She appears to be just as awful as all the other Trumpers.
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Thank God, "the road to socialism will not run through Georgia."
Thank God General Sherman did.
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@jonhite , yes, that seems to have certainly been very smart of him. Nothing like burning people out entirely, animals and all, crops and all, to make good citizens out of them, amiright?
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@jb
Dude, read some history...
It worked for Germany after WWI, did it not?
Ruining people always makes them better. And, its the American way.
Thank you.
Please please look professional and do something with that hair! So she contributed heavily to the GOP. Who cares about Georgia?
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Effusive praise and expressions of allegiance for Dear Leader from republicans have become eerie and scary now. The list of things "she knows" near the article's end is plainly a catechism. We're dealing with a unified cult-like group who've been indoctrinated for years. TV networks, mega-churches, stables of authors and radio programming--all supported by oligarchs for several generations have wrought this. It's now intruding into the world outside the cult, but has taken form through a campaign so successful that it's like a sea monster rising from the waves before us. Clinton told us years ago that there was a "vast right-wing conspiracy, just to be laughed to scorn. But the times have given it proof. The democrats will need to unify to defeat it. We may not get another chance.
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I would have preferred Collins. At least with him one sees at first sight he has to be avoided and not be met unless with other people around in the room. She looks nice, what makes her more dangerous. And ia the reason Kemp chose her, of course.
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Surely Ms. Loeffler is a much better Businessperson than Donald Trump: I've read nothing of bankruptcies she's claimed, or hundreds-million bond offerings she has defaulted upon, though Trump has committed both. I've read nothing claiming Ms. Loeffler has stiffed contractors, which has been a common Trump tactic in his business career. Perhaps Trump just doesn't like Ms. Loeffler's approach to business. One thing for certain: Ms. Loeffler is a much better choice for GA than any Trump-suggested alternative.
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Washington is fundamentally broken because the Republicans have changed their oath of office as an oath to Trump.
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How can she just be appointed? Don’t we get to vote for our representatives? Shouldn’t there be a special election?
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@Elli: It's state law. Change it if you can.
Cryptocurrencies, the perfect store of value and medium of exchange for fuzzy-minded reactionary non-producers. How appropriate.
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"Like Ivanka Trump, Kelly is smart, accomplished and a savvy businesswoman."
I guess if you consider marrying the boss to be 'smart' then she is an entrepreneurial genius... just like Trump!
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If she's going to Washington to clear the swamp she can begin with Donald Trump and the Republican party.
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The picture accompanying this article says it all about the complete rot this country has descended into. What are we talking about now? Brian Kemp's "favorite" vs. Trump's stooge? Why is Kemp so intent on putting this "untested" wealthy individual in a Senate seat? Why is Trump so intent on putting up his own candidate now, rather than just endorse a GOP candidate during the election?
What are we talking about when we discuss Georgia politics? An illegitimate governor who is corrupt and intent on rigging the next election.
This is what gross looks like in an oligarchy. This is what we are now.
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Newsflash: there’s nothing conservative about today’s Republican Party, and there sure is heck isn’t anything conservative about Donald Trump.
Trump thinks he is king of the world. He has no business telling a governor of any state whom he/she should nominate in circumstances such as this. The man's ego and petulance have no bounds. He surely has sullied the high office he holds.
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It's the same old wolf only in a dress.
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So Ms. Loeffler shares "conservative values" with Mr. Kemp.
At this point, only they could possible know what conservative values are.
Free trade? No.
Honesty? No.
Respect for women? No.
Fiscal responsibility? No.
Moral integrity? No.
Compassion? No.
Rule of law? No.
I hope Ms. Loeffler enjoys her new career, with that special focus on stroking Trump's ego that only Republicans can truly understand.
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Conservative "values."
God help us.
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Citing Trump and Ivanka as your role models should make anyone immediately suspicious...
‘You wanted incompetence and corruption? You got it.’
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I love this quote:
"Like Ivanka Trump, Kelly is smart, accomplished and a savvy businesswoman."
I guess if you know how to ride the coattails of your corrupt father, it makes you so. Who's her daddy? I guess her uber-rich husband.....
So sick and tired of ultra-wealthy white people dominating the debate. "Socialism will not run through Georgia." Code for " We rich folk want to keep every dime we extort and make sure the government continues to rig the playing field in our favor."
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Blondie will soon be on Fox News (as long as her husband approves). She has no real credentials other than her husband's wealth.
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Rep Collins should resign his house seat and join the Trump Administration.
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Why on earth would this backwards thinking woman own a team in the WNBA ?
She seems more suited to finance a group female militia members...
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Why do women frighten him so?
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He owes nothing to Trump, except a quick back-hand to emphasis the statement, "Shut up and mind your own business, which you clearly cannot handle."
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Another Elaine chao delivering graft to her family.
