The GTP Unofficial 2020 US Elections Thread

[TexRex]

Normal people doing normal things.

 

[UKMikey]

Normal people doing normal things.

Rogers “has never been in trouble before,” Cooper said.

“He’s accepted responsibility and he is desirous of paying his debt to society and resuming a life of productivity, of being a good father and good husband and a good family man” with an 11-year-old son, Cooper said. ”He feels awful about what happened and what he’s done to his family, and he’s a guy I think we’ll never see again in the (criminal justice) system.”

Even if you accept this assessment by Cooper's defence attorney is accurate, perhaps something or someone radicalised him to feel so much hate for his fellow Americans. I wonder what or who that might be.

 

[TexRex]

Republicans: "We need to move past January 6th."

Also Republicans:

 

[Blitz24]

Republicans: "We need to move past January 6th."

Also Republicans:

We'll still be talking about the 2020 election long after both candidates are dead.

 

[McLaren]

We'll still be talking about the 2020 election long after both candidates are dead.

I'm sure a certain Florida man would want to keep it from being talked about to younger generations.

 

[TexRex]

Normal people doing normal things.

 

[UKMikey]

I'm sure a certain Florida man would want to keep it from being talked about to younger generations.

Just label it CERT. Critical Election Race Theory. The Repubs would be all over that one.

 

[Populuxe]

This is why we will never be able to put this particular thread to bed:

Trumpy GOP gubernatorial candidate—who got just 3.4% of vote—refuses to concede, because 'fraud'

As bizarre as Donald Trump’s claims of election rigging were (and are), at least Trump was—at one point during the ballot counting, anyway—within shouting distance of a victory. Sure, he might have been getting his post-election information from Rudy...

www.dailykos.com

 

[TexRex]

Just the absolute stupidest mother****er.

 

[Blitz24]

Just the absolute stupidest mother****er.

I see that he excluded some people. So he can lie to Biden, SCOTUS and the media still?

 

[UKMikey]

Just the absolute stupidest mother****er.

Real unmasked Scooby villain vibes there.

"No big deal to lie to the FBI, huh?(!)"
Gohmert: "Exactly."

 

[TexRex]

I see that he excluded some people. So he can lie to Biden, SCOTUS and the media still?

Actually...kind of yes. The iffiest of the bunch is SCOTUS, but then the Court reviews rulings by lower courts and doesn't hear witness testimony not present in record. An involved party may misrepresent facts of a case (to some unknown end as the facts on record are already before the Court) and that's obviously a no-no.

They do lie to Biden. They do lie to the media. They get to do that. It's not actionable.

 

[Jezza819]

Just the absolute stupidest mother****er.

So I guess he's trying to disprove Lincoln's famous saying, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

Apparently he's trying to say, "Well why can't you fool all of the people all of the time?"

 

[Jezza819]

Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio refers to the Jan. 6th insurrection as a "dustup". Dustup? Who in the hell is he Bill The Butcher?

Del Rio defends tweets, says Jan. 6 was 'dustup'

Jack Del Rio defended his tweets about the upcoming Jan. 6 congressional hearings and pondered why there's not similar energy devoted to the "riots" in the summer of 2020 as there is to what he termed a "dustup" at the U.S. Capitol.

www.espn.com

 

[Blitz24]

Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio refers to the Jan. 6th insurrection as a "dustup". Dustup? Who in the hell is he Bill The Butcher?

Del Rio defends tweets, says Jan. 6 was 'dustup'

Jack Del Rio defended his tweets about the upcoming Jan. 6 congressional hearings and pondered why there's not similar energy devoted to the "riots" in the summer of 2020 as there is to what he termed a "dustup" at the U.S. Capitol.

www.espn.com

You can change the name but the team is still an embarrassment.

 

[Jezza819]

You can change the name but the team is still an embarrassment.

Further down in the article is a statement from the Virginia state senator that represents the district where the team bought land for a possible new stadium.

Del Rio's comment sparked criticism from Virginia State Sen. Scott Surovell, who represents the district where the team recently purchased land with the hopes of building a stadium. Late last month, the Virginia general assembly delayed a vote on a new stadium. A vote could take place later this summer, although it is considered unlikely.

Surovell tweeted Wednesday afternoon: "The likely indifference & tolerance in the @NFL to Jack Del Rio's indifference to insurrection underscores the league's hypocrisy in blackballing @Kaepernick7 and also makes clear to me that we won't be seeing any more votes on stadium bills this year."

🤣🤣

 

[UKMikey]

What happened to "shut up and plan defensive strategy"?

Unless... this is his idea of a defensive strategy...

