US Politics

So Loeffler will still participate in this Senate vote despite having just lost her Senate seat?

The results won't have been certified yet.

Insert the word 'communists' and the last sentence is worthy of Trump himself.

Find their illegal deeds and deals and prosecute, with sentences and fines appropriate to their wealth. Preferably, have them committed to the type of mental care environment they would espouse 'Donald, Nurse Ratched is ready for you now'.

Insert the word 'communists' and the last sentence is worthy of Trump himself.

there was a whole war about this. everyone was there.

point being, they are getting off lightly - they should seize the opportunity to fuck off forever.

They got the Supreme Court tho, they’re laughing all the way.

Ossoff might talk good, but he’s a total empty suit. With Democrats like him who needs republicans?

trumpism will be back, possibly by another name.

It presumably could have been a much darker, longer lasting movement with someone more capable or competent running it.

Yep,
although a little more problematic as US Corporations have left the island destitute
and I think the power supply is still below par after Trump sent a followers firm to repair hurricane damage.

No, that's definitely not right - Trump is actually the best thing that ever happened to Puerto Rico - I heard him say it. It would definitely add another 2 Rep seats if they got statehood. Definitely.

Worth mentioning that the Pueeto Rico administration have been quite sycophantic towards Trump in recent times despite the people of PR being heavily opposed to him.

I read that this was to try to curry favour for extra funding but I'm sure it's more complex than that.

As seems to be the case with everything to do with american elections, it's a bit of a mess.

Two senate seats were up for grabs in Georgia in the November election. David Perdue's term was coming to an end, so an election was needed. It officially ended on Jan 3rd, so he's out of the senate. This senate seat is now vacant until the winner is sworn in.

Kelly Loefler has actually never won an election - the previous senator resigned due to ill health at the start of 2020. His term was supposed to run till 2023, but in Georgia the rules are that a replacement can be named, and sit in the Senate, but must be confirmed by a special election. This special election was scheduled for November so they could combine it with everything else, which make sense. As a result, Kelly Loefler will remain a senator for Georgia until her successor is confirmed/sworn in.

Both the senate elections are run-offs. This happens when neither gained a majority. In November both races ended with candidates on 49% each, as a tiny minority voted for independent candidates. With neither of the senate races seeing a candidate get 50% of the vote, we moved to this runoff scenario where it's just the two candidates for each seat, so someone must get 50% or more.

Kelly Loefler has actually never won an election

A few more Kelly Loeffler facts 4 da lulz:

• She is the richest Senator and campaigns in her personal private jet
  
• Her insider dealing will likely catch up with her now
  
• She boasted about being the most right wing Senator (including a fucking bizarre advert starring Genghiz Khan, where she out-right winged him)
  
• She posed with a KKK member last month
  
• OK, former KKK member - he just runs a far-right race hate group now
  
• She posed with a bunch of armed 3%ers last month
  
• She hangs around with Marjorie Greene, that QAnon freak from Florida
  
• Last week she ran an advert which darkened the skin of her opponent
  
• She is the first Georgia Rep to lose to a Black guy
  

I wonder if Jeff van Drew is feeling a litle switchy?

Wasn't he pictured throwing toilet rolls to homeless Puerto Ricans?

She is the richest Senator and campaigns in her personal private jet

There's so many rich people like this. What's the matter with them? I always think they must have absolutely no imagination; why aren't they off living in utter luxury, or climbing mountains, or saving orangutans or something?

Instead they get their fulfillment from making peoples lives that much harder.

Power

Entitlement.

Misguided understanding of service.

But mostly power. Don’t forget the spiders webs of influence they trail behind them. It’s not just them it’s the thousands of moneyed influencers who rely on their face in the space.

Also - siphoning off public funds to family/friends and massive insider trading.

Kelly Loeffler

Invested in body bags during Covid

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But mostly power

Yeah - but to what end? She could have been doing whatever anyone could ever want to, instead she tied herself to a stressful civil service office for some stretch of time.

Still, this probably illustrates quite starkly why I don't have the mindset to be a billionaire...

No totally! Me either. I think @villa-ru nails it in terms of motivation. But it’s bred into the hyper rich right? It’s legacy... Even if you’re a massive disappointment to the Bush family you still have to turn in eight years as the fucking president before you’re allowed to play nice with Michelle Obama and do dog portraits.

As happy as I am about the democrats possibly flipping Georgia, am I the only one nervous about Ossoff’s campaign putting out a “victory” declaration when all the votes haven’t been counted (even though the majority of those votes are from predominantly democratic counties) feels a bit premature.

I wonder whether it's an attempt to pre-empt the batshit Republican noise about how this has been stolen? They're a lost cause, obviously, but it gets the clear lead established as the story for everyone else.