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    I won’t quote from it because the whole thing is worth reading:

    Not Just Kansas; Women Motivated to Vote in States with Repro Rights at Risk

    It would be just desserts if the GOP lost races because it overplayed its hand because it misinterpreted the Dobbs decision in the opposite way that the left is misinterpreting it.

    At least the left is doing the correct thing. The issue is now one for states to decide, and state legislators are elected representatives of the people. So those who wish to influence their representatives should register, and then vote.

    The registration thing has shifted substantially in favor of those who support abortion rights.

    Alito would have no issue with this. It’s a states’ rights decision.

    Ten years from now Democrats will have no issue with this, either. Some to-be-former GOP legislators might not be so happy, tho.

    Play the cards you’ve been dealt, libbies. Show up and vote.

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    From the Department Of Now It Can Be Told:

    An analysis by the CBO estimates those earning less than $400,000 — the group on which Biden promised not to raise taxes — will pay an estimated $20 billion more in taxes over the next decade as a result of the Democrat-pushed $740 billion package, which also sets aside $80 billion to hire 87,000 IRS agents.

    The bill has yet to be scored in its entirety by the CBO — which typically gives each piece of legislation a price tag before it is voted on — but the agency scored the impact of the IRS expansion on middle-class taxpayers on Aug. 12 after a provision from Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) sought to exempt those making under $400,000 from increased IRS scrutiny.

    Crapo’s proposed amendment would have kept those taxpayers from being targeted by the new IRS hires, but his provision was shot down 51-50 in the bill passed by the Senate last week.
    …
    The CBO analysis confirms an earlier report from the Joint Committee on Taxation that found that throwing an extra $80 billion at the IRS to improve the agency’s collection of under-reported income will end up targeting small business owners to pay for the legislation.

    Every single Democrat in the Senate, including Momala, voted for the already-fucked kids of YLB to be taxed via increased scrutiny.

    Of course, YLB’s kids will ultimately be shown to really, truly earn as little as they claim. That’s the already-fucked part.

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    The issue is now one for states to decide

    Nope.

    Fundamental human rights are not “for states to decide”.
    We fought a whole civil war over that question.
    And Degen’s side lost. Badly.

    Try looking at it this way: If Degen’s reasoning about unenumerated substantive due process rights is valid, then a Democratic controlled state legislature could enact laws requiring that all private and parochial K-12 teachers meet the same certification requirements as public school teachers. Who could argue with that? Then they could pass statutes regulating the curriculum taught in private and parochial schools. The basic stuff. Make sure the kids are properly prepared. But that would include some EDI (equity/diversity/inclusion) curriculum. Right? And basic health curriculum including sexual education about genital health, reproductive health, STDs, safe sex practices, etc.

    You can pretty quickly see where this is going. And honestly, not to trouble anyone with tedious “legal details”, but since this shit only has to pass rational basis scrutiny, that also means the legislature can restrict some parts of the religious curriculum if it “rationally” deems them injurious.

    Before you can say “Fuck Your Feelings” you’ve empowered the states to shut down all the parochial and private K-12 schools and require all the kids to attend “the government school”.

    There is no enumerated right to hold your kids out of public schools. It’s not in the text. And there are no federal laws protecting such a right. It would be entirely up to the states.
    And yet, Alito does not want this.

    I’m going to assume that somebody had to show TargetSmart to Degen. He might have learned some important information leading into 2020. It might have saved him a whole lot of bother the last few years.

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    @ 4

    Fundamental human rights are not “for states to decide”.

    You were fine when it was decided by six dudes, QoS McHillbilly. You were fine when this “fundamental right” was revoked roughly halfway through gestation for 40 years.

    Clean water is a fundamental right, but only until one is halfway through one’s average life expectancy. How does that work for you?

    Health care is a fundamental right, but only until one the midpoint of life expectancy. Any better?

    Access to nutrition is a fundamental right, but only until the midpoint of life expectancy. Anyone interested in seeing ‘froggy die of starvation ’cause he’s the least common denominator in just about everything?

