The 2024 Elections in the US, mostly for the POTUS

[GaryDenton]

Republicans blast Trump ignorance.

Former Donald Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin slammed her ex-boss after he "urged House Republicans to reject a reauthorization of the law, known as FISA, ahead of the key procedural vote on Wednesday" according to CNN.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) enables "warrantless surveillance of non-Americans by U.S. intelligence agencies," and Trump encouraged his party to "kill" the legislation — resulting in a chaotic and unproductive for the GOP leaders.

She tweeted:

Trump:

-doesn’t understand FISA

-doesn’t understand Signals intelligence gathering

-doesn’t even understand that the Carter Page order wasn’t sought under Section 702

His ignorance & personal grievance is going to cripple our national security

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https://www.alternet.org/trump-fisa/
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[jusplay4fun]

Damn it Biden!

You should be burning bridges down, not building them![/color][/size][/b]

Again, p-rat MISSED the point. Do I need to explain EVERYTHING to him???

[GaryDenton]

Republicans blast Trump ignorance.

Former Donald Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin slammed her ex-boss after he "urged House Republicans to reject a reauthorization of the law, known as FISA, ahead of the key procedural vote on Wednesday" according to CNN.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) enables "warrantless surveillance of non-Americans by U.S. intelligence agencies," and Trump encouraged his party to "kill" the legislation — resulting in a chaotic and unproductive for the GOP leaders.

She tweeted:

Trump:

-doesn’t understand FISA

-doesn’t understand Signals intelligence gathering

-doesn’t even understand that the Carter Page order wasn’t sought under Section 702

His ignorance & personal grievance is going to cripple our national security

.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-fisa/
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[saxitoxin]

Former Donald Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin slammed her ex-boss after he "urged House Republicans to reject a reauthorization of the law, known as FISA, ahead of the key procedural vote on Wednesday" according to CNN.

https://www.alternet.org/trump-fisa/

174 Democrats (82% of the entire Democratic caucus) also voted against FISA reauthorization

when you only read clickbait websites like Alternet you don't get the full picture

Alyssa Farah Griffin

Alyssa Griffin's husband, whom she married after quitting the Trump White House, is an heir to the joint fortunes of Raytheon and Honeywell -- two of America's largest arms dealers who have brought untold misery to millions of people around the globe. Her luxurious lifestyle is dependent on maintaining the warmonger state with statutes like FISA.

When warmongers criticize Trump it makes me like him even more.

[jusplay4fun]

Biden tries to buy off more votes, AND try again with his failed policy to forgive student debt.

Realize that
1) we already debated this issue, and
2) that the Supreme Court told Biden NO.
3) This does not fix the problem of college costing TOO much and colleges have NO incentive to reform and/or lower costs.
4) Why should the MAJORITY of voters have to pay the debt of those who incurred those expenses VOLUTARILY? And who is at a higher income? Working class people or those with college and graduate degrees? AND Democrats want to claim that they are for the working men and women? MORE Democrat LIES.

Biden Cancels $7 Billion in Student Debt in Election-Year Push
President seeks to draw voters to polls with loan relief
Effort comes days after Biden detailed broader ‘Plan B’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/student-loan-forgiveness-biden-cancels-7-billion-more-in-debt

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority with its plan to wipe out more than $400 billion in student debt, dashing the hopes of tens of millions of borrowers and imposing new restrictions on presidential power.Jun 30, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/us/student-loan-forgiveness-supreme-court-biden.html#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%20ruled%20on,new%20restrictions%20on%20presidential%20power.

and:

IS THIS A SURE THING?
Anything but. The Biden administration says it's confident that the plan is allowed by the Higher Education Act. But loan cancellation of this type is uncharted territory, and conservative opponents are expected to challenge Biden's plan in court.

Republicans have repeatedly fought Biden's plan for student loan cancellation, saying it's an unfair benefit shouldered by taxpayers who repaid their loans or didn't go to college. Opponents say the Supreme Court was clear that widespread loan cancellation must come from Congress.

https://abc7chicago.com/president-joe-biden-cancelling-student-debt-loan-relief/14637484/#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%20rejected%20that,loan%20debt%20in%20certain%20cases.

Biden continues to grasp for votes as his poll numbers keep sinking. Pathetic, incompetent, and feeble Old Joe.

[Pack Rat]

Actually my alternative truths friend...polls are showing stronger numbers for President Biden.

Trump numbers are now falling and are expected to fall more as we get closer to the election.

