American Politics

[QUOTE=The Cane;2930534][b]Character[/b]

Do you really think that I believe it's "fake news"? Again, [B]read what I wrote[/B]. This is not a game. This is not a joke! No, I was mocking the right for the kind of [B]bullshit[/B] it spews when it doesn't like the news. Just dismiss it by calling it "fake news". It can't possibly be true because we don't like it. If you're so narrow-minded and tied up in your own political bent that you couldn't see what I was doing and think I believe this is about some fake news, then that tells me all I need to know about your own character.[/QUOTE]

You raise an interesting point, w/r to [i][b]"character"[/b][/i]. I mean, the last several days, have been very disturbing, as to why Repubs are celebrating yet another violent crime, a shooting of one of their own supporters and then bombastically conflating it with some kinda electoral win, really shows what kind of immoral characters the party has become.

As Trump, the House Speaker, and Repubs (at the RNC) try to now use this moment as a rallying cry, to somehow suggest that Trump's shooting is, [i][b]"the moment"[/b][/i] for America to come together, only reeks of desperation and is repugnant to those REAL victims and American families, of gun violence.

So let me get this straight...the Las Vegas shooting [b](60 dead)[/b], Pulse nightclub (FL) shooting [b](49 dead)[/b], Virginia Tech shooting [b](32 dead)[/b], Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting [b](26 dead children)[/b], and none of these brutal mass shootings, are moments for American to come together, but the Trump shooting (1 dead)...[i]is "the moment"???[/i]

The notion or suggestion, that the Trump shooting was, [i]"the moment, for Americans to come together",[/i] is just some fucked-up, sadistic, warped campaign idea of an RNC 'softer side'? PLEASE spare me the sanctimonious bullshit!

While some people here, try to insinuate otherwise, I think, the Dems are happy to see, that Biden's predecessor, will now be able to stand trial for the rest of his crimes. Naturally after losing at the ballot box in Nov 2024.

And let's be real for a moment, shall we? As unfortunate as this was [i](and it has been articulated, [b]"a making of his own, now come home to roost"[/b]),[/i] this is not the first time, America has seen, presidential candidates that have been shot or shot at, while campaigning and have gone on to LOSE the bid for the presidency.

But what was vile, vulgar, appalling and a question of moral character, was how shameful, Elvis 2008 and Repubs here, [b]were truly relishing and celebrating,[/b] Trump being shot at. Reminded me of another disgusting right-wing individual, when it comes to (mass) shootings, in one hateful disinformationist, Alex Jones.

This low-life preys on the death of children and the grief stricken families, for ratings, clicks and money. Calling the Sandy Hook shooting, "fake", what sick individual does that? And yet very little to NO objection from the right. I wonder if Alex Jones, is calling "fake" on this shooting? 'Cause if he did he'd be probably closer to the truth, than all his other phony "fake" outrages combined!
[LIST]BTW, Elvis 2008's celebrating the Trump shooting, also made me think, that perhaps want they really wanted, was [i][b]"martyrdom"?[/b][/i] Think about it, for a sec!

I mean, the celebratory fan-fare, seemed to suggest, what better way to avoid a 2nd embarrassing LOSS to Biden, than to have their [i]"Lord and Savoir",[/i] go out in a blaze of bullets, guts and glory, as the ultimate political [i][b]"martyr"[/b][/i] and sacrifice. Hmmmm...[/LIST]
Celebratory Repubs aside, it's nice to know he'll be able to stand trial. But let's face it folks, nobody wants another 4-years of that lying hot mess, called Trump. NOBODY!

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2930688]I forgot to respond to this because this shit was high comedy. From the article, Some 220,000 educated workers moved there in 2022 alone, according to the Census Bureau. So how could we possibly score Texas at the bottom for Quality of Life?

Oh, I don't know. You just do the same Democratic douche thing and call people stupid I guess.

According to The Commonwealth Fund, Texas leads the nation by far in residents without health insurance, and a staggering 19% of all people with a credit score in Texas have medical debt that has gone to collections.

LOL. And why does that have anything to do with the state? Can you not get insurance if you want it? Translation: Texas spends less time and energy on diverting wealth from one family to another for health care insurance.

Texas is another state with no public accommodation law barring discrimination against non-disabled people; it has passed a barrage of laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community; and its abortion ban is the strictest in the nation.

And how many people moving to Texas care about any of these things? I love the notion that "reproductive rights" is code for pro-abortion. Somebody better tell MSDNC that not 100% of the world thinks getting an easy abortion is a right. Some see that as a plus. And there is another boner:

Also, if any of those new Texas residents lose their jobs, state unemployment benefits cover less than 10% of the average cost of living, according to Oxfam America.

LOL. And here we go again. Texas has an issue because people are not paid when they are not working. Texas has no income tax and because it is a right to work state jobs are plentiful, and that is the reason people come to Texas. There is that and it is a hellluva more affordable than most of the nation.

