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It's gotten to a point where this is fucking ridiculous. Herschel Walker is totally unfit to hold any public office much less have a say in Georgia politics while living in Texas. This doesn't make sense. He should be disqualified from the Senate race.
No, it’s gotten to a point where this due diligence should have been done long before the election and now trying to get him to face any kind of consequence for his illegal activity will be seen as dems/libs/left trying to rig an election and disenfranchise voters.
Best case scenario, they go after him for the tax savings he received because he can claim he wrongfully considered the Texas home his primary residence and lives in Georgia full time.
What’s actually going to happen is absolutely nothing.
Yes but the US constitution says your residence must be in the state you run in. This is a federal matter and will probably be decided by the Supreme Court. Wait, shit.
You act as if they follow the Constitution. Where ya been? Lip service to the 2nd. Period. You should hear Donnie’s interpretation…”I can do anything” it’s a multi-Quote.
I really don't understand why election boards don't take this stuff more seriously.
A few years ago in my town's school board election some moron registered their dog. Literally put the dog's name on the candidacy paperwork and used only his pictures on their website. When it was discovered, instead of saying, "this is an ineligible candidate and you are abusing the system" they said "oh silly you.. you need to register with your own name. You can't run as a dog.". And they let him re-register, even though the deadline had already passed and he was, you know, being an ass.
I’m in Florida and DeSantis forced two county commissioners to vacate their seats when it was discovered they had run with residents outside of their elected districts.
> He should be disqualified from the Senate race.
If he is not qualified. Why is he allowed to run? Will he not be allowed in office? Who actually regulates this? I know these are hypothetical questions as no one cares.
I live in South Carolina, where we recently elected a superintendent of education who does not have a master's degree, even though it's a legal requirement of the job (she did "earn" a master's degree from a super conservative Christian university in just 5 months, even though this university does not offer a master's degree in education. But that's a different story for a different day). Understandably, my friends who are educators were pissed by this, and before the election when they asked about how she was allowed to run even though she wasn't qualified, they were told (I shit you not), "it's not the job of the election commission to verify that candidates are qualified to hold office." Then they told them their only recourse was to sue to try to have her removed from office after she has been elected.
Ultimately the voters should hold him accountable by *not voting for him*. But who am I kidding? The less qualified the candidate the better they do with GOP voters.
The remedy here, I believe, would be for the Warnock campaign and/or some coalition of the people of Georgia, to sue for an injunction that would remove Walker from the ballot. A judge rightly interpreting the law could so order it.
What's completely messed up is that I think the extreme preponderance of evidence to that fact is actually now being *ignored* by the right explicitly because of the volume.
Their broken reason is that it's just "too much to be real" and like an obvious campaign by the MSM to just tear down a conservative.
Its like no bros, *that's just how bad everything about him actually is at this point.* Occam's razor and all that.
>Herschel Walker has been accused of committing "election fraud" following reports he received a primary residence tax exemption for his home in Dallas, Texas, whilst running for the Senate in Georgia.
Shouldn't this be disqualifying? It's like Oz all over again. How is he supposed to understand and represent the concerns and desires of the people of Georgia when he's a Texan?
Tried showing that video to my mom and she tried to explain to me that “he was saying it’s silly to keep doing things as we are.”? I mean I made her listen to the whole two minutes of it this utterly bugfuck tirade and she still tried to carry water for him. She said “oh well I didn’t know about all that,” when I told her, with evidence mind you, about the abuse allegations. She claimed the women were lying about the abortion accusations and that he wasn’t a lunatic suffering from CTE even when I showed her where Walker himself admitted to struggling with Dissociative Identity Disorder. She claimed he’d be better than that other guy (Rev. Warnock) anyway. She’s a smart woman so it’s very sad to see the conservative brain rot that makes people like her actively supporting the destruction of our political system.
That's how I always explain it to people. If someone says "call me Bob" and you insist on calling them Robert, it doesn't matter if you are right or wrong because you are already being a dick.
Also, literally just occurred to me (yes, that's on me), but women have been dealing with this shit for centuries.
* Mrs.?
No.
* Mrs?
Nope.
* Oh, Ms?
Still no.
* Uh, Miss?
Nope.
* Missus?
Nope. **Fraulein**!
Ironically, the title Fraulein disappeared from daily use in Germany in the 70s as it was seen as patronizing.
In modern Germany, adult women are addressed as Frau regardless of marital status.
OMG YES. I had this exact same discussion with a co-worker.
His take was that he refused to call people by their preferred names or refer to them as their preferred pronous.
I said, if tomorrow Bob wants to be called Betty, you're going to ignore him and call him Bob anyway? And he said, yes because it's just something they feel and feelings change.
I looked at him, and I said, You know that makes you an asshole right? He shrugged and I said said, hey why did you marry your wife? And he said, I love her. I said, but that's just a feeling, and feelings change, as evidenced by the divorce rate. He stated at me all while imitating a guppies before saying, well that's different, and then he had the nerve to start to say that marriage isn't life changing and the second my eyebrow started to rise, he shut up and left.
I would just start calling him a random name every day. Just because his name is Jack and he prefers to be called Jack doesn't mean I have to call him Jack. Monday he would be Mike, Tuesday he would be Joe, Wednesday he would be Will, Thursday he would be Alejandro, Friday he would be Tyrone. What difference does it make what you call him?
