US Politics Mega-thread - Page 964

On December 01 2018 13:53 plasmidghost wrote:
George H. W. Bush has died. May he rest in peace.

On December 02 2018 04:22 Sermokala wrote:
We should ignore topics that people care about to avoid them getting actioned for it. Real hot take there.

On December 02 2018 04:25 Excludos wrote:


What could his death possibly bring to the conversation other than either "rip" or "He was a shit president!"? It's best to just let it lay

On December 02 2018 06:25 Sermokala wrote:

People might not speak ill of the recently deceased former leader of the country?

I mean should we have a policy of ignoring when people die beacuse people can't be expected to have basic manners and decency?

On December 02 2018 08:08 Nouar wrote:
So, a less talked about election issue from the midterms :
in North Carolina, according to a number of affidavits, several from elderly black voters, a member of the republican campaign coordinated an effort to go door-to-door in a democrat-leaning county, posing as election official, and asking to hand over absentee ballots, even if blank. Then, he would have filled in or discarded them.
In addition, it seems there is a unusually large number of absentee ballots in that county, with over 96% of them going to the republican candidate, while the usual win margin is around 65% from what I read previously (can't remember where).

The republican is leading by around 900 votes, but the board is refusing to certify the result.

For all the republicans crying about voter fraud, now this one seems to have some basis. And it's not coming from who they would love it to :-D

WaPo Source

On December 02 2018 10:04 Doodsmack wrote:


Funnily enough, voter fraud only became a concern for Republicans once they took power at the state level during the Obama years. Interesting isn't it?

On December 02 2018 10:04 Doodsmack wrote:


Funnily enough, voter fraud only became a concern for Republicans once they took power at the state level during the Obama years. Interesting isn't it?

On December 02 2018 10:28 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:


This is election fraud. A republican systematically went around to change the result of the election in their favor. This isn't voters cheating the system and nothing Republicans have been suggesting like voter ID would have fixed this or maybe that's the point.

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.”

We were only down 26 seats the night of the election and three weeks later, we lost basically every California race,’’ Ryan said Thursday. “This election system they have — I can’t begin to understand what ‘ballot harvesting’ is.”

In part due to mail-in and provisional ballots that delivered the margin of victory to Democratic challengers in a handful of seats, California’s Republican delegation appears to have been slashed in half — in the new Congress, Republicans are likely to hold just seven of the state’s 53 House seats, the party’s lowest number since the 1940’s.

Ryan’s statements drew a sharp rebuke from California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who said Thursday that “it is bizarre that Paul Ryan cannot grasp basic voting rights protections.”

Padilla, a Democrat who oversees the elections process in a state with 19 million registered voters, told POLITICO that “our elections in California are structured so that every eligible citizen can easily register, and every registered voter can easily cast their ballot.”

That concept, he said, “[might be] strange for Speaker Ryan, who comes from Wisconsin,’’ but Padilla added, “I’m happy to walk him through the bottom line.”

On December 02 2018 08:04 Taelshin wrote:
The passing of a former president definitely worthy of this thread, Frankly I cant believe this is even up for debate. The fact that some people wont be able to hold back their jubilee or hatred is pretty unreal, no one is getting "red font" for being respectful.

RIP George H. W. Bush.