Forgive my ignorance, as no one in the world but the USA uses “points” instead of percentages - but isn’t “47 points” equivalent to “4.7%”?
Not much to boast about.
My son used to work for a company that had a large facility in “the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville.” They wanted to transfer a bunch of engineers to work there. To a person, they refused. SO the company had to have regular flights the engineers called “the nerd birds” to ferry shifts of engineers down there, and put them up in hotels. 
According to Wikipedia In 2024 Trump won Alabama by 30.47%. So at least he remembered the .47 part right.
Colorado earned this punishment by being….. This was also the only state where Trump earned a smaller percentage of the vote than his first run in 2016.
And…. By 2020, Colorado was considered a safe blue state, with Joe Biden winning by more than 13% over Donald Trump. In 2024, Kamala Harris won Colorado by around a 11% margin, re-affirming the status of Colorado as a solidly blue state.
[both also from Wikipedia]
One of us is having trouble with the math (truth), and I’m pretty sure it’s Trump. He won Alabama’s popular vote by a margin of:
| Trump | Dem | Margin | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 62.08% | 34.36% | 27.72% |
| 2020 | 62.03% | 36.57% | 25.46% |
| 2024 | 64.57% | 34.10% | 30.47% |
Sources:
I defense of my current (for 40 years) locale, Huntsville does have the Marshall Space Flight Center, Redstone Arsenal, a large FBI training center and a fairly high tech base. The youth soccer team I am currently coaching has White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Indian (family from India)-Americans on it so they area is pretty integrated.
My beef is that we’re already having booming growth and multiple housing/apartment buildings going up and this will only make it (and traffic) worse. Well, that and the obvious political overtones..
Press on.
I think what is being said is that he is Felon-47, so that is where “by 47 points” comes from.
The kicker on moving the Space Command is that it’s in Colorado Springs, a flaming red space in the sea of Colorado blue, and that area will be hurt economically while the rest of the state won’t feel much of the effects.
At first I thought that the reprehensible representative Lauren Boebert got cranky for that bit of news, I thought that she was representing the district that covers Colorado Springs; but actually, the one that will get cranky is, of course, Jeff Crank 
, Republican too.
To prove that I can admit he is right once a decade or so about non-obvious things, I do think that Huntsville is more beautiful than any other city known for its ties to space. I’d pick it for a location myself as a President, since it would give me an excuse to go to Monte Sano.
It appears that you have that sort of backwards. Colorado Springs is on the Front, which means it is at the edge of the plains – most of the state east of the Front looks like Kansas and is also a lot like Kansas. Colorado Springs is not in the middle of a sea of blue, it is more like on the coast of a sea of red.
Same thing happened when the Aviation and Troop Command (earlier DoD melded the Troop Command with Army Aviation 
) in St. Louis was being moved to Huntsville. The employees were up in arms about moving to ’ backwards’ Alabama. The city, MICOM (Missile Command), and Marshall Space Flight Center were featured in a video presentation to convince (or at least interest) the employees in moving. Huntsville is an oasis in the sea of Alabama stupidity. Your next door neighbor is likely to be an actual rocket scientist. Huntsville at one time had the highest concentration of Phds per Capita in STEM after Alamogordo/Pentax area. The University of Alabama at Huntsville plays ice hockey; not football. They were Division I when I first moved there in the late 80s, then dropping to Division II due to travel and recruiting. The biggest draw at the Convention Center/Arena is the minor league hockey team - walkup tickets are non-existent most games. The school system is top notch; all the government execs, scientists, and major contractor Muckety mucks. /end Huntsville commercial. I was going to retire there but my later wife said Hawaii - also an okay choice.
So… a red tide?
I think I’d prefer a blue wave.
The felon says he’s moved the Space Boondoggle HQ because Colorado has mail-in voting.
U.S. military operations in space will soon be led from Huntsville, Alabama. President Donald Trump announced he is moving U.S. Space Command headquarters out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, citing the state’s use of mail-in voting as a “big factor” in the decision.
“The problem I had with Colorado, one of the big problems, they do mail-in voting,” Trump said. "When a state is for mail-in voting, that means they want dishonest elections … so that played a big factor also.”
Don’t all states have mail-in voting? And didn’t the felon himself use mail-in voting? The Second Felonial Era is the era that Logic died.
Mister “I deserve the Nobel Prize” has launched yet another military strike.
The U.S. military killed 11 alleged Tren da Aragua members aboard a suspected drug boat originating from Venezuela in the southern Caribbean on Sept. 2.
The move, announced by President Donald Trump during a press conference, marks a milestone in increasingly militarized U.S. counterdrug efforts in the region. Trump secretly authorized military force against drug cartels in early August.
Trump described the strike in a post on Truth Social.
“Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,” Trump said. “The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States. The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action.”
Yet another court loss for the felon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump cannot use an 18th-century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of membership in a Venezuelan gang, blocking a signature administration push that is destined for a final showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court.
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country, agreed with immigrant rights lawyers and lower court judges who argued the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was not intended to be used against gangs like Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan group Trump targeted in his March invocation.
