Kurt420
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Trump did win Ohio. For 60 yrs, whoever takes Ohio takes the election. It's not a done deal by any means but it's definitely not looking great.
As of this moment states like WI, MI and PA that Biden appeared to be ahead in, he's behind in all of them now. NC and GA are pretty tight but still, even they're leaning to Trump. AZ is looking good for Biden. I do hope this is just the "red mirage" the media talks about. Not feeling good about this at all. Assuming he gets AZ, at this point, Biden pretty much HAS to get two of the three out of MI, PA and WI OR get one of those and GA or NC.
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48 minutes ago, Genevieve Vavance said:
Can't believe the vote is between Trump and Lady Gaga
they showed her fake speech on the news here with her wobbly voice and fake tears
Ugh....didn't she jinx it back in '16 too, when she strolled on stage with her MJ outfit. I see Gaga is still the one the the old people think the young people think is "cool".....lol. Is it too late to change my vote?? lol....jk!
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2 hours ago, Minatozaki Sana said:
my prediction
That's pretty much what I'm thinking too. I do think Trump still has a shot at AZ though and Biden still has a shot at PA. Would be great if Biden got both as a 267/271 result will be more than enough ammo for the Deplorables to contest the election. What would be REALLY great is if Biden picked up AZ, PA and either NC, GA or FL.....all three of those states he's very close in BUT I'm confident those three will ultimately go to Trump. If he picked up one of those 3 in addition to AZ and PA, then there's no contesting that. The electoral win would be pretty big.
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35 minutes ago, Junior said:
Even if Biden is polling 99% before Election Day, I still won’t be confident he’s gonna win. Trump and his disgusting enablers and Russia will resort to every dirty trick imaginable to screw with the votes so Trump wins. 2016 will be very minor compared to what they do this time. And even if Biden is declared the winner, he’s going to challenge it, he will refuse to leave the WH, and he will summon his base to launch a civil war.
27 minutes ago, Jazzy Jan said:Yes, his corruption knows no boundaries. Thus this election result is critical for not only America but the world.
Yes and yes!! It's truly scary and I don't think this is something we've ever had to deal with before, certainly not to this degree anyways. I know Michael Cohen is pretty skeezy in his own right but he does seem to have "seen the light" so to speak. He knows Trump on a very close personal level and for almost two years he's been warning us that there will NOT be a peaceful transfer of power if Trump loses. I firmly believe that as well. Being seen as a "loser" is not something Trump handles well and he will quite LITERALLY have to be taken out of the WH kicking and screaming. It's really unreal what we're dealing with here.
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3 hours ago, Cyber-Raga said:
Biden has a real shot to win. Everything else is propaganda at this point.
Indeed he does! It looks good for him right now....BUT....Hillary was also in a great position in this point in the election in '16. And while there was definitely some "shadiness" involved in that election, I have a feeling it'll pale in comparison to what the Trumpublicans have in store this time. No doubt, they'll sell their first born to the devil if they have to to win this time. One bright spot though is that Biden isn't anywhere nearly as hated as Hillary was.
And that Pete clip is amazing!!
He would've totally obliterated Trump in a debate. Really hope we'll be seeing more of him in the future.
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1 hour ago, Martin B. said:
He's such a repulsive human being. I only wish the WORST for him. He's just as bad if not worse than Trump. Love how he just makes up his own rules as he goes along.
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Oops sorry @Junior!! Totally didn't see this was already posted.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
"Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague," Chief Justice John Roberts said
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice who was as pioneering as she was brash, died Friday, the high court said. She was 87.
The court said Ginsburg, a lifelong champion of women's rights and a fierce advocate for gender equality, died "surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer."
Chief Justice John Roberts said: "Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”
Despite her diminutive stature — she was reportedly only 5 feet, 1 inch tall — Ginsburg was larger than life, both on and off the bench.
Viewed as a feminist icon, she broke countless barriers, never shying away from making contentious comments along the way with everything from her high court opinions to her octogenarian workout routines. Her refusal to hold her tongue earned her the nickname the "Notorious R.B.G." by her rabid fan base.
Diagnosed with cancer four times, Ginsburg had had numerous health scares, including several recent hospitalizations. Her death will open a pivotal seat on the court less than 50 days before the presidential election.
In her final days, according to NPR, Ginsburg dictated one final dig at President Donald Trump to her granddaughter Clara Spera, declaring, "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
But hours after her death Friday night, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he has no intention of waiting and will put forward whomever Trump nominates.
"President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate," McConnell said in a statement.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hailed Ginsburg as "a champion for justice" and a "trailblazer for women" and tweeted, "The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
The line was the exact same phrase McConnell used in 2016 to block then-President Barack Obama's nominee to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Ginsburg's death devastated her followers. Outside the Supreme Court Friday night, crowds gathered in an impromptu memorial for her.
