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Update: there are not 180,000 Amish in Pennsylvania
As of 2024, there are an estimated 88,850 Amish people in Pennsylvania, making it the state with the largest Amish
Could be across multiple states though.
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I don't care much for
Kamala Harris or her
Captain Planet hacks
Kamala Harris or her
Captain Planet hacks
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I literally think his skull-fucking of the entire Republican field during that time is what got me into politics to the degree that I currently am.
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There are over 400,000 Amish in the United States, and he never said it was only Pennsylvania. Fear not, trust in the plan. :]
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No child, these are your delusions again. there are millions of cuckold harris supporters, most of them are. enjoy
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The video is titled “Amish in Pennsylvania” my dude.
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Some things still need to happen before I’m satisfied with this season:
- Trump needs to work the fries at McDondald’s (ongoing)
- Trump has to have an Amish rally
- Biden has to say a nice word about Trump
- There needs to be definitive, smoking gun proof that Kamala is drunk or high
- Trump needs to work the fries at McDondald’s (ongoing)
- Trump has to have an Amish rally
- Biden has to say a nice word about Trump
- There needs to be definitive, smoking gun proof that Kamala is drunk or high
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It fixed the Joker
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Federal judge throws out GOP lawsuit over Nevada voter rolls
The judge, a Biden appointee, used a recent precedent set by two Donald Trump appointees on the Ninth Circuit to find that party lacked standing to bring the lawsuit.
(CN) — A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee claiming several counties in Nevada have outdated or inaccurate voter rolls.
U.S. District Judge Cristina Silva, a Joe Biden appointee, agreed with the Nevada secretary of state that the RNC and the Nevada Republican Party, as well as one individual voter, had not adequately argued that they have standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution.
The judge relied on a September decision by the Ninth Circuit in which two Donald Trump appointees had found that nonprofit groups who challenged a couple of Arizona laws they claimed would jeopardize Arizonans’ right to vote if they went into effect lacked Article III standing to bring their claims.
Silva noted that in Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans v. Kristin Mayes, the Ninth Circuit panel found its organizational standing case law has been conflicting and confusing and that, rather than requiring organizations to show actual injury, it has allowed organizations to sue when they have "alleged little more than that they have diverted resources in response to the defendant’s actions to avoid frustrating the organization’s loosely defined mission."
The claims of the RNC, Silva said, are just that: "harms in the form of a frustrated mission and diverted resources."
"The amended complaint states that voter lists containing ineligible voters will force the RNC to (1) 'divert resources away from . . . voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts,' and (2) divert resources to ensure it is chasing mail ballots of eligible voters, rather than ballots mailed to voters who are no longer eligible to vote." Silva said.
"Precedent has made clear that these claims do not meet the injury-in-fact requirement," she added.
The judge allowed the RNC and the Nevada Republican Party, but not the individual plaintiff, to amend their complaint because they didn't have the benefit of the Ninth Circuit's Mayes decision when they filed their amended complaint.
Attorneys for the RNC didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the ruling.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, accuses the state of violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by neglecting to ensure voter registration records are accurate and updated, a foundational requirement of the act.
Efforts to address these concerns commenced with a formal notice sent to Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar in December 2023 by the plaintiffs, urging compliance with National Voter Registration Act mandates. The state's inaction has escalated the situation to the current legal challenge, according to the suit.
"At least five counties in Nevada have inordinately high voter registration rates. At least three Nevada counties have more registered voters than they have adult citizens who are over the age of 18. That number of voters is impossibly high. An additional two counties have voter registration rates that exceed 90% of adult citizens over the age of 18. That figure far eclipses the national and statewide voter registration rate in recent elections," the plaintiffs say in the lawsuit.
In its January reply to the notice sent by the GOP, the state faulted the data the Republican National Committee utilized to assess the accuracy of the state's voter registration records.
"This is comparing apples to orangutans,” the Nevada attorney general wrote. “The CPS voter registration rates are crude estimates based on historical recall, obtained through personal or telephone interview, intended for an entirely different purpose."
The AG continued: “We assert that no presently accessible dataset offers a suitable basis for gauging the potential disparity between registration rates and the actual eligible voting population. However, if there is a preference for utilizing U.S. Census Bureau data, we find it puzzling that the more recent 1-year CVAP data has been disregarded. This dataset is relied upon by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission for calculating registration rates. Though not a perfect match, it at least presents a comparison akin to comparing apples to another fruit: oranges.”
