Associated Press Redefines Packing the Supreme Court as 'Depoliticizing' It
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Funny how the court wasn't "political" while Dems held a majority.
Well then, Trump needs to 'depoliticize' the hell out of it.
The Democrats just openly admitted what we’ve always known. They want a one party system. They don’t want to debate, they don’t want to have to defend their ideology. They don’t want to have to define their platforms every 4 years.
“Depoliticizing” means the Democrats have control with zero opposition.
They'll have opposition. Violent, bloody opposition. They will have power for all of a month before the second Nuremberg trials begin.
There won’t even be trials. We will just kill them. And they won’t be able to hide behind plausible deniability because they can’t help but brag about their crimes online.
in minecraft
No. In real life. Because we don’t need to cower and hide our intentions to defend our way of life. These sick, weak fucks have managed to put us on our back foot for far too long.
Hey leftists, Win or lose in November, it doesn’t matter now. We are coming for you; and it is zero sum. YOU guys set those terms, not us.
This is the kind of shit that will get this site shut down by the scum.
Need to shutdown willful death threats NOW. Opinions are fine, Minecraft is fine (We know what you mean) but go down that road of endorsing open violence with willful intent will get us all shut down and is probably some DEMORAT Larper that is making those statements. Clean it up (delete the tweet/post)or the moderators will kick you off. If you are a Trumper then you know what WE mean.
WWG1WGA
Frog blast the vent core! They're everywhere!
Did you just recently visit Chernobyl?
👍
Can we report them to yelp as racists?
Yea just keep on making these posts and giving ADL ammo to call this site a hotbed of violent extremism.
I promise you are wrong.
They won't opposition. Conservatives will go out on a whimper. They will have power for decades to come because conservatives do not care about their country enough to stand up and fight for it(like they expect of soldiers)
Take the black pill
LOL
Due to the crooked nature of the police and the courts, there were need to be a greater collapse in society. There would also need to be some sort of political figure already existing to add legitimacy to our counter revolution. Otherwise we are just a bunch of disorganized rabble-rousing troublemakers to be smeared in the media and the corrupt FBI. Once society collapses, then there will start to be major changes in rhetoric and action from those on the right.
The good thing about leftists, is that they are unhinged, violent psychopath that will actually initiate much of the damage themselves, against themselves. It is due to the tribalistic nature of how they think. Let them fuck each other up first. In the meantime, just vote. At least the Denver guy is on first degree murder charges. Still not enough to atone for the shitty way Kyle is being treated.
For everyone, including myself, and I acknowledge I have made this error, we don't want to get ourselves worked up in a frenzy. And yes, I include myself as I have made this error as well. Witnessing what we are seeing in slow motion does not bode well for the mind.
This is why countries run by left leaning parties require political commisars in every unit of their military. It's like HR or Diversity officer to make sure they keep everyone loyal to the party. You don't need that in the U.S. military because our way of life is natural and the Constitution is just a manifestation of God given rights
Exactly. Leftism can not withstand dissent, so leftists cannot tolerate dissent.
i asked my very dem MIL if she thinks 2 parties are good, or would we be better off with 100% dem control(so they can do it all right!). she said 100% dem control is the only way to 'fix' things. they dont want 2 parties, they want 1, since theirs is "right"
Comrade Mil
Because we all know what wonderful places pre-OIF Iraq, Cuba, and North Korea (among others) were/are with only one party having a say in matters...
(inb4 "not real socialism")
Even in a one party system, there is always a struggle for supremacy. They don't even believe the same thing they did last week. Defeating external rivals simply shifts the fight to a new venue and new targets
There will always be dissent, and leftists cannot tolerate dissent, so dissenters have to be purged. This is part of the workings of every leftist government throughout history.
You can even see this in action on social media among Democrats when one of them does some critical thinking or dares to question the narrative. Even the slightest deviation is met with an immediate, heavy handed response from every Democrat on the thread. Almost invariably the offender will also immediately bend the knee and apologize, seeking to get back into the good graces of the hive.
