baronvonj

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

As I recall, he called it off after the Kremlin walked back whatever policy it was that pissed him off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Biden's proposals also includes an enforceable code of ethics to address corruption on the bench. And as Carrolade mentions, Congress can impeach and remove judges.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Bad to the robe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well that was then. Presently if you're not the nominee from a party which received a minimum threshold of votes in the preceding election you have to get a bunch of signatures from the voters to be put on the ballot. So since the Democratic party has.met the threshold of votes in prior elections in all states their nominee will be on the ballots but they haven't nominated anyone yet.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (6 children)

How could he even have been on any ballots yet when he hadn't even been officially nominated?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Hillary had won elections already, so clearly not unelectable. So have all the names being discussed to be nominated. And she did actually win quite a few votes in that election. It was very close. So not hardly unelectable. She just lost that time. Trump has won fewer elections than Hillary had, or Biden, or Kamala. So what makes him any less uNeLeCTabLE than any of them? The truth is you don't know until the election.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Someone posted in a different thread that Biden even stated in 2019 that he was only going to run a single term

He didn't. He said he saw himself as a transitional candidate, but never outright said single term.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Both states' Democratic parties held a primary,.with every relevant race other than president on the ballot. The original claim was that the "Democratic Party didn't participate in the primary election." Which is not accurate as every state's Democratic party did hold a primary election. It wasn't qualified to the presidential race, and even if it was a blanket statement would still be incorrect given that there were states who did have a choice for presidential nominee on their primary ballot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's kind of how elections work, yes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Koch brother's plan was to invest in state races to win enough legislatures and governors to call a new constitutional convention, and have enough anarcho-capitalist stooges to formally reshape the country as their libertarian oligarchy utopia where the rest of us are just indentured serfs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Well it can't if we don't try. For the 2024 primaries in Texas we had 17.9M registered voters, 3.2M primary ballots cast, and only 900k of them were Democratic. So I get why people think it isn't going to work. But I think anyone expecting a "don't vote and let it burn down" situation to result in an immediate improvement rather than things getting insanely worse are deluding themselves to everyone's detriment.

 

When I switch between logged in accounts, I have to manually refresh the feed tab/view to reflect the account switch. I would prefer the reload be done automatically, an option to allow users to specify this behavior would be ideal.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10326205

I kept scrolling past this one, but I stopped to watch Michael Palmisano's reaction video and it's a great cover.

 

Ref has had enough.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4511852

WASHINGTON — Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the far-right Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison Tuesday afternoon following his conviction on a seditious conspiracy charge in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

 

According to a newly released report by AZCentral.com,Metallica cut their set short for the September 1 performance over at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The show was a part of the band's "No Repeat Weekend" which sees them doing two consecutive days with no repeated songs.

The postponed show will be on Sept. 9th.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1203747

I just can't even with this.

About 24 percent of polled Republicans say the charges in the classified documents investigation make them more likely to support Trump, while 21 percent said the same with regard to the 34-count indictment related to falsified business records in a Manhattan court case.

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