We ban accounts that use HN primarily for political battle, regardless of which politics they're battling for. We have to, because otherwise this site won't survive for its intended purpose, which is intellectual curiosity.
If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop doing this, we'd appreciate it.
Would you be ok with Stripe stopping payment to the GOP?
Has the GOP, specifically the GOP, advocated for the violent overthrow of the United States Government?
> My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. ~ Grover Norquest
-Rudy Giuliani, 1/6/2021
The transcript and the speech is available here: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/rudy-giuliani-speech-tr...
Over the next 10 days, we get to see the machines that are crooked, the ballots that are fraudulent, and if we’re wrong, we will be made fools of. But if we’re right, a lot of them will go to jail. Let’s have trial by combat. I’m willing to stake my reputation, the President is willing to stake his reputation, on the fact that we’re going to find criminality there. Is Joe Biden willing to stake his reputation that there’s no crime there? No.
There is also a pause around the trial by combat comment that is not evident in the transcript so its probably worth listening to the speech to get the full context.
Kind of hard to know where the line is drawn between "declaring as your leader the man who advocates for a violent overthrow" and "advocating for a violent overthow."
And if they can't, well, we all know Republicans don't trust filling out documents (i.e. ballots) when it isn't done in person. So perhaps the best solution is for supporters to drive to their local GOP office and hand deliver the cash.