US Election 2020 - Lame duck days

greg0205

greg0205

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Where's @SoldierMan at?

Hey, pal... Remember this?

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Yeah?

Follow up question...

From the last year of the Obama administration to the last full year of recorded data during the Trump administration, the number of civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan increased by 330 percent.
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Is 330% a lot?

It sounds like a lot.

How about 95% between 2017 and 2019?

The data demonstrates that, compared to the previous 10 years, there was a 95 percent increase in civilians killed by U.S. and allied forces’ airstrikes between 2017 and 2019.
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Papers - 2020 - Afghanistan's Rising Civilian Death Toll Due to Airstrikes, 2017-2020 | Costs of War

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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This seems less than optimal for such a dove-ish administration, SoldierMan.
 
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greg0205 said:
That’s two so far today... it’s just after 11am on the East coast.

What’s the plural of Kraken? Krakens? Hope not, to boring.

Whether it’s a word or not, I’m going with Krakii... Two Krakii slain.
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Since we're playing the metaphor game, it seems to me that it's rather obvious that the kraken has many tentacles in many states and it all comes to a head at the Supreme Court. Poorly reasoned rulings from activist judges in the lower courts hurt the anti-Trump cause. ;)
 
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SoldierMan

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greg0205 said:
Where's @SoldierMan at?

Hey, pal... Remember this?

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Yeah?

Follow up question...



Is 330% a lot?

It sounds like a lot.

How about 95% between 2017 and 2019?



Papers - 2020 - Afghanistan's Rising Civilian Death Toll Due to Airstrikes, 2017-2020 | Costs of War

The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
watson.brown.edu watson.brown.edu



This seems less than optimal for such a dove-ish administration, SoldierMan.
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Yeah that is messed up. I agree. Trump was wrong.

Though Trump never started a war like Obama, and was widely panned by Democrats and Republicans alike for not doing more (ie. bombing the chit out of them) in Syria. He said no and even had people resign because of it.
 
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buka001

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CaptainOblivious said:
Since we're playing the metaphor game, it seems to me that it's rather obvious that the kraken has many tentacles in many states and it all comes to a head at the Supreme Court. Poorly reasoned rulings from activist judges in the lower courts hurt the anti-Trump cause. ;)
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Oh the amount of hope and wishful thinking interwoven into your post is a sweet little nugget of laughs for me.

"Activists judges" is a nice name for Judges who choose to follow the law. I guess when your fascistic desires are squashed by the rule of law, you have to attack the judges!

The recent Georgian case, the Judge ruled from the bench, in a federal court. This is rare. It points to just how meritless the case was.

He said he does not have the power to overturn 2.5 Million votes. The evidence was just not there?

Oh are you ready for tomorrow when the Supreme Court chucks out the PA case?
 
greg0205

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greg0205

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CaptainOblivious said:
Since we're playing the metaphor game, it seems to me that it's rather obvious that the kraken has many tentacles in many states and it all comes to a head at the Supreme Court. Poorly reasoned rulings from activist judges in the lower courts hurt the anti-Trump cause. ;)
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Meet Barbara Lagoa, a Justice on the 11th circuit.

en.wikipedia.org

Barbara Lagoa - Wikipedia

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Last week she ruled against Donnie in Georgia.

You remember Barbara, don't you?

No. Not as an activist judge...

Rather as a contender for the Supreme Court seat Amy Coney Barrett won.

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Who Is Barbara Lagoa, A Top Contender For Trump's Supreme Court Pick?

The Florida judge has been on the federal bench for just about a year. She became controversial for not recusing herself from a felon voting rights case.
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buka001 said:
Oh the amount of hope and wishful thinking interwoven into your post is a sweet little nugget of laughs for me.

"Activists judges" is a nice name for Judges who choose to follow the law. I guess when your fascistic desires are squashed by the rule of law, you have to attack the judges!
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Lol. Triggered.

