Politics Thread

[paulxu]

When you've been married long enough, you'll understand that "amen" means "so be it."
"Awoman" means "yes dear."

[boozehound]

Can someone on the Left justify this to me? Amen and awoman? Father, Mother, Son Daughter, et.al. no longer allowed in the House? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!?

https://nypost.com/2021/01/04/rep-em...en-and-awoman/


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I mean, I think that's ridiculous. I don't really understand all the gender pronoun stuff, but I also really don't care. I'll call you whatever the hell you want. It doesn't really impact me in any way, and there is a lot of WAY worse shit going on right now that we should probably be focused on. Like the President on tape trying to coerce a State to help him overthrow the election.

[bobbiemcgee]

Can someone on the Left justify this to me? Amen and awoman? Father, Mother, Son Daughter, et.al. no longer allowed in the House? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!?

https://nypost.com/2021/01/04/rep-em...en-and-awoman/


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a asshole. Amen means "so be it", nothing to do with men....or women.

[Mrs. Garrett]

Can someone on the Left justify this to me? Amen and awoman? Father, Mother, Son Daughter, et.al. no longer allowed in the House? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?!?

https://nypost.com/2021/01/04/rep-em...en-and-awoman/


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The outgoing President just asked the SOS of Georgia to find votes for him. So on the politics front I can see how this is really important right now.

[boozehound]

The outgoing President just asked the SOS of Georgia to find votes for him. So on the politics front I can see how this is really important right now.

It's parallel universes depending on where you get your news from.

WSJ and Fox are basically just ignoring it, while the more radical right wing news sources are actually trying to spin it as somehow justified. NYPost's current headline is that someone named Tanya Roberts has died.

I would love to hear from anyone who doesn't unequivocally think that the tape of Trump trying to pressure Raffersperger into 'finding more votes for him' isn't major news that should be the headlining at every outlet. It should be all we are talking about as a Country and should elicit widespread condemnation. This is bar-none the craziest thing that any of us have probably ever seen politically. At least in America. Credit Raffersperger and his staff for standing firm in the face of all of this.

It's not surprising that Trump's last act is going to be essentially validating the criticisms from everyone who said he was not fit to be President.

[Masterofreality]

The outgoing President just asked the SOS of Georgia to find votes for him. So on the politics front I can see how this is really important right now.

He aksually didn’t if you read the transcript of the entire call, plus he had two attorneys in the room with him so just another example of WaPo putting garbage out to get cash in. Whatever will they do on January 21?
I’ll tell you what they’ll do. Take a 4 year nap in fact checking and covering Dementia Joe.

[Masterofreality]

There was Zero “pressure”. It was a discussion, of course about the way the Presidential count was conducted, but also, I submit, to ensure that Raffensberger would provide proper oversight, and install better procedures to ensure that the Senate elections were properly counted. Why would Trump just pick out Georgia’s SoS to call and not Wisconsin’s if it wasn’t partially about the Senate race.

Trump gives actual numbers of dead people voting, out of state voting, asks why Fulton County won’t be audited, talks about Military Provisional ballots not being counted, and the GA Secretary of State just says “Your numbers are wrong” with zero detail backup and has no idea how many provisional ballots there were because he never checked.
Bottom line, the SoS wasn’t going to indicate his lack of knowledge or incompetence or indict himself.
Strict stonewalling by Raffensberger to protect his reputation. And if Georgia was the determining state that caused Biden to lose, you know that WaPo, CNN, NYTimes and MSNBC would have teams of investigating reporters down there turning over every leaf, like they did when they were trying to install loser Stacy Abrams as Governor.

[GoMuskies]

WSJ and Fox are basically just ignoring it,

Can't speak to Fox, but it was a front-page story on WSJ.

[paulxu]

Suggesting someone might be criminally liable as you pressure him to "find" votes in counts that have been done three times...is probably not something you would think a president should do.
Especially if that pressure violates existing laws on election interference.
But...reasons.

Not that expect any critics would actually listen, but if you want, here is the Georgia election official debunking Trump's claims, one by one. And this guy is going to vote Republican and is encouraged others to do the same. But he's apparently had enough of the lies and bullshit the president continues to spew...and conned people continue to believe.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...ms-sot-vpx.cnn

[X-man]

Suggesting someone might be criminally liable as you pressure him to "find" votes in counts that have been done three times...is probably not something you would think a president should do.
Especially if that pressure violates existing laws on election interference.
But...reasons.

Not that expect any critics would actually listen, but if you want, here is the Georgia election official debunking Trump's claims, one by one. And this guy is going to vote Republican and is encouraged others to do the same. But he's apparently had enough of the lies and bullshit the president continues to spew...and conned people continue to believe.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...ms-sot-vpx.cnn

MOR is a lost cause. Time to put him on "Ignore".