Bear Pit: now the sole domicile of politics at LuLa

[LesPalenik]

Why is Trump going to Valdosta, Georgia, a small town in Southern Georgia with a population of just 56,457 for a rally to promote the two Republican Senate candidates? Doesn't sound like much of a bang for the buck kind of place to go.

Not to waste another opportunity for spreading the covid virus.

[faberryman]

An Oregon doctor has had his license suspended for not wearing a mask with patients, for urging his patients not to wear masks, be tested, or self-isolate, and for claiming COVID is no more.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/doctor-masks-covid19-conspiracies-oregon-license-suspended

[James Clark]

Why is Trump going to Valdosta, Georgia, a small town in Southern Georgia with a population of just 56,457 for a rally to promote the two Republican Senate candidates? Doesn't sound like much of a bang for the buck kind of place to go.

Trump rallies for Republican Senators Loeffler and Perdue in Georgia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO1ux_lu22A

My guess?  Because red Georgia is a spark away from violence.  The crazy there is getting honest to God scary if Lin Wood’s Twitter feed is indicative of anything.  I can’t believe that all of these people are so keyed up defending Donald F’n Trump.  It’s totally insane.

[faberryman]

Not wholly unexpected. Nothing is. Only the best people.

Rudy Giuliani’s Star Election Fraud Witness Harassed Boyfriend’s Ex With Sex Tapes

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giulianis-star-election-witness-melissa-carone-harassed-boyfriends-ex-with-sex-tapes

[faberryman]

Trump has now milked $207 million from his supporters and shows no signs of slowing down. His defenders will say this is democracy in action. Doesn't really feel much like democracy to me. It feels like a scam pure and simple.

Trump sows post-election chaos and reaps the fundraising rewards

https://www.ft.com/content/e20918e2-279c-43f2-890c-58fa470da5a9

[John Camp]

A well-known (at the time) 50s humorist whose name I forget, claimed (I'm serious) that all jokes were originally told in Valdosta, Ga. Now Trump's arrives.

A blonde and a redhead were walking through downtown Valdosta and the redhead looked through the window into a florist's shop and groaned, "Oh, no!"
The blonde asked, "What's wrong?!"
The redhead said, "Oh, nothing, really. My boyfriend is in there buying me flowers."
The blonde: "What's wrong with that? Isn't that a good thing?"
The redhead: "I suppose. But every time he buys me flowers, I spend the whole night on my back with my legs up in the air."
The blonde: "Uh...don't you have a vase?"

[digitaldog]

The Washington Post surveyed all 249 Republicans in the House and Senate on Thursday and Friday:
Only 27 would acknowledge Joe Biden is president-elect.
222 — 88% of Republicans in Congress — wouldn't say.
Reps. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Mo Brooks (Ala.) say President Trump won.
Amazing.

[chez]

The Washington Post surveyed all 249 Republicans in the House and Senate on Thursday and Friday:
Only 27 would acknowledge Joe Biden is president-elect.
222 — 88% of Republicans in Congress — wouldn't say.
Reps. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Mo Brooks (Ala.) say President Trump won.
Amazing.

I'd love to see Trump sitting on his throne while all his minions do the Dance of the Sugar Plum Ferry for him. Wonder if those Republicans will ever grow a set.

[faberryman]

Well, it looks like the lawyers have scammed all the money they can out of the right-wing supporters of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year old charged with two homicides in the Kenosha, Wisconsin protests this summer, and are now moving on to other prey.

Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse’s MAGA-Loving Defense Team Implodes

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kenosha-shooter-kyle-rittenhouses-maga-loving-defense-team-implodes

[Frans Waterlander]

Meanwhile: The FBI report at 7314 hate crimes in 2019 the highest number since 2008 - the actual number is probably much higher, given that only 2200 police jurisdictions out of 15,000 nationwide report data to the FBI. Anti-Semitic hate crimes numbered 953 a 14% increase over the previous year.
NYT.

Yes, crime rates are up, so only an idiot would want to defund law enforcement.

[chez]

Yes, crime rates are up, so only an idiot would want to defund law enforcement.

Maybe fix the root cause of the crime...and miraculously ( like Covid going away one day ), the crime rates will decline. Just throwing people into jail, which the US does a lot of, really does not fix anything...now does it.

[digitaldog]

Yes, crime rates are up, so only an idiot would want to defund law enforcement.

