Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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Reminder : election day is likely to suuuuck, and a lot of people will be claiming a lot of things based on highly incomplete results... Especially Trump and Trumpists.
There's a reason why Ohio counts on-hand absentee ballots before the polls close and this is why.
IDK how many of you guys have followed this, but this is great. Despite being the architect of the "blacklist anyone who helps a dem congressional primary challenger" policy as an attempt to stop the squad, Pelosi endorsed Kennedy because he's a centrist dynastic piece of shit. The moderate wing of the democrats can go fuck themselves and I hope Pelosi loses in november.
Holy fuck. I knew he gave up his seqt in the house for this race. What I didn't know was that the democrat running to take the seat is...another Kennedy.
Two steps forward, one step back.
Another brilliant tactical move from the Democratic leadership:
EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco hair salon on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out, despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, Fox News has learned.
(Fox News)
Dave
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Yeah, she's a fucking idiot. The difference is, the left will call her out on her idiocy where the right would applaud if one of their own did the same.
figmentPez
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figmentPez
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U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
"Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful - and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
"In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional."
"Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful - and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
"In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the warrantless telephone dragnet that secretly collected millions of Americans’ telephone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may well have been unconstitutional."
Here's a fun story from WW2.
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Black Troops Were Welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow Wasn’t: The Race Riot of One Night in June 1943
Black American GIs stationed in Britain during the war were given a warm welcome by their hosts but treated harshly by their white US Army comrades.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Offers to Pay to Reopen Closed Polling Places Across the South
Self-described “fanatic about voting” Arnold Schwarzenegger moved to put his considerable money where his mouth is on Wednesday with an implied offer to fund the reopening of thousands of polling places in states that have shut them down.The former California governor was responding to a 2019...
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1) Do it, Arnie.Arnold Schwarzenegger Offers to Pay to Reopen Closed Polling Places Across the South
Self-described “fanatic about voting” Arnold Schwarzenegger moved to put his considerable money where his mouth is on Wednesday with an implied offer to fund the reopening of thousands of polling places in states that have shut them down.The former California governor was responding to a 2019...www.yahoo.com
2) I want all these polling places to have posters with terrible Schwartzenegger-action-movie puns about voting.
If he was running this year, "Vote for me if you want to live" would be a killer ad.
"Come and vote if you want to live."
"IT'S NOT A TrUMpOR!"
figmentPez
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With all the evictions going on, and landlords being even more awful than usual, read this thread:
We tried to oust him but he barely squeaked by in 2018. Texas is still too heavily Republican in too many counties, though it's still shifting a lot.
As an aside... "Anonymous sources aren't valid because they can be fabricated." has been super rich coming from the crowd that has followed QAnon for years now. Irony really is dead in 2020.
As an aside... "Anonymous sources aren't valid because they can be fabricated." has been super rich coming from the crowd that has followed QAnon for years now. Irony really is dead in 2020.
Oh, but hypocrisy? Hypocrisy is alive and well, making America great and campaigning for 2020.
--Patrick
Yeah, been seeing that bullshit a lot lately too.
Isnt that every day?