Cygnia Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 *sobs* Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy rravenwood 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 1 hour ago, Cygnia said: *sobs* Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy Well, she is nothing if not consistent in her denial of reality... Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 Elsewhere, some poetic justice. DeSantis' campaign kickoff event turned into a massive dud, as Twitter couldn't handle it. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/24/desantis-launch-marked-by-horrendous-tech-failures-00098700 Double black eye, no less...DeSantis and Musk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 It's like GOP talking points are being written by InspiroBot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 24 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Elsewhere, some poetic justice. DeSantis' campaign kickoff event turned into a massive dud, as Twitter couldn't handle it. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/24/desantis-launch-marked-by-horrendous-tech-failures-00098700 Double black eye, no less...DeSantis and Musk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 Seeing how well video runs on Twitter, maybe Fox News should let Carlson out of his contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 *more headdesking, more sobs* Bill would allow 14-year-olds to serve alcohol in Wisconsin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 13 hours ago, Cygnia said: *sobs* Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy Seems perfectly reasonable to me Lord Liaden and DShomshak 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 17 hours ago, Cygnia said: *sobs* Georgia GOP Chair Goes Full Flat-Earth, Says Globes Are Part of a Conspiracy Would she say that it's a... global conspiracy? Old Man, Cancer and Ranxerox 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/oath-keepers-founder-sentenced-18-years-jan-6-seditious-conspiracy-cas-rcna85852 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 1 hour ago, BoloOfEarth said: Would she say that it's a... global conspiracy? The conspirators could have a huge sphere of influence Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 5 hours ago, Starlord said: Seems perfectly reasonable to me To be fair, when you look at the planets through a telescope, all you can see is a disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted May 25, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 Lord Liaden, Hermit, Ternaugh and 4 others 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 The head of the Oath Keepers is sentenced to 18 years. An aspect of this: the charges included sedition, and the penalties were upgraded for fitting the legal definition of terrorism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 Seems a little light, tbh. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rwandan-genocide-suspect-arrested-fulgence-kayishema_n_646f6ec1e4b091b09c2b7f39 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 I thought I had reached a nadir of political cynicism. I was wrong. You've probably received those calls from the guy fundraising to elect politicians who'll be pro-police, pro-firefighter, or pro-veteran? Starts with a dad joke like, "You're the first person I've reached this hour, and I'm pretty tall"? Aside from these being relatively high-quality robocalls, what actually happens to any money people give? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/podcasts/the-daily/republican-robocall-donors.html It's evil genius. The final stage of using the culture war as a cover for corporate interest. Except in this case, the corporate interest is... the three guys who run the whole scheme. Pure predation of upset people who want to be righteous. And it's all legal. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 2 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: Seems a little light, tbh. You might want to talk to someone who spent 18 years in prison. I talked to one who had spent twelve years. There were times he thought he'd have preferred the death penalty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 5 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said: You might want to talk to someone who spent 18 years in prison. I talked to one who had spent twelve years. There were times he thought he'd have preferred the death penalty. The penalty for sedition used to be a wee bit harsher than just 18 years. Furthermore this particular seditionist remains an unrepentant threat to democracy. Pattern Ghost, Cygnia and Joe Walsh 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted May 25, 2023 Report Share Posted May 25, 2023 Prosecutors in the case had asked for 25, so figure, that's the high bound. 18's a long time...especially as the guy is 56. His non-repentance is likely to mean he's not going to be paroled early, too. The police "fund raising"...yeah, read that one too. Sounds like 3 grifters. One big help for me: I ditched my telco landline ages ago. Internet's through cable; the landline uses VOIP (voice over IP, aka internet calling), which is --MUCH cheaper --has more services built in...most particularly, anonymous call rejection, spam filtering, and even call screening...the caller has to hit a button before he's allowed to reach my phone. Basically, many of the same services your phone offers...because the call has to go through a smart system, rather than a dumb switchboard. The FTC's been VERY slow in forcing the telco's to upgrade. Even through most of the '20 election, I wasn't actually getting bombarded with junk calls. Unfortunately...I started collecting social security last year...and can sign up for Medicare later this year. THAT has triggered a spate of calls and junk mail, from companies wanting to feed you information about it all. It's legal because it's practically impossible to write laws without loopholes...that also don't become overly restrictive. "Nuance" is something that's almost impossible to achieve, I think, in modern law. Even if one starts with it, case law ends up chopping it up into "yes this counts" or "no, the term doesn't include this behavior"...at which point nuance is dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted May 26, 2023 Report Share Posted May 26, 2023 Members of the GOP here in NC have been pushed out of position for remarks about their colleagues and Ken Paxton has finally ticked someone off in Texas since the state reps have issued articles of impeachment against him. I would love to see Paxton in jail. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted May 26, 2023 Report Share Posted May 26, 2023 Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for 'decorum' Pariah, Logan D. Hurricanes, tkdguy and 1 other 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted May 26, 2023 Report Share Posted May 26, 2023 14 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: You might want to talk to someone who spent 18 years in prison. I talked to one who had spent twelve years. There were times he thought he'd have preferred the death penalty. Like I said, seems a little light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted May 26, 2023 Report Share Posted May 26, 2023 3 hours ago, Starlord said: Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for 'decorum' That's like Godzilla asking people to watch where they walk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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