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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]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/opinion/columnists/republicans-mccain-hypocrisy.html


They sat in seats of honor, near the front of Washington National Cathedral. They bowed their heads when appropriate. They looked up pensively and listened.

By all appearances, they were honoring their departed colleague, Senator John Sidney McCain III, during a majestic ceremony on Saturday. And by doing so they were showing America that leaders of both parties reject the hateful, petty, law-defying politics of President Trump. They were showing America what a better nation could look like.

But it was all an act — a cynical, hypocritical act that McCain, who had a keen eye for hypocrisy, would have seen right through.

It was an act for Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. It was an act for Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House. It was an act, most jarringly, for Lindsey Graham, McCain’s dear friend and the senior senator from South Carolina. It was an act for Orrin Hatch, Rob Portman and nearly all of the other Republican members of Congress who attended the service.

It was an act because they have not kept faith with the principles that McCain held dear — and that he himself organized his memorial service to celebrate, as a clear rebuke to Trump and Trumpism. McConnell, Ryan, Graham and the others have instead done the very opposite of keeping faith. They have made possible Trump’s hateful, petty, law-defying politics.

Despite running a branch of government that the Constitution makes equal to the presidency, they have meekly assented to Trump. Entrusted with power, they have chosen complicity.


The congressional Republicans inside the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday would surely say they came to honor John McCain. But they were there for show. Faced with a choice, they have rejected McCain’s America for Trump’s.

The Congressional Republicans: cowards, and quislings.

[facilitatorn]

Republicans in State government make their states shittier places to live and work. Conservatism is just an expression of criminality dominating a weak soul.

http://policy-practice.oxfamamerica.org/work/poverty-in-the-us/best-states-to-work/

[josh]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/opinion/columnists/republicans-mccain-hypocrisy.html


They sat in seats of honor, near the front of Washington National Cathedral. They bowed their heads when appropriate. They looked up pensively and listened.

By all appearances, they were honoring their departed colleague, Senator John Sidney McCain III, during a majestic ceremony on Saturday. And by doing so they were showing America that leaders of both parties reject the hateful, petty, law-defying politics of President Trump. They were showing America what a better nation could look like.

But it was all an act — a cynical, hypocritical act that McCain, who had a keen eye for hypocrisy, would have seen right through.

It was an act for Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. It was an act for Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House. It was an act, most jarringly, for Lindsey Graham, McCain’s dear friend and the senior senator from South Carolina. It was an act for Orrin Hatch, Rob Portman and nearly all of the other Republican members of Congress who attended the service.

It was an act because they have not kept faith with the principles that McCain held dear — and that he himself organized his memorial service to celebrate, as a clear rebuke to Trump and Trumpism. McConnell, Ryan, Graham and the others have instead done the very opposite of keeping faith. They have made possible Trump’s hateful, petty, law-defying politics.

Despite running a branch of government that the Constitution makes equal to the presidency, they have meekly assented to Trump. Entrusted with power, they have chosen complicity.


The congressional Republicans inside the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday would surely say they came to honor John McCain. But they were there for show. Faced with a choice, they have rejected McCain’s America for Trump’s.

The Congressional Republicans: cowards, and quislings.

They belonged there.

McCain rejected McCain's America for Trump and the GOP over ethics months before his funeral when he voted Aye for Gorsuch's appointment to the Supreme Court, after standing by silently during Obama's last year as Mitch McConnell raped the Constitution.
https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2016/3/statement-by-senator-john-mccain-on-president-obama-naming-supreme-court-nominee

They fit right in.

[kiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/johnrich/status/1036751396002050050

[kiidcarter8]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/02/opinion/columnists/republicans-mccain-hypocrisy.html


They sat in seats of honor, near the front of Washington National Cathedral. They bowed their heads when appropriate. They looked up pensively and listened.

By all appearances, they were honoring their departed colleague, Senator John Sidney McCain III, during a majestic ceremony on Saturday. And by doing so they were showing America that leaders of both parties reject the hateful, petty, law-defying politics of President Trump. They were showing America what a better nation could look like.

But it was all an act — a cynical, hypocritical act that McCain, who had a keen eye for hypocrisy, would have seen right through.

It was an act for Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. It was an act for Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House. It was an act, most jarringly, for Lindsey Graham, McCain’s dear friend and the senior senator from South Carolina. It was an act for Orrin Hatch, Rob Portman and nearly all of the other Republican members of Congress who attended the service.

