US Politics

I can't remember how the GOP chooses its candidates. Can anyone put their hat in the ring and then get chosen by the members? Or does the parliamentary party equivalent (is there one?) have a say?

All I remember is all those dreadful 'debates' with about 15 people all talking at once...

If it's chosen by the members, presumably there's a reasonable risk of Trump coming back. I don't think he will: he's lost Murdoch (who must also have other horses to back) and not that I care for his happiness of course, but I suspect he'll find life outside the goldfish bowl much easier.

Fairly sure this is the reason for fighting this whole election theft thing. Bring in a bunch of donations to cover legal costs, existing legal/campaign costs.

Yes, it's even in the T&Cs on the donation pages:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-campaign-legal-defense-donations-debt/

I can't remember how the GOP chooses its candidates. Can anyone put their hat in the ring and then get chosen by the members? Or does the parliamentary party equivalent (is there one?) have a say?

Same process - raise a bunch of money and canvas for grassroots support and run in the Caucuses and Primaries. It's about raising money really. Then statewide votes.

Would that not be fairly usual, given that they could receive more than the legal costs?

So more Labour party than Tory? Any member of the party can put themselves forward, and then all the other members vote on them, the parliamentary members don't get a say in who's put forward to the voters.

Would that not be fairly usual, given that they could receive more than the legal costs?

Probably, but it's entirely engineered to raise money to pay off debts rather than pay not yet incurred legal fees.

It'd be entirely disingenuous if they knew the legal fees were only going to be $x but kept on pushing for donations even when it was clear they had $x covered.

Grifters gonna grift.

The state of this page : https://secure.winred.com/tmagac/election-defense-fund-cond?

I do like the Increase your impact by 1000% part. I can't see any explanation of how this is achieved...

Then the T and C's and allocation formula is also almost impossible to understand. Yet they lap it up for this someone they worship for being really rich.

He’s kindly erecting a statue of himself. Something like this ...

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Who is this melt? Radical Antifa, BLM constantily rioting? just GTF.
Not you, obvs.

If you haven't seen this, then you need to.
Defy you not to laff....
https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/1325518135898886145?s=20

Ugh fakest laugh ever

That's what you got from that?
Right...

Of course they are saying that "Trump got the vaccine done" except Pfizer had no part of the Warp Speed initiative. How do they keep the incessant instantly disprovable lies churning out?

https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1325797286664953856

It's all just a gag to keep him happy

All lies.

This is why Trump was in hospital.

They reversed engineered his DNA.

Do you think it's a coincidence that a German company has claimed credit when Trump left hospital on the 6 October....

...which is not only German-American Day but also the last day of Oktoberfest?

Let me guess you'll just try and dismiss it as coincidence?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/10/johnsons-biden-win-tweet-contains-hidden-trump-congratulations

How did this even happen? The image existed in both states but failed to collapse fully when observed?

The only explanation I can think of is that someone did it deliberately.

I read that - it makes no sense. I don't understand how it's even technically likely that the person responsible would do this accidentally - in what world would you have a single picture that has different names on it depending on colour balance instead of just two separate images (and making sure you posted the right one)? Where is Pence's name in it instead of Harris's?

It's a weird story.

edit @brun yeah, probably that.

The second bit of visible text (under 'shared priorities') can only lead me to guess that whoever designed (using that word very loosely) it has 'painted' over the original message using the brush tool rather than make a new layer, which is a bafflingly basic way of doing it, but totally in keeping with how this government operates.

So they can't use excel, paint... what next?

Someone at Trident HQ tries pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete?

But... Wouldn't there just be a 'text layer' over the grey background that you'd use to produce two images? Who would do it this way to produce a trump version, then rub it out?

Even if they produced it in PowerPoint you'd struggle to make this method the simplest one...

I'm pretty skeptical, I'm no image editing program expert but sure the only way this could happen is if there were 2 separate layers to the image, one Trump, one Biden. And instead of simply flipping between which was visible (or in front), they manually used an eraser-like tool to try to remove all of the Trump layer, while accidentally missing a small piece that just happened to have Trumps name on it?

Surely, as mentioned above they'd either have two separate (as in separate files) images, or just update a text box in a single-layer image?

If anything (and I'm going on the assumption that this was actually uploaded, as I haven't seen that), surely it's a disgruntled government employee who snuck it past a bunch of eyes before getting it posted.