Yeah--Trump is not interested in military adventures, so far. He doesn't trust the military, at home or abroad.
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
He loves displays of military might, and worships "da troops." But he's not interested in war per se because there's no way for his companies to profit from it. He's not in defense contracting, he's in real estate. So unless he can get a couple of billion to turn one of his golf courses into an air force base...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
Also all those generals he surrounded himself with bailed, and he even ditched Flynn for a while.
― dow, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
Trump v. Papa Cheney on the "greater evil" scale is complex but also they're both Extremely Evil so the differences are sort of academic. Liz Cheney is not someone I would ever vote for for anything but she's massively overperforming expectations for Republican members of Congress in 2022, so I'm not going to carp about her right now.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
I’d rather be shot in the face by dick chaney because at least when he does it it’s over in two seconds. when his daughter does it it goes on for months— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 28, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 3 July 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
I’d rather be bitten by Lon Chaney
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Sunday, 3 July 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
I saw Liz Cheney walkin with the queen
― Nutellanor Roosevelt (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 3 July 2022 11:20 (one year ago) link
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/06/america-new-civil-war-crisis-industrial-complex
great piece by nikhil pal singh - should be the last word on "impending civil war" but won't be obviously.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Sunday, 3 July 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
fwiw I was recently talking to my sister, who knows (but does not like) Liz Cheney, and is pretty sure she's playing a longer game. Wyoming is not the world, after all.
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 3 July 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
Good encapsulation of the past 50 years by this dude:
1/ Dear Republicans: We Tried Your Way and It Does Not Work (a thread):— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 3, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 July 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
will otm. The first election I voted in and of course my state fucked it up
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
(I voted Nader. Ugh.)
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Yeah, 2000 was when it clicked for the GOP that bullying and arrogant postering was enough to get the Dems to fold. Conveniently more or less right between the Contract with America and the Tea Party.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
i may have said this before and it’s incredibly embarrassing and indefensible, but I didn’t even vote in 2000. It was TN so it didn’t really matter (wild thing to say about a nominee’s home state feels like a v modern development. Clintons really changed the game). 2002 midterms was when I was like holy fuck we gotta do something! 20 full years later I’m like holy fuck we gotta do something!
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
home state, it feels like*
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
(Obv Bill won AR both times but it feels like that was the last time someone like him could win in a place like that, local boy be damned)
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
Most of this is paywalled, but starts:
Key PointsFormer Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Trump tried to steer the limo to the Capitol Jan. 6.Secret Service official Tony Ornato disputed her claim that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel.Former Trump aides Olivia Troye and Alyssa Farah Griffin say Ornato has a history of lying for Trump.
Secret Service official Tony Ornato disputed her claim that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel.
Former Trump aides Olivia Troye and Alyssa Farah Griffin say Ornato has a history of lying for Trump.
On the record, yeah.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/03/two-former-white-house-aides-say-top-secret-service-official-may-lying-protect-trump/7796127001/?gnt-cfr=1
― dow, Sunday, 3 July 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
Voted for Nader, would do it again in a heartbeat.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 July 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem avoided answering whether or not she would change the state's law to allow a 10-year-old rape victim to get an abortion. "The Indianapolis Star" is reporting that a 10-year-old girl in Ohio who was six weeks and three days pregnant now has to travel across state lines to Indiana to receive an abortion," CNN's Dana Bash asked Noem on Sunday. "So I just -- because this is a trigger law that was passed before you became governor, I wanted you to be clear. Will the state of South Dakota going forward force a 10-year-old in that very same situation to have a baby?"South Dakota bans abortions except in cases where the life of the mother is at risk. The trigger law went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
"The Indianapolis Star" is reporting that a 10-year-old girl in Ohio who was six weeks and three days pregnant now has to travel across state lines to Indiana to receive an abortion," CNN's Dana Bash asked Noem on Sunday. "So I just -- because this is a trigger law that was passed before you became governor, I wanted you to be clear. Will the state of South Dakota going forward force a 10-year-old in that very same situation to have a baby?"
South Dakota bans abortions except in cases where the life of the mother is at risk. The trigger law went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
― dow, Sunday, 3 July 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
Former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Trump tried to steer the limo to the Capitol Jan. 6.