Literally just got done responding on an old thread, and saw this stickied. I want to post here also. Regarding the Associated Press:
The AP essentially disavowed objectivity under this president. The progression is clear and demonstrable. I believe an actual editorial decision was made within their organization to do so, equating this president to a threat worthy of suspending journalistic integrity. Many anti-Trump journalist types (redundant) often describe seeing "nothing like Trump in my XX years covering XXXX," and believe he must be countered more than covered. That sentiment gave rise to the now ubiquitous "without evidence/unsubstantiated/unproven" caveats found in news reporting, which absolutely violate the notion of reporting fact, without analysis. Concessions like this are becoming more common. One of the very first in the trend was actually, and ironically, the term "fake news," which I believe the AP codified and enshrined for us forever. Most people totally don't recall, but that term originated on the LEFT in 2016, as a charge directed at "Russian disinformation," forums such as this, "extremist" websites like "Breitbart," and conservative media figures in general. It was meant as a jarring, blunt-sounding, intentionally simplistic invective so as to differentiate the "real news." Around the time of the last election, the AP began actually writing "fake news" in copy, which instantly elevated the phrase as distinct, repeatable, and mainstream. However very quickly, Trump and conservatives co-opted the term, correctly recognizing it captured the anti-media zeitgeist far better than it represented the manufactured claims of conservative misinformation. If you notice, the press has completely abandoned that phrase, now viewing it as pejorative. Alas, the AP created and propagated the expression, giving into its own emotion and immaturity. So in conclusion, intentionally allowing journalistic standards to decline, whether it be through laziness, or temptation, only hurt the profession in the end. The AP denigrates itself through what it writes at the moment. And through its unhidden zeal to destroy a president and practice social engineering, disseminated worldwide in biased cut-and-paste copy, the AP only solidifies public perception of uniformly slanted media.
The AFP (Agence France-Presse) operates in the DPRK, too.
Great comment, pede. This "activist journalism" has been going on for decades and they have finally reached a point where they no longer even make an effort pretend at objectivity. One of the earliest and most blatant examples of this for me was around 2011 when 0bama was still in his first term. I used to follow the NFL back then and I would go on the CNN site every week to read Peter King's Monday Morning Quarterback column. I had long noted that he would frequently inject his Democrat political views into his column, and eventually people began to call him out on it, understandably wanting to read about football, not politics. He finally decided to address the issue in his column, and he did so by saying that his role as a journalist requires that he promote his political views, that he would continue to do so, and that if you didn't like it, stop reading his column. Indeed, that was the last column of his that I read.
It's so pathetic that the prevailing contemporary role of a news-person has evolved to include "activism." That the profession became warped enough to tolerate something so contradictory! Like you said, even a sports writer feels justified indulging himself. In fact it seems sports became specifically targeted by the left, as if they collectively thought: "How dare they continue enjoying this free and clear? We must make inroads!" And now we see this clumsy interjection of politics into sports. It's truly delusional the industry applauds this. It's an echo chamber.
The "swamp," ie the political class, includes the media tasked with covering it. An attack on "the swamp" undercuts the personal interests of those in the media who cover DC. These people come and go between media orgs and political administrations. Trump's existence is an attack on the establishment. DC is a machine in which the wolves and the lambs have joined forces to create a sustainable industry. When you get an outsider who threatens that ecosystem, all members of that ecosystem work in concert to expel the alien threat. Order will restore once the threat is gone.
This is what is happening with the media right now
"If you look around and think society has gone mad and everything going on is complete, nonsensical madness, you’re wrong. It makes perfect sense. You just don’t understand the motives of the people who rule over you."
I got a progressive friend to see the folly in the media carrying water for any political party whatsoever. She used the line "scandal free presidency" to describe the Obama era, and I pointed out that it was purely manufactured narrative due to the media being on his team.
My position is that of free speech, free press, free expression, and that the scrutiny on the current administration is actually healthy and necessary to hold our policy leaders accountable. She concurred that point (because Orange Man Bad), to which I asked why that wasn't the case during the Obama admin.
Crickets.
Her mind went into a black hole
The gears were turning but the wheels weren't moving
I so wish our media wasn't biased. Then we could hold every politician accountable, as well as other powerful people. But then again I guess when you take over a country you first go for the media.
I don't believe there exists such a thing as "without bias." The best we can hope for is an open competition on the various biases presented among the emergent narratives around media players. When artificial constraints and editorialization constricts that open flow (looking at you Silicon Valley!), then we lose equal footing in the competitive playing field.
Heckler's Veto and Algorithmic Manipulation are the two biggest threats to open discourse, and we should all be terrified.
The media was never without bias. They were just open about it, and didn't try to claim otherwise until the 60s.
There's a reason a lot of smaller newspapers had "Republican" or "Democrat" in their name, before the Gannett borging.
It's far beyond biased. These are Democrat political activists who barely even pretend otherwise.
Control what people see...then manipulate them with articles pushing only your narrative. I used to only think that worked on the weak, but apparently its highly effective and the vast majority fall for it repeatedly.
