Election 2020+4 Thread: this is a real PR disaster!

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Flikken: Oct 22, 2009; 10,363 snaps and not a playoff win to show for it

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

That's pretty much the ballgame isn't it?

There's gonna be a recount

# ¿ Nov 6, 2020 09:47

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# ¿ Jan 19, 2026 14:59

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Vincent Van Goatse posted:

"Demilitarize the police".

This a thousand times

# ¿ Nov 9, 2020 17:34

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Mappo posted:

If Trump loses, he will attempt to run again. He's not going to give up his position as head of the GOP; he won't appoint an heir and then calmly step aside. I don't expect his base to automatically leave him because he lost again, he will claim a rigged election just like last time. Trump isn't going away until he falls over dead, and then there will be a massive power vacuum in the republican party because no one can match his charisma.

If he doesn't get elected, SOMETHING is going to stick in the courts. And he will be what? 81-82 next presidential election cycle?

# ¿ Jul 28, 2024 15:49

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nullandvoid posted:

Is there a difference between this and a Command Sergeant Major?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/06/tim-walz-military-career-national-guard/74685414007/

"Walz served in the military for 24 years, enlisting in the Nebraska National Guard at 17 in 1981 and then transferring to the Minnesota National Guard in 1996. He retired in 2005 to begin his successful run for the U.S. House, representing Minnesota as command sergeant major, among the highest ranks for enlisted soldiers. His battalion went on to deploy to Iraq shortly after Walz's retirement."

He had the top enlisted slot in a battalion or higher organization

# ¿ Aug 7, 2024 01:10

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facialimpediment posted:

which are actually showing him sub-50% in fuckin Ohio.

Ohio is only as Blood Red as it shows since it is heavily gerrymandered.

A Gerrymander constitutional amendment is on the ballot in November

# ¿ Aug 12, 2024 02:03

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Wingnut Ninja posted:

I could have sworn Ohio already had an anti-gerrymandering thing years ago and the state Republicans were just like "nah, we prefer not to". Not really sure what would make this one be enforced any better.

Ohio Supreme Court ruled the map unconstitutional and the legislature ignored them

# ¿ Aug 12, 2024 11:43

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stealie72 posted:

This time it's different-ish because it's a citizen's panel that is not tied into the legislature at all. Of course, if the legislature/AG just say "nya nya we can't hear you" not sure what will happen. Ohio's statewide government is full of GOP true believers.

Yeah it kind of sucks a bunch.

Ohio has term limits and has had them for some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Oelslager?wprov=sfla1

This guy has been in office since 1985.

Edit: Other state level fuckery.

Supreme Court Justices didn't use to have to run on party affiliation. Now it is required.

And DeWine appointed a dude to finish a term, that dude still has time left on his term but is now running to unseat the first black woman on the Ohio supreme court instead of just waiting for his current seat to be up for reelection.

Flikken fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Aug 12, 2024

# ¿ Aug 12, 2024 13:11

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CBJSprague24 posted:

I once heard someone say people from Latin America speak Mexican.

Yes, I live in a red state, why do you ask?

Ugh we are 52/48 just gerrymandered so bad we might as well be Alabama.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2024 03:01

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Yeah but no one gives a poo poo about JR. Let alone caring about Eric or even Ivanka. MAGA will die with Trump, I am curious what the GOP is going to look like after his death.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2024 12:38

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stealie72 posted:

So, I'm part of an insigent progressive group of about 20 precinct representatives in my red county's democratic party. This year we ran one of us who is on the executive commmittee for chair to replace the current chair who thinks that it's still 1985 and we should go knock on doors and get invited in for coffee to talk about candidates. We showed the chair how to segment a mailing list and she looked at it like sorcery and then decided that no, all mailers should go to everyone.

We have about 50 precincts, and of that group of 50, maybe 20 show up for the average meeting.

When it came time to vote for our progressive person for party chair, every loving boomer precinct person showed up to vote us down. People I've never seen before. One dude literally in a wheelchair with an oxygen bottle. We lost.

The "they" is the goddam boomers, and like most things in this country, I don't think anything will change till the reaper is done with them.

So that is more or less how my county democratic party is in my slightly red county.