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    …voted for the already-fucked kids of YLB to be taxed via increased scrutiny.

    Hey, congratulations, YLB!

    Your kids are now small business owners with $5,000,000 businesses. That’s very impressive. Many small entrepreneurs spend years hustling and scheming to reach that level of sales. Your kids did it in a single shit-post.

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    @ 6

    Nobody hustles and schemes to avoid earning her own living better than our resident dumb twat. YLB’s kids learned from the finest.

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    Clean water is a fundamental right,
    Health care is a fundamental right,
    Access to nutrition is a fundamental right,

    No precedent or dicta offered. Natch.

    Because none exists so far as I’m aware.

    So let’s back away from Degen’s idiotic record-scratch moment.
    Nobody said “fundamental”. At least I didn’t. I used a specific term in constitutional law that all nine robes are very well steeped in.

    There’s a ton of Founders framework backing an unenumerated right to privacy. It’s been cited literally thousands of times by federal judges in every circuit and on the SCOTUS. Once a right is said to exist, that is judges reading the laws enacted by elected lawmakers have agreed that it was intended, the question arises what does the right entail?

    What possible good does a 13th Amendment do, without a 14th Amendment accompanying it? How much new value in rights accrue to newly emancipated former slave if the state wherein he or she resides can simply reimpose slavery by passing new laws and calling it something else? To be meaningful a right must be protected, enforceable, and it must entail a means of obtaining a remedy when the right is infringed. This is very fundamental. But we do continue to struggle with much of it. So to be free from slavery and recognized as a full citizen also includes important protections that are incorporated into the meaning of citizenship. But the lawmakers who passed the 13th Amendment were not a trusting bunch. Just to be safe they spelled it all out with a 14th Amendment.

    We are not so lucky with the right to privacy. It is not spelled out. Some have argued (and I tend to agree) that the Framers deliberately refused to spell such things out, fearing that this would create narrow limits on rights they held sacred and considered to be universal and nearly unlimited. The right to privacy is certainly among those. But the fact that we are forced to work out for ourselves, through trial and debate, does not mean the right doesn’t exist.

    So what is incorporated into an unenumerated substantive due process right to privacy? We argue that it includes privacy in individual personal decisions about reproduction at least as much as it includes privacy about what porn movies Bork rents. At least.

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    QoS McHillbilly @ 8:

    Nobody said “fundamental”. At least I didn’t.

    QoS McHillbilly @ 4:

    Fundamental human rights are not “for states to decide”.

    Liberalism means never owning up to anything.

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    Okay, I said it.
    But I thereafter explained that specifically I was referring to unenumerated substantive due process rights, because otherwise, as Degen chose to ignore, anything can be deemed a right protected by the constitution.

    Conservatism means simply ignoring every single argument that you know you are too weak to confront, and instead making up your own.

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    There is no constitutionally protected right to hold your children out of “the gubmit skool”.

    Change my mind.

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    Hey, congratulations, YLB!

    Thanks.. The wife and I did ourselves proud.. We raised two kids.. Sent them to the Seattle Public schools.. They both went to Seattle universities.. They both graduated UW and both are gainfully employed..

    As a bonus, myself and the kids get free rent living in the skull of a degenerate kreepshit from widbee…

    We all pay our fair share of taxes.. Nothin’ to fear from an empowered IRS.. They’ll go after the tax cheats like kreepshit as kreepshit has already admitted.. I wish them happy hunting.

    That fookin’ munee of kreepshit’s will go to pay down the debt incurred by failed Pentagon boondoggles like the F-35, “Star Wars” and the “War on Terror”.. It’ll make up for decades of tax cuts for the rich.

    I’d kinda rather see that fookin’ munee burned with kreepshit’s miserable remains, but hey can’t have it all..

    Thanks again!

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    Liz also inherited my vote if she should run, even if she were to lose or the Dem lose. It would be a nice fuck you to the GOP or Wyomingians.

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    Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg will be pleading guilty to criminal conspiracy tomorrow in Manhattan. Along with his agreement to plead guilty he will also name The Trump Organization, and Trump Payroll Corporation as co-conspirators.

