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

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

wow @ that politico article. love that crop of responses. very old skool

Political groups and nonprofits aligned with the Democratic Party have spent nearly $44 million to boost the profile of far-right candidates.

Democrats strategy is rooted in the belief that these candidates will be easier to defeat in a general election. https://t.co/Lyx444gboU

— OpenSecrets.org (@OpenSecretsDC) July 20, 2022

Hold on to your butts

what could possibly go wrong

banana peel accelerationism

Yeah, this morning I saw an article somewhere about Maryland's Republican primary, where the Trump-blessed candidate won and was described as the "Democratic-favored" candidate and that gave me a really bad feeling.

I agree whole thing is reckless and stupid.

But Maryland is one of the few places I think it could work: the state over all is pretty liberal. Hogan only held on by not being a crazypants. But the red voters there are very red, having gone full MAGA. A candidate palatable to them will probably not be palatable statewide.

That said, Democrats could (and should have) just let the MAGAnauts hang themselves in MD without spending a penny.

Waldman here argues that it's unlikely that Dem spending tipped that race. The Republican primary was going to be a Trumpfest no matter what:

Republican voters don’t need to be fooled into picking candidates who present a profound threat to American democracy. They’re doing it all on their own.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/20/blame-democrats-extremists-republicans-winning-primaries/

But the red voters there are very red, having gone full MAGA.

Yeah, many Republicans have been calling Hogan a RINO for years and I know plenty of Dems who voted for Hogan over Jealous or Brown.

Things to watch for today:

1. Republicans like Glenn Greenwald pointing out how liberals celebrated when Trump got Covid

2. Republicans celebrating because Biden has Covid

Related:

Twitter will now be unusable for approx 55 minutes.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 21, 2022

He's handling isolation pretty well pic.twitter.com/lo3ULK4xRp

— Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) July 21, 2022

HOgan would never have been elected if he didn't get substantial numbers of rich Montgomery County assholes who think they're liberal vioting for him over the scary black NAACP guy. LOts of Dem public figured also endorsed Hogan cause they were scared of an actual progressive.

"well he hates Trump, and he kept my taxes low, and he's going to fix the traffic problems so I can get to my job at Lockheed faster".

Steve Bannon:

GUILTY on all counts. Took the jury approx, three hours. Including any lunch break

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) July 21, 2022

Weird, why do I not see that anywhere else?

okay he might have made a mistake

winning strategy:

Steve Bannon's defense team rests its case after he declines to testify

Bannon's team earlier Thursday announced they would not call any witnesses nor would Bannon testify in his own defense.

yeah, a different 1/6 guy was found guilty

yeah whoops sorry if anyone got excited, there was a mixup

Bannon verdict should be tomorrow

Should be the same result