***Official Political Discussion Thread***

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[boris]

Very predictable responses.

 

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[whywesteppin]

Trump isn't going to Alaska

either way, this pretty much guarantees her reelection

 

[dmbrhs]

"Disloyal"...hmmmm, name another word that starts with the letter "D"......

 

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[Nike Jordan]

and she still voted NO for the bill

Another GOP coward and further proof that "moderate" Republicans don't exist.

 

[sonoftony]

he must needs that money, huh

 

[Benny Hinn]

Thank you Queen Abrams. Thank you Georgia.

I hope folks remember this in '22

 

[dinyc3st]

We’re gonna have a bunch of these throwbacks lol

 

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[dinyc3st]

Trump isn't going to Alaska

naw, he’s going so he can see Russia...

 

[blastercombo]

More and more you can see the American Covid situation was completely chalked up to the republicans. Also makes sense that they still deny it. Cant admit what they’ve done

 

[dinyc3st]

It’s like these governors are trying to battle for worst governor award

 

[dinyc3st]

More and more you can see the American Covid situation was completely chalked up to the republicans. Also makes sense that they still deny it. Can admit what they’ve done

Ironically, COVID was a big part of why the Dems won the election. It took a ****ing disease to show the GOP exactly who they are, which we knew already

 

[dinyc3st]

Thank you Queen Abrams. Thank you Georgia.

I hope folks remember this in '22

Kemp’s done. He’s prolly gonna try his best to **** up GA before he gets voted out lol

 

[superblytrife]

So when is the bill hitting Joey B’s desk? Tired of burning thru my sick and annual leave to help my kid out with remote school.

 

[junglejim]

So when is the bill hitting Joey B’s desk? Tired of burning thru my sick and annual leave to help my kid out with remote school.

House votes on it Tuesday and presumably gets sent to Biden either same day or next to sign.

 

[Belgium]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

 

[junglejim]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

Now that’s pretty interesting

 

[elpablo21]

This > Kissing Manchin's pinky ring

 

[gry60]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

The unusual violations in the West campaign’s FEC reports include multiple donations from minors, multiple possible contributions from foreign nationals and several fake names and addresses that trace to drop-shipping warehouses on both coasts. On top of that, experts say, West himself may face an investigation for unlawful fundraising practices that pulled in nearly $100,000 in small donations this year.

Recently, the West campaign’s site removed its online store and paused donations, but it had raised money and shipped items for several weeks after the hip-hop mogul made good on the last of the debt he owed himself, on Jan. 7. Libowitz said that dead campaigns with no debt aren’t allowed to raise money.

“Campaigns can continue raising as long as they have debt on the books, and they can continue to pay costs while working to pay that off. But if the debts have been paid and the candidate has lost, and hasn’t converted the committee to the next campaign cycle, which Kanye has not done, then they can’t raise money. There’s no election for you to legally contribute to. But West continued to sell merch without raising money for debt,” he said, adding, again, “I’ve literally never seen something like this before.”

The manager, a Chinese national, pulled up the profile for donor EBXHE. “That’s my warehouse code for one of my customers,” he said. “This customer purchases multiple items. They have to put this code into the website, so they put this ID on the shipping label.”

Customer EBXHE, who donated on the same day as customer JHWAT, was located in Japan.

It is illegal for campaigns and political committees to knowingly solicit or accept donations from foreign nationals, which the West campaign appears to have done several times.

Facebook user William Heart Fixer Surpris is currently slinging Kanye 2020 merch out of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and a Reddit thread dedicated to gripes about the delays contains a number of comments speculating about “international buyers.”

“You know this was a scam, right?” Jennifer Bloom, mother of 16-year-old West donor Ian Bloom, said in a phone call. Her son, nursing strep throat, explained that he still hasn’t received the $3,280 worth of Kanye 2020 gear that he ordered from the campaign store in late January and planned to flip online.


“I don’t know what’s happening there,” Ian Bloom said. “I ordered like 20 hoodies off his campaign website, along with a lot of other people that I know. They said it would be three weeks, and after that I emailed the support team, and the email just wasn’t a thing.”

He provided a screenshot of an email that had bounced back from the campaign, showing that his address had been blocked. After that, Bloom said, he called his credit card company to dispute and cancel the charge, which he said is still under investigation.

Students account for more than 1,200 of the campaign’s 3,161 reported donations, contributing a total $349,160, with $26,540 of that coming in this year. Bloom, who communicates with other resellers on Discord social media boards, said that “I can say with confidence that at least half of us in the group have to be still in high school.”

It is illegal to knowingly solicit and accept campaign donations from anyone under the age of 18. The West campaign did not reply to a request for comment for this article.

The Daily Beast spoke with two other West donors who said they were in high school. They gave in January, and also complained that they still hadn’t received their items.

Fifteen-year-old Andres Zapata donated $1,300 in late January, but said the promised hoodies still haven’t arrived.

 

[whywesteppin]

naw, he’s going so he can see Russia...

it's funny because that's a part of Russia that most of Russia has never seen or even really knows about.