CTHoya08
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Post by CTHoya08 on Sept 27, 2024 11:08:30 GMT -5
Young voters could have a monumental impact on the election, including the deadlocked presidential contest. Nationwide, nearly 42 million 18-to-27-year-olds — the group known as Generation Z — will be eligible to vote, according to a Post analysis of 2022 census data. Nearly half are people of color. In the seven battleground states — Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — about 7.8 million Gen Zers are eligible to vote in this fall’s election. The momentum is building just as a national poll released Tuesday indicates 18-to-29-year-old likely voters are leaning heavily toward Harris. The Harvard Youth Poll showed Harris leading Trump 64 percent to 32 percent among likely young voters. The poll, conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School earlier this month, also found a widening gap in enthusiasm,, with 74 percent of young Democrats saying they would “definitely” vote in November, compared with 60 percent of young Republicans. Harris also held pronounced leads of at least 20 points over Trump among young adults who were asked which candidate they trusted more to handle issues including climate change, abortion, health care, and gun violence prevention, researchers found. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/25/college-students-young-voters-key-states-election-2024/Trump will win the saving dogs and cats vote. Maybe I'm slow, but there are a couple things that are baffling to me. First, how few people view the events of January 6, the efforts to steal the 2020 election through the promotion of the fake electors, and the ongoing big lie to be an absolute disqualification, regardless of any other baloney that may be promoted by the Republican candidate. And second, how a recent poll at our sister Jesuit school Notre Dame showed 56% support for Trump, and 39% support for Harris. What??? This certainly flies in the face of the supposed Gen Z support for Harris, and comes from a supposedly educated group. Latest ND poll, cited below. --Admin
"Notre Dame students prefer Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, a new Irish Rover poll of 705 students found...Among likely voters, the former president leads the incumbent vice-president by a margin of 47.6 percent to 45.9 percent. " irishrover.net/2024/09/notre-dame-students-favor-trump-irish-rover-poll-finds/This truly is maddening to me. And at the risk of sounding crazy, I honestly don't care that much about the physical riot at the Capitol. People are being charged, tried, and convicted for that. The system is basically working as it should. But the fact that there seemingly have been no repercussions--legal or political--for the "legal" scheme to invalidate the election results and just anoint Trump as the winner is tremendously frustrating to me. That is what was truly abhorrent about the whole thing, and nobody seems to care. I understand that I'm probably in the small minority of people who actually watched the January 6 hearings, but even the Cliff's Notes version should be setting off alarm bells for any moderately informed voter, and should be enough to be disqualifying for whatever is left of the GOP "establishment."
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hoyajinx
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Post by hoyajinx on Sept 27, 2024 11:25:16 GMT -5
Trump will win the saving dogs and cats vote. Maybe I'm slow, but there are a couple things that are baffling to me. First, how few people view the events of January 6, the efforts to steal the 2020 election through the promotion of the fake electors, and the ongoing big lie to be an absolute disqualification, regardless of any other baloney that may be promoted by the Republican candidate. And second, how a recent poll at our sister Jesuit school Notre Dame showed 56% support for Trump, and 39% support for Harris. What??? This certainly flies in the face of the supposed Gen Z support for Harris, and comes from a supposedly educated group. Latest ND poll, cited below. --Admin
"Notre Dame students prefer Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, a new Irish Rover poll of 705 students found...Among likely voters, the former president leads the incumbent vice-president by a margin of 47.6 percent to 45.9 percent. " irishrover.net/2024/09/notre-dame-students-favor-trump-irish-rover-poll-finds/This truly is maddening to me. And at the risk of sounding crazy, I honestly don't care that much about the physical riot at the Capitol. People are being charged, tried, and convicted for that. The system is basically working as it should. But the fact that there seemingly have been no repercussions--legal or political--for the "legal" scheme to invalidate the election results and just anoint Trump as the winner is tremendously frustrating to me. That is what was truly abhorrent about the whole thing, and nobody seems to care. I understand that I'm probably in the small minority of people who actually watched the January 6 hearings, but even the Cliff's Notes version should be setting off alarm bells for any moderately informed voter, and should be enough to be disqualifying for whatever is left of the GOP "establishment." This 1000 times. Trump literally tried to steal an election, and people just treat it as “Trump being Trump”. That is insanity. I, however, do care about the violence of January 6 because Trump cheered it on. There should be deep shame in the Republican Party that their candidate led the first violent transfer of power in the country’s history, but the Republicans don’t care at all.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 27, 2024 11:27:04 GMT -5
