Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

Tress

Tress

figmentPez said:
Right-wing media has pushed 3 completely false narratives in less than a week

The false claims:
- Copies of Kamala Harri's book are being given out in "gift bags" to immigrant children entering the US.
- Biden wants to require Americans to cut red meat consumption by 90%.
- Virginia schools are removing advanced math classes to stop white students from advancing above minorities.
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They can't find any real scandals, so they have to resort to making shit up. This is like "TanSuitGate" during Obama's 2nd term.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

Staff member
Oklahoma senator files bill to ban paper, pasta straws

What a laughably stupid stunt. Certainly no one can be dumb enough to think this is necesssary? Just how moronic is this guy?

Oh... he's this stupid: State senator implies Kamala Harris slept her way into politics

In the press release about the proposed ban, Dahm said, “Hatred of paper straws is nearly universal. I’ve never met a single person who enjoys using a paper straw. They fall apart and turn to mush quicker than Joe Biden trying to string together a coherent sentence. They collapse like Mitt Romney under the slightest amount of pressure, and even with Kamala Harris …well, never mind.”

When pressured about what he meant about the Vice President, he said “In talking with some people, one thing that could be said is that, you know, you can’t use a paper straw for a milkshake, but maybe Kamala Harris could because of her vast experience.”
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

figmentPez said:
Oklahoma senator files bill to ban paper, pasta straws

What a laughably stupid stunt. Certainly no one can be dumb enough to think this is necesssary? Just how moronic is this guy?

Oh... he's this stupid: State senator implies Kamala Harris slept her way into politics

In the press release about the proposed ban, Dahm said, “Hatred of paper straws is nearly universal. I’ve never met a single person who enjoys using a paper straw. They fall apart and turn to mush quicker than Joe Biden trying to string together a coherent sentence. They collapse like Mitt Romney under the slightest amount of pressure, and even with Kamala Harris …well, never mind.”

When pressured about what he meant about the Vice President, he said “In talking with some people, one thing that could be said is that, you know, you can’t use a paper straw for a milkshake, but maybe Kamala Harris could because of her vast experience.”
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Or as this guy put it:

"Oklahoma state senator and former bible school dean very proud of his VP Harris blowjob joke"
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Oklahoma state senator and former bible school dean very proud of his VP Harris blowjob joke

Oklahoma State Senator Nathan Dahm, a former bible school dean tweeted that he thinks his blowjob joke about VP Harris is "hilarious" and that "your emotional opinions are irrelevant" when it…
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--Patrick
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

You know, I've thought about possibly getting a new US flag, but I've decided against it.

I'd rather wait until this bad boy comes out:

 
MindDetective

MindDetective

figmentPez said:
Oklahoma senator files bill to ban paper, pasta straws

What a laughably stupid stunt. Certainly no one can be dumb enough to think this is necesssary? Just how moronic is this guy?

Oh... he's this stupid: State senator implies Kamala Harris slept her way into politics

In the press release about the proposed ban, Dahm said, “Hatred of paper straws is nearly universal. I’ve never met a single person who enjoys using a paper straw. They fall apart and turn to mush quicker than Joe Biden trying to string together a coherent sentence. They collapse like Mitt Romney under the slightest amount of pressure, and even with Kamala Harris …well, never mind.”

When pressured about what he meant about the Vice President, he said “In talking with some people, one thing that could be said is that, you know, you can’t use a paper straw for a milkshake, but maybe Kamala Harris could because of her vast experience.”
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Free market! Unless it is something I hate, then regulate it.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Columbus, OH mayor requests federal probe of police force.

This has been a long time coming. The Columbus police are notorious for their violence and have been resistant to change despite the voter-approved oversight board, billions of dollars in body cameras, and more than one forced leadership change in the Franklin County Sheriff's Department. Lets see if they can force the police union to stop it's continued war against the public trust.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

www.reuters.com

Fiscal stimulus powers U.S. economic growth in first quarter

U.S. economic growth accelerated in the first quarter as the government gave money to mostly lower-income households, fueling consumer spending and setting the course for what is expected to be the strongest performance this year in nearly four decades.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com

The second-fastest gross domestic product growth since the third quarter of 2003, reported by the Commerce Department on Thursday, left output just 0.9% shy of its level at the end of 2019. Economists expect a full recovery from the pandemic recession, which started in February 2020, in late 2023.
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Who'd have thought that giving money to the common man (who'd go on to spend it, and thus, stimulate the economy) is much better for the economy than giving money to the ultra-wealthy (who mostly just horde it).
 
