America is coming back, and America is coming back strong

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[BrianTCB]

The former LIAR-in-Chief now Convicted Felon......

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Convicted felon, liar, scammer, con man, rapist, racist, Hitler.....take your pick. Or choose them all.

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[drjohncarpenter]

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jeffrey-epstein-plane-travel-1235078649/

[BrianTCB]

The convicted felon is a pinnacle of innocence. Sure.

Donald Trump Says He Will Go to Venezuela if He Loses Election

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-flee-venezuela-loses-election-elon-musk-interview-1938321

During his interview with billionaire donor Elon Musk, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said they could "meet next time in Venezuela" if he loses November's election.

"If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, we'll meet the next time in Venezuela, because it'll be a far safer place to meet than our country," Trump said to Musk. "OK, so we'll go. You and I will go, and we'll have a meeting and dinner in Venezuela."

Trump had alleged that Venezuela has released violent criminals from its jails and sent them to the United States to reduce its own crime rate.

Trump has repeatedly made the unsubstantiated claim about Venezuela releasing its prisoners to the United States.

"I'll tell you what. Venezuela has not gotten rid of all of them. They've gotten rid of about 70 percent of their really bad people," he told Musk.

Roberto Briceño-León, the founder and director of the OVV (the acronym for Venezuelan Observatory of Violence in Spanish), told factcheck.org that there is no evidence that Venezuela is sending criminals to the U.S.

"We have no evidence that the Venezuelan government is emptying the prisons or mental hospitals to send them out of the country, whether to the USA or any other country," Briceño-León said.

Rather, he said, the drop in the crime figures for the country is the result a massive out-migration of nearly 8 million people since 2014 caused by worsening economic and living conditions.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has led an authoritarian government and has been charged with narco-terrorism and corruption by the United States Department of Justice.

In July, Maduro was abruptly declared the winner of the country's election in what has widely been viewed as a rigged vote.

In 2022, it was reported that Vladimir Putin and his top leadership were developing a backup plan to flee to Venezuela if Russia were defeated in Ukraine.

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[Rob]

I'll stick with two regular George Washington bills.

Thank you, though.

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[elvinda58]

Anyone seen the videos of the Taliban parading their billions of dollars of military hardware that the US left behind three years ago including helicopters and missiles that the current administration claimed to have been disabled and unusable. Absolutely disgraceful and a day of shame that should never be allowed to be forgotten.

[BrianTCB]

Anyone seen the videos of the Taliban parading their billions of dollars of military hardware that the US left behind three years ago including helicopters and missiles that the current administration claimed to have been disabled and unusable. Absolutely disgraceful and a day of shame that should never be allowed to be forgotten.

Sorry I don't do right wing propaganda. But, in terms of what actually happened:

Anyone seen how Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David on U.S. SOIL and made deals to release hundreds of Taliban prisoners during his administration? Now THAT is what should NEVER happen again.

And you can prevent that from happening by voting BLUE. It's okay to be republican and vote for Kamala Harris if you don't want a senile 80 year old convicted felon in office (Trump a.k.a. Hitler).

[elvinda58]

Sky News is hardly right wing propaganda now is it. Don't try and deflect as this humiliating and shameful retreat was instructed by the current Administration and resulted in 13 soldiers losing their lives.

[BrianTCB]

Sky News is hardly right wing propaganda now is it. Don't try and deflect as this humiliating and shameful retreat was instructed by the current Administration and resulted in 13 soldiers losing their lives.

Oooooohhhhhhh. 13 soldiers lost their lives so let's attack our amazing President Biden over it. Guess what? 188,000 more were saved. Nobody is minimizing loss of life here but let's get real on the propaganda - every piece you have included thus far IS right wing bullsh*t propaganda, buddy.

We should have never been there in the first place and the Biden administration did the RIGHT THING. Not that you war mongers have anything to say about it, but war mongers gonna monger.

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LOL.

[elvinda58]

They're showing the parade on that well known right wing news outlet CNN!

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[Mike C]

Truer words have never been spoken. Price controls will lead to shortages, black markets and higher inflation. See Venezuela where eventually toilet paper became scarce.

Escalating prices of food is a symptom of inflation -- not the cause of it. It is an admission that the economic policy of Biden-Harris is a train wreck. And, inflation has only been exacerbated by the Biden-Harris energy policy which raised the cost of oil and gas for all. Oil and gas touches every single food item since you need to transport it to stores. The Biden-Harris inflation is stealth tax on all Americans which hits the poor and middle class the hardest.

[Mike C]

Loved Waylon as the Balladeer!

[BrianTCB]

Think this is gonna be an easy battle, ref*cklicans? Think again.



Harris Campaign's Legal Team Now 10 Times the Size of Biden's in 2020

Harris Campaign’s Legal Team Takes Shape as Election Battles Heat Up

The campaign is adding Marc Elias, one of the party’s top election lawyers, to help Democrats counter what they expect to be a contentious postelection period.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/us/elections/democrats-election-legal-challenges.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Amid threats of certification battles and mass voter challenges, Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has assembled an expansive senior legal team that will oversee hundreds of lawyers and thousands of volunteers in a sprawling operation designed to be a bulwark against what Democrats expect to be an aggressive Republican effort to challenge voters, rules and, possibly, the results of the 2024 election.