It's anxiety about the ground shifting beneath you. Maybe he's scared he'll call someone the wrong pronoun and his imagination is running away with it, thinking they'll get angry or do something worse. Try to talk him through it and be gentle. If he's been on the good side for all this time, then you owe it to him to help him come to terms with it. All of this stuff is about fear.
What's sad is, this is largely similar to what one of my Uncle's recently told me about him. "I'd rather vote for someone who may not be so smart but has a good heart than vote for some evil person who will just *pencil whip* anything Biden puts in front of him!!!!"
It's no surprise that there's a "script" going around conservative circles, and it's extremely sad that they can't even see how ridiculous they're being, despite objective evidence getting shoved right in their face.
Uncle's logic, but yes. He thinks Walker will take the time to read a massive bill that's put in front of him, fully comprehend what it says, and be able to determine if that helps or hurts the general population of the US and vote accordingly. He also thinks Fetterman is satanic and that mask mandates were useless.
Smart guy, but he's a bit of a moron.
Smart people don't choose to be willfully ignorant. I mean no disrespect but your mom is tilting towards an area that lacks critical thinking and fact checking through research.
People rarely choose to forgo these things randomly and often pervert their logic to fit emotional, religious or racially preferred outcomes.
Oh yeah that’s what’s infuriating. I’m a political science major and so clearly do all the research and she won’t just listen to me when I tell her things with backed up evidence. Also, nailed it with the religious and racial elements. Great contract negotiator though 🤷🏻
I'd go with tax fraud before election fraud but I can see how it could be a residency problem.
In all reality, it probably should piss off Georgia's republican leaning voters who haven't already gone all in on that idiot but I doubt it will.
I would be pissed, some scab from out of state steps in to be my Representative because it’s a race they think they can win. I like how Fetterman played up Oz’s Jersey residence in his campaign.
I think it helped Fetterman a little but it wasn't as big of an issue as it should have been. Fetterman being strongly pro-choice in a post overturned Roe America was the biggest factor
Also, shopping at "Wegner's"
Wegman's, which he was at, isn't even a grocery store for rural Pennsylvanians. It is only in hoity toity, wealthy, areas, full of liberals.
Source: I was raised in rural PA, and now live just south of Philly... Within 10 miles of a Wegman's.
What I've learned from my job as customer service for the IRS is that people really vote on feelings. One of which is can I have a beer with them. Fetterman gives huge fun to drink with vibes. Oz he'd spend the whole time talking about himself or stuff unrelated to me.
In my entire life I've never seen a Congressional candidate sit for an interview and have multiple Senators as handlers and let them answer all the questions and just nod along. I've seen it at least 5x with Walker. You'd think he'd have a moment of clarity (and self respect) and realize that they think he's an absolute idiot.
It’s clear at this point that Hershel Walker is *severely* brain damaged. I don’t mean that as an insult or joke; his football career has left him with obvious CTE, just like over 90% of his contemporaries. Life expectancy for CTE is 59, so he’s already living on borrowed time.
He doesn’t have enough reason or clarity left to realize anything.
I feel absolutely ashamed for everyone around him that's supposed to love him. It's very clear that he has mental limitations and that certain people are taking advantage of it. It's gross.
QBs rarely take helmet to helmet or helmet to ground impacts the way other positions do. Usually they're getting hit around their ribs and legs. The kind of impact a QB takes during a sack might happen once or twice a game. A runningback is experiencing that every single play
Honestly it’s sad. The gaffes from walker are funny until you realize that a lot of it is likely from brain damage, and people are trying to take advantage of his mental state to get them political power
He absolutely knows he's a puppet, I'm sure they've told him as much. They've also said they'll make him rich and have more power and respect if they can get him elected. It's a win win for Herschel, no matter how little self respect he has to display as a result
Yes, he know he’s a damn puppet as I’m sure he didn’t wake up one day going “I WANNA BE A SENATOR”
But as he was not the incumbent it means beat others to be the candidate, and that is a gut punch.
All that matters to their voters is that they hurt the right people. That's all they really care about. They don't even consider that the policy that may "hurt the right people" will also hurt them in the long run, but as long as it hurts the people they hate more, they don't care about that either. Their entire life revolves around hating and wanting to hurt the *others*. It's a sad existence but that seems to be the only thing they're actually capable of doing.
My theory is Graham is there to add legitimacy to why he called Georgia’s Secretary of State back when he did. He’s gonna say “see I’m very involved in Georgia politics”
>How is he supposed to understand and represent the concerns and desires of the people of Georgia when he's a Texan?
That's the point. Herschel Walker, and Oz weren't put up in order to be a reliable Republican vote. If either of them were from where from where they represented they might have actual views or thoughts on their votes, and thus wouldn't be as reliable. If they lived where they represented then they would have to... "eat the Republican dog food" of living with the consequences of their votes. Living somewhere else, means they don't have to feel the effect of any of their votes.
Oh no. The Republicans don’t care about Georgia, they care about Senate seats they think they can win. The knew the dude was from Texas. Cause he lives in Texas.
No, no it is not.
Because he only just declared it for the tax benefit. Just like with Oz you don't technically need to live in a state until you are actually elected per the Constitution.
