US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

that's a good one

"they go low, we hit harder" lmao ok sure let's become the party of mangled clichés

You'll Have a Job and a Doctor

so is this thread continuing like this all day or

would you prefer we went back to arguing over whether or not emigration is an acceptable political strategy or which nicknames are acceptable

I don't see what Collins thinks she is gaining by still playing coy at this point. Unless she really is planning a McCain moment (he voted for cloture on the ACA repeal too, before voting against the final bill)... but idk that seems really unlikely

actually pretending to give a shit about their voting bloc would be a nice change

there is such a tangible, almost unprecedented sense of pure anger over the Kavanaugh thing. and the Dems response is...voicing procedural complaints

imagine for a moment "democrats" / "liberals" had the convictions of our TEA*party friends and showed up at town halls and flooded phones lines of asshole republicans demanding to see the manchurian candidate's birth certificate. it's impossible. it's too ridiculous :)

it would be wonderful to deliver a punch to lindsey graham

would love to but afaict his skull contains mostly congealed fat and dead fragments of brain matter so he would probably feel nothing

*tax returns ;)

You'll Have a Job and a Doctor

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 5, 2018 11:43 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like this

where's the tax returns?

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, October 5, 2018 10:42 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's a good one

― Trϵϵship, Friday, October 5, 2018 10:42 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it worked out great for us

morbs 2020 no what am i saying

"he promised during the campaign, asshole republican candidate x! let's see already. why not?"

"Destroy them."

there is such a tangible, almost unprecedented sense of pure anger over the Kavanaugh thing. and the Dems response is...voicing procedural complaints

― frogbs, Friday, October 5, 2018 8:44 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk man this feels like really selective hearing to me

i know gillebrand isn't on the committee and is obv vying for a presidential aura but her speech on the senate floor the other week was a motherfucker

She seems to be the only pres hopeful with a working compass

(some of the time)

also i'll never spell her name right for the life of me

yeah it worked out great for us

hillary never insisted on it. not even close. and it's not the only thing 'the resistance' (or whatever) should scream about. far from it! but has no one in the DNC dealt with asshole bullies before? you fuck with them right back (or enjoy your supposed superiority complex while you can, when they're not bossing you around and stealing reproductive rights)

there is such a tangible, almost unprecedented sense of pure anger over the Kavanaugh thing. and the Dems response is...voicing procedural complaints

― frogbs, Friday, October 5, 2018

Not what I'm seeing from many women I know.

Hoping that something this outrageous is enough of a stimulus to respond to massively, whereas something remotely resembling justice might not be.
Seeing Trump's benefit as a catalyst to react to seems to have motivated a lot over the last couple of years.
BUt still this does seem to be something that is going to cause a lot of damage.

Cross my fingers and hope for the best. Rose tinted spectacly or whatever.

actually pretending to give a shit about their voting bloc would be a nice change

there is such a tangible, almost unprecedented sense of pure anger over the Kavanaugh thing. and the Dems response is...voicing procedural complaints

there's either going to be 0 dems voting for kavanaugh or 1, that 1 being a guy from the state donald trump won by the largest margin. what else are senate dems supposed to do here? there are more republicans in the senate, that is really all that matters in the end.

The trillbillies speak for us all I think

Joe Manchin deserves to contract river blindness. An unparalleled example of chickenshitedness.

— 💀🎃🦉🦉🦉KILL BILLies🦇🦇🦇🎃💀 (@thetrillbillies) October 5, 2018

Sen. @JeffFlake says he'll vote YES on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Live coverage on @MSNBC.

— Christina Ginn (@NBChristinaGinn) October 5, 2018

this is the last puzzle piece of the coup that these fuckers have been planning ever since Nixon resigned

RIP USA

Well, as Gore Vidal once said, there's a lot more nadir to come.

so basically the vote isn't going to be a mystery at all by 3 pm unless someone is trolling McConnell House of Cards style...

she could also test the waters with a "no" announcement later, knowing full well she'll be visited by Jowls O'Connell to reset her later that day.

silby, once again pushing the envelope

things can always get worse, and they will

Things will get better. This all seems absurd.

can we keep that crap out of this thread, cos i doubt anybody's actually offended by it, but who wants the FBI subpoenaing this thread.....

at least steer them to the various hen fap threads

xxxpost

i'm increasingly convinced we're lurching towards violent american conflict before this administration hits an 8th year.

Someone here is otm

I'll keep checking until Kavanaugh is confirmed and then, yeah, I'm gonna be taking that prolonged news vacation. Gotta lot of vomiting to catch up on.

what else are senate dems supposed to do here?

tell voters they'll impeach him over perjury and do a real investigation if he gets confirmed

I am definitely not looking into buying a bunch of drones to deliver mifepristone and DUMPLINGS! on demand.

It was nice knowing ILX

silby, stop. Seriously.

Silby stop it

New poll from @latimes finds nearly every targeted House district tipping toward the Democrats. https://t.co/mixFblxcAY

— Alexei Koseff (@CapitolAlert) October 4, 2018

there's your good news

Polls are for virgins who can't even drive.

so weird that garbage-person Dana Rohrabacher's critical constituency may turn out to be... conservative Vietnamese? wtf

Rohrabacher also benefits from significant support among Asian Americans, who make up about 1 in 8 of the likely voters. Elsewhere in California, Asian Americans lean heavily toward the Democrats, but this district includes a large, conservative Vietnamese population. Asian American voters overall divide almost equally between Rohrabacher and Rouda, the poll found.

does anyone remember when the President of the United States publicly claimed that sexual assault survivors were a dastardly plot by The Jew

Mitch McConnell is unquestionably the world's drabbest evil genius. It's like America is being destroyed by one plain rice cake.

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) July 19, 2018

Things will get better. This all seems absurd.

― Trϵϵship, Friday, October 5, 2018 11:13 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

things won't get better on their own.

Rohrabacher also benefits from significant support among Asian Americans, who make up about 1 in 8 of the likely voters. Elsewhere in California, Asian Americans lean heavily toward the Democrats, but this district includes a large, conservative Vietnamese population. Asian American voters overall divide almost equally between Rohrabacher and Rouda, the poll found.

I would guess it's a similar situation to older cubans