#like. the amount that know by not voting its a vote for Trump

[fairuzfan]

As an american myself I can understand why people are so scared that arab-americans are refusing to vote for biden since im terrified of what trump will do to our country. I very much feel forced to choose between two very evil people where i have to choose who will probably do less overall damage. But yelling at arab-americans isnt the right move. Im terrified at what decisions ill have to make with voting, but its not like all arab-americans who refuse to vote for biden are trump supporters and in fact many of them were going to vote for biden before october 7. I dont know what we should do about voting, but yelling at grieving arab-americans who cant bring themselves to vote for biden when biden helped kill their family is just wrong. I get the fear, i really do because i feel it too, but that doesnt make it right.

Like as a disabled person I'm pretty nervous about trump presidency ngl. I need meds that allow me to function on a day to day basis. But I cannot in good conscious vote for the man that killed my family's loved ones. Not to give too much info but a family member's best friend was Heba Abu Nada... when they learned of her death they cried for three days straight and asked me not to say any news about Palestine for a week back in October. Even when I told them that Heba's poem became viral, they just nodded at me and said "a lot of talented people in Gaza died" before going quiet, staring out in the distance. That's something that will stay with me for the rest of my life and I can't bare to think of voting for the man that caused that amount of sorrow to anyone. So imagine every single Palestinian family — they all have their own stories and their own grief. So telling them "that means absolutely nothing" and being told to suck it up isn't going to make anyone want to trust you that you have people's best interests in heart. I don't know. It just is so so obvious how little people care about other people and to me that's the most.... shocking thing.

[decolonize-the-left]

The legal offensive, led by Dana Remus, who until 2022 served as President Biden’s White House counsel, and Robert Lenhard, an outside lawyer for the party, will be aided by a communications team dedicated to countering candidates who Democrats fear could play spoiler to Mr. Biden. It amounts to a kind of legal Whac-a-Mole, a state-by-state counterinsurgency plan ahead of an election that could hinge on just a few thousand votes in swing states. The aim “is to ensure all the candidates are playing by the rules, and to seek to hold them accountable when they are not,” Mr. Lenhard said.

WHAT???

You're telling me that this guy

Suddenly gives a single shit about the rules???

The headlines about this are fucking insane also

"will giving voters access to vote for whatever candidate they want dooming democracy"

Normal headline for a country that definitely isn't being run by fascists.

Btw this is Dana Remus

"In August 2022, President Biden questioned in a 60 Minutes interview “how anyone can be that irresponsible” when asked about classified documents in the possession of former President Trump. But when President Biden said this, he knew he had stashed classified materials in several unsecure locations for years, dating back to his time as vice president and even as U.S. senator."

[...]President Biden’s attorneys claim to have first discovered classified material at Penn Biden Center on November 2, 2022. However, President Biden and his lawyers kept it secret from the American people before the midterm elections. CBS News broke the story in January 2023, leaving Americans to wonder if the White House had any intention of ever disclosing that President Biden hoarded classified documents for years.

You know what else they did together? Lied about codifying Roe v Wade if they won mid-terms. 6months AFTER dems won a narrow majority, Rie v Wade was overturned.

And like not to be a wacky conspiracy theorist who's right again but

"The case concerned the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi state law that banned most abortion operations after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Mississippi law was based on a model by a Christian legal organization, Alliance Defending Freedom, with the specific intent to provoke a legal battle that would reach the Supreme Court and result in the overturning of Roe"

Guess what the Alliance Defending freedom works with and serves an agenda for?

Project 2025 yeah, the heritage foundation lists them as partners

Yeah remember how Dana Remus worked with Samuel Alito? Guess who's vote helped overrule abortion rights?

Samuel Alito, correct. Guess who else? Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett.

All Trump appointments.

Odd company to find yourself in without having ANY ties to the ADF or heritage foundation or project2025.

I wonder who the lawyers involved were?

Scott G Stewart. Interesting. Well who appointed him, right?

In 2021, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch appointed Scott G. Stewart as Solicitor General for the State of Mississippi.

Oh so she was voted in.

Well im sure it was a normal election that Democrats didn't tamper with or anything. Like SURELY they didn't intentionally platform this woman using the Pied Piper method? SURELY NOT after platforming Trump and making the entire 2016 elections about anti-Trumpism. SURELY, they wouldn't have tried to make themselves look better by positioning themselves against extremists only to LOSE the bet they were making.

SURELY WE DIDNT LOSE ROE V WADE BECAUSE DEMOCRATS WONT STOP USING THE PIED PIPER STRATEGY TO WIN ELECTIONS? R I G H T???

Riley Collins, 53, is running against the state's treasurer, Lynn Fitch, who was the chair of the group Mississippi Women for Trump in 2016. Riley Collins is running an explicitly anti-Trump message, saying Monday that she doesn’t understand how Donald Trump's Christian supporters can reconcile their politics with their faith

Oh.

Welp.

Everyone thank democrats for Trump and the stacked supreme court and the loss of Roe V Wade. It Truly couldn't have happened without them blasting primetime tv with alt right candidates 24/7.

One day democrats will stop platforming right wing extremists and election tampering but I guess it won't be anytime soon.

Let me ask, what's the biggest argument for voting blue this year?

Right.

And how's that going? Y'all feel confident in that strategy right now?

And don't forget what they did to Bernie. Because Biden is very poetically doing the same fucking shit to sabotage 3rd parties right now.

Remember to act surprised when Trump wins.

Like voters and progressives and leftists haven't been saying for MONTHS that we won't vote Biden. Like swing states aren't voting uncommitted. Like labor unions aren't voting uncommitted. Like he isn't tanking the polls.

You know I will say that this election is a little different. Clinton didn't have nearly this much pushback so early in the race.

Biden's massive gap of votes compared to Trump is gonna look like the grand fucking canyon.

#vote #dont vote #biden #3rd parties #trump #roe v wade #2024 #2025 #project2025 #politics #news #current events #facsism #democrats #Republicans #RFK #usa elections

[anniegetyourbubblegum]

I keep seeing posts from people in the US debating whether to vote for Biden in their upcoming elections to stop Trump from winning again or to punish the democrats for aiding Israel in the genocide of Palestine.

I'm argentinian and as far as I'm concerned, you should vote for whichever candidate you think will benefit you more, because you're from the US and that's all it's good for. The rest of the world will continue to suffer at your hands no matter what. Let me explain.

Democrats and republicans are not a representation of left and right wing politics: both parties are on the right side of the spectrum, only the GOP is more honest about it.

Republicans, as right wing parties do, run on promises of austerity, reducing taxes and being tough on crime. Democrats run promising to use tax money to ease your life: affordable healthcare, education and housing, all guaranteed so you can live the life of a first world citizen.

And then, they don't deliver.

