Clown Car V: 2020 version!

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Popped up on my phone while i was reading threads here. :)
 
And the story:

WaPo said:
The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a long-shot bid by President Trump and the state of Texas to overturn the results in four states won by Democrat Joe Biden, blocking the president’s legal path to reverse his reelection loss.

The court’s unsigned order was short: “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.” Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas, as they have in the past, said they did not believe the court had the authority to simply reject Texas’s request. “I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.”

Trump, who has appointed three of the court’s nine members, has long viewed the Supreme Court as something of an ace-in-the-hole, and called for the justices to display “courage” and rescue him in post-election litigation.
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Obstruct <---- we are here now
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Government shutdown: McConnell offers no clues for how Senate gets stopgap spending bill to Trump by midnight
The Kentucky Republican only briefly mentioned the need to pass a House-approved stopgap spending measure and get it to Donald Trump before midnight during his opening remarks on Friday.
Government funding will lapse at midnight if the Senate is unable to take-up the one-week spending measure the House overwhelmingly approved earlier this week.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...shutdown-latest-mcconnell-trump-b1770046.html
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BBC said:
Mike Lee: Lone US senator blocks women's and Latino museums

A lone Republican senator has blocked a congressional vote to create two new Smithsonian museums dedicated to American women and Latinos.

Casting his dissenting vote, Senator Mike Lee said they would "further divide an already divided nation".

The legislation received unanimous bipartisan support by the remainder of the 100-member Senate.

Founded 170 years ago, the Washington-based Smithsonian features 19 museums.

It boasts of being the "world's largest museum, education and research complex," with the newest Smithsonian museum - the Museum of African American History and Culture - added in 2016.

A museum for Latino history has been being considered for at least 20 years, after a government report found in the early 1990s that the Smithsonian "displays a pattern of wilful neglect" toward Latinos and "almost entirely excludes and ignores Latinos in nearly every aspect of its operations".

A measure to create a women history's museum was introduced in the early 2000s.

In his speech on the Senate floor on Thursday night, Mr Lee - a Utah senator who leans libertarian - condemned politics based on identity - a topic that many conservative Americans have voiced objections to in recent years.

"My objection to the creation of a new Smithsonian museum or series of museums based on group identity, what Theodore Roosevelt called hyphenated Americanism, is not a matter of budgetary or legislative technicalities," he said. "It is a matter of national unity and cultural inclusion."

Because the authors of the two museum bills had sought a unanimous vote of all 100 senators, each measure was struck down in its entirety by Mr Lee's objection. Measures supporting the Latino museum and women's museum had already been passed earlier this year by the House of Representatives - the lower chamber of Congress.

Mr Lee went on to say: "The so-called critical theory undergirding this movement does not celebrate diversity; it weaponises diversity.

"I understand what my colleagues are trying to do and why. I respect what they're trying to do. I even share their interests in ensuring that these stories are told. But the last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation with an array of segregated, separate-but-equal museums for hyphenated identity groups."

In a following debate, Mr Lee argued that Native Americans and black Americans had their histories "virtually erased," which was why Smithsonian institutions exist for them.

"We have been systematically excluded," retorted New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, the author of the Latino museum bill.

"Believe me, we have been," he added, accusing Mr Lee of standing "in the way of the hopes and dreams and aspirations of seeing Americans of Latino descent having their dreams fulfilled and recognised".

Latina Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a liberal Democrat from New York, was among those criticising Mr Lee. She noted that the debate over these two bills came as coronavirus stimulus relief bills continued to stall in the Senate.

Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins, who sponsored the Smithsonian Women's History Museum Act, joined in the criticism of Mr Lee, calling it a "sad moment" and adding that "it seems wrong" for a single senator to block such popular measures.

"Surely in a year where we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, this is the time, this is the moment to finally pass the legislation," she said, referring to the centennial of women's right to vote in the US.

Museum advocates say Mr Lee's objection is just one of many roadblocks, and that other legislative avenues still exist to having the measures pass.

Senators could still attempt to attach the museum measures to the year's highly important budget bill, or otherwise reintroduce the measures when the new Congress convenes in January.

Even if the votes had passed, it would still be years before building would begin, as Congress would also need to vote again to allocate funds to the projects.

Last week, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G Bunch III released a statement praising the two bills.

"Creating new museums is challenging, but, with appropriate funding, the Smithsonian has the skill and expertise to do it right," he said. "We can, and have, created museums that meet the needs of the nation and showcase the US to the world."
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55278650
 
I support this measure. Ask respective governors to seat new republican replacements (no hijacking seats that were won). The only way to stop the spiral into oblivion is make clear that oblivion is on the horizon. We should not seek to expunge the voices of their constituents but we should seek to stop this madness of political expediency. These GOP members need to be honest with their voters and stop frothing them into madness with insane conspiracy theories and fear mongering. The nation did not burn down this year do to antifa, it did not suddenly become racist again because of BLM. All these anxieties have been going on my entire life, the fact that they have boiled over has to do with the continuing inequality gap, the unemployment since the pandemic, and the lack of responsive government to the concerns raised. I'm not sure we will get consent of the governed back from both sides any time soon. It seems to me that one side will feel inevitably that the other has disenfranchised them. The problem with having this discussion of course is that one side does seek to disenfranchise the other (voter suppression is GOP tactic number one in elections now) while the other side jsut wants to let all voices be heard and counted and justice for all. Please Republicans come back to the fold and lets actually work together to make America live up to its ideals. Stop attacking your neighbors as if they are your enemy.

New Jersey Rep. Tells Nancy Pelosi Not to Seat 126 Republicans Who Backed 'Malignant' Texas Lawsuit (newsweek.com)

"I'm demanding that the 126 Republicans who have endorsed a malignant lawsuit to overturn the will of the people and undermine our democracy not be seated in Congress," Pascrell tweeted on Friday.
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WHOLE FOODS-CRACKER BARREL GAP reached its highest level in the 2020 election. Biden won 85% of counties that have a Whole Foods Market and just 32% of counties with a Cracker Barrel, according to Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report.
Whole Foods counties tend to be higher income and located in metropolitan areas, while Cracker Barrels tend to be in more rural areas. The smallest gap since Whole Foods emerged as a national chain was in 1992, when Bill Clinton won 60% of Whole Foods
counties and 40% of Cracker Barrel counties. Counties that have both stores are included in both categories. Biden won 95% of counties with Whole Foods but no Cracker Barrel, and just 18% of counties with a Cracker Barrel but no Whole Foods.
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