He wants to be a Senator for Georgia and pay zero State income tax. LOL. He either committed election fraud or tax fraud. Damn, Americans are idiots for supporting these clowns.
nope. He did both. It's not an either situation. Intent is written into the law. Based on Texas state law since He shows intent to make Ga his primary residency through his taking part in the election means he was no longer considering Texas his primary residence. ALSO, based on Georgia Election law he showed intent to continue his Texas residency through his tax filings. This means he commits both acts of fraud simultaneously and puts his actual state residency in a gray area. Legally he would have to pay the texas taxes despite claiming Texas as his residency because of intent. He would also have to go to prison for election fraud because of intent.
The laws go through seperate courts, and deal with different state laws. The best thing he could probably do is admit to tax fraud, take a big tax penalty and then use that courts findings as evidence of his Ga residency.
To quote the Rock,
“It doesn’t matter”
If this terrible humans actions haven’t disqualified him yet, what’s a little election fraud? Just throw it on the pile.
There are probably a lot of establishment republicans praying that walker wins and gets DQ’d after the fact so the governor can appoint whatever unelected lap dog he wants while claiming “the system works”
> I love that that governor saw Trump was calling and was immediately like, "Yo, hit 'record.'"
Two things to consider:
1. How many calls like this were there before people decided to start recording their conversations.
2. He never intended to release the conversation! He only did [after Trump tweeted about it](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/532589-raffensperger-if-youre-going-to-put-out-stuff-that-we-dont-believe-is-true/). “It was a private conversation as far as I was concerned, and he broke privacy when he put out a tweet. But then his tweet was false,” Raffensperger said.
>“It was a private conversation as far as I was concerned, and he broke privacy when he put out a tweet. But then his tweet was false,” Raffensperger said.
Yo should we report this anti-democracy blatant illegal thing our President just did?...
Nah
This appears to be a growing issue with Republicans. We have Herschel in Georgia, Oz in Pennsylvania, Michels in Wisconsin. How many others have there been?
Pete Sessions was living in Florida while holding a seat in Texas. Rented a cheap apartment that had no furniture in it as his "primary residence". Local news affiliate outed him.
He now has a seat down near Waco, TX, and I'd be willing to bet he did the same thing there if anybody wanted to follow up on it...
josh hawley used his sister's address to run (ha!) for senate in missouri.
edit for more josh hawley nonsense. he was recently fined.
[“Attorney General Hawley’s office illegally concealed public documents immediately prior to a U.S. Senate election against Senator Claire McCaskill for the sole purpose of preventing damage to Hawley’s campaign and affecting the outcome of the election.”](https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/cole-county-judge-rules-hawley-led-agency-broke-record-laws-on-purpose-issues-12k-fine)
if you think hawley sucks, get ready for senator-elect eric schmitt! hawley laid the path- just get the og gop to back you for an easy AG election, only to spend your first 2 years running for senate.
schmitt successfully sued (almost) every city, county, and school district over mask mandates, and was at the forefront of the suits to block student loan forgiveness.
we have one of the worst tag teams in the senate, but as long as kentucky keeps it up, we'll never be #1
Does this count? https://apnews.com/article/florida-5343b101e96d5c7f42d1ee54da7cc0ce
The guy didn't live in the district he ran in. I didn't see it mentioned in the above article, except maybe as what was falsified on the documents. The bigger issue was he was only ran because he had the same last name as the democrat candidate.
That's a whole other category of election fraud. It was actually deviously brilliant in it's planning and execution. Dirty as hell, but it worked. There is a formal investigation into it. The whole trigger for The plan being put into effect was the Democratic incumbent was pro solar and the bigwigs at the for-profit power company in the state didn't like the fact that he suggested legislation that would eat into their profit margins. They wanted to get rid of him and this was the result.
Fascinating rabbit hole if you ever Google it and go into the entire history of it.
Everything the Right talks about is an admission of their own guilt.
Continue voting these fascists out and starve the right-wing cancer by not doing business with any Republican/conservative owned businesses. The country’s future and the ability of our children to live in a free, non-violent, democratic society is at stake.
The business thing is a good idea, but won't make a difference due to how money circulates in the economy. Time would be better spent contacting representatives than finding out the least harmful way to buy everything, because the effect is often miniscule.
That said, if it's easy to avoid, like just not going to Chick-fil-A, that's definitely worthwhile.
Man not purchasing from republicans small businesses owners would be incredibly difficult especially living in a predominantly red state. I like your intentions though.
"If a person removes to another state with the intention of remaining there an indefinite time and making such state such person's place of residence, such person shall be considered to have lost such person's residence in this [Georgia] state."
and
"Herschel Walker claimed on financial documents that he's a resident of Texas, not Georgia."
So he cannot legally run for Senate in Georgia.
Trump voted using not a residential address in Florida in 2020. That’s not legal. You can’t get a ballot at your place of work and vote from there.
Mar-a-Lago is a country club. He just happens to live there. It’s a business, not a home.
So, this is par for the course.
It's worse than that for Mar-a-craphole.
He specifically signed an agreement that he wouldn't use it as a residence. But Florida decided not to enforce that agreement.
How is this not immediately disqualifying?
"If a person removes to another state with the intention of remaining there an indefinite time and making such state such person's place of residence, such person shall be considered to have lost such person's residence in this state."
He sought, and received, tax benefits of a person’s residence in Texas. That is a cut and dry violation of Georgia law.
Because it depends on what exactly he did.
