Starker on 9/12/2020 at 13:50
The tally is 1-51 for wins and losses in court for Lord Dampnut and co at this point. The amount of winning they get tired of is 1, apparently, while there seems to be an unending appetite for losing. Oh, and of course grifting money from the followers.
Nicker on 9/12/2020 at 14:04
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Because the challenge is coming from another state, it seems like a ploy to skip over the state courts and go directly to SCOTUS. I think this one will get rejected right away. Texas has no standing to challenge election law in other states.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/opinions/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-election-lawsuit-moore/index.html) Considering the enormous legal peril that Texas AG, Paxton faces, this seems more like a move to get in on Trump's Pardon Palooza.
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There is, meanwhile, an accumulating body of allegations against Paxton. A letter obtained in October by the Austin American-Statesman and television station KVUE, noted that a number of Paxton's top aides had reported to "the appropriate law enforcement authority" a "potential violation of law" by Paxton. The staffers insisted they had "a good faith belief that the Attorney General is violating federal and/or state law, including prohibitions relating to improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other potential criminal offenses."
Several of Paxton's former employees filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the attorney general, saying Paxton retaliated against them after they accused him of intervening in legal matters to help his friend, a real estate investor who had made a $25,000 donation to his 2018 campaign, according to the suit. Paxton has denied their allegations.
Starker on 9/12/2020 at 14:32
If memory serves, Pfizer's vaccine was the one that had to be kept at an ultra low temperature and required two doses to be effective:
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https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/health/2020/12/08/operation-warp-speed-official-stumped-by-trump-s-vaccine-executive-order)
WASHINGTON — As part of a “vaccine summit” Tuesday, President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that would prioritize vaccinating Americans for COVID-19 before distributing doses to other countries.
It's not clear how or if the Trump administration could enforce the order, and the declaration will come a day after news reports surfaced saying the federal government passed this summer on a chance to buy millions of additional doses of Pfizer's vaccine, which could be approved for emergency use in the coming days.
That decision could delay the delivery of a second batch of doses until Pfizer fulfills other international contracts. In November, the pharmaceutical company agreed to make 200 million doses available to the European Union, with the option for 100 million more after that.
Asked Tuesday morning to clarify the intent behind Trump's executive order, Dr. Moncef Slaoui — chief science adviser for Operation Warp Speed, the government initiative to expedite coronavirus vaccines — had no answer.
“Frankly, I don't know. And frankly, I'm staying out of this. I can't comment,” Slaoui told ABC's “Good Morning America.”
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nemyax on 9/12/2020 at 18:01
Quote Posted by SubJeff
No it's not.
How would you explain it then?
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What about the export of it?
What kind of exported savagery do you mean? Electricity? Household appliances? Automobiles? Airplanes? Art? Running water? Medicine? The internet?
lowenz on 9/12/2020 at 20:27
Hiroshima? You know, *vaporized* humans.
nemyax on 9/12/2020 at 20:46
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Hiroshima?
Good point. Also Dresden, Saigon and lots of other places. But I personally prefer to appreciate the nice things, and there's a great deal to appreciate.
SubJeff on 9/12/2020 at 22:25
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How would you explain it then?
With great ease. Just say what happened. What's hard about it?
Starker on 9/12/2020 at 22:52
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What kind of exported savagery do you mean? Electricity? Household appliances? Automobiles? Airplanes? Art? Running water? Medicine? The internet?
You realise that a lot of these things have been made possible by ruthless exploitation of large parts of the world, right? You know that when colonial powers were exporting civilisation and the US was exporting democracy, they weren't really doing it for the benefit of the locals, right? And while not all of the mess in the Middle East can be blamed on the Western powers, quite a lot of it can be.
Also, people don't commit acts of terrorism because of cultural reasons. This is political in nature. Just like right-wing extremists are stoking hatred against minorities and immigrants and lash out against the state to try to destabilise the system, there are people who similarly hate Western powers and try to hurt them by any means possible or disrupt their functioning. These aren't ordinary people, they are unstable, twisted individuals.