All purpose news and politics thread part VII: News & Politics Total Landscaping

[The Cool Thatguy]

What has the people done to deserve him?

Well, millions of them voted for him, for one thing

[WestPhillyPunisher]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...-da-rcna133721



I don't know what dorks like Vivek are thinking. I really don't.

The ignorance, and intolerance of right wingers is absolutely staggering.

[The Cool Thatguy]

The ignorance, and intolerance of right wingers is absolutely staggering.

True.

But in certain, rare situations, it can also be highly amusing. I feel this is one of them.

[Madam-Shogun-Assassin]

IDF twitter have really spent the last 48 hours tweeting we would've got away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling negroes.

[Kirby101]

IDF twitter have really spent the last 48 hours tweeting we would've got away with it too if it wasn't for you medd?ling negroes.

??? In reference to what??

[Tendrin]

An unlikely charge of intent to commit treason landed Meir Baruchin, a grey-haired, softly spoken history and civics teacher, in the solitary confinement wing of Jerusalem’s notorious “Russian Compound” prison in early November.

The evidence compiled by police who handcuffed him, then drove to his apartment and ransacked it as he watched, was a series of Facebook posts he’d made, mourning the civilians killed in Gaza, criticising the Israeli military, and warning against wars of revenge.

“Horrific images are pouring in from Gaza. Entire families were wiped out. I don’t usually upload pictures like this, but look what we do in revenge,” said a message on 8 October, below a picture of the family of Abu Daqqa, killed in one of the first airstrikes on Gaza. “Anyone who thinks this is justified because of what happened yesterday, should unfriend themselves. I ask everyone else to do everything possible to stop this madness. Stop it now. Not later, Now!!!”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ut-gaza-deaths

[Tendrin]

??? In reference to what??

The South African case brought against Israel over its actions in Gaza, evidence of which has largely been them repeating the IDF and Israeli governments own words with regards to its intentions towards the Palestinians.

[Kirby101]

Germany says will intervene at The Hague on Israel’s behalf, blasts genocide charge

[Mister Mets]

I can see a certain benefit, but wouldn't it have been better if the Caucus was held in, say, April or May?

They want to have it as early as possible because then it's more important for the presidential primaries.

New Hampshire has the first primary in the nation by state law, so that's the major reason they've got Caucuses in Iowa.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-ham...ion-democrats/

Obviously, there are problems with Iowa and New Hampshire always going first. Democrats are trying to change things for their primaries, and there's a conflict between the expectations in the state and what's best for the country.

Personally, I'm in favor of a system where the same states don't always go first, like determining it based on which state was closest to the national popular vote.

[shooshoomanjoe]

IDF twitter have really spent the last 48 hours tweeting we would've got away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling negroes.

Are they stuck in the 1950s?

[Tami]

They want to have it as early as possible because then it's more important for the presidential primaries.

New Hampshire has the first primary in the nation by state law, so that's the major reason they've got Caucuses in Iowa.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-ham...ion-democrats/

Obviously, there are problems with Iowa and New Hampshire always going first. Democrats are trying to change things for their primaries, and there's a conflict between the expectations in the state and what's best for the country.

Personally, I'm in favor of a system where the same states don't always go first, like determining it based on which state was closest to the national popular vote.

Personally, I want every presidential primary to be held in either May and/or June.

[Tendrin]

Personally, I want every presidential primary to be held in either May and/or June.

We could all benefit from a shortened campaign window and so would our politics

[Tami]

Though I feel bad about him getting sick, President Biden will probably have no choice but to ask Secretary Austin to resign.

[Zelena]

Well, millions of them voted for him, for one thing

True. The world hasn’t, though…

[worstblogever]

On this date in 2015, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” ran a profile of Anthony Culler, who was the Republican candidate for South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District in 2014, who believes that we are all granted a right to bear arms from CONCEPTION, so that American zygotes can pack heat inside their mothers’ wombs if they choose. He not surprisingly also warned voters of a nameless “they” who were “coming for our guns”, and said Barack Obama and Joe Biden were “using dead schoolchildren” to push for legislation to do so. While his stance on gun rights was pretty extreme, it was nothing compared to Culler’s stance on LGBTQ rights, where he described same sex marriage as “a pestilence upon society” and compared gay people to “for those of you old enough to remember the movie, Gremlins”. I am still unaware of the large gay community in San Francisco being due to a gay person getting wet and being fed after midnight, but anyway, when people told Culler he was a bigot after saying that, he instead went with the classic “I’m rubber and you’re glue” defense and claimed anyone who thought HE was the bigot, was the actual bigot. Jim Clyburn crushed Anthony Culler by almost fifty points in the election, and it seems unlikely the Republican Party will want to put him on a ticket to embarrass them again.

