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CMD598
Apr 12, 2013

orange juche posted:

China very much has a very real navy, they've just stayed close to home because they don't have a lot of overseas friendly ports to base out of.

They're working on that I believe.

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Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1321561851898060802?s=12

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



CMD598 posted:

They're working on that I believe.

Yep, amazing what investing in infrastructure in a third world country can get you, friendly ports for one.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Fun times ahead

https://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1321563621470707713?s=21

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Democrats can ratfuck too.

https://twitter.com/dnewhauser/status/1321564792512020480?s=19

Could be TLP or some other organization though, that'd be peak 2020.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.


https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1321565561504079875

https://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1321564274876125184

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

facialimpediment posted:

Democrats can ratfuck too.

https://twitter.com/dnewhauser/status/1321564792512020480?s=19

Could be TLP or some other organization though, that'd be peak 2020.

It's the Harrison campaign. He more or less admitted it in an interview that got published last week iirc.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Just in case you thought Hillary was out of the news

Hillary Clinton says she is an Electoral College elector in New York.

I thought EC Electors were supposed to be secret.

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
I can't be the only person who immediately thought "Great that just tanked a bunch of loving votes for Joe". Whether it did or not I don't know but jesus loving Christ Hilary stay the gently caress home and shut up haven't you done enough damage?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

orange juche posted:

I thought EC Electors were supposed to be secret.

No. In some states electors names appear on the ballot. In others it’s not typically public until after electors are awarded. It’s just a list of people selected by the respective parties, typically months in advance. Varies from “who?” Bureaucrats to bug name people.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

orange juche posted:

Just in case you thought Hillary was out of the news

Hillary Clinton says she is an Electoral College elector in New York.

I thought EC Electors were supposed to be secret.

No, they're just usually nobody anyone cares about - party donors and high level functionaries.

piL
Sep 20, 2007
(__|\\\\)
Taco Defender

mlmp08 posted:

No. In some states electors names appear on the ballot. In others it’s not typically public until after electors are awarded. It’s just a list of people selected by the respective parties, typically months in advance. Varies from “who?” Bureaucrats to bug name people.

Such as Chak-tha, Chit'al, Drik-chkit, Gulnik, Kacht-ta, Kat'chka, Kiktul, Klaktuk, Krik, Pak'cha, Pik-ik-cha, Pok, Ptekwe, Tak-tha, Tal'tich, Tilnak, and Tik-tik.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Can a law-talker break this and some of the subsequent tweets about it down for me a bit? I feel like I need a flow chart of negatives, double negatives and law-speak words.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

As of 10/14/2020 per CNN, here's the cash on hand for each campaign and their respective friendly PACs and donors:
Biden: $360.7M ($162M of his own money)
Trump: $255.3M ($43.6M of his own money)

nwin
Feb 25, 2002

make's u think

CBJSprague24 posted:

As of 10/14/2020 per CNN, here's the cash on hand for each campaign and their respective friendly PACs and donors:
Biden: $360.7M ($162M of his own money)
Trump: $255.3M ($43.6M of his own money)

What do you mean by “his own money”?

Like is Biden loving rich or that’s just what his campaign has?

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


nwin posted:

What do you mean by “his own money”?

Like is Biden loving rich or that’s just what his campaign has?

What the campaign has, the rest is PAC/DNC money.

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Yea, Biden is worth like 9m.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
I'd believe Biden is an actual billionaire before I believe that Trump is.

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine

bird food bathtub posted:

Can a law-talker break this and some of the subsequent tweets about it down for me a bit? I feel like I need a flow chart of negatives, double negatives and law-speak words.

I have a mental image of Barrett being too busy with typical new-job stuff like filling out benefits forms, signing the handbook without even opening itreviewing the employee handbook, and ordering business cards to get in on the big meeting.

Flikken
Oct 23, 2009

10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it

Discussion Quorum posted:

I have a mental image of Barrett being too busy with typical new-job stuff like filling out benefits forms, signing the handbook without even opening itreviewing the employee handbook, and ordering business cards to get in on the big meeting.

