US Politics, May 2023: May 1 never happened

LOOK OUT DONALD TRUMP, THE UNSTOPPABLE MOMENTUM OF TIM SCOTT IS GONNA GET YOU!!

Breaking News: Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina announced a 2024 campaign, adding to a list of Republicans challenging Donald Trump. https://t.co/GJggejaVcI pic.twitter.com/m5yWohL6KA

— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 22, 2023

https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/3467215279_94c64f8f32_b-930x761.jpg

i guess scott is campaigning for vp or a cabinet position. iirc he hasn't been able to say anything he dislikes about donald trump or his policies, when asked

also I don't think Trump has dissed him yet

yikes pic.twitter.com/qQI39DBN3t

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 22, 2023

OK Soda was tasty I miss it

That DeSantis video omg. I can finally see it: Ron DeSantis is Kendall Roy.

He does seem like someone who has started medication for social anxiety and walks into room full of people thinking, "I've totally got this" and then he starts to feel gravity pushing him back down

^^^ otm

haha, i am actually kind of astonished that fox and ingraham issued a retraction for their racist story, but also, i figured this tweeters text description was a paraphrasing of ingraham's words, but no, it's verbatim

Ingraham: A little update on a story we brought you this week about homeless vets being displaced from hotels so illegals can move in, turns out the group behind the claim made it up. We have no clue why anyone would do such a thing pic.twitter.com/BEZ4c2buMx

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 20, 2023

Def getting smarmy Jason Bateman vibes from that DeSantis clip. Also stealing the "OK" response to the guy introducing himself.

Reports based on various tweets by left wing activists are wildly inaccurate — Laura Ingraham, the top-rated woman in cable news, is now and will continue to be a prominent host and integral part of the Fox News lineup.

Notice that they don't deny Ingraham is leaving primetime.

tom carper is not running for reelection next year

Delaware will find another credit card-carrying Democrat.

We have no clue why anyone would do such a thing

o rly?

Feel the TimMentum

first reply lmao

Why does he sound like this pic.twitter.com/0xwFT6BSN4

— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) May 21, 2023

that DeSantis clip… whew. If he wasn’t such a fascist I’d feel some sense of pity.

With no votes to spare, Minnesota Democrats have implemented vast new social programs, enacted protections for groups threatened by far-right states and the Supreme Court, strengthened unions, poured money into schools, replaced infrastructure, and fed every Minnesota child.

— Will Stancil (@whstancil) May 23, 2023

meanwhile, here in Texas things seems to be going in the opposite direction

Texas GOP legislature voted last night to give Republican secretary of state power to take over elections in state’s largest blue county, Houston’s Harris County, & abolish election administrator position there. This is incredibly undemocratic power grab https://t.co/dgZAsQeBhx

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 23, 2023

^^^Is that a novelty gavel, just a trick of perspective, or is he really tiny?

re: My earlier question of why New York Democrats suck, I read (I think on Twitter) the hypothesis that purple state Democrats, or at least Dems with only a small majority, feel pressure to deliver on their campaign promises while they are in power, while states where Dems seem to have a permanent lock like NY (or, I would argue, my former state of Maryland) the elected Dems only care about jockeying for personal power/seniority within the party apparatus, and actually *doing things* is not a priority since they'll get elected anyway. There's also the fact that if you are in a city or state where only people with a "D" next to their name win, that willattract people to run for office who in any other state/city would run as Republicans (Eric freaking Adams).

^^^Is that a novelty gavel, just a trick of perspective, or is he really tiny?

I mean have you seen the size of american flags flying over car dealerships in texas...?

new york dems with minnesota dems
a supermajority with a 1 vote majority https://t.co/uJ9PTAse5y pic.twitter.com/sm7amwNw6D

— pudding person (@JUNlPER) May 22, 2023

IL has a supermajority and doesn't seem to be spinning its wheels, afaict.

fucking. hell.

Boebert: I actually have a fun little story, my staff is probably going to talk to me about this later. I left a prescription at a pharmacy once… pic.twitter.com/6p1g25cpYk

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 23, 2023

What the fuck hahaha

Well it was a fun story

I'll bet Kaydon feels really special now.

Have none of these people ever heard of condoms

nah, they cover your tattoos

rofl

Actual Ron Desantis merchandise. His campaign is gonna flame out so fucking hard he should be sued for electoral fraud pic.twitter.com/QGb8p3vxgt

— Max Propayne III (@Jags24Asare) May 23, 2023

Has there ever been a time in history when "Make America Florida" would have been an appealing slogan? Does Florida know what most of the country thinks of it?

3 stars

Make America Lorida?

Gunlordia

"We'll drag you down with us!"

https://i.imgur.com/32c4TBG.jpg

That's being generous

arguably 1 1/2 stars

lol xpost

Amazing

I'm pretty sure we do, tipsy.

7lorida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H29HI-atDj4

this campaign is off to a smashing beginning, now he needs to come up with a cruel nickname for trump and we're off to the races

There is a Lorida, Florida:
https://floridahistoryblog.com/lorida-florida-origins-of-a-cracker-town/

A friend’s effort.

https://i.imgur.com/yB0YyvA.jpg

Remove the right testicle and they’d have a winner

meanwhile in that other great state

BREAKING: Texas AG Ken Paxton calls on the TX Speaker Dade Phelan to resign after he presided over the House while highly intoxicated. pic.twitter.com/1jFoyi0JEx

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 23, 2023

The intoxication in question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6VuQsKihWk