CapgrasDelusion

Haha, same. Stuck Prowlarr on there because why not? That’s the beauty of this setup. It takes no effort after gluetun is set, so no reason not to just attach anything even remotely questionable.

Docker with a gluetun container. This container’s only role is to connect to my VPN provider. Any traffic I want through the VPN is set to use that container as its network. If the VPN goes down, gluetun loses connection, any container attached to gluetun can no longer access the internet.

I use a qbittorent docker container for my torrent client but you can attach whatever client you’re comfortable with, as well as any other container you prefer be on a VPN.

While qbittorent has a built in kill switch, this works for everything. No VPN means no connection, period.

Two things:

1. Absolutely double down on this loser position, please, until you’re voted the fuck out.

2. Good luck. While I haven’t combed through the Ohio constitution, I hope the legislative branch can’t just remove the judicial, whole or piecemeal. Checks and balances and all that. But if you pull it off at least we can stop pretending this is a functional democracy of any kind, and all we have to sacrifice is Ohio. Maybe it’ll wake up a few people who still think there’s a middle ground to be found with the GOP.

Last year saw the GOP take the house less than they were supposed to. That is not a win, it just felt nice. 2020 saw Biden win with an 80,000 vote swing. Things are so much closer than people seem to think. The game is rigged. The house is gerrymandered, the Senate is completely rigged in favor of less populous states, and the electoral college says “hello.” I wish I had room to be angry at people like Manchin, but I don’t. There isn’t any.

Probably true I suppose. But he had SOME chance of being elected. I’m not sure that’s true of anyone else. I guess we’ll see and like I said, I hope I’m wrong.

That’s easy: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/05/the-wrong-man/308019/

You decide some guy did it, ruin that guy’s life until he’s falsely convicted or the public forgets all about it. Then if neither of those work after six years you maybe look into other options.

Ask me how you solve a bombing at the Olympics.

Pretty low bar, but yeah. He was vilified more than he should have been for short term gains and now the Democrats have lost a seat for the long term that they can’t afford to lose.

Please, please prove me wrong West Virginia.

Wtf kind of democracy is he advocating for then?

None.

Prichard… has previously called on conservative states to “put into code that Jesus Christ is King and dedicate their state to Him”

He wants theocracy, of course.

What do you mean? They are. If we stopped paying Pete we’d have the current US debt payed off in about 149,052,132 years. Maybe add a few hundred thousand years for interest but I don’t believe that’s significant.

Bankrupting America’s future by investing in it.

This is sarcasm gang. I’d put money on it.

Yes. She’d have to be impeached by the House of Representatives, then convicted in the Senate by a 2/3 majority. Basically will never happen.

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I’m sure that when “Mid November 2024” comes around, she’ll suddenly have another reason to delay because Trump will then be appealing the results of the election about 47 times

Hopefully he’ll be in a Georgia prison by then. He can’t pardon his way out of that one either.

Yes, they can appeal to the 11th circuit to have her removed. That’s not an easy thing to do though.

At this point I’m convinced she’s literally in communication with his team or people once removed. This is the most slam dunk case ever. Did he have these documents? Yes. Was he allowed to? No.

Seriously. He doesn’t need to spin. Spin is distorting the truth but keeping it plausible, if false. He will just brazenly lie, explicitly say America would be better off without certain judges and prosecutors (violating gag orders with no real consequences), his supporters will eat it up, some of them will try to harm these people, and he’ll sit back and act surprised, disinterested, or flat out say they deserved it. We have seen it over and over.

If, for example, you have 5 Democrats who can’t go along with this, that means you now need 9 Republicans willing to put their own standing in the party at risk.

I think this is the main reason. Also, you don’t become speaker just to be speaker. You do it to advance further, either to higher elected positions or, more likely, to lucrative party fundraising, consulting, speaking engagements, writing books, and/or private sector positions. In today’s world no speaker who is elected with the help of Democrats has a future in the Republican party, anywhere. It’s career suicide. Not just losing elected office. They will be blacklisted everywhere. It won’t happen.

It’s definitely a serious push. But in true fashion, here’s how it kicked off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXPzS71yx30

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Jordan would be a shit-show of massive proportions. Which is saying something given that it would have to beat out the current shit-show.

EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/us/politics/scalise-jordan-house-speaker.html

Even though the votes on Thursday had clearly stacked up against Mr. Scalise, some of his allies were still surprised by his withdrawal announcement in a closed-door meeting. Several openly wept.

Congress being a circus shouldn’t be funny, but holy shit I lost it at that one.