God Has Abandoned Us: U.S. Politics November 2023

W Va still has some dudes like him god bless

uh xpost

Sinema will end up a cushy lobbyist for Big Chardonnay

I like that AZ poll. Without knowing much about Gallego I feel like you could poll

A. Sinema
B. Lake
C. ANYBODY ELSE AT ALL, JUST LITERALLY ANYONE, YOUR BABYSITTER, THE LOCAL SPIN CLASS INSTRUCTOR, ANYONE

and get similar results.

wait I thought Sinema was the local spin class instructor

Sinema kind of has to increase her income, since all the places she used to hang out are full of people who hate her now.

Fetterman will never get a vote from me again after his sickening displays over the past few weeks.

His legs aren't that bad

lol Alfred

His legs aren't that bad

Jim Justice is the very popular Republican governor of West Virginia, who will be termed out and who has announced his candidacy for Senate. He is 100% going to win!! (and Manchin knows it). Democrats should not put any money into that race. They should throw everything into Tester in MT, Brown in OH, Gallego in AZ

And regarding Andrew Desiderio's inane tweet posted above, the numbers clearly indicate that Sinema splits both the Republican and Democratic votes, so anything is possible

If Sinema continues to poll consistently in the low double digits into next September her support will dwindle considerably by November. As it sinks in to voters that that she's hopelessly behind and can't possibly win they'll wander away into one camp or the other or just sit it out.

Manchin wants to get back down in his coal mine, back to basics, back where it all began

His campaign staff: just four guys in a mine, jamming

'how long must this go on??'

Not that I expected to see a Dem win a governor race in Mississippi - not to mention the sad regressive views Presley had on multiple issues - but I was especially disappointed when I assumed that Brandon Presley would be able to build upon the 2019 coalition that Mike Espy and Jim Hood were able to craft among BIPOC voters of all education levels, the small group of white working-class voters who consider themselves moderates or liberals, and the small-but-growing group of white voters with a college degree.

Presley held strong with BIPOC communities (at least where ballots didn't run out) and improved with WWC voters, but actually lost ground with college-grad whites, bucking the trend we see basically everywhere else in the US. Presley campaigned heavily against the corruption of the "good ol' boy" network, which one would figure would be a good strategy in a state where standard of living for a sizable chunk of all races can still be described as 'Dickensian'. But no, the gains he had with WWC voters were more than countered by a drop with college-grad whites because, in Mississippi, they *are* the good ol' boy (or girl) network, and how dare he threaten their fiefdoms.

Then again, what should I have expected from a demo who openly embrace a college with a racist mascot.

Abortion presumably hurt him with the white college grads, right?

Or are they all pro-lifers too?

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/09/im-so-tired-of-these-psychos-moms-for-liberty-is-now-a-brand/

“Local residents also feared that rewriting history classes to adhere to right-wing mythologies would ultimately harm the school's reputation, which could hurt both their property values and the ability of their kids to get into good colleges.“

Lmao

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lol that's great. the right might want to rethink painting the Ivy League as the pinnacle of wokeness

Letter from 27 Ohio House Republicans, just after voters approved a constitutional right to abortion.

Says they will "do everything in our power" to prevent antiabortion laws from being removed. pic.twitter.com/FuXcxQQZvc

— Jake Zuckerman (@jake_zuckerman) November 8, 2023

That's not even half of the GOP conference, it should be noted.

States' rights!!! (... to ignore the will of its people)

Good times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/nyregion/adams-fbi-investigation-phones.html

Pssh, the FBI is pretty biased, they're only investigating him because they think he did something criminal.

Let your haters be your waiters when you sit down at the table of success

https://nitter.net/SeanCasten/status/1722971856712442027#m

I'm too used to Twitter pasting, and didn't realize this was just a link. It's a thread from Sean Casten illustrating just how dysfunctional, unserious and batshit the House GOP are right now.

"5. They then used the first 20 days of that 45 day period to fight over a new speaker. Should we pick someone who hates gay people, fought to overturn the election or creeps on his son's porn? It took a while, but the @HouseGOP finally said YES to all three." haha

The Ohio legislature would be fools to try to undo issue 1. Loudly huffing about how anti-abortion they are while conceding they don't have the power to outlaw abortion is absolutely the sweet spot for Republican politicians.

