Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/27/former-judge-roy-moore-wins-al.html
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Wow @beschizza you timed that whole citizenship thing well. Then again not like your homeland is doing great either.
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First right-wing populists take 13% of the German parliament for the first time in more than 80 years and now the Senate has [ETA: will likely have] its first open member of the Gilead Party. More evidence that we’re in the Darkest Timeline.
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To be clear, this was just the runoff election to choose a Republican candidate. He’s going up against the Democratic candidate in November (though he’s a long shot).
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I have every faith in my former fellow Alabamians that they will fiercely fight to elect… the most religiously zealous backwoods bible-thumping idiot they can find.
It was a novelty to move to the PNW and actually have candidates I wanted to vote for rather than just candidates I wanted to vote against.
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We can only hope his bigoted insanity is proportional to his ineptitude as a senatorial candidate. With a lot of luck he could be defeated, but since this is Jeff sessions seat, I’m not holding my breath.
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Alabama voters, the ghost of Atticus Finch hereby frowns upon your mendacious shenanigans!
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His new nickname will be Mr. Blue Slip. And the Honorable Asshole from Alabama.
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Between Strange and Moore, it seemed like a ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ vote; both seem horrid.
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If only because supporting Strange would mean backing the same guy as Trump. (Shudder)
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The people who ran the Brexit and Trump campaigns are pulling the strings behind the scenes, so, yeah, breath-holding is not recommended. The one thing that could make a difference is if Facebook, Google and Twitter all implemented new rules for political campaigns, but the chances of that happening are slim to none.
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Par for the course with Southern Republicans. Of course, within those constraints there are differences, and Moore – someone who gained national notoriety for his continual attempts to undermine the Establishment Clause – was, unfortunately, the more horrid choice.
Edited for accuracy, though your point still stands.
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Where are Bo and Luke to set this straight?
“Dukes of Hazzard”, more a documentary than a TV show in Ala.
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It’s quite difficult to parse Trump trying to support the slightly less crazy candidate and failing.
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Scary thing is that Moore makes Sessions seem reasonable. Think about that, about the likelihood of Al’bama electing a Democrat and be afraid. Be very, very afraid. And angry… that’ll help, too.
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To be honest though, that’s only a slight veneer of civility over a racist demagogue.
Not really, we just don’t know what he got in exchange. Because I’m sure that there was a deal involved.
Well, Republicans are pretty terrible people, aren’t they?
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