This is such a fucking stupid article because the reason most people move is because of their job and hopes for a higher quality of life, and people who move to Texas generally say that is the case. Sure, there are issues, but I think the funniest part is the bullshit being pedaled that everything has to be done by law and government. Texans are usually pretty generous and a lot of goodwill and charity is done at the church level, but if you were to read this stupid article, that kind of goodwill does not count.

But people can be pretty generous when you do not tax the shit out of them.

But I agree with this. All the people who read this kind of bullshit should not move to Texas. We do not want you.[/QUOTE]Well, perhaps the 220,000 people who could not cut it in other states and had to move to Texas in 2022 alone are a big reason why it is such a miserable place to live and work. You know, "the neighborhood. ".

After all, according to your next point there seems to be a lot of sick deadbeats living there who can't or won't pay their medical bills, maybe can't even get an insurance company to return their calls anymore. Ugh!

The Texans I know are always bellyaching about how intolerably hot it is, cold it is, one disastrous and deadly hurricane or, if they're lucky, tropical storm after another, power outages every time they turn around.

Yet they keep voting for Repubs and whining about Dems. Who the hell would want to live in such a place and among people like that? Damn.

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2930750]Oh. Day two shows Trump declining even more vs Biden in the 538 Consensus Poll site's Chances of Winning (53 out of 100 for Biden vs 46 for Trump), the Electoral College Vote projection (277 for Biden vs 261 for Trump) and the Popular Vote (Biden extended his lead in that to 2. 7 points).

[URL]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/[/URL]

It appears the RNC candidate, performance and the messaging just isn't working to give them a boost from either the Presidential Debate Quiz Show, Biden's 30 minute no notes interview on ABC, Biden's 1 hour no notes post- NATO Summit press conference, the terrible Repub Shooter's assassination attempt on Repub Donald Trump, Biden's no notes interview with Lester Holt, this ongoing multi-day RNC Lie Fest or all of the above.

Oh well. Tomorrow is another day.

Perhaps that new "less violent rhetoric" RNC speech Trump is busy day and night working on where, no doubt, he will apologize deeply and own up to inciting, encouraging and happily consenting to and supporting violence, attacks and assassinations galore on his political enemies, election workers, judges, juries etc for every day of the past 3 1/2 years that he has been asserting his Big Lie about Biden stealing the 2020 election and his begging Joe Biden and the American people for their forgiveness will do the trick.[/QUOTE]There has been another update on the above 538 site for tonight.

Biden's Chances of Winning have increased to 54 out of 100 vs Trump's 46 and his Electoral College Vote projection improved to 278 vs 260 for Trump.

Just passing it along to anyone into this whole polls thingy. Which seems to be everyone in the Media, the Repub Party and for sure the Dem Party lately.

"The USA Secret Service failed. That Donald Trump is alive today is only a result of sheer luck — a bullet that missed by less than an inch, a head tilt at the right split second. But make no mistake, the fact that an aspiring assassin was able to get to an elevated position within an easy shot of the former president and leading candidate to be the next president is a stunning failure of an agency whose primary mission is to protect the president.

Let us also not forget that in addition to a bullet grazing Trump's ear, there were multiple casualties — Corey Comperatore, a firefighter who died heroically shielding his family from bullets, and two others who were seriously injured.

In the aftermath of the shocking event on Saturday, many questions have been raised about the response. Why didn't the counter-sniper team take out the shooter before he fired a shot? Why didn't they respond more quickly as spectators frantically drew police attention to the suspicious man crawling on the roof? Why did they let Trump continue speaking once this threat was identified? Why didn't they whisk him away sooner in case there was a second assassin?

More on.

SECRET SERVICE.

Secret Service Director Suggests Roof Used by Shooter Was Too Dangerous for Agents to Stand On.

Shocking Trump-Rally Failure Highlights Secret Service Recruiting Issues, Diversity Distractions.

Sheriff Confirms Local Cop Encountered Would-Be Trump Assassin on Rooftop before Shooting.

These are all fair questions, but each one of them can be answered by some variation of explaining a breakdown in communication or imperfect responses in real time. The one question that was most perplexing from the day of the shooting was, how did the Secret Service allow a would-be assassin to get so close to the president, just 150 yards away — a shot that wouldn't be too difficult for anybody with basic training in looking through the scope of a rifle and pulling a trigger? Why wasn't somebody posted on the roof when that could have been arranged in advance?

At first, some of the explanations that came out were that the Secret Service had outsourced to local police the responsibility for securing the locations outside the gates where the crowd was let in — in other words, the area outside the heavily secured area. And there were questions about whether a lack of resources was the issue and the team was spread too thin to post somebody on the roof.

But on Monday, it emerged that in fact multiple law-enforcement officers were inside the building at the time of the shooting. Meaning there wasn't a shortage of personnel — they just were not posted on the roof.

Then, in an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday, Kimberly Cheatle, the director of the Secret Service, made an extraordinary revelation.

"That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point," Cheatle said. "And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside. "

This makes no sense, on multiple levels. For one, the would-be assassin (a slight-looking 20-year-old with no evidence of any sort of combat training) managed to scale the building and get off multiple shots at Trump. Secondarily, the counter-sniper who ultimately took out the shooter was posted on a sloped roof.

