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Hopefully things change enough between now and the election that Jim Jordan either doesn't run or gets completely demolished and sent packing out of politics if he does.
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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

The thing that sucks about both this seat and Toomey's seat in PA is that they're almost guaranteed to go to Trump Republicans in '22.

We'll have to see but yeah I wouldn't be surprised if that played a role in his decision.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/25/politics/rob-portman-not-running-reelection-ohio-senate-race/index.html

Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio announced Monday that he will not run for reelection after his current term in office ends in 2022, saying in a statement that the entrenched partisan gridlock in Washington was a factor in his decision.

The announcement will set off what could become a highly competitive race to fill the seat and will reshape the 2022 battlefield for control of the Senate. The news could also potentially pave the way for a crowded GOP primary field in a state won by former President Donald Trump in both the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections.

There is already speculation that Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan, a close ally and vocal defender of Trump, could run. Other possible GOP candidates include: J.D. Vance, the author of Hillbilly "Elegy," Josh Mandel, who dropped out of the 2018 GOP primary race to challenge Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, and Jon Husted, the state's lieutenant governor.

A GOP source who has worked with the Portman team texted CNN: "There are two scenarios for the seat now: 1.) Jordan Runs and Clears the Field; 2.) Everyone in the State Runs."

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is also seriously eyeing a Senate bid, a former Ohio GOP official said.

LaRose, who served as a Green Beret in Iraq as a member of the Special Forces, is a former Republican state senator. He largely financed his own bid as secretary of state, and his family is well established and funded, as he is the son of a beer distribution family company.

At least three Ohio GOP representatives are also interested in running for Senate following Portman's announcement: Rep. Steve Stivers, Brad Wenstrup and Mike Turner, according to people familiar with their thinking.

On the Democratic side, one possible candidate could be Rep. Tim Ryan, who unsuccessfully ran for president in the 2020 Democratic primary. A top Democratic operative in the state told CNN they hope Ryan finally pulls the statewide trigger and runs. He had been thinking about governor, the source said, "but Senate clearly fits him better."

In his statement, Portman said that partisan stalemate has grown worse and that played a role in his decision, saying, "I don't think any Senate office has been more successful in getting things done, but honestly, it has gotten harder and harder to break through the partisan gridlock and make progress on substantive policy, and that has contributed to my decision."

"We live in an increasingly polarized country where members of both parties are being pushed further to the right and further to the left, and that means too few people who are actively looking to find common ground. This is not a new phenomenon, of course, but a problem that has gotten worse over the past few decades," he said, adding, "This is a tough time to be in public service."

In announcing his decision, Portman also signaled he stands ready to work with the Biden administration as it attempts to win bipartisan support for the President's economic rescue package responding to the pandemic.

"For many of the issues I am most passionate about, I will continue to make a difference outside of the Senate, beyond 2022. In the meantime, I am hopeful that President Biden will follow through on his inaugural pledge to reach across the aisle, and I am prepared to work with him and his administration if he does," he said. "I was on the bipartisan call yesterday on a new COVID-19 package. I hope the Administration will work with us on a more targeted approach that focuses on things like vaccine distribution, testing and getting kids back to school."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reacted to the news on Monday by saying in a statement that "My friend Sen. Portman's announced retirement in two years will be a big loss for the entire Senate."
"Both the Republican conference and the institution as a whole will be worse off when Rob departs. Fortunately, in the meantime, we have two more years to continue drawing on his knowledge, his principles, and his dedication as we keep fighting for American families," McConnell said.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina echoed that sentiment.

"Very, very sad to see that @senrobportman is not seeking reelection. Rob is one of the smartest, most sincere members of the Senate that I have ever known. This will be a major blow to the Senate as well as the Republican Party," Graham tweeted.

God help everyone if Jim Jordan runs and wins
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That's not even exclusive to California so I don't get why you're trying to pretend it is

E: I mean I do, but I don't get why you'd do it knowing how blatantly obvious your intentions are.
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lmaooooooooooooooooooooo apparently SCOTUS basically had no "choice" because the only lawsuits that made it through were trying to prevent him from continuing to do it, not actually seeking damages (which means he'd have to pay back all the money, which has happened to people found in violation of this in the past).

