Politics Thread

[Dauphin]

In other news, exposure to water increases the risk of drowning.

[pchang]

Yes, because getting Covid or the flu has no risk at all.

[Berzerker]

Kelce advised getting the covid and flu vax together, that increases the risk of stroke

[-Jrabbit]

I'm surprised the right has noticed. They told us they stopped watching the NFL after Kaepernick took a knee during the anthem.
Also, Taylor Swift opened up about her politics in 2020:

Swift endorsed Biden in the 2020 presidential election and has been vocal about her unfavorable views on Trump. “I spoke to @vmagazine about why I'll be voting for Joe Biden for president. So apt that it's come out on the night of the VP debate,” she tweeted in October 2020.

[pchang]

I’m sure Berz finds this completely reasonable.

[Geronimo]

Republicans are totally bat**** crazy. Their latest conspiracy theory... The "corrupt Biden" government and the NFL are going to rig the Super Bowl for the Chiefs so Taylor Swift can endorse Joe Biden

You couldn't make this stuff up

apparently someone can make this stuff up =-P

[Ming]

Republicans are totally bat**** crazy. Their latest conspiracy theory... The "corrupt Biden" government and the NFL are going to rig the Super Bowl for the Chiefs so Taylor Swift can endorse Joe Biden

You couldn't make this stuff up

[Berzerker]

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi., D-Calif., was blasted on social media after a video surfaced from October in which she told pro-Palestinian protesters from Code Pink to "go back to China" where their "headquarters is."

"In October, Pelosi told our members calling for a ceasefire to ‘go back to China,’ Code Pink posted on X on Monday along with a video of Pelosi interacting with protesters.

"These same women have been protesting for peace at her house for 17 years. Pelosi takes thousands of dollars from AIPAC every year. Who’s the foreign agent here?"

[-Jrabbit]

FYI, it's the Oklahoma state GOP that is censuring Lankford. It's basically local political theater.

Interesting that he's the senior senator from a very red state, has a great background in the Baptist Church and a staunchly conservative pro-MAGA voting record. But heaven forbid that he try to actually accomplish immigration reform through legislation and negotiation!

BTW, Lankford just won a new term in 2022, so the state-level censure is meaningless.

[-Jrabbit]

Biden was just a senator from Delaware; he was just part of the Congressional mob Bush, Cheney, and Powell lied to.
Trump? LOL, he wasn't even in politics; no one cared what he thought. His opinion wasn't any more important than yours or mine.

[Ming]

You obviously haven't been following all of his posts on truth... It goes far beyond Liar.
And he hasn't stopped, even after 2 cases. I guess 80 million can't even shut him up.
But go ahead and keep defending your hero.
Both cases were decided by juries. (I'm sure you will say liberal or democrat something, but two different juries where the lawyers could exclude people)

[Dauphin]

YOU RAPIST!

YOU LIAR!

How is the response defamatory and not the accusation?

It can't be defamatory if it is more likely true than not. Amongst other reasons.


Side bar: Trump went way farther than saying she was a liar. He claimed she was making false claims for publicity, making false claims to sell a book, making false claims as part of a political agenda, making false claims to save her business, making false claims as she had been paid to make the claims, etc

He could have just said 'Her accusations are false' and moved on. Hell he could have done his usual shtick of saying 'I wonder if....' and therefore not owning it is an assertion

The original jury found that she was not lying, and that his claims were therefore defamatory

[Broken_Erika]

They're censuring Lankford, who ias in charge of negotiations on a border deal for collaborating with democrats to pass a border security deal.

Lankford has been the chief Republican negotiator as senators have spent weeks trying to hammer out a deal on border and immigration policy to address the influx of migrants coming over the U.S. border with Mexico. The border talks are also tied to President Biden’s request for some $60 billion in support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. Lankford spoke Sunday about the border negotiations and blowback from his colleagues during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
.......
“It is interesting, Republicans, four months ago, would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy. So we actually locked arms together and said, ‘We’re not going to give money for this. We want a change in law,'” he said.
........
“And now, it’s interesting, a few months later, when we’re finally getting to the end, they’re like, ‘Oh, just kidding, I actually don’t want a change in law because of presidential election year,’” he continued.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4436232-oklahoma-gop-director-lankford-censure-illegitimate/

[Berzerker]

YOU RAPIST!

YOU LIAR!

How is the response defamatory and not the accusation?

[Berzerker]

Biden helped Bush and Cheney lie us into invading Iraq, Trump opposed it.