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not-bono-ever
meh
the yanks can be particularly vicious when they have the legal bit between their teeth- I think there are going to be some serious sentences imposed for this art happening.
steveseagull
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76 page report for the Impeachment
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Dammit, I hadn't even heard that one and now you are taking it away from me!
steveseagull
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My mate sent me a text about the guy tasing his own dick and he was so happy about it I did not have the heart to tell him that the tasing his own dick story was not true so he still thinks that the bloke tased his own dick.
Nothing gleamed there... not exactly embedded either itv
The one crying "we were ordinary law abiding citizens until our government did this to us " sent a chill down my spine.
FridgeMagnet
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Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Just talked to my mother back home. Her neighbor has been a staunch Trump supporter. When I was last out there two weeks ago, he still had his Trump flag up. I'm told that last Wednesday afternoon, he went out and took it down. Evidently, that was enough of Trump for him.
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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
It’s like the Cameron & pig thing, you just let yourself go along with it because you want it to be true.
ska invita
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" Billionaire casino owner and Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson has died at the age of 87. Adelson was Donald Trump’s largest single donor during the 2016 race. Since 2015, he donated more than $250 million to Republican candidates and right-wing super PACs. He was also an influential political power in Israel, where he used his news outlets to back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories. He will be buried in Israel. "
www.politico.com
The Adelsons made $218 million in federal donations in 2019 and 2020 — over three times more than the next-biggest GOP donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. They accounted for more than one-quarter of all Republican outside spending on President Donald Trump’s behalf in this election: $90 million out of $353 million in total, per CRP.
And over the last five years, the Adelsons gave $280 million to House and Senate Republicans’ main super PACs, supplying more than one-third of the funding for Congressional Leadership Fund and nearly one-quarter of Senate Leadership Fund’s total during that time, according to a POLITICO review of FEC data. Their total federal giving over the last decade topped a half-billion dollars.
“Sheldon Adelson was the GOP megadonor of GOP megadonors,” said Ken Spain, a former spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “He was a deciding factor for dozens, if not hundreds, of races over the last decade. In a world where Democrats can rely on small-dollar donations that can add up to tens of millions of dollars, the loss of a major donor of Adelson’s stature is going to be felt.”
........Sounds like it could genuinely be a significant moment in Republican future finances
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Sheldon Adelson’s super PAC spending spree shaped GOP politics
Adelson, who died Monday, combined with his wife to donate more to Republicans than multiple other megadonors combined.
www.politico.com
The Adelsons made $218 million in federal donations in 2019 and 2020 — over three times more than the next-biggest GOP donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. They accounted for more than one-quarter of all Republican outside spending on President Donald Trump’s behalf in this election: $90 million out of $353 million in total, per CRP.
And over the last five years, the Adelsons gave $280 million to House and Senate Republicans’ main super PACs, supplying more than one-third of the funding for Congressional Leadership Fund and nearly one-quarter of Senate Leadership Fund’s total during that time, according to a POLITICO review of FEC data. Their total federal giving over the last decade topped a half-billion dollars.
“Sheldon Adelson was the GOP megadonor of GOP megadonors,” said Ken Spain, a former spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “He was a deciding factor for dozens, if not hundreds, of races over the last decade. In a world where Democrats can rely on small-dollar donations that can add up to tens of millions of dollars, the loss of a major donor of Adelson’s stature is going to be felt.”
........Sounds like it could genuinely be a significant moment in Republican future finances
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yeah, every 'interview' did a bit. you cant reason with someone who lives in an alternate inverse universe
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Yossarian
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" Billionaire casino owner and Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson has died at the age of 87. Adelson was Donald Trump’s largest single donor during the 2016 race. Since 2015, he donated more than $250 million to Republican candidates and right-wing super PACs. He was also an influential political power in Israel, where he used his news outlets to back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories. He will be buried in Israel. "
Sheldon Adelson’s super PAC spending spree shaped GOP politics
Adelson, who died Monday, combined with his wife to donate more to Republicans than multiple other megadonors combined.