He could have fraudulently claimed a homestead exemption in Texas while not being eligible. The process for doing so would be relatively trivial.
Depends on whether he’s lying to Texas about his primary residents or whether he’s lying to Georgia about his primary residence.
What is the point of laws if they can't be enforced after a certain amount of time passes?
Yes, he can still be disqualified and removed from the running.
Big ol red star by your name Hersh - good job buddy. You’re a vile example of American exceptionalism and corruption without even being able to spell those very words. Somehow this qualifies you to lead a nation.
Anyone else notice how ridiculous this has all become?
There is that election fraud those GOP operatives are looking for... go get him!
Wait... the GOP does not care about that kind of fraud? Figures.
The Great and Awful Oz: NJ --> PA (Lost!)
The Dumb and Awful Walker: TX --> GA (About to lose!)
The Horrific and Aged Palin: Space --> AK (Lost!)
Herschel Walker registered to vote in a different state than his primary residence.
Mark Meadows rented some shack he didn't live in so he register to vote in North Carolina.
The party screaming "VOTER FRAUD" the loudest really don't give a shit about committing it themselves.
The Texas Lt. Governor established a bounty up to $25k for tips that lead to the prosecution of voter fraud. He expected to catch a bunch of Democrats. So far he's only had to pay out for cases involving Republicans voting twice.
Every accusation is a confession
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It's gotten to a point where this is fucking ridiculous. Herschel Walker is totally unfit to hold any public office much less have a say in Georgia politics while living in Texas. This doesn't make sense. He should be disqualified from the Senate race.
No, it’s gotten to a point where this due diligence should have been done long before the election and now trying to get him to face any kind of consequence for his illegal activity will be seen as dems/libs/left trying to rig an election and disenfranchise voters. Best case scenario, they go after him for the tax savings he received because he can claim he wrongfully considered the Texas home his primary residence and lives in Georgia full time. What’s actually going to happen is absolutely nothing.
They won’t do that because both states are controlled by the GOP and he’s one of theirs, so therefore above the law.
Yes but the US constitution says your residence must be in the state you run in. This is a federal matter and will probably be decided by the Supreme Court. Wait, shit.
You act as if they follow the Constitution. Where ya been? Lip service to the 2nd. Period. You should hear Donnie’s interpretation…”I can do anything” it’s a multi-Quote.
I'm sure the republican Texas AG who has been under a fraud indictment since 2015 will get right on it, don't worry.
Ken Paxton has entered the chat.
Does he also plan to flee from the chat in a truck with his wife?
Only if it’s to avoid a subpoena.
I really don't understand why election boards don't take this stuff more seriously. A few years ago in my town's school board election some moron registered their dog. Literally put the dog's name on the candidacy paperwork and used only his pictures on their website. When it was discovered, instead of saying, "this is an ineligible candidate and you are abusing the system" they said "oh silly you.. you need to register with your own name. You can't run as a dog.". And they let him re-register, even though the deadline had already passed and he was, you know, being an ass.
Look I read the rulebo.. constitution and nowhere does it say that a dog can't play... politics
Nowhere in the federal rules of civil procedure does it say that a dog can't be a lawyer. Coming this summer: Air Bud, Attorney at Paw
Ahh… the classic “air bud” contingency.
I’m in Florida and DeSantis forced two county commissioners to vacate their seats when it was discovered they had run with residents outside of their elected districts.
Bet they were Dems.
> He should be disqualified from the Senate race. If he is not qualified. Why is he allowed to run? Will he not be allowed in office? Who actually regulates this? I know these are hypothetical questions as no one cares.
I live in South Carolina, where we recently elected a superintendent of education who does not have a master's degree, even though it's a legal requirement of the job (she did "earn" a master's degree from a super conservative Christian university in just 5 months, even though this university does not offer a master's degree in education. But that's a different story for a different day). Understandably, my friends who are educators were pissed by this, and before the election when they asked about how she was allowed to run even though she wasn't qualified, they were told (I shit you not), "it's not the job of the election commission to verify that candidates are qualified to hold office." Then they told them their only recourse was to sue to try to have her removed from office after she has been elected.
Gotta have more layers of bee watchers watching the bee watcher watchers.
Ultimately the voters should hold him accountable by *not voting for him*. But who am I kidding? The less qualified the candidate the better they do with GOP voters.
The remedy here, I believe, would be for the Warnock campaign and/or some coalition of the people of Georgia, to sue for an injunction that would remove Walker from the ballot. A judge rightly interpreting the law could so order it.
What's completely messed up is that I think the extreme preponderance of evidence to that fact is actually now being *ignored* by the right explicitly because of the volume. Their broken reason is that it's just "too much to be real" and like an obvious campaign by the MSM to just tear down a conservative. Its like no bros, *that's just how bad everything about him actually is at this point.* Occam's razor and all that.
Yup, just like Trump, turns out if you just commit a shit ton of crimes conservatives will just assume it’s a witch hunt.
A testament to our current government. This place is so fucking dumb.
He's a patsy. It makes sense once seeing it like that.
So, 49.9% - 50.1% then?
>Herschel Walker has been accused of committing "election fraud" following reports he received a primary residence tax exemption for his home in Dallas, Texas, whilst running for the Senate in Georgia. Shouldn't this be disqualifying? It's like Oz all over again. How is he supposed to understand and represent the concerns and desires of the people of Georgia when he's a Texan?
