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busterbunker - Hubby laughed out loud about your comment!
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Thought you might enjoy some womansplaining insteadbusterbunker wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 6:41 am Every time I click on a video and some white guy is mansplaining shit to me, I click off in three seconds. I do the same thing on TV, I'm not biased, just takes me a little longer to find my remote. Go away! Hope your hubby enjoys my comments.
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Idea
Remember when the Republicans refused to issue a party platform in 2020, because their platform was "whatever Trump wants" and he might change his mind about ... well ... anything at all, any time, for any stupid reason? They couldn't even write down what he was thinking at the convention, because he could change it the next day.
And of course, the pathetic unprepared Democrats were unprepared to deal with it.
But we know it will happen again next year, and this time we should be ready.
Ready with what, you stupid fake cartoon rooster? I'm getting an idea. How about we take all the stupid ridiculous things the MAGA anthill has come up with, and craft it into a party platform for the Republicans, just as a nice gift?
Like "permanently separate families at the border"? Like "defund the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms"? Like "abolish the FBI and the Department of Justice"? Like "drastic cuts for veterans' services"?
Like, oh, I dunno, but I bet we could put a range of positions that MAGAts have, and organize it to look like it's the actual Republican Party Platform, but with citations to every ridiculous thing the MAGAts have proposed thus far - and keep it current.
This is probably a really stupid idea, but it was fun to think of it.
Remember when the Republicans refused to issue a party platform in 2020, because their platform was "whatever Trump wants" and he might change his mind about ... well ... anything at all, any time, for any stupid reason? They couldn't even write down what he was thinking at the convention, because he could change it the next day.
And of course, the pathetic unprepared Democrats were unprepared to deal with it.
But we know it will happen again next year, and this time we should be ready.
Ready with what, you stupid fake cartoon rooster? I'm getting an idea. How about we take all the stupid ridiculous things the MAGA anthill has come up with, and craft it into a party platform for the Republicans, just as a nice gift?
Like "permanently separate families at the border"? Like "defund the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms"? Like "abolish the FBI and the Department of Justice"? Like "drastic cuts for veterans' services"?
Like, oh, I dunno, but I bet we could put a range of positions that MAGAts have, and organize it to look like it's the actual Republican Party Platform, but with citations to every ridiculous thing the MAGAts have proposed thus far - and keep it current.
This is probably a really stupid idea, but it was fun to think of it.
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Judge stops DeSantis supporters from sending petition urging him to run for president
The Wednesday evening ruling comes ahead of an expected campaign announcement in the coming days.
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May 18, 2023
WASHINGTON (CN) — Amid reports that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to officially enter the race for president next week, a federal judge ruled supporters cannot send him a petition urging him to run because it would violate campaign finance laws.
Ready for Ron, a political action committee that considers DeSantis the “Next Great American President,” asked the judge for an injunction allowing them to send the petition, including the names and contact information of those who signed, after the Federal Election Commission blocked it.
U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss, a Barack Obama appointee, agreed with the FEC Wednesday evening that the petition was effectively a contact list, “something of value,” and would therefore exceed campaign contribution limits.
“The FEC’s conclusion that RFR’s contact list constitutes a ‘contribution’ under [the Federal Election Campaign Act] is ‘not only reasonable but also the best interpretation of the statute,’” Moss wrote in his 60-page opinion.
Attorneys for Ready for Ron disagreed with the decision and said it was “certainly not the end” of the litigation. They said the ruling denied the signatories their right to express their political views.
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"the senator enters the race with $22 million cash on hand,"
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/19/tim- ... president/Tim Scott Files To Run For President
Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission Friday to run for president in 2024.
Scott has been weighing a presidential run for months, touring early primary states via his Faith in America Tour and launching an exploratory committee on April 12. The filing comes ahead of his widely expected presidential announcement on Monday, as well as his $6 million ad buy that will launch next week.
“This campaign is built to win and has the resources and messenger to deliver a Republican nomination and ultimately the White House,” a senior Scott official previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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Right now Trump can afford to ignore him, but if'n he gets any traction at all (he won't) it will put Trump in a dangerous position, because his racism runs so deep that he'll say something truly filthy when he attacks the black man. He won't be able to help himself. Racists gotta racist.
