Joe Money, Joe Problems: the November 2021 U.S. Politics Thread

For anyone who needs to hear it. @VP is not only a vital partner to @POTUS but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country—from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband.

— Jen Psaki (@PressSec) November 15, 2021

My "the VP definitely isn't planning on running for President in 2024" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.

Seems bad to have to put out a tweet like this

I was waiting for the light rail yesterday and a guy hollered "Let's Go Brandon!" into empty air apropos of absolutely nothing (like, the train wasn't even delayed or too crowded or anything, literally nothing was wrong) and then looked around all pleased with himself. Is that a thing now, people just yelling "Let's Go Brandon" in public places all by themselves?

― Lily Dale, Sunday, November 14, 2021 9:49 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

look it took conservatives a decade to learn a second joke after "I identify as an attack helicopter" of course they're gonna beat this one into the ground

also the numbers for Biden look fucking awful maybe he should try to pass one of the massively popular policies he campaigned on

maybe he should try to pass

I don't think he hasn't tried. But there's this separation of powers thing in the US government that means the president can't pass bills just because he wants to pass them. You can look it up.

Gotta wonder what kind of conservative takes light rail. Public transit is for lib sissies

Gotta wonder what kind of conservative takes light rail. Public transit is for lib sissies

Presumably his insecurity about this was what caused his outburst. They're like small children, you know? Take them out of their comfort zone and they start screaming and stomping their feet in the middle of the store aisle.

Haha ok

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Beto O’Rourke, former Senate and presidential candidate, says he will run for Texas governor in 2022.

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) November 15, 2021

Here ends the McConaissance.

If Abbott gets primaried by some nutcase Beto could win

^^^

If Abbott gets primaried by some nutcase Beto could win

i'd bet on the nutcase in winning in TX

can't see him winning but I like Beto and think he's a better media presence than 95% of the Democrats getting coverage today

btw re: Biden's flagging approval ratings, has the man received a single positive headline since his first month in office? feel like Trump, despite garnering overwhelmingly negative coverage, would at least get a respite when he read an entire State of the Union speech off a prompter or started bombing the Middle East. Biden ain't even getting that. I guess the media's doing their job!

If Abbott gets primaried by some nutcase Beto could win

Nope. In that case, the nutcase wins. O'Rourke is either going to flame out in the Democratic primary, or lose the general election badly. How do I know? Because in his opening video message, he's talking about "pushing past small and divisive politics." Loser talk. We are in a "crush your enemies, see them driven before you" period in American politics, and sadly, only one party seems to know it.

What if he punches out a camel on camera?

btw re: Biden's flagging approval ratings, has the man received a single positive headline since his first month in office? feel like Trump, despite garnering overwhelmingly negative coverage, would at least get a respite when he read an entire State of the Union speech off a prompter or started bombing the Middle East. Biden ain't even getting that. I guess the media's doing their job!

as far as the MSM is concerned Biden sucks because he is not out at the ports loading trucks himself therefore this whole supply chain thing is his fault.

yeah its amazing that not one Dem outside of certain progressive house members seem to see it that way, given how overt the GOP has been about it the last 5 years. in my state the Republican governor lost the election and as his final act signed a bill stripping a whole bunch of powers from his own office. they're currently drawing up districts for which Democrats would have to win like 70% of the vote just to win an equal # of seats. this is all-out warfare and its becoming more and more obvious that Democrats only really want to function as controlled opposition

If Abbott gets primaried by some nutcase Beto could win

Beto would lose to an actual case full of nuts as long as it was a Republican and owned a gun.

leahy exit stage right

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the longest serving Democrat in the Senate, announces his retirement.

"It's time to come home." pic.twitter.com/QSvw9qFpCM

— Zach Purser Brown (@zachjourno) November 15, 2021

Beto’s “we’re coming for your ARs” line from his Presidential run means I have a better chance of being elected governor.

none of you have yet realized that by "nutcase" I mean Matthew McConaughey

Gotta wonder what kind of conservative takes light rail. Public transit is for lib sissies

a woman whose mask said GOVERNMENT MANDATED MUZZLE approached me while waiting for a train on the same light rail system last week, and demanded to know what one was supposed to do if they had come onto "the platform that is heading the wrong way"

wait for an earthquake to turn the platform the right way

Just walk onto the train backwards. You'll be fine.

We were in Salem MA last week at night and some nu-metal looking jackass came riding down the pedestrian mall on his mountain bike yelling “let’s go Brandon” while blaring some anti-vax anti-masking rap track from a boombox

He seemed very pleased with himself indeed

This was my intro to the meme, my wife had to explain it to me

Imagine if you saw someone step through a past time portal, like “hey man, I’m visiting from 2005 for a few hours, what it do”

I think I’d be inclined to say “you should probably just go back, you’ve already seen too much”

I don't even know this meme, and i am pretty fluent in memes. I guess that means I'm paying attention to the good memes and not the bad ones.

I've had to explain Let's Go Brandon to a few people, and the reaction is always, "Wow, that's even dumber than I expected."

the clip is like straight out of the Simpsons tho

Imagine being named Brandon.

“Why are all these right wing randos talking like suburban soccer moms at inappropriate times?”

Imagine being named Brandon.

― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table),

apparently there are boys named Troy

there's a house being built across the street from me and the pickup driven by one of the crew and parked in front of my house every day has a "Let's Go Brandon" bumper sticker.

Between this and the rise of "Karen", rough time to have the first name that randomly gets memified.

it will be there on the mt rushmore of conservative joeks well after I’m gone, along with “i identify as a ____”, “Hanoi Jane”, and uhh I guess there’s another one but it’s slipping my mind rn

As undeniably stupid as it is, I'm almost awed that in this instance the GOP constituency has chosen to lean more in the direction of restraint rather than their usual full-bore dick-waggling lunacy.

i saw some comedian point out that they are basically censoring themselves in order to keep this inside joke going, like the original chant was worse in my opinion so have at it dorks

sometimes I fantasize of a lib-less world, and conservatives basically having America to themselves, with us all shipped off to Mars or some shit, and I enjoy thinking about what they would do to tear themselves apart within the first 60 days.

going with "technology failure"

I think they would have a giant car race

I mean it's like a bunch of third graders inventing a cuss word in order to get away with cussing in front of the teacher except that they're ultimately doing no such thing. But given their hard refusal to kowtow to social convention over the past x number of years, I warily applaud the effort.

*whispers to a kid 2 desks over in 3rd grade*

"......pssst!....do you have a.... carwash!?!"

*entire class breaks down in uproarious laughter

I'm still not sure what the Brandon thing is and really don't give a fuck. I've seen a few bumper stickers here and there which is all I really need to know.

it means fuck joe biden, it's a meme from a crowd chant a couple weeks ago, then a pilot said it, now mitch mcconnell and ted cruz and the rest are in on it because if they don't say fuck joe biden and wink at the camera, they're not true conservatives

Chris McDaniel posted it on Facebook, spelled out in deer feces.

I was savagely owned.

yeah, basically a NASCAR reporter is interviewing a driver named Brandon while the crowd chants "Fuck Joe Biden"

Reporter: Listen to your fans, they're chanting "Let's Go Brandon."

big xp
Half of them would find something wrong with the other half, and it'd be back to business as usual.

Uh

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Judge at Kyle Rittenhouse trial dismisses charge of possession of dangerous weapon.

— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) November 15, 2021

laws don't matter anymore

Um, I think they do if you're not white