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DMorgan
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K. West in the white noise talking music shit instead of social justice for blacks?
That shit was coming down the line without that nigga. They just using that clown ass nigga Kanye as a face. What he don't see is it's just another all you niggas good for is to entertain us white people photo op.
Playmaker88
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yeai was watching and shook my head and remembered Obama calling Ye a jackass
Now trump is patting him on the head and giving him biscuits
Now trump is patting him on the head and giving him biscuits
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DMorgan
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SMMH and these the folks yall in screaming just go vote for and gushing about a blue wave. Shit crazy, sad, funny and disappointing all at the same time. Yeah they really looking and got some good will towards black people. LLS
I'm not even saying don't vote for democrats. I just don't get why some black people just advocate for just giving our votes away without making them work for it and hold them accountable if they don't deliver once in office. We keep repeating the same shit over and over again regarding elections but expecting different results and we all know that is the definition of insanity.
Everyone else buys their politicians except black people and that is reason everyone else gets what they want from politicians except black people. Political PACs and campaign donations is what moves politicians not just fucking voting. Wake the fuck up.
Democrats Agree To Confirm More Of Trump’s Judicial Nominees — Again
Democrats on Thursday agreed to expedite votes on 15 of President Donald Trump’s nominees to lifetime federal court seats so they could allow vulnerable members to campaign less than a month before the November midterm elections.
Normally, Senate rules require up to 30 hours of waiting time for each nominee ― something Democrats typically take advantage of to delay action on confirming Trump judges. But with a handful of endangered Democrats up for re-election this year, they agreed to vote immediately on three Circuit Court judges and 12 District Court judges, who were all successfully confirmed on Thursday, and head home on recess.
It’s another major win for Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose No. 1 priority is filling up federal courts with young, conservative judges in order to tilt the judiciary to the right for decades. Roughly 1 in 6 U.S. circuit court seats is now filled by a judge nominated by Trump. With Thursday’s tally, the Senate has now confirmed 84 Trump judges over the past two years, including two Supreme Court nominees. And with Republicans likely to hold the Senate next year, that number is only going to continue to grow.
A similar dynamic also played out in August when Democrats agreed to confirm 15 Trump judicial nominees in order to go home and campaign for the election.
Progressives are furious that Democrats keep allowing Trump to reshape the courts for generations without putting up a fight, especially after a bitter and bruising fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. It would have taken only one Democratic senator to say “no” to letting the nominees through this week, but none did.
“There is no reason Democrats should be making any deals with Mitch McConnell to make it easier to confirm more radical conservatives to the courts. Especially not after Kavanaugh,” tweeted Leah Ghostberg, the co-executive director of the advocacy group Indivisible.
Chris Kang, chief counsel for the liberal group Demand Justice, also noted that “in eight years, Obama never had 15 judges confirmed in a single day. Because McConnell wouldn’t allow it.”
Still, Democrats faced a tough decision. McConnell has all the leverage in the fight ― only two of his members are considered vulnerable this cycle, while Democrats count a half-dozen senators, most of whom wanted to go home and defend their seats. Moreover, the nominees the Senate confirmed on Thursday likely all would have gotten through even if Democrats objected and forced McConnell to stay in session through the end of the month.
More broadly, the stakes in November for Democrats are extremely high. If they succeed in retaining most if not all of their endangered seats, they stand a (currently small) chance of winning the Senate. But even if they don’t win, with a larger Democratic minority they could stand a better chance at defeating GOP priorities on health care, taxes, immigration, and border security.
November’s results also have farther reaching implications. The more seats Democrats hold in 2018, for example, the easier it could be for them to win back the Senate in the 2020 presidential election.
Progressives, however, say that Democrats are only giving Trump and McConnell more time to appoint even more lifetime nominees, including a replacement for Kavanaugh on the powerful D.C. Circuit. Congress is facing a packed post-election legislative agenda, and allowing more Trump judges now only gives Republicans more room to work with in coming months.
I'm not even saying don't vote for democrats. I just don't get why some black people just advocate for just giving our votes away without making them work for it and hold them accountable if they don't deliver once in office. We keep repeating the same shit over and over again regarding elections but expecting different results and we all know that is the definition of insanity.
Everyone else buys their politicians except black people and that is reason everyone else gets what they want from politicians except black people. Political PACs and campaign donations is what moves politicians not just fucking voting. Wake the fuck up.
Democrats Agree To Confirm More Of Trump’s Judicial Nominees — Again
Democrats on Thursday agreed to expedite votes on 15 of President Donald Trump’s nominees to lifetime federal court seats so they could allow vulnerable members to campaign less than a month before the November midterm elections.
