US Politics September 2023 - education-getting, income-having, Bible-readin church-goin MOTHERF*****

an unsuccessful pantsing

How Marsha Blackburn ended up in the Senate is baffling to me. She's stupid and vicious, and, well, never mind, I just answered my own question.

Read that as “Failson”

^^^^could be an important campaign nickname

someone was joking the other day about starting a band called Rhonda Santis, and although everyone laughed i couldn't help but think it would be a long-expired reference by the time any music actually got performed, and desantis is just on his way out.

i wonder if he fucked up badly enough to lose his florida gig too?

We floated Rhonda Santis on here a few months ago but it was deemed bad and wrong.

xp Dems'd presumably have to run someone other than Charlie Crist, for starters

SOTO, OR GTFO

SOTOMENTUM

Clinton Tyree is tanned, rested and ready.

WHO LET THE SOTOGS OUT

i'd buy a zine of interviews with people who got RBG tattoos after she died

https://i.imgur.com/VE3TnE9.png

Forever 666

the executive of my department has an RBG travel mug. god, why cant i just quit my job and mass produce dumb shit that stupid people want to buy?

If you will it, it is no dream.

dumb shit? mugs are very useful things! I use one every day.

A survey of media coverage over the past 24 hours shows that the extraordinary RICO indictment of over 60 protestors opposing the creation of a “police training” facility in Atlanta has been met with conspicuous silence by several major media outlets, namely MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, CBS News, ABC News, and NBC News.

From Adam Johnson substack

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/06/atlanta-cop-city-rico-racketeering-indictment/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/cop-city-atlanta-indictment.html
https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-protests-rico-charges-3177a63ac1bd31a1594bed6584e9f330
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/61-indicted-racketeering-charges-georgia-stop-cop-city-movement-rcna103561
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/us/cop-city-protesters-indicted-rico/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66732274

I think when people say things like that what they really mean is "It's not blowing up my timeline." Which it probably isn't, because it's a somewhat esoteric local issue as far as most of the country/world is concerned. (I mean, I think it's big important news because of the clearly dangerous use of RICO to try to shut down a protest movement. But I'm not surprised most people don't find it gripping.)

He mentioned no Washington Post article in email sent earlier today, and Washington Post article got posted today possibly after his email

Very odd that a substack writer who mostly comments on media was able to get his piece up a few minutes before the outlets who probably had to contact sources and such

President Joe Biden’s Interior Department on Wednesday will cancel oil drilling leases that the Trump administration sold in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to two people knowledge of the plan.

feels like this back & forth has been happening my entire adult life

We floated Rhonda Santis on here a few months ago but it was deemed bad and wrong.

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, September 6, 2023 11:16 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol I see a band is coming to Madison that is called "Ritt Momney", wtf is this trend

do people really think DeSantis has no political future? kinda seems that way right now but I won't get my hopes up.

Rauner isn’t the only former mega-DeSantis donor who’s refused to open his wallet for DeSantis. Of the 50 donors who gave at least $160,000 in the years leading up to his 2022 reelection campaign, only 16 — less than a third — provided funds to the super PAC Never Back Down...

Big donors seem to recognize that he's a big pile of dogshit

How did anyone think a guy who started his guvner campaign with a commercial about being a stan for Trump was going to beat Trump?

could maybe see talking yourself into it when DeSantis won re-election by 15 points in 2022 and all the Trumpy folks massively underperformed, but yea even then a lot of political writers I trust were saying this guy was absolutely gonna flounder on the national stage

do people really think DeSantis has no political future? kinda seems that way right now but I won't get my hopes up.

― frogbs,

FOX commentator or Little League coach.

kissing hands and shaking babies is not his forte

Pretty certain he would absolutely crumble in the face of two baseball parents demanding to know why their kid was benched.

Rondell Santis

there's a two-part Behind the Bastards episode on him that just came out, haven't listened to the 2nd part yet but the 1st was pretty revealing. paints the guy as being ambitious and smart but also aloof in some very specific ways. one part that stuck out was him recounting his first job in his book, where apparently he became a conservative upon learning he had to buy OSHA approved work boots to become an electrician's assistant and considered that government overreach. you know, despite having proper boots actually being a really big deal if you want to not be electrocuted and that really what he should be mad about is his boss not providing them for him. the implication was he knows all this obviously but also is just retconning his whole story as grounds for a Presidential run (including referring to Yale as a socialist breeding ground - Yale!!)

also covered the torture stuff, god I hope all that comes out and becomes a bigger story

Too late!

several xxxps, but SWEET JEEBUS MELMO do I hate that thing where people are saying "the media isn't covering this" and then they link to freaking CNN or NYT or the Washington Post.

I actually like that phrase b/c it immediately tells you someone isn't worth listening to

think what they actually mean is "I didn't see it on Twitter or Reddit"

I've learned that Adam Johnson, while <on our side> employs the same rhetorical techniques, as, say Taibbi

Adam Johnson is fucking tedious tbh

yeah one of those journalists I instantly ignore, the list of which is getting longer every year

Wonder how this works for Texas women... if they travel to another country rather than another state:

Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled to federally decriminalize abortion on Wednesday, finding that the current ban on the procedure is unconstitutional.

“The First Chamber of the Court ruled that the legal system that penalizes abortion in the Federal Criminal Code is unconstitutional, since it violates the human rights of women and people with the capacity to gestate,” the Supreme Court said on social media.

Clearly, the next right-wing priority will be a border wall between the United States and Mexi-- WAIT A MINUTE

What's the stop Planned Parenthood from setting up new clinics in Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Juarez, etc.?

it’s a US organization (two, really in that the action/lobbying fund has solicited more donations despite their failures) and not a licensed mexican medical practitioner network

the contraction and consolidation of PP across the midwest was already a catastrophe before recent years. to some extent, Plan B being otc along with some other landmark changes seemed to change things

my man

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) had some blunt words for Republicans who are pushing to impeach President Joe Biden: It’ll bite you in next year’s elections.

“Go ahead. Do it, I dare you,” Fetterman said during an interview with a handful of reporters in his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday. “If you can find the votes, go ahead, because you’re going to lose. It’s a loser.”

“It would just be like a big circle jerk on the fringe right,” the senator added. “Sometimes you just gotta call their bullshit. If they’re going to threaten, then let’s see it.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-impeachment-john-fetterman_n_64f8df8de4b0d44852edd611

more of that, please

ask and you shall receive https://www.businessinsider.com/john-fetterman-jd-vance-silly-performance-mask-mandates-rail-safety-2023-9

oldie fetterman that i missed

On NBC, John Fetterman was asked about Trump’s legal challenges.

“The president can sue a ham sandwich. He can send a thousand lawyers to Pennsylvania, but it’s not going to change...the fact of the matter is that every one of these ballots in play that’s going to be counted today, for the rest of the day, has been lawfully received, and going to be counted, and they’re all going to skew in Joe Biden’s favor," Fetterman said.

I like bald-sexy Fetterman.

it violates the human rights of women and people with the capacity to gestate

damn welcome to the resistance, mexico supreme court

JOEMENTUM

And same-sex marriage will still be available there when SCOTUS inevitably overturns Obergefell