Would You Vote For A Racist?

Many people would, many people in the far-right are White Nationalist.

While the media was in a feeding frenzy over President Biden they let Trump get away with racism.

Ali: Racism and bigotry get a pass in 2024 as Trump talk that once shocked is normalized

The Los Angeles Times
By Lorraine Ali
June 28, 2024


President Biden has “become like a Palestinian.” The comment from former President Trump at Thursday’s debate in Atlanta was meant to be an insult aimed at his opponent’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.

Despite the implicit bigotry of the barb, Trump’s vilification of an entire people in the form of a crude jab barely made the news.

There is plenty of analysis coming out of the 90-minute live debate — Biden’s terrible performance, Trump’s fountain of lies — but what I find most heartbreaking is the quiet acceptance of casual racism as part of our political discourse.

The former president’s bigoted rhetoric onstage last night doesn’t even qualify as a minor talking point in today’s discussions about the CNN telecast.

But the media gave Trump a “bye” on his racist comments because they were so focused on giving it to Biden.

Omarosa slams Donald Trump's 'Black jobs' debate comments, compares remarks to 'slavery'
USA TODAY
By Jay Stahl
June 29, 2024

Omarosa Manigault Newman is criticizing former boss Donald Trump for his "Black jobs" comment at this week's debate.

Trump’s remarks arrived as he slammed President Joe Biden on the hot-button issue of immigration. The former president argued that “the millions of people he's allowed to come in through the border, they're taking Black jobs.”

But in an interview with TMZ about Trump's remarks, Newman asked, "What is a Black job? I don't know where he got that from unless he's taking it all the way back to slavery because you know the only 100% Black job in this country was back during slavery time."

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“Yes, I will acknowledge many of the exchanges, particularly in the last six months, have been racially charged,” she said. “Do we then just stop and label him as a racist? No.”'

Why has not media not been calling out Trump racists remarks?

His ardent followers all know that he uses code words for racist…

Trump criticized for 'Palestinian' insult in debate with Biden
Reuters
By Kanishka Singh
June 28, 2024

Human rights advocates on Friday condemned former President Donald Trump's references to Palestinians, and immigrants allegedly taking Black American jobs, during Thursday's debate with President Joe Biden, calling the remarks racist or insulting.

Biden and Trump had a brief exchange on the war in Gaza but did not have a substantive discussion on how to end the conflict which has killed 38,000 in the enclave, according to the Gaza health ministry, and caused a massive humanitarian crisis with widespread hunger.

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"The only one who wants the war to continue is Hamas," Biden said. Trump responded by saying Biden has "become like a Palestinian," which rights advocates said came across as a slur.

"Actually, Israel is the one (that wants to keep going), and you should let them go and let them finish the job. He (Biden) doesn’t want to do it. He's become like a Palestinian but they don't like him because he's a very bad Palestinian. He's a weak one," Trump said.

Trump has been using “code words” for racist for years, and in the past he has been called out… but not at the debate, no one called him out on his racism.

What A Can Of Worms!

The Supreme Court just created a nightmare for the courts, I foresee thousand of never ending court cases.

Supreme Court lets a truck stop sue the Federal Reserve in latest threat to agency regulations
AP News
By John Fritze, CNN
July 1, 2024

The Supreme Court on Monday revived a lawsuit by a North Dakota truck stop that is challenging the fees banks can charge for debit-card transactions in a ruling that could have deeper implications for other government regulations.

The decision was the latest from the Supreme Court this term that would make it easier for industries to challenge what conservative critics describe as the “administrative state.”

“Today’s ruling is especially significant in light of Friday’s decision overruling Chevron, because it means that even old agency rules can be challenged anew so long as they produce any contemporary harm,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.

“In other words, even understandings of agency authority that are a half-century old can now be challenged on the ground that some recent agency action, however minor, has injured a plaintiff, ” Vladeck added. “Given how much Friday’s ruling in Loper Bright destabilizes administrative law, today’s ruling applies that destabilization retroactively.”

Do you know how many federal regulations there are? There are millions. When I was working I had to know everything about 10CFR do you know how many there are? I don’t but I know that there ae volumes, and volumes of them and that is just one agency. Now each and everyone one of them can be challenged in court… not just once but over and over again.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the decision in her dissent.

“The flawed reasoning and far-reaching results of the Court’s ruling in this case are staggering,” Jackson wrote.