This badly distorts what Hutchinson really testified.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 3 July 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
WATCH: Health and Human Services Sec. Xavier Becerra says there’s not a lot the Biden administration can do for abortion rights. @SecBecerra: “Unless we’re all going to say the word of the Supreme Court will no longer have value, we have to heed the word of the Supreme Court.” pic.twitter.com/yfbp6j7JIO— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) July 3, 2022
Yeah, imagine if we did that
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 July 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
Biden screwed Beshear by agreeing to a deal with McConnell to nominate an antiabortion federal judge in exchange for two temporary prosecutors.So Beshear seems to have leaked that Biden originally scheduled the nomination for the day Roe was overturned. https://t.co/kAfIcLVAnG— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) July 3, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 July 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
Unless we’re all going to say the word of the Supreme Court will no longer have value
absolutely fine with this
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 4 July 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link
Rising housing costs, combined with persistent inflation for basic necessities, have left more Americans newly homeless and millions more fearing they’ll soon lose their homes. (with @rachsieg) https://t.co/WFFw5P9xdK— Abha Bhattarai (@abhabhattarai) July 3, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 4 July 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
Once there were Tent Cities, now there are SUV Suburbs.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 July 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
Soon turned out To be a pain in the ass
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 July 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
At least Blackrock and a bunch of other companies are ready to buy their homes at auction and turn them into rental housing for the new permanent underclass.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 12:46 (one year ago) link
Threats of violence over politics has increased heavily in the last few years. But the darkness has reached new lows. My new interns made this compilation of recent calls they’ve received while serving in my DC office.WARNING: this video contains foul & graphic language. pic.twitter.com/yQJvvAHBVV— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) July 5, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
can’t help but wonder how many of those calls are from cops
― no one wants to twerk anymore (will), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
Idk but that one guy is really into cocksucking.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
Giuliani, Graham testimony sought in Trump election probe
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giuliani-graham-testimony-sought-in-trump-election-probe/ar-AAZe86E?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=71b777a68ee740f791a7befc3e887789
Not that I think this will come to much. The state legislators who have been subpoenaed are fighting the process tooth and nail.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
I'm glad they are starting to look into this Rudy character.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
The fuck?
Incredible stuff. pic.twitter.com/LbTp0iIUrN— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) July 5, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
McLaughlin writes for the National Review, which is the Chip Diller of U.S. conservatism. He says egregious shit, couched in reasonable-sounding words, all the time.
"This is not a defense of Trump" LOL Yeah, fuck you.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
I miss the NRO threads.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
Right now, committee Democrats are following norms and recent practices, but this is simply not sufficient to fill every judicial vacancy—and indeed, sets a path that would leave more than 60 seats open
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/07/why-democrats-giving-mitch-mcconnell-judges.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 July 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
I feel (reading these threads and also seeing things friends say elsewhere) like the Democratic leadership really need to sit silently in a room and let democratic voters just calmly offer some suggestions. Not an onslaught of angry activists or anything, but the elected folks need to listen and take some things to heart.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
(Not that I think this would ever happen, or that they would listen.)
I can’t remember whether any of us posted this here:
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2022/06/30/the-real-reason-washington-ignored-kavanaughs-would-be-killer-00043679
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 11:36 (one year ago) link
That op-ed is awful, placing non-violent protest of the left on the same scale as the literal violence imposed by the right on many people in this country on a daily basis. Fuck civility, these people want me and mine dead and I’m not going to be polite about it because they sure aren’t.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 12:01 (one year ago) link
“Violence has been so normalized” excuse me but right-wingers and white supremacist conspiracy kooks started this shit, fobbing it off on leftists banging pots and pans or interrupting some sentient swastika’s dinner is intellectually lazy and dishonest
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 12:04 (one year ago) link
there is an “i voted” sticker competition in ulster county & i urge you to vote for this one pls https://t.co/ZYqw6ldl1W pic.twitter.com/I6XTCUdF69— sammy maine (@sammymaine) July 5, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
That one's at 94% ...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
Sometimes it’s an honor to have Jordan shatter a backboard on you, just to be witness to such greatness.— (((Barak))) (@lawnerdbarak) July 6, 2022
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FW9dwi8XEAAYwqh?format=jpg&name=medium
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
Saw a post on reddit that has really stuck with me, paraphrasing here but essentially it said, "Joe Biden's legacy will be watching the death of American democracy without swinging a single punch to try and stop it".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
C'mon man
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
Biden has never been a puncher.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
Whatever you feel about Gavin Newsom, this op-ed piece claims he's developing a strategy that the Dem establishment could learn from:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/03/opinions/newsom-desantis-2024-campaign-ad-obeidallah/index.html
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
I mean, he IS the Dem establishment, but still
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link