The news broke as Trump was speaking at a rally in Minnesota. Unaware of her death, he said during his speech that "the Supreme Court is so important. The next president will get one, two, three or four Supreme Court justices."
After learning the news, Trump told reporters, "I'm actually saddened to hear that."
"Whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life," Trump said. He later tweeted a statement in which he referred to Ginsburg as a "titan of the law" and a "fighter to the end."
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, meanwhile, said Ginsburg "stood for all of us," praising the obstacles she overcame early in her career.
"She never failed. She was fierce and unflinching in her pursuit of the civil and legal rights of, the civil rights, of everyone," he said.
As for her successor, Biden added: "The voters should pick the president and the president should pick the justice for the Senate to consider."
Former President George W. Bush issued a statement saying, "Justice Ginsburg loved our country and the law. Laura and I are fortunate to have known this smart and humorous trailblazer, and we send our condolences to the Ginsburg family."
And former President Clinton, in a tweet, called Ginsburg "one of the most extraordinary Justices ever to serve on the Supreme Court."
"Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and landmark opinions moved us closer to a more perfect union. And her powerful dissents reminded us that we walk away from our Constitution’s promise at our peril," Clinton wrote.
Despite her ailing health — Ginsburg had announced in July that she was being treated for cancer — she made a public appearance as recently as the end of August, when she officiated an outdoor wedding of a family friend.
A sharp-tongued moderate liberal, Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993 after being confirmed by a Senate vote of 96 to 3. She had repeatedly vowed to stay on as long as her health permitted, even when some liberals pressured her to step down during the Obama administration so a Democratic president could be guaranteed to appoint her successor.
“Tell me who the president could have nominated this spring that you would rather see on the court than me?” was the justice's tart response at the time.
Those who faced her ire were offered no protection by political prowess or fame. She once called then-presidential candidate Trump a "faker" and publicly criticized NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for refusing to stand during the national anthem. She later apologized for the criticism of Trump and of Kaepernick.
Despite ruffling some feathers, Ginsburg had a fervent following, with devotees who cared about her rigorous fitness regimen almost as much as they cared about how she voted on the high court. Her likeness appeared on female empowerment T-shirts and other paraphernalia.
Ginsburg, who was only the second female justice to sit on the nation's highest court, credited her mother, who died of cancer a day before Ginsburg graduated from high school, with influencing her advocacy for women.
"My mother told me two things constantly: One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The latter was something very unusual ... because for most girls growing up in the 1940s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your 'M.R.S.,'" Ginsburg said in an appearance at Duke University in 2005.
Born on March 15, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York, Ruth Joan Bader graduated with a degree in government at top of her class from Cornell University in 1954, the same year she married her college sweetheart, Martin Ginsburg, who became a leading tax lawyer.
The couple moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he was stationed with the Army Reserve. She worked for the Social Security Administration — only to be demoted after becoming pregnant with their first child, who was born in 1955.
Returning East, Ginsburg enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1956 before transferring to Columbia Law School. She tied for first in her class when she received her law degree in 1959. But when she applied for jobs afterward, she discovered that most law firms didn't want her, despite her sparkling credentials.
"In the Fifties, the traditional law firms were just beginning to turn around on hiring Jews. But to be a woman, a Jew and a mother to boot — that combination was a bit too much," she once wrote.
Ginsburg eventually got a job clerking for U.S. District Judge Edmund Palmieri in Manhattan before she moved to Rutgers University, where she was a law professor from 1963 to 1972.
She became pregnant with her second child while teaching at Rutgers, and, fearing she would get fired, hid her growing stomach by wearing baggy clothes. She gave birth over summer break in 1965 and returned to work in the fall. She then taught at Columbia, where she became the university's first female tenured professor.
Ginsburg devoted herself to reversing the social norms that had made her own career so difficult.
In 1972, the Ginsburgs — Martin Ginsburg, who died from cancer in 2010, was a highly respected tax lawyer in his own right — led the legal team that successfully argued an appeal on behalf of a man who was denied a tax deduction for dependent-care expenses related to his support for his 89-year-old mother.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the IRS regulation under which the deduction was denied was "a special discrimination premised on sex alone, which cannot stand" — a ruling that became crucial to decades of sexual discrimination jurisprudence and a central part of the 2018 movie "On the Basis of Sex," written by Daniel Stiepleman, Ginsburg's nephew.
(A biographical documentary, "RBG," also became a surprise hit in mid-2018 as Ginsburg emerged as a symbol for activists, especially women, opposed to the administration of President Donald Trump.)
Ginsburg would continue to challenge gender-based laws throughout the 1970s as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, for which she also served as founder and director of the Women's Rights Project.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She served in that role until Clinton appointed her to the Supreme Court.