She's too busy trying to find the manager

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

bird food bathtub posted:

Can a law-talker break this and some of the subsequent tweets about it down for me a bit? I feel like I need a flow chart of negatives, double negatives and law-speak words.

Pennsylvania Democrats petitioned Pennsylvania courts to allow absentee ballots to be counted after election day, provided they were postmarked before election day. This is a power the state courts have and have used before in states of emergeny.

They won.

Republicans said “Reeeeeeeeeee! Help us, ratfucked super‐Senate (read “SCOTUS”), you’re our only hope.

Chief Justice John Roberts thought “I really don’t want to be remembered for this” and joined Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor in declining to take the case.This allows the state court ruling to stand.

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!

Platystemon posted:

Pennsylvania Democrats petitioned Pennsylvania courts to allow absentee ballots to be counted after election day, provided they were postmarked before election day. This is a power the state courts have and have used before in states of emergeny.

They won.

Republicans said “Reeeeeeeeeee! Help us, ratfucked super‐Senate (read “SCOTUS”), you’re our only hope.

Chief Justice John Roberts thought “I really don’t want to be remembered for this” and joined Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor in declining to take the case.This allows the state court ruling to stand.

Apparently Kavanaugh changed his position on it to join those four? So they won't be hearing the argument.

Torrannor
Apr 27, 2013

---FAGNER---
TEAM-MATE

Pine Cone Jones posted:

Apparently Kavanaugh changed his position on it to join those four? So they won't be hearing the argument.

Kavanaugh would have taken up the issue, but he did not join the three others in their call to revisit that matter after the election, possibly leading to another Bush vs. Gore. If they did that, Democrats would 100% pack the court the first chance they get, and I guess Roberts and Kavanaugh don't want that to happen.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012




Giant Bug-people 2020.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Alito said outright they could take the case after the ballots are cast.

Thomas and Gorsuch just kind of griped “well the GOP raised a good point and we should have taken the case earlier”. It’s not clear if they are salivating along with Alito at the prospect of flipping an election post facto.

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

Given the timing, I'd like to think this would be the 2020 version of the Comey Letter, but :lol:, it won't matter:

https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1321202566584324098/photo/1
https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1321202788542676994
https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1321203160770318338

...and there's an entire thread of Tweets.

CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Oct 29, 2020

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

bird food bathtub posted:

Can a law-talker break this and some of the subsequent tweets about it down for me a bit? I feel like I need a flow chart of negatives, double negatives and law-speak words.

Man I'm an attorney and it can be confusing to me sometimes.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

CBJSprague24 posted:

Given the timing, I'd like to think this would be the 2020 version of the Comey Letter, but :lol:, it won't matter:

https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1321202566584324098/photo/1
https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1321202788542676994
https://twitter.com/davidenrich/status/1321203160770318338

...and there's an entire thread of Tweets.

If he loses the Election, he's in for a world of hurt. Or at least his family is. Even if he doesn't, so much of this stuff isn't going to wait on him.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
The essential SCOTUS position makes *some* sense, but it's real iffy.

- State makes the election law and that's the baseline. It's the state legislatures' job to set the rules.
- If a Federal Judge recently overturned the state law, reverse the Federal Judge. State trumps Feds and too close to the election to gently caress with things (Purcell Principle). These are the Michigan/Texas rulings.
- If a State Supreme Court overturned the state law and extended turn-in deadlines, leave them alone. State Supremes are allowed to gently caress with their state rules (NC/PA decisions today).

The trouble is that the minority is saying gently caress YOU, CALVINBALL BECAUSE [dumb pretext]. OH BY THE WAY, WE CAN REVIEW THIS AFTER THE ELECTION BECAUSE [dumb pretext]. Also, this all flies in the face of the SCOTUS view of "gently caress you state courts, you can't review gerrymanders because [dumb pretext]".

