It’s banks specifically that he doesn’t like, because they stopped lending to him after his ventures had one too many bankruptcies.

But then he learned he didn’t need banks’ money anymore, when he could just run for office and have people give him money out of their own pocket.

Alternatively, they spend so much of their time listening to bots on the Internet that only other bots make sense to them.

It’s not that you are voting for a party ticket, instead you are voting for electors picked by the party, with the only job of supporting the candidate. (In my state, the ballots even say we are voting for “Electors For …” .) And in some states, once the electors are chosen on that ballot, the law says they must vote for their pledged candidate. So it’s not easy for a candidate to just drop out. Those electors may not be given the choice to change.

It’s too late for Trump to drop out now. Many state filing deadlines have passed, and I recall reading there are some states with extremely early mail-in voting where ballots are already being printed. Trump’s only path off the ballot is if God exercises His Ultimate Veto.

Of course he made it up, if it were authentic there would be some misspellings.

Ha!

First of all, elections are overseen by each state individually. While there is Federal law involving elections, it’s up to the States to implement them. Due to the Electoral College, the Presidential Election is really a weighted combination of the results of 50 separate State elections (and DC). So ypu can argue that we really don’t have any national elections at all, so each state runs their own.

Then, there is another complicating factor that there is no one piece of Federal ID that everyone is mandated to have. The closest thing is the Social Security Card, but that isn’t really supposed to be used as ID. Not everyone has a passport, and there is no national ID card. The closest thing we have to a universal ID is the driver’s license, but again that is managed on a state-by-state basis.

The main argument here is that when someone registers to vote, they must submit proof of residence, but Federal law holds that they do not have to show proof of citizenship. They merely have to attest that they are a citizen, and lying on that form is a crime. Many states object to that. Some go as far as to say that if you do not bring your proof of citizenship whe you register to vote, they will only let you vote in Federal elections, not state ones.

The fundamental question is: if you know you are a citizen but have lost both your passport and your birth certificate, should you be disenfranchised? Republicans clearly say “yes”.

As long as said body cam footage makes the cops look good, otherwise it will be lost due to technical problems.

Daniels said in a statement earlier Sunday that she requested an “immediate review” of the details surrounding the incident, adding that the department would review available body camera footage.

Something tells me that footage is about to be lost in some unforseen tech problems…

Such lazy journalism. “Where’s the beef” was a Wendy’s slogan…

Bullshit. AI are not human. We shouldn’t treat them as such. AI are not creative. They just regurgitate what they are trained on. We call what it does “learning”, but that doesn’t mean we should elevate what they do to be legally equal to human learning.

It’s this same kind of twisted logic that makes people think Corporations are People.

Helping Incarcerate Probably Pregnant Abortion-getters

(Haha, I meant to type “Provably” but I think “Probably” works better)

Right, it’s the whole gift card scam thing, except done with Bitcoin instead of Apple gift cards. I’m surprised there are enough Bitcoin ATMs to make this a real thing.

What’s better is that, thanks to Elon Musk, “STINKY” is the default name for its Starlink wifi. These people didn’t even change that.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-starlink-wifi-stinky

Here’s an interesting bit:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/05/us/trump-election-interference-hearing/jack-smith-shows-flashes-of-emotion-as-trumps-election-case-returns-to-court?smid=url-share

Sitting in a row with other Justice Department officials behind the counsel table, he [Jack Smith] smiled broadly when John Lauro, a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump, said offhandedly that he had yet to address his plan to file a motion challenging the legality of the special counsel.

Mr. Smith emphatically nodded his head in agreement several times after the presiding judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, interrupted Mr. Lauro when he suggested that the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had directed Mr. Trump’s lawyers to raise the issue. Judge Chutkan interrupted, and said, “He directed you to do that?”

Now, we may find that the lawyer was exaggerating a bit. But if it turns out that Thomas somehow reached out to the Trump legal team and said “Hey, I wrote this thing specifically to get you off the hook, use it”, wouldnt that be a Big Fucking Deal?

Except the one who gets the Nobel Prize for proving it

Wait, the car owner left the car, with the key fob in his pocket, and the thief was able to steal it 15 minutes later? Even if the owner left the car on, as the article suggests, would a Subaru let you drive off like that without any valid key fob in the car?

Cybermen? Daleks? The Slitheen?

We shouldn’t want any of these guys to succeed, because that’s how you get the martyr vote and end up with President JD Vance.

Donald Trump needs to die a natural death, in prison, after losing this election.

No, that’s just the only strategy they’ll admit to. They have the supplemental strategy of taking over the election apparatus in swing states like Georgia, so even if Harris wins more votes there they can ratfuck it in Trump’s favor anyway.