Hey I don't disagree, I'm just saying that's the reason they would give to vote for it anyway (now that people have actually seen the bill).
The reason I don't think a veto-on-principle would have been very effective is that this omnibus spending bill is basically a national budget, and members of Congress will defend voting for it on that basis. It's hard to justify throwing the whole thing out on the basis of a few wrinkles, and that's exactly the tactic they're using to push this through.
Now whether Trump's objections will do anything is another question - I'm not sure they even need to vote on them individually (as people on TD are saying) or if they can just sweep them aside as a whole. But I do think that an outright veto would have done nothing.
He pretty much had to, they would have just overruled the veto with a 2/3 majority anyway. IIUC there's still the option of a pocket veto, where he ensures that Congress is adjourned when the bill is supposed to become an act - but it looks more like he's trying to get them to vote on the individual items that he annotated, to put their names next to those things.
He wouldn't stop dividing her :(
She's not the only one saying that it doesn't apply here. The basic problem is that the insurrection act is about enforcing federal law, but the states are sovereign when it comes to running their elections.
Now personally I think the federal government is tasked with enforcing the Constitution, and these states have acted unconstitutionally by amending their election procedures without legislative approval. But I'm not sure that holds up legally.
- The alternate electors make it possible for Trump to get 270+ through the judiciary. But SCOTUS has to start hearing cases soon (there are also some state level options but not in all of the implicated states).
- An assessment of foreign interference is due by Friday, which might be spicy.
- Pence might be able to pull something while counting the votes? Objections have to be accepted by both houses for votes to be discarded - but that should also apply to the alternate electors, which Pence could conceivably count first (not sure on this, I haven't seen anything about the counting order other than "alphabetical").
- I genuinely think that people are ready to boog, if it comes to that. There's way, way too much evidence for people to accept the result.
So I wouldn't say I'm convinced, especially when it comes to the judiciary, but it ain't over until the fat lady sings.
It's actually the opposite, sort of: It's the machines rejecting ballots for any imperfection and bringing it up for manual adjudication, where poll workers can mess with the results. Almost all of those ballots were probably quite clear, but they wanted a human to get the opportunity to rule on them.
The opposite situation happened with signature verification, where they set the tolerance so high that any scribble was accepted as a match, so they could accept as many mail-in ballots as possible.
To be clear, Section 230 defines services like YouTube as platforms. No ifs, buts or maybes about it. As written, the publisher v platform argument has no merit. If you don't believe me, read it yourself (specifically subsection c) - it's not long, it'll only take you a few minutes. That's why no executive order can possibly do anything and why it needs to be changed.
Unfortunately (c)(1) of Section 230 defines them as such, unconditionally. (c)(2) has some (vague) good faith conditions but the publisher v platform distinction is not something you can enforce based on Section 230 as written.
IIUC they will be able to join the case if SCOTUS decides to take it. Right now it's on the docket but they can still dismiss it.
There might not be a legal way for them to do so in the first place. So these declarations of support may be just as significant as them actually joining the suit would be, simply because they aren't able to in the first place.
Yes, everything I've heard about the writing for this show is that they completely misunderstand the gender dynamic presented in Wheel of Time, and instead intend to impose their own intersectional gender dynamic. Frankly Robert Jordan's wife should be ashamed of herself for allowing this violence to be done to her late husband's work.
I don't know about TD.win, but the amount of evidence of fraud is truly overwhelming. Even without the CCTV footage that came out recently, even without all our suspicions of the Dominion machines, in a lot of these states simply the number of people who voted despite not being eligible is enough to flip them.
For detailed coverage I suggest checking out Uzalu's channel on YouTube and his Discord community. We've watched almost all the hearings in their entirety, which means I've seen probably 15-20 hours of damning witness testimony (all of them backed up by sworn affidavits).
They really are training us to wear masks at all times for no reason. It's reaching the point where I'm wondering what their endgame is. Match China? Make people feel permanently sick and compliant? This is starting to feel like a separate push from the Covid scare.
Well, I already had a cabinet with a bunch of empty space in it, which the TV is sitting on. If I were to start from scratch then I would probably wall-mount the TV to save a bit of space, but as things stand it was a logical place to put the PC.