It was an act because they have not kept faith with the principles that McCain held dear — and that he himself organized his memorial service to celebrate, as a clear rebuke to Trump and Trumpism. McConnell, Ryan, Graham and the others have instead done the very opposite of keeping faith. They have made possible Trump’s hateful, petty, law-defying politics.

Despite running a branch of government that the Constitution makes equal to the presidency, they have meekly assented to Trump. Entrusted with power, they have chosen complicity.


The congressional Republicans inside the Washington National Cathedral on Saturday would surely say they came to honor John McCain. But they were there for show. Faced with a choice, they have rejected McCain’s America for Trump’s.

The Congressional Republicans: cowards, and quislings.

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[kiidcarter8]

And the motherfucker sees strength in ripping us apart.

Nah.

I don't see this.

He is governing as he said/imagined he would if he won.  He proudly serves a nation he loves.

Utter bullshit, Kiid.

He swore to uphold the constitution.

He is so far from doing that that it is laughable that you think he is keeping that promise.

Which part of the Constitution do you think Trump is not upholding?

[kiidcarter8]

https://twitter.com/TheHRH/status/1036621839533891584

[josh]

And the motherfucker sees strength in ripping us apart.

Nah.

I don't see this.

He is governing as he said/imagined he would if he won.  He proudly serves a nation he loves.

Utter bullshit, Kiid.

He swore to uphold the constitution.

He is so far from doing that that it is laughable that you think he is keeping that promise.

Which part of the Constitution do you think Trump is not upholding?

It's as if you have been ignoring every discussion people have had here.

• Article 1, Sectiion 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
• Section 8, #18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
• 4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
• 5th Amendment: No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
• 6th Amendment: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
• 8th Amendment: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
• 14th Amendment, #1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
• 14th Amendment, #4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

At first blush.

[kiidcarter8]

heh

Discussion?

No.  Very seldom anything specific laid out

[LarryBnDC]

heh

Discussion?

No.  Very seldom anything specific laid out

Bitch, please...

[facilitatorn]

Kid’s way of apologizing for being wrong is to divert from the topic of the discussion to criticizing the discussion as he imagines it occurred.

[josh]

https://www.aclu.org/blog/racial-justice/race-and-inequality-education/federal-data-shows-public-schools-nationwide-are

No news except to the people who deny racism remains as a major problem in the United States.

[josh]

heh

Discussion?

No.  Very seldom anything specific laid out

That you chose to ignore it or deny it doesn't mean it didn't occur.

The conversation about refusing legal asylum seekers the right to apply for asylum is a violation of our laws and our treaties, directed by the President's administration.

The kidnapping of children from those legal asylum seekers violated our laws and the Constitution.

The refusal to track them and initially to aid in recovering them was a violation of the Constitution, probably more than one. (Habeus Corpus, for one.)

The seizure of citizen's passports and denial of new ones without due process was a violation of the Constitution.

Locking up citizens because the officials "suspected" they might not be citizens is a violation of the Constitution.

He violates the emouluments clause on a regular basis.

Yeah, no discussion of it here at all, Kiid.

[LarryBnDC]

https://twitter.com/johnrich/status/1036751396002050050

This is some dumb shit... Nike already had your money.

Reminds me when I was a freelance shooter contracting with SNS. KAL flight 007 was shot down by RUSSIA and it seemed l8ke every bar in Manhattan wanted to be covered smashing bottles of Stolichnaya in protest. So the crew I was riding with rolled to a bar in midtown. While we were unloading the gear I asked the bar tender  if they were really gonna throw all that vodka. He said yeah. So my bud went over to a corner store and bought five 2 liter bottle of soda. We poured that shot out, filled up on Stoli and then taped these guys gleefully busting water filled Stoli bottles in the bar sink.

Stupid. However, we scored big time!

[luee]

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WILL BETO O'ROURKE BEAT TED CRUZ? LATEST POLLS, FUNDRAISING SUGGEST DEMOCRAT CAN PULL OFF TEXAS UPSET

https://www.newsweek.com/beto-orourke-ted-cruz-polls-1093237

A big time battle in the longhorn state between the political pole opposites. The trickle down versus open borders, not pretty or good for the country no matter who wins?