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

republicans are tanking VA and gay marriage bills in retaliation

Does pelosi know? xp

Whisper it by they’ve pulled back from 2 points behind to dead heat in the average of generic congressional ballot polls since dobbs (and since gas prices fell almost a dollar in two months)

republicans are tanking VA and gay marriage bills in retaliation

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, July 28, 2022 9:29 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if they're gonna do this kind of nakedly evil shit let 'em do it in full daylight

...resignations on matters of principle from his inner circle are extremely rare, and show that even among some parts of the right there is unease at how his rhetoric on race is developing.
Next week Orbán is due to travel to Dallas, where he will open CPAC Texas, a gathering of US conservatives. Orbán counts the former US president Donald Trump among his many admirers on the American right.

xp

the campaign ads practically write themselves, and yet I feel like very few people will suddenly care

say it aint so

Susan Collins tells @JNicholsonInDC that same-sex marriage bill may be doomed now bc of what Dems did on the inflation reduction bill https://t.co/ndnTOLxbEt

— Amanda Terkel (@aterkel) July 28, 2022

_...resignations on matters of principle from his inner circle are extremely rare, and show that even among some parts of the right there is unease at how his rhetoric on race is developing.
Next week Orbán is due to travel to Dallas, where he will open CPAC Texas, a gathering of US conservatives. Orbán counts the former US president Donald Trump among his many admirers on the American right._

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/26/longstanding-adviser-to-viktor-orban-resigns-over-pure-nazi-speech🕸🕸

Conferences to cover the cocaine orgies, no doubt.

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-favored-win-senate-first-time-538-1728325

I heard that on "Daily Beans" this morning. It strikes me as whistling past the graveyard, but still.

Walker leading Warnock by a sliver here in Georgia. We'll see.

trying to follow david hogg backlash on twitter right now and can't make heads or tails of it. I find him annoying and his pillow thing was dumb and I stopped following him because he posts every second, but nothing he's said lately seems off or wrong; he's pissed that the house dropped an assault weapons ban bill, which the dems have the votes to pass (in the house). continual 'he's a liar' reactions from people angry he's criticizing the dems? I don't even know what they're pissed about.

I'm impressed by the barrage of angry Jon Stewart clips I've seen lately. He even went on Newsmax to call out the senate for being a bunch of feckless dickheads for voting against bonus healthcare for troops that got poisoned on the job. *That's* how you use celebrity.

Republicans celebrating fucking over troops with cancer is something that should be in every campaign ad from here on

More missing January 6 texts:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/28/homeland-security-texts-jan6/

Correction 07/27/22, 13:40 p.m. ET: This article originally said that in early June FiveThirtyEight predicted the Republicans would win 60 seats in the Senate race. This article has been amended to say that in early June the Republicans had a 60 percent chance of winning back the Senate, by having a majority of seats. Newsweek regrets the error.

earlier we said that we predicted the apocalypse to happen in November. instead, there is 60% chance of a minor, second-tier apocalypse

also, republicans are mad that good guy joe manchin pulled a legislative fast one on McConnell, so now in return they're going to fuck over gay marriage in revenge, to teach democrats a lesson.

LOL at Senator Cornyn crying about being double-crossed by Senate Democrats.

“To look you in the eye and tell you one thing and to do another is absolutely unforgivable.”

meanwhile cornyn has his boys in the u-haul storage lot, stealing all your shit

Glad you think so, Senator. Go have a talk with your Roe-overturning Supreme Court picks. xp

and someone must pay the price for what the democrats did. i guess it's gay people, sorry about it

“There are only 100 of us, and the relationships and the confidence that we have that when somebody looks you in the eye and tells you something, that they're going to stick with it, is important to negotiating in good faith and building consensus that’s necessary to pass legislation…

Like, I don't even have enough fuck yous to respond to this.

POLITICO lives for this shit.

I wonder if we’ll find out 10-15 years from now that Manchin came to Biden, Schumer, and Pelosi in some top secret meeting in late 2020 and said, “look, I’m gonna be a pain in the ass, but go with me, we’re gonna make some magic happen in the long run.”

Gay people and veterans must pay for this Democratic perfidy.

I swear to god, there is no level of Hell low enough for these assholes.

love to see republicans stab themselves in the neck.

and yet they will win, because they are undead

just remembered this. great stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxfEz1GlBsw

Problem is the GOP are really good at making sure their boots are still on the necks of the disenfranchised while they stab themselves in the neck.

