American Politics

[B]"Our constitutional crisis is already here."[/B] Is a chilling opinion piece by conservative commentator, Robert Kagan, published in the Washington Post (Sept 23, 2021), where he outlines how the "inevitable" return of Agent Orange, to power in the 2024 Election.

It paints a very stark and grim reality ahead, plague with lots of constitutional challenges and strong-arm tactics that basically amounts to a "win" by intimidation, strategic placement of electoral loyalists and armed "Trumpers" at the ready.

From the article, it looks like we should prepare ourselves for the [B]"return of the orange king".[/B].

Here is a partial snippet / print (sorry, there maybe more, this is what I found): [URL]https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124767[/URL].

[b]The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, [/b]with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves. The warning signs may be obscured by the distractions of politics, the pandemic, the economy and global crises, and by wishful thinking and denial. But about these things there should be no doubt:

[B]First,[/B] Donald Trump will be the Republican candidate for president in 2024. The hope and expectation that he would fade in visibility and influence have been delusional. He enjoys mammoth leads in the polls; he is building a massive campaign war chest; and at this moment the Democratic ticket looks vulnerable. Barring health problems, he is running.

[B]Second,[/B] Trump and his Republican allies are actively preparing to ensure his victory by whatever means necessary. Trump's charges of fraud in the 2020 election are now primarily aimed at establishing the predicate to challenge future election results that do not go his way. Some Republican candidates have already begun preparing to declare fraud in 2022, just as Larry Elder tried meekly to do in the California recall contest.

[B]Meanwhile,[/B] the amateurish "stop the steal" efforts of 2020 have given way to an organized nationwide campaign to ensure that Trump and his supporters will have the control.

Over state and local election officials that they lacked in 2020. Those recalcitrant Republican state officials who effectively saved the country from calamity by refusing to falsely declare fraud or to "find" more votes for Trump are being systematically removed or hounded from office. Republican legislatures are giving themselves greater control over the election.

Certification process. As of this spring, [b]Republicans have proposed or passed measures in at least 16 states that would shift certain election authorities from the purview of the governor, secretary of state or other executive-branch officers to the legislature.[/b] An Arizona bill flatly states that the legislature may "revoke the secretary of state's issuance or certification of a presidential elector's certificate of election" by a simple majority vote. Some state legislatures seek to impose criminal penalties on local election officials alleged to have committed "technical infractions," including obstructing the view of poll watchers.

[B]The stage is thus being set for chaos.[/B] Imagine weeks of competing mass protests across multiple states as lawmakers from both parties claim victory and charge the other with unconstitutional efforts to take power. Partisans on both sides are likely to be better armed and more willing to inflict harm than they were in 2020. Would governors call out the National Guard? Would President Biden nationalize the Guard and place it under his control, invoke the Insurrection Act, and send troops into Pennsylvania or Texas or Wisconsin to quell violent protests? Deploying federal power in the states would be decried as tyranny. Biden would find himself where other presidents have been where Andrew Jackson was during the nullification crisis, or where Abraham Lincoln was after the South seceded navigating without rules or precedents, making his own judgments about what constitutional powers he does and doesn't have.

Some cal it shithole to.

I wondered why Trump suddenly changed his persistently repeated nearly year long message for everyone not to waste their time and money inventing a vaccine for Trump's Pandemic virus as well as not bothering to assume even the tiniest risk in taking one into that recent tentative and meek semi suggestion from the stage that his MAGA crowd ought to consider getting vaccinated. LOL. For which he got booed so he turned tail and quickly retreated from the idea.

But now it looks like he might have gotten early intel that his MAGA crowd Repub base is voluntarily and permanently removing itself from the voter rolls in disproprtionately high numbers and from his sucker fund raising list due to their Trumpian anti-science, anti-mitigation measures and anti-vax stance.