It doesn't help that Kavanaugh is dumber than a box of rusty hammers.

Speaking of dumb, here's proof that they're graduating from having absolutely nothing to having absolutely loving nothing:

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1321608091503366144

facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Oct 29, 2020

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010



I'm the carefully not naming the carrier in question, because a rep from the carrier in question might go on the record and say "We have no idea what the gently caress you're talking about Tuck."

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
“Also, they’d sue me for defamation with real damages.”

not caring here
Feb 22, 2012

blazemastah 2 dry 4 u
Yes, because I know that when I'm dealing with original documents that I apparently haven't made a copy of, scanned or photographed, I just throw the one and only copy in existence in a fed ex envelope and hope for the best, and I definitely don't throw an intern on a plane to deliver it by hand.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/10/27/marine-booted-after-racist-posts-arrested-federal-weapons-charges.html

I knew Duncan a little. We were at DLI at the same time. Weird as hell that names I recognize are involved in this kind of thing.

Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


not caring here posted:

Yes, because I know that when I'm dealing with original documents that I apparently haven't made a copy of, scanned or photographed, I just throw the one and only copy in existence in a fed ex envelope and hope for the best, and I definitely don't throw an intern on a plane to deliver it by hand.

https://twitter.com/Bearded_Hippo/status/1321616699028885510?s=20

ManMythLegend
Aug 18, 2003

I don't believe in anything, I'm just here for the violence.

facialimpediment posted:

Speaking of dumb, here's proof that they're graduating from having absolutely nothing to having absolutely loving nothing:

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1321608091503366144

loving :lol:

piL
Sep 20, 2007
(__|\\\\)
Taco Defender

facialimpediment posted:


Speaking of dumb, here's proof that they're graduating from having absolutely nothing to having absolutely loving nothing:

https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1321608091503366144

Brand name company? Should have tried USPS.

Woofer
Mar 2, 2020

Sounds like a case against privatizing the postal service.

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

"They used pictures of what we had sent"

Great they made photocopies first. So in other words this whole whoopsie daisy it's lost thing is irrelevant.

Also there's no way in hell a company as archaic as Fox is doesn't have fax machines.

Zamujasa
Oct 27, 2010



Bread Liar

As Nero Danced posted:

"They used pictures of what we had sent"

Great they made photocopies first. So in other words this whole whoopsie daisy it's lost thing is irrelevant.

Also there's no way in hell a company as archaic as Fox is doesn't have fax machines.

Fox News is the one company I would never expect to use fax.


:dadjoke:

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Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

facialimpediment posted:

The essential SCOTUS position makes *some* sense, but it's real iffy.

- State makes the election law and that's the baseline. It's the state legislatures' job to set the rules.
- If a Federal Judge recently overturned the state law, reverse the Federal Judge. State trumps Feds and too close to the election to gently caress with things (Purcell Principle). These are the Michigan/Texas rulings.
- If a State Supreme Court overturned the state law and extended turn-in deadlines, leave them alone. State Supremes are allowed to gently caress with their state rules (NC/PA decisions today).

The trouble is that the minority is saying gently caress YOU, CALVINBALL BECAUSE [dumb pretext]. OH BY THE WAY, WE CAN REVIEW THIS AFTER THE ELECTION BECAUSE [dumb pretext]. Also, this all flies in the face of the SCOTUS view of "gently caress you state courts, you can't review gerrymanders because [dumb pretext]".

It doesn't help that Kavanaugh is dumber than a box of rusty hammers.


This is not exactly correct. The argument from kav et al is that the constitution specifically vests the decision making for elections in the state legislatures so no one but the state legislature has a say in how the election is run. Delegation of that authority is allowed, but interpretation of state law is apparently not because the constitution says it belongs only to the legislature.

You'll notice this position is in complete contrast to the position they took on the voting rights act where the amendment specifies that congress alone has the power to enforce constitutional voting compliance.

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