A New Politics Thread

[phattymatty]

Here's an idea:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/15/a-narrow-pardon-for-trump-00051859

I'm not on board but I'm intrigued.  If in fact Trump just took the documents and was sitting on them, not using them for gain or to extort, etc...then this argument has some serious merits.

Nah.  So we're gonna give him the ol "that's just Trump" pass? There might have been some merit to this if the republican base acted rationally but Biden is not gonna get brownie points from any moderate Rs for dropping it.  The fact that some people still think there's a way to make moderate Rs see the light is laughable, they're all gone. 

Gonna be moot point anyway because I would put money on the notion that those mar a Lago security tapes show some Saudis going into that room or basement the weekend of that golf tournament.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Jesus Christ

https://twitter.com/thepubliususa/status/1561310478550421505 21&t=ayEP8NgBRJY_REvjE9TGnQ

[Geowhizzer]

I don't believe that's actually true.  At least not in my county.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Good. I hope it's not.

I did see that DeSantis went up to rub elbows and stump with Mastriano

[Geowhizzer]

What is true is that there is a movement to limit access to some books.

Right now, the big push is anything with an LGBTQ+ theme.  Basically, these books are now being labeled so that students cannot get them from the library without parental approval.  They're not being outright removed... but they are being limited.

That's the angle everything is being pushed for right now - parental rights.

[MDS]

best i can find is a high school in florida canceled a TKAMB performance, five months ago

unbelievable that an anonymous twitter account would post something inaccurate

[Rome]

Got another week's vacation from Twitter for suggesting someone should stick a sock in Marge Greene's mouth to shut her up. 

Meanwhile, some GOP shteinbag directly above that tweet suggested gays should be killed for being gay. 

My tweet was deleted about 30 seconds after I posted it.  That shtein is still up. 

Starting to think Twitter might have a Nazi problem.

[Diomedes]

Unfettered free speech has a Nazi problem, always has.

Eventually, the free speech people will start shooting the Nazis but it always takes too long for them to finally fight, and they never finish the job.

[Rome]

My wife worked for the Trump organization in the late 80's and early 90's.

I'm drinking 18 yr-old Jameson's out of a crystal rocks glass from a set she won when she worked for Ivana. 

It was that kind of day. 

[Rome]

Lol.  farging Florida Democrats just overwhelmingly voted for Republican Charlie Crist to face Nazi Ron Defargface in December. 


It's just absolutely incredible. 

[Geowhizzer]

Lol.  farging Florida Democrats just overwhelmingly voted for Republican Charlie Crist to face Nazi Ron Defargface in December. 


It's just absolutely incredible.

For some reason, whenever I hear the name "Charlie Crist," this song pops in my head everytime.

[MDS]

Lol.  farging Florida Democrats just overwhelmingly voted for Republican Charlie Crist to face Nazi Ron Defargface in December. 


It's just absolutely incredible.

what the farg is wrong with you people....not that anyone could beat deathsantis but that dude is a republican hack who jerks off to 13 year old rape victims forced to give birth. that pos crist is going to bring down val demmings who we really need in there.

at least nazi laura loomer didnt win her primary

[MDS]

is there no greater example than republicans being nothing but an anti-democrat party than this student loan stuff

1. something sucks
2. it is kinda fixed
3. gop: THIS IS BAD

[PhillyPhreak54]

Oh so that's why my FB was lit with people crying about socialism and other false shtein.

I mean the GOP added like $2T to the deficit and not a peep

Clowns

[MDS]

corporations take hand outs from the govt on the regular...trump has had god knows how many loans forgiven....all types of businesses from my agency ($1 million lol) to tom brady got PPP loans forgiven

yet the line is drawn with 20k of student debt. theres nothing more to this than this is something biden and democrats enacted, it benefits young people who primarily lean left, so its a perfect culture war-ish thing for republicans to go the other way on. this is the kind of nonsense they live for, just be contrarians to whatever democrats want.