April 06, 2021

Comment Thread
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well another post refuses any comments, so I'll try to post this new thread.

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Prune-Faced Leathren Whore Lisa Murflonski Now Trailing Republican Challenger Kelly Tshibacka By Ten Points
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As a commenter alerted us a month ago, Alaska changed its voting system to a jungle primary, in which every candidate competes against each other in the primary, regardless of party, with the top two vote-getters advancing to the general election.

There's another twist, too: You can indicate your *second* choice, and if your first choice doesn't have the votes to go to the top two, your vote will go to your second choice.

This seems almost designed by Alaska's establishment to make sure that the liberal Democrat posing as a Republican Lisa Murflonski always advances to the top two run off, because Democrats will naturally choose her as their second choice.

So she's probably guaranteed a position in the top two.

But the actual Republican in the race is beating her by a fair amount, a Republican polling company finds.

At the Daily Mail:

Alaska GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski is now TRAILING her Republican challenger by nearly 15 points after voting to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial

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Polling from theGOP polling firmCygnalfound thatTshibaka was leading in an all-party primary, taking 33.6 per cent of the vote, compared to Murkowski's 18.8 per cent.

Al Gross, an independent who was the Democratic nominee for Alaska's 2020 Senate race, came in third with 17.6 per cent.

Tshibaka, Alaska's Commissioner of Administration, is viewed favorably by 61 per cent of both Trump voters and Republicans.

Murkowski, on the other hand, is only viewed favorably by 10 per cent of Republicans, the poll found. Another 87 per cent of Republicans have a negative view of the incumbent.

With voters from all parties, Murkowski is viewed favorably by 33 per cent and unfavorably by 63 per cent.

Maybe Murflovinski is now regarded (accurately) as simply a Democrat so that we can expect she will get the usual Democrat vote share, plus a bit because she's an incumbent and because her face looks like the cover of the Necronomicon.

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Recently Resigned Matt Gaetz Aide: I Left Gaetz's Employ For Personal Reasons. But the National Media Lied and Said I Was a Witness to Sexual Improrpieties.
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I really wish those on the right who are joining yet another political op against a Trump supporter would put their own sexual hang-ups about unmarried men being required to live like celibate monks until marriage.

Matt Gaetz has ZERO accusers. Zero. This bullshit seems to come from people who are trying to extort him.

And the op includes putting out rumors to the press that a guy who left Gaetz office for entirely unrelated reasons actually left because he was witness to unspecified perversions.

I would think by this point that people would begin to be at least suspicious that they might be watching another Kavanaugh Op in action, but some people just seem to want to vindicate their own notions of sexual chastity, and join with the left when the smear someone with unproven accusations.

Unproven accusations? Shit, these accusations are currently *unaccused.*

Reported by @mattzap:

I spoke via phone with retired Air Force Capt. Nathan Nelson, Rep. Matt Gaetz's former director of military affairs who is scheduled to hold a press conference now-ish on a recent contact he had with the FBI. Here's what he told me:

On Wednesday, a day after the NYT reported on the Justice Dept.'s investigation into Gaetz, Nelson said two agents came to his home in Northern Florida. They told him they had info from the "national media" that he knew of illegal activities involving Gaetz & had quit over it

But by Nelson's account, that was not true. He told me he had no knowledge of Gaetz being involved in illegal activities, & had left the office for other reasons. "Heâ€™s always been very, very professional in his public life,â€ Nelson said of Gaetz.

Nelson said he invited the agents in and they talked for two hours. "I went into detail about the extent of my relationship with Congressman Gaetz, from the time he was a state rep, and when we first met, to my tenure as director of military affairs," he said.

He said the agents did not tell him what "illegal activities" they believed he knew about involving Gaetz. "I was convinced that ... when they left, I felt they were convinced I had no knowledge of any illegal activity," Nelson said.

The agents were from the local FBI field office in northern Florida. Nelson said after the interview, he contacted Gaetz's office to ask if there was anything more he should know, and to tell the office what the FBI had asked him about.

Nelson said he wanted to hold the press conference essentially to pre-empt what he viewed as a false report that he knew about illegal activities involving Gaetz. He told me, though, that no media had contacted him about such a report; he was hearing that 2ndhand from the FBI

At the presser, which just ended, Nelson seemed to draw a parallel between the secondhand allegation about his knowledge & the allegations against Gaetz. "I'm saying the allegations that named me were baseless...that kind of reflects on the allegations against Congressman Gaetz

Nelson also told me he believed other former staffers and interns were being contacted by the FBI, but he could not provide any names. He said he was not upset with the FBI reaching out, but instead, was concerned that media would report something about him.

At the press conference just now, Nelson said he remains "loosely affiliated" with Gaetz's office as a "military advisor," but has not spoken with the congressman in several months. He said he's had no contact with the FBI beyond that which occurred on Wednesday.

Maybe we should all wait until there's one actual accuser before all running like panicked horses every single time the left starts shooting off (blank) pistol shots to get us running in the direction they want.

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If I Told You You Had a Lovely Body, Would You Hold It Against Me That I'm Posting an Open Thread?
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Nearly Fully Open Thread
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Breaking911

BREAKING: Bidenâ€™s DHS may restart construction on the U.S.-Mexico border wall to fill any "gapsâ€ in the current barrier, says DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

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Test
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Another Open Thread
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Sorry, I'm calling it a day. I'm beyond frustrated. I can't post anything and the minute I do, it disappears. Or posts, but refuses to allow comments.

I can't keep knocking my head against the wall.

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Noontime Open Thread: Open Thread Edition
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Sorry, I cannot figure out how this works. My posts are disappearing.

I know it's been a while since the last thread, so here's a fresh one, while I try to figure out if I'm doing something wrong or if the blog just can't save posts.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition [CBD]
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NY budget will likely hike taxes on stateâ€™s top earners to highest in the country

The additional tax revenue would be used to up spending for schools, provide funds for undocumented workers and for small businesses and tenants who are behind on their rent, the Journal reported.

Isn't that sweet! Taking care of the poor wetbacks and other illegals who have sucked this country dry since the 1960s. Hell, they are probably doing better than the equivalent American citizen who actually has to pay taxes and insure his car and pay his parking tickets and health insurance and...

But I have a vanishingly small amount of sympathy for New Yorkers, because they have ignored this issue for years until the progressives became so firmly entrenched everywhere that there was no recourse. Not that the NY Republican party has been worth a cup of spit for the last generation...they have been too busy lining their pockets and taking advantage of the amazingly corrupt political process in both the city and the state governments.

But now with the perfect storm of Covid and the unintended consequence of untethering people from their workplaces, those high income folks will run for the hills, or at least out of NY and to low tax states, who will be happy to have them.

So good luck NY! More people suckling on the government teat and far fewer rich people to pay the bill.

It sounds like the perfect leftist plan!

more...

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Mid-Morning Art Thread [CBD]
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