“The majority refuses to accept the straightforward, commonsense, and singularly plausible reading of the limitations statute that Congress wrote. In doing so, the Court wreaks havoc on Government agencies, businesses, and society at large,” she added. “At the end of a momentous Term, this much is clear: The tsunami of lawsuits against agencies that the Court’s holdings in this case and Loper Bright have authorized has the potential to devastate the functioning of the Federal Government.”

Congress passed off the development of regulations to agencies because they knew that Congress will bogged down passing laws on what type of paint can be used. For each new type of paint that is developed Congress will have to vote on it.

And all this leads to the Republican goal of doing away with regulatory agencies.

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In another Supreme Court case is now seeing results, in the case of presidential immunity.

Trump asks for hush money conviction to be overturned

BBC News

By Jaroslav Lukiv, 

July 2, 2024

Donald Trump's lawyers have asked for the former US president's conviction in his hush money criminal case to be set aside and his sentencing this month delayed, American media report.

A letter sent by Trump's lawyers to the New York judge presiding over the trial reportedly cites Monday's Supreme Court ruling that granted the former president immunity from prosecution for official actions he took while in office.

In May, Trump was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records. He will be sentenced on 11 July.

He signed off the records during his White House tenure in 2017, which his lawyers say should be taken into account.

Last year lawyers similarly argued that the allegations in the case involved official acts within the colour of his presidential duties.

Gee, I never knew paying off a stripper was part of the president's duties?

However, a federal judge wrote that Trump had failed to show that his conduct was "for or relating to any act performed by or for the President under [colour] of the official acts of a president".

Trump throws legal sh*t and sees what sticks.

Trump's lawyers sent the letter to New York Judge Juan Merchan on Monday, US media report.

The lawyers argue that the Supreme Court’s latest decision confirmed the defence position in the New York case that some prosecution evidence should not have been allowed because this constituted official presidential acts.

Call me dense but I just don't see how fudging the corporate books comes under the job description of a president.

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Update: 4:00 PM

It has already started...

Trump sentencing in hush money case is postponed until September after Supreme Court immunity ruling

CNN

By Paula Reid, Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell and Jeremy Herb

July 2, 2024

Donald Trump will not be sentenced on his business fraud conviction until September, a New York judge ruled Tuesday in the wake of Monday’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity.

The delay in sentencing means that the former president is likely to escape any concrete punishment for his felony conviction during the summer, at the same time that Trump’s election bid has been boosted by President Joe Biden’s debate flop that has Democrats wondering whether to replace their nominee.

[...]

The announcement underscores the far-reaching implications of Monday’s Supreme Court ruling, in which the court’s conservative wing found that presidents have absolute immunity for “core” presidential duties.

It also throws other cases into doubt.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday agreed the sentencing should be delayed.

“Although we believe defendant’s arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave to file and his putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion. We respectfully request a deadline of July 24, 2024—two weeks after defendant’s requested deadline—to file and serve a response,” the DA said in a letter Tuesday.

The former president’s lawyers argued that the ruling confirmed their position that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should not have been allowed to offer evidence at the trial regarding Trump’s “official acts” and, as a result, the jury’s guilty verdict should be set aside.

So he is saying that because they used tainted evidence the case should be thrown out. I don't buy that that the very least there should be a new trial. However, I don't think they need a new trial after all this case was about fudging the books, not what he did as president.  

More Bad News From The Republicans… They Are Trying To Pass Another Anti-Trans Law

This time the Ohio legislature has passed another draconian law.

“Absurd and unnecessary,” Transgender Ohioans, allies react to House passage of bathroom ban bill
The bill would require Ohio K-12 schools and colleges to mandate that students would only be able to use the bathroom or locker room that matches up with their gender assigned at birth.
Ohio Capitol Journal
By: Megan Henry
June 28, 2024

Transgender Ohioans and allies are outraged the Ohio House passed a bathroom ban bill at the 11th hour of a marathon session Wednesday night before going on summer break.

The bill would require Ohio K-12 schools and universities to mandate that students only be able to use the bathroom or locker room that matches their gender assigned at birth.

“Hate mongers in Columbus want to see trans and gender nonconforming Ohioans stripped of their right to exist in public spaces. They can make our lives harder, but they can’t make us not a part of this state,” TransOhio Executive Director Dara Adkison said in a statement.

Sam Shim, the parent of two transgender high school students, said his biggest concern with the bathroom ban bill is how lawmakers don’t seem to be focused on students.

“It seems like it’s a political stunt designed to help with their messaging when they go back out on the campaign trail,” Shim said. “My kids should be able to go to the bathroom without worrying about being accosted.”

Let see, what little thing did the legislature overlook? Oh I know a Supreme Court case… a minor little detail.