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Another Grifter’s puppet.
A little diversity from Republicans would be nice to her and see.
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Apparently, Kelly Loeffler, like Gov. Kemp, doesn't have the political sense God gave a billygoat. If she had more, she would graciously refuse Gov. Kemp's appointment and throw her support to Rep. Doug Collins' senatorial appointment as the true Peoples' choice. If she doesn't, she had better enjoy the few months she has left of her political career, as should Gov. Kemp.
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@batazoid I guess it goes to show you there is no honor amongst thieves.
Sometimes, even the biggest thief gets trumped.
All you need to do to be a Republican these days is, take a loyalty oath to the blubbery orange liar, overlook any corruption by party members and pretend to be a patriot, while you stuff your pockets full of cash.
This is now the party of corruption, immorality and criminality.
That's what they chose when they picked Trump.
Let's see how that works out for them in the future...
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There is no more pro science, pro jobs, pro education and pro healthcare for the Republicans. It is pro trump, pro guns, pro wall, pro tax cuts and pro fossil fuels.
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Kemp stole that governorship, so it is no surprise that he would nominate a conservative rich toady. Why would we want to have someone in public office that actually knows what they are doing?
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How on earth is this setting up a clash with Trump.
Like all her GOP colleagues she is going to hold her nose and rubber-stamp whatever Trump says and does.
No different from any other GOP senator, with the possible exception of Mitt Romney (although the jury is still out on that one).
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You must be good with all of this. Else why would you call them a GRAND OLD PARTY, not once but twice?
Don't build their brand.
Don't give them cover.
Don't be complicit.
Call. Them. By. Their. Name.
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@Lorem Ipsum
As a graphic designer of some note (my daughter loves my birthday cards) I do not hesitate to point out the odd propriety of your nom de comment "Lorem Ipsum".
Isn't that the empty-headed, utterly meaningless fake paragraphs of type designers throw into proposed projects because, being artists, they have nothing worthwhile to say? Nor the interest to say it?
Now I am no expert, nor am I able to devote my full time to appreciating legislative ins and outs and nuances, but I swear I've seen Senators on a par with the soon-to-be-Honorable-Loeffler Lorem Ipsuming their way through debates and committee meetings.
No brain. Plenty of volume.
All of which is to ask, in the heady Spirit of Brevity, a trademark of my work here, "What are you talking about?"
I guess its official.
If you're rich enough, they just hand you a Senate seat.
If you're not, go away.
Could be that explains why the rich are immeasurably richer and the country can't afford to put a fresh orange in a school lunch. And other stuff.
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"I am not a career politician."
Why is there such an animus against career politicians in politics? What other field would you want to be staffed by unqualified people of other professions? Imagine if your doctor said "Don't worry, I'm not a career surgeon."
I always imagined we'd evolve into a country led by experts. It seems we're evolving into the opposite - whoever is least qualified is most fit to lead.
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@Dan
Being a politician shouldn't be a lifetime career. If we want a government of and for the people, then our representatives need to come from and actually represent the people instead of being a permanent political class. The animus towards "career politicians" is that, in the absence of any other career or trade in their lives, they have no real-world context for any of the effects of politics. Similar to how someone in a PhD track in academia can become a major expert on something, but has never worked a day in their life. It's rather hard for the mass of people on the outside of that experience to fully respect the people on the inside, and vice versa. The minimum wage would probably not be so low if we had more reps who have worked in retail or in a restaurant within recent history.
Many (and perhaps most? I don't have numbers) Reps and Senators had a real professional career before running for office. Usually as lawyers or doctors or business people, given the class pool that tends to make it that far in politics. There are very few tradesmen in politics, possibly because they have more sense and decency! But it would be great to have more reps from all career backgrounds. Recall how shamefully tech-illiterate our congress was (and still is!) when they were trying to grill Zuckerberg. Less of THAT, please.
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Unfortunately your theory doesn’t hold because understanding our laws and the way civics work requires full time commitment.
Ask Loeffler how committees work or to draft a bill. I bet she doesn’t know. So she’ll have to rely on the career people in order to actually do her job.
The average citizen’s understanding of civics and how government actually works is woefully lacking. That is why we actually need our career politicians and diplomats. The hope is that they will be civil servants and not self-serving.
Our president doesn’t get that concept. Electing an “outsider” is no guarantee of anything.
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@Nick
Also unfortunate is the grey cloak of mystery thrown up by "tech".
Zuckerberg may be the wizard some imagine him to be (unlikely) but, tech or no tech, he is a blatant liar, ideologue, arrogant advocate for the moral and ethical value of lots and lots of money.
And a fourth-rate Eddie Haskell impersonator.
Zuck's testimony was framed as a civics lesson prissily presented to the bosses of civics.