Almost like that was by design
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/supreme-court-trump-cases-emolument-b1792308.html

The US Supreme Court has dropped multiple emoluments cases against Donald Trump accusing him of profiting off the presidency, describing the remaining cases as moot now that he is no longer in office.

In tossing out the remaining cases against the former president, the nations highest court also ordered appeals courts in New York and Virginia to dismiss the lawsuits against him.

The justices threw out lower court rulings that had allowed the lawsuits - one filed by the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland and the other by plaintiffs including a watchdog group - to proceed, while also declining to hear Mr Trump's appeals of those decisions.

Plaintiffs accused the former president of running afoul of the Constitution's "emoluments" provisions that bar presidents from accepting gifts or payments from foreign and state governments without congressional approval.

The plaintiffs had asked the Supreme Court to reject Mr Trump's appeals because the dispute would disappear once he left office last Wednesday.

In one of the cases, plaintiffs including the nonprofit watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a hotel owner and a restaurant trade group said the former Republican president's failure to disentangle himself from his businesses had made him vulnerable to inducements by officials seeking to curry favor.

The plaintiffs said that they lost patronage, wages and commissions from clients who chose Mr Trump's businesses over theirs because of the ability to gain the former president's favor.

After a federal judge initially threw out the case, the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals revived it in 2019.

A 2020 decision by the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the similar lawsuit by the District of Columbia and Maryland to proceed.

That suit focused on the Trump International Hotel in Washington, which became a favored lodging and event space for some foreign and state officials visiting Washington.

A third lawsuit filed by congressional Democrats against Mr Trump ended last year after the Supreme Court refused to hear their appeal of a lower court ruling that the lawmakers lacked the necessary legal standing to pursue the case.

What a bunch of bullshit
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She almost blew the fucking case oh my god

And the fact she's still in politics after all this time despite already being in her 50s then...depressing.
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Revnir posted...

inb4 Giuliani counter sues for 10 billion and drowns them in proceedings to try to bankrupt them

Giuliani doesn't have the money to do that
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SPE posted...

either way he doesnt deserve what tails is doing to him

Well yeah of course, I've said time and time again Taiis should get permabanned just for that alone, let alone everything else he's doing.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/giuliani-sued-election-fraud-trump-b1792216.html

Dominion Voting Systems has filed a defamation lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, following months of baseless claims from Donald Trumps personal lawyer that the companys systems were rigged in the favour of the Democrats in 3 Novembers presidential election.

The 107-page lawsuit, which was filed by the company in the Federal District Court in Washington, DC, on Monday, accused Mr Giuliani of carrying out a viral disinformation campaign about Dominion that was made up of demonstrably false allegations, according to The New York Times.

The suit is seeking damages of more than $1.3bn (1.15bn) and is based on more than 50 statements made by Mr Giuliani on Twitter, his podcast and in the media.

In those statements, Mr Giuliani claimed that Dominion, which is one of the biggest voting machine manufacturers in the US, rigged its systems to flip votes from Mr Trump to then Democratic candidate Joe Biden.

Mr Giuliani filed around 50 lawsuits in several swing states lost by Mr Trump in an attempt to overturn the election, and has been widely criticised for his baseless claims. There is no evidence for claims of widespread fraud in 3 Novembers election.

Earlier this month, the chairman of the New York State Senates Judiciary Committee formally requested that Mr Giuliani have his law license revoked by the court system because of his claims.

He led the effort from the Trump campaign and its allies to overturn the election results and made several false comments on social media and on TV about Dominion.

In one statement on Twitter, Mr Giuliani said that phony Dominion voting machines needed to be investigated, while as recently as last week, he said on his radio show that he has boxes of evidence to support his claims, adding: So long as you have Dominion, there is clear and present danger.

However, in the lawsuit, Dominion notes that Mr Giuliani did not mention the company in any of his court filings, where he could have faced legal ramifications for making false claims.