Honesty for Ohio Education said this bill would harm transgender students and families.

“We are deeply disturbed that extremists in the state legislature prioritized the passing of this transphobic and hateful legislation over anything that would help Ohioans,” Christina Collins, Executive Director at Honesty For Ohio Education, said in a statement.

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“We have school districts that can’t afford busses or find teachers, colleges that are losing students and closing their doors, and over 505,000 Ohio children going hungry every day,” Trans Allies of Ohio said in a statement. “But attacking less than 1% of the population has become a priority.”

Ah yes, that is their goal, get everyone riled up over us while stacking the courts with far-right Christian judges and converting us to a Christian Nation!

I’ll vote for the man with Integrity, Honor, & Character

They Are Getting Bolder!

They accost you in the checkout line, they accost you in elevators, they accost you while you cross the road, they accost you when you least expect it, and they accost you in the hotel lobby…

Drag queen speaks out after anti-drag tirade at Hawaii hotel caught on video
"This is misogyny," a hotel guest can be heard saying in the video.
ABC News
By Kiara Alfonseca
June 29, 2024

Drag queen Marina Del Rey is speaking out after a video went viral of a woman yelling at her and other drag performers in a hotel lobby during Pride month.

"'It went from a point of view to an attack," said Del Rey in an interview with ABC News.

Del Rey said several drag queens were taking part in a promotional video for the ‘Alohilani Resort Waikiki Beach on June 23. They were dressed up as staff members, acting out different roles in the hotels' operations when Del Rey said a woman approached them.

Del Rey said the woman began recording them and yelling that she was against drag and that she did not want her children to see them. Del Rey was shaken by the incident.

"This is misogyny," she can be heard saying in the video, which was reviewed by ABC News. "I am not going to have my children come down from the 30th floor and see what's happening here."

From what I read everyone was just walking through the lobby when this lady has puppies. Totally freaks out, then she says…

She questioned what would happen if her son saw the drag queens and thought "that he can put on makeup and put on fancy clothing and high heels." She continued to make claims about the drag queens that have been criticized as offensive.

Whoa! I know what my reply would have been to "that he can put on makeup and put on fancy clothing and high heels." I would have said… “Go for it!”

She instead claims that the drag queens were harassing her because of the way they were dressed.

"I did not think drag queens should be in a space that's being used by children at the hotel lobby," said Bourne, who is also chair of the Yolo County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a conservative political organization. She said she was not speaking on behalf of the organization at the time. "I was a paying customer, and I didn't believe that we should have this. To me, it's an adult entertainment that's very sexual."

Lady, I am sorry you feel that way, but they are fully clothed, what happens when you take your son to the beach with all the "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" out there on the beach, do you put blinders on him?

"If you see something that doesn't seem right and isn't safe, you should say something," she told ABC News.

However, one, it is safe no one was getting hurt, there was no nudity, there was no obscene language so lady what wasn’t right? The only thing not right that I see in the video is a woman screaming and yelling at a person who was just minding their own business. Just because you don’t like something you do go and harass people. I don’t like opera, does that give me a right to go an accost people?

Also consider…

Del Rey said it was unusual to be confronted over drag in an "aggressive" manner because of the deep-rooted "mahu" community -- a term encapsulating the gender and queer spectrum, but originally refers to the third gender in Polynesian culture.

So once again an indigenous people's culture come under attack from the Judeo-Christian cultrue is trying to force it on the native population.

 “The video was upsetting, no question. I am proud of the performers from Hawai‘i’s LGBTQIA+ community who maintained their dignity and integrity in the face of such a hostile attack,” said Green in a statement. “This type of behavior is unacceptable. It is not aloha and we will not tolerate it from anyone."

I have been to many drag performances including the coronation of the Empresses and Emperor, I never saw anything that was obscene or vulgar or any nudity. All they did was lip-sync to songs or do improv. For me it i just not my cup of tea... Now the Gay Men's Choir I liked, the gave a good show the time I saw them.

 

He gave an excellent interview...

 

In another interview on Hawaii News Now reported,

Bourne is back home in California and makes no apologies for her actions. “My feeling about the drag performers were not that the hotel was hosting them or filming them, but they were choosing to do it in a space that was being used by families, children, in a space that you wouldn’t be able to avoid,” said Bourne.

So she thinks we only belong in closets or some sleazy bar! Well lady we have our rights also!

The Constitution… What’s That? Part II

Since I wrote part I more articles have come out and this one shows that Louisianan is very vulnerable.

