US Election 2020

[rainbow]

National Guard in the Capitol.

We in Africa provide tents for our soldiers.

Perhaps we could send some of our used ones as an Aid Package to the USA?

[JimC]

They're all in a drunken stupor...

[pErvinalia]

Donald farted and knocked them all out.

[NineBerry]

It shows how dangerous wearing masks is. Even healthy soldiers brought to the floor from wearing masks!

[Scot Dutchy]

Nothing helps when you are pissed.

[Brian Peacock]

Scot Dutchy,

You know what "TB" means, we know what "TB" means. You've been reminded, warned, and suspended for it already and yet you recently used it here, here, here, and here. Use it as a personal attack again, or anything similar we construe to be a variation thereon, and you'll probably find yourself on an impromptu posting holiday.

Yer mods

[Joe]

It's not a flavor of Kool-Aide, like Tropical Berry?

[Woodbutcher]

Tony Blair?

[laklak]

Tweety Bird.

[Hermit]

Treasured Buddy

[Scot Dutchy]

Club for Growth? Of course their growth.

Billionaires backed Republicans who sought to reverse US election results

Guardian analysis shows Club for Growth has spent $20m supporting 42 rightwing lawmakers who voted to invalidate Biden victory

An anti-tax group funded primarily by billionaires has emerged as one of the biggest backers of the Republican lawmakers who sought to overturn the US election results, according to an analysis by the Guardian.

The Club for Growth has supported the campaigns of 42 of the rightwing Republicans senators and members of Congress who voted last week to challenge US election results, doling out an estimated $20m to directly and indirectly support their campaigns in 2018 and 2020, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

About 30 of the Republican hardliners received more than $100,000 in indirect and direct support from the group.

The Club for Growth’s biggest beneficiaries include Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz, the two Republican senators who led the effort to invalidate Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and the newly elected far-right gun-rights activist Lauren Boebert, a QAnon conspiracy theorist. Boebert was criticised last week for tweeting about the House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location during the attack on the Capitol, even after lawmakers were told not to do so by police.

Public records show the Club for Growth’s largest funders are the billionaire Richard Uihlein, the Republican co-founder of the Uline shipping supply company in Wisconsin, and Jeffrey Yass, the co-founder of Susquehanna International Group, an options trading group based in Philadelphia that also owns a sports betting company in Dublin.

While Uihlein and Yass have kept a lower profile than other billionaire donors such as Michael Bloomberg and the late Sheldon Adelson, their backing of the Club for Growth has helped to transform the organization from one traditionally known as an anti-regulatory and anti-tax pro-business pressure group to one that backs some of the most radical and anti-democratic Republican lawmakers in Congress.