[AMV] #981 Cousin's Friend's Swollen Balls and Larry Elder

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What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was not a coup attempt. It was half of a coup attempt — the less important half.

The more important part of the coup attempt — like legal wrangling in states and the attempts to sabotage the House commission’s investigation of Jan. 6 — is still going strong. These are not separate and discrete episodes but parts of a unitary phenomenon that, in just about any other country, would be characterized as a failed coup d’état.

As the Republican Party tries to make up its mind between wishing away the events of Jan. 6 or celebrating them, one thing should be clear to conservatives estranged from the party: We can’t go home again.

The attempted coup’s foot soldiers have dug themselves in at state legislatures. For example, last week in Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini introduced a draft of legislation that would require an audit of the 2020 general election in the state’s largest (typically Democratic-heavy) counties, suggesting without basis that it may show that these areas cheated to inflate Joe Biden’s vote count.

Florida’s secretary of state, a Republican, knows that an audit is nonsense and has said so. But the point of an audit would not be to change the outcome (Mr. Trump won the state). The point is not even really to conduct an audit.

The obviously political object is to legitimize the 2020 coup attempt in order to soften the ground for the next one — and there will be a next one.

In the broad strategy, the frenzied mobs were meant to inspire terror — and obedience among Republicans — while Rudy Giuliani and his co-conspirators tried to get the election nullified on some risible legal pretext or another. Republicans needed both pieces — neither the mob violence nor an inconclusive legal ruling would have been sufficient on its own to keep Mr. Trump in power.

True to form, Mr. Trump was able to supply the mob but not the procedural victory. His coup attempt was frustrated in no small part by a thin gray line of bureaucratic fortitude — Republican officials at the state and local levels who had the grit to resist intense pressure from the president and do their jobs.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 05:16 schreef OMG het volgende:
Ik volg nu Steve Kornacki met z'n grote scherm. Gaat best vlot nu, 60% al binnen uit L.A. county.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 05:34 schreef OMG het volgende:
Dapper, ik wil zoals Steve nog wel wat same day vote zien verschijnen voordat ik naar bed ga.

Zullen de ninjas trouwens al klaar staan?

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 05:38 schreef OMG het volgende:
Oh, NBC called het net. Newsom blijft.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 05:58 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Was het nou werkelijk zó spannend? Mijn indruk was uiteindelijk dat het nogal hijgerig gedrag was van journalisten.
Alhoewel het wél nodig is om tussentijds nog wat rep. gehuichel aan de kaak te stellen.
Nu maar hopen, dat de dems doorzetten met op de trom slaan gezien het opiniestuk in post # 27.
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“ The obviously political object is to legitimize the 2020 coup attempt in order to soften the ground for the next one — and there will be a next one.”

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 09:57 schreef Mike het volgende:
Ik denk dat het voor Newsom uiteindelijk vooral goed uitkwam dat het alternatief van de Republikeinen Larry Elder was. Het werd in de afgelopen weken steeds minder een referendum over Newsom en steeds meer een race tussen hem en Elder.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 10:34 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Klopt, maar 20 procentpunten verschil is wel een blowout hoor. Dat is niet alleen te verklaren door de kandidaat.

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Op woensdag 15 september 2021 11:12 schreef speknek het volgende:
Zoals ik het begreep ging de Republikein nooit winnen natuurlijk, maar zijn de recall regels in Californie zo debiel dat het enige dat hoefde te gebeuren was dat Newsom minder dan 50% kreeg, en daarna zou in principe degene met 25% gouverneur kunnen worden. Dat is de reden dat ze het voortdurend proberen.

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Op zondag 12 september 2021 18:48 schreef CharlesKinbote het volgende:

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wat een ongelooflijk naïeve tabel, schijnbaar is het feit dat Reuters en AP Iran al jarenlang framen als een staat die ieder moment nucleaire wapens kan gaan ontwikkelen en gebruiken

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For years, Bob Enyart used his conservative media platform in Denver to mock those who died of AIDS by name or call for women who receive abortions to face the death penalty. Recently, the radio talk-show host — who had successfully sued the state over mask mandates and capacity limits in Colorado churches last year — joined a chorus of conservative voices who have bashed the coronavirus vaccine and vowed to stay unvaccinated.

In Enyart’s case, he pushed for boycotting vaccination because of the debunked claim that the vaccines were developed using aborted fetal cells.

“While it is not inherently sinful to take an immorally-developed” vaccine, he wrote on his website last month, Enyart urged people to “boycott” the vaccines “to further increase social tension and put pressure on the child killers.”

But weeks after he and his wife, Cheryl, tested positive for the virus after being unvaccinated, Enyart died of covid-19, his radio co-host announced Monday. Enyart was 62.