right away I’m pissed off," Maher said in reaction. "Because, misinformation? How about you’re the newspaper. Just tell me what was said and I’ll decide what’s misinformation. This arrogance of ‘we know what the misinformation is about science.'"
Maher then read from the Times piece; "‘Mr. Kennedy is a long time amplifier and propagator of baseless theories.’ Again,” he stopped to qualify, “not the editorial page, this is like the regular newspaper."
The HBO host then cited a fact check within the Times piece claiming Kennedy was wrong when he said that Democrats earned more money from the pharmaceutical industry than Republicans.
"Because the Obama administration made a deal with the pharmaceutical industry to support the bill … today I believe the Democrats are getting more money from pharma than Republicans," argued Kennedy.
"Even if that’s not exactly the case, the spirit of the answer is correct," Maher opined. "[Poor language removed] them," he added. "I’m doing this for a reason because I believe they deserve richly to be mocked for that attitude."
Meanwhile, while the press is doing it's best to marginalize Kennedy, 80% of Democratic voters want President Joe Biden to debate during the 2024 primaries, including an overwhelming 72% of Biden supporters, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll.
"The decision not to debate is ignoring the 82% of women, 84% of union households, 86% of independents, and 90% of young voters who are not only planning to vote in their state's Democratic primary or caucus next year but also would like to see a series of Democratic primary debates," said Suffolk Political Research Center director, David Paleologos.
Hinchcliffe's Corner
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Lol nobody's reading that
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