You poncy Brits might well fuck your livestock as preparation for a lifetime in politics, but here in America, we goddamn well kill it (and drink its blood):
I’d just like to note for any who doesn’t feel like clicking through that this article can be summed up as follows:
Florida Man named Sol Invictus Sacrifices Goat, Drinks Blood, Runs for Senate
His FAQ is a joy to read:
Q: I heard somewhere that you once said you support eugenics. Is that true, and if so how can you possibly reconcile that with the NAP?
Q: Didn’t you once say that blacks and women voting is a bad thing?
Q: How can Augustus Invictus run for US Senate if he renounced his US Citizenship in 2013?
The answer to all three questions is basically “Yeah, I said/did that, but only to make a larger point, and I don’t really believe in it.”
Hold up. Is this the same “Sol Invictus” that used to post here?
Doubtful. It’s the name of a sun god (Roman, I believe) that figures prominently in modern aryan-pagan-libertarian cult stuff.
Correct. In fact Priest of Sol Invictus was one of the posts Julius Caesar used to work his way into control of Rome. It was a big deal to them, the unconquered sun.
Yes, I’m familiar with the name origin. I just thought it would’ve been awesome if it was the same Sol Invictus as the one that used to post here on Qt3.
Today’s story comes to us from Happy Valley… or close enough, anyway.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was elected at least in part due to her assertion that the Jerry Sandusky prosecution had been botched and dragged out due to political reasons. She’s the first woman - and first Democrat - to be elected to that office.
She hasn’t (necessarily) found any evidence that this was so, and just as she took office an independent commission basically concluded that there was no major political interference in the investigation. But what the investigation DID find was a shitton of misogynistic emails from various people in power – lewd jokes about women, minorities, and even some trading of porn on government email accounts.
Kane began feuding with investigators and has apparently become convinced that the conspiracy she campaigned on is still in full-swing. To drive public attention, she leaked some Grand Jury information to a major Philly paper… which has in turn gotten her charged with various leak-related crimes like Obstruction and Perjury. Most of the political establishment has demanded that she step down - to include the Democrat governor of the state - but she has stubbornly refused to go.
More than that, she has released a few hundred of the emails in question… the contents of which have lead to the resignation of the state environmental secretary and launched an investigation of a state Supreme Court Justice.
That act got her law license revoked, and pissed off the legislature, which is also trying to get her kicked out.
Undeterred, she is threatening to release several hundred MORE emails with lewd content that she claims will expose and embarrass US Attorneys and folks further up in the government. Fun reading.
A small update to the case mentioned above.
Kane (the embattled AG) says she has a bunch of emails from state employees trading porn and other lascivious material. She is threatening to release those emails.
But a local newspaper went ahead and requested those very same documents under the “Right to Know” law, which is effectively PA’s FOIA. Kane refused to release them, and it went to the courts.
Today they ruled that trading dirty pictures falls under “personal communication” and is NOT covered under the “Right to Know” law, which says that citizens are only entitled to see emails that detail “official government business”. However, since the communication was on government equipment, Kane herself DOES have the right to release them as part of her official duties.
And kind of as an aside, the court found that it the trading of porn and dirty jokes “are shown to be pervasive and widespread within an agency, they may reach the level of being an activity of the agency”, which means that they WOULD be fair game under “Right to Know”.
Ah, what a tangled web.
I don’t even know how to respond to any of that.
I mean, on one hand it seems like she’s actually committing blackmail, since she’s just THREATENING to release stuff? If it’s bad, then just release it. Don’t try to lord it over anyone.
But then, on the other hand, it seems like everyone’s dirty and should be exposed anyway.
Presumably there’s been more than anyone’s fair share of “exposing” going on over there anyway. Ohhhhhhhh
Fascinating. Did a judge just render a finding in which he rolled his eyes and told the boys, “Guys, seriously, just keep it on the down low, wouldja? You want to ruin this for everyone?”
Maybe this ought to go into the “Republican Science” thread, but we should treat it like a case study in how NOT to run a Twitter campaign:
Tammy Duckworth is a Democrat running against the incumbent GOP senator for Mark Kirk (Ill.).
The major problem here is that Duckworth herself is a veteran; she served in Iraq.
Where she lost both her legs.
Happy International Women’s Day, GOP!
So… they went with “not standing up” for the person missing legs?
Did they bring Joe Biden in for that one?
This is extra delightful and apropos after having seen Deadpool the other day.
I had a chuckle when I remembered Deadpool had the holiday joke about International Women’s Day.
Like Jesus from the tomb, sleazy government officials are apt to rise from the… uh… well, I thought I might make an Easter reference, but I guess not.
No, this isn’t about Ted Cruz’ alleged 5-fold affairs. I reckon that’s being covered enough in another thread.
The governor of Alabama - Robert Bentley - is in hot water this week. A recording of a racy phone conversation allegedly recorded a couple of years back has been released to the public, in which the governor is speaking to one f his closest aides, Rebekah Caldwell Mason.
Mason is apparently well-known in the state politics and has been referred to as the power behind the throne, or according to Spencer Collier, the “de facto governor” of Alabama.
Collier appears to be the guy behind leaking the tape, and he’s got a bit of a history to him: apparently Bentley fired him for what may or may not have been related to the tape, sketchy finances, or other stuff.
For his part, the 73-year-old Governor insists that although the voice on the tape is indeed his, their relationship is non-sexual. Here’s the relevant excerpts for the full audio.
When I stand behind you, and I put my arms around you, and I put my hands on your breasts, and I put my hands (unintelligible) and just pull you real close. I love that, too.
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Baby, let me know what I am going to do when I start locking the door. If we are going to do what we did the other day, we are going to have to start locking the door.
It all sounds pretty innocent to me, but the governor’s wife was apparently not amused. She divorced him a few months ago.
Did you hear the one about former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert getting blackmailed for sexually abusing four boys while he was their wrestling coach?
I would think, were he still politically active, this would be quite a scandal in addition to a horrific crime and sin. (And while this is reported by an awfully partisan outlet, if there were questions to the story’s accuracy, considering the potential for a gigantic libel suit, it would get pulled faster than George W. Bush flying jets over a Vietnam-era Texas.)
I don’t think there can possibly be any question of accuracy. These aren’t rumours, they’re from court filings.
Yeah, I heard about it on NPR. MSNBC isn’t some dirty rumor mag, even if they lean left.
It always astonishes me that people with some seriously filthy skeletons in their closet get into politics and think they can keep that shit buried for their whole careers. Then again, I guess Hastert basically did that! Probably a personality type that starts to feel like they can get away with anything.