ChiGoose

As anyone who has been actually following the events instead of living in the fever swamps knows, there were instances in which the Capitol Police declined to use force because they were outnumbered and/or it would have made a bad situation worse. However, if officers were actively assisting the rioters, then yeah, they should be punished for that. There was at least one Capitol police officer charged due to their actions on that day. If you expect someone to respond to a post on a message board within one hour on a workday, I think that says more about you than it does about them. Maybe go touch some grass for a bit. Not all Trump supporters are bad, nor are they all complicit in what happened on Jan 6. Some of the Jan 6 people were just trespassing, some got caught up in the moment and acted destructively and violently, while a small minority went there with the intent to disrupt Congress violently if needed. That’s why you see various charges and sentences being handed out to them. It’s not a broad brush where everyone was in the same boat. .

So you think there’s no difference between someone believing something and being wrong versus someone knowing something is false and promoting it anyway? Because I think there’s a world of difference between the two.

I would argue that there is a difference between typical news hacks who get things wrong and someone intentionally deceiving their audience and treating them like dupes. But that’s just me.

CNN sucks and is one of the most destructive forces in this country. That has absolutely zero relevance to the fact that most of the people on this board seem to still love a guy who has told them he’s lying to them.

You do understand that this is a terrible and unconvincing argument, right? Just straight whatsboutism to deflect from the fact that Tucker has given sworn testimony that he regularly deceives his audience. Even if we had sworn testimony from people at other news orgs that they were knowingly lying, it still would be a dumb argument. ”I want to be lied to and that’s totally fine because other people are lied to” is just a really poor standard to set for oneself.

So people are still shilling for a guy who has given sworn testimony that he’s a lying liar who thinks the people who listen to him are gullible? Like, at what point do you get some self respect and stop listening to this guy?

The honest answer is that I actually have a life and I’ve been quite busy. I don’t have a ton of time to devote to an ignorant fool who believes an avowed liar and for some unknown reason, won’t stop tagging me in the most inane BS you can find on the internet. Not only that, but I never claimed the J6 committee was perfect and while I by and large agree with most of their work, I do actually disagree with the way they handled some things. But that fact, like all facts, don’t matter to you so long as your feelings are validated by taking heads and political leaders who think people like you who support them are idiots. But yeah, feel all superior or whatever makes you happy, dude.

Inside the Panic at Fox News After the 2020 Election Just another reminder that: 1. The 2020 election wasn’t stolen and everybody (including most of the people saying it was) knows it 2. People who watch Fox News love being lied to because they value feelings over facts.

Malicious prosecution cases are next to impossible to win and the facts here are really tough for Flynn. Very little chance of a victory in the legal arena, but that’s clearly not the purpose of this filing.

This lawsuit likely will go nowhere but he should be able to grift a good amount of money off it it, which is likely the goal.

This should have a significant impact on the runoff: For those who aren’t familiar, White is the closest thing you can find to a consensus candidate in our polarized environment. In his last election (2018), he won 68% of the vote in an election where the Dem governor and AG candidates each won 55%. The next closest statewide candidate that election was the Comptroller who won with 60%. White carried a lot of downstate counties that are equivalent to the upstate and western counties of NY. He’s recently retired but this is a significant endorsement for Vallas. Here’s how the state voted for Governor in 2018: And here’s how it voted for Secretary of State (Jesse White’s race):

This cancel culture snowflakes are at it again. Trying to cancel an entire political party because of something from 150+ years ago. Florida Republican pitches bill to eliminate the Florida Democratic Party “A Republican in Florida's Legislature has filed a bill that, if enacted, would eliminate the Florida Democratic Party. “The Ultimate Cancel Act,” filed Tuesday by state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, would require the state’s Division of Elections to “immediately cancel” the filings of any political party whose platform had “previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude.”

I mean, yeah. That's why I didn't vote for her. And it seems most of Chicago agreed with me.

Hard to understand who is still supporting her. What are they saying? I don’t know anyone who voted for her this time around even though most people I know (including myself) voted for her in the runoff in 2019.

