It's honestly hilarious how much some of this language mirrors the things Republicans have been lambasted for in the past. Anytime a GOP politician even suggests that they will only certify the results if the election is "fair," they are piledriven by the press as promoting "insurrection." Yet, when Democrats do the same thing, the mainstream journalists give a collective shrug.

Raskin wasn't the only one singing that tune, though. Several others with a history of objecting to the Electoral College also mused that things must go "as we expect it to" for them to certify a Trump victory. //

So are Democrats teeing up a claim that election fraud happened and, thus, certification must be delayed? Because if so, that would break every irony meter in existence.

Expectedly, Axios finished out its piece by defending Raskin and his colleagues, claiming that while both parties have objected to certification, it's different when Democrats do it.

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What did Prime Minister Netanyahu tell you about his plans related to retaliation

Biden: He's coming over to help with the storm

3:05 PM · Oct 10, 2024

Ironically, he's sort of right. Netanyahu is dealing with the "storm" that Obama/Biden/Harris created in the Middle East by continuing to prop up the mullahs. //

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Biden tells Trump to "get a life, man" and "help these people" who were victims of the hurricanes.

Pres. Trump visited NC and GA and raised millions of dollars for the victims even though he is not the one currently in charge of the government.

2:21 PM · Oct 10, 2024 //

He scolded the media for not holding up the narrative enough, saying the public would hold Trump accountable. He also said that, "You, the press, should hold him accountable because you know the truth," pointing his finger at them in an accusatory manner.

"Do you plan to speak with former President Trump at all?" a reporter asked.

"No!" Biden retorted, as he went out the door.

Hold Trump accountable for what? //

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For the love of God, would someone just ask him if he is happy he stole the 2020 election already?
I want to hear him admit it before he croaks.

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He did admit it. Before it happened. Bragged about it, but.......................He miss spoke or some crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0

She thought that October 7, the one-year anniversary of the massacre in Israel, was the right day to get all dolled up and pretend she's some sort of fashion icon? This speaks directly to the incredibly tone-deaf ways and poor judgment that have come to define Kamala Harris. And it's precisely because of her repeated missteps that the media is trying to come to her rescue. //

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Her priorities are always her. Always. She couldn’t have pushed it back one day? One? Just disgusting.
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We’re still finding bodies from the devastating hurricane that destroyed parts of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris was busy posing for Vogue magazine at the same time.

She doesn’t care about Americans.

All she cares about is power.
7:37 AM · Oct 11, 2024

But also, how bad off are you that this is what you are saying to campaign volunteers? Are you really saying they don't want to vote for women? //

Really, just so offensive and insulting to black men. Sounds like they're already trying to blame black men for losing as opposed to Kamala just being a lousy candidate. //

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Voting for someone solely based on the color of their skin is a shallow approach that undermines the value of true leadership and character. Judging a candidate on their principles, vision, and ability to lead, rather than relying on racial identity should be the deciding factor.

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Wow. Obama’s message to Black men in PA tonight, per pooler @EricaLG

“Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and reasons for that.”
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Who is denigrating black folks? Here's a short list...
Who is saying Blacks can't get an ID that no other race has a problem getting?
Who is saying math is racist?
Who is saying reading is racist?
Who is saying testing is racist?
Who is saying criminal laws are racist?
Who is saying bail is racist?
Who is saying you ain't Black if you don't vote like you are told.

Lots of denigrating going on, but is ain't from who Obama wants you to think it is. //

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC
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The hurricane “machine” is climate change.

Cooler ocean temperatures slow hurricane development.

As temps rise, more hurricanes grow.

The Gulf of Mexico is a major location for warming water.

The people who bear responsibility are fossil fuel co’s + the politicians they buy.
4:32 PM · Oct 9, 2024

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Hi there, @AOC. 👋

You seem to like science. So, I figured I would give ya an education about this topic. 📚

I took the liberty to plot the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) for June-August (JJA) for the period 1900 to 2023. The base period used for this analysis is 1991-2020 and JJA was used because that is what the SSTs are to work with in the GoM going into North Atlantic peak hurricane season (August-October) and SSTs are slow to change due to water's high heat capacity.  I'll drop the link to the KNMI Climate Explorer for you to reproduce this chart at your own will. Give that a lil' click-sy and knock yourself out.  https://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi (the bounding box I used was 20-30°N, 80-100°W) The diamonds overlain represent instances when a major hurricane (i.e., a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained wind speeds of ≥111 mph according to the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale) formed in the GoM. Some years have more than major hurricane in the Gulf, so they're represented by one dot.

A total of 75 hurricanes have either formed or tracked through the GoM since 1900.[1] Of those 75, 40 (53.3%) formed with SSTAs 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 the 1991-2020 mean. That's more than half of the subset.

• [1] 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒, 𝐼 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝐻𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝐴𝑢𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑦 (1957) 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑙𝑚𝑎 (1966) 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒.

What we can conclude from this analysis is that the formation of major hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico is not contingent on warming SSTs. The Gulf gets warm enough every year to sustain a major hurricane, even of category four or five status. So, higher SSTs aren't going to add much additional effect, especially if you consider the fact tropical cyclone kinematics require far more environmental parameters to be favorable in order for a major hurricane to form (e.g., pre-existing disturbance, low deep-layer [200-850 hPa] vertical wind shear and no dry air / Saharan dust).

You are oversimplifying a very complex issue that you have little understanding about.

Specifically, Judge John Bush said that judges should discern the original understanding of free speech in “linguistical meaning” and “evidence of how Americans ordered their lives” in the 1790s.

The Second Amendment case to which the authors referred was New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, in which the Supreme Court ruled that, among other considerations, gun control laws must be consistent with the “historical” standard of restrictions on firearms.

The primary argument the authors made is that relying solely, or mostly, on historical interpretations of the law to define the scope of free speech is problematic. They contend that taking such an approach could lead to inconsistent, regressive, and ultimately tyrannical rulings that would roll back protections on speech.

“If rules from the 1790s were enforced today, citizens could be jailed for criticizing politicians, public figures could freely use defamation law to punish critics, and schoolchildren would have few if any free speech rights,” the authors stated.

The authors also noted court cases that expanded the right to free speech, specifically a 1943 case where a court “held that the government could not compel students to salute the flag because ‘no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion.’”

They also brought up a 1971 case that “held that the government could not ban vulgar or offensive speech.”

Yet, in the 17th and 19th centuries, the government had no problem with restricting speech in a way that seems foreign to us today:

Historically, the wrong kind of speech could land you in jail. Laws criminalizing blasphemy, government criticism, tepid sexual content, and other speech viewed to be bad or harmful were commonplace at the country’s founding.

Another historical example the authors offer is the prohibition of abolitionist speech in Southern states, showing how restrictions on speech were used to uphold oppressive institutions such as slavery. //

any court decision should be made through the lens of liberty, seeking to ensure the state does not infringe on any of our rights without an exceedingly good reason. The Framers sought to create a system of governance that would make it difficult for the state to impose laws or policies that make it more intrusive in our lives. The goal was to cultivate a society free from oppressive and unnecessary restrictions imposed with the threat of government violence.

The north star for any court should be liberty, regardless of whether it is in line with historical precedent. Otherwise, those seeking to violate our rights will find it far easier to do so.