History will show that we’ve already gone over the brink. The only question remaining is how one side will destroy the other.
Off the top of my head, Georgia which actually went to Biden in the last election is a place where I could possibly see the Republicans get their way on something like this. Just as a hypothetical.
You are the only thing I have to fear.
We are well past that point. 1/6 and the subsequent investigations proved that to various liberal leaning individuals. And Trump has been harping that Democracy could not be trusted (if he didn’t win) since 2016. That ship has sailed.
I think many, possibly most of us feel that this democracy is -already- on the verge of failure.
I suppose “former Trump enabler” is close enough:
Michael Cohen, a former fixer and lawyer for former president Donald Trump, said in a new court filing that he unknowingly gave his attorney bogus case citations after using artificial intelligence to create them as part of a legal bid to end his probation on tax evasion and campaign finance violation charges…
You’d think people would have learned after this story hit the news back in June:
A federal judge tossed a lawsuit and issued a $5,000 fine to the plaintiff’s lawyers after they used ChatGPT to research court filings that cited six fake cases invented by the artificial intelligence tool made by OpenAI…
And tomorrow’s headline will be
Regarding the story we published yesterday, it turns out that Michael Cohen asked Google Bard to write the court filing giving a plausible excuse for why he had submitted fake case citations generated by Google Bard.
Write-in votes will not count in the Colorado primary cite . Republicans may go to a caucus system to get around the Trump-off-the-ballot situation. cite
So FDR was right!
Ha! (I suspect @Atamasama was setting us up for a punchline).
I couldn’t find any recent NRA threads and didn’t want to start one just for this, but I sure hope Letitia James can plant a stake in Wayne LaPierre’s evil heart.
The corruption investigation she started back in 2020 is finally going to trial:
In the days my father was a member, NRA was an organization for sportsmen interested in safety and education. It became a grotesque shitshow of corruption and mindless pursuit of political power at all costs.
Ms. James seeks to use her regulatory authority over nonprofit groups to impose a range of financial penalties against the defendants and to remove Mr. LaPierre; any money recovered would flow back to the N.R.A. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Tuesday before State Supreme Court Justice Joel M. Cohen. The trial is expected to last six to eight weeks.
Too bad the NRA would get that money back. It really belongs to the members - maybe they - including the 2 million who have left since all this stated - should have a say in where it goes since it’s theirs.
I guess the Russians are not going to ask for their money back from the NRA. The NRA helped deliver a Trump victory for Russia in 2016.
I stopped being a member years ago because I got sick of their fearmongering and noticed they weren’t the ones spearheading efforts to protect the rights of gun owners.
Well, that’s pretty much Wayne LaPierre’s legacy.
He was largely responsible for the switchover from an organization of hunters who did a lot of safety and education (really good stuff as I recall from my childhood) to more of the current corporate structure that shills for the manufacturers and exists only to perpetuate its own bloat and excess
Paywalled, unfortunately, but the headline says it all.
Yeah, that’s a new 14th Amendment suit according to NBC News Radio.
Some info on the activist who submitted the request:
I finally found an article that doesn’t require you to have a login to read it. This is the 4th one I checked.
How does one obtain the moniker “Gadfly”? I think I’d like to apply.
ETA: I’m currently “Curmudgeon”, but am willing to learn.
I don’t think you can go right from curmudgeon to gadfly. First you have to achieve fussbudget status.
Some more grassroots coolness, this time with five folks. Gotta start somewhere.
Forget grassroots coolness, this is more like a grass fire!
(Spreading and accelerating.)
Where do “crank” and “escaped mental patient” fit in?