In both 2016, and 2017, on this date, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Katherine Prudhomme-O’Brien, a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives who switched party affiliation in the late nineties to Republican because she was outraged over Bill Clinton having an affair, she’s become most famous for heckling presidential candidates campaigning in New Hampshire once every four years, going all the way back to 1999, when there are tales of her haranguing Al Gore about Bill Clinton’s infidelities (as if Al Gore was watching from behind a curtain like a voyeur the whole time). Anyway, no reports emerged of her during the 2004 election cycle, however in 2007, she popped up three times to bust the chops of Mitt Romney about supposed double standards on taxation and college residency and harassed Rudy Giuliani on the Republican side of the ticket, for his past infidelities, and to ask him why his children didn’t support his candidacy, leading Giuliani to tell her to “leave his family alone”. By the time Prudhomme-O’Brien went after a Democrat, though, she managed to end up being threatened with arrest for showing up at Hillary Clinton appearances in both 2008 and 2016 and demanding to know everything she knew about her husband Bill’s encounter with Juanita Broaddrick from three decades earlier. (The one Hillary wasn’t at, can’t speak to, and shouldn’t really have to.) The New Hampshire Union-Leader actually gave her the moniker of “New Hampshire’s Most Annoying Voter”, after all of these revolting and obnoxious exploits.Katherine Prudhomme-O’Brien appeared on the ballot in the 2014 elections as a candidate for office as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives on the Republican side of the ticket. She finished tenth in the Republican Primary, barely qualifying for the general election where she finished sixth. Somehow, that still meant she won a seat in the state legislature. In the year she’s been in office, she’s turned up as part of the New Hampshire GOP’s voting block, attempting to pass some extreme legislation, like an attempt to repeal Common Core Standards (which Gov. Maggie Hassan repealed), an attempt to repeal the need for licensing for people who wanted to practice concealed carry of firearms (also vetoed by Gov. Hassan), and most heinously, an attempt to repeal the “buffer zone” for protesters around abortion clinics. (Which never even made it to Maggie Hassan’s desk, but after what happened in Colorado Springs not long after, it’s probably something that needs to be there.) Katherine Prudhomme-O’Brien’s time in office mercifully came to an end in the 2016 GOP Primary, where she failed to qualify in a field where she only needed to finish tenth or better, coming in seventeenth of seventeen candidates.

It was on this date in 2018 that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Richard Snow, a former candidate for the Maine House of Representatives back in 2012 was talking about running for Congress, but failed to fire his paperwork on time, and ran for a seat in the Maine House of Representatives to represent District 47 in 2014, losing with 43% of the vote. Snow runs an indoor kart racing track. He’s so good at business that he managed to get himself hacked and had his business’ bank accounts cleaned out, however. Snow was asked for his thoughts on raising the minimum wage, he explained that a minimum wage increase would likely lead to workers just spending the money on opiates. Keep in mind, though, that Snow also openly griped about having to pay his workers overtime, so maybe it’s a safe bet that he isn’t a champion of workers’ rights. Or that he likes spreading supposed “news stories” about supposed widespread voter fraud on his Facebook page. Big surprise, Snow’s insult towards the working class led to him losing again to Democrat Janice Cooper in 2016 with only 38% of the vote. Snow won the GOP Primary for the same seat in 2018, and for unknown reasons to us.

On this date in 2019, as well as 2023, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Katie Arrington, a failed candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District in the 2018 elections[/URL]. Arrington was decidedly a candidate to watch, since from the point she announced she was running for Congress, she made it clear she was doing so to “support Donald Trump’s bold, conservative agenda”. Trump endorsed Arrington over Mark Sanford, and why he thought it would help her cause by calling out Sanford for “hiking the Tallahassee Trail”, which isn’t an actual thing, nor is it the correct reference to the extramarital affair that Sanford had back in 2009. Arrington managed to win the GOP Primary, and Trump was crowing about f***ing over Mark Sanford on Twitter. Arrington practically declared herself a member of Congress, promising that “There’s no Blue Wave crashing on the shores of South Carolina”. Only a few days after that, it wasn’t a Blue Wave that crashed into Katie Arrington (yet), it was an apparent drunk driver who veered into her own lane, and crashed into her head on. In the final weeks of the campaign in October, there were signs that Katie Arrington maybe didn’t have as comfortable of a lead as she was projecting in June, after she made veiled threats towards the mayor of the Isle of Palms, Jimmy Carroll, telling him he “lost his seat at the table” for endorsing Cunningham, and a real sign of trouble was that the NRCC had to dump almost a quarter of a million dollars into the race to aid her at the last minute in what was supposed to be a “safe” Republican district. Mark Sanford refused to endorse her, at all, and outright talked about her willingness to brazenly lie just a week before the election. And so it was that as Donald Trump’s fortunes turned worse and worse, and Katie Arrington’s campaign techniques got more and more stupid, that Joe Cunningham upset her by seeming rather sane and moderate. Arrington took the loss well in her concession sp- HA! Gotcha. Arrington flipped out during her concession speech and went on a tirade against Mark Sanford, while promising she’d be back to run for the seat again in 2020, a promise that she broke. She DID return in 2022, though, again serving as Donald Trump’s revenge proxy to try to primary Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who had the NERVE to be upset that Donald Trump staged a failed coup upon her workplace. Which, Arrington supported Donald Trump’s Big Lie about a stolen election and never stopped, saying as much as late as February of 2022. So we know which horse Trump was backing in this primary.Somehow, don’t ask us how… Katie Arrington got a job at the Pentagon during the Biden administration, in spite of admitting during her interview she had no experience in cybersecurity, which was the department she was applying for a job in. Alas, she ran afoul of supervisors for allegedly improperly disclosing classified information (she probably learned it from Trump). That became a part of Mace’s campaign against Arrington, who projected herself as a victim, and claimed the Pentagon was firing Republicans on their staff punitively for being Republicans, without much proof. Donald Trump emerged from his stolen-document hut at Mar-a-Lago to appear at a rally with Arrington in March of 2022 where Arrington promised that if elected, her four priorities were:
”1. Fire Fauci, 2. Abolish Dept of Ed, 3. Impeach Biden, and 4. Open Hunter Biden’s laptop.”

Katie Arrington only got 45% of the vote in her attempt to unseat Mace, so she is now a two-time loser. We’re waiting for her to just go away, especially now that the Pentagon are working on showing her the door, in spite of her workplace lawsuit.