You still have school shootings, massive incarceration, corruption in all levels of government, and the poorest pay a higher proportion of taxes than the richest. Healthcare, education and housing are extremely expensive and often require people to get into heavy debt to afford to have their most basic needs met, and that's only possible if you have good credit.

It's a reductive analysis for the sake of brevity, but you get the gist. The point is that having you be poor and afraid is the goal: it's a feature, not a bug.

You want to go to college? You need to buy a house? You want to start a family? Well, the military complex needs bodies! The US has far too many enemies to their way of life, so they'll need people to defend it! In exchange, they'll "guarantee" just enough money that you won't be destitute.

The US spends the most amount of money on their military in the world, by a long shot. To justify spending that kind of money, you HAVE to have wars. To have wars, you need enemies.

So, you get propaganda. "Muslims are extremists and hate our way of life." "Latin americans want to come to our country and steal our jobs." "China and Russia are communist countries that are waiting to destroy us." And you gobble it up.

You love it so much. It's in your news, in your videogames, in your movies and TV series and comic books. So, when they ask you to fight, you go running! You'll get some money out of it and you'll get to live your life the way you were promised. Sure, PTSD from the horrors is a given, but there's pills for that! And award winning movies about how difficult it is to go to war! It's all covered.

So the small, poor countries that you invade lose their money, natural resources, and their sovereignty but HEY, you brought democracy there! And the US is protected from this many enemies! Mission accomplished, right?

Well, as a citizen of a third world country whose current president is an insane pawn of the GOP, I'd like to say fuck you. He was placed so that the US could take our recently discovered lithium, and you'll get it. Enjoy your shitty iPhone 5000 I guess. It'll come at the small price of the hunger of my countrymen, but since Twitter user dan91883719 says argentinians all descend from escaped nazis, I guess it's alright.

Israel has killed Palestinians and illegally expanded its borders for over 70 years. Both democrats and republicans have sent aid and weapons to make this possible. It's in the US best interests to have conflict in the Middle East and have an ally control the area. Israel is a feature, not a bug.

And those of you who vote blue? You're trapped. Even if you know it's shit, you're unable to organize. Instead of rallying to form a new party, or a at least get a better candidate, you keep voting bad instead of worse and pat yourselves on the back for a job well done. Democrats are well aware of this and that's why they run on platforms that promise to make your life better and then sit back and say "our hands are tied" when you lose rights.

So, if you're still doubting it, vote for whoever the fuck you want. The war machine that you call 'country' won't stop no matter who's president, because those who hold the real power are already getting exactly what they want from it. Your suffering as US citizens is just as planned as the suffering of those who live outside of it.

TL,DR: Vote for whichever candidate you feel will defend your interests best. Lord knows it won't make a lick of difference for the rest of the world, because both political parties have the same plans when it comes to foreign policy.

#argentina #free palestine #the usa #2024 elections #Democrats #Republicans #gop #dnc #joe biden #donald trump #free gaza #gaza #genocide #it's obviously more complex than just this #but it's one in the morning and fuck it I'm tired #i understand how difficult it is to see your house is on fire when you're inside the house #but you still have to make an effort to put it out #vote 2024 #foreign policy

[theswordwizard]

i cannot believe i keep seeing posts congratulating biden for a four day "ceasefire" (where the IDF CONTINUED to shoot people) over BLACK FRIDAY WEEKEND and saying "ohhhhh he's trying so hard guys we need to clap for him and the DNC, aren't we so glad we have a democrat in office right now" after they gave over 14 BILLION dollars to the israeli military? they scheduled a halftime break in the bombing and you act like they accomplished something real?

i'm also not that surprised, but definitely disappointed, at the amount of posts i've seen blaming "russian bots" for anti-biden posts. its over a year until the next election, and joe biden is CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, perpetuating zionist lies about Palestine and actively funding their genocide to the media! you realize that if a YEAR in advance of an election, if people are saying "hey this is fucked up, i'm not voting for someone who does this," the DNC doesn't actually have to run joe biden for the democratic nominee? biden said barely a year ago that he didn't intend to run again!

if every election "season" (that seems to get longer every year, proper campaigning for PARTY nominees have barely started, my god) every liberal blasts the messaging "Vote Blue No Matter Who," that the message you are sending to the DNC is that you will vote for whoever they pick out for you, regardless of whether it's in the people's best interests? if YOU TELL THEM that the only messaging they have to have is how the republicans are worse, then that will be their strategy! and we already saw how that played out with hillary!

hillary did not lose because you didn't yell at enough people online, hillary lost because the DNC played poker and INTENTIONALLY propped up and gave additional airtime to trump because they thought that even a generally disliked democratic nominee could win against him! and they were wrong! you CANNOT win an election on "that other guy sucks," because the average american is not reading your callout posts. the average, non-party aligned american, is gonna watch the debate and go "wow I don't really like either of them, I can't afford to not get paid for the hours it would take to vote," because the average american is not a hard leftist or a chronically online liberal.

joe biden won because he campaigned on the promise of student debt relief and fixing covid, and he did neither! sure, he made some small, unflashy, means-tested improvements, but no one even got the 10k reduction that he kept dangling. we can blame the republican party all we want, but what people remember is that joe biden did not do what he promised people. prices are still getting higher and people are still struggling more and more. it's not convincing, and he's not likeable.

if you want to yell at people for not toeing the party line or whatever, a better use of your time would be calling your representatives and getting more involved in local elections. school boards, city councils, state and district representatives, those will immediately effect people's lives in your area!

as more and more information comes out about what is happening in Palestine and the US's part in it, the more unappealing joe biden is as a candidate. if anything, you should call your senator and tell them YOU and anyone you know won't be voting for him, if you really want a chance for a democrat to win the next election.

#pissing me OFFFFFFFFF #you realize you sound like a qan0n or something when you brush off REAL VALID criticism with #ohhhhhh russian bots are back! #'we need to make sure the bombs dropped on palestine are funded by a democrat too!!!!!'

[infinitemonkeytheory]

I can’t believe they let Lizzo [play a flute owned by James Madison / twerk even though she’s not skinny / continue to exist as a Black woman].

I found this event [triggering / in violation of my need to only ever see thin white women on my timeline]. As someone who spends a fair bit of time yammering on about our nation’s heritage, it deeply offends me that [Lizzo seems to care about our nation’s heritage / a Black woman is now the Librarian of Congress].

Clearly this horrible event was a form of racial retribution. I know this because I believe life is a zero-sum game where [there are only winners and losers / only white people should put their lips on white people flutes / Lizzo should be as sad and lonely as my white nationalist substack subscribers].

Some people saw Lizzo playing James Madison’s flute and thought, Gee, what a nice thing that any normal person can enjoy. But this is the wrong reaction. Whenever anything happens in the world involving a prominent Black person, the correct thing to do is [immediately make it about myself / have a knee-jerk reaction I will never honestly explore / interpret it through my precious and lucrative lens of white grievance].