[B]Red COVID? Coronavirus deaths are highest in counties with the largest share of Trump voters: report.
The vaccination gap between Democrats and Republicans is mirrored by a partisan divide in COVID deaths[/B]
September 27,2021.
[URL]https://www.marketwatch.com/story/red-covid-coronavirus-deaths-are-highest-in-counties-with-the-largest-share-of-trump-voters-report-11632764116[/URL]
[QUOTE]Trump supporters at the "World Wide Rally for Freedom", an anti-mask and anti-vaccine rally in Concord, N.H. A new data analysis finds a partisan gap in COVID vaccination rates, as well as severe COVID illness and death.

President Joe Biden and government health officials have been calling the resurgence in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths a pandemic of the unvaccinated, which has been exacerbated by the highly contagious delta variant. But a new data analysis also suggests that this has become a pandemic of conservatives.
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[QUOTE=Xpartan;2609230]Not sure about number 4. I would replace them with "The uneducated. " A special group of people Trump loves so much, and boy do they return the affection![/QUOTE]While the uneducated certainly do drink the orange kool-aid, the original Constitution limited voting to white, male property-owners. I threw the "straight" in there because trumpettes consider them a lower form of life than they do POC.

[QUOTE=Xpartan;2609230]"The uneducated.[/QUOTE]That's one of the many false narratives of the left. However, I guess it depends on your definition of "educated". In reality, the average Republican voter is more intelligent, more successful, and has more life experience than the average Democrat voter. There are the few Democrats who fuel that narrative who are educated, but the majority of Democrats these days are uneducated. And the majority of Democrats who actually are educated, have little to no life experience and little to no common sense.

There's an old saying "If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart. And if you aren't a conservative when you are older, you have no brain. " Some people grow older but not wiser, those are modern day Democrats who are old enough to know better but don't.

Let's talk with a few Biden voters.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GO2jneQJOo[/URL]

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2609425]That's one of the many false narratives of the left. However, I guess it depends on your definition of "educated". In reality, the average Republican voter is more intelligent, more successful, and has more life experience than the average Democrat voter. There are the few Democrats who fuel that narrative who are educated, but the majority of Democrats these days are uneducated. And the majority of Democrats who actually are educated, have little to no life experience and little to no common sense.

There's an old saying "If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart. And if you aren't a conservative when you are older, you have no brain. " Some people grow older but not wiser, those are modern day Democrats who are old enough to know better but don't.

Let's talk with a few Biden voters.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GO2jneQJOo[/URL][/QUOTE]Trumpers are far more uneducated than the average RepubliCANT. Since [B]you[/B] used a youtube video for proof, how about: [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzDhm808oU4[/URL] or [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVx8gCAF3D8[/URL] or?

I guess the familiar adage still applies; "If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart. And if you are a conservative when you are older, then you should send back your Social Security checks uncashed, never accept Medicare payment for your hospitalization and are only asking to die a horrible and lonely death from Trump's Pandemic virus for your stupidity, sucker."

[B]California continues to have lowest COVID rates in the country[/B]
Sept. 27, 2021.
[URL]https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/California-keeps-improving-becomes-only-state-16491325.php[/URL]

[QUOTE]
[B]California continues to have lowest COVID rates in the country[/B]
Sept. 27, 2021.
[URL]https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/California-keeps-improving-becomes-only-state-16491325.php[/URL][/QUOTE]Fake news as Connecticut has lower number of cases per 100 K and California is doing much worse with Hospitalization /100 k of population.

Src: [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html[/URL].

[QUOTE=KilledSoul;2609588]Fake news as Connecticut has lower number of cases per 100 K and California is doing much worse with Hospitalization /100 k of population.

Src: [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html[/URL].[/QUOTE]This seems to depend on the source. Becker's Hospital Review has Rhode Island lowest a / o September 28th. Statista had Vermont lowest on September 27th.

Probably the best we can do is say that at least 9 of the top 10 highest case rates are the ones who voted for the former guy. They would rather kill all trumpers just so they can own the libs. Who said that Republicans were "smart", 'cause this strategy seems counterintuitive.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2609425]That's one of the many false narratives of the left. However, I guess it depends on your definition of "educated". In reality, the average Republican voter is more intelligent, more successful, and has more life experience than the average Democrat voter. There are the few Democrats who fuel that narrative who are educated, but the majority of Democrats these days are uneducated. And the majority of Democrats who actually are educated, have little to no life experience and little to no common sense.

