The secret to being a popular liar is to start out being a rich man’s son first. He doesn’t have that advantage.
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What I have a tough time understanding is just how and for how long did he think he could get away with this nonsense
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News From the Hill:
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) October 9, 2023
Rumor is that as of today Republicans are refusing to work with House Democrats to elect a consensus speaker so they can prioritize their party over our national security needs.
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I don’t know that either will actually keep him down. He might have held on if he’d run last time instead of shooting for Governor. Because that was a fool’s errand. There will always be the ‘we need new blood’ contingent, but Suozzi’s name recognition will be a benefit with lower-engagement Dems.
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Not sure he ever did. But you never just admit you’re fucked, when you’re running the con. You always act confident and keep looking for ways to spin.
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It was The Producers. He scammed the GOP donors to take the money and fail, at which point he would slink away and no one would look too hard at his campaign finances. Except, he failed to fail thanks in part to the last minute redistricting kerfuffle, so he wound up caught in the spotlight.
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Springtime for Georgie and GOP
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Winter for donors and prats!
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OT. But now what? And is this another consequence of that woman switching parties? 
Democrats and election experts warn the changes risk creating dysfunction in 2024, with Gov. Roy Cooper saying they “could doom our state’s elections to gridlock and severely limit early voting.”
The legislation, he said in his veto of the bill last month, “also creates a grave risk that Republican legislators or courts would be empowered to change the results of an election if they don’t like the winner.”
Republicans contend the bill helps guarantee elections will be run fairly by establishing bipartisan elections boards that will take politics out of the process.
“When it comes to agencies doing their jobs, politics ought to not be part of it,” said House Speaker Tim Moore (R) in a recent podcast appearance.
Republicans have tried for years to remake the state elections board but came up against obstacles, including court decisions and a rejection from voters. Their three-fifths majorities in the state legislature now give them the power to override vetoes, which they did in the state Senate on Tuesday with a 30-19 vote and in the House with a 72-44 vote. Litigation is all but certain to follow.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/10/north-carolina-republican-override-veto/
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A lot of speculation about how Hamas pulled off its surprise attack. Now the Russian Wagner Group is getting mention.
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I notice some people seem to be doing their utmost to not even suggest a Russian involvement. I find that troubling. 
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I will lie and steal for myself. FIfY.
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WTF does Rachel expect them to do? JFC, these people are stating the obvious.
Many in the electorate appear to have been brought up without a moral compass. Right from wrong, truth versus lies. They think it’s OK to blur the lines.
They probably know the difference in many cases but they don’t think it’s all that important.
Probably a good way to counter this is to preach. Not from a religious angle, but from a moral one, hearkening back to the founders, perhaps. Civics lessons, of a sort. The idea is to not necessarily point out the lies, but to point out the true harms they cause.
Suozzi is the guy that is always looking for the better gig. I would want someone new. I would believe a good Democratic candidate will win the seat next fall. We shall see.
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I am in his district and I an assure you that he is an excellent candidate. I would much prefer competence over inexperience.
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Santos, Scalise, Jordan. The House under Republicans has gone form a clown show to a creep show.
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She’s not falling into the traditional media framing of Republicans being let of the hook for their incompetence and mismanagement.
The solution is to call them out repeatedly for refusing to do the sensible option of joining Democrats in a ‘unity government’ (i.e. power-sharing agreement) to bring the House back into order.
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Back to the subject at hand, I always liked Suozzi, and he is very likely to be the Democratic standard-bearer. And that will be that.
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He wasn’t uncontested, there was a terrible Dem candidate. 53.8 - 46.2 in favor of the crook.
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