Wednesday, July 31, 2024

News about Our Lives Now.

 

Kamala Harris making a campaign rally in Georgia is very important as Georgia remains in play to go for the Democrats again in 2024. Kamala Harris has to decide what his Vice-Presidential candidate will be. Before the rally, the hip hop artist Megan Thee Stallion performed music for the crowd. Kamala Harris gave a speech where she said that if Trump wants to talk about her, say it in front of her face. Kamala Harris promoted many policies like freedom, economic opportunity, and making sure that student loan debt is cut. The Project 2025 director steps down after backlash from progressives and anger from Donald Trump. Project 2025 is self-evident. It is a blueprint for a fascist America. Trump has denied knowing about it and supporting it. Yet, the views found in Project 2025 fully outline the MAGA agenda. Many people have shown red flags about the agenda of Project 2025 which deals with banning the Department of Education, eliminating DEI programs, making the executive branch near unitary (in contradiction of the separation of powers), and being blatantly xenophobic. Dr. Kevin Roberts is the President of the Heritage Foundation and part of Project 2025. Trump has said that he wants to be a dictator on Day One, desires to abolish the U.S. Constitution one time, and seeks retribution against his political opponents. J.D. Vance has blatantly promoted sexist views about "childless cat ladies" and shaming single people in his various rants.


For the Olympic results by July 29, 2024, the Team USA men's gymnasts won their first medal in the team event since 2008 with a bronze medal. Yuto Horigome from Japan won the men's street skateboarding with Americans Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston taking silver and bronze. The U.S. women's basketball team defeated Japan in its first group stage. The score was 102-76. A'ja Wilson scored 24 points, Breanna Stewart had 22, and Brittney Griner, Sabrina Ionescu, and Kelsey Plum each had 11 points as well. This was 56 consecutive Olympic wins for the USA women's national basketball team. Gold medalist Summer McIntosh of Canada won the women's 400m individual medley final at Paris La Defense Arena (in swimming). Katie Grimes won silver for America and Emma Weyant of America won bronze. The women's rugby team from America beat Great Britain in the score of 17-7 to go to the medal round.


There are a lot of updates on Day 4 of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics (on July 30, 2024). The United States' Bobby Finke won a silver medal in the men's 800m freestyle. Ireland's Daniel Wiffen won the gold, and Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri won the bronze. Wiffen had a time of 38.19 seconds. Finke had 38.75 seconds. Australia's Kaylee McKeown won gold in the women's 100m backstroke on Tuesday (with a time of 57.33 seconds). The Americans Regan Smith and Katharine Berkoff won silver and bronze respectively with times of 57.66 seconds and 57.98 seconds. The USA's women's gymnastics team made gold in the team final. Italy had silver, and Brazil had bronze. That means that the USA women's gymnastics team victors of the team event are Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, and Hezly Rivera. Historically, Simone Biles has 8 Olympic gold medals, being the 7th most decorated woman Olympic gymnast. She has the most Olympic medals earned by a U.S. gymnast too. USA's Miles Partain and Andy Benesh defeated Morocco to move on to play against Brazil in beach volleyball. In women's rugby, New Zealand won gold, Canada won silver, and America won bronze. America's women's rugby team came back to win their first rugby medal for the U.S. since 1924.


President Biden was in Austin, Texas to go to the LBJ Presidential library. He made a speech about his proposed reforms to the Supreme Court. As we know, the Supreme Court has gone too far with ethics scandals, establishing reactionary decisions, and being low on popularity among the American populace. President Biden has criticized the Supreme Court's recent decision to give near immunity to the President. Biden is right to say that no one is above the law. Biden also said that one Justice has conflicts of interest with advocates of the January 6th insurrection in 2021. What is happening now is a contradiction of the legal precept of the separation of powers. President Joe Biden wants three bold reforms involving the Supreme Court. Biden wants a Constitutional Amendment called No One is Above the Law Amendment to give every President no unlimited immunity. Biden wants term limits for Supreme Court Justices as there are term limits for Senators and House members. Now, the Supreme Court has lifetime appointments. Biden wants an 18-year term limit for Supreme Court Justice to eliminate bias and to stop conflicts of interests. Biden condemned Project 2025. President Biden wants a bidding code of conduct for the Supreme Court as the current code of conduct is too weak. Biden wants the code of conduct (like the recusal of Justices on certain cases of a conflict of interests, releasing money records, etc.) to be enforceable.


Many MAGA extremists are trying to disenfranchise voters who are in Texas, Pennsylvania, California, and other places in America. Many thousands of voters have their right to cast a vote challenged by activists nearing the November 2024 election. Daniel Moss, a university administrator from Denton County Texas, has his voter registration challenged by one activist. Moss had been in the country and voted for two decades. Election officials have been harassed by evil people who made inaccurate complaints about voter rolls and tried to deny people the right to vote. One group doing this is the conservative Texas-based nonprofit group called True the Vote. It has promoted false theories about voter fraud. The group's founder, Catherine Engelbrecht, has called on followers to research voter data and try to challenge the eligibility of voters. This is Jim Crow 2.0. True the Vote claims to just want to stop fraud, but their challenges have been filled with errors and targeting vulnerable people like elderly human beings, homeless people, etc. This is why we say that voter suppression efforts are real.


By Timothy






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