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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma bought tens of thousands of dollars in stock in a top defense contractor just days before he began pushing for an unprecedented $750 billion defense spending bill. When asked about his purchases, Inhofe had his financial adviser cancel the transactions, dump the stock, and avoid defense and aerospace purchases in the future. (Daily Beast)
Even the backtracking is blatant.
Gotta love classic corruption and conflict of interest.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Some news, Flynn gave the DOJ 62 hours worth of interviews and testimony and provided them with thousands of documents.
Damn, that's massive. I can totally see why they're being so easy on him, this sounds like a motherload.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Dec 13th 2018 at 11:15:14 AM
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
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He sang his heart out it seems,I hoped they enjoyed the singing because Trump won't
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Re: Inhofe: The king of climate change denial (and also living breathing proof that hooey like Qanon and "deep state" are by no means Trump's invention or even particularly bad by Republican standards) engaged in dodgy monetary transactions? Well, colour me not surprised.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
of course he would.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
I hope he's visited by three spirits tonight.
Something something war on Christmas something something.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
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the spirit of Crimes Past, the Spirit of Mueller Present, and the looming Spirit of Indictments Yet to Come. (Richard Nixon’s Ghost is presumably playing the part of Jacob Marley.)
Edited by megaeliz on Dec 13th 2018 at 1:47:26 PM
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I was thinking Jefferson Davis rather Nixon.
New theme music also a box
Servant of the Omnissiah
What would be the chains around Nixon though? Watergate Documents?
Edited by TechPriest90 on Dec 13th 2018 at 1:59:38 PM
I hold the secrets of the machine.
Who Am I?
[Music] You're a mean one, Mr. Trump!
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
Judge tosses lawsuit by GOP congressman who lost election
https://apnews.com/646e23e07a3a4f63b26e6af8ef392e68
First portion of the story:
Democrat Jared Golden defeated Bruce Poliquin in the November contest, which allowed voters to rank up to four candidates. Poliquin won the most votes but failed to get a majority. Votes cast for two trailing candidates were then reassigned to voters’ second choices, which swung the election to Golden.
Poliquin then filed a lawsuit alleging that the new balloting system, also called ranked choice, violated the U.S. Constitution.
He asked Judge Lance Walker either to declare him the winner or order a second election for the 2nd Congressional District. But Walker, a recent appointee by Republican President Donald Trump, did neither.
The judge said he failed to see how Maine’s candidate-ranking system undercut voters’ First Amendment rights “in any fashion.” The system, he said, was “motivated by a desire to enable third-party and non-party candidates to participate in the political process, and to enable their supporters to express support, without producing the spoiler effect.”
The new method of voting “actually encourages First Amendment expression, without discriminating against any voter based on viewpoint, faction or other invalid criteria,” said Walker, a judge with the U.S. District Court in Bangor.
Walker rejected Poliquin’s arguments that ranked balloting gives some voters more expression than others or proves too confusing for the average voter. Even when votes cast for trailing candidates were reassigned, Walker said, all votes “remained and were counted.”
“The point is that ‘one person, one vote’ does not stand in opposition to ranked balloting, so long as all electors are treated equally at the ballot” Walker said.
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Somehow this is now relevant again.
. Actually, song isn’t that far off.
“You’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel!”
Edited by megaeliz on Dec 13th 2018 at 3:25:07 PM
So a couple bits of good news out of Kentucky:
- First, the Kentucky Supreme Court struck down the hastily-passed pension bill that sparked teacher protests, pointing out that what had started as an 11-page sewage bill had ballooned to a 291-page pension "reform" bill that most legislators weren't given the mandatory 3 days to pore over. The GOP was hoping for some Loophole Abuse in the form of "The 11-page bill was 3 days prior to the vote", and... Ky. House Republicans say court has a "complete and total lack of understanding for the separation of powers", with Gov. Matt Bevin also calling it "an unprecedented power grab by activist judges."
- And a US District Court judge posed an injunction against implementing a work requirement for Medicaid in Kentucky, pointing out that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar "never adequately considered whether Kentucky HEALTH would in fact help the state furnish medical assistance to its citizens, a central objective of Medicaid." Azar also neglected to mention that it could result in roughly 95,000 people losing health coverage - an oversight that he called "glaring." Oh, and Bevin threatened in January that he'll just tank the expansion entirely if they don't allow the work requirement add-on.
Edited by ironballs16 on Dec 13th 2018 at 3:40:28 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"
Man, when the old, white, Republican incumbent loses northern fucking Maine, the oldest (in terms of median age), whitest, most Republican part of the oldest, whitest, most Republican New England state, they've fucked up something fierce.
And when they lose so bad a Trump-appointed judge throws out their temper tantrum, that's just... delicious.
Golden's a good pick, though.
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To be fair, not all whites are the same. Sometimes I wonder if the lack of immigrants and African Americans in these parts of the US and the lack of a history of race issues makes them less receptive to race baiting - I know, that'd be the opposite pattern to the one normally observed.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
A procrastination in of itself
I suspect that it comes down more to education access, they may be old white people, but a lot of them are well educated old white people.
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
@Septimus Heap: Maine is a state that is very white, but also IIRC has relatively little racism. Ironically I'd argue this might even in part be because of how white they are-there's little incentive to oppress minorities if there aren't any minorities around.
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Someone tell historical Oregon that.
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It seems to go back and forth with how that works. Like how the most anti-immigrant places are usually the one with few to no immigrants.
A procrastination in of itself
Also the most anti-immigrant places tend to be in ecenomic trouble, it may be that when in ecenomic trouble people look for a group to blame, if they don’t have much cultural exposure (which can be the case even with a lot of physical exposure) to other races they blame said other races.
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
My thoughts exactly, I could imagine there being right-wing communists in that once communism dominates a society the people who would be conservatives elsewhere would just be conservative in a leftist framework but to say that communism as an ideology is not left-wing because it didn't do what it wanted to do seems rather revisionist.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Dec 13th 2018 at 11:07:59 AM
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn