All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[Wildling]

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If this isn't the best example of everything that is wrong with being a Trump Supporter, I don't know what is.

They could also be injected with Covid while assured they'll get the millionaire jerk steroid Trump got if they elect him for a mythical third term (while everybody else waits and gets properly vaccinated/treated/used to social distancing).

[Iron Maiden]

So, apparently Trumps Admin has been paying $2.5M to his businesses. https://mobile.twitter.com/Fahrentho...38640794378242

Hands up if you're shocked.

Not shocked at all. There were reports about him charging the Secret Service for stays at his Mar a Lago since they have to go where he goes. When he went to meetings in Europe, he had Air Force one make a stop at in Scotland so they would have to stay at his golf resort there.

From February
New Details about Taxpayers Costs at Trump properties

[Tendrin]

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman hit with 15 new felony charges one day after testifying in related case

Weeks after Michigan prosectors hit the pair of right-wing provocateurs with charges in an alleged voter-intimidation robocall scheme, Jacob Wohl, 22, and Jack Burkman, 58, have been indicted by an Ohio grand jury on separate felony counts.

Local prosecutors charged Wohl and Burkman each with eight counts of felony telecommunications fraud and seven counts of felony bribery for allegedly sowing false fears about voting by mail in targeted minority communities in Ohio, plus multiple other states. Warrants were issued for the pair's arrest, who face up to 18 years and six months in prison if convicted.

(Ohio defines "bribery" in this instance as "attempt by intimidation, coercion or other unlawful means to induce such delegate or elector to register or refrain from registering or to vote or refrain from voting at a primary, convention or election for a particular person, question or issue.")

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jacob-woh...003531797.html

You know, what's funny is that this happened precisely because nobody swatted them down for their early hijinks hard enough, and now they're looking at real time.

[numberthirty]

From the "Illinois..." corner -

Seems like there is something of a rift between how Lightfoot sees things versus the Governor when it comes to tightening restrictions on indoor dining/bar service.

Seems like she will respect his lead, but she was wondering out loud on news radio about what will become of businesses.

[numberthirty]

So, looks like the Justice Department won't be allowed to represent Trump the defamation suit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/n...e-lawsuit.html

Justice Dept. Blocked in Bid to Shield Trump From Rape Defamation Suit

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that President Trump can be personally sued for defamation in connection with his denial while in office of a decades-old rape allegation.

The judge, Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court in Manhattan, rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to step into the case and defend the president. His ruling means that, for the moment, a lawsuit by the writer E. Jean Carroll can move forward against Mr. Trump, in his capacity as a private citizen.

[Username taken]

So, looks like the Justice Department won't be allowed to represent Trump the defamation suit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/n...e-lawsuit.html

The fact that Trump even wanted the Justice Department to represent him in a personal defamation case is crazy.

It's even crazier that people are still screeching on about Hunter Biden's emails in the face of such brazen corruption in the White House right now.

[Username taken]

Most polls have Trump still leading in Texas but the fact that it’s in play is pretty huge. In 2012, Romney won Texas by 15.8 points. Trump won the state by 9. The fact that it’s a toss up in 2020 could have big ramifications for the future. If Texas becomes a blue state by 2024, it’s all over for the republicans. Obviously demographic shifts are a big reason for the change but there has also been a huge migration from other parts of the country. Texas, Arizona and parts of the South are seeing the nation’s largest population bumps and the people moving there from more liberal states. Living on the coasts has become insanely expensive. I’ve seen first hand the cost of living in California force a lot of people to look for jobs and housing elsewhere. I don’t think Biden will take Texas next week but if things continue in this direction, we won’t see another republican president for the foreseeable future. That is, if Trump allows us to have elections and doesn’t just appoint Don Jr. his successor.

Very true.

The thing is, Biden is polling above 50% nationally which would suggest that even if he's not leading in the some of the larger states he's going to be very competitive. Texas has seen a massive influx of people from other states and there's been a lot of immigration into that state (my understanding is Latinos from South America lean Democrat as opposed to those from Cuba that lean Republican).

