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I only posted part of the write up. If you go to the link, it includes the statute for the ‘crime’ she pled to.

John Hinderaker: “In any event, it appears that the false statements, the making of which Ellis supposedly aided and abetted, were statements to the effect that there had been widespread fraud in Georgia in the 2020 election: Were these statements actually false? Does the prosecution claim that there was no voter fraud? That no mail-in ballots were illegally cast? That no illegal votes were cast on behalf of felons or dead people? Presumably not. The falsity apparently resides in whether any such fraud was “massive,” or enough to reverse the outcome of the election in Georgia. But in the immediate aftermath of the election, no one knew how extensive the fraud was. That was a matter for proof in a post-election contest. The Georgia prosecution is intensely political, even compared with the other criminal cases in which Donald Trump is embroiled. It seems intended to chill apparently losing Republican candidates from pursuing legal remedies, as, for example, Al Gore did in 2000. And it has elements of a Soviet show trial, with Ellis tearfully confessing her alleged sins for the benefit of the press. It is a dirty business, and it isn’t over yet. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/jenna-ellis-pleads-guilty.php

http://www.tsowell.com/

That’s a misfire, not anywhere near what he is saying.

There’s a lot of differences between you and Gable. He was a great athlete, wrestler, and coach. He’s not a weeny marxist.

Then you’re not familiar with his writing. He’s written whole books covering those topics.

I could argue the mistakes in that question or the bill, itself. Regardless, Trump’s actions boosted the economy - biden’s have caused it to shrink, while he gaslights that the economy is growing.

You don’t know Trump. You are a marxist with cats and couldn’t be more unreliable.

This is a very important point. Reduced tax revenues indicate economic decline, regardless the government’s stated performance reports.

You can say that, without refute, and without validation.

So, it’s just nonsense. Nothing new.

The Day the Delusions Died “When Hamas terrorists crossed over the border with Israel and murdered 1,400 innocent people, they destroyed families and entire communities. They also shattered long-held delusions in the West. A friend of mine joked that she woke up on October 7 as a liberal and went to bed that evening as a 65-year-old conservative. But it wasn’t really a joke and she wasn’t the only one. What changed? The best way to answer that question is with the help of Thomas Sowell, one of the most brilliant public intellectuals alive today. In 1987, Sowell published A Conflict of Visions. In this now-classic, he offers a simple and powerful explanation of why people disagree about politics. We disagree about politics, Sowell argues, because we disagree about human nature. We see the world through one of two competing visions, each of which tells a radically different story about human nature. Those with “unconstrained vision” think that humans are malleable and can be perfected. They believe that social ills and evils can be overcome through collective action that encourages humans to behave better. To subscribers of this view, poverty, crime, inequality, and war are notinevitable. Rather, they are puzzles that can be solved. We need only to say the right things, enact the right policies, and spend enough money, and we will suffer these social ills no more. This worldview is the foundation of the progressive mindset. By contrast, those who see the world through a “constrained vision” lens believe that human nature is a universal constant. No amount of social engineering can change the sober reality of human self-interest, or the fact that human empathy and social resources are necessarily scarce. People who see things this way believe that most political and social problems will never be “solved”; they can only be managed. This approach is the bedrock of the conservative worldview. Hamas’s barbarism—and the explanations and celebrations throughout the West that followed their orgy of violence—have forced an overnight exodus from the “unconstrained” camp into the “constrained” one. ” https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefp.com%2Fp%2Fthe-day-the-delusions-died-konstantin-kisin

What is your inmate locked up for?

Hint: Pay no attention to what he says, watch what he does. He is largely responsible for Jordan not being elected, while he positions himself as the savior, the only one who can lead the House.

Hern or Johnson at first glance look okay. Emmer is a no-go. (McCarthy’s fellow never-Trumper) Scott challenged Jordan and lost, already.

Victor Davis Hanson “As for business, law, and medical schools–they now transfer much of their finite resources away from honing professional skills to ideological indoctrination in supposed diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, universities have lost their century-long credibility as guardians of free and open scientific inquiry. Any contemporary university scientist who followed a renegade devotion to disinterested science–as embodied by Democritus, Galileo, or Copernicus–would encounter the same premodern character assassination, groupthink opposition, and efforts to destroy his career. In sum, if exorbitantly priced higher education can no longer produce either a class of broadly educated citizens, or an empirically-trained and elite scientific, professional, and technological class, then why would Americans any longer put up with universities’ unapologetic indoctrination—a sort of interference with the university’s mission so reminiscent of the disastrous Russian commissar system that had nearly destroyed the Red Army at the outset of World War II? Reform will only come through curtailing the government handouts that fuel multibillion dollar university endowments. Such unprecedented affluence ensures lavish campus budgets that in turn subsidize racist, anti-Semitic, and McCarthyite policies and institutions. Just tax the income from the roughly $1 trillion of America’s tax exempt university endowments and perhaps there would not be quite enough money for courses on cartoons, cross-dressing, and BLM, much less for thousands of DEI commissars and censors. Stop federal funds to any university that refuses to ensure Bill-of-Rights protections for its students. If the SAT and ACT are increasingly dropped for admissions to universities, then an exit version of them should be required to ensure that all BA and BS degrees certify at least a minimum competence in math, science, and general knowledge. Get the government out of the $1.8 trillion student loan business—and perhaps campuses would understand the concept of moral hazard. Only then would they monitor carefully extraneous expenditures and begin graduating students in four years—with the skills that employers so desperately need and the knowledge that a democracy relies upon. If thousands of big donors who give billions of dollars to Ivy League and other tony universities were to “just say no,” then perhaps grasping deans, provosts, and presidents would begin to wonder whether they could fund any more rock climbing walls, latte bars, DEI czars, drag shows—and hate-Israel courses and student organizations. In short, colleges are now a bad deal—far too costly, too political, and too incompetent in fulfilling their mission to the country. They no longer can deliver on what they were created for, and they simply will not stop fueling things that are not just unnecessary, but downright injurious to the country, scary, and destructive. Who wishes to continue with all that?” https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Famgreatness.com%2F2023%2F10%2F23%2Fthe-sickness-of-our-universities-and-the-cure%2F

“The Iranians have little clue that they and their vassals are one stupid missile volley, or one reckless intervention away from a devastating Western response that would not necessarily be “proportionate.”” https://victorhanson.com/does-iran-realize-its-own-growing-danger/

You’re proving it.

You are seriously afflicted. ^ Data for Progress

Your distraction is revealing itself.

You’re getting more erratic all the time.

And saying what I already said.

Yes, I am sure. Nancy Polosi changed it for her term. Intimidation? By their constituents? You have an odd idea of democracy. With the RNC and leaders of both houses directing their funding away from them, they’re doing pretty well. “No to MAGA?”The split in the party is overwhelmingly budget oriented. Guess which group is for responsible budgeting?

What’s the difference between a ‘moderate’ republican and a dimocrat?

I have no idea.