Waffle House posted:

That's uhhhhh a lot of people, potentially, the GOP really loves doing some crime. Matt Gaetz seems like he's super hosed.

rotinaj posted:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4451721-new-hampshire-ag-says-fake-biden-robocall-before-election-traced-to-texas-firm/

Why would the former chair of the Democratic state committee be behind those robocalls? Weird story so far.

rotinaj posted:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4451721-new-hampshire-ag-says-fake-biden-robocall-before-election-traced-to-texas-firm/

Why would the former chair of the Democratic state committee be behind those robocalls? Weird story so far.

HappyHippo posted:

The whole thing is a slap-fight between the state-level dems and the national level dems iirc.

National level dems want to change around the primary order to put more relevant states first. State level dems want NH to remain the first primary state because of course every state wants to go first.

Edit: oh, reading in more depth, she was also responsible for the write-in campaign? That is odd then.

Personally I think the best system is to go in the order of how close the vote was in the last presidential election, placing swing states earliest in the primary, but of course that will never happen.

I said come in! posted:

I had read that up until Ronald Regan, the Republican party was a lot more chill and reasonable than it is after Regan. But I don't know how true that really is? But like ever since Regan especially, the party has gotten more and more unhinged.

quote:

MTG is a perfect example of what is profoundly dangerous about the current crop of young-to-middle-aged Republican candidates. They think the wrestling is real. Allow me to explain.

The primary issue isn't that she's stupid (she is) or that she's a dangerous reactionary far-right candidate (she is also that).

The primary issue is, shocking as it is that something could be worse, that she has no idea how to lead or behave as a political representative because she grew up on reactionary shock politics.

If you wind the clock back 30 years, conservatives were still blowhard jackasses. No doubt about it. But almost all of the behavior was theatrics. Decades ago most Republicans and Democrats got along fairly well on the ol' Hill. You'd go in, you'd do your jumps off the top rope, you'd put on a show, and you'd all gently caress off to the same bars and mixers and shoot the poo poo.

But somehow a generation of glue-sniffers grew up watching the WWF theatrics that were American politics and believed the wrestling was real.

We have a generation of conservative politicians in the system (and more coming) that have literally no idea how to lead or govern at all because they learned everything they know not from actually participating in the production of the show but but watching it at home and thinking the show was reality.

kazil posted:

Aramis posted:

Maybe one of the better law-knowers here can explain to me why this isn't all implicitly covered by the first trials' appeal.

I figure that if that gets overturned, then the second trial should tag along with it since it's a recidivism thing. Posting the $83M bond and appealing again doesn't seem like a productive thing to do at all in that context. What am I missing here?

PKMN Trainer Red posted:

https://i.imgur.com/TDabDkS.mp4

Sir John Falstaff posted:

The story is badly worded--what it means is that Kathy Sullivan was shown as the source of the calls in the calls themselves, not that she was the real source:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/fake-joe-biden-robocall-tells-new-hampshire-democrats-not-vote-tuesday-rcna134984

Aramis posted:

Maybe one of the better law-knowers here can explain to me why this isn't all implicitly covered by the first trials' appeal.

I figure that if that gets overturned, then the second trial should tag along with it since it's a recidivism thing. Posting the $83M bond and appealing again doesn't seem like a productive thing to do at all in that context. What am I missing here?

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Little bitch

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Little bitch

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Little bitch

Speedboat Jones posted:

that just a few days ago this moron and his Daily Wire buddies were like “We need to be more normal. This Taylor Swift feud is killing us. Just be normal. We can do it, guys, we just have to make a really conscious decision to be normal.”

SlurredSpeech609 posted:

She's so confident about it. lol

https://twitter.com/RzstProgramming/status/1373647691637420040

Dapper_Swindler posted:

i mean they were screaming about hazbin hotel a couple days ago and talking about how everyone should just watch south park instead or whatever.

BOOTY-ADE posted:

This reminded me of a Reddit post about current "reactionary" politics that kind of sums things up pretty well with the current crop of incompetent clowns

https://old.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/17w0z8k/unbelievable/k9flzrd/?context=3

SlurredSpeech609 posted:

https://twitter.com/RzstProgramming/status/1373647691637420040

Grey Cat posted:

nobodygetshurt posted:

John Wick of Dogs posted:

I'd argue the opposite problem. Democrats still don't believe the wrestling is real, and it's been real for years. Decades to some extent.

nobodygetshurt posted:

Disco Pope posted:

No, I'm just a bit stupid! I learned something today, though!

Nessus posted:

I think this has changed but it’s less blatant than the gop fuckup parade

rotinaj posted:

Only for some

Pelosi and Schumer are still behaving as if it’s 2008, though the younger dems are actually realizing that the knives are out

Vampire Panties posted:

Karenheit 451

You Are A Werewolf posted:

Thinking of this scene right now and how prophetic it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN9lSoh3O3o

Rod Hoofhearted posted:

I think Pelosi got a wake up call when a nutcase attacked her husband with a hammer and her “friends across the aisle” made jokes about it.

Nessus posted:

You mean Jeffries? Pelosi isn’t the minority leader now

rotinaj posted:

Just because she isn’t in charge doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a lot of status and sway over the party, and all the old fucks are meekly shuffling along, trying not to shake the boat

Last I heard, Jeffries was doing his best to convince folks to adopt old neolib mentality and it wasn’t taking, has that changed?

Civil posted:

I know Ken White isn't well liked here, but he was musing in his podcast that the judge has the option of reducing the judgement if he feels it's excessive. If he were to take this step, Ken was saying that the judgement would be more bullet-proof on appeal, since it would be seen as a judicial review of the jury's recommended penalty.

Maybe he'll reduce it to $75M or something, which would still be a LOL.

Grey Cat posted:

Can someone send both those bull gifs to their respective chuds on twitter?