GOP Will Shit Itself

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Mon Dec 11, 2017 2:47 pm

Yeah, it's basically an obsequious greeting.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:54 pm



Back in 2012 he wrote a letter too
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:12 pm

ThinkProgress: Speaker at Moore event says he accidentally went with Moore to a brothel with child prostitutes

Oopsies! Our bad!

I love that this 'old friend' saw “Roy Moore accused of sexual misconduct with children” and thought, "Oh boy do I have the perfect story to defend him with!"
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:40 pm

MotherJones: European Parliament Report Accuses Wilbur Ross of Insider Trading

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At any other time, the commerce secretary being accused of insider trading by a respected (okay, well, you know what I mean) foreign government would be a massive scandal. Today it's just another thing.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Friday » Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:37 pm

I love how Wilbur Ross looks exactly what you imagine a guy like that to look like.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Yoji » Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:44 pm

Friday wrote:I love how Wilbur Ross looks exactly what you imagine a guy like that to look like.

I've only heard the name, but never put a face to- *click* -oh yeah, no kidding.

Also too, has anyone else heard about how Moore is apparently garbage at horse? I don't know how to ride and Twitter is so hysterical on the best of days, but that just looks wrong.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Joxam » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:18 pm

So Trump implied that Gillibrand offered him sexual favors for campaign contributions, right?
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Friday » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:20 pm

Also too, has anyone else heard about how Moore is apparently garbage at horse? I don't know how to ride and Twitter is so hysterical on the best of days, but that just looks wrong.


Man I wish that horse had fucking bucked him.

And then maybe kicked him in the skull, you know, not hard enough to kill, but maybe dent his brain a little, he could have a miraculous personality change and put himself in jail
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:31 pm

Joxam wrote:So Trump implied that Gillibrand offered him sexual favors for campaign contributions, right?

Yeeeeep.

Actually the funniest part of that in my mind is the way Trump would normally donate to every possible candidate to cover his political bases. If anyone was prostituting themselves, it was Trump.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:44 pm

NYT Election Results tracker

As of 9:42 (Eastern Standard Time), The NYT is projecting a narrow - but not nailbitingly close - victory for... Doug Jones?!

Well, it's still close. Here's hoping anyway.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby IGNORE ME » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:48 pm

The last thing the MSM needs right now is an election predictor for this race but here we go anyway

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Thad » Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:03 am

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What a relief.

And it's good news for next year, and for 2020, too, though don't read too much into it. The sad fact is that Moore only lost this race because he was revealed as a pedophile; if he'd only been a virulently anti-gay, anti-Muslim, racist, sexist scumbag who'd been twice removed from the bench for ethics violations, he would have won.

Still, between this and Virginia, things are looking up. I don't expect any more deep-red states like Alabama to flip like that, but slightly-red ones? Yes. Yes I do. There's every possibility I'll have a Democratic senator in thirteen months.

Of course this means that the Republicans are going to scramble to revise and pass their tax bill before Jones takes office. Might be time to start calling and faxing again.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Joxam » Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:05 am

Also, like... thank fucking god for black voters, and specifically black women. I don't think it is hyperbolic to say black women won this for the Dems.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:14 am

Joxam wrote:Also, like... thank fucking god for black voters, and specifically black women. I don't think it is hyperbolic to say black women won this for the Dems.


Fuckin' A riley they did. Good on 'em.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Grath » Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:46 am

Shout-out to political mastermind Steve Bannon for losing Alabama to a pro-choice Democrat.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:49 am

Grath wrote:Shout-out to political mastermind Steve Bannon for losing Alabama to a pro-choice Democrat.

"Oh but it was all according to my plan, you see!"

EDIT: Oh, and the Senate too!
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mothra » Wed Dec 13, 2017 7:08 am

Ho-leeee christ that was close.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby zaratustra » Wed Dec 13, 2017 9:44 am

Well, for Alabama standards, it was a fucking landslide.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Thad » Wed Dec 13, 2017 10:18 am

Joxam wrote:Also, like... thank fucking god for black voters, and specifically black women. I don't think it is hyperbolic to say black women won this for the Dems.

I'm hoping that the Democrats are done taking African-American voters for granted. Not everybody can bring the kind of black voter turnout that Obama did, obviously, but if black voters stay home then Democrats are sunk. Especially in the South.

Jones had to walk a pretty fine line to encourage black turnout without alienating conservative white voters. If Obama had agreed to campaign for him, that would have been huge for black voter turnout, but man, white Alabamans hate Obama. There's a part of me that's curious how things would have turned out if he'd taken that risk, but of course we'll never know, and clearly the outreach efforts he chose have been vindicated.

zaratustra wrote:Well, for Alabama standards, it was a fucking landslide.

Yeah, the flipside of my "don't read too much into this" comments is, a Democrat winning in a state that Republicans usually win by 28 points is a pretty big fucking upset.

It's not clear how much of that is because of the trend against Trump, how much is because of the pedophilia revelations, and how much is because Moore was already a pretty shitty candidate before the pedophilia revelations. We'll have a clearer picture of what the trend line looks like a year from now. There are a lot of reasons for optimism here, but it's also a pretty unique election.

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