{"id":37036,"date":"2019-07-12T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37036"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:44:29","slug":"spiking-the-ball-not-kicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/12\/spiking-the-ball-not-kicked\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiking the Ball Not Kicked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie studies the ball, plans his feat, and runs forward.  Just as he kicks, Lucy pulls the ball away, and Charlie falls flat on his back.  He yells and goes away frustrated.  But what if Charlie had pretended he had made the field goal, grabbed the ball, and done a victory dance?  We all know Charlie Brown has too much integrity for that.  The one who did do that is not as bald as Charlie.  His greasy hair, piled on his head,  is vile yellow like a Russian hooker’s pee.  <\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0712ACLU\" <\/p>\n

President Trump said he is giving up his bid to add a citizenship question to the census. He had initially threatened to defy a Supreme Court ruling that blocked it. His announcement today was made just hours after the American Civil Liberties Union threatened additional legal action. <\/p>\n

Dale Ho, director of the ACLU\u2019s Voting Rights Project, who argued the Supreme Court case, said: <\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s attempt to weaponize the census ends not with a bang but a whimper<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe lost in the Supreme Court, which saw through his lie about needing the question for the Voting Rights Act. It is clear he simply wanted to sow fear in immigrant communities and turbocharge Republican gerrymandering efforts by diluting the political influence of Latino communities<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

“He then tried a mulligan, but his keystone cops couldn\u2019t settle on a new rationale for the question; they couldn\u2019t even figure out how to swap out legal teams. Now he\u2019s backing down and taking the option that he rejected more than a year ago. Trump may claim victory today, but this is nothing short of a total, humiliating defeat for him and his administration<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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His victory celebration was a bogus executive order to share citizenship between agencies.  But the sharing of data between agencies was already in place, set up during the Obama administration, as explained in the following video<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n