All Politicked Out? Election 2020
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Loved the aunt Jemima, uncle bens rice, and ct Dracula, Dave losing it was hysterical. Pete’s lips! Also like the loser part from the grinch
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@FarmerJayhawk said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
@approxinfinity said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
Spanberger, my House Rep lost her shit on her fellow democrats on a call today, telling them to never use the word socialist again and to distance themselves from the defund the police movement: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/05/house-democrats-angry-over-election-losses-leaders-promises-answers/6179057002/
If you’ll recall, she was one of the House Democrats that called for impeachment, and I’m happy she won reelection.
She’s so, so right. A lot of the voters D’s really want, and lost ground with in 2020 vs. 2016, are more conservative than the liberal whites who run the party.
Couldn’t agree more. The GOP messaging was banking on the fact that the fear of socialism > fear of autocratic leader… and it appears they were right.
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From an article I read this morning:
"The federal official whose job is to sign off on President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory and begin the mammoth task of transitioning between presidents has refused to do so, potentially delaying the official transfer of power, The Washington Post reported on Sunday evening.
Emily Murphy, a Trump appointee who heads the General Services Administration, has resisted signing the paperwork that would give Biden and his team access to millions of dollars in transitions funds, as well as official access to government officials and equipment to prepare the incoming administration."
So if this person, Emily Murphy, doesn’t sign off, then I guess we just wait until January 20th for Trump to be evicted?
The transition funds are around I think 10 million dollars. Perhaps it’s already been looted.
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@FarmerJayhawk said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
Related observations. I’m always amazed how awful Democrats are at non-Presidential politics. They spent $200 million to lose by 35 points combined to Cocaine Mitch and Lindsey Graham. Well done folks!
Cocaine Mitch is the all time greatest. Keeping the Senate majority is massive. And I firmly believe if you shot Biden up with truth serum, he’d rather have ML McConnell than Schumer. They can make deals and Biden can blame McConnell for anything. And he’d be happy to take the barbs.
The GOP picked up state legislative seats nationwide, which has big redistricting implications.
There was an EPIC polling failure in JoCo and Kansas broadly this year. Someone in the party showed me a poll that had D’s picking up 10-15 House seats and 5 Senate seats. The GOP expanded their supermajority in the state legislature, including a big upset in knocking off Sen. Hensley, who’s been Minority Leader longer than I’ve been alive. Can’t blame anyone but themselves. The GOP just outhustled D’s.
I think Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader Schumer should step down from leadership, especially if Senate R’s keep 52-53 seats. They flat blew it.
There is some data out that as it became clear that Biden would likely win the presidency, fewer Republicans (particularly in red states like Kansas, Iowa, Montana, South Carolina and others) were willing to vote for Democrats as Senators. These are people that would have voted for Democrat Senators if they thought Trump would win, but flipped. I think that same trend carried downballot to state races as well.
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Ben Carson has the virus. How many more can they afford to come down with the rona before there is no one left to hang on to the fact that this was all a"HOAX" and would MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR ON NOV. 4TH?
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First, Dr Bright, the whistle blower from hutch is on Pres elec. Biden’s covid team! Well deserved! He was fighting so hard for us. I don’t know if anyone saw the 60 mins show he was on.
Should’ve listened to him, but like everybody that didn’t step in line… 2nd we are putting up a tent at our hospital. Dumb a$$es still not wearing 
the vaccine is also not part of the trumps warped speed program!
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This opinion is awesome for a couple reasons. One is how much he shreds the entire case brought by the Trump team. And two, Judge Brann is a FedSoc member and Trump appointee
https://twitter.com/gabrielmalor/status/1330291910209105922?s=21
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@FarmerJayhawk Obama appointee
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Which obviously has people up in arms despite him being a conservative…
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https://twitter.com/philiprucker/status/1335216030671646725?s=21
This seems to be more than nut-picking and indicative of a party wide problem. I’m still confident things will go as they should in January but to say this isn’t doing damage to what could be done after Jan 21 I think would be naive. Talk about undermining the legitimacy of a president…
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@benshawks08 saw this. The Republican Party is pathetic right now.
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At least after the Electoral College votes and Congress certifies it, it’ll be near unanimous. Only the really whacky (think like Chakah Fattah and Alcee Hastings in 2000) will contest the certification in Congress.
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@FarmerJayhawk itll be interesting to see if Antony Blinken can convince the rest of the world that America is actually rejoining the rest of the world or if we will do an about face in 4 years when the next Trumpist wins the presidency.
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Pretty sure Gaetz has already said he’s going to contest. But that was maybe 3 weeks ago.
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The Republican Party. Rotten.
Complicit enablement of fascist agendas is a mark of Cain. Time to blow it up.
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https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1337135543373733889?s=21
January can’t get here quick enough.
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Meanwhile, we get news about the Trump administration failing to lock in 200 million more doses from pfizer (ie the 95% effective vaccine) when they initially offered them with no cost if the trials proved to not be effective. They offered them again in October and November, and were turned down by the administration. And now the EU has locked in 300 million doses and we will have to wait until after that to get more, probably July. So if we get to July and Europe is all clear and we are still piling up bodies in the US, remember this.
And @Marco again, this is why Europe doesn’t have the infections and deaths that the US has. Because they have more competent leaders who put the well being of their citizens first.