U.S. District Judge Cristina Silva, a Joe Biden appointee, agreed with the Nevada secretary of state that the RNC and the Nevada Republican Party, as well as one individual voter, had not adequately argued that they have standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution.
The judge relied on a September decision by the Ninth Circuit in which two Donald Trump appointees had found that nonprofit groups who challenged a couple of Arizona laws they claimed would jeopardize Arizonans’ right to vote if they went into effect lacked Article III standing to bring their claims.
Silva noted that in Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans v. Kristin Mayes, the Ninth Circuit panel found its organizational standing case law has been conflicting and confusing and that, rather than requiring organizations to show actual injury, it has allowed organizations to sue when they have "alleged little more than that they have diverted resources in response to the defendant’s actions to avoid frustrating the organization’s loosely defined mission."
The claims of the RNC, Silva said, are just that: "harms in the form of a frustrated mission and diverted resources."
"The amended complaint states that voter lists containing ineligible voters will force the RNC to (1) 'divert resources away from . . . voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts,' and (2) divert resources to ensure it is chasing mail ballots of eligible voters, rather than ballots mailed to voters who are no longer eligible to vote." Silva said.
"Precedent has made clear that these claims do not meet the injury-in-fact requirement," she added.
The judge allowed the RNC and the Nevada Republican Party, but not the individual plaintiff, to amend their complaint because they didn't have the benefit of the Ninth Circuit's Mayes decision when they filed their amended complaint.
Attorneys for the RNC didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the ruling.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, accuses the state of violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by neglecting to ensure voter registration records are accurate and updated, a foundational requirement of the act.
Efforts to address these concerns commenced with a formal notice sent to Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar in December 2023 by the plaintiffs, urging compliance with National Voter Registration Act mandates. The state's inaction has escalated the situation to the current legal challenge, according to the suit.
"At least five counties in Nevada have inordinately high voter registration rates. At least three Nevada counties have more registered voters than they have adult citizens who are over the age of 18. That number of voters is impossibly high. An additional two counties have voter registration rates that exceed 90% of adult citizens over the age of 18. That figure far eclipses the national and statewide voter registration rate in recent elections," the plaintiffs say in the lawsuit.
In its January reply to the notice sent by the GOP, the state faulted the data the Republican National Committee utilized to assess the accuracy of the state's voter registration records.
"This is comparing apples to orangutans,” the Nevada attorney general wrote. “The CPS voter registration rates are crude estimates based on historical recall, obtained through personal or telephone interview, intended for an entirely different purpose."
The AG continued: “We assert that no presently accessible dataset offers a suitable basis for gauging the potential disparity between registration rates and the actual eligible voting population. However, if there is a preference for utilizing U.S. Census Bureau data, we find it puzzling that the more recent 1-year CVAP data has been disregarded. This dataset is relied upon by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission for calculating registration rates. Though not a perfect match, it at least presents a comparison akin to comparing apples to another fruit: oranges.”
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All of those loser campaign managers have been messing up. That's why QUEEN Kamala is taking the reigns! Time to get drunk as fuck and ramble like a lunatic.
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It was about how a commentor saw a billboard in PA for amish voters, and he related it to a Government bust of an amish farm encouraging thousands of new amish voters, against the current establishment.
I thought it would be nice to bring attention of this part of the population of citizens who normally don't really vote, and can't really speak for thsemselves, in the digital world. I'm not as blind to make jokes about there being an "Amish vs. Migrants" fight though, haha.
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JD Vance and the Fight for Pennsylvania’s Catholic Voters
The Republican vice-presidential nominee is the only Catholic on either national ticket. His politics resonate with many white conservative Catholics.- Oct. 18, 2024Updated 2:34 p.m. ET
She explained the group’s mission: to reach out, in a campaign of postcards and video text messages, to Catholic Republicans who did not vote in 2020. If they vote this time, she hoped, it could be enough to win back the battleground state, and the White House.
The group had another big motivator: JD Vance, the 40-year-old Republican vice-presidential nominee.
Ms. Oxenreiter recounted how a friend had recently raised concerns that former President Donald Trump was “too old.”
“I said, ‘Well, that’s why he picked Vance!’” she said. “Another eight years!”
With Election Day closing in, white Catholic voters could prove important to the G.O.P. in Pennsylvania, a swing state often won by razor-thin margins. White Catholics tend to be reliably Republican, but in 2020, Mr. Biden, a Catholic born in Pennsylvania, capitalized on his cultural affinity with them, at least enough to narrow the partisan gap, and won the state.