 

[McLaren]

It takes a special amount of brain rot to equate why "riots, looting, burning & destruction" isn't being held in the same breath as a sitting President actively being investigated w/ compelling evidence to overthrow a legitimate election revolving around the highest chair in the country & ending it by persuading his followers to seize & overthrow the election for him through force.

 

[TexRex]

Further down in the article is a statement from the Virginia state senator that represents the district where the team bought land for a possible new stadium.

However tenuous the link between the two, I'd like to see protected expression and state action entirely removed from one another. Is that really so much to ask?

 

[Jezza819]

However tenuous the link between the two, I'd like to see protected expression and state action entirely removed from one another. Is that really so much to ask?

Apparently so. Ask Ron DeSantis.

 

[Blitz24]

Apparently so. Ask Ron DeSantis.

It's actually a surprise that they are following his playbook. Maybe if the Republicans saw what they were doing in response, they'd see the error....

Error: Can't finish the sentence due to hoping for an impossibility.

 

[TexRex]

Worthless mother****er completely beholden to its bronzer daddy. Absolute ****ing garbage.

 

[Jezza819]

Worthless mother****er completely beholden to its bronzer daddy. Absolute ****ing garbage.

Me and 82 million other people should sue him for slander.

 

[Blitz24]

Me and 82 million other people should sue him for slander.

He'll claim something stupid like the EULA for being a person who doesn't agree with his stupidity means he's exempt from slander cases.

 

[Joey D]

However tenuous the link between the two, I'd like to see protected expression and state action entirely removed from one another. Is that really so much to ask?

Well, that just leaves 4 other completely asinine candidates vying for the Republican spot in the Michigan governor's race. I loathe Witmer, but I'd take her half-assed approach over some lightweight fascist whose head is so far up Trump's backside they can taste the McDonald's he had for lunch.

 

[UKMikey]

Me and 82 million other people should sue him for slander.

It is partly your fault. If all of you hadn't voted, Trump would have won and they wouldn't've had to storm the Capitol building. See what you did?

Well, that just leaves 4 other completely asinine candidates vying for the Republican spot in the Michigan governor's race. I loathe Witmer, but I'd take her half-assed approach over some lightweight fascist whose head is so far up Trump's backside they can taste the McDonald's he had for lunch.

I know this is a dumb question, but does being arrested for trying to overthrow the government by force automatically disqualify Kelley from running for office? It's not like those Trumpist idiots wouldn't vote for him regardless. There's that clause that says "no insurrectionists" but I though Republicans didn't care about upholding any laws that don't benefit them and the Dems are too scared or lazy to hold them to account for it.

 

[Joey D]

I know this is a dumb question, but does being arrested for trying to overthrow the government by force automatically disqualify Kelley from running for office? It's not like those Trumpist idiots wouldn't vote for him regardless. There's that clause that says "no insurrectionists" but I though Republicans didn't care about upholding any laws that don't benefit them and the Dems are too scared or lazy to hold them to account for it.

In Michigan? I'm not sure, but Detroit allowed Kwame Kilpatrick to run for office despite killing a stripper, embezzling money, and committing fraud. He won too.

Criminals in Michigan government are nothing new though.

EDIT:

So apparently you can't:

Michigan Legislature - Article XI § 8

The Michigan Legislature Website is a free service of the Legislative Internet Technology Team in cooperation with the Michigan Legislative Council, the Michigan House of Representatives, and the Michigan Senate.

www.legislature.mi.gov

 

[UKMikey]

So apparently you can't:

It reads to me like this only relates to people acting in an official political capacity. What if Kelley was insurrecting in his spare time?

The proposed constitutional amendment would:

Make a person ineligible for election or appointment to any state or local elective office or to hold a position in public employment in this state that is policy-making or has discretionary authority over public assets, if:

• within the preceding 20 years, the person was convicted of a felony involving dishonesty, deceit, fraud, or a breach of the public trust; and
• the conviction was related to the person’s official capacity while holding any elective office or position of employment in local, state or federal government.
  

 

[Pupik]

Me and 82 million other people should sue him for slander.

I, like many other fine Americans, braved a pandemic, went to actual work that day to support our families, assisted the economy, helped my fellow Americans, and didn't take a vacation to a so-called swamp to chase imaginary issues and generally make crap up.

(I went to a real swamp, but who's checking?)

 

[Blitz24]

I, like many other fine Americans, braved a pandemic, went to actual work that day to support our families, assisted the economy, helped my fellow Americans, and didn't take a vacation to a so-called swamp to chase imaginary issues and generally make crap up.

(I went to a real swamp, but who's checking?)

You were in the Meadowlands?