GOP Insanity Thread: There will be consequences any day now :leolol:

goofy · January 5, 2023, 10:47pm

https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1610944242607685633

I, for one, am shocked that the Party Of Small Government wants to get this involved in the private parts of 25 year old adults

otatop · January 5, 2023, 11:34pm

From deeper in that Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1507100028392783911

Turning 18 does not mean one attains adult competency – particularly for life-altering medical decisions like gender transition

They’re of course going to pass other laws to protect not yet competent adults until they turn 26, like joining the military or applying for and receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans that can’t be discharged in bankruptcy, right?

otatop · January 7, 2023, 10:50pm

Not confirmed GOP insanity yet but seems likely.

Jman220 · January 7, 2023, 10:52pm

USA just having a normal one.

eyebooger · January 7, 2023, 11:09pm

Could be another rogue 6-year-old.

Jman220 · January 8, 2023, 3:52pm

Odds that one of these FC congresscritters unironically states in the next week or so that Pelosi had her knee on the neck of republican congressmen? Gotta be close to 100, right?

TrueNorth · January 8, 2023, 8:40pm

Party of the working class, everyone!

goofy · January 8, 2023, 9:11pm

lol:

Rufo, for those who haven’t heard of him, is basically a professional troll who makes a living by thinking of ways to whip people into frenzies over liberal politics:

Definitely someone who belongs in public education

m_hood115 · January 8, 2023, 9:22pm

i wonder how much affect this will have at new college of Florida. it’s an incredibly liberal school in Sarasota.

i worked next door to it for years.

to be fair, i assume it’s probably more of an opportunity to throw a legitimizing hand out to his internet troll.

goofy · January 8, 2023, 10:22pm

I’ve heard about all the “faking his resume/life story/everything” aspect of this George Santos character, but did not know that he was also probably grifting campaign donations into his pocket:

The company was called Cleaner 123, and over the course of four months, it received nearly $11,000 from the campaign of George Santos, the representative-elect from New York who appears to have invented whole swaths of his life story.

The expenditures were listed as “apartment rental for staff” on Mr. Santos’s campaign disclosure forms and gave the address of a modest suburban house on Long Island. But one neighbor said Mr. Santos himself had been living there for months, and two others said that they had seen Mr. Santos and his husband coming and going, a possible violation of the rule prohibiting the use of campaign funds for personal expenses.
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When reached by phone, a representative from Cleaner 123 confirmed that it was a cleaning company, but hung up before answering why it had received rent payments from Mr. Santos.

Mr. Santos’s campaign filings show other irregularities as well: He had listed a flood of expenses under $200 — more than 800 items in total — a number that far exceeded those of candidates for similar office. More than 30 of those payments came in just below the limit at $199.99, expenses listed for office supplies, restaurants and Ubers, among other things. While F.E.C. rules urge candidates to try to save receipts for purchases below $200, they are required to keep them for all expenditures above that threshold.

Paul S. Ryan, an election law expert, said that the expenditures could be an effort to hide illegal use of campaign funds, given the leeway with reporting receipts below $200. If so, he said, Mr. Santos’s attempt to hide the pattern could put him in further legal trouble, adding: “I consider deployment of this tactic strong evidence that the violation of law was knowing and willful — and therefore meeting the requirement for criminal prosecution.”

The travel expenses include more than $40,000 for air travel, a number so exorbitant that it resembles the campaign filings of party leaders in Congress, as opposed to a newly elected congressman who is still introducing himself to local voters.
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The $30,000 Mr. Santos’s campaign spent on hotels and Airbnb expenditures included stays in Tennessee, Virginia, Texas, Florida, California, Kansas, Michigan, Washington, D.C., New Jersey and in New York itself. Records indicate his campaign favored the Hyatt and Hilton hotel brands, expensing stays at Virginia’s Hilton Alexandria Old Town, Florida’s Hilton Melbourne, the Hilton West Palm Beach, the Hyatt Regency Orlando and the Hyatt Place West Palm Beach.

In New York, his campaign booked hotel stays at the SoHo Grand in Manhattan and the Garden City Hotel and the Inn at Great Neck, both on Long Island.

Mr. Santos’s campaign also paid for dozens of meals, including at high-end restaurants such as the Breakers in Palm Beach and the Capital Grille steakhouse in New York. He spent roughly $14,000 at an upscale Italian restaurant called Il Bacco, in the Little Neck neighborhood of Queens.

Props to this guy, he’s really committed to not just limiting himself to one kind of campaign fraud, he wants them all. Live your best life.

otatop · January 9, 2023, 4:10pm

Jman220 · January 9, 2023, 4:28pm

Lol, he is so going to jail.

eyebooger · January 9, 2023, 4:33pm

@sweetsummerchild

TheDuker · January 9, 2023, 5:00pm

I know we live in crazy times, but a sitting congressman calling the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs a “traitor” seems unprecedented.

I feel like perhaps Milley should pay a visit to the good dentist and confront him on this issue. They’re both the same age (64) so it would be a fair fight in that sense.

Probably more dignified just to remind everybody that Gosar’s entire family endorsed his opponent in multiple recent elections.

McTrollson · January 9, 2023, 5:33pm

Republicans wasting their power holding anti-J6 investigations sounds completely counterproductive. Nobody genuinely cares about J6 anymore outside of NPR politics reporters, are they making the same mistake the Dems did?

goofy · January 9, 2023, 5:55pm

I’m pretty excited to learn more about the Pelosi-led J6 coup that Dems have spent two years sweeping under the rug. Sounds wild!

Jman220 · January 9, 2023, 6:13pm

I’m not sure it’s true that nobody cared about J6. I think the hearings damaged Trump pretty significantly.

goofy · January 9, 2023, 7:00pm

Santos!

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1612479600583491585

Wealthy donors received calls and emails from a man who said he was Dan Meyer, McCarthy’s chief of staff, during the 2020 and 2022 election cycles, according to people familiar with the matter. His name was actually Sam Miele, and he worked for Santos raising money for his campaign, according to one GOP donor who contributed to Santos’ campaign. This financier and some others in this story declined to be named in order to speak freely about private discussions.

That. Cannot. Be. Legal!

Jman220 · January 9, 2023, 7:24pm

World’s tiniest violin for these GOP donors though.

otatop · January 9, 2023, 7:38pm

We’re overdue a good old fashioned fight in the Capitol.