Random Politics

[mister d]

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.

[brian]

It's not hard to imagine them trying it, it's hard to imagine them getting away with it.

[P.D.X.]

I hope in all of this at least one Dem says "We won, you lost, get over it!"

[A_B]

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.

[Steve of phpBB]

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.

[mister d]

Wonder about the ideological makeup of the highest courts in Kentucky.

[A_B]

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.

[Johnnie]

[Johnnie]

The other Peter King is retiring. Bye bitch!

How many Republican retirements is that now? Fucking losers.

[Joe K]

“Head and shoulders.”

[Johnnie]

He is human dandruff, so...

But really, what the fuck, Chuck?

[brian]

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.

[Johnny Carwash]

"Fiercely loved his Irish heritage" is an interesting way to say he was an unapologetic supporter of the IRA.

[L-Jam3]

I thought that just meant he was a drunk.

[Joe K]

"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.”

[mister d]

Schumer’s statement should disqualify him from party leadership.

[EnochRoot]

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[EnochRoot]

"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.

[The Sybian]

"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.

[EnochRoot]

"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.

[brian]

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.

[The Sybian]

"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.

[sancarlos]

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?

...the Weather Underground was a radical left militant organization active in the late 1960s and 1970s... Beginning in 1974, the organization's express political goal was to create a revolutionary party to overthrow what it viewed as American imperialism.

Boudin was born in New York City. His parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were Weather Underground members.

When Boudin was 14 months old, his parents were arrested for murder in their role as getaway car drivers in the Brink's robbery of 1981 in Rockland County, New York. His mother was sentenced to 20 years to life and his father to 75 years to life for the felony murders of two police officers and a security guard. After his parents were incarcerated, Boudin was raised in Chicago by adoptive parents Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who, like his parents, had been members of the Weather Underground.

[EdRomero]

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?

of course

[mister d]

A friend of mine recently realized that Shock G was Humpty Hump.

[Joe K]

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.

[The Sybian]

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

[A_B]

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.

[Johnnie]

[brian]

Saw some pissed MAGA turds this morning by French Market. It was glorious.

[Pruitt]

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.

[The Sybian]

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.

[Pruitt]

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.

[Johnnie]

This speech is really, really good.

[Johnnie]

It's like the opposite reaction of Jesse Pinkman in that Breaking Bad scene with me right now.

[Johnnie]

This is the new Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin. She's 34!:



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... e-minister

[Pruitt]

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

[Joe K]

This is quite the bleak read:

What a complete debacle, in so many respects.

[Pruitt]

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[Johnnie]

What! No way!

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