Trump will win the saving dogs and cats vote. Maybe I'm slow, but there are a couple things that are baffling to me. First, how few people view the events of January 6, the efforts to steal the 2020 election through the promotion of the fake electors, and the ongoing big lie to be an absolute disqualification, regardless of any other baloney that may be promoted by the Republican candidate. And second, how a recent poll at our sister Jesuit school Notre Dame showed 56% support for Trump, and 39% support for Harris. What??? This certainly flies in the face of the supposed Gen Z support for Harris, and comes from a supposedly educated group. Latest ND poll, cited below. --Admin
"Notre Dame students prefer Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, a new Irish Rover poll of 705 students found...Among likely voters, the former president leads the incumbent vice-president by a margin of 47.6 percent to 45.9 percent. " irishrover.net/2024/09/notre-dame-students-favor-trump-irish-rover-poll-finds/This truly is maddening to me. And at the risk of sounding crazy, I honestly don't care that much about the physical riot at the Capitol. People are being charged, tried, and convicted for that. The system is basically working as it should. But the fact that there seemingly have been no repercussions--legal or political--for the "legal" scheme to invalidate the election results and just anoint Trump as the winner is tremendously frustrating to me. That is what was truly abhorrent about the whole thing, and nobody seems to care. I understand that I'm probably in the small minority of people who actually watched the January 6 hearings, but even the Cliff's Notes version should be setting off alarm bells for any moderately informed voter, and should be enough to be disqualifying for whatever is left of the GOP "establishment." I defended AG Garland for a period of time in that he didn't want to appear to be "political" in immediately opening a robust criminal investigation of Trump, et al. I now believe he blew it by waiting as long as he did to appoint an independent counsel only after Trump declared his run for the GOP nomination. His twenty years as a federal judge made him too cautious in my opinion. Otherwise, the J6 prosecution would have been further down the road with a resolutioh likely prior to the election. Just my two cents after 30+ years at DOJ, including 8 years in the National Security Division. The delay enabled Trump to propagandize his cult-like base into believing his lies and is consistent with the authoritarian playbook. See e.g., Anne Applebaum or Ruth Ben-Ghiat's writings.
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hoyajinx
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Post by hoyajinx on Sept 27, 2024 14:23:49 GMT -5
Young voters could have a monumental impact on the election, including the deadlocked presidential contest. Nationwide, nearly 42 million 18-to-27-year-olds — the group known as Generation Z — will be eligible to vote, according to a Post analysis of 2022 census data. Nearly half are people of color. In the seven battleground states — Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — about 7.8 million Gen Zers are eligible to vote in this fall’s election. The momentum is building just as a national poll released Tuesday indicates 18-to-29-year-old likely voters are leaning heavily toward Harris. The Harvard Youth Poll showed Harris leading Trump 64 percent to 32 percent among likely young voters. The poll, conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School earlier this month, also found a widening gap in enthusiasm,, with 74 percent of young Democrats saying they would “definitely” vote in November, compared with 60 percent of young Republicans. Harris also held pronounced leads of at least 20 points over Trump among young adults who were asked which candidate they trusted more to handle issues including climate change, abortion, health care, and gun violence prevention, researchers found. www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/09/25/college-students-young-voters-key-states-election-2024/Trump will win the saving dogs and cats vote. Maybe I'm slow, but there are a couple things that are baffling to me. First, how few people view the events of January 6, the efforts to steal the 2020 election through the promotion of the fake electors, and the ongoing big lie to be an absolute disqualification, regardless of any other baloney that may be promoted by the Republican candidate. And second, how a recent poll at our sister Jesuit school Notre Dame showed 56% support for Trump, and 39% support for Harris. What??? This certainly flies in the face of the supposed Gen Z support for Harris, and comes from a supposedly educated group. Latest ND poll, cited below. --Admin
"Notre Dame students prefer Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, a new Irish Rover poll of 705 students found...Among likely voters, the former president leads the incumbent vice-president by a margin of 47.6 percent to 45.9 percent. " irishrover.net/2024/09/notre-dame-students-favor-trump-irish-rover-poll-finds/The only possible explanation is that Notre Dame has abandoned teaching economics, ethics, and religious studies.
