American Politics

[Captain Turdseye]

On 07/02/2024 at 12:25, TheHowieLama said:

Your boys took a hell of a beating Turdseye - a hell of a self administered beating (is that a euphemism)

Steady. I’ve only got one boy. Don Juan, motherfucker. 

[TheHowieLama]

Democrats win both special elections yesterday.

 

Republicans in the House impeach Mayorkas by one vote with a few of their own voting against and right wing posts this - both parties are the same:

 

[Gnasher]

Republican candidate for New York. Somalia Jewish lady who lived in Israel and served with the IDF... came under criticism for not meeting the press. Wonder why.

 

 

 

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

The guy they elected was the Rep there for 6 years before losing to Santos November before last.

[SasaS]

 

So, we don't love our Somalis any more?

[Gnasher]

Santos should've been Prez.  The American dream. 

[Gnasher]

3 minutes ago, SasaS said:

 

So, we don't love our Somalis any more?

 

I can't listen to a word of that fella. Utter cunt of a human being.

[TheHowieLama]

Nikki Haley Hints Trump Is Trying To Steal Election With His RNC Pick

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley hinted Tuesday that trying to influence this year’s election results by promoting his former campaign adviser and daughter-in-law for top posts at the Republican National Committee.

The former South Carolina governor, who was U.N. ambassador in the Trump Cabinet, made the suggestion a day after Trump endorsed his onetime campaign adviser as the next chair of the RNC and his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair.

 

“Think about what’s happening right now,” Haley said at a campaign event in her hometown of Bamberg, South Carolina. “Is that how you’re going to try and take an election?”

 

Haley has expressed frustration with Republican leadership, accusing the party of having a clear bias toward Trump. Last week she called the Nevada caucus a “scam” that the Republicans rigged for Trump, after the party refused to participate in the state-sanctioned primary and instead held a separate caucus, which was the only contest that awarded delegates. Haley chose to participate in the state’s primary while Trump stuck to the caucus, which required a $55,000 entrance fee.

[Kevin D]

2 hours ago, Gnasher said:

Santos should've been Prez.  The American dream. 

Would love him over here.

[Anubis]

4 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

Democrats win both special elections yesterday.

 

Republicans in the House impeach Mayorkas by one vote with a few of their own voting against and right wing posts this - both parties are the same:

 

 

 

Well that's certainly one take on it. Jesus.

[TheHowieLama]

A slight backtrack from 3 hots and a cot.

[Gnasher]

Tricky Dicky campaign merchandise. Top notch. 

 

 

[Gnasher]

After that Trump nonsense, here comes Niki. American politics is something else. 

 

 

[SasaS]

And you are sure that's not fake?

[Gnasher]

2 minutes ago, SasaS said:

And you are sure that's not fake?

 

It's fake.

[Gnasher]

 

1 million dollars in 2 days!! Big money just for staying in the race. 

 

 

 

 

[Bruce Spanner]

Some counterbalance, and objective facts, which go against the algorithm created nonsense that’s being spouted…

 

Imagine using evidence, doubt it’ll ever catch on.

[TheHowieLama]

evidence

 

House Republicans were shocked by some of the recent high-profile retirements announced by their colleagues, which have included powerful committee chairs and rising stars inside the GOP.

But given the miserable state of affairs inside the House right now, they also weren’t exactly surprised.

“They’ve signed up to do serious things. And we’re not doing serious things,” said Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, a conservative who is retiring after bucking his party on several key issues.

Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, a moderate who represents a key swing seat, pointed to his party’s struggle to govern as driving the departures.

“When you’re divided in your own conference, the joy of the job is harder,” Bacon said. “When you have folks on your own team with their knives out, it makes it less enjoyable.”

And Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida, an ally of deposed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, said this is not how he or many of his colleagues imagined life in the majority, saying, “I thought that some of our members would be smarter.”

“A lot of us are frustrated with what’s going on, and that’s just being flat-out honest,” he told CNN. “It’s foolish. And it’s been proven to be foolish. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”

[TheHowieLama]

Ukraine aid - Lindsey Graham:

 

With Graham voting no, the bill fell short of that goal even with 22 GOP votes in favor, and now it is considered unlikely to pass the House.

Senators who thought Graham was on their side feel like he pulled the rug out from under them, especially after last year, when he railed on the Senate floor about a budget deal including “not a penny” for the war in Ukraine.

Some saw Graham as making a blatant effort to curry favor with former President Trump, who lobbied senators last week to oppose the package to deny President Biden a political win.

“He got sucked into the Trump orbit, and he is so zealously about his own self-preservation in South Carolina that he literally would push his mother in front of a train to get to where he needs to be,” a senator added. “I hate to say it because I actually like him.”’

A Winthrop University Poll published in October showed only 30 percent of South Carolina voters approved of Graham’s performance, a rating only 1 percentage point higher than Biden had in the state.

[Section_31]

Never trust a man with a girl's name.

[Mudface]

53 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Never trust a man with a girl's name.

 

[TheHowieLama]

 The song should autoplay in your head while reading - "Turn it Up"

 

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, Alabama’s Supreme Court said frozen embryos are children and those who destroy them can be held liable for wrongful death – a decision that puts back into national focus the question of when life begins and one that reproductive rights advocates say could have a chilling effect on infertility treatments.

And, critics say, the ruling could soon have consequences nationally as other states could attempt to define embryos as people. Already, one religious group is using the Alabama ruling as precedent in a Florida abortion rights case.

“This is part of a long and strategic march towards entrenching this ideology of fetal personhood, that is at the heart of controlling pregnant people, their decisions and their birth outcomes,” Dana Sussman, the deputy executive director of legal advocacy group Pregnancy Justice said.

[Captain Turdseye]

They’ll be banning wanking next. 

[Jairzinho]

1 hour ago, Captain Turdseye said:

They’ll be banning wanking next. 

 

Pull the other one.

[polymerpunkah]

It's okay as long as you keep the product frozen.

 

(Time to by some stock in Frigidaire.)