    He’ll be doing five months in Rikers.

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    Notice how America can’t support all those foreign bases when Democrats are in power. If Republicans get in power I bet he won’t say another word about it.

    Republicans don’t support the troops except as props, Republicans certainly don’t support the VA. Republicans support the troops the way they support babies, once they’re out they abandon them.

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    18 – If you are referring to me, I will be talking about ending our over-stretched empire regardless of who is power. I’m not a Republican.

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    Another take on Kansas*:

    https://www.commonsense.news/p/does-kansas-prove-the-roe-voter-is

    “Everybody in America thinks Kansas is so conservative, but Kansas is pretty staunchly anti-government,”

    “Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do with my body, you know? Who the F are you to say anything?’”

    If you didn’t do everything in your power to avoid listening to them, you might accidentally come away thinking these folks were describing some kind of “right”.

    *Full disclosure, I generally despise this kind of “Midwestern diner” journalism. I’d actually prefer data driven reporting like what TargetSmart provides.

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    what a pompous ass @1. Tyring to be conciliatory and then toutoring liberals. You fucking moron, you’ve never been right in your life. I don’t hold grudges and I can forgive and forget but first appoligies are in order or a more gracious statement of conceeding. The only schooling I see done is @4!

    And nice spin by the Federalist to say that Liz Cheney was comparing herself to Lincoln, just becuase of expressing a past example similiar in nature to her situation….not because she thinks she’s Lincoln.

    What asses. Anything to negatively spin a situation. Sheep buy it.

    “The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln, was defeated in elections for the Senate and House before he won the most important election of all,” she said before an audience of what few supporters she has. “Lincoln ultimately prevailed. He saved our union, and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history.”

    That’s all she said….not that she thought she was like Lincoln.

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    Let’s see 20 billion over 10 years for about 2.8 million people amounts to $715.00/year.

    Ohhhhh my – How much is that doggie in the window?

    $400,000 salary can’t affor a $715 increase for what? Investment? A better nation?

    A so called millionaire wouldn’t have to complain about $714 when earning a $400,000 income. Stop doing cocaine maybe.

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    @1 “state legislators are elected representatives of the people”

    Like Wisconsin in 2018, when Republicans won 45% of the votes for state Assembly seats and got 66 of the 99 seats? Really, doc, do you think we never heard of gerrymandering?

    There, as elsewhere, about two-thirds of voters support legal abortion with some or no restrictions. Think their GOP-dominated legislature will agree to that?

    Representative, your ass. The last thing your tribe wants is a government that represents the people. That’s why they try to overthrow elections.

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    @3 Look who’s upset that he has to pay an extra $3 a year to the government to help reduce the deficits he complains about.

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    @8 “How much new value in rights accrue to newly emancipated former slave if the state wherein he or she resides can simply reimpose slavery by passing new laws and calling it something else?”

    I’m under the impression some states did just that.

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    @15 “900 overseas bases that we can’t afford”

    Most of them were built to put gas in your car.

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    23,
    Are you thinking it’s going to be all the “shithole” countries?

    Looking back now, those really were the salad days for Cheetolini. Degen too, come to think of it.

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    I would remind everyone that two full days before he arrived at Fultion County courthouse this morning to answer questions under oath in front of a criminal grand jury, Rudy Giuliani was notified that he was a suspect in the investigation.

    He testified for six hours.

    Don’t be like Rudy, y’all. Shut the fuck up.
    Don’t answer questions.
    Better still, first and foremost, be a good person, follow the law, and stay out of trouble. But either way, if somehow you find yourself sworn and seated before a grand jury answering questions SHUT THE FUCK UP. Even if you know you didn’t do anything wrong, it still is not your job to “clear things up”. And you have nothing to gain from it. But oh so much to lose. Make them do their job. You do yours and shut up.

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    @32

    He spent 6 hours rambling on about “9/11 and I was the mayor of NYC.” That or, “On the advice of my legal counsel, I invoke my 5th Amendment right and respectfully decline to answer the question.”