Another thing is this time the Democrats are not taking anything for granted at all. Obama has been deployed to Florida and Pennsylvania, Biden is going to Georgia (an unusually competitive state this time) and Kamala Harris is going to Texas (as mentioned earlier an unusual competitive state).

[Tendrin]

The fact that Trump even wanted the Justice Department to represent him in a personal defamation case is crazy.

It's even crazier that people are still screeching on about Hunter Biden's emails in the face of such brazen corruption in the White House right now.

Don't forget Pompeo wants to release 'more of Hillary Clinton's emails'.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Might wanna rethink that one, WPP!

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/t...blem-after-all

But remember, Biden is just as bad because reflexive both-siderism is still a thing with some people.

My bad for making the foolish mistake of giving Trump the benefit of the doubt.

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If this isn't the best example of everything that is wrong with being a Trump Supporter, I don't know what is.

I heard about that horror story. And what's really sad is that those idiots will STILL vote for Trump....provided they're not sick from pneumonia. Speaking of medical stuff....

Eli Lilly's COVID-19 antibody treatment trial ends early due to ineffectiveness

Eli Lilly's antibody treatment offers little benefit to people hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

The NIAID ended Lilly's Phase 3 trial early, delivering a setback for the promising treatment. Lilly remains hopeful the treatment will prove beneficial to patients earlier in the disease's progression. That research remains ongoing.

[worstblogever]

Only a week before the elections come to end. Trump is no good at all. Biden is hardly better. So, Vote for Howie Hawkins instead.

I can only respond to this in gif form.

[InformationGeek]

Only a week before the elections come to end. Trump is no good at all. Biden is hardly better. So, Vote for Howie Hawkins instead.

Isn't that the guy who threw a gigantic hissy fit at AOC for not crediting him for coming up the Green New Deal originally? Like, he created it years ago........... but did nothing to get it mainstream and now it is, but he can't stand it.

[Panfoot]

If you really want to vote for Hawkins, as a time saver you can literally just throw your mail in ballot away or just not go to the polls on election day.

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2014, 2015, 20162017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Florida Governor Rick Scott, who may or may not be a skeleton dipped in wax and given life. While still the CEO of a health insurance company that was caught illegally gouging the public on billing, Scott had to plead the Fifth Amendment a staggering 75 times to help himself avoid prosecution, as the company, HCA, was smacked with the largest fine in a fraud settlement case in United States history. His leadership in running Florida has been as equally questionable, with Scott cutting government funding to state run hospitals, education, and welfare whenever possible. He lost the state a mint’s worth of taxpayer money on a quest to drug test people on welfare that found statistically minimal drug use compared to the national average (go figure, poor people can’t afford drugs), and was eventually thrown out as an unconstitutional violation of the 4th Amendment by the courts. Gov. Scott has had ethics investigators breathing down his neck almost his entire tenure, as his friends and donors get lucrative government contracts, and that he failed to disclose his personal assets during campaign finance reports (he’s worth somewhere between $200 and $340 million). By December 2014, media investigations started to reveal that Scott’s decision to outsource prison medical care to Corizon Health for $1.2 billion had additional fees… the cost of over 660 malpractice lawsuits from shoddy care it provided Florida inmates that left as many as 30 people dying a month.

Two months later, in February 2015, Scott is handed three more lawsuits that accuse his administration of widespread corruption, including his previous failure to disclose his finances while running for office, and a refusal to obey transparency laws, particularly over the firing of the former executive director of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Gerald Bailey, who Scott wanted to replace with party loyalists (when the FDLE is supposed to be non-partisan). From there, a series a lies and cover-ups started shaking out, including a time where Gov. Scott was claiming Bailey resigned (as if he wasn’t going to correct him). Scott and the state of Florida settle these lawsuits in August at a cost of $700,000 to taxpayers. He also managed to revamp the state’s unemployment system, and wouldn’t you know it, he botched the $77 million overhaul of that completely as well. And it was a deliberate sabotage, at that.

