SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 12, 2024 18:05:33 GMT -5
The National Republican Senatorial Committee canceled its cable television spots for the fall in Ohio, where Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno (R) is looking to unseat the incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) in November. In a post on X on Monday, the NRSC said that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris had a “historical unpopularity” in the now solidly red Ohio, adding that “advertising dollars can be spent more efficiently as hybrid ads” and that the state “remains a top pickup opportunity.” The group had planned to spend about $700,000 between Aug. 31 and Nov. 5, according to the tracking firm AdImpact. -- WaPo, 8/12/24 4:29 pm Could the real reason be that Sherrod Brown is +5 over Bernie Moreno? www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/ohio/brown-vs-moreno
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 12, 2024 18:20:07 GMT -5
The election is over. Trump is a dead candidate walking. Whether he and his minions will take their loss peacefully is a wide open question. My guess is Jan 6 2021 was just a warmup for what we’ll see in a few months. I wish I shared your confidence. In a country where people could reason objectively, facts mattered, and there wasn’t an online effort to spread BS right wing disinformation and misinformation (especially by a Twitter owner who has been radicalized by his own platform), I would agree with you. Trump would be getting slaughtered for all the lies he spews and how utterly crazy he is. But we do not live in that country. The tides have been turning quickly, and it seems as if something else may be around the corner to upend everything. Look where Republican overconfidence got them. This. Remember there is often an October surprise. I am very happy with the way things have been going over the last three weeks, but it would be extremely foolish to be overconfident.
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 12, 2024 18:23:43 GMT -5
Demented Donnie deconpensating. Trump’s laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims 1. Harris’s rally crowds ‘DIDN’T EXIST’ and ‘nobody was there’ 2. Biden prepared to have the FBI assassinate Trump 3. Democrats’ messaging is to blame for the assassination attempt on Trump 4. Biden faked covid 5. Trump went down in a helicopter with Willie Brown 6. Biden will try to reclaim the Democratic nomination 7. Harris only recently identified as Black 8. Trump’s Jan. 6 crowd was bigger than MLK’s 9. Other countries are emptying their prisons and sending criminals to the United States 10. Democrats want to allow killing babies after birth www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/12/trump-crowd-size-false-claims/BUT THESE THINGS ARE ALL TRUE! Well, maybe nine out of ten. In any case, couple this with my last post. There is a huge swath of people in this country ("cultists", I call them) who continue to believe every piece of garbage coming out of Trump's mouth or Truth Social, no matter how ridiculous. We have to hope there are enough sane people who are finally going to say "enough".
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 12, 2024 19:07:40 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 12, 2024 19:33:10 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 12, 2024 19:38:53 GMT -5
Ha ha ha. Failure is our only option! Former president Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on X was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern time, but has been delayed due to technical difficulties that Musk blamed on a distributed denial of service cyberattack. Musk previously interviewed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on X in May 2023 when DeSantis announced his primary challenge to Trump, and the website faced similar issues that prevented people from being able to join the call between the two men. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/12/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 12, 2024 19:45:17 GMT -5
Ha ha ha. Failure is our only option! Former president Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on X was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern time, but has been delayed due to technical difficulties that Musk blamed on a distributed denial of service cyberattack. Musk previously interviewed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on X in May 2023 when DeSantis announced his primary challenge to Trump, and the website faced similar issues that prevented people from being able to join the call between the two men. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/12/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/Musk is saying it’s a DDoS attack, but I call BS. It’s just a failure of Twitter infrastructure. The only person I trust less about anything is Trump.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 13, 2024 3:38:59 GMT -5
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Post by hoyajinx on Aug 13, 2024 3:47:47 GMT -5
Ha ha ha. Failure is our only option! Former president Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on X was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern time, but has been delayed due to technical difficulties that Musk blamed on a distributed denial of service cyberattack. Musk previously interviewed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on X in May 2023 when DeSantis announced his primary challenge to Trump, and the website faced similar issues that prevented people from being able to join the call between the two men. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/08/12/2024-election-campaign-updates-harris-trump/Musk is saying it’s a DDoS attack, but I call BS. It’s just a failure of Twitter infrastructure. The only person I trust less about anything is Trump. Employees at Twitter believe that Musk was lying about the attack. So last night was just two narcissistic POSes who vastly overrate their abilities and lie incessantly doing their best to upend American democracy. www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 13, 2024 3:49:06 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 13, 2024 4:02:55 GMT -5
