Where Are We Runnin’? - American Politics Thread, May 2022

I didn't read it, I just looked at the pictures. He would've wanted it that way.

we already knew Cawthorn was deeply fucked up. it was impossible to miss. that article just adds more depth and dimension about how fucked up he is.

his despair would inspire me to have a bit more compassion for him, if he had not sought a position of great power and public trust while having zero awareness of what being in Congress actually meant, other than an ego boost, or grasp of how unprepared he was to fulfill his duties once he attained that position. he should have resigned immediately after he arrived.

Um, y'all are going to be surprised by this, but I read that and felt some sympathy for the guy, but mostly because it is clear he's in a lot of physical and psychic pain and instead of dealing with it, projecting it onto others. That sucks and has real consequences in the world, but I think it's possible to feel sympathy for the kid while decrying his method of dealing with his trauma.

Just my take, as someone who also had control over one of his basic bodily functions torn away through no fault of his own.

Not a lot of sympathy for people who take selfies at hitler’s bunker

Cawthorn's story is like Jason Street got his own series and the creative team decided to go in a dfferent direction

im putting together a team pic.twitter.com/OrstQBsunP

— hybrid creature (@cityafreaks) May 18, 2022

table otm, that being said i didn't read it as i have limited empathy abilities and need to save it for people who deserve it, politicians are not on my list

I can find sympathy for Cawthorn's accident, but not for going to a school that “exists to glorify God” and prepare “Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture” and then lying your way up the ladder of power and living your life like a totally un-Jesus-like asshole.

Yeah, Cawthorn didn't strike me at all as the type who'd hesitate to strip away certain peoples' right to, like, be alive given half an opportunity.

i thought Miles Taylor and McMullen and stuff were trying to start a new 'rational republican right/center party' last year, surprised he was still registered as a republican.

Unbeknownst to most, the historical Jesus was a total asshole.

Well, map, think of it this way: he won't be a politician much longer

We are putting Madison Cawthorn out of our misery, if not his.

Yeah, Cawthorn didn't strike me at all as the type who'd hesitate to strip away certain peoples' right to, like, be alive given half an opportunity.

Greg Abbott Energy

If this was me, I'd be so, "Listen you scrote-lookin' motherfucker..."

"My name is Dr Robinson" -- Dr Yashica Robinson after Chip Roy calls her "Ms Robinson"

Roy then talks over her before Robinson fires back by telling him "I am a physician and a proud abortion provider" pic.twitter.com/NTW5FM9cHa

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2022

"I have never seen that in a health care setting, ever. We don't put baby parts in freezers" -- Dr Yashica Robinson to Chip Roy pic.twitter.com/fOC0LrLkjD

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2022

the entire GOP strategy now is to be the biggest tool you can possibly be while there are cameras present

What a fucking asshole.

Yeah, Cawthorn didn't strike me at all as the type who'd hesitate to strip away certain peoples' right to, like, be alive given half an opportunity.

― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 18, 2022 7:25 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is everyone who works for the state ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

literally every city in the country is fine with criminalizing homeless people. god i get so tired of partisan myopia in these threads.

I have quite a few liberal friends who make derogatory statements about homeless people. less than I did 4 years ago though so that's reassuring.

it's definitely not a partisan issue. we as a country just hate the poor.

I've worked with my fair share of design firms and developers that like to taut their progressive bonafides on social media but also sure love the fuck out of adding anti-unhoused, hostile design elements to their projects.

Yup. No park benches are allowed anymore without designing them to be impossible to lie down on.

Why does he look exactly like Madison Cawthorn https://t.co/d7vlO3Lzri

— Secular Talk🎙 (@KyleKulinski) May 18, 2022

xp - never mind being able to lie down, they don't even want to let people sit

The 5th Circuit just dismantled the SEC's power to enforce securities law. This decision is beyond radical. It is nihilistic. https://t.co/6X46t2f4vY

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 18, 2022

i'm at the gilded age
i'm at the years of lead
i'm at the combination gilded age and years of lead

— frog "Joker's Secret" kosaric (@yurirando) May 15, 2022

The nostalgia, the crippling nostalgia …

Speaking in Dallas this afternoon, former President George. W Bush made a significant verbal slip-up while discussing the war in Ukraine.

He tried referencing what he described as the “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion” — but said Iraq, instead of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/tw0VNJzKmE

— Michael Williams (@michaeldamianw) May 19, 2022

now that is a fucking gaffe

He's still got it!

Everyone in that room who laughed should be summarily executed.

that's your answer for everything.

not that there's anything wrong with that.

satire never had a chance

Meanwhile, here in Oregon we are in the process of trying to rid ourselves of Kurt Schrader, one of the worst Democrat blue dogs in the US House, but only 54% of the ballots in the race have been tabulated so far, because the elections office of the third most populous county in the state is run by a numbskull named Sherry Hall.

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/05/18/clackamas-county-votes-delay-ballot-counting-primary-election-2022/

Madison Cawthorn is taking his defeat as well as one might expect.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTJLiseUUAAgAF_.jpg

"The time for gentile politics as usual has come to an end."

I think you meant to write "genital politics"

fuckin yikes dude

“dark maga”

'it is time for Dark MAGA to rise' may sound like a supervillain in a comic book, but sadly there are millions out there for whom that kind of fantasy vision of the world is more real than the humdrum facts of daily life and there's a ton of "content" out there they can gorge on every day to feed that fantasy life.

As far as I can tell "Dark MAGA" just means pics of Trump with laser eyes

C'mon people, he didn't actually write that

shadow maga was right there!

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/dark-maga-the-latest-cycle-in-the-far-right-aesthetics-laundromat/

The aesthetics Dark MAGA combines are:

Vaporwave: characterised by synthetic beats, neon-tinted visual artwork and semi-ironic nostalgia for the 1980s and 1990s.

Fashwave: inspired by vaporwave, a music genre and visual style that incorporates neo-Nazi and fascist iconography and narratives into the vaporwave aesthetic.

and blah blah Nazi stuff

Oh this list is pretty precious:

Latest Instagram post from Madison Cawthorn who remains a member of congress for another 229 days.

What is the “dark MAGA” he references in his caption. Is there a “light MAGA”? pic.twitter.com/oARGdZwdT0

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 19, 2022

Dark Maga needs to go in the gritty reboot thread.

These guys love dark stuff:

The Intellectual Dark Web
The Dark Enlightenment

#onlydarkmagathings

Speaking of Carlson...

Okay, definitely lost my sympathy for Cawthorn and my lunch reading that IG post.

Yeah, I mean, if and when he ends up trying to murder a bunch of people, I don’t think anyone at all would be surprised, whatsoever. Kind of telling.

i don't think we need to cooperate with the the paramilitary fascist right's attempt at a rebrand.

He does know he lost, right?