Lee Gelernt, who argued the case for the ACLU, said Tuesday: “The Trump administration’s use of a wartime statute during peacetime to regulate immigration was rightly shut down by the court. This is a critically important decision reining in the administration’s view that it can simply declare an emergency without any oversight by the courts.”
Yet another, yet another court loss!
Score one for the Constitution.
A federal judge has put a temporary halt to President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles against the wishes of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, finding the president violated a bedrock American law known as the Posse Comitatus Act.
Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer issued the preliminary injunctionTuesdayafter a three-day bench trial.
Here’s the meat of the matter, with my bolding.
The ruling was clear right from the start. “Congress spoke clearly in 1878 when it passed the Posse Comitatus Act, prohibiting the use of the U.S. military to execute domestic law,” Breyer wrote before detailing the actions of the Trump administration in sending troops to LA to ostensibly quash a rebellion, in the form of protests over immigration raids.
“There were indeed protests in Los Angeles, and some individuals engaged in violence,” Breyer acknowledged. “Yet there was no rebellion, nor was civilian law enforcement unable to respond to the protests and enforce the law.”
So, no, felon. You cannot do ‘whatever the hell [you] like” just beause you’re president. As much as you wish, and have specifically stated such a desire, to chuck out the constitution and the laws enacted under its authorities, you are bound by them.
WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump declared he plans to send the National Guard into Chicago after the city experienced a violent Labor Day weekend.
“We’re going in,” Trump said during a briefing at the Oval Office on Sept. 2. “I didn’t say when.”
“Look, I have an obligation,” the president told reporters. “This isn’t a political thing. I have an obligation.”
Trump’s comments come after he repeatedly targeted California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, and Illinois’ JB Pritzker, all Democratic governors who have been outspoken against him and are possible 2028 presidential candidates.
The president later referred to Chicago ‒ and also Baltimore ‒ each as a “hell hole.”
At least eight people were killed and another 50 people were injured in shootings across the city over the weekend, according to Chicago Police Department data. Trump referenced the deadly holiday weekend, calling Chicago “the worst and most dangerous city in the World, by far,” in a post on Truth Social.
“Pritzker needs help badly, he just doesn’t know it yet,” said Trump, who has publicly rebuffed Trump’s advances to send in troops. “I will solve the crime problem fast, just like I did in DC. Chicago will be safe again, and soon. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
The felon’s choices for counterterrorism aren’t exactly inspiring, nor honest for that matter.
On Sunday, CNN anchor Brianna Keilar challenged White House counterterrorism director Sebastian Gorka after he advanced a debunked narrative that transgender people are disproportionately responsible for mass shootings.
The exchange came days after a massacre in Minneapolis, where 23-year-old Robin Westman, who was trans, opened fire during a back-to-school mass at Annunciation Catholic School, killing two children and wounding at least 17 others before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. While investigators probe Westman’s motives for the Wednesday shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warned against scapegoating. “Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community or any other community out there has lost their sense of common humanity. Kids died. This needs to be about them,” he said.
Still, on national television, Gorka falsely argued there had been “seven” transgender shooters in recent years. Keilar pushed back, citing the U.S. Secret Service Threat Assessment Center’s review of 172 mass attacks from 2016 to 2020, which found 96 percent of perpetrators were cisgender men. “Are you missing the bigger picture here when you zero in on that instead of more broadly these school shooters as an epidemic?” she asked.
The rest of the article details Gorka’s deep dive into fantasy live and his assessment of statistics he doesn’t like. Check it out. Enjoy the laugh.
This morning, I had to attend (mandatory for all staff at the school) a viewing of China’s 80th anniversary parade to comemmoratee the end of World War II. The first three people to walk onto the reviewing stand at Tiananmen were Xi Jinping, Valdimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un. My immediate reaction was, “Hey! Where’s our dictator? We fought in that war, too!”
That was from a week ago. I have just posted my last regular update in these two threads. I simply no longer have the time for it due to that “number of reasons”. One of those reasons is that I’m just starting to get too peeved whenever I read the news now.
I will greatly appreciate those who continue the fight here. And that fight, as the Straight Dope has long proven, is to counter ignorance with the truth, with facts.
Thank you to all who have been commenting in these threads or even just viewing them.
Surely this ruling means that any NG troops who are ordered to deploy lie this will have legal cover to refuse the order as illegal? At least until the Supreme Court overturns it?
You naïf! There will be tons of mandatory training sessions as to why the court is wrong and those orders still must be obeyed.
And then which of the NG members is going to give up the following?
- Active duty points towards retirement
- Active duty base pay
- Active duty Basic Allowance for Housing
- Active duty Cost of Living Allowance
- Active duty Family Separation Allowance
- Active duty Basic Allowance for Subsistence
Nah, the longer this lasts, the better for some of them.
Colorado has universal mail-in voting - everyone votes by mail. As opposed to “absentee ballots”. At least, that’s the distinction for the rest of us, how Trump views it Og only knows.
‘nerd birds’. Hahahaha. Our IS department is called the Nerd Herd. Since we are also GIS, and have a big ass plotter (for maps), we made an appropriate banner and hung it up.