Corruption in Ukraine is still real but this decision demonstrates that Ukraine is making headway.

Which will mean exactly squat unless EU is willing to step up with troops to oppose Russia..

"Cool, whatever you say, slick. But I need to tell you something about all your skills. As of right now, they mean precisely... dick. "
-Agent J, MEN IN BLACK

The European Union has accelerated their process and Ukraine and Moldova are now promoted to Candidate Status.

Corruption in Ukraine is still real but this decision demonstrates that Ukraine is making headway.

More Ukraine later -- I just had a ton of tax work land in my lap.

Great. You're a court? Why and how do think you can enforce your rulings?
-Keith Olbermann

WOW... Olbermann is sounding kinda insurrection'y....

I thought you Democrats were AGAINST insurrections???

Hmmmmmmmmm.....

Olbermann also blasts Justice Amy Coney Barrett as a 'paralegal' after Supreme Court gun ruling

Apparently, sore luserism isn't solely reserved for Presidential candidates.. :D

Daffy asks, "Is this whiskey??"

Elmer replies, "Yeth, but not as whiskey as wobbing a bank..."

:D

Democrats get slapped down good and hard...

And my lovely wife is coming home to me tonight!!! :D

Yep.... Doesn't get much better than this.. :D

Oh, and we have SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION to watch tomorrow night.. :D

"How's it going? Well, that depends. For me personally, it's good. Things are good. "
-Griffin, MEN IN BLACK 3

:D

That's what I have always told ya'all..

The freedom to keep and bear arms is NO DIFFERENT than the freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the freedom to vote...

It's about time that Democrats got on board with this slice of Americana.....

I expected Bruen and Dobbs to go down the same day...

Got ta hand it to the SCOTUS... They know how to build the drama... :D

The Supreme Court found that New York's gun law overly restricted access to concealed carry permits

Stick it, Biden's Handlers!!! :D

"Elections have consequences"
-Barack Hussein Odumbo

:D

Open Carry is in keeping with the 2nd Amendment..

But even if FL was an Open Carry state, I would likely still conceal carry...

The dissent cited the Buffalo shooting..

Yet, NY's MAY ISSUE did not prevent the Buffalo shooting..

Ergo, the MAY ISSUE process has no bearing on whether mass shootings will occur or not..

In fact, there is NO CORRELATION between law abiding citizens legally carrying and criminal mass shootings..

In fact, it can be logically said that the MORE people who are legally carrying, the LESS likely there is to be a mass shooting.

The facts bear this out..

In mass shootings where one or more of the crowd is armed, the average death toll is 4...

Mass shootings where the crowd is completely unarmed, the average death toll is 11..

So, MORE legally carrying people = LESS fatalities...

There are 9 more opinions to be released..

But WOW.. What a win for Americans, eh?? :D

MAY ISSUE states now become SHALL ISSUE states.. :D

What's funny here is that New York Democrats tried to pull the case out from under the SCOTUS..:D

Once again.. "well regulated" meant something different when the 2nd was written...

The 2nd is sacrosanct... Democrats need to get that thru their heads...

Now, you MUST ISSUE barring felony considerations...

WOOT!!!!

All Democrat MAY ISSUE states NOW become SHALL ISSUE States!!!!

The court holds that New York's "proper-cause" requirement to obtain a concealed-carry license violates the Constitution by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf

It is by Justice Alito, and the vote is 6-3.

The Court holds in Vega v. Tekoh that a violation of Miranda v. Arizona does not provide a basis for a federal civil rights claim under Section 1983.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-499_gfbh.pdf

no, one is following the constitutional law and the other is breaking it. don't get me wrong, i'd HATE if some of biden's electors turned faithless and i'd want to investigate whether or not they were bribed, but without evidence of lawbreaking i couldn't fault the legality of their decision.

if hillary had sent illegal electors to washington, i might sympathize with their goal but i'd have to admit that they were breaking the law and should be jailed for it.

"Hold onto your butts.."
-Samuel L Jackson, JURASSIAC PARK, KONG-SKULL ISLAND

In the second example, ya'all would be all for it..

THAT'S my point..

In the context of this commentary, they are the same..

on the other hand, what if in 2016 hillary had decided that russia had caused pennsylvania and wisconsin to go for trump, so she sent a slate of her own electors to washington to vote instead of the slate of electors that the state had duly elected.

would you consider those two scenarios different or the same?

NOT in the context of PTDS...

The beef is an elector is not doing what they SHOULD be doing in favor of a POTUS candidate ya'all don't like..

So, THAT is bad...

But then you have an elector who is not doing what they SHOULD be doing in favor of a POTUS candidate that ya'all DO like..

Well, that's just perfectly acceptable.. THAT is good...

In ya'all's way of looking at things...

an illegal elector is committing fraud against the United States of America. unless rule of law means nothing to you, that is a distinction that makes a HUGE difference.

And, in THIS context, the legality is not the point.

It's the fact that electors are not doing what they SHOULD do...

THAT is the point..

As you said, it's a distinction, not a difference...

In THIS context of faithless/fraudulent electors illegality is not relevant..

When the improper elector was in DEMOCRATS favor, ya'all loved the improper elector..

When it's AGAINST Democrats, then ya'all hate the improper elector..

You get it??

