[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Evidence was literally uploaded by the opposition, and has been analyzed by multiple news organizations already who agree with their conclusions. Not to mention the exit polls and other available public evidence.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/masked-assailants-ransack-venezuela-opposition-134849213.html?guccounter=1

Here's another organization that independently gathered many of the polling receipts with similar results:

https://supervisiondev2.metabaseapp.com/public/dashboard/6b2f7b3b-16ec-4af6-84c7-69c39ee2139d?tab=16-english

The opposition leader is in hiding (who was barred by Maduro's government for running, among many other tactics with government powers Maduro used to try to tilt the vote in his favor). Maduro has rounded up over 1000 members of the opposition already to try and prevent this data from being gathered and take more political prisoners. The Carter Center, who Maduro government themselves invited as a monitor, said that:

“Venezuela’s electoral process did not meet international standards of electoral integrity at any of its stages and violated numerous provisions of its own national laws.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/americas/venezuela-election-opposition-machado-hiding-intl-latam/index.html

The only one fighting transparency and trying to hide results here is Maduro. These tallies were all stored on qr codes. Maduro could have released them at anytime and chose not to. Could have instantly been released the night of the election, as they were coming in if he wanted. Can't believe people on here are still falling for this dictator's bald faced lies.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ironically this would also invalidate any of the cases against Hunter Biden if the supreme court agrees with her.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Under this ruling the president has absolute immunity for their use of any powers granted by the constitution, and that includes use of the military, pardon powers, and appointing and firing of executive department officials. Their motivations and purposes for use of those powers cannot be questioned by the courts or by any laws passed by congress.

The whole "official" vs "non official" acts things only comes into play for powers not explicitly granted by the constitution. And even then the president gets presumptive immunity.

Go read the actual ruling and the dissents and stop spreading misinformation. The journalist and the headline are accurate.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 61 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Weird, it skips right from the 13th amendment to the 15th in this version. And I can't find the emoluments clause anywhere.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 62 points 10 months ago

Periodic reminder to please directly subscribe to quality news sources to help fund good journalism. Especially local newspapers which have been really struggling. They are often the only ones holding your local elected officials accountable or reporting on them to any degree.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 68 points 10 months ago

Poor point of comparison, lol.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-fifth-avenue-comment/

"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters, OK? It's like incredible."

-Donald Trump

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From the 14th ammendment:

"No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability. "

What a terrible ruling. In what world is the president not a civil or military office? It's the highest civil and the highest military office! And they obviously take the oath to uphold the constitution too! This is a travesty.

The other rulings had a somewhat point with primaries technically being a party thing that's a private organization and not the real ballot. But this judge is just wiping their ass with the constitution.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 67 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, did the spigot of Russian money flowing into their coffers dry up?

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 66 points 1 year ago

But that's different you see. Because money is speech and therefore needs to be protected, including by allowing total anonymity of donors. Whereas we're talking about online accounts, where people of course never engage in speech or express ideas. Hey, wait a second that can't be right. Hmmm, okay maybe it's because she's saying it's a security risk, because you don't know if they're a foreign national spreading propaganda online. This is totally different from political donations, which of course have never been bribes from foreign powers masked by anonymity... Hey wait! She got us again. Almost like she's some kind of shill who wipes her butt with the constitution while trying to create a crony supported facist state. No that can't be.

But yeah, according to Republicans, money is speech, but speech is not speech. I'm expecting their next campaign platform to be 2+2=5.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 71 points 1 year ago

No, the Trump administration repeatedly blocked loan forgiveness that was already in law. Betsy Devos had to be brought to court multiple times and sometimes ignored court orders to pay for years. I wouldn't trust a republican administration to even live up to the bare minimum of what's required by law.

In addition to not fighting loan forgiveness laws already existing, the Biden administration has also broadened existing forgiveness rules to apply to more people people. They're also crafting a new rule to again try to do what the supreme court blocked in broader forgiveness under a different law that also grants the executive branch power to modify loans to try and get around the ruling.

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