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The current (i.e. 100+ year) system has been forever broken by the Republicans. Just look at the event today at the White House. Assuming what’s good for the goose is good for the Democrats, why not codify sweeping changes to our democracy? They are not only past due, they are good for the vast majority of citizens.

 

Democrats don’t owe an explanation for it. Just like McConnell doesn’t owe an explanation for Garland. He did it because he could, not because it was right or wrong. And he did it because it was legal. Court packing is not unconstitutional. So stop bitching about it.

 

That's only half the amount of time he was expected to speak, per Acosta. A tell??

 

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His flunky physician put out an "All is well" statement tonight that said he's free and clear of the Virus That Doesn't Exist and is not a threat to spread to anybody else. But who knows? He appears to be committed to a klan meeting in an airport hangar in Sanford, Fla., tomorrow or Monday. Anybody who attends thereby forfeits the right to complain if they get sick. But I'm sure they'll blame China and Pelosi and Sleepy Joe.

 

Colbert had a great show Friday night for West Wing fans. Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford and Aaron Sorkin talking about a presentation next week on HBO Max. You can probably find it on streaming or other services, but the open his excellent.

 

All that “political balance” you referred to was blatant institutionalized racism. Nothing more. Nothing less.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were both invalidated by the failure of the slave states’ half-assed insurrection. Southern states’ refusal to admit Hawaii was nothing more than racist intransigence in the face of the inevitable end of Jim Crow because they were afraid Hawaii’s members of Congress would vote to force them in favor of civil rights legislation to end Jim Crow. Some of those racists were terrified of admitting a state with so many Asian Americans in the local governmental institutions. Hell, those Southern jackasses even claimed that Hawaii’s voting to send a Democrat rather than a Republican to Congress as its non-voting territorial delegate was proof that Communists had taken control of Hawaii. (SOCIL1SM! rEd sCArE!)

The Alaska Statehood Act was passed months before the Hawaii Statehood Act … and again, proponents had to battle past backwards Southern jackasses who were afraid that Alaska’s members of Congress would vote to make them end Jim Crow and treat Black people as equal people under the law. The Southerners were trying to tie Alaska and Hawaii statehood into one bundle for one reason and one reason alone: they thought that would’ve made it easier to scuttle them. Nobody else wanted to do that.

Really, we’d all have been better off in the long run if somebody had dragged those Southern jackasses outside and stood ‘em up in front of a firing squad.

 

Traitors, one and all. The South should have been purified by fire.

 

Candace Owens' BLEXIT group pays for some attendees' travel to Trump's White House event

 

The best people.

 

Pritzker dumps official who pushed for Trump to get $1 million refund on Chicago tower’s taxes

 

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
Another one gone
And another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey! I’m gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust!

In his 138-page ruling, the judge — a Trump appointee — also noted that the Trump campaign had offered no hard evidence that voter fraud would actually occur. Instead, Ranjan wrote, the campaign had simply provided a series of "speculative" assumptions: They assume that "potential fraudsters" might try to fill drop boxes with forged ballots, and that the election security measures in place won't work to prevent that fraud.

"All of these assumptions could end up being true and these events could theoretically happen," Ranjan wrote. "But so could many things." Speculation, Ranjan concluded, isn't enough to let the plaintiffs bring their case.​

Judge Blocks Trump Campaign Attempt To Limit Use Of Drop Boxes In Pennsylvania