US Politics, May 2023: May 1 never happened

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

i thought the F in florida in that was a gun at first, not the state outline

xp looks like he had a texas-sized vodka tonic to go with that texas-sized gavel

not the point, but re: that texas ag, i don't think spies usually try to control land

it’s drummed up cold war racism, obv.

Holy shit the Musk/DeSantis thing is being moderated by David Sacks?

I don't even know what Chinese spies controlling Texas land refers to, that's some conspiracy you don't know about unless you hit the right rallies I guess. Chinese energy firms buying up land in West Texas probably.

xp Yeah Florida just passed laws against Chinese citizens owning property there (ACLU has filed suit)... TX doesn't want to be left behind in the Ugly American competition

right, but spies? if they're spies they're not very good spies. the attorney general knows about them and is mentioning them in press releases.

There has been some reports of Chinese gov't police stations quietly opening around the country (mostly to harass Chinese citizens living in the US), but I don't know if that's what he's referring to

It’s all the kids with TikTok on their phones

right, but spies? if they're spies they're not very good spies. the attorney general knows about them and is mentioning them in press releases.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, May 23, 2023 4:04 PM

They're buying up land to "build energy making facilities" but really they will have spying stations there. [Eddie Murphy head tap GIF]

Kayode Ewumi head tap GIF

OK, I am shockingly old ...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/florida-school-inaugural-poem-ban-00098492

A more thorough story: https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article275671496.html

I read (is that still legal?) that something like just 11 individual parents have been responsible for the majority of books being flagged/pulled/banned.

All's it takes in Florida is one complaint; and, yes, it's a First Amendment violation.

I was at a school board meeting last night where a woman read quotes from Frederick Douglas on free speech, and claimed that her free speech was being infringed because the board had not acted on her emails demanding that a book about a trans girl be banned from the schools.

lol

Nikki Haley in New Hampshire this morning:

"Everybody know about Dylan Mulvaney? Bud Light? That is a guy, dressed as a girl, making fun of women."

She's at Politics and Eggs, not a red meat crowd; no applause for a line that gets some elsewhere.

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) May 24, 2023

These dumbasses, the cynicism and stupidity are so intertwined I can't tell if they're honestly stupid, dishonestly playing stupid, stupidly being cynical, just cynical, etc.

“Everybody knows”

More from Gaetz, who rejects any debt limit compromise with the White House: “I think my conservative colleagues for the most part support Limit, Save, Grow, & they don't feel like we should negotiate with our hostage.”

Default would almost certainly throw US into recession

— Joseph Zeballos-Roig (@josephzeballos) May 23, 2023

gaetz forgot you're not supposed to call it a "hostage" out loud

Good morning!

Re: the Gorman complaint, can it be disallowed on the basis of the complainant saying her poem was by Oprah?

Look we all know she meant "Black lady I saw on TV," it's not like there's that many of them.

These GOP clowns, demanding all sorts of cuts yet refusing to get rid of tax loopholes and, predictably, demanding more money for the military and law enforcement. They never operate in good faith, but the current iteration really sets the standard for shamelessness.

not sure where to post this, but some Federalist Society lawyer is trying to move in next door to me. i want to die. he clerked for Scalia

iirc the best strategy is to tackle them at the earliest opportunity.

i wonder if somehow mccarthy will lose his speakership over this. due to the hostage situation internal negotiations with the freedom caucus in january, only one Under the new House rules passed Monday, a single republican can bring a motion to vacate" his office.

perhaps not during the current hostage situation with the debt ceiling, but after the fallout

The house GOP seems happy to own this, and Biden should just let them. I feel like the lesson from doing this idiocy over and over is that it always blows up in the Republicans’ faces, so they should just let that happen. Even if it means going to default.

whoops, weird copy and paste typo in my last post