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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I'd argue that in turn the Dubya administration was basically the prelude to Palin. Beyond the man himself basically thinking he was right by default due to being on a god-appointed mission and thusly refusing to listen to the more qualified and experienced advisors he had on board, his cabinet was full of vacuous and incompetent people, including someone who on one occasion spoke derisively of the "reality-based community" and said the US was now an empire that created its own reality. When you have people running on that kind of arrogance and entitlement that somehow working with facts and empirical evidence is dismissed, it only makes sense that conspiracy theories and "alternative facts" can later be accepted.
Yeah, I think someone linked an article about how Dubya had this weird messiah complex.
And a lot of people didn't take him very seriously either. TBF, it's hard to take a guy who nearly choked on a pretzel and had a shoe thrown at him seriously.
Edited by M84 on Nov 25th 2020 at 12:44:00 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedAP News: OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty in criminal case
Here's what they plead guilty to:
Purdue acknowledged that it had not maintained an effective program to prevent prescription drugs from being diverted to the black market, even though it had told the DEA it did have such a program, and that it provided misleading information to the agency as a way to boost company manufacturing quotas.
It also admitted paying doctors through a speakers program to induce them to write more prescriptions for its painkillers.
And it admitted paying an electronic medical records company to send doctors information on patients that encouraged them to prescribe opioids.
The deal seems way too lenient in my eyes.
Members of the wealthy Sackler family who own the company have also agreed to pay $225 million to the federal government to settle civil claims. No criminal charges have been filed against family members, although their deal leaves open the possibility of that in the future.
Edited by nova92 on Nov 24th 2020 at 9:06:43 AM
Axios: Trump is privately telling confidants he is planning to pardon Micheal Flynn.
I’d throw in Joe Arpaio’s pardon too, although he might be rather small fish in the grand scheme of things. He’s got his notoriety to go by, if nothing else.
Oh God! Natural light!Arpaio is one of the vilest humans alive. I might classify him as the worst on that list (thank god he lost in the primary this year).
Here's article from Vox on his immigration policy
and another from The Guardian on his horrific prisons.
Seeing as we are talking about the Worst Republican title McConnell pushed Trump to nominate Barrett on the night of Ginsburg's death: report
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I'm guessing you missed Mc Connell's PR about an hour after RGB's death was announced? Yeah, it was only a hour or two after the announcement. It pissed me off.
Mitch Mc Connell has no shame or common decency? News at a 11.
Trump and Mc Connell are very much on the same wavelength in that regard, where decorum is something for other, weaker people to stumble around, and they outmaneuver them by just walking all over it to get ahead.
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Neither of which is an inaccurate description of Mitch McConnell in general.
This is despite Wilson being pardoned by President Bill Clinton nearly 20 years ago. So while Wilson received 52% of the vote, it was voided and the GOP has declared victory in the majority-African American district that hasn't elected a Republican since Reconstruction. It seems the second place Republican will take the seat, which seems weird to me. Shouldn't the race go to a runoff or something? At the very least this ruling should have come before the election.
More incompetence in NY-22, where the results of the race between Democrat Anthony Brindisi and Republican Claudia Tenney may not be known until well after Thanksgiving. Links to Syracuse articles [1]
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Best I can tell, there's a court case in the NY Supreme Court over ballots challenged by either the Tenney or Brindisi campaigns. Many of the counties failed to follow proper procedure for challenged ballots as required by state law, meaning it's difficult to tell whether certain contested ballots were counted, who challenged them or why (Oneida County even lost some of the sticky notes meant to indicate challenges) and the Tenney campaign is saying the court now doesn't have jurisdiction over the case.
The Justice for the case has declared a temporary injunction on certifying election results for NY-22 until the entire mess gets sorted out.
Since Democrats appear to have won a supermajority in the New York State Legislature, fixing the state's terrible election system should be one of their top priorities going forward.
Edited by nova92 on Nov 25th 2020 at 2:08:35 AM
The Arkansas thing sounds like bog standard Jim Crow era election rigging. If anything it looks even more blatant than bog standard Jim Crow.
To be fair to circling vultures and salivating ghouls, they usually target only one person at a time. Evil Turtle is a bit ... higher magnitude.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
It seems that you're right. The 1874 post-Reconstruction/Jim Crow Arkansas Constitution states
with the "infamous crime" portion being clarified by a voter-approved Constitutional Amendment 95 in 2016 to mean
- A felony offense;
- Abuse of office as defined under Arkansas law;
- Tampering as defined under Arkansas law; or
- A misdemeanor offense in which the finder of fact was required to find, or the defendant to admit, an act of deceit, fraud, or false statement, including without limitation a misdemeanor offense related to the election process.
I'm not seeing where this means the second place person is declared the winner, though. It's possible that the GOP is just lying here, but if they were, I'd have expected the newspaper to correct them.
Susan Rice is part of Biden's transition team. Although some people are skeptical about her.
A Singaporean journalist shared a tweet. It mentioned Bilahari Kausikan, ex-Singapore Foreign Affairs Minister, on why Rice isn't a good choice.
@Septimus Heap Also, vultures, like all scavengers, perform a valuable role in the natural cycle.

Like I said, I was genuinely surprised anyone took Palin seriously but apparently she was an important part of the Tea Party's formation.
I guess I'm surprised that she had that much of an effect given how much of a joke she was.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Nov 24th 2020 at 8:38:10 AM
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