Roundup
(1) Russian ballet dancer, critic of Putin, falls to his death.
(2) Trump’s proposed FCC head says the administration will crack down on censorship online.
(3) Dana Carvey is so good at this:
(4) The Democrats are embracing the filibuster, now that it benefits them. Of course.
(5) The vote-counters in Bucks County PA say that rules and laws are for the little people, not for them. And yet we are supposed to trust them to be fair:
“I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, said Thursday as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to ballots that should be disqualified.
“People violate laws anytime they want. So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention. There’s nothing more important than counting votes.”
The court had already ruled against what she’s trying to do; her actions defy the statute that governs vote-counting in the state.
Looks like Decent Joe wants to go out with a bang….
“Sweden Tells Citizens To Prepare For WAR: Five Million Households Get Pamphlets On How To Get Their Home Ready For Nuclear Armageddon… As Biden Is Accused Of Trying To Start World War Three”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/11/18/sweden-tells-citizens-to-prepare-for-war-five-million-households-get-pamphlets-on-how-to-get-their-home-ready-for-nuclear-armageddon-as-biden-is-accused-of-trying-to-start-world-war-three/
Wow! He’s got even the Swedes panicked!!
Is there anything the “Best President Since Lincoln”(TM) can’t do?
Not just Amsterdam…but it sure is wondrous to behold municipal officials of both Amsterdam (the Mayor) AND Berlin (the Chief of Police) speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
(Guess it’s a matter of context..)
“Berlin police warns: ‘City is dangerous for Jews’”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/399391
(How many cities are there in Western Europe? Not that North America should gloat…).
no 5 – Has Shapiro sent the State Police to arrest her and her fellow law breakers?
Has Thune said he wouldn’t seat the stealer?
Has the Justice Dept. arrested her for election interference?
And the Dems saying there is not Fraud?
Are the late night talking JA’s condemning the steal?
Related…
“PA Supreme Court Orders to Stop Counting Illegal Ballots for the Second Time;
“At least three counties attempted to defy the original order and count every ballot.”—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/pa-supreme-court-orders-to-stop-counting-illegal-ballots-for-the-second-time/
The only way to protect the filibuster is to amend the Constitution to require it. The Republicans should propose such an amendment and tell the Democrats they have 270 days to ratify the amendment. If the amendment isn’t ratified, the Republicans should get rid of it on November 1, 2025 and push through their agenda on party line votes. I note that it only took about 3 1/2 months to ratify the amendment giving 18 year olds the vote.
A Senate with the filibuster protects minority rights and I support it. But any Republican senator that doesn’t understand that the Democrats will eliminate the filibuster the minute they hold the Senate, the House, and the White House isn’t listening to them. Except for the political courage of Sinema and Manchin, the Dems would already have ended the filibuster–and their refusal to end the filibuster marked the end of those two senators’ careers.
Absent a Constitutional amendment, the filibuster will end in the next ten years–the only question is which party ends it and how much that party is able to stack the deck to perpetuate their majority. The Democrat’s position on the filibuster is 100% situational–it’s a check on the raw power of the majority when the Dems are in the minority and a tool to frustrate the will of a bare majority when they’re in the majority. This really isn’t that complicated–make the Dems put up or shut up. I would bet a large amount of money that if the positions were reversed, the Dems wouldn’t give the Republicans a chance to make the filibuster permanent. What could be fairer?
“Fortify”! Such a lovely word…
Might one wonder what Orwell would have thought…?
(Well, no; one really doesn’t have to…)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/precedent-doesnt-matter-anymore-democrats-dispense-pretenses-principles-pennsylvania
Taking at Legalinsurrection.com besides Bucks , Montgomery and Philadelphia counties are open rebellion.
They need to get locked up