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 13, 2024 5:33:02 GMT -5
Lying liars continue to lie. . . GOP vice-presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) has been attacking Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, at every turn. We’ve dealt with some of his more substantive policy attacks, but here’s a quick roundup of some of the sillier false claims he’s made. A Vance spokesman did not respond to a request to provide evidence for these claims, which seem rooted in misleading clips that circulate on right-wing social media. “She has said things like, ‘it’s reasonable not to have children over climate change.’ I think that’s the exact opposite message we should be sending to our young families.” — Vance, interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Aug. 11 This is false. This is false. Vance made this comment as he tried to explain 2021 remarks that Harris was one of those “childless cat ladies who are miserable in their own lives and they want to make the rest of country miserable, too.” (Harris has two stepchildren.) To Bash, he said: “I criticized Kamala Harris for being part of a set of ideas that exists in American leadership that is anti-family. I never, Dana, criticized people for not having kids. I criticized people for being anti-child.” “She wants to take away your gas stoves.” — Vance, remarks in Atlanta, Aug. 3 This is false. Harris has never advocated taking away gas stoves and in fact has tweeted photos of herself cooking with a gas stove. “She even wants to take away your ability to eat red meat. That’s how out there she is. That’s real. The fake news will fact-check it. They will fact-check it true. She actually said that.” — Vance, remarks in Atlanta, Aug. 3 Sorry, we fact-check this as false. (We should note that Donald Trump also makes this claim, often adding that she wants “to get rid of cows.”) Harris has never said anything like this. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/13/trio-silly-false-claims-that-jd-vance-makes-about-kamala-harris/
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 13, 2024 5:46:25 GMT -5
Vice President Kamala Harris is narrowly ahead of Donald Trump on the number of voters who trust her handling of the economy, according to a new Financial Times/Michigan Ross poll. The economy has remained a defining issue for voters who consistently cite inflation and the high cost of living as their top priority in national polls. Harris is expected to release an official economic policy platform in the coming days. Vice President Kamala Harris is catching up to former President Donald Trump on the number of voters who trust her handling of the economy, according to a new Financial Times/Michigan Ross poll. The monthly survey found that 42% of voters trust Harris on economic issues, one percentage point more than the Republican presidential nominee. It is a razor-thin lead that falls well within the poll's margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points. The poll, released Sunday, surveyed 1,001 registered voters from Aug. 1 to Aug. 5. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/harris-edges-out-trump-on-who-voters-trust-more-with-the-economy-new-poll-finds/5696165/
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 13, 2024 6:05:58 GMT -5
Do we have an extradition treaty with Venezuela?
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 13, 2024 6:48:42 GMT -5
Do we have an extradition treaty with Venezuela? Yes, but Venezuela is among some countries that will refuse to honor such treaties. The Office of International Affairs (OIA) in Criminal Division at DOJ is the component responsible for implementing these treaties. internationalextraditionblog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/venezuela.pdfThere is also a more recent Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/12941-Venezuela-Law-Enforcement-MLAT-10.12.1997.pdfThe Office of International Affairs (OIA) returns fugitives to face justice, transfers sentenced persons to serve their sentences in their home countries, and obtains essential evidence for criminal investigations and prosecutions worldwide by working with domestic partners and foreign counterparts to facilitate the cooperation necessary to enforce the law, advance public safety, and achieve justice. Extradition and Removal of Fugitives: OIA plays a central role in apprehending and returning fugitives to justice so that they may be held accountable for their crimes. Using all the legal tools at its disposal —extradition, deportation, and other lawful measures — OIA works with domestic and foreign partners to extradite or lawfully remove criminals sought for prosecution in the United States or abroad for a wide variety of offenses, including violent crime. www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-oia
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 13, 2024 19:49:36 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Aug 13, 2024 20:19:14 GMT -5
Do we have an extradition treaty with Venezuela? Too bad that everything he says is a lie.
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 13, 2024 20:42:52 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Aug 13, 2024 20:45:39 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Aug 13, 2024 22:13:25 GMT -5
Grace and class. Sadly, this has become exceedingly rare and refreshing.
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