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lemonlime

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  1. To be clear, I'm way out on the ledge, and I'm all but certain the turtle's going to shove through a nominee in October. But any thoughts on Kelly and the lame duck session? It's technically a special election, and he could be seated in November. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/us/elections/the-winner-of-the-arizona-senate-race-could-be-seated-in-time-for-a-vote-on-a-supreme-court-pick.html
  2. I don't even know what this means. And really don't want an explanation. It's not that "abortion patients" are of any sort of political party. It's that the government should stay the fuck out of our bodies, regardless of whether I have personally had an abortion. And if I, or my nieces, or my sisters, get raped or have a problem pregnancy or get pregnant by someone abusive, we have options.
  3. The ACA. Voting rights. Trump's current election lawsuits. DACA. The Muslim ban. Kiddy concentration camps. The Fourth Amendment.
  4. One more justice keeps the GOP majority. The GOP pulls its election lawsuit bullshit, including the frivolous suits trump has already filed, and they're heard by a 6-3 court, including such ethical, honest luminaries as Thomas, Kavanaugh, Alito, and Judge Jeannine Pirro.
  5. Fuck 5780.
  6. Yeah, and Biden's from PA. He'll get some of the Scranton vote that went for trump. That said, the issue is only whether Biden's margin of victory is large enough to overcome trump's margin of cheating.
  7. Fucking hell. So they're either lying. Or there's about to be a vaccine in which Mark Meadows is closer to the process than the Director of the CDC and for which there's not a snowball's chance in hell I'm taking for another year after the trumpkins serve as guinea pigs.
  8. I thought I saw somewhere that there were around 60k additional deaths this year in addition to those we know died from Covid
  9. I thought I saw somewhere that there were around 60k additional deaths this year in addition to those we know died from Covid
  10. Yeah, because Mr. "the suburbs are being invaded" and RIOTS!!!!!! is concerned about panic. From masks.
  11. Oh, and the USPS, sent out this mailer in NJ which contains false information about voting in NJ this fall.
  12. Agreed absentee ballots are a way to vote by mail. But trump is trying to make a hash of the NJ election. In the past, the only way to vote by mail was to request an absentee ballot. The vast majority of voters in NJ voted in person. This year, for the first time, NJ is mailing ballots to all registered voters, and if you show up in person, you can only vote by provisional ballot. There is already a lot of concern and confusion about how this will work, compounded by the USPS problems. And now trump has filed this nonsense suit, with ballots about to be mailed out.
  13. Other than absentee ballots, no, NJ has not had vote by mail. But this year because of Covid the governor ordered that a ballot be mailed to all registered voters and that if you show up to vote in person, you will get a provisional ballot. But trump is clearly just trying to confuse issues and make voting a mess in NJ. He filed the suit in the ordinary course, rather than as an emergent matter, making timing issues with the election 50 days away and ballots about to be mailed out, even worse.
  14. I doubt it. But I don't think there've been any polls in DE. Maybe this went better in the Republican Party thread, because WTF.
  15. But the dems are the extremists.
  16. Yeah, except their actual hope is to make people who have done worse suffer, to feel better about themselves. See how they cheer on immigrant detention, child separation, the Muslim ban, killing protestors, etc. While tax breaks are going to billionaires.
  17. Well, considering the sky on the east coast without a cloud in it, is a hazy mess, due to smoke from the west coast, but he apparently think that's caused by a failure to rake, who the fuck knows.
  18. Regardless, I guarantee you that there is lots of abuse of immigrants in these facilities. This is, hopefully, and if true, the most egregious of the abuses. But given the utter lack of oversight and the vulnerable population with little access to attorneys and with no family to intervene, the trump administration has set the stage for abuse after abuse.
  19. It’s not that I think there’s a conspiracy like Mengele. But I see the shit a few doctors can get away with for some period of time at reputable hospitals. I shudder to think what a bad actor could do treating immigrant detainee women who don’t speak English, whose families aren’t in the picture, with the dregs of the medical and nursing professions treating, with little to no oversight, and whose patients are being “protected” by a prison guard workforce of incompetents who think brown people are vermin.
  20. Yeah, and I’m sure the (few) psycho doctors are for more likely to be treating women at a detention facility than at, say, Johns Hopkins. Both because they know there’s greater opportunities for abuse at a detention facility and because they may not have been able to hack it at more reputable places.
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