    Although Rudy does like to hear himself talk and does have a massive ego, so yeah, he probably tightened the noose around his own neck.

    Just a simple guy, you know, a moron.

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    Republicans are vicious; there’s no other word for it. Matt Gaetz’s primary opponent could’ve run ads calling him a sex trafficker, for which there’s some evidence, but instead baselessly called him a rat, knowing full well this could get him killed:

    “A Republican primary challenger to Rep. Matt Gaetz has released an attack ad suggesting the Florida congressman tipped off the FBI about potentially classified documents stored at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-fbi-informant-campaign-ad_n_62fdad64e4b0a85a819884df

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    Conservatives simultaneously think children are mature enough to be forced to birth a baby resulting from rape, yet aren’t mature enough to handle a rainbow flag

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    33,
    It’s a lot of time to just plead the 5th, tell Grandpa stories, and pass gas.

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    @ 13

    They both went to Seattle universities.. They both graduated UW and both are gainfully employed..

    “Would you like fries with that?” + EITC = gainfully employed

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    19 – All of them.

    28 – …or to support Europe and others. And to put gas in YOUR car, hypocrite!

    29 – …and Europe, the Middle East, Diego Garcia BIOT, etc.

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    @ 44

    The raging orange man-baby is about to devour Ron DeSantis and Alex Jones.

    That’s one interpretation.

    Another is that Trump will soon be facing indictment, and some influential – if idiotic – people are starting to look around for someone else to back.

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    @ 42

    I’m reminded, Steve, of other famous concessions. Like:

    2000 – Al Gore concedes to GWB43, and then calls back to retract his concession.

    2016 – Hillary too drunk to appear in public on Election Night in order to concede before the cameras.

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    It’s hard to support Planned Parenthood’s $50 million ad blitz this Fall AND feed the hungry.

    Inflation is Straining the Charitable Sector

    Most households have begun to alter their spending decisions because of inflation. However, inflation is robbing the most vulnerable in our society, such as those with low incomes or on a fixed budget, of the dignity to live a normal life. Since proportionately, they spend more of their budgets on groceries and energy, price volatility triggers food insecurity and forces them to make existential choices.

    “Do I give $100 to Planned Parenthood in California, a state likely to permit abortion through kindergarten at least, or to my local food bank? Decisions, decisions…”

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    Al Gore…Hillary

    Your raging orange man-baby never conceded that he lost, only that he wouldn’t be serving a 2nd term. And that was only after he had incited an armed, violent mob of fascists to storm the Capitol to kill his own VP in a failed attempt at a coup intended to end our democracy.

    But yeah, Al Gore…Hillary…whatever.

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    As expected, Trump Organization CFO pleaded guilty to 15 counts of criminal fraud this morning.

    #WEEEEETCHHUUUUNT!!!!!!!

  53. 53

    50,
    I would not count on Weisselberg giving any testimony against high ranking individuals.
    I expect they will indict the two companies and bring the most serious charges they can, relying heavily on Weisselber’s testimony. Their objective will be to cripple the companies and deprive Trump and family of one means of grifting.

    I think it is very unlikely that Allen Weisselberg will provide useful testimony against any individual members of the Trump family. But there may be others who might become more motivated to do so under these circumstances.

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    @ 48

    “Whatever”

    At one point, the authors describe how, in the early hours of Nov. 9 — not long after the Associated Press officially called the race for Trump, and hours after most of the Clinton camp had all but given up hope of winning — the 2016 Democratic nominee got a call from President Obama.

    “You need to concede,” Obama told his former secretary of state, according to the authors.

    And so she did. And then she spent the next four years claiming it was rigged. Sound familiar?

    Hillary Clinton: Trump is an ‘illegitimate president’https://www.washingtonpost.com › politics › 2019/09/26
    Sep 26, 2019 — Clinton compared her 2016 election loss to “applying for a job and getting 66 million letters of recommendation and losing to a corrupt …

    Hillary Clinton Maintains 2016 Election ‘Was Not On the Level’https://www.yahoo.com › video › hillary-clinton-maint…
    Oct 9, 2020 — Hillary Clinton is sticking with her conviction that the 2016 presidential election was not conducted legitimately, saying the details …

    It’s a dishonest concession if it’s done with fingers crossed behind the back, Steve.

