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

Meantime, Thom Tillis has cut bait:

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Damn woke snowflakes criticizing my candidate

are Olivia Nuzzi and Ryan Lizza still together?

RFK Throuple

olivia nuzzi's next media outlet: go

Lizza and Nuzzi

A very slept on relationship

Fucking RFK Jr in 2024 is fuckin gross

Nuzzi will co-host a hunting show with RFK

RFKJ Gives Great (White Whale) Head

Roadkill to the White House

Lizza and Nuzzi

They're perfect for each other; after all, he was tossed out of the New Yorker for accusations of sexual misconduct.

At first I thought that photo of Nuzzi was Ivanka

He's nearly 40 years older than her and a lunatic. But I guess the heart wants what it wants.

She says it was more of a pen-pal thing.

"The relationship was never physical but should have been disclosed to prevent the appearance of a conflict. I deeply regret not doing so immediately and apologize to those I’ve disappointed, especially my colleagues at New York." (2/2)

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 20, 2024

Wait so not to interrupt the age gap discourse but is the House GOP just casually gonna shut down the government again a month before the election? Is that wise?

Bud Bundy understudy caught up in the Ashley Madison data leak:

https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social/post/3l4klhkfysk2x

Wait so not to interrupt the age gap discourse but is the House GOP just casually gonna shut down the government again a month before the election? Is that wise?

Wait so not to interrupt the age gap discourse but is the House GOP just casually gonna shut down the government again a month before the election? Is that wise?

According to Politico, no.

Lawmakers widely expect Speaker Mike Johnson will put a spending bill on the floor next week that has widespread Democratic support — funding the government into December without a GOP voting proposal.

Johnson himself isn’t indicating what his Plan B is after his proposed spending plan, which paired government funding through March with a Republican plan to require proof of citizenship in order to register to vote, failed on the House floor Wednesday night. Fourteen GOP members voted against it.

Five Republicans familiar with the internal discussions indicate that the House’s ultimate landing spot is inevitable anyway: They’ll have to vote next week on a “clean” bill to fund the government into December, forcing Johnson to lean on Democrats to avoid a shutdown that would kick in on Oct. 1. Many House Republicans — including those tasked with funding the government — increasingly expect that he’ll soon greenlight that plan. That prediction is also shared by House Democrats and multiple senators.

That means GOP leadership would be ignoring a demand from former President Donald Trump to shut down the government unless Republicans get their non-citizen voting bill, also known as the SAVE Act.

The Republicans familiar said their expectation is that the December funding bill will be on the House floor by mid-week — though they stressed that they hadn’t heard that from Johnson directly. Still, there is a growing consensus that Johnson is headed that way, with some predicting that the speaker wanted to put distance between Wednesday’s floor vote failure and announcing the new plan.

One of those Republicans, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly, predicted that the House would vote on a short-term government funding measure into December by the middle of next week, adding: “I can’t see a scenario where shutting the government down makes any sense whatsoever — functionally or politically.”

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She says it was more of a pen-pal thing.

Granted this was back before conversion therapy or w/e uh, ~cured~ Milo Yiannopoulos of being gay, but didn't it turn out that she was pen-pal bff's with him (Milo), like around the same time there was a rush of journalists doing fawning profiles of alt-right figures?

how is the worm in your brain like the 3rd weirdest revelation of your campaign

— David Mack (@davidmackau) September 20, 2024

I’m fucking dying at the olivia nuzzi thing. hard to think of a better person for that story to involve

I’m gonna leave this here: maybe, just maybe, consider RFK’s role as a 70 year old on a 31 year old female reporter.

Like y’all are self proclaimed feminists but on Twitter just are full on bullies.

— Nomiki --- "No-me-KEY" (@NomikiKonst) September 20, 2024

have we discussed the female disempowerment angle?

MoeJoe @MoeJLong
2h

This was so transactional they both wrote it off their taxes.

lollll k3vin

was hoping at least one of the old heads would be around to get that <3

RFK's cum noise must be like someone dropped a large ball-bearing in the waste disposal

anyway lots of rightwing weirdos in trouble last night it seems, I remember seeing something about Gaetz before I went to sleep too

Update: Email address belonging to conservative Chris Rufo found in Ashley Madison data dump 1/ https://t.co/uhckYSmd2c

— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) September 20, 2024

Keep trolls out of power and under bridges in children’s stories

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/20/mike-davis-trump-potential-attorney-general-profile-00179358

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nuzzi!

I did it all for the nuzzi, what? The nuzzi, yeah, the nuzzi

As if this day couldn’t get any weirder, I randomly happened to discover that Olivia Nuzzi thinks the name “Seamus” is pronounced “Seemus” pic.twitter.com/z0YH24bQ9p

— Patrick Anderson (@pimlius) September 20, 2024

I have never been a member of the Nuzzi Party.

big news day

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/fighting-antisemitism-event-trump-says-052125075.html

“I’m not going to call this a prediction, but, in my opinion, the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss if I’m at 40%,” Trump said during a campaign event titled "Fighting Antisemitism in America," citing an unnamed poll that he said showed him with two-fifths of Jewish voters’ support.

I've got to admit I did chuckle at this...

in a post on his social media site, Truth Social, last month, described Shapiro as a “highly overrated Jewish governor."

Oops wrong tags

in a post on his social media site, Truth Social, last month, described Shapiro as a “highly overrated Jewish governor."

Trump saw Harris talking about shooting people and wondered how he could get the attention back

This is interesting. NYT poll has Harris ahead in PA despite doing poorly with white working class voters:

One question I've seen throughout my replies: does a seemingly strong result for Harris in PA signal a 2020 polling error repeat?
That's obviously hard to say, but I want to flag one thing that caught my eye: our polls do not show Harris doing well with the white working class

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) September 20, 2024

wonder why

yeah hmmm

lol at the nuzzi thing

around the time of the “dapper young nazis” richard spencer interview era, I was a friend-of-a-friend with someone on facebook who posted about her interviewing that asshole and Nuzzi herself responded when I was complaining about it. I felt a little bad for being so harsh, but then I thought… nah

it’s been clear for a long time she’s 100% into the type of access journalism where she’s texting buddies with absolutely anyone who could give her a little story, including some of the worst shitheads

xxpost yeah obviously. But the CV is that you have to win over White Working Class voters to win PA (or states like it) whereas Harris is possibly driving up numbers in Philly and the suburbs.

CW that is

This was the case for Harris that some people were making back in 2019/20, that the Democrats needed a candidate of color to motivate the base.

big news day

🖼

RFK Jr. had to tell Cheryl Hines about his affair with Olivia Nuzzi the same day he had to tell her he was being investigated for cutting off a dead whale’s head with a chainsaw.

Rough Thursday. pic.twitter.com/cRxCtFBJEV

— Mike Beauvais (@MikeBeauvais) September 20, 2024

My Thursday wasn’t that bad in retrospect, in comparison. Dang, RFK Jr.!

Wow. Worst Thursday for an RFK since June 6, 1968.

Harris did a WIRED autocomplete interview. It's pretty straightforward, but I guarantee the NY Times publisher is having a stroke all over again that she's willing to do this stuff but not talk to the paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9-cjwpthz4