I don’t care if Lizzo is a [classically trained musician / popular and beloved artist / cultural icon]. Those things don’t matter to me, because when I look at Lizzo perform, all I can ever see is her [skin color / gender / body size], the three things that matter most to me when I judge a woman.

Speaking of which, what is a woman? Having given this question an unhealthy and inappropriate amount of thought, a woman is someone who should be [a virgin until she is married to a man / forced to give birth against her will / white if aquatic]. A woman is not someone who should [feel entitled to dress the way they want / dance the way they want / behave in ways that don’t please me personally].

I am absolutely qualified to make judgments on Lizzo’s performance, musical talent, and clothing choices because my only talent is [whining about white victimhood / obsessing about trans kids / podcasting about the scientific validity of Black mermaids].

James Madison is one of our most venerated forefathers, and in my anger over this Lizzo abomination, I’ve never once stopped to consider that President Madison [owned slaves / believed women didn’t deserve the right to vote / never once played his crystal flute]. And now that I’ve learned about the existence of this crystal flute, it seems very important to me that it should remain hidden away, just like [women who don’t conform to a Barbie standard of beauty / honest historical accounts about slavery and its enduring legacy / the truth behind my knee-jerk disgust response to Lizzo].

There are those who might take this event as an opportunity to celebrate the fact that Lizzo [actually cares about American history enough to tour the Library of Congress / is bringing welcome attention to the Library of Congress’s collection / is a multitalented artist and musician using her fame and powers for the good]. Me? I’m taking this opportunity to [embarrass myself, yet again, on Twitter / expose myself, yet again, as a petty and pathetic human being / enrich myself, yet again, off the dollars of people who still believe Trump “drained the swamp”].

At her Washington DC concert, Lizzo thanked the Library of Congress for preserving our history. She sparked international interest in its archival collection and inspired band kids everywhere to play their instruments with pride. What a sad episode for anyone who cares about this country. In fact, I feel quite ill. In a minute, I’m going to need [some smelling salts / to write yet another think piece about the catastrophe of wokeness / my comfort Confederate flag].

The Library of Congress should never allow someone like Lizzo to touch their archival instruments again. And that’s because [these instruments, which I’ve never given a thought to before today, are very important to me / Lizzo living her best life is something that makes me really mad / when I talk about our “heritage,” this is just code for “white people”].

#lizzo #mcsweeneys #library of congress #james madison

[mariacallous]

*sigh* I saw someone trying to deny Bernie had anything to do with the 2016 loss and just....

I worked NH for HFA, it was Bernie country, we were maybe 40 minutes from Vermont, BERNIE COUNTRY! and you know how many Bernie super vols showed up for the general. 1, literally one, and all his old Bernie friends stopped talking to him, this guy had knocked doors through the Primary, organized his own phone bank for NV and drove down to SC to knock doors but the second he was like "Well its the general and we got to win" they cut him off.

we had SO! many listening sessions and sit downs trying trying TRYING to get these people to come over and help us. I cried trying to tell a group of Bernie Vols how my human rights were on the line as a gay person and it never worked, nothing we said or did worked.

I had Bernie voters yell at me, threaten me, one of them followed two college age girls back to our office and screamed at us. There was Trump violence and Bernie violence and a few attacks on our office... I can't know who broke our window the first or second time or who threw a whole pizza at us from a car, was it a Trump person? I'd like to think so, but it could have been a Bernie person....

So like, there's no way to measure these things but as someone who lived it I know! that the Hillary campaign wasted time, energy and resources on Bernie voters that maybe could have been spent else where and second that a big block of Bernie voters just never showed up and pushed huge amounts of negativity out into their social circles and communities that turned off others from voting. There's no way to measure non-voting really but I think thats what did us in in the end in 2016

And a lot of these people were the ones who went on to vote Jill Stein or something else, and the number of votes she and Gary Johnson got were more than Trump’s margin of victory in each of the three crucial states so like…

[realhankmccoy]

kinda feel like this one might be my best artistic work

not sure but I mean that's what the sense is

it certainly brings a lot of joy and mirth to me

and it's not like you just wake up and write this stuff, this one's years in the making with its roots in me posting images of pufferfish to mock Americans' static uselessness facade of strength, stemming from November 3 or November 4th, 2016 when i first noted how everybody i was trying to force to grow up and just vote for Hillary's ham sandwich instead of Bernie's filet mignon wasn't listening and was all stupidly puffing themself up after the election like they were anything but the weaklings they were who like now thought that they were gonna take to the streets and magically 'make right' what they figured like, somebody like me is probably to blame for: Trump

there really are leftists like that, the ones who will never blame the Republicans but will find some gay guy to blame for why they stayed home and didn't vote

people's heads are so stupid cucked and messed up

but I don't know this post just amuses me so much about the value of bloating yourself up to look bigger than you are

and always did

because that's what Trump did and has been doing to business and NYC and tv for ages -- inflating it with a bunch of air because BIGGER IS BETTER

and then to see online all these people screaming NEVER HILLARY ... after Puffed Trump won, to puff themselves up like pufferfish and think that they were gonna take on the big dawg that was

it was so infuriating to me, because i don't like stupid people who create their own messes and then cuck themselves to the master to try to fight the master, a mission Audre Lorde would have said would fail:

i just think it's a brilliant quote, because it forces people to get creative and come up with new tools in part but that's also not the point of it, the point is i think she's factually right... i'm sure probably exceptions could be thought of

but i mean, did Native Americans arming themselves with firearms ever stop whitey? sure didn't

but something else might yet, oh indeed

anyhow, it just amuses me so much, this post

that i had to post it again

i'm sure babycuck is out there somewhere looking on in and saw it

and i still think if their new blog used this image it would be a genius, shocking, surprise move to my eyes. they could make the blog say 'the confessions of Ms. Babycuck: why i was Malcolm in the Middle despite not being a middle child, why I felt torn between red and blue pills as much as any dinkus up in Wisconsin tends to some office woman or whatever -- the classic case of the purple white woman -- why i got it all wrong and what I'm doing to rectify the situation'

anyhow none of that's as funny or insightful as the succinct way my prior post said everything i wanted to say. that massive amount of hashtags on there too just heightens the humour for me

#babycuck

[arpov-blog-blog]

..."People have good days and bad days, that’s normal life, but few people have a day where they lose $300 million on the New York Stock Exchange. Donald Trump had just that kind of a day on Thursday, ho boy. He is not happy. Just a brief review on how Trump came to be at this place: you know that he had a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company) and its name is DWAC. (Digital World Acquisition Corp.) DWAC was supposed to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group and become a publicly-traded company. That is Trump’s financial lifeline now, because Trump owns 90% of the Truth Social stock and on paper, at least, this looks like a windfall. However, the two co-founders of Truth Social, once contestants on Trump’s TV show The Apprentice, threw a real monkey wrench into his plans, causing a nearly nine-point plunge on the stock market.