Throughout her tenure on the high court, Ginsburg remained at the forefront of gender equality law.
In 1996, she wrote the majority decision that struck down Virginia Military Institute's men-only admissions policy as violating the 14th Amendment.
"Women seeking and fit for a VMI-quality education cannot be offered anything less," Ginsburg wrote.
While she has become a heroine to many activists, she has said she didn't consider herself one of them at first.
"I did not think of myself as a feminist in the 1950s," she said in a 1988 speech. She fought for women's legal rights, she said, "for personal, selfish reasons."
And she never expected to end up on the Supreme Court. In a 1993 New York Times profile, childhood friends remembered the girl nicknamed "Kiki" Bader as the one who chipped her tooth while twirling batons for her high school football team's games.
"She was very modest, and didn't appear to be super self-confident," Ann Burkhardt Kittner, a close high school friend, told The Times. "She never thought she did well on tests, but, of course, she always aced them."
As a justice, Ginsburg voted for workers' rights and the separation of church and state. Her opinions and dissents often drew attention for their blunt but eloquent explanations of her positions.
Her strongly worded dissent in Ledbetter vs. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in 2007 explicitly called on Congress to relax the statute of limitations on equal pay lawsuits, observing that "a worker knows immediately if she is denied a promotion or transfer. ... Compensation disparities, in contrast, are often hidden from sight."
Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, named in honor of the plaintiff, in 2009.
In 2013, Ginsburg joined the majority in striking down the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, ruling that same-sex couples married in states where such weddings are legal are entitled to the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples.
In one of the case's most striking moments, Ginsburg said at oral arguments that DOMA institutionalized "two kinds of marriage: the full marriage, and then this sort of skim milk marriage."
Just a few months later, she became the first Supreme Court justice to officiate a same-sex wedding, presiding over the marriage of her longtime friend Michael Kaiser to economist John Roberts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, of which Kaiser was then president.
And in a searing dissent to the court's 5-to-4 Hobby Lobby contraception ruling in 2014 — which held that the government can't require certain employers to provide insurance coverage for birth control that's in conflict with their religious beliefs — she wrote: "The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield."
Ginsburg had overcome serious health problems before: In February 2009, when she was 75, she had surgery to remove a small tumor in her pancreas. Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, spreading quickly and seldom detected early, and like many other patients, she had no symptoms. In her case, the tumor was discovered early enough to remove. In summer 2019, Ginsburg again had a brush with cancer in her pancreas, receiving radiation therapy for a malignant tumor.
She also had colon cancer in 1999, for which she received treatment, and a heart stent put in in 2014. In July 2018, Ginsburg was hospitalized after having broken three ribs; at the end of that year, she had surgery for early-stage lung cancer.
Ginsburg is survived by her children, Jane and James. While she was serious about causes that were important to her, she also made time to have fun: In November 2016, at age 83, she had a small speaking role on the opening night of "The Daughter of the Regiment," a show at the Washington National Opera.
Asked beforehand by NPR whether she thought she would have stage fright when it came time to step out of her comfort zone as a Supreme Court justice and perform in the opera, Ginsburg just laughed.
"What's to be nervous about?" she said.
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5 hours ago, horn said:
9K new cases and yet these ppl still think that COVOID-19 is a hoax and living their life as normal?
What are they waiting for? the whole state to get infected?
Well according to their beloved, can do no wrong, saintly King......"it is what it is".......even if their children fall ill or worse die from it.
These people make me sick.
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8 hours ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:
The thing I miss the most nowadays is common sense.
Amen to this!! You're so right.
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this part of the "eras" always makes me sad!! It's time though. Thx for the head's up on this!
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If Trump is legit voted out, he's going to do EVERYTHING he can to dispute it AND if he does concede, he's going to (continue) to "burn the house down" like a mad man before he goes. I dread to think of what he'll do between Nov and Jan. However, I think it's highly likely we won't even know the real winner this time for weeks or months even. Hope I'm wrong, but I highly doubt we're gonna know the winner on election night.
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Am I the only one that would love to punch this smug, entitled little prick in the face??
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21 minutes ago, Junior said:
And Disney World decided this weekend was the PERFECT weekend to reopen!! Brilliant!
AND (please correct me if I'm wrong), the governor still is NOT requiring masks to be worn.
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7 minutes ago, MadFan said:
Preach, Kurt. As they say, you rarely get what you vote for but you almost always get what you fail to vote against.
AMEN to that!! You said it perfectly.
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14 hours ago, Junior said:
Oh....so I guess we're supposed to applaud him now for this??
He should've been doing this in March and no doubt, he's only doing it because he's being FORCED because he's inside of a hospital.
