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86 Snyder

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3 minutes ago, Ball Security said:

He seems relieved, to be honest.


I saw someone on twitter write a long winded version of his relief and yeah, it fits.  Hes got major problems, CTE, whatever else, but he’s still probably self-aware enough to realize he was a fish in sand and maybe, just maybe, being manipulated by old white men.  That speech honestly made me feel like 3% bad for him.

 

I hope he disappears from public life and we never hear from him again.  That would be a win for us and Herschel.

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Kari Lake files suit challenging certification of Arizona election

 


Defeated Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has filed suit in Arizona Superior Court challenging the certification of the state’s election.

 

Lake, who has also amplified former President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election, makes numerous claims in the 70-page suit, including that printer failures at some polling places disenfranchised voters in Maricopa County, creating a “debacle” in the county.

 

As CNN has previously reported, Maricopa officials have said that printer problems affected about 70 vote centers, preventing some ballots from being read by tabulator machines on Election Day, but that the problems were fixed and that those ballots were set aside in a secure ballot box and counted separately. Bill Gates, the Republican chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, called the inconvenience and the long lines that resulted “unfortunate” in one Twitter video but said that “every voter had an opportunity to cast a vote on Election Day.”

 

Among other concerns, Lake also cites long lines and criticizes the use of mail-in ballots in the suit.

 

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These MAGA scum are a bunch of sore losers that never got the life lesson of how to take defeat with grace.  I guess that's the lesson you learn when everybody gets a trophy.

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FootballZombie

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15 minutes ago, Metalhead said:

I was waiting for this to happen once Warnock won. This makes it 50-50 and back to Manchin being the guy, right?

 

Not quite. Her going independent is not the same as switching to or siding w/ Republicans so they still remain at 49. Warnock's win bumped Dems to 51-49 before the switch.

Honestly it does not change a whole lot outside of optics. Dems still have the majority, plus whatever Sinema wants to do... and that was already the case when she was a Democrat.

 

As long as you have Sinema's support, Manchin loses considerable leverage. He can't lone-man gum up the system by himself anymore, it will take 2 to tango. Maybe that is him and Sinema but again, that could have been the case even w/o her switching to Indi.

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Thanks guys. If Manchin were to go independent as well, what would that do to the senate? Wouldn't being an Independent make it much easier for them to side with Republicans?

 

I'm asking because of personal experience - all of the registered independents I know are actually fullblown right-wingers using cover of the independent label to hide any guilt, shame, racism, etc. Basically they fake "seeing both sides" or use it to normalize pro-GOP talking points in every single discussion.

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15 minutes ago, Metalhead said:

Thanks guys. If Manchin were to go independent as well, what would that do to the senate?


Way I look at it is, if Manchineel/Sinema vote Dem, Dems win 51-49. 
 

If one of them bolts and votes R, then it's 50-50, Kamala breaks the tie, and the Dems still win. 
 

Only way the Senate vetoes the agenda, is if they both vote R. 
 

But it's just academic, anyway. Absolutely nothing is going to make it through the House. Maybe some "show votes", where the house passes something like repealing Obamacare again. Something the Rs love to vote for as long as they know it won't actually pass. 

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Califan007 The Constipated

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3 hours ago, Larry said:


But it's just academic, anyway. Absolutely nothing is going to make it through the House.

 

I wouldn't be so sure of that...McCarthy is already upset that Repubs are working with Dems in the House instead of waiting for when Republicans have control, and there's gonna be some serious infighting about who will be speaker. There was even a report about moderate Republicans possibly getting Dems to join with them on voting for a more centrist Republican Speaker. Could be fertile ground for a lot of backroom dealing on future legislation. But to your point, if that were to happen it would probably be on bills that are safe for everyone to agree on, and wouldn't really advance Democratic goals.

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2 hours ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

I wouldn't be so sure of that...McCarthy is already upset that Repubs are working with Dems in the House instead of waiting for when Republicans have control, and there's gonna be some serious infighting about who will be speaker. There was even a report about moderate Republicans possibly getting Dems to join with them on voting for a more centrist Republican Speaker. Could be fertile ground for a lot of backroom dealing on future legislation. But to your point, if that were to happen it would probably be on bills that are safe for everyone to agree on, and wouldn't really advance Democratic goals.

The only thing the House GOP will agree with Dems on is something to pass the budget, maybe. That would be after a long time of hostage taking and maybe a shutdown.  The other thing would be something to extend the debt limit but that would also come after hostage taking and probably a long shutdown.

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Kari Lake's doomed legal battle: The holiday grift that keeps on giving

 

Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake — who despite her defeat may yet be a Republican vice-presidential contender — has filed a new lawsuit ostensibly aimed at reversing her loss to Democrat Katie Hobbs. Lake appears to be going for a hat trick of courtroom defeats, which remains no match for her idol, former President Donald Trump, who lost more than 60 cases after the 2020 election. 

 

The first of Lake's lawsuits, filed earlier this year, was dismissed in August. It sought to replace Maricopa County's voting machines with paper ballots. 

 

Here's the clincher: In a new order on Dec. 2, federal Judge John Tuchi described the complaint as filled with "false, misleading, and speculative allegations." 

 

Lake and her co-plaintiff, defeated Republican secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem, were ordered to pay Maricopa County's court costs for having to defend the frivolous suit. Her lawyers — who apparently  included former Harvard Law professor and Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz — were sanctioned with their own fines.

 

Then came Lake lawsuit No. 2: On election night in November, an Arizona judge rejected a suit that she filed with other Republicans, finding "no evidence that any voter who appeared to vote at Maricopa County polling places was turned away from the polls." 

 

And now she's back, filing another suit last Friday making the same claim all over again. ABC News called it a "lawsuit riddled with falsehoods." There were rehashed attacks on mail-in ballots, There was plenty of rank speculation — something courts never accept — that signatures initially identified as possible mismatches might have been improperly accepted after review. There were paragraphs recounting discredited 2020 election allegations from a right-wing PAC, We the People AZ Alliance.

 

And here's a juicy piece of poetic irony about Lake's claims that her voters were disenfranchised. The Democracy Docket website run by Marc Elias, a leading voting rights lawyer, has pointed out that many of the complaints from voters who claim they couldn't cast their ballots arose because of Arizona's HB 2237, the Republican-sponsored bill enacted last May that erected new barriers to the ballot in an apparent effort to suppress the vote. 

 

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