If this Truth Social big money mirage evaporates, then Trump seriously has no other deep pocket to reach into other than the RNC. And the RNC has resolutions which prevent him from doing same, which will be voted on March 8. I’m sure that this news, today, is not making either Trump or the RNC rest any easier. Oh and by the by, these are not the only lawsuits in the Truth Social sphere. Pay close attention now, because it gets complicated.

ON TUESDAY, DIGITAL WORLD AND TRUMP MEDIA SUED DIGITAL WORLD’S FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE, PATRICK ORLANDO, AND ITS SPONSOR, ARC GLOBAL INVESTMENTS II, IN A FLORIDA COURT, ALLEGING THAT ORLANDO HAD THREATENED TO BLOCK THE MERGER TO “OBTAIN A WINDFALL BY WAY OF EXTORTION” AND ACCUSING HIM OF “AVARICE [AND] INCOMPETENCE” THAT HAD CAUSED “EXTENSIVE REPUTATIONAL HARM.”

ARC, A SUBSIDIARY OF THE SHANGHAI-BASED INVESTMENT FIRM ARC CAPITAL, PROVIDED DIGITAL WORLD’S EARLY FUNDING AND IS MANAGED BY ORLANDO, WHOM DIGITAL WORLD’S BOARD FIRED LAST YEAR.

The Truth Social co-founders have a partnership, United Atlantic Ventures. Under the original agreement, Trump took 90% of the Truth Social shares, the partnership took 8.6 percent, while an attorney on the deal, Bradford Cohen, was given the remaining 1.4 percent, paperwork filed Wednesday states. But for UAV, there would be no Trump Media and no Truth Social, the filing explains.

UAV LAUNCHED THE TRUMP MEDIA BUSINESS, HIRED EMPLOYEES AND RAISED FUNDING WHILE RECEIVING NO “FEE OR PAYMENT FOR ITS WORK,” THE MOTION SAID. AND THOUGH LITINSKY AND MOSS LEFT TRUMP MEDIA THAT YEAR AMID A DISPUTE WITH ITS CURRENT LEADERSHIP, UAV RETAINED ITS SHARES, ACCORDING TO A SEC FILING THIS MONTH FROM DIGITAL WORLD.

THE FILING SAID THAT TRUMP WAS SET TO RECEIVE 78 MILLION SHARES IN THE POST-MERGER COMPANY — A STAKE WORTH MORE THAN $3 BILLION AT THURSDAY’S SHARE PRICE — AND THAT UAV WOULD RECEIVE MORE THAN 7 MILLION SHARES, A STAKE WORTH NEARLY $300 MILLION. “THROUGHOUT TMTG’S CORPORATE HISTORY,” THE MOTION STATES, “UAV’S 8.6 PERCENT OWNERSHIP INTEREST HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AND HONORED.”

BUT UAV’S ATTORNEYS ALLEGE IN THE MOTION THAT TRUMP HAS RECENTLY ATTEMPTED TO “DRASTICALLY DILUTE” THE PARTNERSHIP’S STAKE AS PART OF WHAT THEY CALLED AN “11TH HOUR, PRE-MERGER CORPORATE MANEUVERING” TACTIC DESIGNED TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF AUTHORIZED STOCK, FROM 120 MILLION SHARES TO 1 BILLION SHARES.

UAV’S ATTORNEYS WROTE THAT THE “DILUTION SCHEME” HAD “NO LEGITIMATE BUSINESS PURPOSE” AND SUGGESTED THAT TRUMP AND THE TRUMP MEDIA BOARD PLANNED TO ISSUE THE NEW SHARES TO “TRUMP AND/OR HIS ASSOCIATES AND CHILDREN,” WATERING DOWN UAV’S STAKE TO LESS THAN 1 PERCENT.

In plain language, Trump is attempting to steal from his partners, from the people who actually made Truth Social into something on the internet, be it ever so humble. This is vintage Trump, defrauding workers and partners.

UAV WAS “PROMISED 8.6 PERCENT OF THIS COMPANY AND SADLY ITS BUSINESS PARTNERS ARE BASELESSLY TRYING TO RENEGE,” SAID THE PARTNERSHIP’S LEAD ATTORNEY, CHRISTOPHER J. CLARK OF CLARK SMITH VILLAZOR, IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE WASHINGTON POST DESCRIBING THE LAWSUIT. “THEY FEEL LIKE: WE MADE TRUTH SOCIAL FOR YOU. YOU GET 90 PERCENT. BUT SOME PEOPLE JUST AREN’T HAPPY WITH 90 PERCENT.”

Nope, Trump wants it all. Trump needs it all.

THE FILING SAID A UAV REPRESENTATIVE SENT A TEXT MESSAGE THIS MONTH TO A TRUMP MEDIA NOTEHOLDER SUGGESTING THAT UAV MIGHT SEEK TO “ENJOIN,” OR BLOCK, THE MERGER. THE FILING ALSO NOTED THAT A UAV ATTORNEY HAD SENT A LETTER TO TRUMP MEDIA THREATENING “LEGAL ACTION REGARDING UAV’S ALLEGED RIGHTS IN TMTG, INCLUDING, IF NECESSARY, AN ACTION TO ENJOIN” THE MERGER. DIGITAL WORLD SAID IN THE FILING THAT THE LEGAL DISPUTE COULD PREVENT OR DELAY THE MERGER DEAL, “SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT” THE COMPANY’S FUTURE PERFORMANCE, OR “NEGATIVELY IMPACT INVESTOR CONFIDENCE AND MARKET PERCEPTION.”

The fact that the stock dropped almost nine points Thursday definitely displays a negative impact, I think that much is clear. And the fact that lawsuits are clouding this merger is not something negligible, it’s something substantial."

[aspiringbelle]

In the 1990's, I came upon the World Game Institute, one of the projects of architect and engineer Buckminster Fuller. It was designed to encourage people to come up with solutions to various global problems, and help implement them.

Here is a screenshot of one of their proposals from the turn of the millennium.

At the time, the Cold War was over. There were calls for a peace dividend. The US had made some progress, but Republicans in Congress pushed for more military spending. Bill Clinton was happy to abandon his original position to get reelected. (In addition, he began NATO's drang nach Osten, lied about Iraq's WMD (a crime not mentioned by Republicans), and violated the War Powers Act over Kosovo.)

Then came 9/11. Rather than treat Al-Quaida as the terrorists and criminals they were, the US sent out the military. Then the US invaded Iraq, based on lies.