"I'm allowing the most corrupt President in the history of the planet (lots of people, by the way, say so) to lie, slander, invite foreign corruption, and crank out propaganda that has been demonstrated to sway elections in undeniable ways, because I love Free Speech (sniff)...I just love it so much...".
Tech...
On a happier note: "... a PhD track in academia can become a major expert on something, but has never worked a day in their life"
Really, Dude?
Chris: That is actually false. My comments are not meant to endorse her or her political positions but she has a lengthy business career. She worked for 7 years after college (1992) for Toyota and then got an MBA. Subsequently, she worked for Citibank and a number of other companies until 2002 where she began working for the International Exchange (IE) in financial services becoming a VP (corporate communications). She became a CEO in 2018 for a subsidiary of IE. She has a business career of at least 29 years. She didn't marry until 2004; her current spouse is CEO of IE. She's 49 and has been involved in politics in Georgia since at least 2012.
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And yet she backs Trump and his gross politics and misogyny. Female voters will not back her just because she’s a woman. We are smarter than she is.
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Not a Republican. Not a fan of our governor. BUT, I do applaud his defying the president with this appointment. Having said that, it does make me anxious that her appointment will do the trick to make Georgia redder.
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@Kate Just let Trump unload some of his trash on her, she might decide to become a Democrat. If she has only been active in Georgia politics since 2012 being a Republican was the only road to success, as Trump gets impeached and the GOP gets weak she may decide that the road to success is really a dead end and change lanes.
We need to become proud and loud Democrats again, we have a history of providing a long line of fine Democrats to govern this country. Ms. Loeffler is not going to make Georgia redder, she is too bright for that.
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@Kate, why would it make the state redder? She'll be replacing a Republican senator. No way would Kemp replace Isakson with a Dem. I just like the appointment since it ticked off Trump.
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Trump gets along with, or even tolerates, his own sycophants only.
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Taken on the "status quo"? She is part of the status quo, rich, blond, white, and female!!
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@R4L
Excuse me? Being “female” is not the status quo. Rich and white, yes.
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Nice to see that Brian Kemp's theft of the Georgia governorship via voter file purges is paying dividends.
Register and vote in historic numbers, America.
The radical right has no bottom.
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Word from friends in GA is that Loeffler is Pro-Religious Freedom. Such a position calls into question her business bonifides.
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The comments of the Governor are hilarious:
“Like Senator Perdue, Kelly is an outsider,” meaning... she is rich and will donate to my campaign. “Like Ivanka Trump, Kelly is smart, accomplished and a savvy businesswoman, meaning ...Daddy and Husband gave them the money to play the businesswoman." And like our president, Kelly is ready to take on the status quo, the politically correct, and the special interests. Meaning...we will tell her how to vote, she will be a puppet and the Republican voters will never realize we are actually the swamp if we tell them instead others are...and by the way in 2 months she will be getting her husband hefty government deals which in turn will give Trump and the Governor tons of donations.
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Note to liberals criticizing this woman: sometimes being annoying to President Bone Spurs is all we get. It's not as though it was between her and Stacey Abrams. It was always going to be a right winger.
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@Laurence Bachmann yep!
a politically untested "business executive"
Why does that ring a bell?
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Loeffler calls herself “a lifelong conservative. Pro-Second Amendment. Pro-military. Pro-wall. And pro-Trump"?
Sounds like she memorized the Trump loyalty-test verbiage perfectly. The *only* criteria for being a Republican candidate now, it seems.
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Republicans get it. She is "pro" everything like the 2nd amendment and the military, openly pitting democrats as opponents. At least, she's candid, it's all about the judges.
Backwards thinking comes in many forms.
Wake up democrats!
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We've substituted a vehemently pro-Trump candidate with a party-line pro-Trump candidate. Our situation is not improved.
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Politically untested and she married her rich boss. Which one of these experiences made the governor think she was qualified for the Senate?
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@TEB
"Marrying your rich boss" is what would impress a Republican man.
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sounds like big corporations will run the u.s. government. Instead of United States of America, it will be Corporates of America.
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@kunio
The CSA.
No, no, not the Confederate States of America, but the Corporate States of America.
Is there really a difference?
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Whatever her politics, I'm happy with the devil I don't know rather than Doug Collins who was promoted by Trump and the Perdue brothers.
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Let's be clear: Ms Loeffler isn't merely an "untested business executive." She held just one job after college with Toyota for a couple of years before getting her MBA. Then, within 2 years of starting at the InterContinental Exchange (in communications and investor relations), she married the CEO.
It's his money, BTW, that's being pledged for the next run.
So, not sure what America is getting out of this appointment but I can only imagine that there were other eminently qualified individuals out there.
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@Chris
Another sad day for Georgia.
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@Chris Well, look at the bright side--she doubles your GOP women count and so you'll look slightly less piggish as a party, well maybe not.
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