Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=Chico23231;1362479]“I actually really enjoy”

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:laughing-

This, coming after "non citizens should not vote on any level"?

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You're the Angel Hernandez of shitposting Chico. Maybe you should follow his cue.

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=mooby;1362503]:laughing-

This, coming after "non citizens should not vote on any level"?

:laughing-

You're the Angel Hernandez of shitposting Chico. Maybe you should follow his cue.[/quote]

I think the MLB had to pay Hernandez to "retire".

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[B]Ted Kennedy Warned Us About Samuel Alito. He Was Ignored.[/B]


[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/ted-kennedy-warned-us-samuel-100000696.html[/url]


As The New York Times reported on the eve of Alito’s confirmation in 2006, his placement on the court was the “culmination” of an effort that began during the Reagan administration to staff the judiciary with ideologues of the religious right. Conservatives also deployed an adroit media strategy to temper, silence, and even disparage any attempt to criticize Alito during the nomination hearings. Public relations specialists and legal experts, coordinating on behalf of the Federalist Society, Christian organizations like Focus on the Family, and Republican senators, helped to sell Alito to the Senate, the media, and the public—even before his nomination. “We boxed them in,” one lawyer who participated in the meetings told the newspaper, presumably referring to the Senate and the mainstream media.

Early in the Alito nomination fight, Democrats uncovered a memothe judge wrote while he was working for the Reagan administration in 1985 that articulated his opposition to legal abortion. He advised against waging a “frontal assault on Roe” only because such a maneuver would prove politically unpopular, and instead advocated for a steady demolition of access to reproductive healthcare at the state level. Until the 2022 Dobbsdecision overturning Roe, the Alito playbook is exactly what many southern and heartland states followed to make abortion all but impossible within their borders.

The memo did not stop Alito from lying to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, whose diaryrevealed that, while meeting privately in Kennedy’s office, Alito assured him that he would never vote to overturn Roe. Unlike Republican Senator Susan Collins, who believed the same lie from Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, Kennedy was not gullible enough to vote in favor of Alito’s confirmation.

The PR firm handling the Alito nomination insisted that Republicans counterwith the claim that, as a lawyer for the Reagan administration, Alito was only reflecting the views of his client. Planned Parenthood warned that Alito would “gut Roe”if he had the opportunity, but the media soon dropped stories on the memo.

Similarly nauseating eventstranspired when Democrats learned that Alito belonged to Concerned Alumni of Princeton, an organization that opposed measures to increase admission of women and racial minorities. The group wasn’t merely against affirmative action, but also contemptuous of co-education and supportive of quotas that favored men.

Alito insisted that his participation in the group was ancient history. (He had listed his membership on a job application as a 35-year-old applying to work for the federal government.) The mainstream media reacted not with questions about Alito’s biases on race and gender, but with vilification of Democrats. Gloria Borger, a CNN commentator, accused the Democrats of “going over the line,” Newsweek
likened Democratic senators to “bullies,” and PBS’ Gwen Ifill accused Alito’s critics of “demonization.” Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd had a conversation on MSNBCsuggesting that it was absurd to try to “nail him” for belonging to a “club.”

Several reporters, including Katie Couric, focused on how Alito’s wife—whom the justice this month blamed for flying the upside-down flag—was crying when Democrats questioned him about his involvement in Concerned Alumni of Princeton.



Democrats would later learn that, as an appellate judge, Alito failed to recuse himself in two cases involving companies with which he had financial interest, even after he pledged to do so. The New York Times shieldedAlito from suspicions over his lack of ethics, writing, “Legal ethics experts say judges are not obliged to recuse themselves in such cases… Judge Alito has said the lapses were inadvertent and occurred long after the initial period covered by his pledge.” The Times framed the criticism of Alito not as an ethical worry, but as a tactic from a “liberal coalition,” involving women’s rights groups, the NAACP, labor unions, and environmental organizations.

Kennedy gave a thunderous address on behalf of the people that the “liberal coalition” aimed to represent, warning on the Senate floor of the dangers of Alito’s extreme ideology: “If you are concerned and you want a justice that’s going to stand for the working men and women in this country—it’s not going to be Judge Alito. If you are concerned about women’s privacy rights, about the opportunity for women to gain fair employment in America—it’s not Judge Alito. If you care about the disabled…the Disability Act that we have passed to bring all of the disabled into our society, if you are looking for someone that is going to be a friend of the disabled—it’s not going to be Judge Alito. And finally, if you are looking for someone that is going to be willing to stand up to the executive branch of government … it’s not going to be Judge Alito.”

