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melmc

@melmc@kbin.social

I am a Christian and a semi-retired attorney, former IRS revenue officer, and former naval intelligence officer.

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Biden vs. Trump: The 2024 race a historic number of Americans don't want | CNN Politics

Neither Trump nor Biden are anywhere near positive territory this cycle, and we’re not talking about one outlier poll.

The average of all polling so far indicates that both men have favorable ratings below 40% with unfavorable ratings into the mid-50s.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/25/politics/biden-trump-unpopular-president-election-2024/index.html

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“Imagine feeling the need to use leftist talking points and a literal MSNBC link to lie about your political rival and gaslight voters on one of the most important issues of the century. Pathetic and nauseating.”

https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1674465042102726681

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Here is the Supreme Court opinion on affirmative action released today:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

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Pennsylvania State University Professor Files Lawsuit After College Official Told Him ‘There Is A Problem With The White Race’
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/pennsylvania-state-university-professor-files-lawsuit-after-college/

Trump wants to keep 'communists' and ‘Marxists’ out of the US. Here’s what the law says (apnews.com)

Experts say US immigration law already bars members of a Communist Party from becoming citizens or green card holders, but they say Trump might run into legal trouble if he tried to implement a blanket exclusion of all communists or Marxists.

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People should know from his first term that what he says he will do does not correlate closely with what he will actually do.

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Christie: Trump Doesn't Have the 'Character' to Be President, His Claims Are 'Absurd'
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/06/25/christie-trump-doesnt-have-the-character-to-be-president-his-claims-are-absurd/?utm_source=pocket_saves
Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that former President Donald Trump does not have the "character" to be president. | Clips

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Republicans' moral cowardice leads to more concessions, acceptance of Democrats' unthinkable agenda.
Cowardice always leads to more concessions and to where we are now — a culture shrilly demanding acceptance of what was recently unthinkable.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jun/25/republicans-moral-cowardice-leads-to-more-concessi/

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Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss was an inside job

There are numerous bombshells in the congressional testimony of two IRS whistleblowers, but the most significant is that members of Trump’s Department of Justice helped to tip the 2020 election to his opponent by slow-walking the investigation into Hunter Biden.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/24/donald-trumps-2020-election-loss-was-an-inside-job/

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Your logic lesson for today:
The genetic fallacy is the act of rejecting or accepting an argument on the basis of its origin rather than its content. Under the genetic fallacy, we judge a claim by paying too much attention to its source or history, even though this criticism is irrelevant to the truth of the claim.
If you understand the genetic fallacy you should realize that calling the originator of the argument a name is insufficient to refute the argument.

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'The Focus Will Once Again Be More on Trump than Biden' | National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-focus-will-once-again-be-more-on-trump-than-biden/
If the GOP nominates anyone besides Donald Trump — DeSantis, Scott, Haley, Pence, Christie — the race will be a referendum on President Biden. And a majority of the electorate has deep, perhaps irreversible concerns about Biden.
If the GOP nominates Trump, the race will be a referendum on Trump, instead of Biden. And yet, judging from the rest of the poll, at minimum half of the Republican Party is eager to make the 2024 general election yet another referendum on Trump.

You cannot save a political party that does not want to be saved.

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In asking that question it might be useful to define denomination, e.g. you might find a church with "Baptist" in it's name but it may be an independent church. In that case does it belong to a denomination with other churches or is it a denomination unto itself? If you refer to every independent church as a separate denomination, it's easy to see how the number of denominations would skyrocket.

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“WATCH: BlackRock CEO Larry Fink now says he’s “ashamed” of ESG, admits @RonDeSantis “hurt” his firm by pulling $2 billion in assets.
This is a win … but DeSantis is just getting started. ”

https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1673695148193067010

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Audio Of Trump Conversation About Secret Iran Attack Plan Contradicts His Denial
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/06/audio-of-trump-conversation-about-secret-iran-attack-plan-contradicts-his-denial/
The audio makes clear that Trump had a specific document in his hand prepared by the Defense Department that was still secret and had not been declassified by him, contrary to his denial in an Bret Baier interview that he just had a stack of news clippings.

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Listen for yourself. CNN obtained the recording:

“The Trump audio:

"See as president I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret."

"Now we have a problem," a staffer responds.”

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1673487276708331521

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Who's the Rino?

https://twitter.com/Ops_Overlord/status/1673374730869698562/photo/1

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The trend is not Trump's friend. He keeps digging the "unfavorable" hole deeper.
https://twitter.com/WhereIsTruth23/status/1673420002936995840

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Penn State funding stalled because it injects kids with puberty blockers | The College Fix
https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-state-funding-stalled-because-it-injects-kids-with-puberty-blockers/
‘To sit by and allow public funds to be used in experimental activities causing reversible harm to children, some under the age of 10, makes lawmakers complicit in this abuse couched as health care,’…

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Do Republicans want to win?

NBC Poll: DeSantis Leads Biden by Six Points in Swing States, But Trump Trails by Two | National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/nbc-poll-desantis-leads-biden-by-six-points-in-swing-states-but-trump-trails-by-two/
The good news for Biden is that the weaker general-election candidate, Trump, has seen his lead grow over DeSantis among GOP primary voters nationwide.

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How we know Trump's internal polling looks vastly different than the publicly released polls we're getting:
https://twitter.com/dadbodpolitics/status/1673430970760871939

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