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

[WestPhillyPunisher]

What does he think Abrams did, besides getting people to register and vote?

Getting people to register and vote.

[The Cool Thatguy]

What does he think Abrams did, besides getting people to register and vote?

She raised a stink when voters were deliberately removed from the rolls in a manner to disadvantage her.

To the GOP, actual bad acts and imagined bad acts are one and the same

[PaulBullion]

What does he think Abrams did, besides getting people to register and vote?

Black people, Kirbs. Black people.

[worstblogever]

Black people, Kirbs. Black people.

GOP Response to black people voting:

[PaulBullion]

So evidently Beth Moore, who is some kind of big shot Evangelical, has publicly turned on Trumpism and said you cannot be a Christian and a Trump supporter (or words to that effect) and his supporters on twitter are taking it well.

[Tami]

GOP Response to black people voting:

I'd go with

[PaulBullion]

Staunchly pro-Trump radio host Monica Matthews from Georgia to her 46,000 twitter followers:

[Joker]

Trump has never, not once in his life "gotten over it". The dumb f***er still takes pot shots at Rosie O'Donnell decades later. He's still furious at the Central Park Five for not actually killing that jogger like he said they did. He simply is incapable of processing failure, pathologically, he's that stupid.

I didn’t mean Trump. Trump will talk about how the Dems stole the election until his dying day. Any chance he gets, for the rest of his life, he will bring up the stolen election. He cannot let himself be seen as having lost.

I hope everyone starts ignoring him the second he’s out of office, but it’ll be too good for ratings to do that.

[Tami]

I didn’t mean Trump. Trump will talk about how the Dems stole the election until his dying day. Any chance he gets, for the rest of his life, he will bring up the stolen election. He cannot let himself be seen as having lost.

I hope everyone starts ignoring him the second he’s out of office, but it’ll be too good for ratings to do that.

It will happen, especially if Twitter keeps it's promise and cancels his account. Eventually even Fox might get bored with him. The only news outlets left to Trump, OANN, Newsmax, and Breibart, will not be as popular as they were as soon as the economy improves and things start getting better.

[DrNewGod]

I didn’t mean Trump. Trump will talk about how the Dems stole the election until his dying day. Any chance he gets, for the rest of his life, he will bring up the stolen election. He cannot let himself be seen as having lost.

I hope everyone starts ignoring him the second he’s out of office, but it’ll be too good for ratings to do that.

It will happen, especially if Twitter keeps it's promise and cancels his account. Eventually even Fox might get bored with him. The only news outlets left to Trump, OANN, Newsmax, and Breibart, will not be as popular as they were as soon as the economy improves and things start getting better.

Nah. Even if Twitter sticks to its guns (slightly less likely than the sun rising in the west with all that activity on which to base ad rates), his cult will find a way to follow him. It might not get as big a footprint as the last 6 years, but they'll be there. In someways, them disappearing down and concentrating in a cave like Parler is at least as dangerous as having them out where we can see and challenge what they're saying.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Nah. Even if Twitter sticks to its guns (slightly less likely than the sun rising in the west with all that activity on which to base ad rates), his cult will find a way to follow him. It might not get as big a footprint as the last 6 years, but they'll be there. In someways, them disappearing down and concentrating in a cave like Parler is at least as dangerous as having them out where we can see and challenge what they're saying.

The irony is that Trump entered the 2016 campaign for no other reason than to build up his brand for that supposed news network he was planning. It was dumb luck on steroids that 60 some odd million people were stupid enough to have been conned into buying his bullshit and elected him president. I’m skeptical that Twitter will cancel Trump’s account, but if they actually do, might he revisit that network idea? Who knows, for my part, who cares.

[Jack Dracula]

I’m sorry, but a ‘stupid’ attempted murder is still attempted murder, and an attempted coup - no matter how stupid - is STILL an attempted coup. If they don’t get punished for treason, which they absolutely SHOULD be, then they should STILL Be refused a seat at the table. Why? They have demonstrated their clear inability to function as government officials and representatives of the people by supporting a stupid attempt at rebelling against the nation they were elected to serve. They have demonstrated that they have no desire to SERVE, only to rule. And that is just as unAmerican - and disqualifying - as the abject treason this gang of idiots displays.

All I'd expect from these people is them doing their best to derail the wheels of government for the next 4 years.
Yes, freeze them out and never speak of them again.

What does he think Abrams did, besides getting people to register and vote?

She got uppity.

I'd go with

Shouldn't they be wearing hoods?

[Mister Mets]

What does he think Abrams did, besides getting people to register and vote?

There are some investigations into the New Georgia project, an organization that Abrams founded.

https://www.cbs46.com/news/raffenspe...c6d13e3af.html

The Secretary of State was pissed off that he got a ballot application for his deceased son.

I’m sorry, but a ‘stupid’ attempted murder is still attempted murder, and an attempted coup - no matter how stupid - is STILL an attempted coup. If they don’t get punished for treason, which they absolutely SHOULD be, then they should STILL Be refused a seat at the table. Why? They have demonstrated their clear inability to function as government officials and representatives of the people by supporting a stupid attempt at rebelling against the nation they were elected to serve. They have demonstrated that they have no desire to SERVE, only to rule. And that is just as unAmerican - and disqualifying - as the abject treason this gang of idiots displays.

Going to the courts and getting smacked down is not a coup. To use the attempted murder analogy, going to the courts and asking for permission to execute someone and getting laughed out because it's illegal would not be seen as attempted murder, whereas shooting someone and missing would.

It also would be a bad idea to refuse to seat a quarter of Congress for asking the court to "ensure the Electoral College selects the candidate for President of the United States that was chosen by counting only lawful votes." The things they say don't merit the extraordinary step of removing a member of Congress, let alone 126.

In fairness to Democrats, while what Pascrell is doing is more extreme than what the individual Republican members of Congress are doing, it's one Democrat making an absurd request.

[Malvolio]

There are some investigations into the New Georgia project, an organization that Abrams founded.

https://www.cbs46.com/news/raffenspe...c6d13e3af.html

The Secretary of State was pissed off that he got a ballot application for his deceased son.


Going to the courts and getting smacked down is not a coup. To use the attempted murder analogy, going to the courts and asking for permission to execute someone and getting laughed out because it's illegal would not be seen as attempted murder, whereas shooting someone and missing would.

It also would be a bad idea to refuse to seat a quarter of Congress for asking the court to "ensure the Electoral College selects the candidate for President of the United States that was chosen by counting only lawful votes." The things they say don't merit the extraordinary step of removing a member of Congress, let alone 126.

In fairness to Democrats, while what Pascrell is doing is more extreme than what the individual Republican members of Congress are doing, it's one Democrat making an absurd request.

He knows it's absurd and he doesn't expect it to happen. He's just trying to make the point that the argument of those 126 Republicans is equally absurd.

[Malvolio]

Staunchly pro-Trump radio host Monica Matthews from Georgia to her 46,000 twitter followers:

Go for it, Monica. Go ahead. Boycott the election. See what happens.