US Politics, June 2024: "Have there ever been this many cowards in power?"

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Just curious, table, who would you say is the best president of your lifetime?

agreed Alfred, it's unclear to me who this is aimed at

― rob, Monday, June 3, 2024 4:17 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Nobody? I'm making a remark.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 3, 2024 4:17 PM (yesterday)

I was puzzled by this yesterday and only just realized the confusion: Alfred, by "this" I meant Biden's decision, not your post! Sorry for the ambiguous pronoun :)

Remind me to mix you a Negroni at 5 p.m.

xxpost As Nas said, “Ain’t no best.”

xp nice. and I just got a bottle of amaro I've never tried. unfortunately, I left it in my friend's car and can't remember the name

I wanted to buy some Amaro Nonino the other day but it's like $55 now

^^ Biden Did This ^^

I feel your pain, f. hazel

This is so adorable. Honestly, good on him bringing his grandson to work. Just some good innocent fun in govt.

*googles Rep John Rose + wife*

Oh....oh god. No. https://t.co/8uaQ1qUM1T

— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) June 3, 2024

Rose and his wife Chelsea (née Doss) married in January 2011.[30] At the time, he was 45 and she was 21. He met her when she was 14.[31] They live in Cookeville, Tennessee, with their two sons.

A pretty good Times piece on Ryan Busse, the Democratic candidate for governor here in Montana. (Gift link.)

XP I typed out a Milkshake Duck post about that guy yesterday, but thought better.

I think that tack in Montana is a good one, even if it doesn't produce immediate wins. Red-state Republicans are so full of shit and so susceptible to outside money that they are easy targets and should be treated as such. We have a Senate race here in TN that I'm curious to see the result of — not because the Democrat (Gloria Johnson, one of the "Tennessee Three" and my own state rep) has a prayer of winning, but because she's running a full-throttle assault on Marsha Blackburn that is a contrast to the first time Blackburn ran against former Gov. Phil Bredesen. Bredesen is a centrist and ran as one, and what I hope is that Johnson does at least as well as Bredesen or better — which would show that there's no harm and potential gain in running straight at the loonys, not trying to soften their edges.

I think that tack in Montana is a good one, even if it doesn't produce immediate wins. Red-state Republicans are so full of shit and so susceptible to outside money that they are easy targets and should be treated as such.

As I've said here before, people in Montana are really pissed that their property taxes have effectively doubled this year — and Busse's been running ads and social media videos talking about the fact that Gianforte's own property taxes actually went down while his neighbor's went up. There's also a lot of anger about attempts to privatize land and streams that people have been hunting and fishing on for decades. It's not gonna be a blowout, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if Gianforte loses. And I'm pretty confident Tester's gonna hold his seat; he's about five points ahead of Sheehy, who comes across like a real asshole in basically any context.

the whole crux of the Hunter Biden case was that he lied about his drug use when he otherwise legally purchased a firearm

I'm known a few drug addict over the years, and the first thing they'll tell you is that they're not an addict... that's like a fundamental part of addiction, that denial. If he'd admitted he drank too much every day, would that have been a gun crime?

“Protesting peacefully doesn’t always mean you’re protected by the first amendment,” CPD Sup Larry Snelling, US Secret Service Director address DNC security plans pic.twitter.com/0gAOqtd6zK

— Paris Schutz (@paschutz) June 4, 2024

Chicago cops have just been itching for yet another excuse to beat the shit out of people. This summer is going to be an absolute shitshow.

Sadly that quote is correct as far as judicial precedent goes. "Time/place/manner restrictions" and all that. We've had 21 completely peaceful protesters arrested on the University of Tennessee campus, for being peaceful at the wrong place or time. But yeah, cops will interpret that as broadly as they want.

Yeah, you peacefully chain yourself to the courthouse steps, and they'll unpeacefully arrest you and take you to jail

worth noting that all this is because various liberal factions let the SC chip away at these rights in anti-abortion cases back in the 80's, specifically regarding a California tree-defense pepper spray usage case in the late 90s that had precedent as noted. support yr enemies right to peacefully protest, or it will bite you in the ass.

We now have "Free Speech Zones" lol.

I've dealt with that twaddle for at least 15 years

Have you ever hung out in a free speech zone? It blows your mind man

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I went to a feee speech zone before they were cool

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/us/politics/trump-fbi-documents-threats.html

repeated use of the word "lie" rather than "falsehood" here. has some line been crossed in this particular case or is this a change of policy.

“ Representative Byron Donalds, a Florida Republican whom Donald J. Trump is said to be considering for his running mate, suggested on Tuesday that the Jim Crow era had some virtues for Black people while trying to persuade voters of color to back the former president.

Representative Hakeem Jeffries,Democrat of New York and the House minority leader, also condemned Mr. Donalds on Wednesday, making a thinly veiled reference to the congressman during remarks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“That’s an outlandish, outrageous and out-of-pocket observation,” Mr. Jeffries said of Mr. Donalds’s comments, pointing to the lynchings and inequities that defined the Jim Crow era. “How dare you make such an ignorant observation? You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”

Is there any democrat that’s not a complete dork

dorks can be perfectly good legislators. white supremacists not so much.

At least he didn't DAS EFX it

xp - yes, that is definitely the takeaway, that the Dems are complete dorks.

I do my own research, so I'm curious about these Jim Crow-era benefits

oh the takeaway is that republicans are racist. good to know

I don't see what's wrong with Jeffries' response tbh unless we're going to get into how two Black men talking about Jim Crow six or seven years apart in age should talk to each other.

check yourself before you wreck yourself. it's 2024

Rap lyrics are Jeffries' thing. Get used to it.

come on. pastors in Black churches use rhyming catch phrases, too, and it's no surprise they use it more conservatively than rappers. would you call Muhammad Ali a dork because he used rhymes in similar ways?

yeah Al Sharpton goes full Gil-Scott Heron at times

Rap lyrics are Jeffries' thing. Get used to it.

I was reminded of this:

Democratic House Manager @RepJeffries closes his argument for impeachment evidence by addressing Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow with iconic bars from The Notorious B.I.G.:

"If you don't know, now you know."#TrumpTrial #HakeemJeffries #Juicy #Biggie #ImpeachmentTrial

— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) January 22, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTjaIaNO9sY

I think, instead of rapping, maybe trying tying trump to all the white power groups that support him and that he's "big-upped" in the past. or talk about how he handled black lives matter. or how he would post street fights on twitter where black ppl were beating up poor, innocent white ppl

finish the line Jeffries you coward

in other news

I’d still love you if you flipped burgers at Burger King @50Cent, I used to do that myself!

Thanks for the photo, great to meet you! pic.twitter.com/9TDsljs9WT

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) June 5, 2024

I fail to see how a 53-year-old quoting rap lyrics from hits from his college days is indicative of anything other than the passage of time

Too bad we haven't had a Slayer fan in the House

Neanderthal '26

in fairness to Jeffries, he does seem legit committed to dropping bombs on moms

oh snap

Grisso would you like to be my running mate

I nominate myself for Secretary of the Posterior.