Warwick Capper, former AFL player, ran for mayor of the Gold Coast.
I’ll call your Walker and raise you a Truss. Made Boris look like Churchill.
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And yet this guy made it as far as a run off election
He has made the argument before that our air is clean. The US is not the problem with emissions, it is China and India who send all their bad air to the US and good air then gets forced out. This seems to a nonsensical extension of that stupidity.
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Don’t you remember Donald’s hairspray that couldn’t escape his super-sealed apartment?
Goobers have a special relationship with the very physics of gases.
In case anyone is wondering what the actual fuck I am on about…
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If only his apartment was airtight…
FMD
What a dumb cunt.
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In any normal world the likes of Herschel Walker don’t get anywhere. Great athlete back in the day, and, er, well done.
But in the zero sum political world we inhabit, there will be millions of Republicans holding their nose, knowing full well he is crap, but still voting for him to stop a Democrat candidate.
My hope is that since the Senate is already Democrat, it might keep some Republicans at home in Georgia for the run off.
With Manchin and Sinema doing their own thing, another Democrat Senator will be useful. And Raphael Warnock is miles better than Walker - speaks well, is educated, and on top of policy and so on and so forth. He has an idea and a vision in his head and is a proper person of substance.
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Worth pointing out that Warnock won a special election previously to earn his seat so he is used to campaigning and winning with a national spotlight.
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Also quite relevant that Trump’s refusal to delay his candidacy announcement (despite many requests from his own party) will have the effect of turning the Georgia run-off into a referendum on Trump, which is not far from what appears to have happened in 2020.
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It’s also important to remember that we do this again in 2024 and the Senate map for that cycle looks like a tough one. Most of the seats up in that cycle are currently held by Dems. While there are a couple of GOP held seats they might look at as possible gains (maybe Scott’s in Florida, Braun’s in Indiana, Hawley’s in MO, Cruz in Tx,) the reality is they have tight seats of their own to defend and are going to have to be on all out defense to keep what they currently have. Any buffer they can get now will be critical for the outcome after the next cycle.
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He should get on well with the new PM in 2024
Fuck. I didn’t expect this
That is 12 GOP senators, including a Mormon, voting to advance a bill on federal protections for same sex marriage.
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Can the GOP use their control of the house to positively influence the January 6th inquiry and destroy Trump - thus ridding themselves of him?
They could simply allow it to proceed, but the House is far more under Trump’s influence than the Senate. That said, with the close balance, maybe there are sufficient GOP House members who will support continuing, or at least be sick that day.
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The committee wont still be active by the time the next congress takes effect. It seems kind of weird, but congress basically starts from scratch at that point so a GOP house wont have a Jan 6th committee to influence. Sure they could start their own version, but if they wanted to use their power to eliminate Trump they wouldnt need to. They could simply point to the findings of the existing committee report (due soon) and use that to impeach him, with a senate conviction then barring him from taking office.
Judging by the GOP and general right wing media’s response to his announcement of running then I think its clear many on that side see Trump as a hinderance electorally. Even though they will, barely, ‘win’ the house back it was a humiliating mid-term for the GOP as Trump backed candidates and 2020 election deniers got destroyed in almost every race. The election showed that 2/3 of the country are not interested in election denial storylines, or at least they’ve grown tired of them.
Republicans may take from this election that, outside of Florida at least, their best results came from “moderate” politicians and people who outright rejected Trumpism. Perhaps this is one part of why 12 GOP Senators voted to protect same sex marriage… if they believe their electorate want moderate positions then they may potentially react to that in their voting records.
The next 18 months are likely to be a bloodbath in the GOP. De Santis and Trump are going to be ripping each other to pieces. This may actually work to Trump’s advantage though. Hes already shown himself to be capable of absorbing the heaviest blows. Meanwhile De Santis is a very unimpressive speaker, lacks any sense of gravitas or charisma and will really struggle if he has to be in the same stage as Trump.
Its a weird time in the GOP. They know they have ti ditch Trump but so much if what their party is has been manipulated and morphed in his image that its very difficult to just sever those links.
I know you’re probably speaking hypothetically as there’s zero chance of a Republican led House impeaching him , but he’s already been impeached once for basically what the committee is now investigating , i.e. inciting an insurrection. Surely he couldn’t be impeached again for the same thing ?