I would have thought by now alot more people would have figured out their narratives were all contrived after being proven false repeatedly on some of their huger negative stories, but nope.
One of the biggest red pills for me related to the misleadia was watching them fawn over 0bama and write over the top puff pieces about him. This was an especially stark contrast after watching them criticize and shit all over Bush for the previous eight years. I distinctly remember reading Yahoo News and seeing an article with the headline:
Is This The Cutest Photo of President Obama Ever?
I remember thinking, "What in the ever loving fuck is this?". It was a real eye opener for me about just how far gone the media was even back then, and it's exponentially worse now.
Manufactured endless lies are healthy? Ok.
Well then it will forever be "political."
I thought the AP was a news reporting organization.
Why would they print obvious drivel as if it had any merit?
An activist SCOTUS means death to our Republic.
Amy Coney Barrett is the right step towards keeping our country on it's constitutional path, keeping America great.
No, the AP is where the rest of the mediantifa get their marching orders.
This is true. The AP publishes a "style guide" that advises specific language and terminology to eliminate wrongthink and advance the party narrative. It's blatant propaganda and it is used by pretty much every misleadia organization at every level.
They're going to update the style guide and say you can't use the term pack and most use depoliticize instead
Exactly. I believe this year they are strongly encouraging alternatives for “looting” because it has racist connotations for absolutely, positively, no good reason at all, whatsoever.
Ap is not legit
AP is a Fake News Democrat activist organization just like the rest of the misleadia.
Control the language, control the culture.
"Gun Safety Legislation"
Black Lives Matter
Religion of Peace
People's Republic
etc
"Austere Religious Scholar"
Bill Clinton's tax increase was an "Investment". Freezing spending for schools at current levels was called a "Cut"
Reducing the amount of the increase in spending is often referred to the left as a 'cut'.
Easter worshippers
This one has always creeped me out
Planned Parenthood
PATRIOT ACT
"Common sense gun laws"
Next up: "Common sense speech restrictions"
"Hate speech"
"Common sense gun control"
"Common sense gun legislation"
It's a war on language, like every communist regime before it.
That's why I avoid terms like "liberal", "progressive", "conservative", "green", etc. It's the terms that leftists prefer.
We are the real "liberals", in the classical sense of the word - champions of individual freedom, constitutionally limited government, free markets, equality of negative Rights under law, etc.
We are the real "progressives": free market capitalism is the engine of human progress, and socialism is a cancer that destroys it.
We are the real "greens": economic growth is what improves the environment, while socialist stagnation destroys it. Pollution is a Property Rights issue. All the worst polluters in history have been statists.
Same, they are lefitsts or commies.
Actual liberals don't want to kill people they don't agree with.
I've been using leftist up until now, but if we are going to start playing the same game with language, we need to use the most negatively loaded term, so I think i will switch to commie.
Sasse is talking about this right now in the ACB confirmation hearing.
Came here to say this.
Happy "Indigenous Peoples Day".
Need to stop calling it “packing the court” and start calling it what it is, “expanding the court”
These fucktards cant pack it even if they desire. FDR tried and failed. He did end up with 8 out of 9 libtard judges, but thats because he served for so damn long. He tried to pack by forcing elderly judges out by age 70 with an "heir apparent" since day one over 3 terms. Uncle Creepy doesnt have a shot even if he gets one.
That's true and it's comforting, but the fact that they are clearly wanting to do it tells so much about their ambitions and character.
They don't really hide their totalitarian ambitions these days. Their useful idiots have been radicalized and demoralized to fully support those ambitions, so they no longer need to hide them.
On the other hand, while there was Congressional Dem pushback against it, the mere threat of packing the court was scary enough to the USSC that in subsequent rulings on New Deal policies they bent over backwards to find reasons to not rule them the unconstitutional crap they were.
FDR was a real piece of shit in hindsight
"Representing the growing population of our nation, by creating a court that shows the diversity of peoples that form this nation."
Packing could mean expanding it to make it bigger to fill the missing seats with people who alight themselves with your viewpoint, or shrinking it to weed out the unnecessary judges that don’t align with your viewpoint. You could make it bigger OR smaller to fit your agenda.
Countries like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union used this tactic
Racial Sensitivity Training
Continuing the Democrat trend of labeling things the exact opposite of it's intention.
*Communist.
Exactly
Same picture
Seriously... This is 1984.
They used the term for decades.
As soon as it becomes politically damaging, they create a new term, say the old term is bad and always has been bad.
