Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Dustcan  
Well no, evidence can be fabricated, with politicians a simple accusation can be enough to do harm. He is also an easy target since apparently this guy was known to push his luck at minimum.

@Background Pony #E201  
An investigation would exonerate him if he really did nothing wrong. How could the extort anything from him over that unless he really is guilty?

@WatermelonRat  
John Boehner, swamp creature that he is, has always struck me as more honest when he shares assessments and his perspective post office than a lot of the normal post elected Never Trumpers who just sell their souls to a performative mainstream liberalism. Whether I agree is a different matter but in this case I do believe that he is telling a lot of how he actually felt on it.
 
@NitroFury  

 
I partially disagree. The religious were part of the trifecta of the Reagan, along with, business types and defense hawks. Though that coalition has destabilized in recent years. Defense Hawks couldn’t get along with Trump and a lot of the bussiness types lost their base. The conservatives right now are made up with a lot of disillusioned remnants of various groups that got burned by the left or otherwise left out of progress in some way. What I am interested in is if the these various groups of less religious working class voters, liberals and Pseudoliberals how much they embrace or debase the old conservative order and I have casually seen evidence of both old conservative groups becoming more relaxed on some issues and new arrivals becoming more culturally conservative in some ways.

@UserAccount  
The longer this is going the more it hurts, so you go to the man and say “if you do this thing, we’ll make it all go away”. So theoretically he could be innocent and still be extorted. The story is a bit too crazy though.

I’m kinda hoping he is innocent. Gaetz needs to removed from Congress, yes, but I’d prefer to think there’s less pedophilia rather than more.
 
Failing that and he did pork and underage girl, yeah he needs to have the book thrown at him.

So MLB is moving their 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta in protest of a New Voter Bill in Georgia.

Trump’s campaign bled donors dry. How much longer are his cheerleaders gonna deny he’s such a cheat?

@Vivace  

 
Sounds like it was a desperate maneuver put in during the height of the campaign. That doesn’t make it right though, even if they pay it back, I still find it scummy.

@doloresbridge  
These are people who, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty, were still saying to themselves, “yes, I believe this Trump fellow is trustworthy”.
 
To quote the philosopher William Jones, it’s immoral to let a sucker keep their money.

Dictatorship is cringe
 
Democracy is kek

…hm…  
After reading Ereiam’s reply, and him not knowing how satanist symbols are treated, I might be able to conclude something about wearing a religious garb in France.
 
you can’t wear your religion with sincerity.
 
As long as ppl perceive you to be highly ironic they probably won’t do nothing. You can proclaim to worship big tiddy vampire mama, worship Levi from AoT, claim Jedi as your religion, or practice a super obscure exotic arcane religion that only like 100 people actually believe in, then you’re okay.  
The key point is maybe, that if a religion is seen as a complete joke no matter how serious the practicioners might be, wearing it might not be an issue.
 
Btw Sikh students wear turban and they don’t cut their hair. So…they just have to man-bun it everytime, then? Ereiam you ever had sikh students in yer school? Did they wear the turbans?

@tehwatever  
Sikh turbans are also off-limits (the anti-discrimination commission HALDE was involved in such a case back in 2008).
 
And it’s more like France is big on being a secular republic: public administration workers aren’t allowed to wear religious symbols at work either, however public service users are and so are citizens in public space, where freedom of cult is still allowed as long as it doesn’t disturb the peace — as for private workplaces, labor laws encourage a “neutrality principle” as well (which can also apply to political opinions), however refusing a customer service based on their religion is considered discrimination and reprehensible as such.  
As for public schools, since they’re considered neutral grounds where students are supposed to be free from religious influences in the course of their education, they aren’t allowed such displays either (private schools however are free from those restrictions, which doesn’t sit well with some who consider that double standards).
 
If the religious symbols are showy and easily recognizable, then you’re in trouble (I’m not an educator, but if I had to hazard a guess, going as a pentacle-wearing satanist would probably also be a big no-no). Pretending to be a member of a joke religion and proselytize for it might also be grounds to be sent home or at least get a stern talking-to, depending of how much of a sense of humor the teacher has.

@Ereiam  
Well. Now that you’ve clarified it; it’s not that bad. I guess it’s fine.
 
If not proselytize, but rather just display affection to commercial brands or apolitical identity religiously, does it count as a religious symbol?
 
Like, if you hella into Nike, all your gears Nike, or you only own Apple products, and generally any other religious behavior without a specific “religion”. Because ngl the line between fandom behavior and religious observance is kinda blurry.
 
So between an otherwise inconspicuous hijabi and a guy who obviously wears their snowflake, secular identity upfront, which one more likely to be in trouble with the authority?
 
My guess is, the one more likely to attract more stares would be the one who is more likely to get into trouble.

@tehwatever  
Sadly, corporate branding still has yet to be requalified as sectarian drifting, despite all signs evidencing it as such.
 
In all seriousness though, the law doesn’t cover any unconspicuous religious signs or things you might be able to pass off as a fashion statement (you can wear a bandana instead of a hijab, but if they ask you to take it off in class, you have no choice but comply).  
As for commercial brands in school, there used to be some kind of debate about banning them as well, but I believe it went nowhere.

@Zincy  

 

Everyone has their breaking moment when the Cancel Culture strikes a cord.
 
Just had mine with what’s happening to Vinny of Vinesauce. One of the generally nicest, most humble people on Twitch who raises hundreds of thousands for charity each year. Now, the latest to fall victim to this madness.
 
What’s worse is that one of his supposed friends, and fellow streamer, is a leading voice in this slander. All for what? Some brownie points from a movement that will eat you alive at a moments notice?
 
Don’t think that just because you threw them a body that it’s safe to walk into the vipers pit.

@Zincy  
Cancel Culture is being pushed too far now.

Remember when a black lawmaker got arrested for knocking on a door opposing blatant Jim Crow-esque voter suppression? She’s now looking at a possible 8 year sentence.

@Dustcan  
Yeah, but they took her alive, so… progress!

@Dustcan  
When are the Reps just gonna outright say that they hate black people?  
like it’s an open secret at this point

@Background Pony #1F81  
Yeah,but secret enough to keep their black voters and officials onside.

The event of Evergreen was being stuck happened because the goody-2-shoes hindian captain had refused to give a bribe to a egyptian navigating officer (a steersman) (or other technician) , stubbornly following the zero bribe policy. Unfortunatly the conservative scums have already spread the fairy tale that it happened because the navigating officer was a female. Usually bribes are payed in dollars or in cigarettes.

@Background Pony #5548  
Source?

@Background Pony #5548
 
A navigating officer that, funnily enough, was not on the ship.
 
Because the rampant and unending sexism that pervades that blasted desert wasteland does not yield to such trivialities as…the laws of time and fucking space.

@Zincy  
Welcome to the club. Have a free “#### Cancel Culture” shirt.
 
@Background Pony #1F81  
Because that’d be alienating even the diehard Trump supporters at this point, and they’re all that they have left.