There's an old saying "If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart. And if you aren't a conservative when you are older, you have no brain. " Some people grow older but not wiser, those are modern day Democrats who are old enough to know better but don't.

Let's talk with a few Biden voters.

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GO2jneQJOo[/URL][/QUOTE][URL]https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/27/democrats-repeat-the-mistakes-of-2016/[/URL]

[QUOTE=KilledSoul;2609588]Fake news as Connecticut has lower number of cases per 100 K and California is doing much worse with Hospitalization /100 k of population.

Src: [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html[/URL].[/QUOTE]It depends on how current the figures are. Your link shows Conecticut with 14 new cases per 100,000 vs California's 19 new cases per 100,000, the 2 states with the fewest new cases, based on the daily average and as of 3-4 days ago..

But your link states a 26% decline in the daily average over the past 2 weeks for California vs a 23% decline for Connecticut. It could be as of today the greater decline momentum for California has taken it below Connecticut's.

Btw, my link is about California being the only state earning the CDC's "Moderate" transmission levels and risks rating, which isn't exactly the same as an "Average new cases per 100,000" rate your link is about.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2609425]That's one of the many false narratives of the left. However, I guess it depends on your definition of "educated". In reality, the average Republican voter is more intelligent, more successful, and has more life experience than the average Democrat voter. [/QUOTE]My definition doesn't matter. "I love the poorly educated," said Trump. His own words, not mine. Ask him what he meant.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2609425]That's one of the many false narratives of the left. However, I guess it depends on your definition of "educated". In reality, the average Republican voter is more intelligent, more successful, and has more life experience than the average Democrat voter. There are the few Democrats who fuel that narrative who are educated, but the majority of Democrats these days are uneducated. And the majority of Democrats who actually are educated, have little to no life experience and little to no common sense.
...[/QUOTE]Do you have a link for that Repub vs Dem education issue? Perhaps a carefully and deceptively edited video by some loon in his dad's garage or mom's basement, a meaningless cartoon, anything?

I have a link for it:

[B]GOP faces massive realignment as it sheds college-educated voters.
The data suggest that what we are seeing might be more than just a sudden Democratic edge in party affiliation.[/B]
April 18, 2021
[URL]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/gop-faces-massive-realignment-it-sheds-college-educated-voters-n1264425[/URL]
[QUOTE]...Data from the Pew Research Center show that, increasingly, different people are populating the two major political parties with Republicans and Democrats moving in sharply different directions among college-educated voters.

At the beginning of this century, Republicans held an 11-point edge on party affiliation among college-educated voters. By the time Barack Obama was president, the figures had flipped to become a 4-point edge for the Democrats. And as President Donald Trumps term was winding down, the numbers had come full-circle and the Democrats had a 13-point edge among college-educated voters on party affiliation.
...[/QUOTE]So, aside from that, how much life experience and common sense does it take to vote like sucker rubes over and over again for so-called potus' who, almost without exception for the past 100 years, have led the country directly into one Great Repub Crash, Major Recession/Depression, Massive USA Jobs Destruction and "Once in 100 Years Disaster!" after another and NONE of the historic expansions, significant USA jobs creations, Bull Run Markets and boom times?

Let's look and listen to the man that educated, worldly Repubs with common sense voted for recently. Twice. And, yes, possibly twice each in just the one most recent election as Trump suggested his Repub electoral base ought to do:
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyLwAokINc[/URL]

[QUOTE=EihTooms;2609719]

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MyLwAokINc[/URL][/QUOTE]Great collection! Our army "took over the airports" (in 1775) is incredible comedy. Best ever! Forget SNL, nothing comes close by a long shot.

[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2609624][URL]https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/27/democrats-repeat-the-mistakes-of-2016/[/URL][/QUOTE]Who wrote this trash? Literally no Democrats think like this and any Republicans who do must've drunk too many bleach martinis.