[jusplay4fun]

What polls are you looking at, p-rat? This one says Biden disapproved by 56% vs 40 %
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-BIDEN/POLL/nmopagnqapa/

This has Biden BEHIND:

In the 2020 election campaign, Biden led in the poll averages throughout and ended up winning the popular vote by 4.5 percentage points. But, as of Saturday morning, Biden is trailing Trump, albeit only by 1.7 points, in the RealClearPolitics poll average. In eight national polls carried out since Biden’s energized State of the Union speech, and recorded in the 538 database, two have shown him leading Trump, and six have shown him behind. (In almost all the surveys, the margins were small.) Even more concerning for Democrats is a series of new polls from key battleground states that showed Trump retaining a lead in some places that Biden won in 2020. According to the RealClearPolitics poll averages, on Saturday morning, Trump is ahead of Biden by more than five points in Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada, by 3.5 points in Michigan, and by one point in Wisconsin.

It’s worth noting straight away some of the large asterisks that should be attached to the current polling data. The first is that there’s a long way to go. At this point in 1980, Ronald Reagan was tailing Jimmy Carter by double digits in the Gallup poll, and, at this point in 2016, Donald Trump was trailing Hillary Clinton by eight points in the RealClearPolitics poll average. Needless to say, Reagan and Trump both ended up winning.

In 2020, in contrast, the early polls and the final result turned out to be pretty similar.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-do-the-polls-really-mean-for-joe-biden


58% Disapprove of Biden; this one shows a compilation of many polls. ALL show Biden disapproved.
https://www.cnn.com/polling/approval-rating-poll-of-polls

Joe Biden has gained an inch in the polls – and Democrats are jubilant

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/joe-biden-democrats-polls-trump-trial

Are you too giddy and jubilant, p-rat, to look at the poll numbers without rose-colored glasses? Seems DOUBTFUL. Again, your vision seems to be BAD, too. Or did you find ONE poll and decided to CROW about THAT? SAD.

Please note that the Electoral College, and not popular votes, determine the POTUS, so those key battleground states are the key to this election.

btw: I am disappointed that these two are the ONLY real candidates available for us to choose. SAD. A choice between BAD and even worse.

[GaryDenton]

Do you remember this?

Here Trump explains how Washington defeated the British.

If Biden said that even Democrats would demand a mental competency exam.

But this is just another speech for Trump as his dementia gets worse.




https://youtu.be/A2SFo3TkvhM?si=CN__dUfExl3fD111
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[GaryDenton]

JustPlay4Fun should keep an eye on those swing states.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/13/election-trump-wisconsin-republicans

Formerly fervent Trump supporters from last elections air doubts over abortion and the man himself in a state where turnout will be key.

“I don’t feel excited. But I have a bunch of ‘Never Trump’ friends and this is my argument to them: I say, you better vote for Trump or you get Biden,” she said.

“Not only that. If you don’t vote for Trump, and then he doesn’t win, he’s going to come back in four years. The boogeyman will be back. He’ll be 82 years old. Is that what you want? Just let him have his four years and then you won’t have to put up with him anymore.”

That is the best argument they have now...

[GaryDenton]

It is not Social Security and Medicare creating deficits.

It is the tax system favoring the wealthy with billions.

Here is the latest:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/13/how-your-401k-ate-the-federal-budget-00150319

Greased by lobbying and campaign cash, tax breaks for retirement savings are one thing Congress agrees on. But they also blow out the deficit and add to income inequality.

[Dukasaur]

Do you remember this?

Here Trump explains how Washington defeated the British.

If Biden said that even Democrats would demand a mental competency exam.

But this is just another speech for Trump as his dementia gets worse.




https://youtu.be/A2SFo3TkvhM?si=CN__dUfExl3fD111
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It is mind-boggling how little he actually knows about the country he pretends to love.

[saxitoxin]

Obviously he meant to say "seaports," not "airports." He misspoke slightly. Sorta like --

[saxitoxin]

Biden and Trump's most loyal voters (from the Economist Build a Voter app - https://www.economist.com/interactive/u ... ld-a-voter)

[saxitoxin]

Demographic with the biggest swing in support to Trump from 2020 to 2024 are 18-24 year-old college-educated Hispanic women living in urban areas in Texas (from 81% for Biden in 2020 to 51% for Trump 2024) --

[jusplay4fun]

The election for POTUS will be close. There is lots of time AND questions between now and the start of actual voting. Many factors can swing the vote one way or the other:

1) Who will turn out more voters on THEIR sides?
2) How will the key states vote?
3) For whom will the key swing voters decide?
4) Is there a surprise issue out there?
(foreign policy? Remember that COVID started to change the world in April 2020; did THAT change VOTES?)
5) For most elections, the economy will decide it for many voters.
6) What did I forget?