The Adelsons made $218 million in federal donations in 2019 and 2020 — over three times more than the next-biggest GOP donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. They accounted for more than one-quarter of all Republican outside spending on President Donald Trump’s behalf in this election: $90 million out of $353 million in total, per CRP.
And over the last five years, the Adelsons gave $280 million to House and Senate Republicans’ main super PACs, supplying more than one-third of the funding for Congressional Leadership Fund and nearly one-quarter of Senate Leadership Fund’s total during that time, according to a POLITICO review of FEC data. Their total federal giving over the last decade topped a half-billion dollars.
“Sheldon Adelson was the GOP megadonor of GOP megadonors,” said Ken Spain, a former spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “He was a deciding factor for dozens, if not hundreds, of races over the last decade. In a world where Democrats can rely on small-dollar donations that can add up to tens of millions of dollars, the loss of a major donor of Adelson’s stature is going to be felt.”
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yeah, every 'interview' did a bit. you cant reason with someone who lives in an alternate inverse universe
I hope Adelson was alert enough in his final days to realise that all his hundreds of millions of dollars had done was to unleash rioting neo-Nazis in the Capitol - and that his Trump donations would be what he would be most remembered for.
ska invita
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Maybe....then again in Israel the legacy might be
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Seems like many senior republicans want to throw trump under the bus. Who knows? They may well end up with enough senate votes to conclude the impeachment.
Condemnations, funding stopped, booted off social media, impeachment. Its looking like an ever more frenzied pile on with many former allies joining in. Nobody is scared of him now and its Payback time.
Im sure he is reacting to it in his usual calm and measured way.
Condemnations, funding stopped, booted off social media, impeachment. Its looking like an ever more frenzied pile on with many former allies joining in. Nobody is scared of him now and its Payback time.
Im sure he is reacting to it in his usual calm and measured way.
steveseagull
Well-Known Member
Lol
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
A day ago, I'd have said the Senate wouldn't get 2/3 and I'm just about of that opinion still, though with McConnell musing outloud about impeachment... who knows. There's definitely the pile on effect and probably being worried about what else will come out, either about the invasion day or trump's time in office more generally. Against that, there's a bit of not wanting to dance to Pelosi and CNN's tune, which is the nearest they'll get to principle. Then there's not wanting to look like you've shit your pants and abandoned trump amid the pile on. The fear of trump letting his dog's loose on you is a bit less than it was, given those dogs themselves are in shock. Anyway, that's a whole lot of don't know. The one thing I do guess is that the GOP would rather persuade him to go than join in Pelosi's process. Whether they get enough senior party people to back that will be a priority for the next couple of days. Of course he won't go, unless he sees that as a de facto exemption from future prosecution.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
That story is slightly less dramatic when you read the sequence of tweets. I'd hoped for snipers and red dots on her chest.
ska invita
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ive no idea about this kind of thing, dont follow it closely enough, but this suggests the votes are there does it?
House to vote Wednesday as Pelosi gets the votes to impeach Trump
Momentum to impeach the president a second time has only grown since last Wednesday's attack.
www.politico.com
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
In the House, certainly, but the senate much less likely. 2 - I think - GOP senators have said they would back it and McConnell is apparently making halfway unattributed noises, but a way off the 66 they'd need overall.ive no idea about this kind of thing, dont follow it closely enough, but this suggests the votes are there does it?
House to vote Wednesday as Pelosi gets the votes to impeach Trump
Momentum to impeach the president a second time has only grown since last Wednesday's attack.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Quite a few pissed off GOPers there at the moment
From my cold dead hands, they'll take my Congress lanyard!
Raheem
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Think they only need 16 (or maybe it's 17).
Yossarian
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Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
And then there's 'being wanded like criminals', which must some kind of Hogwarts pinko thing.
Nylock
I hate 'these days'...
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
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