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Actually, I think it's a pretty good idea
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Me too
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John Thune, the No. 2 Republican in the US Senate, is endorsing the presidential campaign of Sen. Tim Scott, reports Politico.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/2 ... e-00098071
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John Thune, the No. 2 Republican in the US Senate, is endorsing the presidential campaign of Sen. Tim Scott, reports Politico.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/2 ... e-00098071
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Let the games begin!Volkonski wrote: ↑Sun May 21, 2023 5:17 pm Steve Herman
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John Thune, the No. 2 Republican in the US Senate, is endorsing the presidential campaign of Sen. Tim Scott, reports Politico.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/2 ... e-00098071
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And the Devil take the hindmost!
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Good. Maybe Mitch McConnell will do the same. Then we will see baboon like screeching and feces flinging from Merde-a-Lardo.
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A pox on their house.
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Republican thinking:
Obama is black, and he got elected twice. Scott is black, so he will obviously win, because Americans vote for black presidential candidates.
... with no thought that maybe Obama had a few other qualities beyond the color of his skin.
Obama is black, and he got elected twice. Scott is black, so he will obviously win, because Americans vote for black presidential candidates.
... with no thought that maybe Obama had a few other qualities beyond the color of his skin.
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Same reason Palin was put on McCain ticket
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Hey, remember Holy Joe Lieberman? The guy who voted NO on anything good in Obamacare.
His campaign of revenge for nominating that Jackass from Scranton as Vice President rather than the only qualified candidate (himself) is continuing. He is heading up an effort to run a third party candidate to do a Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders on the unholy Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... -election/
His campaign of revenge for nominating that Jackass from Scranton as Vice President rather than the only qualified candidate (himself) is continuing. He is heading up an effort to run a third party candidate to do a Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders on the unholy Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... -election/
No Labels group raises alarms with third-party presidential preparations
It has money and name-brand political backers, and declines to describe either President Biden or Donald Trump as acceptable candidates
By Michael Scherer
Updated April 2, 2023 at 4:51 p.m. EDT|Published April 2, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Former senator Joe Lieberman knows better than most the impact third-party bids can have on presidential elections. His 2000 Democratic campaign for vice president fell just 537 Florida votes short of victory, in a state where Ralph Nader, the liberal activist and Green Party nominee, won more than 97,000 votes.
But that didn’t stop the Connecticut Democrat turned independent from joining a meeting Thursday in support of plans by the centrist group No Labels to get presidential ballot lines in all 50 states for 2024. The group calls its effort an “insurance policy” against the major parties nominating two “unacceptable” candidates next year.
Asked if President Biden, his former Senate colleague, would be unacceptable, Lieberman said the answer was uncertain.
“No decision has been made on any of that. But we’re putting ourselves in a position,” Lieberman said. “You know, it might be that we will take our common-sense, moderate, independent platform to him and the Republican candidate and see which one of them is willing to commit to it. And that could lead to, in my opinion, a No Labels endorsement.”
Uncertainty over the $70 million No Labels ballot effort has set off major alarm bells in Democratic circles and raised concerns among Republican strategists, who have launched their own research projects to figure out the potential impacts. As Lieberman spoke, the Arizona Democratic Party filed a lawsuit to block No Labels from ballot access in that state on procedural grounds. Matt Bennett of the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way has argued that the plot is “going to reelect Trump,” and Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee has accused No Labels of wanting “to play the role of spoiler.”► Show Spoiler
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2021 and 2022 were the strongest two years on record for small business applications – with 10.5 million applications filed.
The Biden-Harris Administration is leading a small business boom.
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2021 and 2022 were the strongest two years on record for small business applications – with 10.5 million applications filed.
The Biden-Harris Administration is leading a small business boom.
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Any many of the people and companies will never recognize this, and vote accordingly.
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Not sure what it all means
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Obviously it means that all applications are down 50% from the Trump era, you liberal snowflake! [/snark]
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Looks like the great spike is the post-covid lockdown increase in businesses again open to the consumer, especially the food sector = restaurants.
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Chris Christie is about to announce his run for the Republican presidential nomination.
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