[Dukasaur]

Obviously he meant to say "seaports," not "airports." He misspoke slightly. Sorta like --

Yeah, the airports was funny, but not the worst of it.

He starts talking about George Washington and the Revolutionary war, but then magically switches to Fort McHenry from the war of 1812, 37 years later.

The airports was a slip of the tongue that anybody could make, but the linkage between two different wars four decades apart betrays a total lack of knowledge of actual cause and effect in history.

[GaryDenton]

More talk yesterday

"Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was. It was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways it represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg, wow! I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch. And the statement of Robert E. Lee, who's no longer in favor did you ever notice it? He's no longer in favor. "Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill." They were fighting uphill, he said, "Wow, that was a big mistake," he lost his big general. "Never fight uphill, me boys," but it was too late!""

I will remember that pirate Lee advice in my battles.

[jusplay4fun]

One of the more STUPID liberal causes, transgender LIES:

History will not look kindly on the medical professionals, researchers, and activists who abandoned scientific protocol and basic common sense to justify their gender experiments. A new report out of the United Kingdom just made sure of that.

Last week, the U.K.’s National Health Services published a 388-page report, written by longtime pediatrician and President of the Royal College of Pediatrics Hilary Cass, thoroughly dismantling the arguments for invasive and irreversible procedures on gender-confused children. It is the most robust and methodical review of the medical evidence for gender transitions ever conducted, and it proves what many of us have been saying for years: that so-called gender-affirming care for children lacks supporting evidence, has lifelong consequences, and is rooted in a noxious ideology that does not care about either.

The Cass report was commissioned by the NHS to sift through the existing research and separate fact from fiction. After more than three years of research, Cass found that the affirmation model generally, and particularly as it was implemented in NHS’s now-shuttered gender clinic, is “built on shaky foundations” and supported by “remarkably weak evidence.” Many of the studies cited as evidence for affirmation “are exaggerated or misrepresented,” she added.

“Ideology on all sides has directed care, rather than care being directed by normal principles of pediatrics and mental health,” Cass wrote.

The report even goes so far as to caution against socially transitioning children, noting that encouraging impressionable children to adopt an entirely new identity is an “active intervention” that makes a patient “more likely to proceed to a medical pathway” from which there is no return. And, as Cass noted, the vast majority of children who express confusion about their gender are influenced by “social factors,” as well as “biological” and “psychological” ones, that are a part of the larger mental health crisis plaguing today’s youth. There is also the undeniable fact that most children grow out of their gender confusion if they are left to mature without intervention.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-cass-report-should-be-the-death-knell-for-gender-pseudoscience/ar-BB1lFCFk?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=8a899e67a8744d5d843a04cba04cee39&ei=38

And more:

This, when “experts” over here are still pushing not just hormones but irreversible surgery for kids experiencing gender dysphoria.

Even as a 15-year Dutch study recently confirmed that transgenderism among children is largely a fad. (...)

Ideologues, in other words, are protecting actual Dr. Frankensteins maiming sexually-confused kids.

And New Yorkers are asked to write this madness into the state Constitution.

The Equal Rights Amendment on the November ballot — sold as codifying abortion rights — could strip parents’ rights to veto their kids undergoing transgender surgery or going on puberty blockers.

Wake up, America, especially liberal America: You’ve been sold a disgraceful bill of goods.

Stop obsessing about winning the culture war, let science prevail and do what’s right for the kids.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-proof-gender-affirming-care-is-a-monstrous-lie-save-the-children-now/ar-BB1lFCg1?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ba957985213c43ac8455770b040ca5ec&ei=34

and #3, another study:

Is transgenderism among kids largely a fad?

It certainly looks that way.

Researchers at the Netherlands’ University of Groningen recently released the results of a landmark 15-year study of 2,700 children starting at age 11.

They tracked the gender non-contentedness of these children over the years and found: “In early adolescence, 11% of participants reported gender non-contentedness. The prevalence decreased with age and was 4% at the last follow-up (around age 26).”

Remember 20 or so years ago? We called people like this "mentally ill" and did not glorify them with questions like "which pronoun do you want us to use"? What an absolute JOKE and Liberal LIE this transgender lunacy is.

And what liberal is a BIG supporter of Transgender issues? Biden.

White House asserts support for transgender community after Vatican blasts 'gender theory'
by JACKSON WALKER | The National DeskTue, April 9th 2024 at 12:21 PM

WASHINGTON (TND) — White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday said President Joe Biden remains firm in his support of the transgender community amid a release from the Vatican on the topic.

Vatican City on Monday suggested changing one’s gender identity is similar to playing God. This, it said, risks one's dignity.

