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14076

The reasonable, moderate conservative Jeb Bush. Please clap!

14077

Just imagine how much extra damage the GOP could cause if they could just muster 10 IQ points for their lawbreaking.

14078

Education excellence is particularly rich.

14079

Can someone post a link to the actual Bureau of Elections report? I’m interested in looking at it, but Twitter won’t let me scroll down that far on the Simon Schuster thread without an account.

14080

Just FYI, the link seems to be down at the moment, at least for me (EDIT: Worked just now, must have been a blip).

Direct link to the report itself:

14081

Awesome, thanks!

14082

The report is odd. They don’t identify the affected races. They also do identify the fraudulent petition circulators by name, but then add this statement with no contex:

A news article from late 2021 indicates that head of the firm was recruiting circulators in Florida. He previously pled guilty to two counts of election fraud in 2011, in which he reportedly instructed two individuals to sign as a witness on dozens of petition sheets filled with signatures they did not collect.

Nowhere in the report are any of the circulators linked to a particular firm; these two sentences are the only reference to such; and the linked news report describes the activities of Shawn Wilmoth, who is not one of the 36 fraudulent petition circulators called out in the Appendix. So it’s totally unclear what the connection is there.

The report does explicitly state that:

At this point, the Bureau does not have reason to believe that any specific candidates or campaigns were aware of the activities of fraudulent-petition circulators.

There are many (nonpartisan) judicial candidates whose campaigns fall just below the threshold without the fraudulent petitions, i.e. they had 64 signatures rejected out of 630 and needed 600 to qualify. And at least one Democrat (Joseph Alfonso) was also affected and found to have insufficient signatures for his House candidacy. The governor petitions that were rejected though. Wow. It’s like 12,000 out of 17,000 signatures were fraudulent in their petitions.

14083

From his corrupt, slimy lips to FSM’s listening things.

14084

So close, honey. So close.

(apologies for not going to the gun thread, but that’s more than I care to care)

14085

Indeed, I’d be happy if we issued licenses with photo ID on them for gun operators and required them to register their guns with the state Department of Firearms. Like we do with cars.

14086
  • “Poor people should go get better jobs.”
  • “Mentally ill people should just go seek some help.”
  • “Women should dress less provocatively if they don’t want to be raped.”
  • “Schools shouldn’t have more than a single point of entry/exit.”

Ladies and gentlemen, your GOP. Proudly victim blaming for the past 30+ years!

14087

But aren’t rich and powerful people the real victims in all of this?

14088

Partial credit for the easier answer.

14089

Pittman writes for the Mississippi Free Press.

14090

Damn, that’s low.

Though the tweeter’s summary (“In 2017, Brett Favre began receiving $1.1 million in Mississippi TANF funds that should’ve gone to needy families.”) made me think Favre had applied for assistance (he didn’t), which would have been super low.

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14092

The Million Dollar Man Ted Dibiase was also implicated, alongside his family, in another Mississippi scam.

14093

Everybody’s got a price.

14094

Clinton campaign lawyer found not guilty of lying to the FBI, which somehow proves that he, the Clintons, and all other media are also liars.