The only reason this Voldemort-with-rhinoplasty didn’t get impeached is because Florida election law makes it nigh-impossible to impeach or recall a governor, and the people are opting to just wait him out.

Rick Scott also is prone to tantrums, like when he refused to take the stage during the 2014 debates for Florida governor because his opponent, Charlie Crist, had a fan under his podium to blow cool air at his crotch (seriously) or the time Gov. Scott tried heading into a local Starbucks for some coffee, a woman spotted him, told him how choices he'd made had cut her Medicaid funding, and she shamed him for it, not taking his comeback of "creating jobs" before calling him an "***hole". Now, normally, CSGOPOTD doesn't make much of hecklers politicians might get... but it's how you react to them that counts. And Rick Scott, no lie... released an attack ad against the woman, calling her “a terribly rude woman,” a “latte liberal” and someone who “clearly has a problem.” And perhaps most Mr. Burns-like of any of his actions was how Scott adopted a rescue dog that he named “Reagan” during his 2010 election to look like a real softie, and then reporters realized it wasn’t ever around and started to ask about it… only to finally have his staff admit that Scott had “gotten rid” of the dog because it “acted too crazy”, and that they, to this day, have no idea what fate befell the poor canine.

In 2018, Rick Scott was term-limited as Governor of Florida, and Donald Trump started pressuring Scott to run for U.S. Senate the middle of relief efforts after Hurricane Irma (that’s tacky, but that’s Trump). While most sane people should realize the last person you should take advice from is Donald Trump, Rick Scott figured he and the Florida GOP gerrymandered elections there enough to win statewide office twice already, so he challenged off Democratic Senator Bill Nelson in 2018. Going into the final weeks of the campaign, though, the headlines in Florida are a constant reminder of how corrupt and incompetent Rick Scott was for 8 years, whether its gun control advocates who survived the Parkland shooting campaigning against his election to the Senate, Scott being rebuffed for trying to pack the Florida Supreme Court before leaving office, red tides and green slime algae manifesting as a testament to his negligence on the environment, (and yes, his decisions did pave the way for this ecological disaster) or watching him try to distance himself from Donald Trump especially after a lackluster response from FEMA and the Scott administration after Hurricane Michael.


And much as we’ve discussed over the past several years, Rick Scott is a coward, and continues to be one now that he’s been elected to the U.S. Senate, whether in being unable to grow enough of a backbone to stand against Donald Trump after his racist attacks on four Congresswomen, or even seeing Scott try and defend Trump after he admitted to a quid pro quo in the Ukraine whistleblower scandal. And of course, Rick Scott voted against witnesses in the impeachment trial (thus making it a “trial”), and then voted to acquit Donald Trump so he could go back to not paying any attention to the looming threat of Covid-19. He’s far enough up Trump’s ass that he echoed concerns that counting all ballots cast by mail by Election Day would be unnecessary, and he actually drafted legislature to try and leave potentially hundreds of thousands, if not millions uncounted.

Y’know, back to Covid-19 and Rick Scott... he is too stupid to realize that when you test POSITIVE for it, that would be a bad thing. What he thinks would truly be terrible, though, is if people got any more Covid-19 stimulus money, because the uber-rich Sen. Scott thinks that economic relief might make Americans “lazy”. (How about, “f**** you”, Rick?)

Florida, as a state, keeps electing this reptilian jagoff, and we can’t begin to understand why. We’ll see if they’ve become wise to his con-man ways when he’s up for re-election in 2022.

[Gray Lensman]

Rick Scott, also known as the Jeopardy clue for "What is an anthromorphized snake?"

[Mecegirl]

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If this isn't the best example of everything that is wrong with being a Trump Supporter, I don't know what is.

Was just about to post about this. I hope no one got irreversibly sick. But maybe that's all it takes...

https://theweek.com/speedreads/94633...er-omaha-rally