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    @ 55

    The swimsuit inspections have begun.

    Hard to miss an eight-inch clitoris, QoS McHillbilly. Even when it’s covered in Lycra.

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    It’s a dishonest concession if it’s done with fingers crossed behind the back, Steve.

    This must be today’s ‘safe space’, whining about Hillary. And not even a single GRU-generated, pro-Putin hashtag! This is so sad.

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    55. The trumpification of everyday life. Trump couldn’t have lost the election, somebody must have cheated. Their child couldn’t have lost the contest, somebody must have cheated.
    They feel they were entitled to win, their victory was stolen from them They cannot take responsibility that they lost.

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    Hard to miss an eight-inch clitoris,

    Once again cancervatives find themselves humiliated and outsmarted by “the gay agenda”.

  64. 64

    60,
    They demean themselves.

    When we were kids, and I’m guessing Degen experienced this, our little league coaches (mostly dads) often considered it their most important job to teach players how to understand and respect the rules of the game and the officials (volunteers mostly) who enforced them.

    Al Gore conceded. Even when he had won. Because he had exhausted the legal means of challenging the Florida recount. He accepted the referee’s call, conceded to his opponent, and congratulated George W. Bush. Gore then went on to make far greater contributions to both history and human welfare than any Republican president since Eisenhower.

    Muhammad Ali endured 9 rounds of racial taunting from ringside bigots, trash fighting, spitting and rabbit punches from Chuck Wepner, and atrocious officiating from Tony Perez, before Wepner finally stomped on Ali’s foot and pushed him down, earning Ali a standing eight count. Then Ali resumed the fight and beat the shit out of Wepner. Later Perez sued Ali and lost. Ali inspired the world. Wepner inspired a failing softcore porn actor named Sylvester Stallone.

    As a people, Republicans have debased themselves. It’s not merely that they can’t accept defeat. It’s that Republicans can’t accept a world that allows for the possibility of their defeat. They reject the basic premises upon which free and fair political contests might take place. They demand the rigging, the tilted playing field, the biased judges and corrupt officials. And even when all that fails to produce wins for them (often due to their own self-destructive tendencies), they call for violence as a solution.

    Their own conduct heaps weakness upon them in every conceivable way.

  65. 65

    Biden claimed a million new construction jobs.

    President Biden
    @POTUS

    United States government official
    Investments in the CHIPS and Science Law will create more than 1 million construction jobs alone over the next 6 years building semiconductor factories in America.
    7:30 AM · Aug 11, 2022

    Even WaPo tells him he’s a fuckin’ liar.

    Biden’s bogus boast of 1 million ‘construction jobs’

    “The statement about 1 million construction jobs is not accurate,” said Sarah Ravi, a spokeswoman for the association. She directed us to a chart in the report that indicated that a $50 billion investment would create an additional 6,200 construction jobs.

    Kessler gave First Vegetable Joe Biden the WaPo’s version of “Yer a fuckin’ liar, asshole.”:

    But in any case, there is no reason to get the number so wrong — twice. While the White House concedes a “mix-up,” the tweet has not been deleted; neither has the official transcript been corrected. The president earns Four Pinocchios.

    Sorry, ‘froggy. Back to the unemployment line, loser.

  66. 66

    Inexplicable how most of these things boil down to conservatives wanting children to pull down their pants and show them their genitals.

  67. 67

    @ 64

    Wepner sued Ali?

    I know he sued Stallone. Didn’t find anything about a lawsuit against Ali.

  68. 68

    Fuck you, Brian Stelter.

    Claire Atkinson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
    @claireatki
    The entire “Reliable Sources” staff have been laid-off
    @CNN
    10:48 AM · Aug 18, 2022·

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    Next up: Abbas calls Israelis “Nazis”.

    Rep. Elaine Luria
    @RepElaineLuria
    ·
    52m
    Mahmoud Abbas’ recent claim that Israel has committed “50 Holocausts” is reprehensible and antisemitic. Leaders around the world must condemn these false and hateful statements.

