GOP Insanity Thread: a bunch of weirdos weirding out

[SensiblePerson]

Yeah, someone who can say “I consider Citizens United to be settled law” with a serious expression on their face in the confirmation hearing, then throw it in the trash at the first opportunity.

[VoteForSocialists]

the judicial trojan horses always puzzled me as basically non-starters. say you are in a pre-law major, how much shit do need to get through for that sweet federal judgeship?

likely you have to have your sights on a top school, with all the grades and extracurriculars and groveling to professors that involves. then in law school, more groveling to only certain faculty, write textualism law review articles, probably get selected for federalist retreats and indoctrination, pass some loyalty tests, likely be told to dump on some student protests about housing or financial aid or whatever. then you go clerk for a year or two through those connections, get exposed to some truly awful opinions and see a lot of how the sausage is made. but even that’s not enough, then you gotta go be a legislative aid, or litigate, with even more focus on your ideology, as wel as sexual partners, friends. oh man, probably have to some church service and school recruiting of the same ilk.

i just don’t know who has the stamina to essentially go undercover for that long.

[hammypotter]

And then you do it and dodge assassinations from crazies the rest of your life. Or you can write shitty right wing opinions and have tons of money funneled to you on top of your judicial salary salary and get to visit Epstein island. But watch out, Larry Tribe might say something snarky about you on Twitter!

[Rugby]

Grunching. Heat pumps much better. They can get as much as 4 to 1 or even 5 to 1 ration of heat out to energy in.

Direct conversion is only ever going to get a max of 1 to 1.

[VoteForSocialists]

bold strategy to manufacture an all-out anti-abortion issue nationwide. keep in mind that abortion did not motivate midterm democrats where they felt abortion was safe. let’s see how it works out now.

House passes 'born alive' abortion bill | CNN Politics

[skydiver8]

LMAO

(Bill of attainder - Wikipedia)

[Jman220]

U.S. Will Hit Debt Limit Jan. 19, Yellen Tells Congress

Boy, I thought this issue wasn’t popping up until this summer…. It looks like we are hitting the debt limit in 6 days? (The treasury secretary can forestall that for a while with “extraordinary measures” but I’m not sure how long).

[otatop]

Sounds like this belongs in an “LOL Democrats” thread then if their last minute budget didn’t even cover us for a month. EDIT: I see @goofy is a step ahead, glad I could live up to the site’s namesake.

[Danspartan]

Is this true?

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸

Mother Jones has more

Janice Jhana Elks🇺🇸🇺🇦

[Jman220]

It’s going to turn out he’s like an actual Russian Spy, right? Like we’ve got to be drawing live to that at this point.

[gman42]

@otatop

Sounds like this belongs in an “LOL Democrats” thread then if their last minute budget didn’t even cover us for a month. EDIT: I see @goofy is a step ahead, glad I could live up to the site’s namesake.

Part of me wonders if there was a tiny bit of strategy involved in that, maybe hoping low-info voters would make the connection and be like “oh jeez that new Republican House got sworn in and less than a month later there’s a big fucking budget mess” as opposed to it seemingly happening out of nowhere mid-year, where the GOP can tell people that Grandpa Joe finally ran the country into the ground or something, and people believe it.

But yeah it’s probably just LOL Democrats.

[m_reed05]

Surely an actual spy, Russian or not, would be better at this, and have one coherent identity/story.

I’m guessing he’s just a moron, sociopath, con man, who started grifting and because we live in the stupidest simulation it carried him to a Congressional seat.

[CaffeineNeeded]

Spy probably not… but assets of intelligence agencies are frequently hot fucking messes that get used.

[Jman220]

@m_reed05

I’m guessing he’s just a moron, sociopath, con man, who started grifting and because we live in the stupidest simulation it carried him to a Congressional seat.

I mean, it worked for Trump.

[goofy]

Santos!

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/1613969368697782272

Linked article is in Portuguese but the automated translation is

George Santos: depoimentos levantam suspeitas sobre brasileiro que inventou...

And every day more people appear saying they were deceived by George, not only in the USA, but also in Brazil . Like housewife Adriana Damasceno, who says that she met George at a bingo in Niterói, which he and his mother frequented. She also says that they became friends and that George now has access to her assets.

In 2011, they went to the United States together. According to Adriana, George used her name to go shopping, withdrew all the money she had in the bank and even pawned jewelry.

[goofy]

Santos!

Santos’s Lies Were Known to Some Well-Connected Republicans

In late 2021, as he prepared to make a second run for a suburban New York City House seat, George Santos gave permission for his campaign to commission a routine background study on him.
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Some of Mr. Santos’s own vendors were so alarmed after seeing the study in late November 2021 that they urged him to drop out of the race, and warned that he could risk public humiliation by continuing. When Mr. Santos disputed key findings and vowed to continue running, members of the campaign team quit, according to three of the four people The New York Times spoke to with knowledge of the study.

The episode, which has not been previously reported, is the most explicit evidence to date that a small circle of well-connected Republican campaign professionals had indications far earlier than the public that Mr. Santos was spinning an elaborate web of deceits, and that the candidate himself had been warned about just how vulnerable those lies were to unraveling.

Fraudulent academic degrees. Involvement in a firm accused of a Ponzi scheme. Multiple evictions and a suspended driver’s license. All of it was in the report, which also said that Mr. Santos, who is openly gay, had been married to a woman. The report did not offer conclusive details, but some people briefed on the findings wondered whether the marriage was done for immigration purposes.

The existence of the vulnerability study underscores one of the most vexing questions still surrounding the strange saga of George Santos: How did the gate-keeping system of American politics — Republican leaders, adversarial Democrats and the prying media — allow a fabulist who boasted about phantom mansions and a fake résumé get away with his con for so long?
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But Democrats struggled to do so. In 2020, the party incumbent, Tom Suozzi, dismissed Mr. Santos as a nonviable threat, and conducted no opposition research at all while cruising to victory. When Democrats did vet him two years later, they failed to find some of the most egregious fabrications that prompted members of Mr. Santos’s campaign team to quit.

[skydiver8]

How do you conduct NO oppo for a congressional race?

We paid a dude $10k and got a 40-page oppo book on our boring state senate candidate.

Absolute negligence on the part of every consultant and manager who worked on that campaign. I need to look up the name of the consultant firms they used so I will know to never ever hire them for anything…

[MrWookie]

At this point, are we even sure he’s a US citizen?

[Jman220]

Sounds like he got his citizenship possibly through a sham marriage.

[goofy]

I think he claims he was born here to Brazilian immigrant parents, but at this point anything he says about himself is more likely to be false than true