Republicans: continued

[Tero]

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[Scot Dutchy]

Sums it up nicely. It would save a lot of money and effort if the Americans just ask the Russians for the result.

[Tero]

Rand Paul outs whistleblower
https://mobile.twitter.com/randpaul/sta ... 7397574656

[Tero]

Republicans continue to use Russia
https://www.thedailybeast.com/thanks-to ... stleblower

[Svartalf]

rand paul is a despicable little shit well worthy of his first name.

[Tero]

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[Scot Dutchy]

You know what is wrong with America? Its size. How many Americans have passports? They are isolated and believe all the crap their media tells them.

[Tero]

Passports? Passports? Those are for foreigners! To spend their money in foreign lands. What's wrong with driving to Mount Rushmore?

[Tyrannical]

Rand Paul outs whistleblower
https://mobile.twitter.com/randpaul/sta ... 7397574656

Yup, and he wants the fake whistle blower, hunter, and biden to testify before the senate about burisma.

[Tero]

Testify what? That Hunter Biden and an ex Polish president sat on the board of Burisma and voted a few times a year? To approve the auditor's financial report and other board shit. That is what board members get paid to do. Everywhere. Even Trump's board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization
He has businesses he is not sole owner of.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Republicans don't like some of the results from Tuesday's election. In Kentucky, the president of the state senate thinks that perhaps they should just appoint the losing Republican to office.

'Kentucky Lawmakers Could Decide Governor’s Race'

Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers (R) told reporters that a joint session of the Kentucky General Assembly — which is controlled by Republicans — may eventually decide the winner of last night’s close gubernatorial race, “citing a provision in the state constitution that hasn’t been used in 120 years,” the Louisville Courier Journal reports.

The state Constitution says “contested elections for governor and lieutenant governor shall be determined by both houses of the General Assembly, according to such regulations as may be established by law.”

Stivers said his staff believes that might apply in this case.

A bit more detail below:

In Kentucky, Republican incumbent Gov. Matt Bevin has refused to concede to Democrat Andy Beshear and has already requested a recanvass, to be conducted Nov. 14. If that process should reveal "sufficient" evidence of "irregularities," then the Republican-controlled state legislature has the legal authority to hear a case and decide the election. So at least hypothetically, the GOP can claim irregularities, get that claim rubber-stamped by a Republican judge, run the case through the Republican legislature, and then appoint the Republican governor.

Kentucky's Senate President Robert Stivers, a Republican, has already openly floated that trial balloon, arguing that if Kentuckians had simply voted differently Bevin would have won.

"There's less than one-half of 1 percent, as I understand, separating the governor and the attorney general," Stivers told reporters, backing Bevin’s decision not to concede to Beshear as “appropriate.” Stivers complained that most of the votes that went to Libertarian John Hicks, who received about 2% of the total vote, would have gone to Bevin and made him the clear winner.

[source]

Turns out the Libertarian Party of Kentucky deliberately ran a spoiler candidate.

In an ideal world, we elect Libertarian candidates and advance liberty. Failing that, we push mainstream candidates towards liberty to advance the cause.

But if we can't do those things, we are always happy to split the vote in a way that causes delicious tears. Tonight there are plenty of delicious tears from Bevin supporters.

...

We split the vote. And we could not be more thrilled.

[source]

Bevin thinks that the Kentucky Secretary of State shouldn't have announced the results of the election.

'Bevin knocks Kentucky Secretary of State for calling the race on CNN'

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) doubled down Wednesday on his claim that his state's gubernatorial election may have been marred by alleged "irregularities."

Bevin refused to concede the election Tuesday night after the vote showed him losing to Democrat Andy Beshear by less than half a percentage point and called for a recanvass of the votes.

"Kentucky sadly — and it’s not unique to Kentucky — but there’s more than a little bit of history of vote fraud in our state," Bevin told reporters, adding that his campaign was working on "getting affidavits and other information that will help us to get a better understanding of what did or did not happen."

Specifically, Bevin mentioned reports of voters being "incorrectly turned away from various voting booths around the state."

Bevin also slammed Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) for calling Tuesday's election on CNN.

"The fact that our secretary of state was on national TV ... it was an interesting choice of places for her to go while the roll was being tallied, the votes were being tallied and to call an election," he said.

"For her to try to jump the gun on this and interject herself into this, it’s something that’s being looked into," he continued.

Clearly, the polls had closed when she made the announcement, otherwise he'd be jumping up and down shouting about how she'd thrown the election by making an announcement while people were still voting.

[Sean Hayden]

It's the last days of the Guns, Babies n' Jesus Republican party. I wish I could see the end.

Sadly, they are following a scorched earth strategy on their way out.

[Tero]

A mini Trump. Just like that Alabama judge.

[JimC]

If spitting the dummy was an Olympic sport, the GOP would be in for a gold medal...

[Seabass]

It's the last days of the Guns, Babies n' Jesus Republican party. I wish I could see the end.

Sadly, they are following a scorched earth strategy on their way out.

But they're not on their way out. While it's true that they represent an ever decreasing proportion of the electorate, because of the electoral college, the grossly disproportionate distribution of senators, and the Republicans' willingness to basically go to war against democracy itself means that their grip on power isn't decreasing even as their numbers dwindle. The truly scary part of this situation is that it's the moderates that keep leaving, so the party keeps getting more extreme as it shrinks, but instead of losing power as they would in a normal country, they are able to hold on to it thanks to our badly broken and outdated system of government.