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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/13/john-fetterman-car-crash-driving-speeding-tickets/

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Wait, Fetterman is allowed to drive?

just a little stroke, let's be cool

he drives...innovation

Wait... are you telling me that a cranky ass middle aged white dude from Pennsylvania drives like an asshole? I never.

Can't drive. 55 (in August)

Pretty annoyed with the people in my feeds acting all shocked about IVF becoming the new target for the Christofascists. We knew they weren't gonna just sit back contentedly after reversing Roe!

I assume this also is quite shocking to the same group: https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/354635/divorce-no-fault-states-marriage-republicans

With 50% of all marriages ending in divorce, I really doubt that is going to be a winning issue for them. Not that they won't try.

Life comes at you fast, or whatever

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/14/trump-gop-future-moment-south-carolina-00162767

The Night Drove New Dixie Down

xp fwiw the 50% divorce rate isn't close to accurate anymore (it's now around 25% afaict), though that's partially due to the marriage rate also declining

(speaking of the US only)

Quality not quantity I always say

50% divorce rate is the discount rate if you do a twofer and bring a coupon

Wait, Fetterman is allowed to drive?

they don't take your license away because you had a stroke at some point

hope it ends well for him

people whose ability to drive is impaired often don't lose their licenses unless someone is aware of the issue (i.e. a doctor) and reports it to the DMV.

eh that politico i cannot...someone got paid to assemble that tho, and hard to resist “the American people...the more news they receive, the less savvy they become” or “We’re no longer going to be the stupid people, folks,” he’d said. “We’re going to be smart, and we’re going to win" cuz like, president fredo will lead us. and then he did

xp

also xp i had a really severe tbi with bleeds and some dai. trauma is v different to stroke obv, but as far as brain injury and driving, CO's licensing sys seemed more concerned with my seizure history/risk. i been seizure free, which is lucky, really. hmm i like to imagine my brain is all kinds of better than fetterman's but that's my opinion.

Hunt3r >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fetterman

aw ty!

Hard agree with Neando

Thirded

i saw something on a thread somewhere about something called sympathy fishing, and you can sees i been working on them skills

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., introduced a bill in April to rename Washington-Dulles International Airport to the Donald J. Trump International Airport.

A few days later, a group of Democrats responded with legislation to change the name of the federal prison in Miami to the Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution.

Have we crossed the threshold yet of some representative or another introducing a bill to rename the country Trumpland?

The Democratic response is cute, but whenever I see stuff like that I wonder what they could be spending their time on instead.

otm

oh, they have some ideas

Republicans are obsessed with attacking gay people and banning Drag Shows, but won’t ban Marjorie Taylor Greene showing porn in committee hearings. Drag is not a crime – it’s art. pic.twitter.com/DI4QJYvpVO

— Congressman Robert Garcia (@RepRobertGarcia) June 13, 2024

convicted felon donald j. trump

lol debate prep:

The Trump team used its time Thursday talking about how to push back on those attacks and to respond to questions about Jan. 6, including if Mr. Trump were asked about pardoning the rioters who entered the building, one of the people briefed on the meeting said.

One idea discussed was suggesting that Mr. Biden presents his own threat, which Mr. Trump has said publicly since last year. But specifics of that discussion included focusing on the crisis at the border, the prosecutions against Mr. Trump — who was criminally convicted in Manhattan last month — and government censorship of free speech.

lol

“Joe Biden is allowing garden gnomes to flourish in the Midwest. Vote Trump, and no more gnomes. MAGA!”

I will laugh if Trump mentions the Twitter Files

I’m counting on the debate being full of deep Dark Web conspiracy bullshit from him, and Biden’s expression of bewilderment becoming a plus

Trump can't help himself. He will be talking about election workers flown in from Venezuela with balloons full of votes in their rectums

One thing I don’t understand is the right’s obsession with Venezuelan immigrants, contrasted with their embrace of Cuban immigrants. I would think the Republicans would make hay about how these people are fleeing the evil left-wing Venezuelan regime and that’s why Socialism doesn’t work, etc. I suspect the answer is “racism” though.

if i'm biden at the debate a few weeks hence: are you more pounds overweight than you have felony convictions, you billionaire you?

“Careful there, Donald - you don’t wanna violate your parole”

(I’m sure he’s not on parole per se, Biden should still say it)

i 100% don't understand why biden would debate trump. i wouldn't want to be in the same room with him if i were Biden. he should just say: "I don't debate traitors to the country. Trump is a dark sticky stain on our nation that will takes years of infrastructure spending to clean up." case closed! god bless ameeircka!

you make him real if you debate him. he's legit again. fuck that.

Maybe Biden has a really good zing he's dying to use

Biden should debate Trump simply to allow the world to see how unhinged the former guy has become, in prime time, to be reminded of why he should never be running anything ever again

Obviously all the standard things should be said - yes to democracy, I’m going to rescue your right to abortion, etc etc - but mostly Biden is there to play the straight man and break the fourth wall a couple times

"I can't believe I'm losing to this guy."

they need to do ads of just snippets of trump talking during rallies. that oughta do it. if you want to show people how nuts he is. nobody watches them anymore. people have no idea.

i 100% don't understand why biden would debate trump. i wouldn't want to be in the same room with him if i were Biden.

Normally, I'd be with you on this (how do you argue with someone that batshit), but in my world as a political hack for municipal progressive Dems, the running convo is that there's still a decent-sized chunk of voters who are convinced that neither Biden nor Trump will actually be on the ballot, so Biden pushing for an early debate serves as a way to counter that narrative

I think the conventional wisdom is Biden wants this debate because “he is losing”.