What some read as a warning others read as a manual.
I have been saying the AP and Reuters are corrupted for years. Glad its finally getting attention, but not like this.... :[
I think Newsmax is about as neutral as it gets, AFAIK. Others may have other sources.
Dailymail unironically.
I'm not-so-secretly hoping some weaponized autists research the internal individuals of the AP. It would be a shame if they were the news.
There are none. Only rely on primary sources. And honestly, not reading the news every day is not so bad either.
How about sue AP into bankruptcy and we'll call depoliticizing AP ?
Confirms what we already knew - The AP is just another arm of the globalist propaganda machine. The whole fucking world is against us boys.
It was obvious when they changed capitalization of white people and black people. They said that white supremacists would capitalize white and purposely not capitalize black, and that showed that one group had more importance over the other.
So what did they do? They decided to only capitalize black and not capitalize white and tried to justify it. So they complain about doing it one way and say its racist, and then turn around and do it the other way and try to justify it. Everything is infiltrated.
We're literally dragging these losers into peace and prosperity and they're kicking and screaming and fighting it the whole way because they don't get to be in control. The world is the best it's ever been and will only continue to get better as long as they don't gain control.
the left has done this with 'racism' and 'white supremacy' too.
They are winning too as they take the language, and take the main means of communication. They have the kids sorted via school dominance. You have to respect how much fucking grip they have on things. Look at Twitter throwing Trumps account around like a rag doll.
I think we are in a sweet spot where they are still able to push their message with their new definitions while still relying on the more potent, colloquial definitions.
An example of this was AOC calling US immigration detention centers "concentration camps". She got called out by the jewish community, and when pressed she said, oh well I just meant that they are technically concentrations of people.
When the words lose their veracity and the watered down definitions become prominent, their message will be also. Take "white supremacy" as an example. What they mean is 'a society dominated by western culture' (which is actually not a bad thing), but they are relying on the concept that nazis thought the white race was genetically superior and wanted to cleanse society of undesirables.
All they are doing is watering down their message in the long run. As long as we have the freedom of speech and are able to engage their bullshit head on, that is.
100%. I come across as pessimistic at times here on this wonderful forum, but I am fighting battles out there. The RepubliCANT party is an 'out of touch' swampy disgrace IMHO. It desperately needs true honest patriots. I live in Australia. My friends are pro-Trump.....and this seemingly includes a gay friend who I caught up with last week. OK, he is not quite pro-Trump anything like myself, but he can't stand the identity politics put out by the left.
If America falls, the rest of the western world goes down with it. America is the only nation on Earth that protects freedom of speech.
First of all, the AP is now a total joke. Second, the Left is very, very good at controlling and defining language. This is another attempt to recreate the meaning of court packing.
They obv need more wise latinas, because whatever
At this point it's clear that their plan is fully to pack the court straight away if they were to win. This is guaranteed.
No doubt they'll use "inclusion and diversity" as a smokescreen reason why.
The fact Biden refuses to answer and MSM are already trying to spin it tells you everything.
The issue is that they cannot fathom that the Republicans could pack the courts as well. If they pack the courts and the republicans do it too, boy it would be interesting to see the media literally melt.
This is the Supreme Court equivalent of getting rid of the SATs.
"BIGGEST ENEMY"
Islam(Juice), Marxists(Juice), Black crime culture(Juice), Globalists(Juice) and China.
The left can’t win using the regular political process so they are trying to implement their radical agenda using the courts. This is another example of the MSM aiding and abetting this agenda by cloaking the ideas in words. Perfect example how the media is the enemy of the people and can be easily used as a mouthpiece.
The real question is what DIRT do the Democrats have on Governor Tom Wolf, to force him to continue doing this?
Pedophilia? Child trafficking? Must be a real career-ending revelation.
“ This story has been edited to make clear that it is Bullock’s opinion, rather than a fact, that adding justices to the Supreme Court would depoliticize the court.”
They modify it probably because of us, TD and Breitbart pointing out their hypocrisy.
Democrats are not playing anymore. The next time they get in power it is game fucking on. The RepubliCANTs need actual patriots with teeth in their RINO infested ranks. Another outsider should come in to lead post Trump.
There is a way to depoliticize the court which I would support. Every Justice gets a 20 year term. That way every president gets to nominate 1 justice every 2 years. Justices do not have to wait until they are almost dead to retire. Senate confirmation is changed so that there is less possibility for BS hearings. A simple constitutional amendment everyone could get behind.
Also, no need for nominating the youngest possible people as there is now.