The legal apparatus within the Harris campaign will oversee multiple aspects of the election program, including voter protection, recounts and general election litigation, and it is adding Marc Elias, one of the party’s top election lawyers, to focus on potential recounts.

The legal group is headed by Bob Bauer, who served as personal counsel to President Biden for years, and Dana Remus, the general counsel to the 2020 Biden campaign, and also includes Maury Riggan, the general counsel for the Harris campaign. Josh Hsu, formerly from the vice president’s office, will join the team, and Vanita Gupta, a former director of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and a top Biden Justice Department official, is an informal adviser.

The campaign will also lean on the top lawyers at three prominent law firms — Seth Waxman, Donald Verrilli and John Devaney — to handle litigation, and deploy local counsel to eight battleground states and four other states of interest.

Mr. Elias, who has had tensions with Mr. Bauer and other Democratic lawyers in the past, will also bring lawyers from his growing firm, Elias Law Group. He has also previously worked for Ms. Harris, serving as general counsel for her primary campaign in 2020.

Ms. Remus said in a statement that the legal team had been working “uninterrupted over the last four years, building strategic plans in key states, adding more talent and capacity, and preparing for all possible scenarios.”

“This year, like in 2020, we have the nation’s finest lawyers at the table, ready to work together tirelessly to ensure our election will be free, fair and secure — and to ensure that all eligible voters will be able to cast their ballots, knowing their votes will be counted,” Ms. Remus said.

The origins of the effort date back to July 2020, when Walter Dellinger, a former acting solicitor general, called top officials on Mr. Biden’s legal team saying they needed to create “something we’ve never created before,” because the Trump campaign and its allies were beginning to bring cases and lay the groundwork for litigation.

With the lessons of 2020 still fresh in Democrats’ minds, Harris advisers claim that the legal team is about 10 times the size of the 2020 operation.

The expansive new Democratic legal team, and the opposing group at the Republican National Committee, is a reflection of the legal arms race that is the new reality of American elections since Mr. Trump’s election victory in 2016. The battle over whose votes count — not just how many votes are counted — has become central to modern presidential campaigns.

For months, the Trump campaign and the R.N.C. have signaled a first-of-its-kind approach to what it calls “election integrity,” announcing a plan in April to dispatch more than 100,000 volunteers and lawyers to monitor and potentially challenge the electoral process in each of the battleground states. Already, the pre-election period has been the most litigious in modern history, with dozens of lawsuits filed by Republicans and their allies alone in 25 states.

A spokeswoman for the R.N.C. did not respond to requests for comment.

Democrats have been highlighting recent wins in many of the court battles as part of their effort to get ahead of voting issues. In Nevada, a judge dismissed a lawsuit in July filed by Republicans challenging a state law that allows ballots arriving up to four days after Election Day to be counted. In Mississippi, a judge rejected a similar challenge from Republicans that ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive five days later should not be counted.

And in June, a federal judge rejected an argument from Republicans that voter rolls in Nevada had significant inconsistencies, finding that the R.N.C. and the voter who filed the lawsuit did not have legal standing.

Core to the Democratic legal effort is the party’s voter protection program, which operates as both a traditional assistance program to voters as well as the eyes and ears of the legal team to help counter any false claims of fraud or malfeasance.

Helmed by Meredith Horton, the program is focused on eight battleground states (Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina and New Hampshire) as well as four states of interest (Florida, Virginia, Minnesota and Maine). The program has more than 100 staff members across those 12 states, they said, buttressed by hundreds more volunteers and thousands of poll monitors recruited by the party.

“This program is one that we are building to meet this moment,” Ms. Horton said in an interview, calling it the largest of its kind in Democratic presidential campaign history.

For now, the voter program is focused on both education and protection. In Georgia, that translates to heavy involvement in pushing back on mass challenges to voter eligibility from right-wing groups. The team looks at lists of challenged voters and helps them assemble the necessary documents to prove eligibility, and works with the local officials making decisions on the challenges to understand the law.

In Arizona, the group is investing heavily in voter education about the two-page ballot that will appear this cycle, making sure that voters are aware of all the races and do not miss the second page.

And in Wisconsin, Ms. Horton’s team is looking to leverage a recent state supreme court decision to allow drop boxes in the upcoming election, working to let voters know about the change and encouraging to local officials to deploy them in populous areas.

After Election Day, the task changes. Staff members and volunteers will work on absentee ballot chase-and-cure programs, assisting voters whose ballots were rejected but could still be fixed in time to count. They will also look out for evidence to help rebut any claims that seek to challenge certification in a state.

“We are more prepared as a campaign than we’ve ever been in the past cycles,” Ms. Horton said.

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Who's responsible for the Border? Not Biden. Not Kamala. TRUMP. The ref*cklicans who screwed us all over so they can do whatever it is they think doing that is gonna do.