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brian wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:22 pm Definitely the potential for some shenanigans in Kentucky, though it's hard to imagine a scenario where the GOP gets away with overturning a valid election.

Still, get ready for more of this because it's a warmup for what they're going to try if Trump loses in 2020.
I don't think its hard to imagine that scenario.
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It's not hard to imagine them trying it, it's hard to imagine them getting away with it.
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I hope in all of this at least one Dem says "We won, you lost, get over it!"
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P.D.X. wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:27 pm I hope in all of this at least one Dem says "We won, you lost, get over it!"
My twitter/facebook feed contains a fair amount of this.
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brian wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:27 pm It's not hard to imagine them trying it, it's hard to imagine them getting away with it.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "get away with it". I assume the ultimate decisions would be made by the highest state court. I don't think federal courts would get involved.
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Wonder about the ideological makeup of the highest courts in Kentucky.
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mister d wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 3:18 pm Wonder about the ideological makeup of the highest courts in Kentucky.
While they are technically non-partisan, they are elected officials (although if one quits, the positon is appointed by Governor until the next election). There was one up for election this week, and it was not the conservative who won.
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The other Peter King is retiring. Bye bitch!

How many Republican retirements is that now? Fucking losers.
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“Head and shoulders.”

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He is human dandruff, so...

But really, what the fuck, Chuck?
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I think there's an interesting story here about New York politics and there are all kinds of interesting different offshoots like how you get the Cuomos in power as "Democrats" despite being demonstrably conservative in most all respects and how rare it is to have machine bosses like Joe Crowley defeated by people like AOC.

It's a very clubby/corrupt atmosphere that in some respects dates back to Tammany Hall.
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"Fiercely loved his Irish heritage" is an interesting way to say he was an unapologetic supporter of the IRA.
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I thought that just meant he was a drunk.
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:29 pm "Fiercely loved his Irish heritage" is an interesting way to say he was an unapologetic supporter of the IRA.
Yup. King personally supported the IRA and then called for mass surveillance of American Muslims in the guise of “anti-terrorism.”
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Schumer’s statement should disqualify him from party leadership.
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Joe K wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:46 pm
Johnny Carwash wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:29 pm "Fiercely loved his Irish heritage" is an interesting way to say he was an unapologetic supporter of the IRA.
Yup. King personally supported the IRA and then called for mass surveillance of American Muslims in the guise of “anti-terrorism.”
While the latter is grotesque, the former is not so much.
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EnochRoot wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:16 pm
Joe K wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:46 pm
Johnny Carwash wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:29 pm "Fiercely loved his Irish heritage" is an interesting way to say he was an unapologetic supporter of the IRA.
Yup. King personally supported the IRA and then called for mass surveillance of American Muslims in the guise of “anti-terrorism.”
While the latter is grotesque, the former is not so much.
He was running fund raising operations for a terrorist group during the days the IRA was detonating car bombs in the streets of London. Fucking grotesque and criminal.
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The Sybian wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:49 pm
EnochRoot wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:16 pm
Joe K wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:46 pm
Johnny Carwash wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:29 pm "Fiercely loved his Irish heritage" is an interesting way to say he was an unapologetic supporter of the IRA.
Yup. King personally supported the IRA and then called for mass surveillance of American Muslims in the guise of “anti-terrorism.”
While the latter is grotesque, the former is not so much.
He was running fund raising operations for a terrorist group during the days the IRA was detonating car bombs in the streets of London. Fucking grotesque and criminal.
It's not that simple. Your terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
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Yeah, I've read enough about The Troubles to know (or at least believe) there was plenty of blame to go around on both sides. Neither side was in the right, but neither side was completely in the wrong either.
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EnochRoot wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:57 pm
The Sybian wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:49 pm
EnochRoot wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:16 pm
Joe K wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:46 pm
Johnny Carwash wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:29 pm "Fiercely loved his Irish heritage" is an interesting way to say he was an unapologetic supporter of the IRA.
Yup. King personally supported the IRA and then called for mass surveillance of American Muslims in the guise of “anti-terrorism.”
While the latter is grotesque, the former is not so much.
He was running fund raising operations for a terrorist group during the days the IRA was detonating car bombs in the streets of London. Fucking grotesque and criminal.
It's not that simple. Your terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
I totally agree with that sentiment, but I can't get behind anyone setting off bombs aimed at innocent civillians. I get that sometimes the powerless have no other way of attacking, but King raising funds for the IRA is in no way acceptable IMO.
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Chesa Boudin was elected district attorney in San Francisco last week. He has quite an interesting lineage, particularly for a big city DA. I trust you kids have heard of the Weather Underground?
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sancarlos wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:18 pm Chesa Boudin was elected district attorney in San Francisco last week. He has quite an interesting lineage, particularly for a big city DA. I trust you kids have heard of the Weather Underground?
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A friend of mine recently realized that Shock G was Humpty Hump.
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I think it’s pretty wild that just 11 years after people tried to kill Obama’s political career by spreading conspiracies that Bill Ayers was his mentor and/or ghostwriter that Ayers’ actual adopted son got elected to a prominent law enforcement position.
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mister d wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:27 pm A friend of mine recently realized that Shock G was Humpty Hump.
And that lead me down a rabbit hole into seeing that Big Daddy Kane now looks like Howard Stern's Beetlejuice