    Or maybe it will be Steve, who equally misunderstands the term.

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    67,
    Tony Perez, the corrupt, incompetent official hired to referee the fight in Ohio, later sued Ali for hurt feelings and lost badly.

    Perez had a long, and storied career in professional boxing. Part of the reason for that was that he earned a reputation as an official who would work with fight promoters.

    The Wepner debacle was a money grab staged for the consumption of people who would today be awaiting trial for J6 offenses or threatening to kill FBI agents. Wepner was a big, strong, slow, hack. He had very poor defensive skills leading to him suffering early punishment in many fights, but especially later in his career as he got older and had less stamina. Once he was tired and hurt, Wepner would invariably resort to every known form of dirty fighting. If Perez had called a clean fight he would have been issuing warnings from the first round and taking points and rounds from Wepner by the fifth round. And that would have enraged the audience of “aggrieved, socially insecure, white working class males”. So promoters prevailed upon Perez to look the other way, and Perez obliged.

    Ali simply shared his opinion with the world that Perez had ignored many dozens of serious rules violations by Wepner that should have cost him points, and thus rounds. Moreover, Ali accurately pointed out that Perez scored a knockdown for Wepner that he should not have. Perez was well positioned to make the correct call. If you look at this photograph from the fight, Perez is on the same side of the ring as the photographer, just out of frame slightly to the right.
    https://preview.redd.it/wrjhrizoemh61.jpg?auto=webp&s=0d4a1aa0776703ff521118edaae3fd8278829995
    After the “knockdown” Perez is seen entering in front of Wepner from Wepner’s left to move the two fighters apart.
    A bad, inexperienced referee might possibly have missed the call from that position. Tony Perez was neither of those things. He scored it a knockdown for Wepner anyway.

    Ali was right. Perez was terrible.

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    Meanwhile, in McHillbillyville:

    Christine Drazan
    @ChristineDrazan

    Governor candidate, OR
    🚨 Big news: @Center4Politics has moved our race from “leans Democrat” to “toss-up.”

    Oregonians are ready for a new direction and we are ready to turn the page on one-party rule. #orpol
    Kyle Kondik
    @kkondik
    Crystal Ball gubernatorial rating changes:

    OR-GOV Leans D > Toss-up
    NY-GOV Likely D > Safe D
    MD-GOV Likely D > Safe D

    Explanations for the changes and a look at the overall playing field here: https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/the-gubernatorial-races-look-to-the-west/
    8:34 AM · Aug 18, 2022

  75. 75

    Nazi

    Or maybe it will be Steve, who equally misunderstands the term.

    You accused me of calling you a Nazi when I’d never done that before. I just figured I’d oblige. You’re welcome.

    I was calling you and the rest of the right-wing scum authoritarian fascists with dreams of totalitarianism in your future.

    You do know what that means, don’t you? It makes Putin your kindred spirit-leader and Adolph your God. Suffices to explain why a low IQ Nazi traitor like yourself would so subserviently post 10,000 imbecilic GRU-generated Pro-Putin hashtags.

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    @68. “Reliable Sources” with Brian Stelter examines the media world — telling the story behind the story — how news and pop culture get made. Discussions revolve around media fairness and objectivity, with panels consisting of journalists from top television, digital and print news organizations. Stelter, who often touted the show’s ratings on Twitter, was among those CNN hosts targeted for frequent criticism from conservatives for his coverage of the media during the Trump years.

    Licht, has indicated that he wants to take CNN in a more neutral, less opinionated direction,
    >> In this environment, tell me how being the Neville Chamberlain network works out. Fox is going to destroy CNN.

    I can see why greedy racist incels would be glad this was cancelled, since he has no interest in fairness and objectivity. Stelter challenged his God.