ILLEGAL electors would be a more accurate descriptor.

Go woke.. Go Broke...

what, so THAT'S different?

It IS a distinction..

Not a difference..

So if one supports one but doesn't support the other, that's hypocrisy...

hillary had no post in government, and no ability to reverse her result, so as a private citizen she can be as sore a loser as she wants and nobody need care. al gore went as far as the law allowed, and then stopped when his legal case came to an end.

And yet, they STILL whined and cried and stamped their feet about the BIG LIE...

In other words, they did exactly what President Trump is doing..

Whining and crying about the Big Lie...

When one looks at the FACTS of modern history (2000 on), Democrats have many MANY more big lies than GOP'ers...

when donald's supporters lost in court, they broke the law, and in america the law ALWAYS wins.

While that may or may not be factually accurate, the fact remains that President Trump has not broken the law...

And that's all that matters...

For Trump supporters that DID break the law, fine.. Throw the book at them... I'll feed you the books, you throw 'em!

As long as it clearly understood that President Trump has broken no laws...

Now, you can say, "That remains to be seen" and yes, indeed it does..

BUT... in the HERE AND NOW, at this point in time.. President Trump is 1000% INNOCENT...

Back then they were called Faithless Electors.. And ya'all encouraged those electors to be faithless...

faithless electors are legal. fake electors are illegal. as former law enforcement, i hope you have some facility to process that distinction.

Hillary spent over 3 years and 30 million taxpayer dollars trying to prove that she actually won the election..

hillary had no post in government, and no ability to reverse her result, so as a private citizen she can be as sore a loser as she wants and nobody need care. al gore went as far as the law allowed, and then stopped when his legal case came to an end.

when donald's supporters lost in court, they broke the law, and in america the law ALWAYS wins. again, we're talking about the difference between legal and illegal. that's a distinction even a ground pounder such as yourself can appreciate.

Not factually accurate..

Hillary spent over 3 years and 30 million taxpayer dollars trying to prove that she actually won the election..

When it comes to sore luserism, Hillary is queen bee..

But I understand why you see things differently..

false equivalency between that and other, lesser sore losers is really not the hill where it pays to make your stand.

Except it's not a false equivalency... Your Democrats have plenty of BIG LIES... All the way back to when President Bush beat Al Gore in 2000... In 2004, it was the same BIG LIE when Bush slapped down John I VOTED FOR IT BEFORE I VOTED AGAINST IT Kerry....

EVERY TIME Democrats lost the election, they indulged in the BIG LIE...

So, you'll forgive me if I can't get all excited about this ONE big lie, that is actually not even a lie..

President Trump was the rightful winner of the election..

The Zuckerbucks Fraud and the Hunter Laptop Fraud are all well documented and either one, had they not been perpetrated, would have given the election to President Trump..

That's not a lie.. That is documented FACT...

can you explain this one to me?

Sure.. Back in 2016, blue state electors were going to vote for Hillary, even though President Trump won their state..

Back then they were called Faithless Electors.. And ya'all encouraged those electors to be faithless...

It's all part and parcel to the hysterical PTDS...

President Trump Derangement Syndrome..

can you explain this one to me? as far as i know, 2020 and 1876 are the only two elections where more than one slate of delegates claimed to represent the electoral college from the same state.

you know full well that donald went a few steps further than anybody else when it came to insisting that up was down and two plus two made five. he lost, and there was zero (zip, zilch, nada, etc.) evidence otherwise. then he misused the power of the presidency to try to reverse that result. false equivalency between that and other, lesser sore losers is really not the hill where it pays to make your stand.

But it doesn't specify if it's HILLARY's BIG LIE (IE The Russia Collusion Delusion)

Or if it's Stacey Abrams BIG LIE that she actually won the Georgia Gov election??

Which BIG LIE is it???

Of course, that should read how America REALLY feels about Biden's Handlers... :^/

Ooopss.. Scratch that...

An extra day has been added.. Tomorrow.. 24 Jun..

It makes a certain amount of sense that the SCOTUS would release THE opinions (Dobbs & Bruen) right before the weekend..

So, I would say that today is not likely but tomorrow is.

We'll see... The fun starts at 1000hrs EDT...

Democrats are ALWAYS guilty of what they accuse Republicans of..

But, once again, allow me to help ya'all out..

"Er.. uh.. well.. THAT'S different!!"

:D

Funny how ya'all were perfectly OK with "fake electors" when President Trump legitimately won the 2016 Election..

Funny how ya'all ENCOURAGED "fake electors" back then..

Ironically, ya'all pushed EXACTLY what ya'all accuse President Trump of today...

The hypocrisy of the Democrat Party knows no depths.. :eyeroll:

All you have to do is change the US Constitution and you can get rid of the Electoral College..

Get on it, eh? :^/

Trump will be reelected! No way he loses to #BasementJoe!

Trump will win so many new black voters that I'll accept your wagers... ;D

And those predictions would have come to pass if not for Democrats and their Zuckerbucks Fraud and the Hunter Biden Laptop fraud..

Its been factually DOCUMENTED that the election would have gone to President Trump had either of those not occurred..

Both together??

It's amazing that the election was so close..

A testament to how America REALLY feels about President Trump..

screwing up elections since 1999

I'm loathe to call out machines, but the correlation is striking.