We. Would. CRY.: US Politics, July 2022

Conversions are possible...

Lunch with my male GOP co-worker:

GOP: Tea, I hate Beto. But I'm going to vote for him

Me (had to ask): Wait what?

GOP (tears): That tape, Tea.(Uvdale) No excuse. Abbott doesn't care. And Roe. (pause) And I actually believe that skinny motherfucker will fix that grid

Me: 🙆🏾‍♀️

— 🛹Alejandro Sosa’s Wife🛹 Red State Democrat (@SaintMystic) July 18, 2022

"that skinny motherfucker will fix the grid" = Underrated Prince Lyric

Put THAT on a bumper sticker

Beto: Cramp your calves, fix that grid

"that skinny motherfucker will fix the grid"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain)

Underrated James McNew bootlegs I have owned

My make GOP coworker - “Betokanda forever”

Hopefully my state can get out there today (or went out last week, or mailed ballots) and show that we actually care about mid year elections in 2022

Mid term elections

WaPo: Secret Service cannot recover texts; no new details for Jan. 6 committee Not really dealt with in actual story, except for phones being replaced maybe, but otherwise, True Crime shows teach us that nothing is ever truly deleted---anyway, the story, with details I hadn't seen (and not paywalled):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/19/secret-service-texts/
Although it took me a while to get back to WaPo, after their handling of the 10-year-old rape victim-abortion refugee.

Clearly they just didn't want anyone to know how often they called out for pizza.

Or cocaine!

Either way, just some innocent goofery.

Cocaine-stuffed crust pizza!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l33b9BimCo

Not seeing an extensive post yet, but this one lists all the Congress perps:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/19/politics/congress-members-arrested-abortion-protest-supreme-court/index.html

17 in all, or listed so far

And speaking of double-digit perps:

The 16 Republicans who falsely signed certificates claiming to be Georgia’s valid presidential electors have been deemed criminal “targets” by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.

Willis indicated this determination in a court filing on Tuesday fending off a legal effort by one of those targets, Burt Jones, to disqualify her from leading the grand jury investigation. Jones, who is running to become Georgia’s lieutenant governor, had contended that Willis’ actions were politically motivated, citing her political support for Jones’ opponent. But Willis said that Jones couldn’t show he was targeted over politics — and that, in fact, she had treated all 16 of the false Republican electors equally.

Like his signature wouldn't have meant nothin', if she hadn't favored his opponent. In Trumpworld, makes sense.

Da Probe

If a popular bill that united Democrats and fractured Republicans had just passed the House, I'd be inclined to put it on the floor of the Senate ASAP. But what do I know? I'm not a senior Democratic senator, just someone who can't shake some habits of thinking like a Republican. https://t.co/btAX5CfkJv

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 19, 2022

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Ugh , unless Durbin as the whip has been told that not all Senate Dems are on board. If that’s the case we should know who they are.

Of course Dem leadership will tell us the solution is to “Elect! More! Dems!”

“It’s not on the table for this week,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of a climate emergency declaration. “We are still considering it. I don’t have the upsides or the downsides of it.”

https://apnews.com/article/climate-biden-joe-manchin-and-environment-bed0159741405159639f800aec3b079b

Might be time to rework the schedule.

it’s entirely possible that leadership simply don’t remember what happened less than a month ago

fuckin do it Joe

Easy, broadly popular, uncontroversial ... I can see where it'd be tough for them to pull that off.

"Tough, that is!"

https://i.imgur.com/YKDH4dP.jpg

Disgraceful, spineless lunatics who don't care whether we live or die.

this window is going to be gone for who knows how long.

so many missed opportunities.

since the financial crisis of 2008 we had extremely low inflation and essentially zero percent interest rates and did we get any truly transformative spending projects? did we fuck. that was the time for something on the scale of building the interstate highway system. it’s gone now.

August is coming, they're all running down the clock and making kayak bookings on their phones

Don't want to cut into Sinema's internship at a cheese tasting institute

folks, unless you are in the top 10% or so they really don’t care about you at all. In fact, they despise the fact that you’re even out there taking up space.

and those are just the ‘good guys’. crazy world.

“That bill’s not important. It’s a waste of our time on a non issue,” he said.

“But I know plenty of gay people in Florida that are pissed off about gas prices,” he also said.

— bryan metzger (@metzgov) July 20, 2022

(Implied is Rubio is one of those gay people.)

If you care so much about gas prices why don't you marry them?

put the bill on the floor. if fuckers like romney and rubio vote against gay marriage, people will see how "moderate" they really are

pic.twitter.com/VoD0Ogm1Gp

— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) July 20, 2022

lol I thought that was new, whoops.

This is so much more insane than any fake tweet I could muster holy shit pic.twitter.com/xomsuPUP8p

— fiona apple neck tattoo (beach era) (@BipolarHaver) July 20, 2022

Schumer, just now on Respect for Marriage Act: "I want to bring this bill to the floor, and we're working to get the necessary Senate Republican support to ensure it would pass." via @frankthorp

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 20, 2022

News: Republican @SenRobPortman will cosponsor the Respect For Marriage Act, the House-passed bill to codify legal same-sex marriage, his office tells me.

He made the decision last night after evaluating it.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 20, 2022

I guess this means McConnell isn't whipping this vote?

Looks like it.

Portman's the senator with the gay son, no?

I want to laugh at the Rubio tweet because his stupidity is boundless, but I'm just fucking infuriated.

Also:

Thom Tillis, GOP senator from NC, told me he “probably will” support bill to codify same-sex marriage. Bill might get 60 votes, GOP senators say. Vote timing in Senate is unclear.

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 20, 2022

oh shit, the Trump nuts have discovered the incredible power of 'mathematics':

Failed far-right Nevada Republican gubernatorial candidate Joey Gilbert filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn his primary defeat, citing an "analysis" that found his loss to be a "mathematical impossibility" even after a recount he requested confirmed the results.

Once the results are "statistically corrected," said a copy of the complaint obtained by The Nevada Independent, will show "with irrefutable geometric finality" that Gilbert won by more than 55,000 votes.

The "expert mathematician" cited by Gilbert is infamous election conspiracy theorist Edward Solomon, who falsely claimed to have found evidence that the 2020 presidential election was rigged using an algorithm...

geometry, statistics! All that shit, we got all that shit

Fetterman is ratioing the hell out of Dr. Oz right now

pic.twitter.com/y7A4h1BXRe

— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) July 20, 2022

I love that Oz's campaign is just a bunch of Bernie-Fetterman slash fic

Lol Joni Ernst

She added: “I have a good number of very close friends that are same-sex married.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/20/gop-freezes-same-sex-marriage-00046924

especially since Bernie is one of the most popular Senators in the country

Well, well, well. Senator Windsock changes direction again. Over/under on how many times he'll plead the Fifth?

Breaking: Lindsey Graham will testify before the Georgia grand jury investigating Trump's possible criminal meddling in the 2020 election.

Lindsey Graham is in deep trouble.

— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) July 20, 2022