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US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians
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And honestly why should that surprise anyone? For right or wrong, those in A&H are better behaved because Null already made his displeasure of the subforum clear and nobody likes their toys taken away for shit behaviour.
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I spend like three hours a day in this thread and very rarely saw anything that I would consider needed serious cleanup or extra attention from the mods. This thread is pretty civil for political discussion, all things considered.
That said, it is pretty much an echo chamber. But again I would argue that's not necessarily a bad thing. It keeps me from shitting up the Biden Derangement Syndrome and COVID Conspiracy threads.
That said, it is pretty much an echo chamber. But again I would argue that's not necessarily a bad thing. It keeps me from shitting up the Biden Derangement Syndrome and COVID Conspiracy threads.
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one time I reported the fuck out of some gimmickposter and null got back at me like "fuck off" and I was like "oh shit, I thought I was just annoying some jannie, my bad"
since then I don't bother because I don't mind annoying a jannie but yeah null's got enough shit on his plate
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Remember X Prime's Hugbox Axiom: If anyone earnestly complains about a political hugbox by going a step beyond simply mocking someone for it in a post, they're just mad it's not their political hugbox.
Fomo Hoire
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As far as I know we only have 2 rules, and one of them doesn't really apply to the Megathread anymore because "follow the new thread template" makes no sense in a thread that just keeps on going and going and going. How badly do we have to fuck up to generate any reports?
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Didn't they have to scrap the Lavi fighter program because of some attempts to sell tech to China?
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iirc there's a standing rule of "no 'Florida General' threads" for some reason
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Instead of doing snide drivebys and hiding in their jannie hidden hugboxes, they should come down here in the mud with us plebs. Changing the title just makes you look like a gay faggot too afraid to leave your little safe space.
Edit: Jannie delenda est
Edit: Jannie delenda est
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It appears Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) did a little quid-pro-quo with one of her opponents in her most recent primary. The problem was, she was fucking braindead about it. She didn't carry out her end of the quid-pro-quo and the guy sued her.
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After unsuccessfully challenging moderate Rep. Dan Lipinski in the 2018 Democratic primary, Newman chose to again challenge the conservative Democrat in the following election. And she began making those preparations soon after her loss.
According to a report released on Monday, Newman may have promised a potential primary challenger, Palestinian-American professor Iymen Chehade, a job as her "foreign policy advisor and either District Director or Legislative Director" in a potential future congressional office after the two met in 2018.
Newman told the body that she sought to hire Chehade because of his knowledge on foreign and Arab-American affairs, which she felt was a shortcoming of her 2018 campaign. "It was clear that he had very specific knowledge around Palestine and Israel that I needed. He had been an expert on it," she told investigators.
The Illinois progressive claims Chehade's potential 2020 plans did not factor into their discussions, but documents she herself provided to the body seemed to contradict her testimony: in a draft contract attached to an October 2018 email, Chehade says he will not "announce or submit his candidacy" for that district, and that "in exchange" he would be hired as Newman's chief foreign policy advisor.
Newman, for her part, claimed to be "outraged and incensed" by the allegation, and her response to OCE pointed out that the "agreement was written to exclude the possibility of any agreement on candidacy or any other subject."
The two ultimately signed a contract in December 2018 laying out the terms of the agreement, including a salary for Chehade ranging between $135,000 and $140,000 annually. That contract did not include the apparent quid-pro-quo.
But after that job did not materialize for Chehade, he sued Newman in January 2021 to enforce the contract they'd signed. Newman's legal counsel, in seeking to dismiss the case, acknowledged to the House General Counsel that her contract "was violative of House employment and federal contracting rules," according to the OCE report.
That lawsuit was then settled in June 2021 and included a nondisclosure agreement, which Chehade cited in declining to sit for an interview with the ethics body. In October, the group voted to subpoena him.
But in May 2021, the conservative Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust filed a complaint with OCE, spurring the congressional inquiry. Newman's communications director, Pat Mullane, seized on that point in describing the complaint as driven by politics.
"Recently, a right-wing organization filed a politically-motivated complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) regarding a dismissed lawsuit," he said in a statement to Insider. "The materials produced during the OCE's review overwhelmingly demonstrate that the ethics complaint is completely meritless."
Mullane also pointed to a line in OCE's statement noting that further reviews, as the body has suggested, are not by themselves indicative of an ethics violation.
- The Office of Congressional Ethics voted 6-0 to find reason to believe Rep. Newman bribed a political opponent.
- The case now goes to the House Ethics Committee, where it will be reviewed by her peers.
- Newman allegedly promised Iymen Chehade a senior position in her office if he didn't run against her in a primary.
After unsuccessfully challenging moderate Rep. Dan Lipinski in the 2018 Democratic primary, Newman chose to again challenge the conservative Democrat in the following election. And she began making those preparations soon after her loss.
According to a report released on Monday, Newman may have promised a potential primary challenger, Palestinian-American professor Iymen Chehade, a job as her "foreign policy advisor and either District Director or Legislative Director" in a potential future congressional office after the two met in 2018.