Quite a few idiots don't understand what the slogan ”Defend Defund the police” actually means. Thanks for the example and ignoring again, the meaning of this slogan outlined earlier here.
You also ignored the stats from today of increasing hate crimes under Trump; crimes!

[digitaldog]

Maybe fix the root cause of the crime...and miraculously ( like Covid going away one day ), the crime rates will decline.

Here's the root of some of the crimes; the hate crimes:
Hate Crimes Under Trump Surged Nearly 20 Percent Says FBI Report
The FBI's annual reports on hate crime statistics show that hate crimes have increased from 6,121 incidents in 2016 to 7,314 in 2019, a 19.49 percent increase.
Hate-motivated murders spiked to a total of 51 in 2019, the highest number in nearly 3 decades, according to an analysis of the FBI's data conducted by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism (CSHE) at California State University. The next-highest number of hate-motivated murders occurred in 2018 with 24 murders. The third-highest number occurred in 1993 and 1995, with 20 murders happening each of those years.

The buck never stops with Trump. This increase is all Obama's fault or the fault of (fill in the blank). Law and order president? War Time President? Gotta be deep inside the unreality bubble to think that's true.

[faberryman]

Yes, crime rates are up, so only an idiot would want to defund law enforcement.

The article said that hate crimes had increased. Hate crimes make up a tiny fraction of crimes overall. Overall crime was down in the U.S. in the first half of the year. Policing is a complex issue, not amenable to simple solutions. Throwing money at a problem is rarely the way to fix it.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/overview-of-preliminary-uniform-crime-report-january-june-2020

[digitaldog]

This article is limited to hate crimes, which make up a tiny fraction of crimes overall. Overall crime was down in the U.S. in the first half of the year. Policing is a complex issue, not amenable to simple solutions. Throwing money at a problem is rarely the way to fix it.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/overview-of-preliminary-uniform-crime-report-january-june-2020

Now we've both tried to explain the facts to him, now we and others have to listen to the push back.
Of course, your facts ignored are correct:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/fbi-report-crime-shows-decline-violent-crime-rate-third-consecutive-year
Monday, September 28, 2020
FBI Report on Crime Shows Decline in Violent Crime Rate for Third Consecutive Year

Hate crime? Not so much as ignored by Frans. So only an idiot would want to ignore the facts.
Of course, all those deep state FBI stat's could be a lie to make Trump look bad, I mean good, I mean expect for hate crimes.  Drain the swamp.

[Robert Roaldi]

Not wholly unexpected. Nothing is. Only the best people.

Rudy Giuliani’s Star Election Fraud Witness Harassed Boyfriend’s Ex With Sex Tapes

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giulianis-star-election-witness-melissa-carone-harassed-boyfriends-ex-with-sex-tapes

So she sent tapes of herself having sex with her bf to her bf's ex. Who sends sex tapes of themselves to people they don't like? Isn't that asking for trouble? I'm surprised the ex didn't post them on the web. Who knows, maybe she did.

I love it how just when you think you've heard the stupidest thing ever, someone comes along and lowers the bar another cm or two.

[digitaldog]

I love it how just when you think you've heard the stupidest thing ever, someone comes along and lowers the bar another cm or two.

Indeed. Wait for more, some from inside the LuLa universe or participants. 

[Peter McLennan]

Thanks goes to former Trump Elite Lawyer Team member and Kraken Releaser Sidney Powell for providing more good laughs in her court filings.

In her Georgia lawsuit Ms. Powell's filing said...

"machine-controlled algorithms deliberately run by Dominion Voting Systems that generally took more than 2.5% of the votes from Mr. Biden and flipped them to Mr. Trump”

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/sidney-powells-georgia-kraken-filing-began-by-saying-dominion-flipped-votes-from-biden-to-trump

I guess it's hard to concentrate on writing your court submissions when you have a Kraken running around loose in your office!

‘‘I’ll hire all the best people”.  “You’ll be so tired of winning”.

[BobShaw]

The politics of western countries are explained fully in Series 5 of RAKE on Netflix.

[LesPalenik]

I love it how just when you think you've heard the stupidest thing ever, someone comes along and lowers the bar another cm or two.

To see lowering the bar a foot or two, just listen to Trump's speech from Georgia on Nov 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4w--Vhjteg