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Post by hoyarooter on Sept 27, 2024 18:11:13 GMT -5
This truly is maddening to me. And at the risk of sounding crazy, I honestly don't care that much about the physical riot at the Capitol. People are being charged, tried, and convicted for that. The system is basically working as it should. But the fact that there seemingly have been no repercussions--legal or political--for the "legal" scheme to invalidate the election results and just anoint Trump as the winner is tremendously frustrating to me. That is what was truly abhorrent about the whole thing, and nobody seems to care. I understand that I'm probably in the small minority of people who actually watched the January 6 hearings, but even the Cliff's Notes version should be setting off alarm bells for any moderately informed voter, and should be enough to be disqualifying for whatever is left of the GOP "establishment." I defended AG Garland for a period of time in that he didn't want to appear to be "political" in immediately opening a robust criminal investigation of Trump, et al. I now believe he blew it by waiting as long as he did to appoint an independent counsel only after Trump declared his run for the GOP nomination. His twenty years as a federal judge made him too cautious in my opinion. Otherwise, the J6 prosecution would have been further down the road with a resolutioh likely prior to the election. Just my two cents after 30+ years at DOJ, including 8 years in the National Security Division. The delay enabled Trump to propagandize his cult-like base into believing his lies and is consistent with the authoritarian playbook. See e.g., Anne Applebaum or Ruth Ben-Ghiat's writings. I agree with this 1000%. The only thing I would add is that the true believers/cultists would continue to believe the big lie and the witch hunt garbage even if Trump had been tried and convicted. Plus, there's always the possibility that the Trump Court, err, I mean the Supreme Court, would have thrown out any conviction.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 27, 2024 18:32:32 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Sept 27, 2024 21:49:25 GMT -5
Probably more relevant (sadly) than it was 20 years ago:
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 28, 2024 6:35:19 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 28, 2024 6:39:31 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 28, 2024 6:48:45 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 28, 2024 7:42:19 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 28, 2024 7:53:52 GMT -5
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Massholya
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Post by Massholya on Sept 28, 2024 8:19:28 GMT -5
Trump is so limited. He is so simple to manipulate. If you have either money or power, flattery will get you whatever you want from him and he’s too dumb to understand EVERYONE is laughing at him behind his back. Putty in Putin’s hands. So dangerous.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 28, 2024 13:32:18 GMT -5
Ha ha ha. Harris's campaign should hire a guy in a chicken suit to appear at his rallies.
Kamala Harris doesn’t get to decide if Donald Trump debates her a second time. But she will attempt to extract a cost if he won’t.
Her campaign has hired a plane to trail the words “Trump’s Punting on 2nd Debate” over Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday night, where Trump is expected to attend the much anticipated 7:30 p.m. Eastern time football matchup between the University of Georgia and the University of Alabama.
For the millions of football fans who tune in from home, she will also run a new ad nationally on ABC that hammers home her point.
“Winners never back down from a challenge. Champions know it’s anytime, anyplace. But losers, they whine and waffle and take their ball home,” the narrator says at the start of the spot, over images of a football game and washed-out footage of Trump missing a golf putt.
The 30-second ad ends with footage of Harris challenging him to another debate, with the words “When we fight, we win” hanging on a sign in the background.
“Well, Donald, I do hope you’ll reconsider to meet me on the debate stage. If you’ve got something to say, say it to my face,” Harris says.
