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□ [“Obama Judge Lifts Nationwide Injunction Blocking Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Safeguards After Supreme Court Rebuke"]

Trump did an executive order in March, making it so the Post Office didn't have to take ballots to people who weren't confirmed US voters.  District Judge Indira Talwani issued a stay on this.  The Supreme Court overruled her so she overruled the Supreme Court.  Now she's decided to back down.

I've got several articles open on this and none of them are clear.  Partially it's the legal language - is "stay" the right term or was that what the Supreme Court issued? - and partially it's because this judge has already had to obey the Supremes against a different Trump executive order.  Nobody writes this stuff in a sensible straightforward manner so it's really not clear which ruling is being referred to paragraph-by paragraph.  It's also not clear if it was the SCOTUS or the Justice Department who convinced her to retreat.

I don't like covering these judicial stories because they're so confusing.  This is why nobody likes dealing with the legal system.  But whatever the problem is, it's building.  This chick was defying the Supreme Court and even when she reversed, her statement made it clear that it wasn't because of the law, she just had no other options.  That's not how you should run a courtroom.

Yet that's how the left wants its courts to be run.  They've been installing these people around the country for decades.  At least this district judge probably saw a reason to eventually comply, if she doesn't obey the judges above her, the same standard can be applied to her.  But we're getting to a point where there's no reason to rely on judges either.  The whole field is just too far away from normal people for us to see any point in dealing with them, even if that way leads to chaos.

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□ [“Democrats Urge Kamala Harris to Stay Away From Their State Ahead of Midterms"]

Not many but it's a governor candidate and Senate candidate in Iowa and another Senate candidate in Alaska.  What sticks out to me is that these are rural states.  They don't want the "help" from these globalist leftists, even if they share the same goals.  The left wants to ignore the states and just focus on getting the most people on their side, which is always in cities.  They really don't like people who don't live in cities so they can't help these politicians.

And especially Harris.  There's a reason Clinton and Obama never made a big point of endorsing candidates around the country and at least they had something to offer.  Harris doesn't even have that.  Notice that she hasn't found anything useful to do with her life in the last two years except try to see if she can get elected anywhere.  There was a brief moment where she considered running for California governor and then that ended quickly.  Don't recall any explanation so it's clear the party didn't want her there either.

The polls can't be trusted of course but "officially" she's still at the top of the list for potential candidates.  Her own fellow Democrats don't want anything to do with her but somehow she's popular and nobody ever says what she's popular for.  She fits all the check-boxes of DEI requirements?  Not a good way to win elections, at least not fairly, and at least some candidates know that.

So this is an indication of the internal conflict the party is facing.  They keep it private so we have no way of knowing how many just don't like Harris, how many don't see her as an asset professionally, how many are jealous of the attention she gets, how many actually support her and the *woke* agenda she was supposed to install.  The race-based DEI policies that got her this far haven't gone away.

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□ [“Soros-Backed Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Threatens to Blow Up White House Ballroom"]

We see this all over, people are just going off the rails.  Just the fact that these leftists got installed in such high positions is starting to show the scope of the conspiracy against us.  He's backed by Soros which shows a lot of what's going on - because leftists love billionaires who tell them what they want to hear - but if Soros wasn't there, others would be doing the same thing.  The goal is to destroy everything and they aren't even bothering to hide it anymore.

Trump 2.0 obviously has a plan to deal with this but there's just no way to measure how it's working.  We really would like to see some actual victories at some point but so far it looks like we'll be lucky to even have a clear definition of who the enemy is by the time he leaves office.  Maybe they'll all just flip out and run around bonkers but I wouldn't bet on that.

But I do think Trump has hit them in a way that's making them snap.  We see a lot of this now, from famous people or posts on social media.  They're showing that they aren't the type of person you'd want to be around when things get rough but according to them, things are rough now.  The rest of us have seen tensions get higher and higher over the last decade or two but we haven't gone over the cliff yet.  I'm also wondering how military policies might have been put to use here, thinking specifically of Basic Training where some people really couldn't handle the new policies we lived under.  The Drill Sergeants were able to identify that and step in, usually before something bad happened.  Perhaps that's what the Trump administration is doing here.

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□ [“Iran Insiders:  Mojtaba Khamenei Either Dead or Brain Dead"]

At least Mitch McConnell was seen in public once or twice before he vanished, what's this guy's excuse?  Everybody knows he'll be hit if he goes out in public but there's a level of leadership where you need to let people know you're still alive and Iran is big enough that you can't just give a speech to a few people.  McConnell's in the Senate so he's not as important as the head mullah to Iran.

Haven't heard anything about negotiations for a while.  If there's anything going on, it might just be a way to keep track of whoever might be in charge at this point.  It's possible that our attacks have broken the Iranian government down into factions who are just pulling for whatever control they can get.  This is definitely the weirdest war I've ever seen.  No way to know but all the pro-Iranian forces might just be wandering around with no idea what to do.

That even lines up here in the US.  What happened to all the protests?  Last year there were thousands of anti-Trump protests every month, and that was before the war with Iran started.  It's like there's a lot more Trump supporters than the left is willing to admit or there's just a lot fewer people being paid to have protests.  It's almost certainly the latter but the point I'm making here is that these people are opposed to the war and anti-war protests would get a lot of publicity.  Whether they realize it or not, these people are siding with Iran yet they're just staying on the internet to complain about the war.  How much of that money was coming from Iran?

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