During that time, there were talks regarding the Conventional Forces Treaty, seeking to expand it. This would have reduced the military size and funds of every nation in Europe. (This includes US and Canadian forces based there.) The US and NATO opposed ratifying it. Why? They were upset that some Russian peacekeepers were not included. (Said Russian peacekeepers were in Transnistria (which had declared independence from Moldova), South Ossetia and Abkhazia (both of which had declared independence from Georgia). Said peacekeepers were in those nations at the request of both the nations that had declared independence, and the nations that sought to keep the territory.) At least, that was the reason they gave. (In 2008, Georgia, with US moral support (and possibly more?), invaded South Ossetia, about a day after the Georgians ordered a cease-fire. One of the first targets of Georgian forces was the barracks of the Russian peacekeepers. Russia fought back, and drove Georgian forces out of both regions.)

Come 2008, the US could have changed under Obama. Instead of seeking peace, he listened to Biden and Clinton, bombed Libya (aiding Al-Quaida and violating the War Powers Act), continued sending NATO Eastward, sent arms to Syrian rebels (some linked to Al-Quaida), and helped fund regime change in Ukraine. (The US supported the protests, spent billions to influence opposition groups, and when the armed mobs forced the elected president to flee, they chose to recognize the new government.) Obama only withdrew from Iraq after Iraq refused to approve US troops staying (Iraq refused approval thanks to the leaks from Chelsea Manning).

In 2016, Trump promised an "America First" foreign policy. Instead, he listened to Bolton, Haley, and Gorka. He continued pushing NATO eastward, and demanded that NATO members spend 2% or more on their militaries. He sent US troops into Syria to occupy territory, and bombed Syria at the word of the terrorist group formerly known as al-Quaida in Syria, and despite evidence from UN whistleblowers.

You know that 2% spending plan? Most of Europe is in the EU. EU fiscal policy is not set in each nation's capitol, but in Brussels. Said policy is designed to not allow significant deficit spending, without EU approval. With the demands for increased spending, the member states of both (now including Sweden and Finland) have to cut other spending to balance, like social spending.

Now we are here. Biden is demanding billions for aid to Ukraine for its war on the Donbass (and other regions that voted to leave), Israel for its ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and for Taiwan to defend itself against a possible attack. Republicans are demanding more military spending, only refusing to support Ukraine because Biden backs them. Many nations in the West are arming more.

And all this ignores the massive amount of CO2 and other emissions from the military, to say nothing about other damage.

Will this change? Or will we continue destroying ourselves through pollution, war, violence, and debt?

#politics #tw warmongers #stand for peace #climate change

[busybrain7]



Remarks Prepared By President Trump in Response to the Unconstitutional Gag Order

A hearing took place in our nation’s capital to decide whether or not Joe Biden can get away with imposing a GAG ORDER on his leading opponent – me.

The gag order was imposed – and our nation watched the First Amendment die a painful death.

There’s one thing I want to make very clear: this unconstitutional gag order isn’t ultimately about gagging me…

…It’s an attempt to gag the American people and cancel out your vote.

Allow me to explain…

For years and years, hardworking and honest citizens have cried out for help from their elected officials – only to be ignored and silenced by the Washington Swamp.

Americans watched their rights get trampled on, they watched their jobs get shipped overseas, they watched our border get overrun with illegal aliens, they saw billions of our taxpayer dollars sent to faraway nations while our own roads and towns crumbled to pieces.

But that all changed on June 16, 2015 when I announced my candidacy as a political outsider and vowed to give a VOICE to these forgotten Americans.

I became a megaphone for the American people.

Suddenly, the Silent Majority was HEARD all across the world – and no matter how much the establishment wanted to turn me off, they couldn’t.

Our America First message was on every channel. It took over the Internet. Our gatherings turned into massive rallies and began filling up football stadiums. There wasn’t a soul on the planet that didn’t know the demands of the Silent Majority.

I FORCED the Swamp to finally listen to the concerns of the American people that they had ignored for decades.

They’ve even gone to extraordinary lengths to try and shut us down. They raided my home, spied on me, intimidated my associates and family, wrongfully indicted and arrested me, made a mugshot of me, and even tried to impose the “corporate death penalty” upon me.

Despite all of these vile attempts to break us, our movement has only gotten stronger.

But now, they’ve decided to try and FORCIBLY SILENCE me – and, by extension, our movement – by imposing a court-sanctioned gag order upon me.

I refused to attend the hearing. I refused to dignify this attempt to STRIP ME of my First Amendment rights.

Instead, I was on the campaign trail talking to voters about the issues you TRULY care about and how to Make America Great Again!

The contrast between the only two candidates for president couldn’t have been greater…

…Voters saw the sitting president act like a dictator and gag his leading opponent. Voters saw me on the campaign trail talking about the issues that truly matter to the people of our country and what I will do to save America.

On one side was Crooked Joe – a living, breathing symbol of a broken, decaying establishment – who ignored the needs of our citizens to pursue his own political ambitions.

On the other side was your favorite president and political outsider speaking up for the people Biden and his Washington cronies have left in the shadows for decades.

Now, after years of being your voice, I am asking YOU to be a voice for America and prove that NOTHING can silence the greatest movement in American history.

Of course, if you’re doing poorly due to the tyrannical administration that would rather gag its leading opponent than lift a finger to help our hurting citizens, then just hit the back button and go about your day.

Now that the gag order is in effect, please make a contribution of any amount – truly any amount – to prove that the American people will NEVER SURRENDER our mission to put America First and to save our country from tyranny.

Thank you,



Donald J. Trump

45th President of the United States

[megashadowdragon]

Trump Gets CORPORATE DEATH PENALTY, Democrat Judge DISSOLVES Company WITH NO TRIAL In SHOCKING Move

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This is fascist levels of corruption. If they can do this to him, they can do it to you.

Judge: "Trump overvalued his properties!" Also judge: (undervaluing his properties by 8300%).

This judge needs to get his legal licenses pulled, and quick. This is straight fucking absurd. This is on the level of the New Mexico Governor banning guns.

A New York Judge has no business even talking about, let alone, using florida property to determine an issue in New York. That alone is wrong... (

Monday- Trump is up by 10 points on Biden Tuesday- Trumps property de-valued and all companies dissolved Totally not coordinated..

From the people who scream that Trump is a Fascist: We don't need a trial where you can defend yourself, we have declared you are guilty. That you happen to be our main political rival is purely coincidental.

yeah trump never did anything like this he never persecuted any political rivals on bogus accusations like they are trying to do to him with the jan 6 hearings or the attempts to paint him contesting the election as defrauding people

or acting like calling for a peaceful protest is somehow inciting violence when its not trump is not responsible for what happened on jan 6 and he told them to leave.

while they actively incite violence and provide comfort to those antifa/blm terrorists like helping them get out of jail

or talking about how there should be more uprisings/if they dont get the verdict they want use violence etc

The fact they are attacking this man with everything they can throw at him makes me want to vote for him even more in 2024. The swamp needs to be drained, they aren't even hiding their corruption anymore, it's all out in the open for the world to see.