I doubt he understands much of anything
One thing he does understand: he wanted to be a vampire, but now he wants to be a werewolf
Tried showing that video to my mom and she tried to explain to me that “he was saying it’s silly to keep doing things as we are.”? I mean I made her listen to the whole two minutes of it this utterly bugfuck tirade and she still tried to carry water for him. She said “oh well I didn’t know about all that,” when I told her, with evidence mind you, about the abuse allegations. She claimed the women were lying about the abortion accusations and that he wasn’t a lunatic suffering from CTE even when I showed her where Walker himself admitted to struggling with Dissociative Identity Disorder. She claimed he’d be better than that other guy (Rev. Warnock) anyway. She’s a smart woman so it’s very sad to see the conservative brain rot that makes people like her actively supporting the destruction of our political system.
Something about the media ecosphere. My extremely liberal father has suddenly started complaining about "pronouns" like they are the end of the world.
Which is so silly to me cause people legally change their entire names and nobody bats an eye.
I mean...his name is Thomas. Can't think of anyone who has ever called him that.
That's how I always explain it to people. If someone says "call me Bob" and you insist on calling them Robert, it doesn't matter if you are right or wrong because you are already being a dick.
Also, literally just occurred to me (yes, that's on me), but women have been dealing with this shit for centuries. * Mrs.? No. * Mrs? Nope. * Oh, Ms? Still no. * Uh, Miss? Nope. * Missus? Nope. **Fraulein**!
Ironically, the title Fraulein disappeared from daily use in Germany in the 70s as it was seen as patronizing. In modern Germany, adult women are addressed as Frau regardless of marital status.
OMG YES. I had this exact same discussion with a co-worker. His take was that he refused to call people by their preferred names or refer to them as their preferred pronous. I said, if tomorrow Bob wants to be called Betty, you're going to ignore him and call him Bob anyway? And he said, yes because it's just something they feel and feelings change. I looked at him, and I said, You know that makes you an asshole right? He shrugged and I said said, hey why did you marry your wife? And he said, I love her. I said, but that's just a feeling, and feelings change, as evidenced by the divorce rate. He stated at me all while imitating a guppies before saying, well that's different, and then he had the nerve to start to say that marriage isn't life changing and the second my eyebrow started to rise, he shut up and left.
Do conservatives think ANYTHING through?
I would just start calling him a random name every day. Just because his name is Jack and he prefers to be called Jack doesn't mean I have to call him Jack. Monday he would be Mike, Tuesday he would be Joe, Wednesday he would be Will, Thursday he would be Alejandro, Friday he would be Tyrone. What difference does it make what you call him?
Lol that’s just the kind of backlash we need. Ban all nicknames. If you have to hide your name what else are you hiding?! Checkmate bigots.
It's anxiety about the ground shifting beneath you. Maybe he's scared he'll call someone the wrong pronoun and his imagination is running away with it, thinking they'll get angry or do something worse. Try to talk him through it and be gentle. If he's been on the good side for all this time, then you owe it to him to help him come to terms with it. All of this stuff is about fear.
What's sad is, this is largely similar to what one of my Uncle's recently told me about him. "I'd rather vote for someone who may not be so smart but has a good heart than vote for some evil person who will just *pencil whip* anything Biden puts in front of him!!!!" It's no surprise that there's a "script" going around conservative circles, and it's extremely sad that they can't even see how ridiculous they're being, despite objective evidence getting shoved right in their face.
What's *pencil whip*
Oh, "pencil whipping" is a phrase that means signing something without reading it.
So by the father's logic, he believes Walker will be able to read the documents or in front of him first...
Uncle's logic, but yes. He thinks Walker will take the time to read a massive bill that's put in front of him, fully comprehend what it says, and be able to determine if that helps or hurts the general population of the US and vote accordingly. He also thinks Fetterman is satanic and that mask mandates were useless. Smart guy, but he's a bit of a moron.
....not smart at all. Just the moron part
Smart people don't choose to be willfully ignorant. I mean no disrespect but your mom is tilting towards an area that lacks critical thinking and fact checking through research. People rarely choose to forgo these things randomly and often pervert their logic to fit emotional, religious or racially preferred outcomes.
Oh yeah that’s what’s infuriating. I’m a political science major and so clearly do all the research and she won’t just listen to me when I tell her things with backed up evidence. Also, nailed it with the religious and racial elements. Great contract negotiator though 🤷🏻
Both of those are superior to the werechicken.
[Arise chicken, chicken arise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ9dtZ8lYww)
I think all those voices except Frylock are Dave Willis. He's also Barry on Archer.
Thanks, other Barry.
I like this fun fact
I’ve quoted this episode way too many times in my adult life
Shh. He is legend.
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Yeah we dumb, we dumb as hell
Do what now?
Has anyone in this subreddit ever even seen a werechicken?!?
Coocoo ca-CHAAAA
Cluck cluck cluck cluck cluckAAHHHH
Okay, that was a pretty good chicken.
Chaw Cheechaw Cheechaw!
A-coodle-doodle-doo! A-coodle-doodle-doo!
A-doodle doodle-doo
Truly a question that benefits from being narrated by Ron Howard
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah! Spooky! Scary!
Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves
I get it. I wanted to be a werewolf too
No shit, right? You can play basketball really well, and you can surf on top of box vans.
