Where Are We Runnin’? - American Politics Thread, May 2022

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.

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.

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

Cawthorn’s remaining term will be interesting.

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

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

hi this is newsmax's Normal Kegger, and I'm your host madison cawthorn

today I will tell you about my visit to Hitler's House, where I learned how to bide a Reich

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

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?

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...

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.

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!

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

and it wasn't even his cocaine or his orgies!!

it was some shit he most likely made up to seem cool on Warrior Poet Radio is the funniest thing

well, bizarro cool. qanon cool.

He should have just named Matt Gaetz

“Warrior Poet Radio”?

“Warrior Poet Radio”?

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

lurid/bleak profile. difficult to see this ending well tbh

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/13/madison-cawthorn-injury-profile-00032002

i started reading that and then realised i have no interest in this fuckhead

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

xp fair. i don't feel like a better person having read it.

I didn't read it, I just looked at the pictures. He would've wanted it that way.

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.

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.

Not a lot of sympathy for people who take selfies at hitler’s bunker

Cawthorn's story is like Jason Street got his own series and the creative team decided to go in a dfferent direction

im putting together a team pic.twitter.com/OrstQBsunP

— hybrid creature (@cityafreaks) May 18, 2022

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

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.

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.

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.

Unbeknownst to most, the historical Jesus was a total asshole.

Well, map, think of it this way: he won't be a politician much longer

We are putting Madison Cawthorn out of our misery, if not his.

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.

Greg Abbott Energy

If this was me, I'd be so, "Listen you scrote-lookin' motherfucker..."

"My name is Dr Robinson" -- Dr Yashica Robinson after Chip Roy calls her "Ms Robinson"

Roy then talks over her before Robinson fires back by telling him "I am a physician and a proud abortion provider" pic.twitter.com/NTW5FM9cHa

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2022

"I have never seen that in a health care setting, ever. We don't put baby parts in freezers" -- Dr Yashica Robinson to Chip Roy pic.twitter.com/fOC0LrLkjD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2022

the entire GOP strategy now is to be the biggest tool you can possibly be while there are cameras present

What a fucking asshole.

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, May 18, 2022 7:25 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is everyone who works for the state ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

literally every city in the country is fine with criminalizing homeless people. god i get so tired of partisan myopia in these threads.

I have quite a few liberal friends who make derogatory statements about homeless people. less than I did 4 years ago though so that's reassuring.

it's definitely not a partisan issue. we as a country just hate the poor.

I've worked with my fair share of design firms and developers that like to taut their progressive bonafides on social media but also sure love the fuck out of adding anti-unhoused, hostile design elements to their projects.

Yup. No park benches are allowed anymore without designing them to be impossible to lie down on.

Why does he look exactly like Madison Cawthorn https://t.co/d7vlO3Lzri

— Secular Talk🎙 (@KyleKulinski) May 18, 2022

xp - never mind being able to lie down, they don't even want to let people sit

The 5th Circuit just dismantled the SEC's power to enforce securities law. This decision is beyond radical. It is nihilistic. https://t.co/6X46t2f4vY

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 18, 2022

i'm at the gilded age
i'm at the years of lead
i'm at the combination gilded age and years of lead

— frog "Joker's Secret" kosaric (@yurirando) May 15, 2022