-- WaPo 9/28/24
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 28, 2024 17:27:48 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 28, 2024 17:39:05 GMT -5
Hillbilly Vance - despicable as are all "Republicans." All racists and fascists. Vance appears at event hosted by hard-right Christian nationalist MONROEVILLE, Pa. — Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance appeared Saturday at a town hall event organized by top Christian nationalist leaders who promote election denialism and portray Vice President Kamala Harris as a “demon.” The event’s host, Lance Wallnau, who emceed the live event and introduced Vance’s first town hall on the campaign trail, is a leading figure in the fast-growing New Apostolic Reformation, a movement that preaches Christian supremacy through a blend of prophecy and hard-right politics. Though a campaign official said Vance and Wallnau didn’t speak to each other, Vance’s appearance at Saturday’s event was the latest example of the Trump campaign intersecting with once-fringe figures who now have wide followings. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/28/jd-vance-christian-nationalism-lance-wallnau/
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 29, 2024 4:37:43 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 29, 2024 11:41:34 GMT -5
Related story and the reason I will no longer donate any money to my third rate law school. I informed the Dean Stephen Payne of the Law School (and good friends with John Eastman) in a polite e-mail that my modest donations would no longer be forthcoming but never received the courtesy of a response. The co-chairman of the Federalist Society — an influential conservative legal network that celebrated its 40th anniversary in November — Leo has also emerged as a major player at Catholic University, the nation's only Vatican-chartered university. In the last few years, he has helped raise more than $20 million for the school, primarily through anonymous donations. Leo directed a $4.25 million gift from an anonymous donor last spring to establish the Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito delivered the initiative's inaugural lecture in September. Leo also helped facilitate another $4 million in funding from an anonymous donor at the end of August to establish an endowed chair for the project in partnership with the Knights of Columbus, according to an article in the Fall 2022 issue of the school's alumni magazine. In addition to the law school funding, Leo brokered a $13 million donation from an anonymous donor in 2019 for the university's Institute on Human Ecology and the Busch School of Business, where he sits on the board of visitors. The business school, which has received more than $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation in recent years, is known for its libertarian-inflected economics and events that have featured Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Koch is a billionaire industrialist and longtime Republican donor who has used part of his fortune to fight policies that address climate change. www.ncronline.org/news/leonard-leo-has-reshaped-supreme-court-he-reshaping-catholic-university-too
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 29, 2024 11:50:09 GMT -5
Jeff Flake, a Republican and former senator from Arizona who recently left his position as U.S. ambassador to Turkey, announced he is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
“I think Republicans believe in the rule of law in particular. And it’s difficult to support a candidate who, having lost an election, tries to use the powers of the presidency to overturn that election — that is anything but respect for the rule of law,” Flake said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.
Flake said he was glad to hear policies Harris recently announced while at the U.S.-Mexico border, adding that he wants to see a tougher immigration stance than President Joe Biden has.
-- WaPo 9/29/24
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Post by bicentennial on Sept 29, 2024 12:59:29 GMT -5
Related story and the reason I will no longer donate any money to my third rate law school. I informed the Dean Stephen Payne of the Law School (and good friends with John Eastman) in a polite e-mail that my modest donations would no longer be forthcoming but never received the courtesy of a response. The co-chairman of the Federalist Society — an influential conservative legal network that celebrated its 40th anniversary in November — Leo has also emerged as a major player at Catholic University, the nation's only Vatican-chartered university. In the last few years, he has helped raise more than $20 million for the school, primarily through anonymous donations. Leo directed a $4.25 million gift from an anonymous donor last spring to establish the Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito delivered the initiative's inaugural lecture in September. Leo also helped facilitate another $4 million in funding from an anonymous donor at the end of August to establish an endowed chair for the project in partnership with the Knights of Columbus, according to an article in the Fall 2022 issue of the school's alumni magazine. In addition to the law school funding, Leo brokered a $13 million donation from an anonymous donor in 2019 for the university's Institute on Human Ecology and the Busch School of Business, where he sits on the board of visitors. The business school, which has received more than $10 million from the Charles Koch Foundation in recent years, is known for its libertarian-inflected economics and events that have featured Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Koch is a billionaire industrialist and longtime Republican donor who has used part of his fortune to fight policies that address climate change. www.ncronline.org/news/leonard-leo-has-reshaped-supreme-court-he-reshaping-catholic-university-tooI was just thinking about the term federalist and the historical federalists and anti-federalists and it strikes me that the "federalist society" are actually anti-federalists trying to dismantle our federal government. How ironic and sad that no one in the media has commented on how inappropriately they are named!
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