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I understand those still somewhat disappointed that Biden is the nominee as he wouldn't have been my first choice either. The Dem candidate pool was so massive this time and I too am a little blase' about the fact that Biden, the most "vanilla" one of all is what we ended up with. However, we're in dire straits at this point. Maybe we need a little "normalcy" at this point.
Anyways, for those that for (god knows what reason) that are on the fence or considering voting for a third party, PLEASE keep in mind when you cast your vote you're not JUST voting for/against Biden. This is much bigger and more serious this time. Don't neglect the fact that you're pretty much voting for our entire future, not the next four years. If Trump/Republicans win, THEY WILL gain FULL and TOTAL control of the Supreme Court......THAT will impact us FAR beyond 2024. It's no exaggeration to say that the policies that they'd put in place, will absolutely haunt us for the rest of our lives. I think it's safe to say a good chunk of us are in our 30's/40's so just imagine what we have now until we're 65-70 yrs old at least.
PLEASE consider all aspects of who you vote for this year. It's not a game this time. It's not a time to stamp our feet and vote defiantly because we don't have our "ideal" Dem candidate. -
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Thank you for posting this @Flip The Switch! Wonderful interpretation of the songs in this review. Have to say, this album is almost chilling for me to listen to now with everything going on. Madonna knew what was up, our girl is almost always a step ahead of the curve in one way or another. No, I'm not saying she's a prophet (before anyone gets their panties in a bunch...lol) but I do feel that a lot of times artists have an intuition about things that evades many people. Madame X is most definitely one of those albums like Erotica and AL that will be revisited down the road. Erotica, AL, LAP, ROL and MX......all of them delve deep into Madonna's psyche at that given moment in time.
This is a somewhat petty "complaint" but my only beef with this review is the exclusion of Extreme Occident. Would've loved to hear what they have to say about that one. Yeah, I know it's not on the regular edition but it's absolutely essential in my view.
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1 hour ago, jamesshot said:
Biden actually is not the weak candidate people think. He isn't exciting. But he is solid and he is the polar opposite of what we have and need now.
Even some of those against Trump are still somewhat addicted to the shit show aspect of it all. Literally, every single day for 4-5 yrs now we've had a CONSTANT barrage of insanity. I've heard others (even myself) say before that Biden is boring, middle of the road, "status quo" but I truly think we need someone a bit more leveled and centered at this moment. I do believe now more than ever that he MUST choose a female POC as his running mate. After the past week, I don't think that's really an option at this point.
Even with all the bullshit of the past 4 yrs and all the "deplorables" seemingly crawling out of the woodwork like termites, I do still firmly believe they're desperate. This IS their last big hurrah, their last breath so to speak and once we get them out....whether it be 2020 or 2024, that's going to be it for them. We will not allow it to happen again on this level.
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Sooo is everyone in the "black book" and that went to the island necessarily even involved in child abuse of any sort? I find it hard to believe Joan Rivers or Barbra Walters would be but I guess stranger things have happened. I'm sure there was just a lot of straight up partying and elite schmoozing that went on as well.
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7 hours ago, Kim said:
Really wouldn't be surprised if a new world war wasn't on the cards to top it all off.
I feel like this and a Civil War in USA are almost inevitable at this point.
The US is absolutely at a boiling point on multiple levels. Even if Trump is voted out, it's a long long road ahead that Biden or any other Dem wouldn't be able to easily fix.
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26 minutes ago, Ciccone's Cheeks said:
STILL around 40% 'approval' ffs
!!! F'king *horrifying!! ~30%...still too high but...okay but FOUR out of 10....just 
DEF. enough to squeak it out again...watch! 
At this point 10% is too high in my opinion. His fanatics are well and truly brainwashed beyond help. I seriously questioned anyone that voted for him in 2016 but anyone that does this year AND actually loves him......well, like Hillary said, they're truly deplorable. And @Jazzy Jan u are absolutely correct. I can't imagine that most of his fanatics would appreciate or support this behavior in ANYONE else. Let's just imagine really quickly the conspiracy theories flying around IF Hillary were president right now and things happened just as they have under Trump's watch (they wouldn't have...but let's imagine) there would be absolute outrage, calls to kill her probably. He makes me sick. The awful thing is, even if he does lose in November, you know he already has a narrative created for how it's a scam, the election is a fraud, Biden cheated, everyone is against him etc.......and of course his little zombie deplorables will lap it up like little dogs. Sorry for that last comment, didn't mean to insult dogs.
2020 U.S. Election
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At this point, I don't know why I'm remotely shocked by this. That's low for even him though AND he's actually having a decent night. If we "stopped" counting votes now, Biden is actually the winner.....lol.
To have a president do this literally in the midst of counting the votes in an election is just unreal. If he gets in again.....which definitely doesn't look unlikely......we are truly and completely fucked.