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    Quote Originally Posted by SUPERECWFAN1 View Post
    According to one article he's running out of time on that. The Supreme Court is going on holiday break in a couple days. Its looking more like they don't want no part of this.
    I'm not sure I believe Trump believes he can win. I think he has already accomplished his real goal, which is to never, ever, under any circumstances, admit to losing and to make sure that his cult believes he did not legitimately lose.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JCAll View Post
    So the GOP is just going all in with this one huh? This is the hand they decided to play?

    An episode of the original Twilight Zone could not match this in that the people would long since have seen the con. It would have underestimated the capacity for confirmation bias.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Powerboy View Post
    An episode of the original Twilight Zone could not match this in that the people would long since have seen the con. It would have underestimated the capacity for confirmation bias.
    I think that Trump is serious. He is still trying to play the Dictator card and is working on trying to overthrow the election. Dangerous, but doubtful he'll get anywhere.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Godzilla2099 View Post
    So...every state that Biden won is involved in the largest conspiracy in U.S. history? Voters, poll watchers, poll volunteers, the police, the local municipal government, local police, local and State judicial branch, State officials, state legislatures? Have I missed anyone? And all of this happened under Trump's watch? While the MAGAs were paying very, very close attention to all of it? While his own government confirmed that this was one of the best-run, most secure elections in memorable history?
    GOP supporters vote for Trump who xenophobically tells them China swarmed Earth with the virus that he couldn't contain as well as other countries, showing he can't be trusted to keep his borders safe (forget about the Wall as well, Mexico never paid for it).

    And if the Deep State has been really stealing the election for weeks/months/years now under Trump's nose despite Russian interference being a hoax, that means he can't even protect his people mandate within the border, if they have to organize million march people rallies not even a million worth just to feel important.

    At this point you could try to suss out (as politely/maybe drunkenly as you could) who among you voted for Trump without saying anyone, just to confirm you're living in a Jordan Peele movie and not trust all that many people again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Powerboy View Post
    An episode of the original Twilight Zone could not match this in that the people would long since have seen the con. It would have underestimated the capacity for confirmation bias.
    Trump has truly helped the Republican Party prove the dangers of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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    Not even our local Trumpists have bothered jumping in to tell us how the election was rigged.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Not even our local Trumpists have bothered jumping in to tell us how the election was rigged.
    Rudy Giuliani leading the charge is enough to make even the most rabid lemming go, "Naw, I'm good."
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    Quote Originally Posted by worstblogever View Post
    Rudy Giuliani leading the charge is enough to make even the most rabid lemming go, "Naw, I'm good."
    What, you don't trust this guy?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    What, you don't trust this guy?
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    I try not to comment on politicians and celebrities' looks (I'm not GQ material myself) but what is that running down his face?

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    On Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron’s government presented its “global security” bill to the National Assembly. Coming after the announcement of plans for a law against “separatism” ostensibly targeting Islamist groups, this bill is part of a campaign to establish a permanent state of emergency, handing draconian powers to the police.


    Its provisions are unprecedented. Anyone publishing of images of a public event including police agents in a way that could “harm the agent’s physical or psychological well-being” faces one year in jail and a €45,000 fine. This purely subjective criterion, which allows police to arrest anyone filming them simply by stating that they feel uncomfortable being filmed, undermines freedom of the press and any attempt to hold security forces accountable for police brutality.




    The law also grants police vast new powers to carry out video-surveillance of the population. Access to security cameras in stores or public institutions as well as apartment complexes will be granted not only to national but also municipal police. Moreover, the bill authorises police to deploy drones with facial recognition technology to overfly and monitor public protest marches.


    It comes, moreover, after it emerged that the government quietly slipped a provision into its law authorising university research funding to effectively ban protests in universities. It reads: “Penetrating or remaining in an institution of higher education without authorisation by legislative or regulatory acts or by the appropriate authorities, in order to disturb the tranquility or good order of the establishment, can face penalties.” These include three years in prison and a €45,000 fine.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent Z View Post
    I try not to comment on politicians and celebrities' looks (I'm not GQ material myself) but what is that running down his face?
    It is believed to be freshly applied hair dye that he sweated off.

    But he looks like Gary Oldman when confronted with a phone call by the ultimate evil in The Fifth Element.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KNIGHT OF THE LAKE View Post
    Democrats pride themselves on being a big tent party but that often leaves them stagnant and unsatisfying to different factions within it. Republicans get consistant turnout because their voters know what they are getting and it's what they signed up for. Democrats walk the tight rope and it's getting increasingly narrow
    Republicans love to shatter the Democratic alliance since they know they'll have an easier time against them apart then as a group. Divide and conquer worked against Hillary, not against Biden. Having a big tent is something to be proud of since multiculturalism is a strength, while the GOP is ashamed of groups like the Log Cabin Republicans, who have disappeared over the last few years. What keeps Republicans in line is they toe the line with leadership, they love a leader and whoever's at the top of the pyramid they'll debase themselves for their favour, even if it's Trump.