Tress

Tress

I really wish the average lower-to-middle class Republican voter would get a simple grasp of economics. Hopefully then they would stop getting used like a bunch of idiots to further the greedy agenda of massive corporations, robber barons, and trust fund babies.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Tress said:
I really wish the average lower-to-middle class Republican voter would get a simple grasp of economics. Hopefully then they would stop getting used like a bunch of idiots to further the greedy agenda of massive corporations, robber barons, and trust fund babies.
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That's what I find most aggravating. The majority of people who support Republicans are, ironically, the ones who would most benefit from more socialist ideas. The poor, uneducated, etc. The ones that Republicans LOVE to take advantage of. Butt they're so blinded by their devotion to whatever Republicans or Trump say, they don't realize it.
 
TommiR

TommiR

Tinwhistler said:
Who'd have thought that giving money to the common man (who'd go on to spend it, and thus, stimulate the economy) is much better for the economy than giving money to the ultra-wealthy (who mostly just horde it).
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Everybody likes free money, but I believe helicopter money to still be a controversial topic among economists. One should take care with such unorthodox policies.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

TommiR said:
Everybody likes free money, but I believe helicopter money to still be a controversial topic among economists. One should take care with such unorthodox policies.
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I make too munch money to have gotten any of the stimulus checks. But I still think, at least from a common sense standpoint, they make more sense than tax cuts and stimulus funds going to large corporations.

Granted, economics is complicated, and what seems like common sense to me may not have intended consequences. But so far, at least, it appears to be doing better than trickle-down economics ever did.
 
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Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

TommiR said:
Everybody likes free money, but I believe helicopter money to still be a controversial topic among economists. One should take care with such unorthodox policies.
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You start giving money to the poor and they're gonna start thinking they're worth something. Can't have that.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

TommiR said:
Everybody likes free money, but I believe helicopter money to still be a controversial topic among economists. One should take care with such unorthodox policies.
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I had to look up this term, as I'd never heard it before.
At first I thought it was merely a derogatory term for UBI, but instead looks like it's the subject of actual, serious discussion.
TommiR said:
Yeah, forget I said anything.
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I know we frequently argue our opinions from our respective positions, but I always welcome the insight from your PoV (even when I don't agree with it). You're no dummy, and I know your responses will be thoughtful and not the usual knee-jerk, boilerplate "HURR-HURRRR" stuff I get from most of the rest of the Internet.

--Patrick
 
mikerc

mikerc

Florida lawmakers are introducing a law to make it illegal for social media companies to ban politician's accounts. Unless - and this is crucial - the social media company owns & operates a theme park. You know, just in case a Disney app ends up meeting the criteria for social media & they get pissed that they can't ban someone for posting fanart or something.

So if a story comes out soon about Facebook and/or Twitter buying a theme park this is why.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

Staff member
Dei said:
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Arizona election auditors are running ballots under UV light. What could they be looking for?

"Jeff Ellington, the CEO of Runbeck Election Services, the Phoenix-based election services company that prints the county's ballots and purchases the ballot paper, said the HP printers they use to print ballots do not use printer stenography, and no yellow dots or colors were applied.

"Ellington said there is nothing about the paper that is unique to the county, or traceable."

If anyone knows what they're looking for, they aren't talking about it publicly.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

The idea that Trump sat in a room with a pile of ballots doodling on all of them with a UV crayon is amusing, much less the idea that any incumbent would even be ALLOWED to get their hands on blank ballots prior to an election.

--Patrick
 
chris

chris

an obscure mostly unknown company run by a republican conspiracy nut paid by Trump counts the votes to proof that the election was stolen. I wonder what they will find.
:popcorn:
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

Staff member
Krisken said:
How to fake a stolen election....
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Now the question in my mind is: How many of those votes have had watermarks applied to them by the people promoting the scam? Is the idea of watermarks and UV light verification just a complete fiction? Or are they actually trying to make it a reality? Mark just a few real ballots with fake watermarks to "prove" that there was some sort of fraud, and then have a whole bunch of fake ballots out there with watermarks waiting to be "discovered", that they can claim are the "real" votes because they're the ones with watermarks that the actual ballots should never have had in the first place?

It sounds like a cartoon villain scam, but it also sound stupid enough that the GOP would try it.
 
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