I’ll add two more:
- Fed expected to cut interest rates in September
- Summer-blend gasoline begins coming off the market, dropping prices at the pump
Completely anecdotal (kind of), but every night when I watch the Olympics in Houston, Texas on NBC during primetime I’m seeing a lot of Harris ads. No Trump ads.
I’m just gonna go ahead and knock on wood. Let’s hope this isn’t the peak of her campaign because the good attacks haven’t even started yet. And best hope economy doesn’t go into the shitter.
You think they’re holding back–or just haven’t thought up “good attacks” yet?
I think they have no ammo. None in the tube, and none at the dump.
Do you think that they would have arrived at the same decision regarding immunity if a Democratic president had brought the case? My opinion is not a chance, they wouldn’t have even heard the case. There are two crooked grifters and four other right wing maniacs on the court, they have lost all credibility.
Floridian here.
As I’ve said elsewhere, Florida has 2 big issues on its ballot, in the form of constitutional amendments: recreational marijuana (it’s currently legal for medicinal use, something that received 70% of the vote when it passed), and abortion.
So, Florida has reason to draw democratic voters.
Then again, I’m not seeing ads (from either party) on TV. I expect the blitz is to come.
Agreed. This court is dogshit baking on a tattered piece of aluminum foil in the sun after a rainstorm.
How would they rule on further Trump cases? Not sure. They have no organizing principle at this point.
Ben Meiselas goes over the lowlights of Trump’s press conference:
My observation: Trump has an odd affect here. A bit different from the usual. It’s as if the lizard has become a bit desiccated and is looking around with more vigilance. Unsettling.
This is not a man who is confident of his future or able to direct its course, IMHO.
And this loose stool dares to compare himself to MLK Jr.? Words, concepts, everything fails me.
Yes, since the President should have immunity for certain official acts- within limits. The reason for the decision was that no other president had ever even been charged with any real crimes (a few traffic violations- which I might add the President paid in full). The big issue with the decision is that it did not define and set limits for said official acts, but left that open for future courts. That made it a bad decision.
Let us say the President pardons a guy- who then murders a bunch of people, and they want to charge the President with various crimes. Would that be right?
And he didn’t even get to this
LMFAO. Yep, this guy’s gonna WIN!
When was the last time refusing to certify turned out to be a successful tactic?
It’s a continual worry that voter lists and rules will be altered to favour Trump. But against that, I vaguely recall the GOTV campaign in 2020 was very successful. No cites, sorry, but I imagine a significant part of the Democrat campaign strategy will be tied to GOTV, and having the funds, field offices and volunteers to hand must make that task a lot more likely to succeed.
Sobering to think that the additional cost to basic democracy of countering foul play is so huge, but clearly vital.
It doesn’t have to be overtly successful. It just has to sow enough confusion and chaos to potentially cause a state to miss the deadline for certifying or create a touchpoint for lawsuits (election official sues, says they were forced or coerced to certify) that they can point to when refusing to accept a state’s certification. They didn’t expect the alternate electors to work, as in be accepted as legitimate, only to give them a reason to send the vote to the House, where a Republican victory is absolutely assured.
That’s really good news - the kind of thing that can drive turnout.
Trump is up 7% (on average) in the three Florida polls cited here since Kamala jumped in. That’s a big hill to climb, even with the pro-pot and pro-choice referenda.
2020, Bush v Gore, a successful right wing coup.
True. Also because whether it’s from past policies or future crises(Iran/Israel), Harris will lose little slivers of voters, while a lot of people will be turned off by Trump’s actions, and then show up and reflexively vote the straight Republican slate on the ballot.
That wasn’t due to a refusal to certify. In that instance the argument was over whether the certification by the Secretary of State was premature.