Kennedy attempted to organize a filibuster to prevent the confirmation of Alito, convincing Senators John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama to join, but said that many Democrats were unwilling because of fears that Republicans would accuse them of obstructionism. In a 58-42 vote, with four Democrats joining the Republicans, Alito was confirmed on January 31, 2006.

Earlier this month, Nicolle Wallace, the MSNBC host, said the photos of Alito’s upside-down flags “stopped her in her tracks.” She likened them to a “body blow,” and wondered how we “got here.” Wallace was working for Bush when he nominated Alito to the court. Unlike most Americans living in what Gore Vidal called, “the United States of Amnesia,” she should remember the deceitful strategy to install Alito on the court. Decades of right-wing subterfuge, media obsequiousness, and Democratic cowardice explain exactly how we “got here.”

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

Hunter Biden guilty on 3 felony counts. I think this counts as a common ground

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1362688]Hunter Biden guilty on 3 felony counts. I think this counts as a common ground[/quote]

Him and Trump need to be cellmates. Put that on T.V. Would be highest rated show ever.

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1362689]Him and Trump need to be cellmates. Put that on T.V. Would be highest rated show ever.[/quote]

There would be strippers and porn stars every week rolling in

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1362690]There would be strippers and porn stars every week rolling in[/quote]

I'm currently watching the series Oz right now, so this is even more enticing than it normally would be. I'm here for it.

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1362688]Hunter Biden guilty on 3 felony counts. I think this counts as a common ground[/quote]

I can't remember anyone defending Hunter, he got what he deserved . No one is above the Law any Law.


[url]https://www.businessinsider.com/[/url]


Clarence Thomas raised him 'as a son.' Now he's facing 25-plus years on weapons and drug charges.

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=BaltimoreSkins;1362688]Hunter Biden guilty on 3 felony counts. I think this counts as a common ground[/quote]

[url]https://www.foxnews.com/media/hunter-biden-laptop-re-emerges-media-embarrassment-becomes-key-evidence-gun-trial[/url]

Hunter Biden laptop re-emerges as media embarrassment as it becomes key evidence at gun trial

CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo were among the news outlets that peddled the 'Russian disinformation' narrative

The biggest issue was Hunter conviction put to sleep the laptop story. Americans were lied too once again by the media in order to influence the election.

[B]The FBI had the laptop in 2019 and confirmed its authenticity…instead of telling the truth, they remained quiet and then went to social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to influence them to suppress the Hunter laptop story.[/B]

When folks say the election was stolen…it was rigged. The FBI and media worked to suppress a very relevant story.

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=Chico23231;1362775]

When folks say the election was stolen…it was rigged. The FBI and media worked to suppress a very relevant story.[/quote]

chico , you're a phucking moron.

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-ominous-reaction-report-wanted-152751756.html[/url]

Trump’s Ominous Reaction to Report He Wanted to Execute People

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/couldn-t-even-remember-trump-185551036.html[/url]

"He couldn't even remember me": Trump has "severe memory issues," says author who interviewed him

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

Clarence Thomas is a fucking shitbag!


[B]Clarence Thomas dissents in ruling to keep guns from domestic abusers[/B]



[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/clarence-thomas-dissents-ruling-keep-152002319.html[/url]

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=Giantone;1362820]Clarence Thomas is a fucking shitbag!

[B]Clarence Thomas dissents in ruling to keep guns from domestic abusers[/B]

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/clarence-thomas-dissents-ruling-keep-152002319.html[/url][/quote]

Today is his birthday (mine too), give him a 1 day break.

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

Did you all catch that Space X rocket landing? Absolutely amazing. Musk is the modern Thomas Edison (Yeah It was his engineers, but he is the driving force behind this). He may set the US up for continued dominance unless that Jackass Russian agent he supports wins next month.

[url]https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1845446512584626586[/url]

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

[quote=nonniey;1365823]Did you all catch that Space X rocket landing? Absolutely amazing. Musk is the modern Thomas Edison (Yeah It was his engineers, but he is the driving force behind this). [B]He may set the US up for continued dominance unless that Jackass Russian agent he supports wins next month.
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[url]https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1845446512584626586[/url][/quote]

Not using the Common Ground Thread properly.

Re: The Common Ground thread
 

OK this is a weird one. A satellite that had been in orbit for eight years suddenly explodes? All they reported was they detected an anomaly.


[url]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-satellite-intelsat-33e-explodes-space-anamoly/[/url]