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brian wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:22 pm Definitely the potential for some shenanigans in Kentucky, though it's hard to imagine a scenario where the GOP gets away with overturning a valid election.

Still, get ready for more of this because it's a warmup for what they're going to try if Trump loses in 2020.
Bevin conceded just now.
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Netanyahu Indicted

This news makes me so, so very happy.

Yet the religious right in Israel and North America will denounce this as some sort of conspiracy. They may not share a belief in Jesus, but the black hat crowd shares with American Evangelicals the belief that someone who holds the reins of power can be done in by a conspiracy of liberals bent on the destruction of their own country.
Responding to the indictment, a pale-faced Netanyahu said in a televised speech that the “false” and “politically motivated” charges amounted to an “attempted coup” against him. “The public has lost trust in the legal system,” he said.
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Pruitt wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:05 pm Netanyahu Indicted

This news makes me so, so very happy.

Yet the religious right in Israel and North America will denounce this as some sort of conspiracy. They may not share a belief in Jesus, but the black hat crowd shares with American Evangelicals the belief that someone who holds the reins of power can be done in by a conspiracy of liberals bent on the destruction of their own country.
Responding to the indictment, a pale-faced Netanyahu said in a televised speech that the “false” and “politically motivated” charges amounted to an “attempted coup” against him. “The public has lost trust in the legal system,” he said.
I think Liberals in the US have proven their inability to bring down someone in power.
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The Sybian wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:22 pm
Pruitt wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:05 pm Netanyahu Indicted

This news makes me so, so very happy.

Yet the religious right in Israel and North America will denounce this as some sort of conspiracy. They may not share a belief in Jesus, but the black hat crowd shares with American Evangelicals the belief that someone who holds the reins of power can be done in by a conspiracy of liberals bent on the destruction of their own country.
Responding to the indictment, a pale-faced Netanyahu said in a televised speech that the “false” and “politically motivated” charges amounted to an “attempted coup” against him. “The public has lost trust in the legal system,” he said.
I think Liberals in the US have proven their inability to bring down someone in power.
This wasn't an investigation launched by political opposition. It was a police investigation. Politically, the Liberals in Israel have lost the country. Thank God the police are independent.
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This speech is really, really good.

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It's like the opposite reaction of Jesse Pinkman in that Breaking Bad scene with me right now.
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This is the new Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin. She's 34!:

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Finland will have the world’s youngest serving prime minister later this week when Sanna Marin, 34, is sworn in by parliament at the head of a coalition whose four other parties are all led by women, three of them in their thirties
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This is quite the bleak read:

What a complete debacle, in so many respects.
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What! No way!

(Can't wait until I'm retired and other people's kids can fight these bullshit wars.)
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