  78. 78

    Heteros having fun.

    https://apnews.com/article/mormon-lawsuit-arizona-sex-abuse-25231a4c668e2e69ae45df484096f7b7

    “Judge Laura Cardinal ruled on Aug. 8 that the late Paul Adams waived his right to keep his confessions secret when he posted videos of himself sexually abusing his two daughters on the Internet, boasted of the abuse on social media, and confessed to federal law enforcement agents, who arrested him in 2017 with no help from the church.”

    Maybe this will bring the Doctor out from the barn.

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    74,
    According to Rachel Bitecofer they aren’t wrong.
    Very little to do with any political shift according to Dr. Bitecofer.
    Instead it’s because two multi-millionaires, the Nike guy and the Columbia Sportswear guy, are hoping to split the progressive/Democratic vote by putting a stalking-horse independent on the ballot in November.

    Popular consumer brands pulling unpopular political stunts seems like something shareholders might care about.

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    Steve @ 75:

    You accused me of calling you a Nazi when I’d never done that before.

    Steve little more than two weeks ago:

    Steve spews:

    Monday, 8/1/22 at 11:06 am

    Our low IQ Nazi traitor and his freaky fascist friends have very strange and unfortunate notions about child rape. The rapist has a “relationship” with the victim. The child will have a very “romanticized view” of what’s happening to them, thinking the rapist is their “boyfriend”.

    And less than a week before that:

    Jul 27, 2022 — Steve spews: Wednesday, 7/27/22 at 10:29 am. The last thread closed with the low IQ Nazi traitor for the 9,000th time…

    There’s no point in calling Steve a liar. What Steve really is these days is ineffective.

    Change my mind.

  81. 81

    @ 79

    …it’s because two multi-millionaires…

    This means little these days. You might be surprised at the number of people to whom this term applies.

    You shouldn’t be, but you might be.

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    Degen forced me to look it up.
    Turns out both are billionaires.

    Co-founder and Chairman emeritus of Nike along with
    the Chairman, President, and CEO of Columbia Sportswear

    are attempting to help a Republican get elected Governor in Oregon by fucking with the election. Both companies founded and located in Oregon. Both global consumer brands. Both appear to be exceptionally popular with Oregon consumers.

    For now.

    I just checked and I don’t own anything branded by either one. Although I’m very sure I used to own a fleece from Columbia. I haven’t seen it in ages. But it could be in a box.
    But if I own any shares it won’t be for much longer. Buying op for Degen, I guess.

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    Steve little more than two weeks ago:

    And less than a week before that:

    Good fucking grief. You accused me of calling you a Nazi months ago.

    Dumbfuck much?

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    Was wondering when this would happen..

    https://www.cpr.org/2022/08/10/evraz-pueblo-steel-mill-sale/

    The former Colorado Fuel and Iron steel mill in Pueblo, Colorado has been owned by a U.S. Subsidiary of tge UK Subsidiary of Evraz, a Russian steel conglomerate since 2007. It’s now up for sale, although officially not impacted by sanctions. Tge mill is one of three US mills producing rails. Probably some of the rail used by Sound Transit, except on Line T in Tacoma, comes from Pueblo. T-Line uses a type of rail,American mills long since quit making.

    https://www.chieftain.com/story/business/2022/08/11/evraz-steel-mill-sale-could-work-to-the-benefit-of-pueblo/65400066007/

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    @46 Can you recall another election winner lying about the loser not conceding?

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    @54 “It’s a dishonest concession if it’s done with fingers crossed behind the back, Steve.”

    Not quite on the same level as Mike Pence asking for Dan Quayle’s permission to follow the Constitution, though.

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    @65 Reminds me of what Republicans said about the jobs that Keystone XL would create.

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    @74 Hard to avoid one-party rule when there’s only one party and a mob of farmers with pitchforks and tiki torches setting fire to their own barns.

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    Moms for Liberty demand that every LGBTQ book that is in any positive be pulled from the library shelves.
    Moms for Liberty demand that teachers don’t’ say GAY and rainbow flags be purged from schools.
    Now Moms for Liberty demand any LGBTQ identifying child to be removed from the classroom.
    Moms for Liberty is evil hate group who sides with republicans.
    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/moms-liberty-activist-wants-lgbtq-students-separated-special-classes/

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