Haven't checked Twitter yet. Time to see how much Hannity's been freaking out.

Well it was software aimed at religious people

MSM has been blowing this up tonight. It's the lead story on both big networks since it came out.

Nate says 2/3 of votes were cast early.

Remember how the Trump Organization was going to track all of the money spent in their businesses by foreign governments and then donate that money to charity in order to ensure that President Trump wasn't getting any illegal emoluments? Well, apparently, keeping track of all that cash is, like, really, really, hard and stuff, so they just told the House Oversight Committee that they're not planning on keeping very good records, and they'll probably fail to record some monies from time to time. NBD, right guys.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...nments/527997/

[Elijah Cummings (D) confirmed mad, requests receipts. Jason Chaffetz (R) has no comment. I think he may be troubled. Current ability to look daughter in her eyes is unclear]

I just realized there might be some hope. When Mueller gets briefed by Comey and the others from the IC, it's gonna be real hard for him to spend years on the investigation after all these highly credible people were stressing major urgency.

WTF kind of counterargument is that?? "I can't get in trouble for emoluments because I took so much from so many people that it's impossible to give you the correct amount to hold me accountable for."

Seriously, no wonder Cummings is pissed. Chaffetz finds it inappropriate to be troubled about an ongoing investigation?

You know you're in trouble when Casper pulls their ads. That **** is on like 90% of podcasts.

Look at the list. Go get em!!!!! I'm going einbert on your ass.

https://www.mediamatters.org/researc...rtisers/216607

did gianforte gain votes with that? We all know every vote for him instantly reacted something like "he deserved it and we ain't gonna take liberal ****!".

I really think he will gain votes because of this.

https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/sta...71241523200000

If he wins and has to be replaced, what then? The governor is a D.

Edit: I guess the governor calls another special election in 85 to 100 days, per wiki.

Also, I really like that wolf/sheep cartoon.

They'd have to hold a special election.

Of course. The clerk blames the ****ty life of living in the middle of Bum****, MT where the only job is working at hellhole gas stations for minimum wage on the liberal elite. That guy is a hero to these people. The press are the enemy and deserve what they get.

If he wins, he has to be removed by a vote in the House. Otherwise, he can literally serve his term from jail. There is a chance he would resign.

Obv, but sometimes stuff like the Noah ark thing is baffling because all it takes is a lil critical thinking and logical deduction to realize it's stupid and almost certainly not true. Skills I'd assume a very successful software designer would have.

But there are other factors like being indoctrinated at birth, and the fact that believing or even pretending to believe in such things can be super beneficial.

Dude is a billionaire in Montana. He is never ever going to jail. Like ever. He'll pay a fine and go to counseling if that.

Poor Sean. Dude's taking a break the rest of the week. I'm sure it has nothing to do w/ sponsors dropping like flies though.

Dude needs to go to jail. You have FNC reporters describing a brutal attack. There can be no doubt of his guilt and his unsuitability for office. Fascist dickhead. Would you even want to serve with such a person in the House? Dude might beat the **** out of you for declining to support his bill. Ridiculous.

Or he's the next president. He's not getting arrested obv.

Gianforte being charged with a misdemeanor, not a felony:


https://twitter.com/wabermes/status/867599106922995713

Also, the Missoulian (largest newspaper in the second largest city in the state) had endorsed Gianforte, and they have rescinded that endorsement. Stuff like that matters to a good number of the kind of voters who are still on the fence about voting tomorrow.

That's like when your parents tell you your dog went to a farm upstate where he'll have more room to run and play.

I've actually been following this race pretty intensely and have done some phonebanking* for Rob Quist, who is totally ****ing awesome. A few months ago, there was a bipartisan-ish movement to move the election to a mail ballot only election, like they do in Oregon. It came out that Gianforte didn't want that, because he thought he'd do better with traditional in person voting on election day, so the movement died in the state legislature.

Oops.

*I wish I had done a lot more than I did, though.

His skills are more business-y and less software design-y. Although I was told he wrote a little bit of code in the earliest versions. RightNow had a very competent CTO from very early on though, who was the actual designer.

That said, he always seemed pretty competent as far as running the business (as far as I could tell; or at least he was capable of hiring the right people), and it was actually a good company to work for. There was never any pushing of his religious views, or weird politics internally, at least that I ever heard of. It is hard to imagine how people compartmentalize this **** but he seems to have managed it at least in that regard.

Reminds me of research on intelligence and political orientation. Whatever it is that explains how someone like Greg Gianforte became a YEC, it's probably not that he's lacking in raw intelligence.