Edit: my candidate had 2 fundraisers that were promoted on social media only. Those old fucks camp out on the local clubs Facebook pages so they were well aware of the fundraisers. BUT since we didn't send out mailers for those fundraisers they did not show up and then posted on Facebook that we were "lazy". Both of them had very low turnout.

Flikken fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Oct 5, 2024

# ¿ Oct 5, 2024 19:51

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Steezo posted:

Why would you want to punish Marines like that? I mean. We're fine with dying in novel and stupid ways, but dying next to diaper don? That's just insulting.

Are the presidential ones Marines or Air Force?

# ¿ Oct 12, 2024 22:28

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facialimpediment posted:

I feel this is important enough to warrant it's own post here:

Donnie is airing three of those ads. Not a SuperPAC, not a House/Senate organization. His campaign, directly.

Edit: it is also party-wide though https://www.semafor.com/article/10/08/2024/anti-trans-ads-didnt-work-in-2022-republicans-think-this-time-will-be-different

Emilia Sykes in OH-13 voted against HR-2 and that plus her sponsoring a cashless bail bill that never saw the house floor are the only thing they are attacking her on.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2024 00:27

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Rachel Maddow was reporting it

# ¿ Oct 17, 2024 10:16

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Zamujasa posted:

the real question is if any other networks will cover it; msnbc doing it is fine, but they're small compared to cnn and others

i wonder if this will have any impact whatsoever on the previous hush money case considering, well, here we go again

Playing that before the judge sentences him might ummm push things towards maximums

# ¿ Oct 17, 2024 10:53

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That Works posted:

I'd like this to be true. Not a lawyer but would this even matter in that regard?

AFAIK the crime was covering up how Daniels was paid and where the money came from, not that it's illegal to pay someone to sign an NDA where there wasn't a crime being covered up.

Honestly would love to hear a lawyer's take on this one.

I thought there was an election related charge in there

# ¿ Oct 17, 2024 12:08

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That Works posted:

Wasn't it coming from campaign funds?

In this one its Daniels paying legal costs to Trump over the other case she lost iirc and Trumps team is basically giving a discount if she will agree to not discuss Trump in public. Not sure if that ties back into campaign money somehow or not.

quote:

What prosecutors needed to prove was that Trump falsified the records in order to further another crime — in this case, violating the New York election law that makes it a crime for “any two or more persons [to] conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means.”

# ¿ Oct 17, 2024 12:20

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facialimpediment posted:

Mostly lies by omission, but even lies by omission throughout. Like taking a question from "undecided voter Kelly" and Kelly was like a stage GOP chair or some poo poo.

And for content: have a chuckle at how tiny the fundraising bump was when donnie got shot - even his voters didn't care

https://x.com/jsscppr/status/1846685804892176854

Maybe his constant fund raising has finally tapped his base out.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2024 19:36

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I have big hands and have handled M9's and 92FS's a lot everything between clapped out and new in box. How the gently caress are you people ejecting magazines with your grip?

# ¿ Oct 18, 2024 17:35

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stealie72 posted:

You mean the only time a republican won the popular vote since 1988?

I have a kid in college, and the GOP has won the popular vote one time since I was in 7th grade. To paraphrase Futurama's Morbo, why do the democrats, the more popular party, simply not eat the Republicans.

And he only won that because of "Don't change the horse midstream" bullshit

# ¿ Oct 20, 2024 17:37

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CBJSprague24 posted:

MAGA: bring back American manufacturing jobs to American America.

Also MAGA: let's not create 150,000 American manufacturing jobs in American America in Ohio.

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Prior to 2022, Ohio judges didn't list their party affiliation, so voting used the scientific system of "eenie, meenie, miney, mo". Now, it's "find the democrats".

They only did that because 3 democrat judges ended up on the Ohio Supreme Court. With the 3 Dems running on Tuesday we could possibly flip the the court

# ¿ Nov 2, 2024 10:03

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# ¿ Jan 19, 2026 14:59

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Sec state of Ohio says Maga gear is A-OK as long as it doesn't say the candidates name.

....gently caress Frank LaRose

# ¿ Nov 5, 2024 14:58

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