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LordMortis wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 9:04 am Kevin McCarthy is on CNBC attacking youtube for taking down videos about "election fraud" as an attack on the American people. "take the politics out of it." right after he's been turning everything from election to COVID to failures of the democratic party and some sort of attack on Hunter Biden and not acknowledging Biden saying only "I am confident every legal vote will be counted by January 20th."

I was beginning to turn to CNBC as less politically filtered news but when they let their guests do that they let McCarthy did, I'm less interested. I miss NBR on PBS which was essentially from CNBC. I really thought their news filter was top notch.

LordMortis wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:25 am Is that who interviewed McCarthy this morning? If so that sucks because he's the guy that's the lead for "SquackBox" when I am getting ready for work in the morning.

I want my NBR back.

LordMortis wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:22 pm Andrew also has a sense of humor.

The issue is mine, I guess. I'm looking to settle on a morning news program in the background to keep me company and I have such fond memories of the evening news being filtered through NBR. It would appear that CNBC are doing daily OpEd during my most active listening time. Ah well.

Edit. Watched your link. I have them backwards. Joe has a sense of humor. Andrew was the one "interviewing" McCarthy.

Now 106 members of Congress filed a brief in favor of Texas' request to throw out the results of the presidential election in 4 states that didn't vote for Trump, partly because it's important the government operate "based on the consent of the governed."

Their argument is literally "we personally and deliberately ruined trust in the electoral process, now it's very important that you make our lies into truth so that trust in the electoral process can be restored."

Smoove_B wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:47 pm They have violated their oath of office and should face consequences. I'll leave it up to those that know more than I do to figure out exactly what that entails.

Alefroth wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 7:39 pm Has anyone seen the defendant states' responses yet? The deadline was hours ago.

Here's Michigan's- https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 878072001/

Each of the four battleground states targeted by a Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn President Donald Trump's election defeat issued blistering briefs at the Supreme Court on Thursday, with Pennsylvania officials going so far as to call the effort a "seditious abuse of the judicial process."

"Texas's effort to get this Court to pick the next President has no basis in law or fact. The Court should not abide this seditious abuse of the judicial process, and should send a clear and unmistakable signal that such abuse must never be replicated," wrote Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel addressed the lawsuit with equally strong language, writing that "the election in Michigan is over. Texas comes as a stranger to this matter and should not be heard here."

Little Raven wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 9:28 pm https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status ... 5904931841

More nonsense struck down by the Courts.

Holman wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:30 pm More than half of House Republicans and 2/3 of GOP state AGs have signed on to the insane Texas lawsuit.

Most of them are not clueless idiots. They know Biden won, but they're playing along because there are no consequences for lying and because the GOP base is willing to overthrow the Republic and name Donald Trump as dictator.

What a dreadful place we've come to.

Skinypupy wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 9:54 pm

Little Raven wrote: Thu Dec 10, 2020 9:28 pm https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status ... 5904931841

More nonsense struck down by the Courts.

There was a second one today with Trump as the Plaintiff. Judge said he’s not ruling on that one until tomorrow. He didn’t sound quite as skeptical as the others, which was a little concerning.

We’ll see tomorrow.

President Trump’s interest is in being re-elected, while the plaintiff has said that his interest is in having his vote count and not be diluted. If his interest is solely in getting President Trump re-elected, as opposed to having his vote be counted as part of a valid election process, the court is aware of no constitutional provision that gives him the right to have his candidate of choice declared the victor.

Blackhawk wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:40 amIn a few decades, ethics chats are going to replace 'baby Hitler' with 'baby Trump.'

Blackhawk wrote:Genocidal? No. Cultural violence? He's still doing his best.

Little Raven wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:52 am

Blackhawk wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:40 amIn a few decades, ethics chats are going to replace 'baby Hitler' with 'baby Trump.'

God I hope not.

I want Trump remembered as a petulant failure of a President who continually overestimated his own competence, not a dictator who successfully dismantled a democratic system and launched a genocidal reign of terror.

YellowKing wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:56 pm

Blackhawk wrote:Genocidal? No. Cultural violence? He's still doing his best.

I'd argue he committed a form of genocide by proxy by politicizing Covid. Both his actions and inaction are directly responsible for the deaths of thousands.

malchior wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 1:15 pm

YellowKing wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:56 pm

Blackhawk wrote:Genocidal? No. Cultural violence? He's still doing his best.

I'd argue he committed a form of genocide by proxy by politicizing Covid. Both his actions and inaction are directly responsible for the deaths of thousands.

And when you look at the people who died - the impact fell heavily along racial lines. That was the underlying problems rearing its head but that was why he doubled down on the economy and not the disease.

Two states that don't exist are trying to throw out the votes of people in four states that do. Whatever.

Alternatively, this is high concept marketing for Fallout 5...

NEW: Another 20 House Republicans sign onto an amicus brief supporting the Texas lawsuit that seeks to overturn the election – including
@GOPLeader. The total is 126; 64% of the House GOP caucus

Jaymann wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 3:25 pm Strangely, none of the scumbag Repugnican senators have joined the seditious scrum. Another bizarre schism.

YellowKing wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:56 pm

Blackhawk wrote:Genocidal? No. Cultural violence? He's still doing his best.

I'd argue he committed a form of genocide by proxy by politicizing Covid. Both his actions and inaction are directly responsible for the deaths of thousands.

Smoove_B wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 3:19 pm Again, they're doing it because there's no consequences in apparently calling for the invalidation of votes. Whatever consequences for their actions that should be applied, need to be applied - immediately. I know they won't because Trump paved the way for that. But for them to be able to say and do this without anything happening is beyond troubling.

Grifman wrote: Fri Dec 11, 2020 3:33 pmGenocide has a specific meaning, and you dilute the horror of the word by applying it to what Trump did.