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Wherever you are, it’s pretty depressing. Wtf is going on in Belgium?? https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?country=USA~GBR~CAN~BRA~ESP~DEU~FRA~AUT~BEL~HRV~DNK~FIN~HUN~ITA~NOR~POL~PRT~SWE~CHE®ion=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=total&perCapita=true&smoothing=0&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc
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@FarmerJayhawk said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
Wherever you are, it’s pretty depressing. Wtf is going on in Belgium?? https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?country=USA~GBR~CAN~BRA~ESP~DEU~FRA~AUT~BEL~HRV~DNK~FIN~HUN~ITA~NOR~POL~PRT~SWE~CHE®ion=World&deathsMetric=true&interval=total&perCapita=true&smoothing=0&pickerMetric=location&pickerSort=asc
It appears to be a country divided, much like ours:
According to several Belgian officials, it was the government of the northern region of Flanders that insisted on keeping a balance between economic interests and the public health situation, and thus blocking the shutdown of leisure activities such as sports and cultural events.
The federal restrictions didn’t go far enough for French-speaking politicians, as cases and hospital admissions were quickly rising in the south. Only hours after De Croo’s press conference last Friday, Wallonia and the French community adopted stricter rules, including an extended curfew and universities again going completely virtual. On Saturday, the Brussels government announced another set of measures for the capital region, adding to the confusion.
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The Texas case is officially dead. SCOTUS kicked it 9-0, and the only remotely interesting part was Thomas and Alito saying the case had no merit but still had to hear it based on original jurisdiction (the idea that under Article III the Court has to hear all disputes between states).
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@approxinfinity I never said that we weren’t divided, but some feel that Trump did put our citizens first - not only domestically, but internationally as well. Oh well, he lost, guess that we need to lube up and get ready to start bending over for China and the rest of the world once again.
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@Marco said in All Politicked Out? Election 2020:
@approxinfinity I never said that we weren’t divided, but some feel that Trump did put our citizens first - not only domestically, but internationally as well. Oh well, he lost, guess that we need to lube up and get ready to start bending over for China and the rest of the world once again.
woh man, whatever you do in your free time is your business
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@approxinfinity
oh, believe me, my free time is spent being much more constructive than that. Others can spend their own deconstructing themselves and or this nation, if that is what they think floats, for a time, a sinking boat.
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Today is potentially (knocking on wood) a very good day. Still a lot of bad happening, but hopefully some good news.
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I stayed up very late last pm!
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And then this afternoon happened…
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If anyone still confused about privilege, 13 people have been arrested so far. Just 13. The benefit of the doubt folks get for being white is extreme in this country.
Edit: the benefit of the doubt is as strong for white people as the presumption of guilt is for non whites.
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Impeach and remove him. Tonight.
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And then convict him.
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He should honestly stand trial for treason.
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Yeah, its not going to happen. All Trump’s enablers still suckle at the racist, ignorant teat of Trump’s constituents.
Shame on the Republicans.
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The folks at Twitter have more courage and honor than congressional Republicans.
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Some of the cops just let them thru the gates, took pics w/them. I have a lot a words, to many to write. I’m still a reg. Repub. always vote country over party. Have friends that have run on both sides, so pretty moderate. I couldn’t vote for trump, could see right thru him, never felt safe, and he was a sexist!
I at least felt safe w/Hilary. Not a huge fan, but later proved she was right on about everything. So happy about the Georgia runoff! Decent guys instead of rich insider trade criminals. And then Cruz, Hawley Marshall, the rest of the enablers of trump
4 yrs of this crap. My hope is he finally has to pay for all the crime he’s gotten away with! I like joe, he’s decent and has picked great people. Has trouble speaking, but decent goes far with me! What happened today needs to be dealt with NOW!
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/07/jan-6-was-9-weeks-and-4-years-in-the-making-455797
I found this interesting.
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Alberta is always a must read. I think he’s the best sourced reporter in GOP circles in DC. His book American Carnage is fantastic.
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I’m curious at what point the sane Republicans realized that Trump was inciting violence and had no plans to just go away. And when they did realize it, did they think that those enabling the President were morally in the wrong? Or did they think “well that’s just politics”?
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Let me throw out two statements and tell me which one resonates more with you:
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every circumstance in life is an opportunity to maximize one’s outcome
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every circumstance in life is an experience that one might learn from
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@approxinfinity some did leave. I’ve heard some are staying on just to keep the transition smooth
️ The seditious 6 or 7? are really hearing about it. Josh Hawley is losing a book deal and backing.
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I have not seen this anywhere else, but I fully expect Trump to pardon the Capitol rioters on his way out the door.
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@mayjay your thoughts on this? Not the pardon, what happened.
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@Crimsonorblue22 Every anti-Trump newspaper in the country should have run a banner headline yesterday morning reading: Told You So
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@Crimsonorblue22 As to impeachment, waste of time. Ignore him and don’t give the Repubs something to rally around.
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@Crimsonorblue22 I forgot to mention that I am surprised the Repubs aren’t pushing to seize Hillary’s emails for evidence of the diabolical Antifa plan to coax white supremacists in rioting.
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Ding dong the witch is dead. Twitter banned Trump forever. Not sure the wisdom of it but hey, they can do what they please.
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May the rest of the country heal as the Republican Party discards one ugly face and schemes on a new look for 2022
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Will we heal? That’s kinda what I wanted @mayjay . These guys are everywhere and they believe everything trump tells them. It shocks me. I watched the Georgia election guy go over ever allegation/Conspiracy theory there is and he’s a republican, voted for trump. They claim to be Christian, but that’s not what I learn in church. How can a patriot desecrate our Capitol? Then there’s the confederate flag
somebody counted and said there were more trump flags than American flags. I’ll stop.
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A lot of the American right is in a bad place right now, that much is obvious. Its embrace of grievance politics is gross. I miss the days when Mitt and Jeb! were the standard bearers.
