Coffee Talk VI: The Undiscovered Country

[thedddd]

do I pre-emptively win?

He learned from this guy.

 

[Comeds]

Don’t mind her she is just Florida Woman.

Sadly/smartly when I saw where she was from I kind tuned her out.

 

[thedddd]

Seriously that would be the most compelling conversation Matt ever had.

 

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Welp…

When Rep.-elect George Santos takes his seat in Congress on Tuesday, he will do so under the shadow of active investigations by federal and local prosecutors into potential criminal activity during his two congressional campaigns.

But an older criminal case may be more pressing: Brazilian law enforcement authorities intend to revive fraud charges against Santos, and will seek his formal response, prosecutors said Monday.

The matter, which stemmed from an incident in 2008 regarding a stolen checkbook, had been suspended for the better part of a decade because police were unable to locate him.

Brazilian authorities revive fraud case against George Santos

When Rep.-elect George Santos takes his seat in Congress on Tuesday, he will do so under the shadow of active investigations by federal and local prosecutors into potential criminal activity during his two congressional campaigns.

www.seattletimes.com

 

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Was this posted and I missed it?

 

[elocomotive]

Hakeem Jeffries is now the all-time leading vote getter for Speaker of the House, a position he has never won.

 

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Hakeem Jeffries is now the all-time leading vote getter for Speaker of the House, a position he has never won.

Not only that, but he was a charter member of Phi Slama Jama

 

[elocomotive]

Not only that, but he was a charter member of Phi Slama Jama

That made me literally LOL.

The closest he made it was the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown.

 

[mattola]

Was this posted and I missed it?

he looks like a guy who knows his past is about to catch up and is clinging to this to see if it saves him. he is not going to have a long future.

 

[forty_three]

At this point I've lost count in how many times I've thought the GOP would splinter. It never seems to happen even though clearly a new small minority keep coming through, fucking the establishment up and wind up becoming the party majority.

They are stuck in a catch-22 they made. Nixon started it, Reagan perfected it and now it's consuming them. They realized way back when that if they pretended to care about a few key issues, they could round up enough single issue voters to get them to a consistent 40% of the vote. Then they'd only have to convince 11% to guarantee a win. Reagan literally tried to ban guns in California and then some strategist saw there there were a lot of people who only care about guns. Likewise people who only care about abortion, or black people having no rights, taxes being tyranny or hating teh gheys. You cater to factions, you give factions power. Eventually you have no platform. Only platitudes.

They got worried and caved to the Tea Party nuts and forced McCain to carry Palin to term, and from that moment forward there has been no identity to the party.

And it's been fucking hilarious to watch. They gerrymandered the shit out states to get power, only take the house by a minimal margin and the first chance they get it looks like a bunch of monkeys trying to fuck a football. They have to fight the splintering with everything they have because if Trump (or the freedom caucus) started a third party, they know they would never win any branch of government again - theyw ould lose the dipshit single issue vote. They hate the freedom cockups, but they are dead without them.

And they have no one to blame but themselves.

 

[buffhockey]

Spoiler

 

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Spoiler

Liked for use of the spoiler tag.

 

[thedddd]

another.

 

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[thedddd]

 

[elocomotive]

The House of Representatives cannot decide on a person in Washington who is popular enough to appeal to everyone and who can lead the House in reaching their goals.

Ladies and gentleman, may I humbly suggest there is one man for this job - Speaker of the House... Alex Ovechkin.

 

[thedddd]

The House of Representatives cannot decide on a person in Washington who is popular enough to appeal to everyone and who can lead the House in reaching their goals.

Ladies and gentleman, may I humbly suggest there is one man for this job - Speaker of the House.. Sidney Crosby.

Too Russian so I FIFY….

 

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The House of Representatives cannot decide on a person in Washington who is popular enough to appeal to everyone and who can lead the House in reaching their goals.

Ladies and gentleman, may I humbly suggest there is one man for this job - Speaker of the House... Alex Ovechkin.

I mean, he's no more of a Russian agent than Trump

 

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[thedddd]

This guy should be more worried about CTE than what an embalmer says about COVID.