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

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

there comes a time in every person's life when you stand behind the fence and yell "wh-OH! yeeeeowch! kick his ass jake!" and bear witness
https://i.imgur.com/NkdHZvx.png

Is that "mid-20th century" reference in that tweet supposed to be mid-19th Century? Wake me up when one of these ghouls brains another one with their cane on the Senate floor.

think they were referring to the mid century hearings on union corruption bobby kennedy vs jimmy hoffa and so forth, an imperfect reference for sure

Everything falling apart with this idiots

-@RepJamesComer flips out when he gets confronted on the loan to his brother by @JaredEMoskowitz!

This is good stuff! 🔥🔥
pic.twitter.com/4H0TbNwnu3

— Skyleigh Heinen (@Sky_Lee_1) November 14, 2023

These idiots are even affecting my grammar

And lol as this teamster mocking that tough guy asshole

Lol pic.twitter.com/SaFgr7YRUt

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 14, 2023

you look like a smurf just goin around and all this stuff

Thirty-two Short Films About the Dying Empire

We truly are living in the days of the kakistocracy.

lol

https://x.com/michaelarria/status/1724512124053930445

Ayo bipartisanship

we finally found the thing they believe in

there comes a time in every person's life when you stand behind the fence and yell "wh-OH! yeeeeowch! kick his ass jake!" and bear witness

lol. Is it ok if I use that Burchett-McCarthy image in our local newsletter? Burchett's our congressman.

Jab in the Back

Jeb! In the Back

Get Jebbed

When candidates and campaigns tell you who they are, listen to them.

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-vermin-fascist-language-speech

IT’S MY JEB IN A BOX

"They're just calling Trump a fascist because they know that Trump will put them to death if he wins" is a hell of an excuse for using fascist language.

Cheung later said he was referencing their "sad, miserable existence" instead of their "entire existence," the Post noted

Oh, okay.

"He's rich, that's how they refer to the less fortunate..."

House just passed the stop-gap funding bill which was about as good as it was going to get; will the Freedumb Caucus remove Johnson now?

NEXT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9u9K7Up4Ts

Johnson is a kook and he's obv doomed as Speaker, but I guess I'll give him this one... doing the bare minimum that your job description entails?

So “vermin” is fine but “deplorables” is slander. Just trying to keep it all straight.

Following the testament of this nut that tried to bludgeon Paul Pelosi to death... I know she wasn't at the house at the time of the invasion, but is there really no 24/7 security for her home? She was second in succession to the throne

^^^ maybe 'testimony' would be a better word, maybe not

yeah it's pretty weird there was no security there.

critically I think this funding bill does not provide any funding for either Israel or Ukraine and I'm....ok with that if that's the case

When candidates and campaigns tell you who they are, listen to them.

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-vermin-fascist-language-speech

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, November 14, 2023 2:31 PM bookmarkflaglink

This is alarmingly true.

Sorry if this was already posted, but Trump's plans to use the Insurrection Act to deploy the military after his enemies and other assorted changes to the Constitution are absolutely chilling:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/05/trump-revenge-second-term/

He may seem like an utter clown and buffoon, but consider that even being out on supervised release for 91 criminal charges, and convicted of sexual assault and on trial for all manner things, he is still leading the polls in 5 swing states.

Lots of low-info voters, or people who - for whatever reason think that a second Trump term is fine.

Univision cancelling a bunch of pre-bought Biden ads after meeting with Trump seems... baffling? And possibly not good?

That’s a weird story (and maybe not the best thing to read when you first wake up)

As a side note - “‘You are a United States senator!’ he shouted” for December thread title

...or "Stand Your Butt Up"

amazing how this guy can just lose any and all sense of goodwill from anyone under 40 in less than a few months

Court Upholds Biden Admin’s Willow Oil Drilling Project

Remember when he promised to stop all new drilling on US lands? So do I!

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/15/paul-pelosi-jan-6-riot-00127267

Prosecutors grapple with alternate reality defense of the political fringe in Paul Pelosi trial.
The trial has become something of a test of what happens when certain far-out strains of digital-age American radicalism collide with the criminal justice system.

I'm really not sure why they aren't going for an insanity defense

"he wasn't going after Pelosi as an elected official, see, he also wanted to kill Tom Hanks for being a pedophile" isn't a very good defense

"he wasn't planning on kidnapping her he just brought along zip ties for some other reason in case things went bad"