Notably, not a single one of the three complaints signed and filed by Giuliani and other attorneys for the Trump Campaign in the Pennsylvania action contained any allegations about Dominion, the lawsuit filed on Monday said.

The lawsuit also claims that Mr Giulianis false claims about Dominion helped lead to the Capitol riots that took place on 6 January, as he mentioned the company in a speech at a rally prior to the insurrection and several times on social media as the Capitol was breached.

Five people were killed and several more were injured in the riots, as Mr Trump was impeached by the House for the second time for his role in inciting the riots at the Stop the Steal rally held nearby.

Having been deceived by Giuliani and his allies into thinking that they were not criminals but patriots Defend[ing] the Republic from Dominion and its co-conspirators they then bragged about their involvement in the crime on social media, the lawsuit said.

However, Thomas A Clare, a lawyer representing Dominion, said that the riots did not factor into the companys decision to sue Mr Giuliani, but showed how seriously Mr Trumps followers took the false claims.

In an interview to the Times, Mr Clare said: From a defamation law perspective, it just demonstrates the depth to which these statements sink in to people.

He added: That people dont just read them and tune them out. It goes to the core of their belief system, which puts them in a position to take action in the real world.

Last week, Dominion sent a cease-and-desist letter to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell after he repeatedly supported Mr Trump and Mr Giulianis false claims, and Mr Clare suggested to the Times on Monday that more lawsuits will be filed soon.

There will certainly be others, he said. There are other individuals who have spoken the big lie and have put forward these defamatory statements about Dominion, but then there are also players in the media that have amplified it.

Mr Clare also refused to rule out filing a lawsuit against Mr Trump, adding: Obviously, this lawsuit against the presidents lawyer moves one step closer to the former president and understanding what his role was and wasnt.

The Independent has contacted Mr Giuliani for comment.

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Makeveli_lives posted...

It's.
5.
Bucks.

Goddamn some of y'all are unbelievable

I know, but with the way you phrased that sentence it sounded like you were saying you missed out on being able to play the PS5 upgrade for $5.
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Just don't forget there's still a 4th kaiju in this movie whose name/role is unknown as of yet.

I'm actually surprised THAT was the one they entirely kept out of the trailer.
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M_Live posted...

If they had stay at home orders in place, how did they get so bad? A lot of people just blatantly ignoring them?

I'm pretty sure places like Orange County aren't even enforcing them
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Arcanine2009 posted...

i mean cali population is ilke 40 mllion. 75% for biden at least. But yeah potentially 10 million? i dunno. But Florida is 20 million and Texas is near 30 million, with more than 50% voting for Trump.

Anways, 21k cases in a day for cali is too high still. That's thanksgiving numbers. Back in July, I don't think it went ore than 12k. We got some months to go

Yeah I just mean there's still a TON of Trump-voting Republicans in California so they're obviously noticeable.
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You never want to count out Brady but this really looks like they're gonna need a game out of him like he had against the Eagles or the second half against Atlanta to even have a shot.
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Chadwick69 posted...

Like literal nazis? Or "I don't like them so they are nazi' type of nazis?

Actual Nazis. Huntington Beach has an actual history of this shit.

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-hb-robert-rundo-20181026-story.html
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Kolibri X posted...

The petition is almost at the 1.5 million point already. It's going to happen.

What the fuck are you talking about?

https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/recalls/cumulative-newsom-heatlie.pdf

They haven't even received half of the number of signatures they need if all of them were 100% valid and they have less than 2 months to go.

E: Like at the rate they're batting with "valid signatures" of 84.44%, they'd need a minimum of 1.77 million total signatures to even have a shot of getting the required 1,495,709. That's over a million more than they've submitted since June of last year.
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Chadwick69 posted...

In Cali? Isn't that place liberal central? Only Trumpers are anti-maskers.

More people voted for Trump in California than any other state.

Also places like Huntington Beach are full of Nazis
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Scarecrow17 posted...

Hes in the trailer

I know I'm being sarcastic.

But it at least puts the possibility in there that the Military isn't actually behind it.
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Also I'm surprised they didn't bring back Hiddleston's and Larson's characters from Skull Island.

