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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[bankshot1]

SC rejects Texas's motion.

no standing!

SIT TEXAS!

Yippee Kay Yay MOTHERFUCKER!

[luee]

The world is looking on and commenting. Germany has had experience with deranged narcissists.

---German magazine Der Spiegel names Trump 'Loser of the Year'---

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/529830-german-magazine-der-spiegel-names-trump-loser-of-the-year

[LarryBnDC]

Defund the Police!


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/prince-william-officers-shoot-kill-79-year-old-man-police-say/2504993/?fbclid=IwAR33EtOQRYH3AYGMa8_1TPHgj-H0bFcTHvU8DLkMV5-z0crPUkBAsGFNysw

Point a gun at the cops anywhere, they will shoot you.
Don't drop the gun when ordered to, they will shoot you.

Roaming the gated community armed with a gun?
Wife rang cops about husband making concerning statements?
What if he'd shot another resident, bambu-ilk for example?

People acting "crazy" armed with guns are a menace...and must be stopped before they kill someone.
Hard to be critical of the cops without knowing every detail of the case.

I agree with your last sentence.  It's hard to know what the man's intent was, though I saw a report that he was suicidal.  If so, that somewhat shifts the narrative to "suicide by  cop," a phrase that describes raising a gun against LEO's in hope they will kill you.  But, really, more details are needed to know if the police action was proportional, i.e. if the old man did raise a gun at them or if he had threatened others in the area with his gun.

Suicide by cop.

Five deputies shot him.

[Hairy Lime]

Congress says "Fuck you" to Little Donnie.


The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Friday to approve a sweeping defense bill with a veto-proof majority, a major rebuke to President Donald Trump who has urged Republican opposition and threatened to veto the legislation. The vote was 84 to 13.

Trump's position on the bill has sharply divided GOP lawmakers, forcing them to choose between loyalty to the President and legislation that sets defense policy for the country. In the end, however, the President's opposition was not enough to stall passage of the legislation through Congress. The Senate vote comes after the House of Representatives also passed the bill with a veto-proof majority earlier this week. Now it will be up to Trump to decide how to respond.



https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/11/politics/senate-defense-bill-trump-veto-proof-majority/index.html

And Trump gets a pretty good defense bill.  Just not something he was never going to get

Who won again?

Did you follow, or comprehend, what the debate over thr defense bill was about? The defense bill that passed congress was - and has been for years - bipartisan.  Truml got exactly the bill he would have gotten if he had said nothing. Nothing changed in the bill be abuse of his announced opposition. Trump has threatened to veto the bill because, first,  it renamed military bases, and second, it did not rescind legal protections for social media platforms. He got neither of those things. He got zero. Now he either vetoes the bill and has that veto overriden or he signs a bill he threatened to veto despite getting nothing for the threat. "Who won again?" The bipartisan coalition in congress. Who lost? Trump, who has gotten nothing for his veto threat. Nothing.

[LarryBnDC]

http://www.salon.com/2020/12/11/republicans-want-more-than-a-coup-trumps-loyalty-test-exposes-their-hatred-for-democracy/

Quite!

[Hairy Lime]

SC rejects Texas's motion.

no standing!

SIT TEXAS!

Yippee Kay Yay MOTHERFUCKER!

On behalf of everyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the concept of standing: no duh.

[bambu.]

CANZUK International.

Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANZUK_International

CANZUK International, previously known as the Commonwealth Freedom of Movement Organisation, is a non-profit international organisation which aims to achieve the free movement of citizens, free trade agreements and foreign policy cooperation between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom through intergovernmental action and the formation of a proposed diplomatic union known as CANZUK. The organisation aims to achieve similar free movement and trade arrangements that exist under the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement and the Closer Economic Relations trade agreement between Australia and New Zealand, with Canada and the United Kingdom eventually joining these arrangements.[4]

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While at first glance it might seem like Brexiters trying to revive 'empire'...that bloc could be good for Australia trade/cultural/foreign policy wise.
The bloc would still be a staunch ally of the US, being as they are...4 of the "Five Eyes" Intelligence org, with the US the other one.
Free movement of citizens?
Maybe...don't want any of those beheading types or anyone on the terror watch list from Britain moving downunder though.

Those proposing it have designed flags.
It's all very EU like in my eyes, and given that the EU ended up being a dismal failure for Britain...I don't really like the idea.
Where would it be run/ruled from...London? Canada?

Just have a non-formal understanding...trade, culture, foreign policy, economic policy instead.
The last thing bambuland needs is another flag dividing the nation.

[bambu.]