The true Chicago style pizza is tavern style and it has a cracker thin crust. It’s cut into squares. It has a cool history, but I’m not a fan.

Yup! I moved to Chicago a little over a decade ago. I think Johnson will be favored to win but Vallas will have a shot at the upset. Johnson's lead won't be prohibitive and turnout is going to be the major factor. Any change from Lori is a positive change. Beyond that, hard to say. Chicago's biggest problems (gun violence, lack of investment, housing, etc) can't be solved solely by the mayor but instead require help from Springfield as well as states like Wisconsin and Indiana. Personally, I voted for Kam Buckner because I liked his ideas around fostering entrepreneurship, trade and vocational schools, funding neighborhoods and a post-COVID downtown with mixed use and more public spaces. Crime is the top issue in Chicago, but it's not the only issue and it's not why Lori lost. She lost because she alienated everyone. She spent her entire term yelling at everyone and claiming she had the biggest dick in Chicago. Even people who work for her don't like her. If the theory that supporting the police / being tough on crime was the only issue in this race, Brandon Johnson wouldn't have made the runoff. Chuy ran a pathetic and lethargic campaign. Lori was hitting him in the local media and he wasn't responding. I'm not sure he even wanted to win, his campaign was so bad. It had nothing to do with Cori Bush. Don't form your opinions on a local race from the national media. That goes double for Chicago where most of the national coverage is junk.

Tell me you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election without saying you have no idea what’s going on with the Chicago mayoral election.

Given Vallas’s move to the right, I would think that Johnson has a stronger chance at picking up those votes even though they aren’t progressive areas. Lightfoot was somehow both arrogant and incompetent. Not a great combination. She didn’t play nice with anyone and just assumed everyone would do what she wanted while she yelled at them and berated them.

Vallas is a traditional establishment guy who has tacked to the right to carve his lane in the election. His endorsements largely come from those that endorse republicans (like the FOP) though Vallas has himself traditionally been a Dem. Vallas’s support has come from the southwest and northwest white conservative areas of the city. Johnson is a Cook County Commissioner, so he has experience with local government administration. His platform is fairly progressive and he’s big on fixing the homelessness problem. He actually was a big supporter of a local non-profit that worked to help the homeless whose associate board I used to sit on. However, he has some controversial proposals like a 3% tax on incomes over $100k and a business headcount tax for people who work in the city (and thus benefit from its infrastructure) but live in the suburbs. Johnson’s support has come from the white progressive / liberal areas in the north. The runoff will be decided by turnout and who can court the west and south side areas that supported Lightfoot, Chuy, and Willie Wilson: Here’s another breakdown of the vote:

Not optimistic. This field was incredibly weak and I don’t have high hopes about either candidate who made the runoff.

She’s delusional. She has only herself to blame. Maybe she had had a few too many of those conciliatory Modelo’s before talking to the press…

Me too! Very underrated city. Have lived here for over a decade and really can’t imagine living anywhere else.

Lightfoot was elected with more than 70% of the vote in the 2019 mayoral election runoff. She then spent four years alienating every constituency and complaining about literally everything. Her greatest accomplishment is leaving us with this quote: “My dick is bigger than yours and the Italians, I have the biggest dick in Chicago.” The election played out mostly as expected. Vallas picked up the conservative vote while Lightfoot, Johnson, and Chuy Garcia competed for the second runoff slot. Johnson had surged over the last couple of weeks and beat out Lori and Chuy. I would expect that Johnson is the favorite for the runoff (interestingly, both he and Vallas split the white vote so the runoff will be decided by turnout and who the Latino and black votes coalesce around), but Vallas has a good chance at the upset.

In reality, the war started because the Ukrainian president went against the will of the people and cancelled plans to move the country towards the West in favor of closer relations with Russia. The people revolted and forced the president out. Putin couldn’t have that so he invaded Crimea under false pretenses. When that did not deter Ukraine’s move towards the West, he apparently decided to try to take over the whole country and install a puppet government. As much as people want to stretch the truth so they can blame Biden, the sole reason this was exists is because Putin wants to restore the USSR.

Some people will fall for the dumbest propaganda from the geniuses who confused SIM cards with the game “The Sims”