Random Politics Stuff Thread...

[Chocolate Lab]

Tons of those early voters are voting for Trump.

 

[yimyammer]

Tons of those early voters are voting for Trump.

why do you think so?

 

[Chocolate Lab]

why do you think so?

Look at the crowds he has at his rallies. And every poll shows much more enthusiasm for Trump.

Sure, lots of people hate him. But lots of people love him, too.

 

[yimyammer]

Look at the crowds he has at his rallies. And every poll shows much more enthusiasm for Trump.

Sure, lots of people hate him. But lots of people love him, too.

hope so

I don't go to the rallies and I don't trust the camera angles** we're privy to on tv to give us an accurate view of whats really going on but I will say the camera angles I've seen show FAR more people at Trumps rallies than whatever we call what Biden does

** reason I say this is I used to office with a guy who was good friends with a reporter at Fox News named Mike Tobin who came into our office all the time to hang out. I got to chat with him a lot and one of the things we talked about was how great it was to travel in the Middle East in places like Jordan, etc. And this was in the middle of the gulf wars.

I was bit surprised and he said its no-where close to what appears on TV and we discussed the example of people in the streets of Pakistan burning American Flags and how the close up shots where the crowd was stomping on the flag and yelling gave the impression it was a massive rally but if you panned back you would see people going about their day ignoring the mess and see it was only a small group of people (who usually came once they realized the cameras were around instigated by 3rd party who knew they were there) but the camera angle made it look like chaos.

 

[jsmith6919]

 

[Genghis Khan]

I think I love Barrett.

‘Legendary’: Barrett Asked To Hold Up Notes She’s Using To Answer Questions. She Holds Up A Blank Notepad. | The Daily Wire

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‘Legendary’: Barrett Asked To Hold Up Notes She’s Using To Answer Questions. She Holds Up A Blank Notepad.
"That's impressive."
By Amanda Prestigiacomo
Oct 13, 2020 DailyWire.com

Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett held up a blank notepad when Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) asked her to show the public the notes she’s been using to answer the numerous questions spat at her during day two of the confirmation hearings.

“Most of us have multiple notebooks and notes and books, things like that in front of us,” said Sen. Cornyn (video below). “Can you hold up what you’ve been referring to in answering our questions?”

Barrett held up a blank notepad.

“Is there anything on it?” asked Cornyn.

“The letterhead that says United States Senate,” the judge replied.

“That’s impressive,” said the senator.

The moment received praise online from conservatives.

Early during Tuesday’s hearing, Barrett was asked about her views on Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case that would push the legalization of abortion back to the states if overturned.

Barrett argued that expressing a view on a precedent would signal to litigants “that I might tilt one way or another in a pending case,” as noted by The Daily Wire.

“Do you agree with Justice Scalia’s view that Roe [v. Wade] was wrongly decided?” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) pressed.

“Senator, I do wanna be forthright and answer every question so far as I can. I think on that question, I’m gonna invoke Justice Elena Kagan’s description, which I think is perfectly put. When she was in her confirmation hearing, she said that she was not gonna grade precedent, give a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. … It would be wrong and a violation of the cannons for me to do that as a sitting judge.”

“If I express a view on a precedent one way or another, whether I say I love it or I hate it, it signals to litigants that I might tilt one way or another in a pending case,” reasoned Barrett.

A frustrated Feinstein pushed again, framing the question as of most importance for “half the population,” noting that it was “distressing not to get a straight answer.” However, she received the same answer from Barrett.

Asked a third time, Barrett responded, “My answer is the same … It’s a contentious issue … but I can’t express views on cases, or pre-commit to approaching a case any particular way.”

The judge was also asked during the hearing about how she felt about being referred to as a “female Scalia.”

“I would say that Justice Scalia was a mentor. As I said when I accepted the president’s nomination that his philosophy is mine, too,” she responded, according to ABC News. “He was a very eloquent defender of originalism and it was also true of textualism, which is the way that I approach statutes and their interpretation and similarly to what I just said about originalism.”

“If I’m confirmed, you would not be getting Justice Scalia, you would be getting Justice Barrett,” emphasized the judge.

 

[Cotton]

 

[jsmith6919]

 

[Genghis Khan]

I love Ted Cruz.

 

[jsmith6919]

ACB is thicc

 

[jsmith6919]

 

[Cotton]

 

[Genghis Khan]

Klobuchar is an absolute clown.

 

[yimyammer]

You will leave logic out of this "discussion" Mr. Enjeti!

 

[jsmith6919]

 

[Cotton]

Klobuchar is an absolute clown.

And, she got straight up pwned.

 

[Cotton]

Good lord.

 

[Genghis Khan]

 

[Genghis Khan]

 

[Cotton]

It's absolutely amazing to me that we have United States Congresspeople that are this fucking ignorant to the laws and constitution.