In 2024, Mr. Vance is the only Catholic candidate on either ticket, a convert, economic populist and outspoken social conservative. His political profile resonates with many of these voters, who are worried about issues like education, transgender rights and the economy, in addition to abortion.
At Ms. Oxenreiter’s house party, Mr. Vance proved to be a valuable touchstone — a reassurance that no matter how much Mr. Trump may waffle on issues like abortion, Mr. Vance is one of them.
Polls paint a complicated picture of what is happening. According to recent surveys by The New York Times and Siena College, Mr. Trump holds a lead over Ms. Harris among white Catholics in Pennsylvania, 55 to 42 percent. Nationally, polls show that Ms. Harris now has about the same level of support among white Catholic voters as Mr. Biden did in 2020, and more than Hillary Clinton had in 2016.
If Ms. Harris maintains that level of support in a place like Pennsylvania, it could cut into Mr. Trump’s chances of winning. Or vice versa.
“We are all in on Pennsylvania now,” said Brian Burch, the president of Catholic Vote, which organized the house party and is functioning as Mr. Trump’s Catholic mobilization campaign in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.
The group regularly points out to voters that Mr. Vance is “a faithful Catholic.”
That pitch has moved Christina Costain, 48, who doesn’t love where Mr. Trump was on abortion but she said she had come to “absolutely love JD Vance.” She recently read his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” and marveled at how “smooth” he was during his debate with Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, Ms. Harris’s running mate.
Perhaps most importantly to her, “JD Vance, he’s admitted when his mind has been changed,” she said. “He’s humble.”
She saw him in contrast to Mr. Biden, even though Mr. Biden is one of the most religiously observant presidents in modern America, and his Catholic faith is core to his entire personal and public life.
Though Mr. Biden may go to Mass, she said, she was not sure what kind of Catholic he really was. And Ms. Harris, she said, represented “a whole different vibe.”
The Trump team is leaning hard into feelings like hers. Mr. Vance is making more stops in Pennsylvania than in any other state, and Republicans are framing Democrats as anti-Catholic, a tactic they have used in the past to amplify on social.
When Ms. Harris decided not to appear in person at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, hosted by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York on Thursday night, the Trump campaign sent out an email blast: Her absence was “sending a powerful message to Catholics: That they aren’t welcome in her coalition.” Ms. Harris sent a video message to be played at the dinner instead, which included a Catholic character from “Saturday Night Live.”
There was also “The Doritos Ad,” as some offended voters called it. In a bizarre TikTok video, Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan, placed a tortilla chip on the tongue of a kneeling feminist podcaster. The state’s Catholic bishops accused her of mocking the Eucharist, for which the governor apologized.
“Why mock a religion?” asked Richard Lynch, who attended Ms. Oxenreiter’s house party.
But many white liberal Catholics see Ms. Harris as a true champion of their values.
Denise Murphy McGraw, national chair of Catholics Vote Common Good, is working to mobilize Catholic voters for Ms. Harris in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
“She understands Catholic social justice teachings, and that’s how many of us who are multi-issue Catholic voters look at our elected officials,” Ms. McGraw said. “We want to make sure that they respect all people and lift up all lives in this country, and we see that in her.”
Her group is pushing a “Love Thy Neighbor” digital ad campaign and Catholic-to-Catholic postcard outreach.
Several independent Democratic groups like hers are rushing out their own get-out-the-vote efforts aimed at Catholic voters in battleground states. Many of those efforts are focused on nonreligious appeals to predominantly Catholic ethnic groups like Hispanics. In Pennsylvania there is an effort to turn out Catholic voters in Croatian, Ukrainian and Polish American communities who are concerned about Russian aggression in Europe.
The Catholic vote has changed greatly since the 1960s and 70s, when many white Catholics were reliable Democrats and John F. Kennedy became America’s first Catholic president. Many Catholics became Republicans during the Reagan era over issues like abortion, while an influx of Catholic Hispanic immigrants largely sided with the Democrats. In 2020, one in seven voters in 2020 were white Catholics.
Mr. Vance, who converted to Catholicism five years ago, represents a rising traditionalist wing of the church that has taken root in his own generation. Catholic conservatives have been returning to traditionalist practices, and have grown increasingly powerful politically: Six current U.S. Supreme Court justices are Catholic, and only one of them was nominated by a Democratic president.
