ChiGoose

By the way, if homicides were due to liberal policies, wouldn’t we be seeing a lot of counties from California and New York on the list?

Gotta love that simple facts presented without any commentary triggered the usual crowd to the point that one person confused homicide with suicide. Simple question for the pro-homicide crowd: are gun laws generally set by the state or the county? Hey, if facts mattered to them, they wouldn’t be Republicans.

Just as an FYI, here are the US counties with the top per capita homicide rate (per 100,000): 59.3 - Phillips County, AR 53.9 - Leflore County, MS 48.9 - Lowndes County, AL 48.5 - St. Louis City, MO 48.2 - Washington County, MS 45.6 - Petersburg City, VA 43.4 - Hinds County, MA 42.5 - Wilcox County, AL 42.5 - Macon County, AL 40.5 - Baltimore City, MD 40.5 - Holmes County, MS 39.4 - Orleans Parish, LA 38.7 - Dallas County, AL 36.7 - Dillon County, SC 36.3 - Jefferson County, AR 32.6 - Sunflower County, MS 29.5 - Adams County, MS 29.0 - Bolivar County, MS 28.9 - Coahoma County, MS 28.0 - Shelby County, TN 26.9 - Mississippi County, AR 25.6 - Montgomery County, AL 25.6 - Crittenden County, AR 25.4 - Philadelphia County, PA 25.3 - Lee County, SC 25.1 - Robeson County, NC 24.9 - St. Francis County, AR 24.9 - Bibb County, GA 24.8 - Yazoo County, MS 24.7 - Caddo Parish, LA 24.3 - Scotland County, NC 24.3 - Jefferson County, AL 24.2 - Colleton County, SC 24.2 - Portsmouth City, VA 24.2 - Morehouse Parish, LA 24.2 - East Baton Rouge Parish, LA 24.1 - Barnwell County, SC 23.8 - Vance County, NC 22.8 - Pike county - MS 22.4 - Jackson County, MO 22.1 Copiah County, MS 21.9 - Orangeburg County, SC 21.5 - Darlington County, SC 21.2 - Anson County, NC 21.1 - Wyandotte County, KS 21.0 - Grenada County, MS 20.8 - Richmond City, VA 20.6 - St. James Parish, LA 20.5 - District of Columbia, DC 20.4 - Fairfield County, SC 20.0 - Uvalde County, TX 19.9 - Marlboro County, SC 19.8 - Muscogee County, GA 19.7 - Lauderdale County, MS 19.5 - Hartford County, NC 18.9 - Mario County, IN 18.7 - Edgecombe County, NC 18.5 - Danville City, VA 18.1 - Leake County, MS 17.9 - Russell County, AL 17.6 - Hopewell City, VA - 17.6 17.5 - Natchitoches Parish, LA 17.5 - Halifax County, NC 17.4 - Pulaski County, AR 17.3 - St. Clair County, IL 17.3 - Columbus County, NC 17.2 - Williamsburg County, SC 17.0 - Wayne County, MI 17.0 - Florence County, SC 17.0 - Clayton County, GA 16.9 - Talladega County, AL 16.9 - Jefferson County, KY 16.9 - Lincoln County, MS 16.9 - Milwaukee County, WI 16.8 - Marion County, SC 16.7 - Marshall County, MS 16.7 - Union County, AR 16.6 - St. John the Baptist Parish, LA 16.6 - Warren County, MS 16.1 - Dougherty County, GA 16.1 - Iberia Parish, LA 16.1 - Gadsden County, FL 16.0 - Iberville Parish, LA 15.5 - St. Louis County, MO 15.5 - Lake County, IN 15.4 - Hoke County, NC 15.4 - Norfolk City, VA 15.3 - Washington Parish, LA 14.9 - DeKalb County, GA 14.9 - Mobile County, AL 14.9 - Laurens County, GA 14.9 - Chaves County, NM 14.7 - Cook County, IL 14.6 - St. Landry Parish, LA 14.3 - Okmulgee County, OK 14.2 - Cuyahoga County, OH 14.0 - Richmond County, GA 13.7 - McCurtain County, OK 13.7 - Panola County, MS 13.7 - Chester County, SC 13.7 - Hampton City, VA 13.7 - Rapides Parish, LA

Also, it is weird how much Trump dislikes dogs

It’s a joke on the people who actually believed that the Swift-Kelce relationship was a Democratic PsyOp designed to get them to endorse Biden at the Super Bowl. Sounds really dumb (because it is) but there were a lot of people here on PPP pushing that narrative. The graphs are aggregates of multiple polls and show the variance and uncertainty to give better context to the trend line.

Sucks to suck. All this guy had to do was show up and plead the 5th. Instead, he’s in jail because he’s an idiot.

