They would without a second thought if they were confident of winning. But a Trump DOJ might actually do something about it.
I believe that according to campaign financing laws, at least some of that money, based on how it was raised, can only be spent if Kamala's name remains on the ticket. Whoever does end up being nominated may have to keep her as VP.
The Dems will never nominate RFK, especially on the basis of Biden getting sick with Covid. Kennedy's very presence would undermine the Covid narrative that the majority of the party still cling to for legitimacy, destroy the potential to use it as a basis for future totalitarian expansion and alienate huge swathes of the civil service and the donor class.
I don't agree that shouting out different sports teams while singing the national anthem constitutes different traditions, or that it undermines that tradition's integrity. I think it strengthens it, because it highlights the basis of the sense of nationhood that the anthem provides.
People who get hung up on minutiae like that will be the first to demand everyone fall in line behind the sending US troops to Ukraine or Israel, or sign up to be the neighborhood snitch next time there's a lockdown.
Shouting out your sports team or your community or even your Scout troop's name when you're singing the national anthem is the sign of a healthy nation made up of robust communities. It's a signal that you understand what your sense of nationalism is built on. Insisting that the symbolism of the anthem itself needs to be rigidly separated from those things is not a sign of virtue. It's a display of weakness, because it means you think the symbol is just a symbol, supported by nothing of value. It's an empty virtue signal, an appeal to authority, and it betrays a deep insecurity.
Strangely enough, after insisting that she wouldn't be attending, Nicky Haley suddenly changed her mind a few days before the convention and announced she was going.
I wonder what she thought would be different.
Wow. For once he didn't take a year to gauge the way the wind is blowing and realign his views accordingly.
Zelensky was put into power by the CIA.
As usual, you have a point. But it's not Ukrainian women who voted for this war: it's American women and British women and French women. They would probably jump for joy if all the Ukrainian women who've fled to their countries and are currently competing for their male breadwinners were all deported back home to get slaughtered.
Drafting women will not result in fewer men getting killed.
Musk and Thiel are doing so, yes. The increasing faction in the establishment who are moving away from the previous narrative and quietly backing Trump are doing so as a means of appeasement. They are increasingly resigned to the fact that the post-national, WEF world they wanted to build is not going to happen, and so they're trying to cling onto their positions of influence by realigning with the side they think is going to supplant that ideology. It's very cynical, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing if it means things improve for ordinary people.
Woke was a vector of attack that failed, and it's become so toxic that all of the corporate and globalist forces that were previously pushing it are now toning it down or abandoning it. The diehard believers who've made it their identity will never abandon it, but they will also never again have the power that they had at its peak. The left is about power. Woke was a means of gaining and holding power, but now it can't be used for that so they've moved on.
Right-wing spaces now are obsessing about woke much more than the establishment left is. The mainstream left-wing political parties, the left-wing media, the corporates: they're having completely different conversations now to the ones that reactionary Twitter accounts are telling you they're having. Just look at the recent non-event that was Pride month now that all of the big corporations have suddenly decided to tone down their virtue-signalling.
I certainly don't want the Peter Thiel ancap future either, but a civil war between the elites is the best thing for the rest of us, because it's the only opportunity we'll get to claim a bigger slice of the pie for ourselves.
Putting the woke away doesn't mean the nightmare is ending. We're just moving on to the next chapter.
The elite is not a monolith, especially not now when we're undergoing a paradigm shift. Societal change only ever occurs through a revolution of the elites, not a popular revolution. Trump, Musk, Thiel and others like them represent the faction of the elite who oppose the WEF neoliberal establishment, and the amount of support their ideas now have means more and more of the old guard are realizing that they can't put the genie back in the bottle.
Once again, this is normal female behavior. Women's default assumption is that they are entitled to men's resources, especially if that man is a father or husband/ex husband. It's not cultural: it's biological. When the money runs out, they rush back to the magic money tree. It's the age-old saying about family finances: her money is her money, but his money is their money, and that doesn't stop being true when she kicks him out of the house.
Even before these events, there was more and more evidence that the establishment actually wants Trump this time around. Not because he's "their guy," necessarily, but because the Musk/Thiel side of the elite have been gaining traction arguing that there has to be some appeasement to populism before ordinary people's resentment boils over.
I'm no fan of Hollywood, but this isn't Hollywood's fault. Women are just like this.
They have in fact killed the metal.
No it's just a supposedly "based" come-from-nowhere who's married to an Indian and was previously a never-Trump Hillary supporter until his sudden change of heart.
They could try again in a different jurisdiction, but even replacing Smith would take weeks at least, because they would need to come up with a different procedure to nominate a new Special Prosecutor that they could try to argue is constitutional.
The whole thing could take months, and they would he even more insane ro reindict in October. The documents case is done.
It won't matter. They would be insane to refile, and they would need to replace Jack Smith before they even considered it.
Misquotes can go to defamation, and he is obviously a public figure so that hurdle is already moot, but that's different from incitement.
Court precedents have set the bar for incitement very high. There has to be evidence of a forseeable possibility that someone might actually act on your words. Even just saying "I wish someone would shoot that guy" is probably protected speech if there's no way you can forsee that somebody will actually act on your statement.
I'm getting sick of this shit.
If someone had tried to shoot a left-wing leader, do you think the left would be tying itself up in knots with increasingly complex and unlikely theories, examining every image, every video and every bit of evidence with microscopic detail, endlessly muddying the waters and constantly trying to one-up each other with just how next-level their (((noticing))) is, in a desperate, self-aggrandizing effort to prove they're the smartest retard on the internet?
Of course not, because the left knows how to claim a victory when one is handed to them.
We have the perfect narrative to run with here. A kid who's been saturated since the age of 12 with anti-Trump, anti-conservative, anti-MAGA propaganda tried to kill the legitimate President of the United States and the entire media and political establishment is complicit. We should be hammering these points home with crystal clarity to anyone who will listen. Especially here, on a forum that emerged from a movement whose core mission was exposing the corruption, dishonesty, hyperbole, slander and divisiveness of the establishment media, there is no reason to be bending over backwards in order to undermine that narrative.
Stop trying to confuse the issue. You're not smarter than everyone else. You have nothing to prove here beyond your ability to cut the legs out from under your own side just as our moral victory becomes so unassailable that even the mainstream media is falling in line behind our talking points.
Everyone engaging in this stupid behavior is handing a weapon to the enemy. Cut it out.