Listen, I did not actually claim that any of the rulings were by activist judges. I simply said that such rulings would hurt the anti-Trump cause, which is plainly true. The fact of the matter is that the Supreme Court shows an indication of being willing to hear cases on their merits. Rudy telegraphed this aspect of the Trump plan weeks ago, before Sidney went off on her we-the-people mission, which is why all your hyperventilating about cases in the lower courts counts for zilch.

buka001 said:
Oh are you ready for tomorrow when the Supreme Court chucks out the PA case?
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Lol. Sure, why don't you break it down for me how it's all going to play out?
 
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‘A prodigious amount of losing’: Top legal reporter mocks Trump campaign’s record of humiliating defeat​

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'A prodigious amount of losing': Top legal reporter mocks Trump campaign's record of humiliating defeat

The Trump campaign's legal team and its allies have now lost 48 out 49 legal cases that they've presented before judges, good for a winning percentage of just over two percent.The latest defeats came at the hands of judges in Michigan and Georgia, who both shot down motions by Sidney Powell, the...
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The Trump campaign’s legal team and its allies have now lost 48 out 49 legal cases that they’ve presented before judges, good for a winning percentage of just over two percent.

The latest defeats came at the hands of judges in Michigan and Georgia, who both shot down motions by Sidney Powell, the Trump-loving attorney whose promise to “unleash the kraken” has so far resulted in a string of election defeats.

Reuters legal reporter Brad Heath, who has been dutifully following all of the lawsuits the Trump campaign and its allies have been bringing before the courts, wrote on Twitter Monday that he cannot recall seeing so much legal losing in such a short period of time.

“It’s a statistically anomalous number of losses,” he wrote, while mimicking the failed legal arguments used by the Trump campaign to claim “spikes” in reported votes for President-elect Joe Biden prove the election was stolen. “Nobody could actually lose that many lawsuits that rapidly. There was a sudden, unexplained Friday night “spike” in litigation losses, followed by another one Monday.”


He also added that “It is a prodigious amount of losing, truly.”

It’s a statistically anomalous number of losses. Nobody could actually lose that many lawsuits that rapidly. There was a sudden, unexplained Friday night “spike” in litigation losses, followed by another one Monday. https://t.co/1CNzpYNL04
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 7, 2020
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It is a prodigious amount of losing, truly.
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 7, 2020
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TysonRoux

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The impeached lame duck Orange Snollygoster picks only the best people.​

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LISTEN: Republican-appointed judge tears into Sidney Powell​

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LISTEN: Republican-appointed judge tears into Sidney Powell

Republican-appointed Judge Timothy C. Batten handed it to President Donald Trump's former lawyer Sidney Powell for her so-called "Kraken" case.Powell's case included conspiracy theories about voting machines, several typos, and hundreds of voter fraud accusations that didn't have any evidence.In...
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Republican-appointed Judge Timothy C. Batten handed it to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Sidney Powell for her so-called “Kraken” case.

Powell’s case included conspiracy theories about voting machines, several typos, and hundreds of voter fraud accusations that didn’t have any evidence.

In the case of the electronic voting machines, Powell accidentally cropped out the date of certification, in her accusation that there was no certification date.

“Additionally, I find that the plaintiffs waited to long to file this suit,” said Batten in his decision. “Their primary complaint involves the Dominion ballot marking devices. They say that those machines are susceptible to fraud. There’s no reason they could not have followed the Administrative Procedure Act and objected to the rule-making authority that had been exercised by the secretary of state. This suit could have been filed months ago, the timing that the machines were adopted, so that the plaintiffs waited over three weeks after the election to file the suit — there’s no question in my mind that if I were to deny the motion to dismiss the matter would be brought before the 11th Circuit and the 11th Circuit would reverse me. The relief that the plaintiffs seek this court cannot grant.”

He explained that the request to “de-certify” the election results isn’t even a possibility because the process for that doesn’t exist.

“Finally, in their complaint, the plaintiffs essentially ask the court for perhaps the most extraordinary relief ever sought in any federal court in connection with an election and they want this court to substitute its judgment for that of 2.5 million Georgia voters who voted for Joe Biden, and this I am unwilling to do.”

Listen below:
 
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