Ten Commandments. Multiple variations. Why the Louisiana law raises preferential treatment concerns
AP News
By  HOLLY MEYER and PETER SMITH
June 29, 2024

Christians and Jews believe in the Ten Commandments — just not necessarily the version that will hang in every public school and state-funded college classroom in Louisiana.

The required text prescribed in the new law and used on many monuments around the United States is a condensed version of the Scripture passage in Exodus containing the commandments. It has ties to “The Ten Commandments” movie from 1956, and it’s a variation of a version commonly associated with Protestants.

That’s one of the issues related to religious freedom and separation of church and state being raised over this mandate, which was swiftly followed by a lawsuit.

“H.B. 71 is not neutral with respect to religion,” according to the legal complaint filed June 24 by Louisiana clergy, public school parents and civil liberties groups. “It requires a specific, state-approved version of that scripture to be posted, taking sides on theological questions regarding the correct content and meaning of the Decalogue.”

Now the First Amendment says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” besides in itself violating the First Amendment, it actually established a Christian religion and that of specific religion sect. You see the Republicans made a big, big error in not just requiring the Ten Commandments but the includes the version that they have to use.

Louisiana Just Put The Ten Commandments In Every Classroom. Here’s The Other Danger With That Law
I look at K-12 policies and practices from the classroom perspective.
Forbes
By Peter Greene
June 29, 2024

Louisiana just passed a law to require classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, and critics have already raised the alarm about the violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. Civil Liberties groups are already challenging the law.

Many critics have pointed out the irony of a legislature that has worked hard to end indoctrination in classroom seems intent on installing some indoctrination of their own.

But there’s another troubling layer to this that highlights the danger of eliminating the wall between church and state.

When you mix religion and politics, the old saw goes, you get politics.

You see...

The Old Testament provides three distinct versions of the commandments. But the law lays out exactly what version of the Ten Commandments is to appear in each classroom.

And by requiring a specific version of the Ten Commandments they chose a specific religion (As if requiring the Ten Commandments wasn’t bad enough.). It is "Déjà vu all over again!"

If you’re thinking that this was already settled, it was. The Supreme Court struck down a similar law in Kentucky in 1980. But this time, proponents may expect a different result, citing a new set of precedents in the law itself.

The Supreme Court has changed since 1980, but so have many of the players in these issues. In addition to the lawsuits, expect other religious groups to insist their own scripture be represented. Expect the Satanic Temple to demand a piece of the action.

And that is what they are actually hoping for, the Supreme Court to overturn 40 years of precedents.

 

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Update 11:15AM

 

BREAKING NEWS...

Supreme Court says presidents have ‘absolute’ immunity for clearly official acts but no immunity for unofficial acts

Washington Post

 The Supreme Court says presidents have “absolute” immunity for clearly official acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts. Former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump faces four federal felony counts in D.C. for allegedly trying to undo Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. The high court’s 6-3 ruling sends the case back to the lower court to determine when and whether Trump will go to trial. 

From what I read this verdict was expected.

Fox News take on this...

Trump immunity case: Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have substantial protection from prosecution
The issue before the Supreme Court stemmed from Special Counsel Jack Smith's election interference case against former President Trump

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in Trump v. United States that a former president has substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts committed while in office, but not for unofficial acts.

In a 6-3 decision, the Court sent the matter back down to a lower court, as the justices did not apply the ruling to whether or not former President Trump is immune from prosecution regarding actions related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

"The President enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does is official," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority.

"The President is not above the law. But Congress may not criminalize the President’s conduct in carrying out the responsibilities of the Executive Branch under the Constitution. And the system of separated powers designed by the Framers has always demanded an energetic, independent Executive," he said.

President Biden responds as reported in the Guardian...

The Biden campaign has responded to the supreme court’s ruling related to the presidential immunity.

In a statement, a senior Biden campaign adviser said:

Today’s ruling doesn’t change the facts, so let’s be very clear about what happened on January 6: Donald Trump snapped after he lost the 2020 election and encouraged a mob to overthrow the results of a free and fair election. Trump is already running for president as a convicted felon for the very same reason he sat idly by while the mob violently attacked the Capitol: he thinks he’s above the law and is willing to do anything to gain and hold onto power for himself.

Since January 6, Trump has only grown more unhinged. He’s promising to be a dictator ‘on day one,’ calling for our Constitution to be ‘terminated’ so he can regain power, and promising a “bloodbath” if he loses. The American people already rejected Donald Trump’s self-obsessed quest for power once – Joe Biden will make sure they reject it for good in November.