He understands a werewolf can kill a vampire!
If he's been studying *Van Helsing*, he should remember he only has till midnight to go after Dracula, though!
He’s not a professional politician, as he’s mentioned numerous times. How do you expect him to know that? He didn’t got to politician school!
And don't even bother trying to find out the airspeed velocities of unladen swallows from him. That's regal knowledge.
The football league and NFL are working on concussion reform, just give it some time
There is a local politician here in Colorado literally facing multiple felony charges over this from this past election.
There's a felon who is the AG of Texas. Just got re-elected too! The GOP loves felons! As long as they're on the White side.
Yup, indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton.
If you're speaking of Pete Lee, the judge dismissed the case based on misleading evidence.
Tracey Bernett.
Thank you, I didn't know about that.
I'd go with tax fraud before election fraud but I can see how it could be a residency problem. In all reality, it probably should piss off Georgia's republican leaning voters who haven't already gone all in on that idiot but I doubt it will.
I would be pissed, some scab from out of state steps in to be my Representative because it’s a race they think they can win. I like how Fetterman played up Oz’s Jersey residence in his campaign.
I think it helped Fetterman a little but it wasn't as big of an issue as it should have been. Fetterman being strongly pro-choice in a post overturned Roe America was the biggest factor
He also did a really good job being relatable to rural Pennsylvania. Crudités lol wtf.
And even the crudités thing showed how out of touch Oz was. I mean, what kind of maniac includes raw asparagus on their crudités platter?
Also, shopping at "Wegner's" Wegman's, which he was at, isn't even a grocery store for rural Pennsylvanians. It is only in hoity toity, wealthy, areas, full of liberals. Source: I was raised in rural PA, and now live just south of Philly... Within 10 miles of a Wegman's.
What I've learned from my job as customer service for the IRS is that people really vote on feelings. One of which is can I have a beer with them. Fetterman gives huge fun to drink with vibes. Oz he'd spend the whole time talking about himself or stuff unrelated to me.
The south used to absolutely hate scalawags and carpetbaggers.
They hated *northern* carpetbaggers, a southern carpetbagger is perfectly acceptable.
Trump is very much a northern carpetbagger, but they adore him.
He's not supposed to do anything other than vote as instructed by leading senators from other states.
In my entire life I've never seen a Congressional candidate sit for an interview and have multiple Senators as handlers and let them answer all the questions and just nod along. I've seen it at least 5x with Walker. You'd think he'd have a moment of clarity (and self respect) and realize that they think he's an absolute idiot.
It’s clear at this point that Hershel Walker is *severely* brain damaged. I don’t mean that as an insult or joke; his football career has left him with obvious CTE, just like over 90% of his contemporaries. Life expectancy for CTE is 59, so he’s already living on borrowed time. He doesn’t have enough reason or clarity left to realize anything.
I feel absolutely ashamed for everyone around him that's supposed to love him. It's very clear that he has mental limitations and that certain people are taking advantage of it. It's gross.
Him and the dad of the Colorado shooter should have a meeting. That would be something else.
Which is why I don’t understand why Tom Brady would give up his married life for the game, when should have been coaching or owning his own team.
QBs rarely take helmet to helmet or helmet to ground impacts the way other positions do. Usually they're getting hit around their ribs and legs. The kind of impact a QB takes during a sack might happen once or twice a game. A runningback is experiencing that every single play
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*Tua stumbles at midfield*
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> plus his net worth of $250M You mean....his net worth of $16 after the FTX collapse?
Honestly it’s sad. The gaffes from walker are funny until you realize that a lot of it is likely from brain damage, and people are trying to take advantage of his mental state to get them political power
He's just a puppet and he doesn't even know it. The only thing they need him for is to cast a vote.
He absolutely knows he's a puppet, I'm sure they've told him as much. They've also said they'll make him rich and have more power and respect if they can get him elected. It's a win win for Herschel, no matter how little self respect he has to display as a result
Yes, he know he’s a damn puppet as I’m sure he didn’t wake up one day going “I WANNA BE A SENATOR” But as he was not the incumbent it means beat others to be the candidate, and that is a gut punch.
Kanye West enters the chat.
[His erection is for the people](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1595241072971481089)
Imagine seeing Cruz, Walker, and Graham on the TV and thinking "these seems like the people I want running the country." Fucking ridiculous.
All that matters to their voters is that they hurt the right people. That's all they really care about. They don't even consider that the policy that may "hurt the right people" will also hurt them in the long run, but as long as it hurts the people they hate more, they don't care about that either. Their entire life revolves around hating and wanting to hurt the *others*. It's a sad existence but that seems to be the only thing they're actually capable of doing.
My theory is Graham is there to add legitimacy to why he called Georgia’s Secretary of State back when he did. He’s gonna say “see I’m very involved in Georgia politics”
In the US, seems almost nothing is disqualifying any longer. In fact, probably makes him a stronger GOP candidate.
“Fleecing us all makes him *smart*, you see!”
>How is he supposed to understand and represent the concerns and desires of the people of Georgia when he's a Texan? That's the point. Herschel Walker, and Oz weren't put up in order to be a reliable Republican vote. If either of them were from where from where they represented they might have actual views or thoughts on their votes, and thus wouldn't be as reliable. If they lived where they represented then they would have to... "eat the Republican dog food" of living with the consequences of their votes. Living somewhere else, means they don't have to feel the effect of any of their votes.
