I've seen enough: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) defeats Rep. Conor Lamb (D) in the #PASEN Dem primary.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) May 18, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
That’s cool, this guy rocks
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 01:10 (two years ago) link
Mostly mentioning this because guy's name is literally Chesebro.
The suit also names as defendants James R. Troupis, a lawyer for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, and Kenneth Chesebro, a Massachusetts lawyer who wrote a key December 2020 memo to Mr. Troupis proposing the fake elector scheme.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/us/politics/wisconsin-fake-electors.html
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 01:34 (two years ago) link
Another positive development:
I've seen enough: Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R) has lost renomination to state Sen. Chuck Edwards (R) in the #NC11 GOP primary.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) May 18, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 01:59 (two years ago) link
lmao
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:04 (two years ago) link
I've seen enough.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
you ain't seen nothin' yet
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:13 (two years ago) link
well, yeah
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:14 (two years ago) link
Good to hear.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:18 (two years ago) link
Cawthorn to deliver concession speech wearing only cocaine, a key ring w/keys, and a wheelchair.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 02:44 (two years ago) link
Fetterman got almost 60% of the vote, btw. Will a single journalist concede that his positions represent the Democratic mainstream? No, of course not.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
Why is it necessary to "concede" what no one would deny? Everything on here
https://johnfetterman.com/issues/
looks to me like something 90% of elected Democrats, including the President of the United States, would sign on to. That sounds like Democratic mainstream to me.
(Except legalizing weed, which I do think Dems would probably be smart to whole-heartedly instead of half-heartedly adopt.)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 03:22 (two years ago) link
Cawthorn finally going down, one of the only examples of a republican being held accountable in the last several years, and it’s because of cocaine and orgies, is one of the most bleakly funny things that has ever happened
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 03:41 (two years ago) link
Re weed, Tennessee couldn't even muster the outrage to ban Delta 8 this year, because the vape shops are making too much money. The weed war is effectively over, Democrats ought to declare victory and make fun of politicians who pretend to be worried about it.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 03:50 (two years ago) link
seems like it's a similar situation here in Texas, at least in Austin. There are tons of stores that sell delta 8 and other weed-like products, and they were all panicking that they were going to be shut down immanently, but then the day came and it didn't happen, it's still being sold everywhere.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 04:00 (two years ago) link
In #OR05, progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner (D) carrying Deschutes Co. (Bend) 70%-30% over Rep. Kurt Schrader (D). Looking very grim for the incumbent Blue Dog.— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) May 18, 2022
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 04:13 (two years ago) link
Cawthorn’s remaining term will be interesting.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 04:27 (two years ago) link
honestly i think he ends up on newsmax. i know people always say that about various politicians, that they're headed to cable, but he's perfect for newsmax, and they definitely don't give a fuck
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 04:42 (two years ago) link
i love when the newsmax hosts just let the other person (giuliani, navarro, whoever) just go off as long as they want, and they even start laughing and look to the side at their producers as it gets more outrageous. even dogshit cnn hosts know not to do that
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 04:43 (two years ago) link
hi this is newsmax's Normal Kegger, and I'm your host madison cawthorn
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 04:44 (two years ago) link
today I will tell you about my visit to Hitler's House, where I learned how to bide a Reich
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 04:50 (two years ago) link
come on, everybody who goes to europe goes to hitler's house. you gotta go to hitler's house it's beautifu, just beautiful land
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 05:01 (two years ago) link
what, is it now illegal to go to hitler's house? is hiter's house banned? are we not supposed to admit that it happened now? isn't this what's wrong with america, the censorship of hitler?
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 05:02 (two years ago) link
god...i'm just gonna go to hitler's house to make a point, now, and maybe make my own little custom hitler button on the flight there...
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 05:03 (two years ago) link
Centrists are playing the long game getting creamed in the primaries - when the Democrats eat shit in November they can blame it on the "progressive wing."
I mean, they'd do that anyway but they'll have more fun doing it now.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 05:21 (two years ago) link
i also find this really funny
I'm done.I no longer believe the Republican Party can be saved. The vitriolic rhetoric is inspiring violent radicals.I'm quitting the GOP. And I hope more do the same.— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) May 17, 2022
that's the "anonymous" trump official NYT op-ed guy from 2018. he's HAD it!
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 06:26 (two years ago) link
and it wasn't even his cocaine or his orgies!!
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 08:29 (two years ago) link
it was some shit he most likely made up to seem cool on Warrior Poet Radio is the funniest thing
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 08:46 (two years ago) link
well, bizarro cool. qanon cool.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 08:47 (two years ago) link
He should have just named Matt Gaetz
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 08:49 (two years ago) link
“Warrior Poet Radio”?
― DAMAGED by Black Flat (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:39 (two years ago) link
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 11:52 (two years ago) link
Nebraska last week, Idaho this week - GOP voters nearly tossing out secretaries of state *in places Trump won* bc they're so Lindell-pilled. https://t.co/gZIhpn8AJM— David Weigel (@daveweigel) May 18, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
lurid/bleak profile. difficult to see this ending well tbh
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/13/madison-cawthorn-injury-profile-00032002
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:12 (two years ago) link
i started reading that and then realised i have no interest in this fuckhead
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
yeah I'm sure I've mentioned this before but in the pre-Trump era this is the kind of dude whose life goal would be to appear on The Bachelorette as the aggressive dipshit who gets kicked off two episodes in
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:23 (two years ago) link
xp fair. i don't feel like a better person having read it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
I didn't read it, I just looked at the pictures. He would've wanted it that way.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
we already knew Cawthorn was deeply fucked up. it was impossible to miss. that article just adds more depth and dimension about how fucked up he is.
his despair would inspire me to have a bit more compassion for him, if he had not sought a position of great power and public trust while having zero awareness of what being in Congress actually meant, other than an ego boost, or grasp of how unprepared he was to fulfill his duties once he attained that position. he should have resigned immediately after he arrived.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
Um, y'all are going to be surprised by this, but I read that and felt some sympathy for the guy, but mostly because it is clear he's in a lot of physical and psychic pain and instead of dealing with it, projecting it onto others. That sucks and has real consequences in the world, but I think it's possible to feel sympathy for the kid while decrying his method of dealing with his trauma.
Just my take, as someone who also had control over one of his basic bodily functions torn away through no fault of his own.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:41 (two years ago) link
Not a lot of sympathy for people who take selfies at hitler’s bunker
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 17:45 (two years ago) link
Cawthorn's story is like Jason Street got his own series and the creative team decided to go in a dfferent direction
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
im putting together a team pic.twitter.com/OrstQBsunP— hybrid creature (@cityafreaks) May 18, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
table otm, that being said i didn't read it as i have limited empathy abilities and need to save it for people who deserve it, politicians are not on my list
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
I can find sympathy for Cawthorn's accident, but not for going to a school that “exists to glorify God” and prepare “Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture” and then lying your way up the ladder of power and living your life like a totally un-Jesus-like asshole.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
Yeah, Cawthorn didn't strike me at all as the type who'd hesitate to strip away certain peoples' right to, like, be alive given half an opportunity.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
i thought Miles Taylor and McMullen and stuff were trying to start a new 'rational republican right/center party' last year, surprised he was still registered as a republican.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:11 (two years ago) link
Unbeknownst to most, the historical Jesus was a total asshole.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
Well, map, think of it this way: he won't be a politician much longer
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
We are putting Madison Cawthorn out of our misery, if not his.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:20 (two years ago) link