Politics-What's on your mind?

[homoe]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) indicated that mysterious dark forces — rather than his own increasing unpopularity — are responsible for surging campaign contributions to his Democratic rival, Jaime Harrison. He called for a legislative review of the kind of small-dollar donations that are boosting Harrison.

“Where’s all this money coming from?” Graham asked in an interview Wednesday with The Hill. “Some of these shadowy figures out there running ads, is there any foreign influence afoot?”

Graham conceded last month that, in fact, he’s getting “killed” by Harrison’s fundraising because his foes “hate my guts.” He pleaded for contributions on Fox News.

Harrison raised a record $57 million, mostly in small, individual contributions, in the third quarter of the year, while Graham raised $28 million. Recent polls give Harrison a slight lead over the three-term incumbent.

“I don’t know what’s going on out there, but I can tell you there’s a lot of money being raised in this campaign,” the senator told The Hill.

Graham called for an investigation into the process. “When this election is over with, I hope there will be a sitting down and finding out, ‘OK, how do we control this?’” Graham said. “It just seems to be an endless spiral.”

Graham singled out ActBlue, a nonprofit technology company that provides online fundraising software to help Democratic candidates collect small donations. He complained that the operation doesn’t report individual donors who contribute less than $200 because it’s not required by campaign finance regulations.

An ActBlue representative told The Hill that the organization reports even its smallest donations to the Federal Election Commission, yet the names and addresses of donors giving less than $200 had not been reported. Its October filing will provide the names, hometowns and employers of donors who contributed more than $1, according to ActBlue.

Hopefully Lindsey will soon join the thousands of others unemployed and knows how it feels to worry about the future!

[BullDog]

Promising signs that young voters (18 to 29) are voting in higher numbers this year, especially in key states like Texas, Florida, and North Carolina.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters...-voting-490710

[Cin]

I've changed my mind. After what the Republicans have done I think expanding the Supreme Court is a completely sane and appropriate course of action. Of course we need to have control of the Senate to do it.

[dark_crystal]

Originally Posted by Cin

I've changed my mind. After what the Republicans have done I think expanding the Supreme Court is a completely sane and appropriate course of action. Of course we need to have control of the Senate to do it.

Me, too. Two weeks ago I was saying it set a bad precedent and meant the court would eventually balloon to the size of the Senate with each new power shift yielding more and more justices, but what the Republicans have done is shady as hell and basically amounts to the same thing. They are the ones that went there, first.

Democrats will be blamed for setting the precedent because we (hopefully) will TECHNICALLY, officially be the first to add justices for partisan reasons but only bc the Republicans literally, brazenly, stole two seats.

They made the decision, and if we expand the court and that triggers ever-increasing and more frequent expansions in subsequent administrations, that will be for those administrations to worry about. Right now we have no choice, expanding the court has to be done to literally save lives.

[dark_crystal]

Originally Posted by homoe

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) indicated that mysterious dark forces — rather than his own increasing unpopularity — are responsible for surging campaign contributions to his Democratic rival, Jaime Harrison. He called for a legislative review of the kind of small-dollar donations that are boosting Harrison.

“Where’s all this money coming from?” Graham asked in an interview Wednesday with The Hill. “Some of these shadowy figures out there running ads, is there any foreign influence afoot?”

Graham conceded last month that, in fact, he’s getting “killed” by Harrison’s fundraising because his foes “hate my guts.” He pleaded for contributions on Fox News.

Harrison raised a record $57 million, mostly in small, individual contributions, in the third quarter of the year, while Graham raised $28 million. Recent polls give Harrison a slight lead over the three-term incumbent.

“I don’t know what’s going on out there, but I can tell you there’s a lot of money being raised in this campaign,” the senator told The Hill.

Graham called for an investigation into the process. “When this election is over with, I hope there will be a sitting down and finding out, ‘OK, how do we control this?’” Graham said. “It just seems to be an endless spiral.”

Graham singled out ActBlue, a nonprofit technology company that provides online fundraising software to help Democratic candidates collect small donations. He complained that the operation doesn’t report individual donors who contribute less than $200 because it’s not required by campaign finance regulations.

An ActBlue representative told The Hill that the organization reports even its smallest donations to the Federal Election Commission, yet the names and addresses of donors giving less than $200 had not been reported. Its October filing will provide the names, hometowns and employers of donors who contributed more than $1, according to ActBlue.

Hopefully Lindsey will soon join the thousands of others unemployed and knows how it feels to worry about the future!

Lindsay is correct! I have recurring ActBlue donations going to Mark Kelly, Jaime Harrison, MJ Hegar, Amy McGrath, the entire squad, and Sara Gideon. Because the whole GOP is fired!

[Kätzchen]

When The People's Party (Democrats) take back the WH, how long will it take a hazmat team to make sure the WH is Covid-19 free?

Will members of Team Lie Like Hell have their access to security clearance revoked?

I keep wondering how long it will take for the cancerous party of the GOP to crumble and never be tolerated in American politics.

[C0LLETTE]

The Deplorables

Just once I'd like to see a CNN reporter, interviewing a Trump supporter, say: "That's a really stupid, ignorant answer" and walk away.

Hillary was very right about "The Deplorables." and I'm sorry she got tossed to the wolves for it.

[nhplowboi]

The Democrats will have to hire about 8 sage dealers to handle the White House after Trump is voted out.

[Cin]

"Dismissing glaring concerns about voter intimidation, a Michigan judge on Tuesday struck down a directive from the secretary of state banning the open carry of firearms at polling places on Election Day."

Open carry at polling places. Gee, what's wrong with that picture?

https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...open-carry-ban

[homoe]

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by nhplowboi

The Democrats will have to hire about 8 sage dealers to handle the White House after Trump is voted out.

Well, wherever you are, I hope all is well, nhplowboi.


I think more than this needs to happen tho, lol


Probably more like at least 250 (any crazy outrageous number to match getting the stench of that person gone ) sage dealers or more.

I definitely concur & totally agree with you.

[Kätzchen]

Luckily, since our corner of the world is under a fire watch due to massive years of no regular cycles of rain (like it used to be), fireworks are being snuffed out of existence because nobody in their right mind has the energy or massive wealth holdings at a local bank to put up any relief efforts, should a fire break out in our area.


In other “tinfoil hat” news: another person — with too much time and money on their hands, and apparently not enough attention I would guess— seized Madison Square Garden to have their wedding with more guests than even necessary. And,,,, apparently Moscow Mitch has been in the hospital for a few weeks and had enough senatorial time on his hands to do some hefty stock trading in his hospital crib.


I guess what’s on my mind is how sad it is that citizens in our country bought into the bald faced lies of the super rich as the only version of how to get rich while scheming their fantastical schemes of (…).

It’s nearly impossible these days to find any morsel of redemption in the upper crust of American society. We don’t need a hero (Tina turner, Mad Max of Thunderdome). We need a surgeon to excise cancer from our country.