The thing that’s really telling about all of this is that they see the headline or claim and the first thought isn’t “is this true? I should see if anyone has examined it” but instead “this confirms my priors and therefore is obviously correct.” A simple look would debunk these claims. It took like a minute for me to find an examination of the dead voter claim that proves it’s BS. The GOP acts as if they believe that their voters are gullible sheep and their voters seem all too eager to prove them right.

Captain eyerolls proving my point for me.

That Trump won in 2020. Unbelievably dumb thing that a lot of dumb people believe.

Small and petty is how Trump works, so you have to consider it.

My hope is Trump tells Little Marco he’s going to pick him so Rubio packs up and moves out of Florida to avoid potential 12th Amendment issues, after which Trump actually picks somebody else.

Meh. Don’t love it, don’t hate it.

Fun fact about Jenna Ellis: she was fired from traffic court but was awarded unemployment benefits in part because the labor board felt that some of her mistakes were due to "deficiencies in her education." Less than a decade later, she somehow became attorney to the president where her actions created significant legal exposure for herself. Only the best people...

Aside from the 11 different sources I included in my post, I'll give you this: Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right I do find it interesting that you're bringing up whatever you think my solutions so dismissively since I personally don't have any climate solutions and my whole point is that the Right is rejecting the underlying truth (climate change is real and driven by humans) specifically because they don't like the solutions offered to combat it.

To believe the immunity argument that Trump's lawyers are pushing, you would have to believe that the Founders, having just finished a war against a King, created a president that could have their political opponents killed and threaten or coerce Congress into not impeaching them (which might be successful if they were on a murder spree) and there would be absolutely nothing anybody could do about it.

Luckily for Trump, he never did pay back the National Enquirer for the McDougal story catch-and-kill. Unluckily for Trump, that meant that when the Stormy Daniels story was being shopped, he'd have to pay out for it because the National Enquirer wasn't going to front the money this time. So the Trump Organization paid to kill the story to benefit the campaign. The company ledger was falsified to cover up this fact. He should have just paid out of the campaign fund and avoided all of this. Bringing in his company was a bad move.

Seems bad. I sure hope that Trump didn't falsify any business records to try to cover that up.

Moving Noem up my rankings for potential Trump VP

This SCOTUS believes in states rights unless the state is doing something it doesn't like; originalism unless the original meaning of a law is something it doesn't like; textualism unless the text doesn't say what they want it to say; precedents are things to ignore or overturn; judges are historians, scientists, and medical experts... Attempts to understand a consistent jurisprudence for this court fails against just thinking about what it is that the GOP would want.

Climate change is a pretty solid example of a specific way the political right is currently broken and living in a fantasy world. The right doesn't like a lot of the left's solutions for combating climate change (and that's fair, it's ok to have policy differences and no plan is perfect) but instead of acknowledging reality and proposing their own plan, they just deny that climate change is a thing at all. Then they point to anecdotes, highlight anyone with extreme positions as being representative of everyone, ignore predictions that were correct while highlighting predictions that were wrong, and try to evoke emotional reactions that distract for the factual realities. It's a common thing across a lot of different issues today: deny reality and push emotional reactions to prevent any action to address problems. Create an "us vs them" scenario the conveniently supports whatever big moneyed interests want. Anyway, if you don't believe that climate change is real despite the o v e r w h e l m i n g evidence, you're being played like a fool. PS: If you're not a fan of immigration, you should be really concerned about climate change.

Anyone else who did what he did and is facing what he’s facing would already be in jail. But it’s Trump, so he’s probably looking at nothing worse than a fine.

Absolutely 100% correct. Candidates and their campaigns, however, do not have the right to tell people to sign fake elector certifications, order the DoJ to tell states not to certify elections, or tell DHS to seize voting machines.

Anything done at the behest of a candidate or campaign is almost by definition not an official act. Candidates cannot order the government to do anything. They can file suits if they think something is being done incorrectly or illegally (like Gore and Trump did). But they can’t do things like order the DoJ to tell states not to certify electoral slates (like Gore did not but Trump did).

Since POTUS has no role in administration of elections, what is the theory that Trump’s actions inserting himself into the election process are official acts?

Nah man, the Dems aren’t pulling all these strings behind the scenes, forcing law enforcement to do things. If they were that competent, they would have never lost to an idiot conman in 2016. If they had that kind of power and desire to do away with Trump, he would have already been convicted of multiple felonies that he absolutely committed. They would have enforced the emoluments clause while he was in office taking in foreign money through his hotel. What’s actually happening here is that a long time criminal committed a bunch of crimes and now he’s facing the consequences of that. If the new normal is criminals get charged with crimes, I’m not sure why you’re so worried about it.