U.S. Politics January 2023: Kevin McCarthy's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Life

which side will they siphon more votes out of?

don't know. can't say. but whatever siphoning is intended will be targeted mainly at wealthy donors and PACs.

"both sides"

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has formally recommended that Reps. Adam B. Schiff and Eric Swalwell be reappointed to the House Intelligence Committee, escalating a clash with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who has vowed to deny spots on the panel to both California Democrats.

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Republicans have been angling to deny spots on key panels to Democrats partly in retaliation for votes by the Democratic-led House in the last Congress to remove Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) from committees. Some Republicans joined Democrats in voting to strip Greene and Gosar of their committee assignments.

lol

Correction: An earlier tweet misstated the nature of recent debt ceiling showdowns. Both parties are responsible for the debt, but only Republicans are using it as a political tool. We deleted the incorrect tweet.

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 23, 2023

That story was almost as vile as yesterday's "waaaaah, my kid's trans, so I'm voting for Trump!" feature.

Both parties ordered dinner, but only one dashed out without paying and threw a brick through the restaurant window

... in retaliation for votes by the Democratic-led House in the last Congress to remove Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) from committees. Some Republicans joined Democrats in voting to strip Greene and Gosar of their committee assignments.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gedm/marjorie-taylor-greene-believes-in-frazzledrip-qanons-wildest-conspiracy-theory

old article but i just learned about the extent of her "flirting with the q anon fringe" or whatever euphemism is usually used. this is the most poisonous psycho shit she is involved in promoting.

welp, my day is now significantly worse and i wish i could unsee/unknow all of that.

Greene 100% still believes every bit of the Q shit and knows just knows she has to keep it quiet.

Terrible. Filming your frazzledrips is a total faux pas.

https://i.imgur.com/4WbDBET.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/OXbSfLJ.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/N1qveB9.png

So might going to happen?

what might happen?

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/sex-hand-sign-womens-hands-260nw-1356350333.jpg

what, like her pegging him? probably part of the deal yeah

i just think people need to understand precisely what kind of lunatic mccarthy secured as a "key ally."

she's maybe 10% more of a lunatic than McCarthy himself

i just think people need to understand precisely what kind of lunatic mccarthy secured as a "key ally."

― treeship

We know.

#notallpeople

idk man the frazzledrip shit is nuts

frazzledrip drip dive
Truth Social-ize

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/b/bd/FraggleRock1984single.jpg

Frazzledrip sounds like a member of Camp Lo

it just sounds like a zoomer term for a cool outfit. "yo, that's frazzle drip"

alas, it means something else

Also

Smooth mind, floating like a butterfly
Notes that'll float - sung like a lullaby
Brace yourself, as the beat hits ya
Frazzledrip, flip fantasia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn1XU_vgjag #onethread

dope album cover. i'm trying to remember what ab-ex painter that is. not noland i don't think.

morris louis!

crypto scammer Razzlekhan is out on probation, maybe there’s a collar

Razzlekhan Frazzeldip is my favorite modern mime

*collab

Kinda feel like I’ll be getting dozens of texts and emails from Ruben Gallegos everyday for the rest of my life. Dude does not let up, apparently.

He's got to capitalize on Sinema-hate while it's still hot

Sinemantipathy

(one of the seven deadly sinemas, of course)

between santos and qanon crazy stuff i feel like 'being insane' is a new frontier in public life which has affects and functions - there's a reason why this is allowed, encouraged and presented to us. rubbernecking is sort of fun for a second i guess but ultimately that's part of the point.

Being insane has always been a part of right-wing paranoid style politics. Usually the people who were literally wearing the tin foil hats didn't get such large public platforms however.

this is our leader in the near future, we're just on a wavering path toward him

https://i.imgur.com/OVOMeYb.png

also i continue to think jack nicholson's joker in the gotham parade is one model for public leadership

NBC News confirms: Classified documents were found at Mike Pence's Indiana home. @MSNBC

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 24, 2023

looks like everyone went to the classified documents buffet line at Shoney's

you have to figure that the documents the Veeps get to steal are not high quality

expecting trump to tweet any minute about how much more sensitive and highly classified his document stash was

otm

Rolling "is this homophobia" thread ...

Drag performers Trixie Mattel and George Santos go back and forth at each other on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/pgIS3gg9IQ

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) January 24, 2023

between santos and qanon crazy stuff i feel like 'being insane' is a new frontier in public life which has affects and functions - there's a reason why this is allowed, encouraged and presented to us. rubbernecking is sort of fun for a second i guess but ultimately that's part of the point.

― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, January 24, 2023 12:46 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm.

bread and circuses

if there is a "design" it is to keep people engaging with politics in a way that has nothing to do with the decision making process.

a new frontier in public life which has affects and functions

Not the least of which is the cray-cray defense... Sidney Powell's was something to the effect of "No sane person could possibly believe the things I clearly, repeatedly said into a microphone at a press conference."

far right ideas, including the idea that the vaccine is a deliberate depopulation effort, are literally making people insane. in what numbers, idk, but this has to have long term consequences, even for the capitalist class who believe it is in their interest for the population to be concerned with "bread and circuses."