Normally, Senate rules require up to 30 hours of waiting time for each nominee ― something Democrats typically take advantage of to delay action on confirming Trump judges. But with a handful of endangered Democrats up for re-election this year, they agreed to vote immediately on three Circuit Court judges and 12 District Court judges, who were all successfully confirmed on Thursday, and head home on recess.
It’s another major win for Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whose No. 1 priority is filling up federal courts with young, conservative judges in order to tilt the judiciary to the right for decades. Roughly 1 in 6 U.S. circuit court seats is now filled by a judge nominated by Trump. With Thursday’s tally, the Senate has now confirmed 84 Trump judges over the past two years, including two Supreme Court nominees. And with Republicans likely to hold the Senate next year, that number is only going to continue to grow.
A similar dynamic also played out in August when Democrats agreed to confirm 15 Trump judicial nominees in order to go home and campaign for the election.
Progressives are furious that Democrats keep allowing Trump to reshape the courts for generations without putting up a fight, especially after a bitter and bruising fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. It would have taken only one Democratic senator to say “no” to letting the nominees through this week, but none did.
“There is no reason Democrats should be making any deals with Mitch McConnell to make it easier to confirm more radical conservatives to the courts. Especially not after Kavanaugh,” tweeted Leah Ghostberg, the co-executive director of the advocacy group Indivisible.
Chris Kang, chief counsel for the liberal group Demand Justice, also noted that “in eight years, Obama never had 15 judges confirmed in a single day. Because McConnell wouldn’t allow it.”
Still, Democrats faced a tough decision. McConnell has all the leverage in the fight ― only two of his members are considered vulnerable this cycle, while Democrats count a half-dozen senators, most of whom wanted to go home and defend their seats. Moreover, the nominees the Senate confirmed on Thursday likely all would have gotten through even if Democrats objected and forced McConnell to stay in session through the end of the month.
More broadly, the stakes in November for Democrats are extremely high. If they succeed in retaining most if not all of their endangered seats, they stand a (currently small) chance of winning the Senate. But even if they don’t win, with a larger Democratic minority they could stand a better chance at defeating GOP priorities on health care, taxes, immigration, and border security.
November’s results also have farther reaching implications. The more seats Democrats hold in 2018, for example, the easier it could be for them to win back the Senate in the 2020 presidential election.
Progressives, however, say that Democrats are only giving Trump and McConnell more time to appoint even more lifetime nominees, including a replacement for Kavanaugh on the powerful D.C. Circuit. Congress is facing a packed post-election legislative agenda, and allowing more Trump judges now only gives Republicans more room to work with in coming months.
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DMorgan
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Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy
The peer-reviewed study, which will be taught at these universities in September, says: "The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence."
Researchers concluded that U.S. government policies rarely align with the preferences of the majority of Americans, but do favour special interests and lobbying organizations: "When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it."
https://www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-us-is-an-oligarchy-2014-4
Here is the actual study
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites...testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Until we as black people stop acting like what was said in the clip ain't true we going to continue to lose.
We can't appeal with our moral actions to a group of people who don't have any morals.
The peer-reviewed study, which will be taught at these universities in September, says: "The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence."
Researchers concluded that U.S. government policies rarely align with the preferences of the majority of Americans, but do favour special interests and lobbying organizations: "When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it."
https://www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-us-is-an-oligarchy-2014-4
Here is the actual study
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites...testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Until we as black people stop acting like what was said in the clip ain't true we going to continue to lose.
We can't appeal with our moral actions to a group of people who don't have any morals.
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Babelipsss
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This makes no sense. Why would the Democrats cave on this? Those positions are LIFETIME appointments. They should have been campaigning locking in those votes for over a year now. Just like they should have some big names already out for the 2020 election.
DMorgan
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The fucked up part is in the article they said all it would've took to delay it was a "NO"vote of just 1 democrat none of them said no. So even a democrat who isn't in a tough race back at home didn't say no to delay the vote. That shit says a lot IMO cause you don't just walk away from lifetime appointments without putting up a fight. Cause even if democrats won back the senate they can't get rid of folks with lifetime appointments.
The shit all for show on both sides and they laugh all the way to bank everyday damn day
313 Wayz
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thats discouraging about Dems not putting up a fight against the GOP packing the courts with young conservative judges. The Dems let that happen because they are weak and that gives them a "boogeyman" to blame as they run their reelection campaigns on. You couldn't muster 1 "No" vote (an attainable goal) but you want to float out the possibility of impeaching Kavanaugh and / or Trump (an unattainable goal)......that shows you how they are all about political theater, lining thier pockets and being cool with Republicans (which there is nothing wrong with on the working relationship perspective) than they appear to be