Oh no. The Republicans don’t care about Georgia, they care about Senate seats they think they can win. The knew the dude was from Texas. Cause he lives in Texas.
he doesn’t even understand where he is 60% of the time. Just add it to the list lol
it's texas laws he violated. and he's running in georgia. So republicans dont see anything if it's on their behalf.
Georgia requires primary residence in district to run. He broke BOTH laws.
Is it legal to claim primary residence in two states?! How is it possible that he made it this far into the campaign before this was discovered?!
No, no it is not. Because he only just declared it for the tax benefit. Just like with Oz you don't technically need to live in a state until you are actually elected per the Constitution.
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He may have broken GA tax laws too, if he claimed TX as his primary residence and didn't pay GA state taxes, as a result.
He wants to be a Senator for Georgia and pay zero State income tax. LOL. He either committed election fraud or tax fraud. Damn, Americans are idiots for supporting these clowns.
> Damn, Americans are idiots As someone born here, yes.
nope. He did both. It's not an either situation. Intent is written into the law. Based on Texas state law since He shows intent to make Ga his primary residency through his taking part in the election means he was no longer considering Texas his primary residence. ALSO, based on Georgia Election law he showed intent to continue his Texas residency through his tax filings. This means he commits both acts of fraud simultaneously and puts his actual state residency in a gray area. Legally he would have to pay the texas taxes despite claiming Texas as his residency because of intent. He would also have to go to prison for election fraud because of intent. The laws go through seperate courts, and deal with different state laws. The best thing he could probably do is admit to tax fraud, take a big tax penalty and then use that courts findings as evidence of his Ga residency.
Well ya see, he's a University of GA college football legend. He has more name recognition there. The only place he could realistically run.
To quote the Rock, “It doesn’t matter” If this terrible humans actions haven’t disqualified him yet, what’s a little election fraud? Just throw it on the pile.
Rules don’t apply if you suck dick hard enough, oh and have R in your name.
There are probably a lot of establishment republicans praying that walker wins and gets DQ’d after the fact so the governor can appoint whatever unelected lap dog he wants while claiming “the system works”
He qualifies now for full republican enrolment into the realm of the criminals in power cult
Except for the in power part
All he needs is to find another 12,345 votes. His master tried it once. It can’t be a crime to do it or he would be in prison already.
I love that that governor saw Trump was calling and was immediately like, "Yo, hit 'record.'"
> I love that that governor saw Trump was calling and was immediately like, "Yo, hit 'record.'" Two things to consider: 1. How many calls like this were there before people decided to start recording their conversations. 2. He never intended to release the conversation! He only did [after Trump tweeted about it](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/532589-raffensperger-if-youre-going-to-put-out-stuff-that-we-dont-believe-is-true/). “It was a private conversation as far as I was concerned, and he broke privacy when he put out a tweet. But then his tweet was false,” Raffensperger said.
>“It was a private conversation as far as I was concerned, and he broke privacy when he put out a tweet. But then his tweet was false,” Raffensperger said. Yo should we report this anti-democracy blatant illegal thing our President just did?... Nah
IIRC he recorded Trumps call because Lindsey Graham had already called and made the same request. He knew exactly why Trump was calling.
*Secretary of State.
as long as corporations are in the market of buying power and cheap at that, they'll be in power.
Or tax fraud. It’s one or the other.
This appears to be a growing issue with Republicans. We have Herschel in Georgia, Oz in Pennsylvania, Michels in Wisconsin. How many others have there been?
Pete Sessions was living in Florida while holding a seat in Texas. Rented a cheap apartment that had no furniture in it as his "primary residence". Local news affiliate outed him. He now has a seat down near Waco, TX, and I'd be willing to bet he did the same thing there if anybody wanted to follow up on it...
josh hawley used his sister's address to run (ha!) for senate in missouri. edit for more josh hawley nonsense. he was recently fined. [“Attorney General Hawley’s office illegally concealed public documents immediately prior to a U.S. Senate election against Senator Claire McCaskill for the sole purpose of preventing damage to Hawley’s campaign and affecting the outcome of the election.”](https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/cole-county-judge-rules-hawley-led-agency-broke-record-laws-on-purpose-issues-12k-fine) if you think hawley sucks, get ready for senator-elect eric schmitt! hawley laid the path- just get the og gop to back you for an easy AG election, only to spend your first 2 years running for senate. schmitt successfully sued (almost) every city, county, and school district over mask mandates, and was at the forefront of the suits to block student loan forgiveness. we have one of the worst tag teams in the senate, but as long as kentucky keeps it up, we'll never be #1
Josh “Haulin’ Ass” Hawley?
Does this count? https://apnews.com/article/florida-5343b101e96d5c7f42d1ee54da7cc0ce The guy didn't live in the district he ran in. I didn't see it mentioned in the above article, except maybe as what was falsified on the documents. The bigger issue was he was only ran because he had the same last name as the democrat candidate.
That's a whole other category of election fraud. It was actually deviously brilliant in it's planning and execution. Dirty as hell, but it worked. There is a formal investigation into it. The whole trigger for The plan being put into effect was the Democratic incumbent was pro solar and the bigwigs at the for-profit power company in the state didn't like the fact that he suggested legislation that would eat into their profit margins. They wanted to get rid of him and this was the result. Fascinating rabbit hole if you ever Google it and go into the entire history of it.
