US Politics, September 2024 -- “I’m Not Going to Apologize For Posting a Joke”

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looking good sir

he rubbed Arby's meat as a moisturizer.

harris has nice teeth

Horseradish sauce lube is still cool though

too hot

ymmv

Ugh I couldn’t keep that name

Can’t wait until he drops his current campaign manager for LL

ll cool l

low life with the loud raps

the LL stuff is probably giving the same feeling to the "adults" inside his campagain as the time he invited fuentes and ye to dinner.

Except he wasn't banging them (presumably)

As a number of people have pointed out this has a real George Bluth/Kitty Sanchez vibe to it

https://www.tiktok.com/@notjustneedlepoint/video/7413865748117867807

And he goes, ‘She’s a lot smarter than a lot of these other people who have worked for me.’”

Remember when Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to the front door at Twitter to protest being banned and everyone just went in and out of a different door? All day. Good times. pic.twitter.com/7rm2ndZEVd

— Christopher Moore (@TheAuthorGuy) September 12, 2024

Why did she have a big star on her shirt?

Yellow star I assume

Attorney General Merrick Garland addressed Justice Department employees Thursday, decrying “an unprecedented spike” in threats against them and seeming to fortify them for the possibility of Trump misusing the department if he were to win in November:

Our norms are a promise that we will not allow this department to be used as a political weapon. And our norms are a promise that we will not allow this nation to become a country where law enforcement is treated as an apparatus of politics.

if only merrick garland could have done something about this between january 6, 2021, and the present. but there's just not enough time!

give the norms more time! they're almost there.

look there's no way that Merrick Garland could have known that the GOP may not always follow political norms

i'm just glad mcconnell stole the supreme court seat from him. imagine garland on the SC! i'm not sure if alito could handle the reign of radical anarchy garland would unleash there

Anarchy in the SC

some republican super pac is running fake pro-harris/pro-israel doug emhoff ads in michigan to get muslims there pissed off. classy!

Democrats don't need much help shooting themselves in the foot on that.

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/ag-nessel-charges-11-over-pro-palestinian-demonstrations-at-university-of-michigan-37334431

https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/two-springfield-schools-evacuated-another-closed-district-cites-police-info/K26FV7URSVGPTB2IUPSFJCGUDM/

the Springfield, OH situation is so infuriating & scary and it's just dismal that this is happening. I'm starting to think we don't talk enough about evil these days

word.

Not holding my breath, but does feel like this current disgusting bout of slander should occasion some prominent Catholic conservatives to speak out. Is lying about migrants the kind of thing that Christ’s teachings lead us to? Is it what the Church teaches?

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 12, 2024

These are going to be longest two (checks notes) four months of our lives, aren’t they?

Can only hope the GOP pays dearly for this shit in Ohio. Not holding my breath but I don’t think your typical Trump voter is on board with this shit.

they may only win Ohio by 5 points this time

i feel despair when i think about what has become of Ohio. the Ohio i grew up in was not like this.

Ohio has become “Ohio” in the Gen-Z slang sense of the term.

to be fair these bomb threats could be coming from anywhere

xp - they wouldn't call it that otherwise :( it's a real tragedy. i am not trying to claim that Ohio was a paradise (a rusty rollercoaster that threatens to fling its riders into the air, maybe)

but i grew up intensely aware of politics and while it was bad in a number of ways, it was not this bad.

Is there evidence this vileness is worse than other GOP vileness? Are conservative Catholics speaking out?

no they're complaining because trump isn't extreme enough

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/christian-conservatives-beliefs-election.html

JD Vance needs to be censured by the Senate.

I almost wrote something that would get me in legal trouble.

"Is it what the Church teaches?"

lol, when was the last time someone saw a priest? they are afraid to go outside. probably get moldy tomatoes thrown at them.

https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-clergy-amid-haitian-tensions-bible-says-to-welcome-immigrants/6QVOGEIYH5ADNMCJSUXUPFSYAU/

i am not trying to claim that Ohio was a paradise

my impression is that this is the result of 'outside agitators' rather than Ohio residents? it seems the Haitian population has been fairly well accepted in Springfield, tempered by concerns about inadequate infrastructure, schools, etc.

JD Vance is a trad cath convert who probably goes to some off-brand Opus Dei Latin Mass place where they wear capes (that is a a thing, apparently) and jibber in Latin.

He probably is a sede vacantist, too

Someone should ask Vance whether or not his wife should have the right to vote.

you need this press conference in your life...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3U3RxoTHwY

Low energy, not exciting at all. Sad!

I can't believe he's in California... I knew something smelled funny this morning

you should've added a trigger warning to that: it's Trump doing his usual deranged rambling, but LIVE!

unfortunately there's developed this whole Ayn Rand-ian strata of tech bros here in CA now (Thiel, Musk, etc.), vile people