The judge can't deny a trail the defendant has the legal right to present there testimony and documents. This judge needs to be fired from the bench this is corruption.

This is amazing what they have done. If you look up the Mar-A-Largo property on Zillow, the history is completely gone. They replaced the history with a starting value of 8.2M in Feb 2020 with a straight line to 24M today, no up or down, just a steady incline. Moreover, they have the buy price in 1995 at 12M. This is incredible. The amount of corruption in this country by the Democrats is just plain scary as all hell.

The outrageous but funny thing to me is, a new York judge crushed trumps billion dollar business based on what some $40k/year barely qualified government assessor employee said mar-a-lago is worth after 20 minutes of research between coffee breaks.. Assessed value does not mean market value.

Kyle is a horrible human being. Panic mode is in full affect. They won't stop even if Trump is out of the picture.

Why aren't Republican prosecutors not bringing charges against these insane activist judges who are clearly abusing their power, or trying to?

I have built houses for years. You can't just write down your own sq. footage, it has to be apraised by county or city aproved officials only. The only person that can do that is an appraiser that does that paperwork, and turns it in at the county/city level. It is divided up the way it is by city officials, housing and businesses are so over regulated there is now way for him to pull this off without being found out immediately. It would flag the system and would be found out. The way it is now is probably the only legal way of having a "club" legally, to not let the general public in. The judge has no power to appraise anything, has no idea what hes talking about, and would only need to send city officials down there to get the answers he wants. This is targeted government courruption at its finest. They create the insane regulations/Law we all have to follow, Trump uses the law as citizens and the rich do They just know the best way of handling businesses withing regulations and taxes. Otherwise they would pay more than whats even made annually each time.Show less

Why is NY allowed to even go through with this case when none of the lenders are even claiming that they were defrauded? How do they have the standing to do that? They aren't even a victim of the supposed "crime".

My sister just sold her house for $160.000.00 thousand dollars, the county assessor appraised it at $90.000.00 thousand dollars. Trump should take this to a high court, that people cannot allow this kind of abuse in our court system.

They are extremely desperate. My anger is towards my fellow citizens that are blissfully ignorant of the extreme corruption

I first found out about this situation via these twitter posts

the property is worth alot on top even besides the business parts

a nearby home that is 10xsmaller is worth 100 million

and found a timcast tweet above that relates to it after I found out about the vid

I found out about the case via this tweet

Democrats Go FULL COMMUNIST, Kyle Kulinski CELEBRATES Rule BY DECREE Against Political Rivals

Trump SLAMS Rogue Judge WHO LIED About Mar-A-Lago To Justify DISSOLVING Trump Org As Trial BEGINS

#timcast #trump #Youtube

[lordnot]

Harm Reduction: The Liberal, Progressive Argument for Voting Trump in 2024

(DO NOT POST UNTIL RFK AND MARIANNE DROP OUT AND ENDORSE)

Well, it sure has been quite a primary season, hasn't it? Not in terms of debates, of course. That would have been a waste of time. But the ups and downs, the twists and turns! I don't know about you, but I was kept on the edge of my seat right up until the end!

But now that it's over, it's time to start focusing on the general election. It's time to give up on the purity tests, the pie-in-the-sky aspirations, and discuss the most strategic decision on who to support with our vote, our dollar, and our time. And that is why I implore you to give very serious consideration to supporting Donald Trump in upcoming 2024 election.

Now, I know what you're thinking. "What is this accelerationist nonsense?" But nothing could be further from the truth. I am no irresponsible accelerationist, and I certainly am no Republican. I am instead focused on causing the least amount of harm to our country in 2025 and beyond. And, sadly, due to circumstances that I will now explore, another term of a President Donald Trump is our best chance to do that.

Look: I love Joe Biden. And I am not at all fooled by these stories put out in the media that he is too old to be President. That being said, we cannot overlook what has happened to our country during Biden's first term. The loss of abortion rights. The rise in violence against trans people. Immigrants and refugees having their very lives turned into a political game. The Republican Party is absolutely out of control. And one of the reasons why I respect President Biden so much is also one of his greatest weaknesses: his respect for Rule of Law. He is not going to try to use executive orders to wield greater power than an American President should have. He is not going to undermine the traditions of our great country by politicizing The Supreme Court, or pushing for the removal of the filibuster. In short: he fights fair, and the Republicans fight dirty. What, then, can be done? Simple: we bring The Resistance back from brunch.

The re-election of Trump will bring out outrage the likes of which The Republicans have never dreamed of. The angry tweets, the memes, Nancy Pelosi's tearing up Trump's State of the Union? Simply the tip of the iceberg. The Republicans will barely have the courage to pass more tax cuts, let alone any transphobic legislation. They will no longer be able to hide behind the argument that the bad things happening to this country are somehow Joe Biden's fault, and we will be a better country for it.

We also need to talk about the elephant in the room: Ukraine. We all know that Joe Biden will do everything in his power to support Ukraine to the last man, because of how much he cares about its people and how much he hates fascism. It's why he is a hero. But when the other side has an insane, twisted, and heartless monster with access to a stockpile of nuclear weapons in charge, it means we are playing with fire. The Biden Administration is full of incredibly smart, experienced, and rational people, but even they can make a mistake. We simply cannot take the chance of drawing out this war any longer. And no, I do not believe for a second that anyone in the Republican Party is actually less hawkish than the Democrats. But what I do believe is that Putin's Puppet will continue to be Putin's Puppet. Trump will withdraw support out of self-interest, out of apathy, out of cruelty. But he may inadvertently save humanity by doing so.

And so I ask you, I beg you: take your personal feelings out of it. There has never been a more important election in our lifetime. This country is too important to gamble our future on voting for the person who represents our personal priorities and needs. Do the responsible thing. Vote Trump.