The world is looking on and commenting. Germany has had experience with deranged narcissists.

---German magazine Der Spiegel names Trump 'Loser of the Year'---

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/529830-german-magazine-der-spiegel-names-trump-loser-of-the-year

Germany needs to look in the mirror instead of mocking Trump.
Starting with its 'open borders' policy...and the havoc that's caused.

Austria has seen the light...and gone very Trump-like.

[bankshot1]

SC rejects Texas's motion.

no standing!

SIT TEXAS!

Yippee Kay Yay MOTHERFUCKER!

On behalf of everyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the concept of standing: no duh.

Most of us expected it, and the states right and standing issue seemed obvious from the go, but when Trump packs the court with very conservative justices, who he picked in some respects to throw an election, I wasn't counting my chads prematurely.

I'm waiting for the next storm trooper boot to fall or Trump's next insane tweet

[bambu.]

Defund the Police!


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/prince-william-officers-shoot-kill-79-year-old-man-police-say/2504993/?fbclid=IwAR33EtOQRYH3AYGMa8_1TPHgj-H0bFcTHvU8DLkMV5-z0crPUkBAsGFNysw

Point a gun at the cops anywhere, they will shoot you.
Don't drop the gun when ordered to, they will shoot you.

Roaming the gated community armed with a gun?
Wife rang cops about husband making concerning statements?
What if he'd shot another resident, bambu-ilk for example?

People acting "crazy" armed with guns are a menace...and must be stopped before they kill someone.
Hard to be critical of the cops without knowing every detail of the case.

I agree with your last sentence.  It's hard to know what the man's intent was, though I saw a report that he was suicidal.  If so, that somewhat shifts the narrative to "suicide by  cop," a phrase that describes raising a gun against LEO's in hope they will kill you.  But, really, more details are needed to know if the police action was proportional, i.e. if the old man did raise a gun at them or if he had threatened others in the area with his gun.

Suicide by cop.

Five deputies shot him.

The way it is.
If I lived in America and needed to ring 911 because the bad people were after me...I'd like armed cops to come in force to help me...not some counselling group.

[LarryBnDC]

When newspapers started putting up paywalls they stopped being accessible to most americans.  Information comes at a cost.  But you know what doesn't?  Disinformation.  So over the last decade we've seen disinformation spread on cable news networks, chat room message boards,  social networks, and broadcast radio.

The decision made by the NY Times and others to make their valuable reporting harder to come by has led to disastrous outcomes all across America.

Blame Reagan.

Killing the Fairness Doctrine gave rise to hate radio and Fox News so a lot of folks rejected the legacy media. When the networks turned their news programming into profit generators (Fuck you, Jack Welch! Burn in Hell!) well...


Where does the funding come from to pay staff and maintain resources?


The advertisers killed the paper’s because Craig’s list killed the classifieds.

We always paid for newspapers.

[LarryBnDC]

SC rejects Texas's motion.

no standing!

SIT TEXAS!

Yippee Kay Yay MOTHERFUCKER!

“Alito & Thomas said they would have heard the case (they have a belief that SCOTUS must hear *all* cases brought in this manner).

But: they said they would not have granted "other relief." Meaning, they wouldn't have prevented the Electoral College process from moving forward.”  Andy Prokop

[bankshot1]

SC rejects Texas's motion.

no standing!

SIT TEXAS!

Yippee Kay Yay MOTHERFUCKER!

“Alito & Thomas said they would have heard the case (they have a belief that SCOTUS must hear *all* cases brought in this manner).

But: they said they would not have granted "other relief." Meaning, they wouldn't have prevented the Electoral College process from moving forward.”  Andy Prokop

Trump is mulling an appeal to the Jedi Council or the Justice League of America.

He's got 126 Congressional Republicans who are ready to sign on.

[josh]

https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/status/1337461736950001664

My favorite amicus brief.

[barton]

SC rejects Texas's motion.

no standing!

SIT TEXAS!

Yippee Kay Yay MOTHERFUCKER!

On behalf of everyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the concept of standing: no duh.

Most of us expected it, and the states right and standing issue seemed obvious from the go, but when Trump packs the court with very conservative justices, who he picked in some respects to throw an election, I wasn't counting my chads prematurely.

I'm waiting for the next storm trooper boot to fall or Trump's next insane tweet

If the My Pillow guy, Kristi Noem, and Mike Flynn are gathering on a stage on The Mall tomorrow,  to promote sedition,  that should get the jackboots stomping.   

The SCt ruling seemed like a no-brainer -- what's really disturbing is how many people who attended law school were willing to pretend it wasn't.