That rising conservative voice has been noticeable in the Trump campaign. When Mr. Trump referenced St. Michael the Archangel on social media, it caught Ms. Oxenreiter’s attention immediately. The parish where she has attended Mass all her life is named for the saint, who is said in the Bible to protect God’s people.
Ms. Oxenreiter, a critical care nurse, thought Mr. Trump’s mention of St. Michael was a sign of a personal spiritual shift following the assassination attempt in nearby Butler, Pa. She recited a prayer in her backyard, asking St. Michael to “be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.”
“I think it is tremendous,” she said of Mr. Trump’s message. “Whether he’s using it as a prop, I don’t know, but for people like us, it is very important.”
It is unclear which side will best mobilize Catholic voters.
Kimmy Mauro, a 41-year-old public high school teacher, has lived in Lebo all her life. She voted for Obama twice, but in 2016 she voted for an independent candidate, Gary Johnson, because she wasn’t sold on Trump.
That changed in 2020. “When Covid hit, I lost my mind,” she said at the Lebo gathering. “I registered as a Republican immediately.”
She said that Democrats “hijacked public education and my children’s ability to learn and my ability to work.”
Everything that has happened since has cemented her political loyalties, she said. She felt vindicated when parents in the Mr. Lebanon school district won a lawsuit, after a first-grade teacher taught their children about transgender issues without informing them in advance.
“I am almost, like, a populist now,” she said. “Close the borders. Take care of our own people.”
Mr. Vance has come under heavy criticism for repeatedly spreading false claims that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing and eating pets — smears that journalists and local officials, including Republicans, have debunked.
Voters at the gathering in Ms. Oxenreiter’s house connected with Mr. Vance’s belief that the country cannot support the current influx of immigrants. Richard Lynch and his wife, Dianne, who voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, said that this time, they feel an urgency to become more active and mobilize Catholics like them — not only because of abortion, but also because they were worried that the current immigration process harms migrants.
“We are not doing our poor immigrants any favors by bringing them in,” said Ms. Lynch, who was worried that many immigrants could get caught up in sex trafficking.
Her husband agreed with her. Mr. Vance, he said, is “an authentic Catholic” and an “almost providential pick.”
“Pence was OK, but he is not JD Vance,” he said of the former vice president, Mike Pence.
He added, “Vance can really relate to a lot people … ” — and his wife finished his sentence: “ … who are struggling.”
It will be funny if Amish ruin the election for Democrats at least.
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He does know how to needle. Mr. Kevin “Kathryn” Gibes, he of the infamous AmHole, has the same tone of glib obnoxiousness that swivels from calculating provocation to narcissistic obliviousness. While both have a natural talent for pissing people off without really trying, Kevin being a troon and David being jewish, the latter is a professional.
The snippet you picked out is a fine example, starting off with a chatty “let’s” to imply togetherness and friendliness while issuing a command to assert his authority:
He puts in a flat, time wasting sentence to set up the retarded punchline-assertion and then tosses off his dogshit one-liner about threats to democracy. These impishly indifferent elites are as careless in their propagandizing as everything else, mistaking their mindless gossiping and teasing for worthwhile thought.
His essays are only fun to read in the context of clown world, when you imagine him smirking to himself as he emails a draft of his turd to the editors at the NYT-- and then see a vision of the future, with David appropriately gulaged and his idle, irresponsible fingers stilled by frostbite. I just love making up little stories
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3rd biggest state for Amish is Wisconsin, with 26,365. Small as that might be, it still would have been enough to flip it last time, 0.63% with 1,630,866 and 1,610,184. EDIT: Aw damn, I forgot to reply. Nevermind, it's white out'd.
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Someone I know on Instagram
Not even election night yet, and I sense freakout
Not even election night yet, and I sense freakout
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I'm telling you, that "Barron in Japan" thing was about setting him up with the current Princess. One last favor to Abe-San.
We call him Caesar now.
I was watching live in 2016 when PA flipped red. They did it once, they can do it again.
If the the 180,000 Amish in PA vote for Trump and flip it red, there's 180,000 Amish voters in PA. The census count is simply incorrect and there's 180,000 Amish Voters for Trump. That's all there is to it.
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How many mulatto children does this whore have?
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But they actually like Mao and Pol Pot. (Only reason they don't like Stalin anymore is "muh Russia".)
They did the same thing to Bush. Reagan too I believe. It's pretty much their go-to play.
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