#liberal logic jiu jitsu #Election 2024

[smokeybrandcompositions]

Brand Recognition

I heard somewhere yesterday that people don't vote for individuals who change their lives, they vote for brands. Like, you don't vote for the policies of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but you do vote for AOC because she plays Mario Kart over stream. Now, for me, i don't function that way. I need to know things. I need to make informed opinions. It's a facet of my hyper-vigilance. I know AOC's politics. I know what she stands for. I am assured in my decision to support her agenda. It's the same with why i do not support Trump and, by extension, the Republican party and Conservative ideals as a whole. Conservatives are in the business of now-thinly-veiled Fascism and the vast majority of their supporters are eating that sh*t up. Why? What happened to the Republican Party? I mean, Trump happened but why continue following this man who has been indicted four goddamn times? Who has the Feds all in his sh*t? Who has a RICO case going on in Georgia, built on the fact he's on tape bargaining for voter fraud? Then it hits me: They're not voting for Trump the man, they're voting for Trump the brand. If you do any amount of Google-fu, that cursory search will reveal how goddamn bad Trump is at business. From being a straight up slum lord in the Eighties, to failing upward again and again at real estate during the Nineties, to becoming a master at marketing during the Aughts. You can't tell me that a man who suggests dropping an atomic bomb in the heart of a hurricane to counter its spin, should have his finger on that button. You can't seriously say to me that someone who believes they "fell in love" with the brutal dictator of North Korea, should ever sit in the big chair of the US ever again. This motherf*cker printed off two trillion dollars in two months, trying to "fix" the economy, inflation be damned! Just print more money was his solution to the country not having enough money, basic economic theory need not apply. Never mind the rapes. Never mind the abortions. Never mind the adultery. Never mind the hypocrisy. The things i cited above are things he actually DID and you still vote for this man? Because you're not voting for the man, you're voting for the brand. Donald trump is a master of PR. He's been on TV. Dude was a celebrity long before he was anything political. The money he actually made in an honest days work, not by shorting the Feds on taxes for thirty years or making borderline illegal deals with the Saudis, was his time on The Apprentice. People ate that sh*t up. Why do you think 45 is so obsessed with ratings? Because The Apprentice is where the Trump Brand took root. The vast majority of the Tens, Trump licensed his name to everything he could and collected a check on it. He wasn't some miraculous businessman who was outside the sphere of Washington influence. He was a scuzzy slime lord who had reality TV clout and a weirdly bulletproof confidence that he could get away with anything. Dumb people flock to that. Dumb people think that's strength. Dumb people buy into that brand. Republicans are a cult of personality. They vote for an in image. They vote for a Brand. They vote for Trump, not Trump, and when you look at it from that perspective, of course they do.

[smokeybrand]

Brand Recognition

I heard somewhere yesterday that people don't vote for individuals who change their lives, they vote for brands. Like, you don't vote for the policies of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but you do vote for AOC because she plays Mario Kart over stream. Now, for me, i don't function that way. I need to know things. I need to make informed opinions. It's a facet of my hyper-vigilance. I know AOC's politics. I know what she stands for. I am assured in my decision to support her agenda. It's the same with why i do not support Trump and, by extension, the Republican party and Conservative ideals as a whole. Conservatives are in the business of now-thinly-veiled Fascism and the vast majority of their supporters are eating that sh*t up. Why? What happened to the Republican Party? I mean, Trump happened but why continue following this man who has been indicted four goddamn times? Who has the Feds all in his sh*t? Who has a RICO case going on in Georgia, built on the fact he's on tape bargaining for voter fraud? Then it hits me: They're not voting for Trump the man, they're voting for Trump the brand. If you do any amount of Google-fu, that cursory search will reveal how goddamn bad Trump is at business. From being a straight up slum lord in the Eighties, to failing upward again and again at real estate during the Nineties, to becoming a master at marketing during the Aughts. You can't tell me that a man who suggests dropping an atomic bomb in the heart of a hurricane to counter its spin, should have his finger on that button. You can't seriously say to me that someone who believes they "fell in love" with the brutal dictator of North Korea, should ever sit in the big chair of the US ever again. This motherf*cker printed off two trillion dollars in two months, trying to "fix" the economy, inflation be damned! Just print more money was his solution to the country not having enough money, basic economic theory need not apply. Never mind the rapes. Never mind the abortions. Never mind the adultery. Never mind the hypocrisy. The things i cited above are things he actually DID and you still vote for this man? Because you're not voting for the man, you're voting for the brand. Donald trump is a master of PR. He's been on TV. Dude was a celebrity long before he was anything political. The money he actually made in an honest days work, not by shorting the Feds on taxes for thirty years or making borderline illegal deals with the Saudis, was his time on The Apprentice. People ate that sh*t up. Why do you think 45 is so obsessed with ratings? Because The Apprentice is where the Trump Brand took root. The vast majority of the Tens, Trump licensed his name to everything he could and collected a check on it. He wasn't some miraculous businessman who was outside the sphere of Washington influence. He was a scuzzy slime lord who had reality TV clout and a weirdly bulletproof confidence that he could get away with anything. Dumb people flock to that. Dumb people think that's strength. Dumb people buy into that brand. Republicans are a cult of personality. They vote for an in image. They vote for a Brand. They vote for Trump, not Trump, and when you look at it from that perspective, of course they do.

[mariacallous]

The House January 6 select committee is considering a criminal referral to the justice department against Donald Trump for obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress and conspiracy to defraud the United States on the recommendation of a special subcommittee, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The recommendations on the former president – made by the subcommittee examining referrals – were based on renewed examinations of the evidence that indicated Trump’s attempts to impede the certification of the 2020 election results amounted to potential crimes.

The select committee could pursue additional criminal referrals for Trump and others, given the subcommittee raised the obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud statutes among a range of options, including insurrection, and discussions about referrals continued on Thursday, said the sources.

The referrals could also largely be symbolic since Congress has no ability to compel prosecutions by the justice department, which has increasingly ramped up its own investigations into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and subpoenaed top aides to appear before federal grand juries.

The recommendations presage a moment of high political drama next Monday, when the full panel will vote publicly to adopt its final report and formally decide on making referrals, and increase pressure on the attorney general, Merrick Garland, to seek charges over January 6.

Trump could be referred for obstruction of an official proceeding, the subcommittee is said to have concluded, because he attempted to impede the certification and did so with a “consciousness of wrongdoing” – as the panel has previously interpreted the intent threshold.

The former president was seen to have met the elements of the offense since he relentlessly pressured Mike Pence to refuse to count electoral college votes for Joe Biden, despite knowing he had lost the election and had been told the plan was illegal.

Trump could also be referred for conspiracy to defraud the United States, the subcommittee suggested, arguing the former president violated the statute that prohibits entering into an agreement to obstruct a lawful function of government by dishonest means.

The conspiracy charge was seen to be broadly applicable because Trump’s agreement with key lawyers – and potentially even the rioters – did not need to be overt, while the plan to have Pence reject Biden slates of electors with Trump slates that did not exist was deceitful.

The discussions about referring Trump for obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud appeared to build upon the major win for the panel in May, when a federal judge found that Trump and the lawyer John Eastman likely engaged in felonies in trying to subvert the 2020 election.

In the ruling, US district court judge David Carter in California ruled that Trump and Eastman had concocted a “coup in search of a legal theory” and ordered Eastman to turn over his most sensitive emails to the investigation, citing the crime-fraud exception to attorney-client privilege.

The emails later showed that Eastman had admitted that he knew that having Pence interrupt the January 6 certification was illegal – and yet urged Pence’s counsel Greg Jacob that the then-vice president should move ahead with the plot anyway.