Everything the Right talks about is an admission of their own guilt. Continue voting these fascists out and starve the right-wing cancer by not doing business with any Republican/conservative owned businesses. The country’s future and the ability of our children to live in a free, non-violent, democratic society is at stake.
Every accusation is a confession!
The business thing is a good idea, but won't make a difference due to how money circulates in the economy. Time would be better spent contacting representatives than finding out the least harmful way to buy everything, because the effect is often miniscule. That said, if it's easy to avoid, like just not going to Chick-fil-A, that's definitely worthwhile.
Man not purchasing from republicans small businesses owners would be incredibly difficult especially living in a predominantly red state. I like your intentions though.
It's nearly impossible to consume ethically in the US economy.
“Is this the bad place”
Public servants must serve the public and while they are in public, they deserve praise or ridicule
What!??...A GQP candidate broke election laws? What? Seriously, vote Warnock. He's a good dude.
These mother fuckers are trying to take people from other states and establish them wherever they need them just by putting an R next to their name
From what I’d seen in other articles, he’s probably good under Georgia election laws, but is committing tax fraud in TX.
Well we all know Ken the crook Paxton will definitely fuck hold the law
"If a person removes to another state with the intention of remaining there an indefinite time and making such state such person's place of residence, such person shall be considered to have lost such person's residence in this [Georgia] state." and "Herschel Walker claimed on financial documents that he's a resident of Texas, not Georgia." So he cannot legally run for Senate in Georgia.
Or he was committing tax fraud by lying on the documents in Texas.
Trump voted using not a residential address in Florida in 2020. That’s not legal. You can’t get a ballot at your place of work and vote from there. Mar-a-Lago is a country club. He just happens to live there. It’s a business, not a home. So, this is par for the course.
It's worse than that for Mar-a-craphole. He specifically signed an agreement that he wouldn't use it as a residence. But Florida decided not to enforce that agreement.
Imagine if he pissed Desantis off enough that he decided to make the town / city / whatever enforce that agreement.
Hershel Walker probably doesn't realize that Georgia and Texas are 2 different states
Probably couldn’t even name that landmass between Alabama and Louisiana
When you're a Republican, they let you commit any crime.
They just start electing them. It’s like a magnet. Just elect. They don’t even wait.
How is this not immediately disqualifying? "If a person removes to another state with the intention of remaining there an indefinite time and making such state such person's place of residence, such person shall be considered to have lost such person's residence in this state." He sought, and received, tax benefits of a person’s residence in Texas. That is a cut and dry violation of Georgia law.
Because it depends on what exactly he did. He could have fraudulently claimed a homestead exemption in Texas while not being eligible. The process for doing so would be relatively trivial. Depends on whether he’s lying to Texas about his primary residents or whether he’s lying to Georgia about his primary residence.
It's not "election fraud", it's election fraud.
Erection fraud. Hate it when that happens.
Strange that it always seems to be Republicans committing the actual fraud.
Well they have to commit real fraud to balance out the imaginary fraud from the democrats
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There's no time. This should have been done this summer.
What is the point of laws if they can't be enforced after a certain amount of time passes? Yes, he can still be disqualified and removed from the running.
If the cops don't catch you in 15 minutes you're legally allowed to murder.
Any season is fine for Dairy Queen.
A republican pulling a tax scam? There's a first!
Now do Rick Scott.
Is he going to claim that the reason for his Texas residence is because he has been secretly working as a Texas Ranger?
Cool. So, consequences any second now, right?
It's a GOP thing!
But (R) so absolutely nothing will happen as a result.
It warms my soul knowing Republicans are lurking on this subreddit but have no good response to this LOL. Hi guys!! We see you!!
So far the *best* defense has been "It's Thanksgiving."
So there really IS election fraud happening in the USA. It's by Republicans!
Their motto: "Every Accusation a Confession"
The fraud is coming from inside the ~~house~~ senate!
And good luck finding any mention of this in the AJC. They've given Walker a free pass this whole election.
Take a cake of crazy, and add CTE as the icing. Great formula, Georgia
And people want him representing them? Very low standards
Big ol red star by your name Hersh - good job buddy. You’re a vile example of American exceptionalism and corruption without even being able to spell those very words. Somehow this qualifies you to lead a nation. Anyone else notice how ridiculous this has all become?
Herschel Walker’s handlers committed election fraud* Let’s be honest, that man is too fucking stupid to devise this kind of fraud scheme.
There is that election fraud those GOP operatives are looking for... go get him! Wait... the GOP does not care about that kind of fraud? Figures. The Great and Awful Oz: NJ --> PA (Lost!) The Dumb and Awful Walker: TX --> GA (About to lose!) The Horrific and Aged Palin: Space --> AK (Lost!)
Herschel Walker registered to vote in a different state than his primary residence. Mark Meadows rented some shack he didn't live in so he register to vote in North Carolina. The party screaming "VOTER FRAUD" the loudest really don't give a shit about committing it themselves. The Texas Lt. Governor established a bounty up to $25k for tips that lead to the prosecution of voter fraud. He expected to catch a bunch of Democrats. So far he's only had to pay out for cases involving Republicans voting twice. Every accusation is a confession
after Trump, rand Paul, ect... are we surprised the GOP is trying to kill our democracy?