There is simply no excuse for a stunning failure that, but for a stroke of luck or act of God, would have ended up with Trump's death, and all of the political and social turmoil that would have come with it.

Despite this incredible dereliction of duty, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declared, "I have 100 percent confidence" in Cheatle.

As for Cheatle herself, she tried to act accountable in her ABC interview, claiming, "The buck stops with me. " But if those words are to have any meaning, there is only one move that she can make. Kimberly Cheatle must resign immediately and be replaced by somebody who can do the job competently. ".

And Donald So Loved America that he Gave Up a Life of Leisure and was Villified, Attacked and Shot in the Head but by the Grace of God Survived-- so All Americans could Live in a Fair and Just Society.

[URL]https://media1.tenor.co/m/61WONxPxU28AAAAC/donald-trump-assassination-attempt.gif?t=AAYdc34ch1UFCBiLTgaDUQ&c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2s[/URL]

Adam Schiff Calls on Biden to Drop Out: 'I Have Serious Concerns'.

HAHAHA!.

Too Many Dems are Calling for him to leave NOW! -- This article he starts his posturing for a quick exit;.

[URL]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13644485/biden-reason-drop-presidential-race-democrats.html[/URL]

[QUOTE=Woodman09;2930854]And Donald So Loved America that he Gave Up a Life of Leisure and was Villified, Attacked and Shot in the Head but by the Grace of God Survived-- so All Americans could Live in a Fair and Just Society.

[URL]https://media1.tenor.co/m/61WONxPxU28AAAAC/donald-trump-assassination-attempt.gif?t=AAYdc34ch1UFCBiLTgaDUQ&c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2s[/URL][/QUOTE]Wood you can pull your nose out of his ass, he already made his choice for Vice-President.

Scumbag Joe looks worse then ever-- I think if he does not step down he will croak in the next couple weeks Or croak either way- We won't know if it was natural or if the CIA done it.

In any case at least he shall burn in hell-.

[QUOTE=Woodman09;2930903]Too Many Dems are Calling for him to leave NOW! -- This article he starts his posturing for a quick exit;.

[URL]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13644485/biden-reason-drop-presidential-race-democrats.html[/URL][/QUOTE]Be careful what you ask for. Because you just might get it! Harris is polling ahead of Chump!

[QUOTE=Woodman09;2930963]Scumbag Joe looks worse then ever-- I think if he does not step down he will croak in the next couple weeks Or croak either way- We won't know if it was natural or if the CIA done it.

In any case at least he shall burn in hell-.[/QUOTE]Not to break up this classic Mainstream Media celebration of what a "Lucky Winner" the Repub candidate is vs the "Hapless Loser" Dem candidate is by bringing up something no MSM outlet has dared to even consider for a nanosecond, but:

What if God whispers to Donald Trump that he too shall have Trump's Pandemic Covid again?

That fat old fuck is still fat and old and the last time I heard got hit with his Pandemic's Covid a lot worse and more seriously than it hit Joe.

Perish the thought, of course. And while everyone is so focused on one presidential candidate out there exposing himself to all the new variations of Trump's Pandemic Covid, it seems to me there are 2 presidential candidates out there exposing themselves to it.

Just sayin'.

[QUOTE=AxelHeyst;2930851]"The USA Secret Service failed.[/QUOTE][B]Your entire post is bullshit![/B]

He is not the president. So he does not get protected like one. If you have a problem with that, I suggest that you contact the elected representative of your area. The set the budgets.

Easy for a man of unknown background in the security services to Monday morning quarterback.

Not much has changed on the 538 Consensus Poll Site since last night except that Michigan has now moved from Toss-Up to Lean Dem / Biden:

[URL]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/[/URL]

Otherwise, Biden is still notably ahead of Trump on their Chances of Winning status (53 out of 100 vs 47 for Trump) and with a comfortable lead in the Electoral College Vote projection (276 vs 262 for Trump) and the Popular Vote (2. 5 point lead in that for Biden).

I am so looking forward to Trump's "less violent rhetoric" speech tonight where he apologizes profusely for putting so many cops, election workers and elected officials at deadly risk of attack, maiming, murder and assassination with the constant repetition of his Big Lie about Biden stealing the 2020 election, his near daily praising as "patriots" of the blood-thirsty numbskulls who fell for his horse shit and acted on it, as they did with Trump's Declaration of War Against America waged on American soil on January 6, 2021 and for almost every day of the past 3 1/2 years.

The country really needs to start healing from the historic damage he did to it.

Hey-- EihTooms are you here with your friends? [URL]https://www.youtubetrimmer.com/view/?v=UjxODR9747E&start=1102&end=1297&loop=0[/URL].

Original Video [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjxODR9747E&t=1468s[/URL].

Biden needs to step down [B]right now[/B]! He's too old to serve another year, let alone four. If he's the candidate, then unbelievably we're going to lose to the worst ex-President in American history! A pundit on TV said it best. Donald Chump over the last three weeks has been the luckiest criminal defendant ever!

[URL]https://www.foxnews.com/video/6358420403112[/URL]