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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[bankshot1]

Kansas has spoken.

Auntie Em was pissed off and voted.

[LarryBnDC]

Dems outnumbered 2-1 in Kansas.

These are not Democratic voters driving these numbers.

This is not a pro-choice vote it is a pro freedom vote.

[josh]

Meanwhile, in Missouri, Mark McCloskey did not have the popular mandate to lead that he seemed to expect, getting about 3% of the vote for the US Senate GOP nomination.

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/08/03/ty-cobb-trump-january-6-defense-ebof-vpx-sot.cnn

Cobb says Congress should disqualify Trump, preventing his running for the presidency.

[Holly Martins]

Dems outnumbered 2-1 in Kansas.

These are not Democratic voters driving these numbers.

This is not a pro-choice vote it is a pro freedom vote.

Pretty amazing.  AP reported

the electorate in Tuesday s vote wasnt typical for a Kansas primary, particularly because tens of thousands of unaffiliated voters cast ballots.   

Sometimes you CAN herd cats.

[Holly Martins]

Primary wins of election deniers in some states could be good news for Democratic opponents in November.  For example, election denier Blake Masters won the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona.  He might be too polarizing (also known for antisemitic and racist remarks) to get much traction against Mark Kelly.

[LarryBnDC]

Harris Faulkner bringing that Meghan McCain energy about her father...


https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1554502096245989377?s=21

[Hairy Lime]

Primary wins of election deniers in some states could be good news for Democratic opponents in November.  For example, election denier Blake Masters won the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona.  He might be too polarizing (also known for antisemitic and racist remarks) to get much traction against Mark Kelly.

Well, Kelly had a big polling lead over any Repo, and the second place candidate was a fake elector, so it would be the same dynamic regardless. The main differences seem to be Master tending to go off rails message wise and spending huge amounts of someone elses money rather than his own.

A January 6 protester and election denier won the Repo nomination to oversee the states election. Governor is still up in the air since we still have lots of mail in ballots.

[Espnthree]

Dems outnumbered 2-1 in Kansas.

These are not Democratic voters driving these numbers.

This is not a pro-choice vote it is a pro freedom vote.

Pretty amazing.  AP reported

the electorate in Tuesday s vote wasnt typical for a Kansas primary, particularly because tens of thousands of unaffiliated voters cast ballots.   

Sometimes you CAN herd cats.

Nice to see an overwhelming endorsement of SCOTUS.
A right has no legitimacy without the consent of the governed.

[Espnthree]

Kansas has spoken.

Cautious optimism.

Thank you SCOTUS

[Hairy Lime]

Dems outnumbered 2-1 in Kansas.

These are not Democratic voters driving these numbers.

This is not a pro-choice vote it is a pro freedom vote.

Pretty amazing.  AP reported

the electorate in Tuesday s vote wasnt typical for a Kansas primary, particularly because tens of thousands of unaffiliated voters cast ballots.   

Sometimes you CAN herd cats.

Nice to see an overwhelming endorsement of SCOTUS.

You Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.

A right has no legitimacy without the consent of the governed.

No. The whole point of Constitutional rights is to protect people from the "consent of the governed". You should try to read some of Madisons Federalist Papers and the debates over the Bill of Rights. Or in your case, have someone read them to you real slow.

A "right" protected only by popularity with the electorate is not a right at all. It is a privilege that can be removed at will.

[Espnthree]

Dems outnumbered 2-1 in Kansas.

These are not Democratic voters driving these numbers.

This is not a pro-choice vote it is a pro freedom vote.

Pretty amazing.  AP reported

the electorate in Tuesday s vote wasnt typical for a Kansas primary, particularly because tens of thousands of unaffiliated voters cast ballots.   

Sometimes you CAN herd cats.

Nice to see an overwhelming endorsement of SCOTUS.

You Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.

A right has no legitimacy without the consent of the governed.

No. The whole point of Constitutional rights is to protect people from the "consent of the governed". You should try to read some of Madisons Federalist Papers and the debates over the Bill of Rights. Or in your case, have someone read them to you real slow.

A "right" protected only by popularity with the electorate is not a right at all. It is a privilege that can be removed at will.

Except that the Kansas vote was not a popularity vote
And every Constitutional protection listed or amended to the original Constitution was granted by the governed.
I would suggest you research John Locke on consent of the governed  or, if you are lazy, Thomas Jefferson and his most famous words.


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed . . ."

[Holly Martins]

And it was Jefferson who persuaded Madison that the Bill of Rights would help make the judicial branch the protector of individual rights and secure them against the shifting winds of popular opinion.  Here's a well known snippet from that Bill of Rights....

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people

So, the SCOTUS, in the past hundred years articulated some of those rights, like the presumption of innocence in criminal cases, the right to travel within the country and the right to privacy, especially marital privacy.  And medical privacy. These rights, although originally not enumerated, had a path to further definition in the Ninth amendment.  The point of the amendment is that we are not ruled by Napoleonic Codes that are rigidly fixed and completely enumerated at the outset.  Jefferson had a good quote on that, too, which I've posted here before.

So no, not "thank you Scotus" for failing to continue the protection of rights secured a half century ago.  You CPH. 

[kiidcarter8]

Biden again tests positive for COVID

But has no symptoms.  No wait...he does.  But...but...

[Hairy Lime]

Dems outnumbered 2-1 in Kansas.

These are not Democratic voters driving these numbers.

This is not a pro-choice vote it is a pro freedom vote.

Pretty amazing.  AP reported

the electorate in Tuesday s vote wasnt typical for a Kansas primary, particularly because tens of thousands of unaffiliated voters cast ballots.   

Sometimes you CAN herd cats.

Nice to see an overwhelming endorsement of SCOTUS.

You Comically Transparent Partisan Hack.

A right has no legitimacy without the consent of the governed.

No. The whole point of Constitutional rights is to protect people from the "consent of the governed". You should try to read some of Madisons Federalist Papers and the debates over the Bill of Rights. Or in your case, have someone read them to you real slow.

A "right" protected only by popularity with the electorate is not a right at all. It is a privilege that can be removed at will.

Except that the Kansas vote was not a popularity vote
And every Constitutional protection listed or amended to the original Constitution was granted by the governed.
I would suggest you research John Locke on consent of the governed  or, if you are lazy, Thomas Jefferson and his most famous words.


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed . . ."

Among the areas of your ignorance, the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence and its role as a.legal document in our system, the difference between Governments drawing their power from the consent of the governed and rights existing only with the consent of the governed and basic English.