Newman told the body that she sought to hire Chehade because of his knowledge on foreign and Arab-American affairs, which she felt was a shortcoming of her 2018 campaign. "It was clear that he had very specific knowledge around Palestine and Israel that I needed. He had been an expert on it," she told investigators.
The Illinois progressive claims Chehade's potential 2020 plans did not factor into their discussions, but documents she herself provided to the body seemed to contradict her testimony: in a draft contract attached to an October 2018 email, Chehade says he will not "announce or submit his candidacy" for that district, and that "in exchange" he would be hired as Newman's chief foreign policy advisor.
Newman, for her part, claimed to be "outraged and incensed" by the allegation, and her response to OCE pointed out that the "agreement was written to exclude the possibility of any agreement on candidacy or any other subject."
The two ultimately signed a contract in December 2018 laying out the terms of the agreement, including a salary for Chehade ranging between $135,000 and $140,000 annually. That contract did not include the apparent quid-pro-quo.
But after that job did not materialize for Chehade, he sued Newman in January 2021 to enforce the contract they'd signed. Newman's legal counsel, in seeking to dismiss the case, acknowledged to the House General Counsel that her contract "was violative of House employment and federal contracting rules," according to the OCE report.
That lawsuit was then settled in June 2021 and included a nondisclosure agreement, which Chehade cited in declining to sit for an interview with the ethics body. In October, the group voted to subpoena him.
But in May 2021, the conservative Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust filed a complaint with OCE, spurring the congressional inquiry. Newman's communications director, Pat Mullane, seized on that point in describing the complaint as driven by politics.
"Recently, a right-wing organization filed a politically-motivated complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) regarding a dismissed lawsuit," he said in a statement to Insider. "The materials produced during the OCE's review overwhelmingly demonstrate that the ethics complaint is completely meritless."
Mullane also pointed to a line in OCE's statement noting that further reviews, as the body has suggested, are not by themselves indicative of an ethics violation.
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No, that was already scrapped back in the 80s. The Israelis might have used some of the lessons learned from the Lavi to help China build a fighter jet back in 94 but the USA didn't really care because it was extremely outdated then. The Israelis wanted to sell the Phalcon AWACs system to China back in the 00s but the USA blocked the sale because it was too similar to American technology and the Americans weren't comfortable with it.
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You mean to tell me that all the people who complain about the thunderdome are this
Nah it couldn't be...
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Cope and seethe tranny jannies. Literally made yourselves look even worse with that new subtitle.
Anyway, yeah, earnestly not sure how the populist wing of the GOP is gonna go. My hope is that either way, the RINO’s finally get hunted to extinction, and so hopefully even if the populists don’t manage to completely wrest control, there’s enough overlap between them and the more moderate GOP members and not enough cucks for there to be actual policy that can occur.
Who the fuck knows though? Clown world has rapidly begun breaking down to the point I’m starting to lean towards the oncoming Biblical end of days, so maybe it’s not even gonna be relevant.
Either way, I get the feeling the ride is only starting.
Anyway, yeah, earnestly not sure how the populist wing of the GOP is gonna go. My hope is that either way, the RINO’s finally get hunted to extinction, and so hopefully even if the populists don’t manage to completely wrest control, there’s enough overlap between them and the more moderate GOP members and not enough cucks for there to be actual policy that can occur.
Who the fuck knows though? Clown world has rapidly begun breaking down to the point I’m starting to lean towards the oncoming Biblical end of days, so maybe it’s not even gonna be relevant.
Either way, I get the feeling the ride is only starting.
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I know Null doesn't care much about AnH but does he know that one of the mods is trying to deliberately start petty shit?
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yeah the pot-smoking "I don't care about gays or fetuses but I fucking hate taxes" wing of the old libertarians has been gnawing at the trunk of the GOP tentpoles enough that going this way (but probably still caring about fetuses) is inebitabur
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I'm not sure why Null would care exactly.
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It's actually even better when you remember some of them have tried calling for backup in their own hugboxes when they get asshurt. If you want to laugh your ass off read the "PM Hugbox" thread. It literally fell apart because the OP was mad it wasn't a hugbox worshiping him and all the people who tardrage about this forum went into a complete meltdown to save face. I loved seeing people who regularly cried about negrates acting tough in that thread.
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Because the less he has to be reminded about us the happier he is. If an autistic slapfight breaks out between the subforum and a janny then he'll care because he'll be pissed at everyone involved.
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I think Null would just be pissed that he's being bothered about it.
Remember, ultimately if he gets involved it's because someone here complained too much.
Remember, ultimately if he gets involved it's because someone here complained too much.
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Probably, someone tagged him earlier.
We've all called it out for the faggotry it is. It's time to move on. They do this shit so they can laugh with their friends in their PM's and shit. To keep bringing it up just entertains them more. It's basic lolcow shit.
If anything, Null probably endorses it. He's never been shy about how fucking retarded he thinks we all are for sperging about politics instead of internet retards.
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