I know in-universe they'd be close to (or in) their 80s but they got fucking recruited by Monarch at the end of the movie!
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lmao if you look at the IMDB page there's a bunch of people listed whose roles are positions for a company called Apex Cybernetics.

GEE I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD BE
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Chicken posted...

I think Godzilla from the 90s movie looked way better than the classic design, its just a shame that movie was so awful.

I feel like that design makes more sense? Like it was way more dinosaur-like and its arms were long as fuck.
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WrestlinFan posted...

My state (MS) has had practically no restrictions for months and months and months now. Opposite sides for sure.

And Mississippi has almost 9k more cases per million residents and over double the deaths per million residents than California does >_>
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With Error? At least for me I don't think there's anything specific that isn't just a "problem" with the Mods in general. I just mean people do complain about him a lot.

There's no way he deserves to be in the same conversation as Raptor though.
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You're definitely looking in the wrong places.

Then again anything here that dares criticize the mods gets locked/deleted pretty quickly
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cjsdowg posted...

Cheap shots makes you satisfied because the Bills could not handled him head on. Such a low bar , but those are the Bills.

Huh?

Okafor objectively did nothing like all game and that was objectively a late/dirty hit on Allen there.
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There's literally zero reason this guy shouldn't have been served a legal cease+desist yet and completely banned from the site.
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I think Wyoming, Idaho, and Oklahoma are all more solidly "red" than Arkansas.

I remember fucking around on that one site that lets you gerrymander states and it's impossible to gerrymander Oklahoma in a way to produce even 1 Democrat in the House 100% of the time.
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Makeveli_lives posted...

Base, it's 5 bucks

Base doesn't get the upgrade >_>
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Makeveli_lives posted...

Of what.

Damn I forgot control, wanted to try it at some point but figured I'll wait until the PS5 upgrade for stability and frame rate but missed out on it being 5 bucks.

Is it the base Control or Ultimate Edition?
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Wtf is this review for
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Wow the refs fucking did it
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lol playing to lose
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Oh cool it's the same story we've all seen a million times before happening right now
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bloodyarts posted...

Lol. Kong didn't answer Godzilla's call at the end of King of the Monsters. He doesn't acknowledge Godzilla as anything but another ass to stomp lol

In the novelization (I believe) there's a part from Kong's PoV where he basically just ignores everything because it's not threatening him directly (at that time) lol
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Also I had the Z/ZX Collection fuck those games >_>
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Makeveli_lives posted...

https://www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/354427-
walmart-ymmv-in-store-clearance-thread-i-read-the-faqs/page-404

I'm telling you it's good to go. Also ni no kuni and tokyo mirage sessions and Quantic dream collection (heavy rain, Detroit, and one more) is 5 bucks, octopatath is 10 I think. Picture in question is here

https://www.cheapassgamer.com/uploads/post-336893-0-95428200-1611423544.jpg

Lol whoever posted it is one of those assholes
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lmao Brady
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Your entire argument hinges on globalist being explicitly a euphamism for jewish in some way.

It

Literally

Is
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I like how there's a globe in the middle of the goddamn photo but somehow it's not about globalism
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Zodd3224 posted...

Uh huh

Confirmed troll
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Zodd3224 posted...

And a negation of a 30+ yard pass play

Which is still nowhere near letting a turnover go that should have been negated by a penalty that gave the Bucs the ball at midfield.
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Zodd3224 posted...

They didn't call the false start on Rodgers deep pass before the pick so it's a wash

A false start is literally a 5-yard penalty
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https://twitter.com/tinafate1/status/1353299820778188800?s=21
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Lorenzo_2003 posted...

As usual, it looks like the humans started this nonsense, so I guess we now have to sit through their explanations about why they thought it was a good idea. I agree with you that the human scenes are boring, but my biggest gripe is the humans are always unlikable and Im once again rooting for them to get their ass kicked.

*both movies establish Godzilla as basically a protector of the planet who was revered as a god by ancient humans*

US Military: "Alright we're gonna fucking kill him"
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