Yeah I am not cool with "both sides"-ing shit right now. Yeah I guess you could say that both sides have extremes. One side wants to kill people out of sheer spite, the other side kinda hopes you will say some different words sometimes. Yep, that's totally the same. Both sides, whatabout, etc.

cool

Biden administration authorizes completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma, where four wide gaps make it among the busiest corridors for illegal crossings. https://t.co/XUkmYOggev

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 29, 2022

Whining about Senate betrayal is so funny because who do they think gives a shit? Even the GOP's base isn't going to hate Democrats 1% more because they tricked Cornyn et al..

idk, the latest conservative line that's been popping up over the last 48 hours is that Trump happened because the press and democrats were mean to Mitt Romney, so they certainly have the potential to hone in on the mildest of grievances and whine endlessly about it

xp right. overall approval among your voters goes up when you pass things, even if those things are unpopular with those voters! i don't think overall approval goes up when you tattle that CHIPS was passed unfairly. most people don't know what CHIPS is.

overall approval among your voters goes up when you pass things, even if those things are unpopular with those voters!

e.g. iirc 2017 tax cuts were and are incredibly unpopular, but their passing was the high point in trump's approval?

gab, the social media network for nazis, has started running ads on their platform. but who would pay to advertise their products & services on a website for white nationalists, antisemites, and aspiring mass shooters? well...

— molly conger (@socialistdogmom) July 29, 2022

Ad-Based Gab for August thread title.

they certainly have the potential to hone in on the mildest of grievances and whine endlessly about it

Like my conservative friend who is still so mad about the “cover up” of Hunter’s laptop.

Russian government officials requested that a former colonel from the country’s domestic spy agency who was convicted of murder in Germany last year be added to the US’ proposed swap of a notorious arms dealer for Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, multiple sources familiar with the discussions told CNN.
...The request was seen as problematic for several reasons, the sources told CNN, among them that Krasikov remains in German custody. As such, and because the request was not communicated formally but rather through the FSB backchannel, the US government did not view it as a legitimate counter to the US’ offer which was first revealed by CNN on Wednesday.
But underscoring how determined the Biden administration has been to get Griner and Whelan back to the US, US officials did make quiet inquiries to the Germans about whether they might be willing to include Krasikov in the trade, a senior German government source told CNN. A US official characterized the outreach as a status check on Krasikov.

The conversations were never elevated to the top levels of the German government and including Krasikov in a potential trade has not been seriously considered, the German source said. But the previously unreported discussions reveal that Russian officials have at least somewhat engaged with the US’ proposal.

...Asked for comment, a State Department official told CNN that “In order to preserve the best opportunity for a successful outcome, we’re not going to comment publicly on any speculation.”

...Multiple sources told CNN that even if it is not Krasikov, the Russians will likely demand two prisoners be released in exchange for Griner and Whelan. Russian government officials have indicated publicly in recent weeks that they want to see the release of Bout and Roman Seleznev, a convicted hacker currently serving a 27-year sentence in the US.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/griner-whelan-russia-murderer-request/index.html

Here’s @tedcruz fist-bumping fellow Republicans after blocking a bill to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. pic.twitter.com/sZdDljrJV7

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) July 29, 2022

So there's nothing in this reconciliation bill about renewing the child tax credits, I assume?

Manchin really didn't like the idea of his constituents' children sitting around eating food, when they could starting a summer job way down in the mine

lol

He was worried about people spending it on drugs, someone could have just pointed out that the credit let them buy his daughter's epi-pens.

Maybe child tax credits for freeing up child labor? Fair and Balanced.

Careful with the phrasing, he'll think you mean tax credits for coal mining operations to hire pre-teen children.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/29/homeland-inspector-general-texts/

The Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog scrapped its investigative team’s effort to collect agency phones to try to recover deleted Secret Service texts this year, according to four people with knowledge of the decision and internal records reviewed by The Washington Post.

In early February, after learning that the Secret Service’s text messages had been erased as part of a migration to new devices, staff at Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari’s office planned to contact all DHS agencies offering to have data specialists help retrieve messages from their phones, according to two government whistleblowers who provided reports to Congress.

But later that month, Cuffari’s office decided it would not collect or review any agency phones, according to three people briefed on the decision.

...Cuffari, a former adviser to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R), has been in his post since July 2019 after being nominated by Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/29/homeland-inspector-general-texts/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/joseph-cuffari-blocked-investigation-into-secret-services-clearing-of-lafayette-square-says-report

Why has Biden White House or current DHS head not asked for Trump appointee Cuffai to resign? And shouldn't all be asked to testify under oath and face charges? Back in April the Project on Government Oversight said that Cuffari should be placed on administrative leave and or fired https://www.pogo.org/letter/2022/04/pogo-calls-on-president-biden-to-remove-dhs-ig-joseph-cuffari

They're such shameless mobsters

New: Rep. Matt Gaetz was caught on a hot mic assuring Roger Stone that Trump would likely pardon him shortly before Stone’s criminal trial in 2019. “The boss still has a very favorable view of you … he said it directly.” https://t.co/GcePQC3vcg

— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) July 30, 2022

We have to give them the benefit of the doubt here. By “the boss” Gaetz is probably talking about the American taxpayers

Or Springsteen, or Ross?

Sinema indicates she may want to change Schumer-Manchin deal
Also: coming Vote-a-Rama, poison pills, more---it's Axios, but seems plausible enough:
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/30/sinema-schumer-manchin-deal-democrats

Rep. Chuy García (D-IL) tweeted profanities and a slur in response to a random Twitter account with 531 followers who trolled him. pic.twitter.com/LUjqWnDoxd

— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) July 30, 2022