American Politics Thread

[prog rocker]

Does he have a Club 700-like situation or something?

 

[zoroarctic]

But they'll still keep him on air.

Which really ticks me off for many reasons. One of which is Fox has some great reporters, and it's unfortunate their work gets overshadowed by this insanity.

 

[zoroarctic]

Report: Greenberg wrote 'confession' letter implicating Matt Gaetz paid for sex with minor

The Daily Beast reported the existence of a 2020 confession letter written by indicted former Seminole Co. Tax Collector Joel Greenberg implicating Rep. Matt Gaetz in paying for sex with women including a 17-year-old.

www.pnj.com

Stuff's getting real now.

 

[RileyXY1]

Ten years ago today, US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

 

[Volphied]

Ten years ago today, US Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

Here's some of the reactions at the forums from back then:

The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat-Thread: Vol. 2

I just doubt that his death is real.

forums.bulbagarden.net

That motherfucker's dead! finally.

Let us celebrate.

This is awesome!

There's a riot outside my building right now. It's kind of awesome. It's also kind of annoying though because i have a final at 8:00 AM tomorrow morning. But it's still epic.

So this means we can leave Afghanistan, right?

We cant leave Afghanistan yet,but this is a key victory in the war there.

If we still can't leave Afghanistan, then there's no point in his death.

I have the ending theme to Portal 2 stuck in my head. D:

Well... We should look forward to the future.

Ahahaha... ha... ugh.

 

[zoroarctic]

Here's some of the reactions at the forums from back then:

The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat-Thread: Vol. 2

I just doubt that his death is real.

forums.bulbagarden.net

Ahahaha... ha... ugh.

I wasn't on Bulbagarden yet; this was shortly before I started playing Pokemon games again. I wasn't watching the news at the time, so I learned about Bin Laden's death from here.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEGKzPRSP7g

 

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

Today a statement from the loser in denial came out and he's declaring the 2020 election "The Big Lie" Just shut the fuck up already...You LOST. Give it up. We're 100+ days into Joe Biden's presidency and you're STILL going on about the election being "stolen"? I have never seen such a bigger sore loser than Trump. This man has never handled losing well his whole life and anytime he's lost at SOMETHING, he's claimed it was rigged. He was claiming the 2020 election would be rigged months before it even occurred because he KNEW he was gonna lose, and he did.

The only real lie is the baseless claim that the election was fraudulent. Time and time again its been proven that there was no significant voter fraud. When presented with opportunities to back up these claims, no evidence was offered up. Even the former attorney general stated there was no such fraud, which got him fired. Months later and these people continue to show how absolutely moronic they are, and there was even a recent poll that showed 70% believed the ACTUAL Big Lie they were spoon fed by Trump. And they sat there telling democrats "Get over it! He's still your president!" for 4 years? How about looking in the mirror now that you bought into a baseless conspiracy touted by a man who can't handle the fact that he lost fair and square.

 

[zoroarctic]

Democratic Florida Congressman Charlie Crist officially announced he's running for Governor. Fully expect other heavyweights to declare in the near future.

 

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

Florida could use better leadership than DeSantis. He's one of the worst governors in the country, along with Texas' Govenor Abbot.

 

[zoroarctic]

View: https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1389603273506574341?s=21

Looks like she’s running.

Florida could use better leadership than DeSantis. He's one of the worst governors in the country, along with Texas' Govenor Abbot.

And yet, DeSantis is probably a heavy favorite right now, even with a likely strong Democratic field.

 

[Volphied]

Today a statement from the loser in denial came out and he's declaring the 2020 election "The Big Lie" Just shut the fuck up already...You LOST. Give it up. We're 100+ days into Joe Biden's presidency and you're STILL going on about the election being "stolen"? I have never seen such a bigger sore loser than Trump. This man has never handled losing well his whole life and anytime he's lost at SOMETHING, he's claimed it was rigged. He was claiming the 2020 election would be rigged months before it even occurred because he KNEW he was gonna lose, and he did.

The only real lie is the baseless claim that the election was fraudulent. Time and time again its been proven that there was no significant voter fraud. When presented with opportunities to back up these claims, no evidence was offered up. Even the former attorney general stated there was no such fraud, which got him fired. Months later and these people continue to show how absolutely moronic they are, and there was even a recent poll that showed 70% believed the ACTUAL Big Lie they were spoon fed by Trump. And they sat there telling democrats "Get over it! He's still your president!" for 4 years? How about looking in the mirror now that you bought into a baseless conspiracy touted by a man who can't handle the fact that he lost fair and square.

View: https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1388184669821313026

 

[Volphied]

View: https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1389995808297144320


Deplatforming fascists works. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.

 

[zoroarctic]

Deplatforming fascists work. Never let anyone tell you otherwise.

Now if these social media companies would do this to all the other fascists.

 

[LuxrayOfTheWild]

View: https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1388184669821313026

This is just pathetic...Cry some more, you racist orange clown.

 

[zoroarctic]

Montana and South Carolina are opting out of federal covid relief contracts. This is worth keeping an eye on if other GOP controlled states follow them.

 

[Juliko]

And people wonder why I often refer to Trump as the "man-baby." Because that's kind of what he is.

 

[zoroarctic]

Montana and South Carolina are opting out of federal covid relief contracts. This is worth keeping an eye on if other GOP controlled states follow them.

Add Alabama to the list.

 

[Chevywolf30]

That's a good thing, seeing states not relying too much on the federal government.

 

[Volphied]

That's a good thing, seeing states not relying too much on the federal government.

Except these states don't plan to fill the hole left with their own funds. They are literally turning away free money from the Feds to keep their citizens in abject poverty.

So no, it's not a good thing that the GOP is allowing their ideology to get in the way of preventing starvation.

Growing number of GOP-led states move to end Covid unemployment benefits

President Joe Biden urged businesses to boost pay for workers to spur labor growth in a speech Monday, saying, "Americans want to work."

www.nbcnews.com

A Yale study, for instance, found that expanding unemployment benefits did not dissuade people from seeking work.

Judy Conti, government affairs director of the National Employment Law Project, a research and advocacy group, said ending the benefit is "ill-informed and cruel."

"I don't know why these governors thought you could just flip a switch and suddenly every business was going to get up and running and every worker back to a job," she said. "It's still going to take a while to get people back to work.

"When you choke off money from the unemployed, you're only going to slow your recovery," she said.

 

[Chevywolf30]

"Free money from the Feds" is a bad thing imo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