Makes sense, although I think 18 year terms make the math work out better. You'd have to do something with the current set of judges.
I guess you could do the current judge list by seniority and roll it back from 2 years left for Thomas to 18 with ACB. The last issue would be whether someone dies in office, but nothing you can do about that.
We had to live with Obama for 8 years. Demogods need to get over it. We won!
Orwellian. For generations, Pro-Lifers have refrained from pushing a court packing agenda out of knowledge of what that would do to our Constitution and our country, but the moment the Democrats and pro-aborts don't get their way, they immediately move to the most radicalized, self defeating, most polarizing "solution". This is why the left is so destabilizing and can never be allowed to get power, because they will never abide by the rules or play fair. They will always move to the most extreme and polarizing position.
Also, do they think packing the court will really keep partial birth abortion and post birth abortion "safe" for the Moloch Worshippers? Do they really think that if they go down this road that it won't erode Constitutional Rights...oh wait, of course they do. They're just dumb enough to think that when the whole thing goes belly up, the people who end up on top will respect their rights and care about "making the world a better place". Lefties are so gullible. They really are stupid enough to believe that the people on top care about little people rather than themselves. They can't see the same elites today that rule their party, will rule in any post Constitutional, post-SCOTUS USA as well. Really, these morons think the same people who sell out America to China, Iran, keep their kids far away from the public schools you send your kids to, make sure their kids are legacy enrollments to Ivy League schools, and work out "book" deals to enrich themselves and throw backroom, kick back deals to their friends are really going to be interested in equity and resource distribution. They know nothing of history. They have no idea that the first thing commie leaders always reject, once they are in power, is any concern for human beings. In fact, they pride themselves the wide scale deaths that happen after they take over.
I can't wait for Trump to get reelected and Breyer to die and Thomas to retire so we get a 7-2 majority for the next thirty fucking years.
Orwellian Doublespeak
Pravda is scrambling.
Please check again when the proper narrative has been language checked.
Right because having a pro-abortion, pro open borders piece of shit court isn't political at all
FUCK THESE FACIST FUCKS!
Listening to these heathens ramble on, pretending to act in good faith is infuriating. If they are continued to allow to change definitions to whatever suits their current goals - we will see our rights slip away and we will see the left install themselves as the permanent power structure in this country.
That cannot be allowed to happen. Period.
AP used to have integrity, but that is long gone. And even worse is how many other media companies source the AP as the basis for their stories. When they're that biased, you get what we have today - A radical media propaganda network with TDS.
AP never had integrity. However, when the elitists began moving towards globalization, the AP followed suit.
The difference is that in the 1950s and 1960s, most American journalists and editors were well educated and were better at obfuscating their agenda than they are today.
Ok then. Have Trump put in 8 more 30 year old justices.
RBG politicized the shit out of the court. She talked shit about Trump before he won.
TALK ABOUT PROJECTING
I would really love to see Republicans threaten to pack the courts if they retain senate control. Not actually do it. Just threaten to do it to make all these morons defend their outrage over something they've openly said they want to do
I'd surely love to see them have a committee do a study on the optimum number of Supreme Court justices. Let's get some analysis to back up our position, instead of all this partisan emotional ranting!!!
Left-fags and their winning war on language.
Conservatives need to hit back with short, catchy truths or we will lose on this front.
GASLIGHTING
I wish the republicans had shown an ounce of this fight with Sotomayor and Kagan.
But they never did. They're not on an opposing side. The democrats and the media and the republicans are all part of the same club. The same power structure that seeks to overturn the constitution and eliminate liberty.
Took Trump to expose all of it. All the brainwashing. All the corruption. Vote like your lives and your children's lives depend on it, because they do.
Depoliticizing = Justice who will conserve the Constitution
Politicizing = Justice who will progress away from the Constitution
SCOTUS is supposed to be a conservative institution. If you want progressives, they are supposed to be in congress, not the courts.
its only fair when the far left gets exactly what they want
anything else is some kind of crime
It was “depoliticized” when RBG died.
The Left REALLY, REALLY like abortion, dont they?
Gotta love doublespeak
Up is down and down is up. The AP is commie asshoe.
Sickos
OK... then Trump should do it. Let them figure THAT headline out. "Court Packing is okay... until Trump does it"
This HAS to be the red line. This has the potential of subverting the highest court in America. This has so many far reaching effects, how the fuck are democrats this shortsighted!?
“This should not be a partisan political issue, you should just accept our partisan political opinion already”
Associated* Press
*Associated with Communism