US Politics February 2019: This is one of the great losers of all time.

Where are we in bloody marys?

*on

not enough votes in the Senate

I dislike drinking salad.

I have never had a mimosa but you're kinda making me want to try one

love a good bloody mary

Yeh see I don’t think shitting on the enthusiasm and a broadly popular dem policy agenda makes you an effective Speaker.

xposts

i think everyone recognizes that pelosi is a generational legislative talent, she has done many more good things than bad in her career. but she doesn't have to be defended every single time she fucks up. dismissively calling it the "green dream or whatever they call it" is fucking up. yes, she's been burned before, yes, if the caucus gets behind it she will get the votes. but it's still fucking up. there are many ways to register general disapproval of a plan. then there's calling it the "green dream or whatever they call it". she's a big girl, we can say that we totally disagree with her without attacking her legacy and her ability to get things done

effective as she may be (compared to dopes like Boehner or Ryan), at some point everyone Yasss Kweening is just going to have to come to grips with the fact that she just personally doesn’t support effective climate change legislation or a M4A

clapping sarcastically at Trump doesn’t really improve anyone’s life

fyi, Rush Lumbago pronounces "Ocasio-Cortez" with a Zorro-style lisp, and says the Green New Deal would phase out air travel in ten years

she has said the clapping was not sarcastic fwiw

just imagine a Republican in a leadership position who doesn’t (at least in the press) support “life at conception” and cutting taxes

and from the safest of the safe red states no less

she has said the clapping was not sarcastic fwiw

― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, February 7, 2019

goddammit this is the last straw

maybe she was being sarcastic when she said the clapping wasn't sarcastic?

xxp Not sure what you mean, Will, you should read the (very brief) article. she says in the interview that climate change is her “flagpole priority” and she’s right that GND is more a slogan not ready to go legislation. the dream remark is given without broader context, sounds dumb but...

(ftr I don't care about the clapping but it is funny given the mass-meme-production)

Liberals who believe this was a gesture of defiance give you some clue how liberals view political defiance. pic.twitter.com/NcSSWA3gVC

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) February 6, 2019

see also: Jose Altuve looking slightly serious while Donald Trump spoke at the Astros' post-World Series White House visit and everyone crowing that he was owning Donald Trump or w/e

just personally doesn’t support effective climate change legislation or a M4A

cool, so now we've gone from criticizing an off-hand (but yes, ultimately unhelpful) comment to baldfaced misrepresentation.

time for the virginia republicans

Breaking: Virginia Sen. Tommy Norment was an editor for VMI yearbook filled with racist photos and slurshttps://t.co/S3Tcj5qIF2

— The Virginian-Pilot (@virginianpilot) February 7, 2019

Yeah I was wondering when that would happen.

lol

Dems finally went yearbook huntin'

The thing about Dennis Perrin tweets is that Morbs is funnier saying the exact same things. Why outsource?

Not quite as big a catch as three governors but still

What happens if the entire VA government has racist yearbook photos?

Year of the Yearbook

it's not a catch because as noted, no GOPers will resign over this - esp when they can point to the Dem governor and say "well, HE didn't resign over it, why should I? (also blackface is funny, lighten up!)"

/ just personally doesn’t support effective climate change legislation or a M4A/

cool, so now we've gone from criticizing an off-hand (but yes, ultimately unhelpful) comment to baldfaced misrepresentation.

high roading

Asked about Pelosi's "green dream" dig, @AOC says she's not offended. "It *is* a green dream."@SenMarkey jumps in and says, "There is no greater champion on climate change than Nancy Pelosi."

— Alexander Kaufman (@AlexCKaufman) February 7, 2019

savvy

yep

yup

yeeeeep
What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

the Virginia blackface thing is a weird entry point to the discussion of 'ZOMG AMERICA IS RACIST???' like it takes literal dudes in blackface and klan robes to get people riled up..

It's an easy line for casual racists (i.e. those who haven't put the energy into so blatantly externalizing their racism) to draw.

I feel like there's a great Secret of My Success/King Ralph style 80s movie where every politician in Virginia has a blackface photo until they get to a schlubby first-term Representative who is only in office because he registered as a candidate as a joke then the long-time incumbent had a heart attack at the last minute and he "won" with 100 or so votes and now he's governor

lol that is uh, not how this works

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/428966-whitaker-threatens-to-cancel-house-testimony-after-democrats

I’m excited to join @AOC and @EdMarkey to introduce the #GreenNewDeal. Climate change is real, it threatens all of us, & we have no time to waste to address it head-on.

— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 7, 2019

hell yeah

Warren seems pretty good, can't wait for her heritage to become the new e-mails

...it takes literal dudes Democrats in blackface and klan robes to get people riled up.

It's so weird that people can elect a president who says he can grab em by the pussy, but if you slightly exaggerate a percent of your heritage, then you are disqualified.

earlier this week

“I support a Green New Deal … Climate change is an existential threat to us and we have got to deal with the reality of it,” Kamala Harris says. #HarrisTownHall https://t.co/0EMGUsQFut pic.twitter.com/HJIG0HFQDr

— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2019

It's so weird that people can elect a president who says he can grab em by the pussy, but if you slightly exaggerate a percent of your heritage, then you are disqualified.

no it's not have you seen these people ?

I mean it's not just that, 12 women came out to say Donald Trump definitely sexually assaulted them and people just kinda forgot. which made all the "concern" about the Al Franken thing so gross

concern about franken wasn't gross, lack of concern about trump was

ppl didn't forget, they didn't give a fuck