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/white-house-asserts-support-for-transgender-community-after-vatican-blasts-gender-theory-pope-francis-karine-jean-pierre-press-secretary-vatican-city-catholic-catholicism-president-joe-biden-lgbt-gender-identity

[pmac666]

One of the more STUPID liberal causes, transgender LIES:

History will not look kindly on the medical professionals, researchers, and activists who abandoned scientific protocol and basic common sense to justify their gender experiments. A new report out of the United Kingdom just made sure of that.

Last week, the U.K.’s National Health Services published a 388-page report, written by longtime pediatrician and President of the Royal College of Pediatrics Hilary Cass, thoroughly dismantling the arguments for invasive and irreversible procedures on gender-confused children. It is the most robust and methodical review of the medical evidence for gender transitions ever conducted, and it proves what many of us have been saying for years: that so-called gender-affirming care for children lacks supporting evidence, has lifelong consequences, and is rooted in a noxious ideology that does not care about either.

The Cass report was commissioned by the NHS to sift through the existing research and separate fact from fiction. After more than three years of research, Cass found that the affirmation model generally, and particularly as it was implemented in NHS’s now-shuttered gender clinic, is “built on shaky foundations” and supported by “remarkably weak evidence.” Many of the studies cited as evidence for affirmation “are exaggerated or misrepresented,” she added.

“Ideology on all sides has directed care, rather than care being directed by normal principles of pediatrics and mental health,” Cass wrote.

The report even goes so far as to caution against socially transitioning children, noting that encouraging impressionable children to adopt an entirely new identity is an “active intervention” that makes a patient “more likely to proceed to a medical pathway” from which there is no return. And, as Cass noted, the vast majority of children who express confusion about their gender are influenced by “social factors,” as well as “biological” and “psychological” ones, that are a part of the larger mental health crisis plaguing today’s youth. There is also the undeniable fact that most children grow out of their gender confusion if they are left to mature without intervention.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-cass-report-should-be-the-death-knell-for-gender-pseudoscience/ar-BB1lFCFk?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=8a899e67a8744d5d843a04cba04cee39&ei=38

And more:

This, when “experts” over here are still pushing not just hormones but irreversible surgery for kids experiencing gender dysphoria.

Even as a 15-year Dutch study recently confirmed that transgenderism among children is largely a fad. (...)

Ideologues, in other words, are protecting actual Dr. Frankensteins maiming sexually-confused kids.

And New Yorkers are asked to write this madness into the state Constitution.

The Equal Rights Amendment on the November ballot — sold as codifying abortion rights — could strip parents’ rights to veto their kids undergoing transgender surgery or going on puberty blockers.

Wake up, America, especially liberal America: You’ve been sold a disgraceful bill of goods.

Stop obsessing about winning the culture war, let science prevail and do what’s right for the kids.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-proof-gender-affirming-care-is-a-monstrous-lie-save-the-children-now/ar-BB1lFCg1?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ba957985213c43ac8455770b040ca5ec&ei=34

and #3, another study:

Is transgenderism among kids largely a fad?

It certainly looks that way.

Researchers at the Netherlands’ University of Groningen recently released the results of a landmark 15-year study of 2,700 children starting at age 11.

They tracked the gender non-contentedness of these children over the years and found: “In early adolescence, 11% of participants reported gender non-contentedness. The prevalence decreased with age and was 4% at the last follow-up (around age 26).”

Remember 20 or so years ago? We called people like this "mentally ill" and did not glorify them with questions like "which pronoun do you want us to use"? What an absolute JOKE and Liberal LIE this transgender lunacy is.

And what liberal is a BIG supporter of Transgender issues? Biden.

White House asserts support for transgender community after Vatican blasts 'gender theory'
by JACKSON WALKER | The National DeskTue, April 9th 2024 at 12:21 PM

WASHINGTON (TND) — White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday said President Joe Biden remains firm in his support of the transgender community amid a release from the Vatican on the topic.

Vatican City on Monday suggested changing one’s gender identity is similar to playing God. This, it said, risks one's dignity.

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/white-house-asserts-support-for-transgender-community-after-vatican-blasts-gender-theory-pope-francis-karine-jean-pierre-press-secretary-vatican-city-catholic-catholicism-president-joe-biden-lgbt-gender-identity

What has that to do in the election thread? And why are you a transphobe?

[pmac666]

Polling slowly looks great for old Joe btw, didnt expect them to swing that early.
Sleepy Donald is sooo toast.