If I had to think of an actual advantage it would probably be receptivity, I have the wireless keyboard you mentioned and the touchpad starts to malfunction if there's too much stuff in between it and the wireless receiver. I also have Bluetooth headphones with a similar issue (though I'm hoping Bluetooth 5.2 will solve that problem at some point, with its new audio codec and increased range).
Or if you have a TV cabinet type thing then you can buy low-height cases that somewhat resemble DVD players.
Of course if you want a true gaming PC then the low height makes it difficult to install a decent heatsink, but as long as you're not overclocking or care about maxing out your boost clocks, there are decent low-height options. Or you can do what I did and put a Lian Li TU150 on its side by drilling some new screw holes for the feet :P
It's Smartmatic's software, specifically, which Dominion's voting machines use through a licensing agreement. The manual of the machines show the alleged features - being able to skew results, for instance. These things are definitely easy to abuse - the only question is whether and to what extent they were.
Eh, I mean she wasn't an official part of Trump's legal team from the start, and if she does have to bring a case implicating Republicans in massive digital election fraud then it's better for her to have no official connection to Trump. The things she's saying aren't being submitted as evidence in any of the existing cases, so at worst she's damaging to public opinion (which does matter, but not legally). But we'll see if she can back up her claims in the end.
My guess is that the next step for the legacy media if Biden wins is a 4-year long witch hunt. Go after Trump, go after the people who supported Trump, do everything in their power to rake them over the coals and get ratings by letting the brainwashed masses enjoy their suffering.
Mind you, if Biden does get elected then I'd be surprised if there isn't a significant amount of civil unrest. The largest militia in the USA has already said that they won't accept it, and I think every politically active Republican (and a number of moderate Democrats) agrees that if the Democrats are allowed to get away with this blatant fraud, then no election from this point onward can be trusted.
I'd be hard pressed to call a 1.5 hour press conference 'concise', but I strongly disagree with you about it not being engaging. I find him a pretty engaging speaker at the worst of times (I mean he is both a lawyer and the former mayor of NYC) and when he gets sarcastic or heated it's very entertaining.
As for the "lines running on his face", the most I noticed was him dabbing away some sweat a couple of times.
I guess this is about the specific domain, not the servers hosting it, or the backup domains wouldn't make a difference (unless we're talking about all .win domains). So it probably won't affect this site since it's a small target.
Calling it boring is the biggest giveaway.
If you agree with him then you probably think he's saying what everyone is thinking, and if you disagree with him then you probably think he's ranting and raving like a madman about baseless conspiracy theories.
But boring? The only way to find it boring is if you're deliberately shutting out everything because you're worried there might be some truth to it.
Well in that case I retract my statement, that's ridiculous. They should certainly treat this as an admission of criminal behavior.
Eh, if prostitution is legal and they're not allowed to work because of Covid-19 measures then I think they should get the same consideration as any other person not allowed to do their jobs.
We can argue about whether it should be legal, whether it's immoral or degenerate et cetera but none of that should be relevant to the system as it currently is.
The moment Pence announced that he was treating his role as purely ceremonial, it was clear that the process was going to be a formality. Possibly a long and drawn out formality, but still a formality.
Would it have been better to wait until the vote on the Arizona electors? Probably. Would there have been any point in waiting until after Biden got confirmed as president-elect? I don't think so. It happened a bit too soon, but frankly not by much.
Should they have gone home when asked, or should they have stayed as an occupying force? Well, nobody brought guns because violence wasn't the intent (and all the actual deaths were among the protesters). They might have been able to hold the Capitol through sheer weight of numbers, but I don't think there was ever an articulated intention to do so.
Was this planned? Well, they certainly got in suspiciously easily, and we know there were AntiFa members mixed in. Apparently they stayed behind when everyone else left and got beat up by the cops. But from stories of people on the ground, the actual push toward the Capitol happened organically.
Even if this was caused by AntiFa or other agitators, at this point I think we should own it. We don't control the narrative anyway. "Yeah we did it, next time come and join us" seems like a better message than "it wasn't us, honest!" or "they made us do it!".
As for what happens next ... I know a lot of people are prepared to take this all the way. That might happen on the 20th, or it might happen sooner. Maybe Trump is going to pull something out that stuns us all as Lin Wood is suggesting, but either way I don't think things are going to end here.