The panel may not adopt all of the options presented by the subcommittee – it also suggested civil referrals to the House ethics committee for GOP congressmen and the disbarment of some Trump lawyers, among a number of options, though a witness tampering referral for Trump is no longer under consideration.

But members on the select committee have resolved to suggest criminal and civil charges to some degree, and any referral letters would be accompanied by supporting evidence not dissimilar to prosecution memorandums that are routinely drawn up by the justice department, one of the sources said. A spokesman for the select committee declined to comment. Regardless of how the panel proceeds against Trump, the intention to make criminal referrals against the former president has been practically an open secret for months as its members have used the issue of potential criminality to reinforce the seriousness of Trump’s conduct.

The recommendations from the subcommittee – led by congressman Jamie Raskin and comprised of vice-chair Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff and Zoe Lofgren, all members with a legal background – follow internal discussions for nearly a year that Trump committed crimes in seeking to nullify his defeat. Even before the select committee filed its civil suit to Carter, Cheney read aloud parts of the the obstruction statute at a public business meeting last December. And then throughout public hearings in the summer, the panel detailed their findings like prosecutors, treating the public like a jury at trial. If the members decide to move forward with criminal referrals against Trump in particular – essentially a letter informing the justice department they uncovered evidence of crimes – they would be creating a roadmap for a prosecution put together by the select committee’s top lawyers. The select committee’s investigation has been principally driven by color-coded teams of investigative lawyers, many of whom have previously worked as federal prosecutors, conducting more than 1,000 witness interviews and reviewing documents and communications from Trump’s confidantes. Still, the justice department has no obligation to take up any criminal referrals and, at this stage, could have a better perspective about the strength of criminal charges as it escalates its own January 6 inquiries with an investigative arsenal far more potent than possessed by Congress.

In recent months, an increasing number of top Trump advisors and election officials in states where Trump tried to nullify his defeat have been subpoenaed to testify before an increasing number of federal grand juries in Washington hearing evidence about events connected to the Capitol attack. The recent subpoenas to election officials have demanded any and all communications involving Trump and the Trump campaign from June 2020 to January 2021, as part of the investigations into Trump’s so-called fake electors scheme, according to two subpoenas reviewed by the Guardian.

[msclaritea]

Alabama redistricting: Republicans defend not creating a second majority Black district in court - POLITICO

"Alabama Republicans were ordered by a federal court to redraw their congressional maps to ensure that there were two majority-Black districts.

They didn’t. Instead, this week, they’re going back to the same federal court after the Supreme Court weighed in, this time to argue that their attempts at coming up with a new map are good enough.

Hearings over the new map kicked off in federal court in Alabama on Monday, and the state is once again arguing that it is not illegally diluting the power of Black voters. This week’s hearing will be crucial to determining if the fight wraps up quickly — or stretches on for potentially years to come.

It’s not an academic exercise. The court’s decision could have significant ramifications nationally; Democrats could pick up an additional seat in Congress where they are a handful of seats shy of a majority, and the fight could ultimately make its way back to the Supreme Court. A second majority-Black district in the state would likely lead to a second Democratic representative as well. The state’s congressional delegation is currently 6-1 Republican.

The new maps that were approved by GOP lawmakers last month maintained the one historically Black district the state has had and drew a second that has a Black voting age population just under 40 percent. The redraw came after the panel of three lower court judges wrote in an early 2022 decision that any new map looking to fix the likely Voting Rights Act violation ought to have two districts with a Black “voting-age majority or something quite close to it.” The Supreme Court affirmed the lower court’s findings of a likely violation earlier this year.

During Monday’s hearing, all three of the judges on the panel questioned if Alabama was ignoring the court. Federal District Court Judge Terry F. Moorer, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, pointedly asked if Alabama had chosen to “deliberately disregard” their instructions when drawing the new map, the Associated Press reported.

After the legislature redrew a map that fell short of its second majority Black district, attorneys for the plaintiffs argued to the court that the legislature “confuse[s] the issues and ignore[s] precedent.”

The group of plaintiffs argued that the new districts plainly do not meet the court’s standards, and that Alabama Republicans were engaging in political gamesmanship by ignoring the court and drawing lines that would still only present Black voters the opportunity to elect the candidate of their choosing in one district.

Republicans in the state have been proud of their apparent defiance of the court. “The Legislature knows our state, our people and our districts better than the federal courts or activist groups,” GOP Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement when signing the new maps into law.

Republicans argue that the new map they redrew effectively resets the clock for litigation. The defendants acknowledge in a brief that the court “opined” that there should be two majority-Black voting districts, or close to that. But, they argue, that act of the legislature redrawing the map effectively starts the process of challenging the lines over — especially because the legislature prioritized keeping specific “communities of interest” together in 2023, which they say was a change from the 2021 map the court previously stuck down.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs reject that assertion, arguing that by allowing the state to name new redistricting principles as they redraw would amount to giving “the state infinite bites at the apple.”

“Alabama would be permitted to simply designate new ‘significant’ communities of interest and anoint them post hoc, point to them as evidence of newfound compliance, and relitigate the merits again and again — all while refusing to remedy persistent vote dilution,” they write. “That approach would let Alabama run out the clock and render courts powerless.”

The three-judge panel that ordered the state to redraw the maps in the first place seems unlikely to buy this argument from Republicans. In addition to the questioning in the court on Monday, in an earlier order, the judges wrote that the court is “not at square one” and would not “relitigate” the likely violation of the Voting Rights Act.

The National Republican Redistricting Trust, the main redistricting arm of the GOP, argued in a briefing to the three-judge panel that the Supreme Court’s opinion has been publicly misconstrued, arguing that while the Supreme Court affirmed the finding that the old maps likely violated the Voting Rights Act, it did not order a remedy that would require the drawing of two majority-minority districts.

The Voting Rights Act “does not require proportionality, much less super-proportionality — which is exactly what two majority-minority districts here would entail,” a brief from the NRRT reads. “Any suggestion that the State is ‘defying’ the Supreme Court’s opinion in Allen by passing a law that follows traditional districting principles rather than racial proportionality makes no sense.”

The judges on Monday did not indicate when they would rule. But the federal court rehearing the case has taken steps to prepare for someone other than the legislature to redraw the lines. The court appointed special master Richard Allen, an Alabama attorney, and cartographer David Ely, a California-based redistricting consultant, to redraw the lines should the court strike down the new map.

The fight has attracted national attention, with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy previously telling POLITICO that he had been in contact with state lawmakers as the redraw process was going on. It is also the first of a handful of redistricting cases in the South that could create new Democratic-leaning seats across the region.

“This doesn’t just affect us, this case is precedent setting,” Alabama RNC member Paul Reynolds said at a recent party meeting, according to the Alabama Daily News. “Louisiana is right behind us, they’re facing the same problem we are. They’re next in line, and what is decided in our case is going to hit Louisiana right between the eyes.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.