    Democrats rely on the coalition for survival, because without everyone working together the GOP steam rolls everything. Democrats might outnumber Republicans, but their inner groups can't do this on their own. That's why it's important that in-fighting isn't successful. It's not that we like politicians like Manchin but we need their vote when it counts.

    How? Biden won by a landslide and it's not like the Democrats are getting destroyed in congress. They lost a few seats, they didn't get reduced to a dozen people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steel Inquisitor View Post
    Republicans love to shatter the Democratic alliance since they know they'll have an easier time against them apart then as a group. Divide and conquer worked against Hillary, not against Biden. Having a big tent is something to be proud of since multiculturalism is a strength, while the GOP is ashamed of groups like the Log Cabin Republicans, who have disappeared over the last few years. What keeps Republicans in line is they toe the line with leadership, they love a leader and whoever's at the top of the pyramid they'll debase themselves for their favour, even if it's Trump.

    Democrats rely on the coalition for survival, because without everyone working together the GOP steam rolls everything. Democrats might outnumber Republicans, but their inner groups can't do this on their own. That's why it's important that in-fighting isn't successful. It's not that we like politicians like Manchin but we need their vote when it counts.

    How? Biden won by a landslide and it's not like the Democrats are getting destroyed in congress. They lost a few seats, they didn't get reduced to a dozen people.
    Except like it's already been pointed out, Democrats (or atleast the leadership) don't seem to care about their diversity. Because if they did they wouldn't still try to pivot to a demographic that's long since left them. I find myself saying, at least twice a day, that a lot of democrats (including dem leaders) are more GOP than folks wanna realize. Sometimes folks run on the left ticket to win, not because they actually believe in the platform itself.
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    On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of the U.S. House Representative from North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, Mark Meadows, the current U.S. House Representative for North Carolina's 11th District, who currently possesses the most right-leaning, gerrymandered seat in all of the Tar Heel State. Prior to taking office in 2012, he pandered to Birthers by saying that President Obama should “go back to Kenya”. One of his first votes upon arriving in the capitol was to vote against disaster relief funding for Hurricane Sandy victims, an amazing precedent for a freshman Congressman whose own district is in a state notorious for being hit by hurricanes and wanting disaster relief of their own. Meadows is also a confirmed climate change denier, says that gay marriage will cause a Constitutional crisis (it hasn't), and voted against a new version of the Violence Against Women Act because it provided protections towards lesbians. He’s also prone to jumping on faux scandal bandwagons, as we evidenced by his comments about Hillary Clinton’s original Benghazi testimony, and calling for IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to be held in contempt in the middle of his testimony, getting rebuked by Koskinen for doing so.

    Perhaps his most infamous moment, though, came during Congressional testimony over healthcare plans for the Affordable Care Act, where he raged against the idea that men should have to pay an equal amount for insurance plans as women, and they have the nerve to also ask that they get maternity coverage on their insurance, when he doesn’t need it… the physician testifying, and trying to explain this to him was a Dr. Mindy Cohen, who was… wait for it… 8 months pregnant at the time. If that isn’t “GOP’s War on Women” optics in a nutshell, I don’t know what is. Oh, maybe the fact that Rep. Meadows still paid his chief of staff thousands of dollars months after he was fired for sexually harassing female staffers, because he really can't have any less respect for women. Meadows’ is so out of sync with American opinions and attitudes right now, where even after a White Nationalist like Steve Bannon was forced out of the White House, Meadows has continued working with Bannon, and he was one of the most vocal people who endorsed noted pedophile Roy Moore for Senate in Alabama, and after Moore’s history of diddling kids came to light, Meadows would only go as far as to say he should drop out of the race “if the allegations are true”, immediately putting on that caveat to cast some doubt on Moore’s accusers.

    Mark Meadows is currently one of the most fever-pitch fanatics in defending Donald Trump during the Ukraine impeachment inquiry, where he’s so easy to set into a rage-fueled meltdown that he can simply overhear a report how Republicans are struggling to defend Trump and he’ll stupidly dive into a live television interview to embarrass himself further. (And he tried denying only one witness had said there was a quid pro quo, when now after Ambassador Sondland “amended” his testimony, and no one is saying that.)

    Between that moment and participating in Rep. Matt Gaetz’s “protest” of the closed-door hearings on impeachment… we’re expecting Mark Meadows to make a mockery of himself during the proceedings as public hearings continue. Considering he tried to go “off the record” while live C-SPAN cameras were rolling… we think there’s going to be some opportunity to point and laugh.

    On March 6th, 2020, Mark Meadows was named the new White House Chief of Staff, replacing acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, who had replaced Mark Kelly in the same role for the Trump administration. Meadows blundered about for the past 8 months in that role, and last we heard, had contracted Covid-19 in an election night party at the White House. We’re hoping this is the last time we ever have to profile him, and that he fades into obscurity. Because the last thing American politics needs is to offer a second chance to a dysfunctional prick like Meadows. (Let's hope he doesn't try to run for Sen. Richard Burr's seat in 2022.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tendrin View Post
    Not even our local Trumpists have bothered jumping in to tell us how the election was rigged.
    You know it's bad when Tucker Carlson (a man that confessed that his show talks about stuff like UFOs) calls out the bullshit.

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