[jusplay4fun]

Teacher Fired For Refusing To Use Student’s Preferred Pronouns Wins Big In Court

Vlaming’s attorney praised the Supreme Court's decision as an affirmation of constitutional rights,

Condemning the school board for making an attempt to pressure Vlaming to adhere to its perspectives on gender identity.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teacher-fired-for-refusing-to-use-student-s-preferred-pronouns-wins-big-in-court/ss-BB1lIxcf?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=a4fa13290b9740278ea73450b98ae905&ei=23#interstitial=2

[jusplay4fun]

MORE:

Conservatives Of Supreme Court Allowed Idaho To Ban Gender-Affirming Health Care
©Source: Flickr/The White House
The conservative majority of the Supreme Court reportedly granted the request of Idaho officials to proceed with the enforcement of a ban on gender-affirming health care options for transgender youth. The ban was previously blocked temporarily by a lower court.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was not alone in her objection of the decision. She was also supported by the other liberal Supreme Court justices - Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-did-not-show-reason-and-restraint-with-idaho-transgender-youth-case/ss-BB1lJdms?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=0c1a5f9c253b4f8e90906aaae3ce7c36&ei=78#image=2

Remember, Ketanji Brown Jackson could not define a woman in her testimony before the US Senate. No wonder she is confused on gender matters.

[ConfederateSS]

Obviously he meant to say "seaports," not "airports." He misspoke slightly. Sorta like --

Yeah, the airports was funny, but not the worst of it.

He starts talking about George Washington and the Revolutionary war, but then magically switches to Fort McHenry from the war of 1812, 37 years later.

The airports was a slip of the tongue that anybody could make, but the linkage between two different wars four decades apart betrays a total lack of knowledge of actual cause and effect in history.

--------Yes,But at least Trump has America fighting the same enemy in his speech...Biden would have Ft. McHenry mixed up with Pearl Harbor...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...
--------When Trump speaks, at least you know what he is talking about,the point he is making...When Biden speaks,Biden doesn't even know what he is saying....1) He yells,then whispers,then mumbles...2) Someone else is talking through him, running things...DEEP STATE;););)...

[jusplay4fun]

Washington Examiner
96.9K Followers
Gender activists have no intention of following the science on child transitions

In the face of overwhelming evidence showing the harm of transitioning gender-confused children, an LGBT organization is scheduled to host a transgender camp in Arlington, Virginia, this summer for children as young as 6 years old.

Last week, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service released a report criticizing the use of so-called gender-affirming care for children. Its author, pediatrician and President of the Royal College of Pediatrics Hilary Cass, criticizes medical interventions for gender-questioning minors. She further cautions against socially transitioning children, including pronoun changes in their schools, because it increases the likelihood of the subsequent pursuit of medical intervention.

A study published in February 2024 concluded that most of these children, who usually have coexisting problems and whose identity crisis peaks in early adolescence, eventually become gender-conforming adults.

Several detransitioners — people who have undergone gender-related medical intervention as children and regretted it — have supported both these studies and society’s return to facts. Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who said she was transgender at 13 and had a double mastectomy at 15, said, “I’m thankful that this is finally becoming a mainstream conversation, and people are finally starting to wake up to what we are doing to children.”

Indeed, more and more are waking up to the harms of gender ideology, including the use of unstudied medications that block the onset of puberty.

But while public awareness is increasing significantly, the gender ideology activists are doubling down. For the Cass report, for example, gender clinics in the U.K. colluded and tried to withhold data. And we can expect to continue to hear the usual manipulative extortion about the threat of suicide if we do not affirm children’s fad-inspired gender identities and made-up pronouns.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gender-activists-have-no-intention-of-following-the-science-on-child-transitions/ar-BB1lM1F4?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=fb8691319bfd4e23b16358480fe6b6eb&ei=20

[ConfederateSS]

-------It is more than mistakes with Biden, I know some hate Trump Period..Some are not American...But here is the Bid Difference with Biden...
------- He always makes things about himself, 13 dead in Afghanistan,when talking with the families...So,on and so on, with other situations, talks about himself...

------- Over the past few days...WOW ...You Democratic Liberal Pawns defend Him....
-------- ...Why haven't you put Biden's best work up , the past few days.... ...
------- Biden talks about a bathroom surprise between him and a former Delaware Governor...

This one is the BEST OF BIDEN SO FAR....
------- My uncle was shot down over New Guinea, he was eaten by Cannibals... ....The AIR FORCE has shot down his story...His uncle wasn't a pilot, but on a plane, it was shot down over the ocean, not New Guinea...
------- SEE THE DIFFERENCE....... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... ....Not President, but I think Biden has a job for SNL'S final season next year... ... Cannibals...WOW ....