They will undo Ohio Issue 1. The Republican Ohio Supreme Court has already ruled for the third time against the partisan gerrymandering of the legislature, but they've ignored it and they continue to use their maps for state elections without repercussions, so what's to stop them? There appear to be no consequences.

I haven't encountered "nitter dot net" before, there was a truncated version of those remarks on twitter, but that thread is awesome

Nitter just lets you read twitter without giving Elon the satisfaction (or requiring registration to read)

Good morning!

In regard to the Republican majority in the House, looks like soon we'll need the news networks to start up a chiron, a'la the Iran hostage crisis in 1979-80: America Held For Ransom, Day x.

You Love To See It: "Sinema left the Democratic party. Democratic donors left her too."

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/13/kyrsten-sinema-donors-democrats-00126676

Sinema is like the definition of "I sold out, but no one was buying."

turns out democratic donors want democrats to be elected, who knew

lol

HFC Official Position on CR: No More “Rolling Over Today To Fight Tomorrow” pic.twitter.com/8rE2VbRCbe

— House Freedom Caucus (@freedomcaucus) November 14, 2023

HFC more like KFC

high fructose cockfarmers

terrible punctuation in that official statement

We’ll Fight Tomorrow, wherever there’s trouble
H.F.C. is there!

fight fight fight

Have NEVER seen this on Capitol Hill:

While talking to @RepTimBurchett after the GOP conference meeting, former @SpeakerMcCarthy walked by with his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. Burchett lunged towards me. I thought it was a joke, it was not. And a chase ensued...

— Claudia Grisales (@cgrisales) November 14, 2023

Burchett con't: "You got no guts, you did so, ...the reporter said it right there, what kind of chicken move is that? You're pathetic man, you are so pathetic."

Burchett starts to walk away from McCarthy, tells me, "What a jerk," and then yells back, "You need security Kevin!"

— Claudia Grisales (@cgrisales) November 14, 2023

whats gotten into the usa congress

A US senator named "Markwayne Mullin" challenging a Teamsters leader to a fistfight makes me feel like we really have gone back to the mid-20th century pic.twitter.com/ktcKn6iRQ6

— Populism Updates (@PopulismUpdates) November 14, 2023

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) declared during his weekly news conference Tuesday that the House “is a pressure cooker” after lawmakers have spent 10 weeks together in the halls of Congress.

No moment was more evident than minutes before when Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) came up behind Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and began yelling in his ear, accusing him of elbowing him in the back as they passed each other in a crowded hallway.

“Hey Kevin, why did you walk behind me and elbow me in the back,” Burchett said as The Washington Post interviewed McCarthy. “You have no guts.”

“I didn’t do that,” McCarthy replied.

As Burchett continued to yell, McCarthy laughed and stated, “Oh my god.”

“You are so pathetic,” Burchett said before slowing his steps to no longer be directly behind McCarthy.

“Thank you Tim,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy largely demurred, shrugging instead of answering questions about the altercation and other topics.

The altercation took place as Republicans were filing out of their weekly conference meeting where Republicans debated over the contours of the funding bill Johnson proposed last weekend. Burchett was one of eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy as speaker last month, and McCarthy has since continually called him out for prioritizing media attention over governing.

“He’s just a bully,” Burchett told reporters after the exchange. “He just needs to go on back to Southern California.”

as many have noted, it woudl be a good thijng for the entire GOP to kick each other's asses

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) declared during his weekly news conference Tuesday that the House “is a pressure cooker” after lawmakers have spent 10 weeks together in the halls of Congress.

ok theyre just grumpy from having to go to work, relatable

man, wait until someone spends five minutes washing their coffee cup in the dining area

xp

*woudl
*thijng

i am rusty, sorry. my keyboard is also broken is several places, including multiple letters and the period key. it is a trying time, but we have to gather up our last remaining dollars and bet it all on the congressional representative who is most likely to not only survive fight club, but to win in a surprising way so that the odds are stacked against them. i am going with jake laturner

the distinguished gentleman from maryland microwaving crabcakes