Why is everyone so mean?? US Politics: September 2022

Probably they had that statement left over from the French election, in case Marine won.

Meanwhile, here's a hot bad take for you.

New York libraries have waded into America’s culture wars by directly lending 25,000 books to non-residents since spring, including thousands of students living under the bans https://t.co/bcvVxZOOF6

— POLITICO New York (@politicony) September 26, 2022

I cited the article yesterday; didn't even see the tweet this morning.

my brother works for the Brooklyn library!

The program is great. It's just the framing in that tweet that's bad, mindlessly amping this up as a "culture war" fight rather than an effort to circumvent censorship. (Also they don't really have to "slip" through red state bans, the bans are on school materials. The books are still legal, we're not to that point yet.)

On Twitter, I pulled out the paragraph about how the Oklahoma town most het up about this used to be a sundown town. Nice folks. Salt of the earth and whatnot.

First of a couple of Jan. 6 revelations(?)---more details anyway:

As allies of then-President Donald Trump made a final push to overturn the election in late-December 2020, one of the key operatives behind the effort briefed then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows about his attempts to gain access to voting systems in key battleground states, starting with Arizona and Georgia, according to text messages obtained by CNN.

Phil Waldron, an early proponent of various election-related conspiracy theories, texted Meadows on December 23 that an Arizona judge had dismissed a lawsuit filed by friendly GOP lawmakers there. The suit demanded state election officials hand over voting machines and other election equipment, as part of the hunt for evidence to support Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud.

In relaying the news to Meadows, Waldron said the decision would allow opponents to engage in “delay tactics” preventing Waldron and his associates from immediately accessing machines. Waldron also characterized Arizona as “our lead domino we were counting on to start the cascade,” referring to similar efforts in other states like Georgia.
Pathetic,” Meadows responded.

The messages, which have not been previously reported, shed new light on how Waldron’s reach extended into the highest levels of the White House and the extent to which Meadows was kept abreast of plans for accessing voting machines, a topic sources tell CNN, and court documents suggest, is of particular interest to state and federal prosecutors probing efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Significance of initial claim here has been argued about, but it's tip of the iceberg ov connections, more details, one of the v. few Trump-related books I want to read (niece Mary T.'s was fairly amazing or startling)

The White House switchboard dialled a phone associated with a January 6 rioter after it was clear the deadly Capitol attack had failed to prevent the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, according to a new book.

The book from former Republican congressman and House January 6 select committee adviser Denver Riggleman says the connection was an outgoing call routed through the switchboard at 4.34pm, and it was answered by an unnamed rioter who allegedly has since been charged by the justice department with a role in the storming of the Capitol.

Riggleman’s book, titled The Breach, was reviewed by the Guardian in advance of its scheduled publication on Tuesday, and it has already become controversial after the select committee decried the work as an incomplete account that lacked information to which he was not privy once he left the panel’s inquiry in April.
But in describing his work for the investigation and how he led a team analyzing call detail records, Riggleman offers previously unreported details about the White House calls around January 6 as well as the contacts around Trump’s political operatives, including Roger Stone and Alex Jones.
...Riggleman also details other instances of connections between the White House and people connected to the Capitol attack, writing that before January 6, the president of an organization known as Latinos for Trump – closely connected to the Proud Boys group – also received a call from the White House.

Denver Riggleman: another one for the "Government People with Pseudo-Pynchon Names" file.

it's weird how meadows didn't mention all that in his book

gonna be so infuriating when the DOJ decides not to press charges on anyone

But think of the pile of remaindered books in 2030!

Pres. Trump will discover recycling.

Aw shit

Mike Franken was giving GOP incumbent Chuck Grassley a tough challenge. Then a conservative website published a police report filed by his former campaign manager.

No more Frankens. Or old white troops.

Denver Riggleman: another one for the "Government People with Pseudo-Pynchon Names" file.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, September 26, 2022 2:58 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

He's also the Bigfoot erotica guy

the dudes who run @OccupyDemocrats are under fire right now for allegedly pocketing PAC funds and i'm screaming at the owners (now deleted) response pic.twitter.com/dO7cah9whF

— shoe (@shoe0nhead) September 26, 2022

Aw, will no one think of the poor meme-makers?

Retweet if you think Occupy Democrats should be in JAIL!!

lol

I thought their entire shtick was that they rip off existing memes and slap their logo on
and, yup, a couple images on their twitter account were popular retweets elsewhere a week ago

You can’t tell me this isn’t straight from an episode of VEEP pic.twitter.com/c4QQWStqUJ

— Bob (@tweetsbybob_) September 26, 2022

we'll have to plan to plan on that one

Well, I hope he has plenty of gas. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/26/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-subpoena-abortion-lawsuit/

Can you be a state attorney general and not understand how process servers work? Apparently, yes

"feared for his family's safety" my ass

Can you be a state attorney general and not understand how process servers work?

you can be a Republican in a state where the entire court system is stacked with your cronies and ride your "I was never served! I wasn't there that day and you can't prove that!" all the way to victory though

I mean, the dude is guilty of several felonies and is still running around doing whatever the fuck he wants after seven years so

reminds me of being a kid and misunderstanding baseball rules, just running around first base and trying to dodge the first base player so they wouldn't touch you with the ball before you could sneak past them

LOL

Not to be all lookist but why do so many Republicans look like they've been curing in a vat of gravy for several decades

because they have

guessing a lifestyle of just always doing whatever you feel like while simultaneously getting angry all day long at others doing the same eventually takes a toll

Newt Gingrich in 2022, up to very important things.

Is Pennsylvania Democrat Fetterman’s tattoo “I will make you hurt” based on his ties to the crips gang as reported by the Free Beacon or a reference to the nine inch nails heroin song “Hurt”. Fetterman won’t answer questions.

— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) September 26, 2022

Newt's more of a Ministry man, IIRC.

gotta admit that is a very funny bit

Fetterman c-walking into the Senate chamber to be sworn in

both sound cool though

Love seeing all these ruffled feathers over a tattoo as if one of their faves isn't walking around with a tat of goddamn Nixon on his back.

I interpret that tattoo as getting fentanyl off the streets

Lol Fetterman’s ‘ties to the crips gang’ apparently consisted of spelling Braddock ‘Braddocc’.

“We go in the toilets”...? pic.twitter.com/eLO9imETa1

— Chris Sommerfeldt (@C_Sommerfeldt) September 27, 2022

"We go in the toilets" for October thread title.

Someone in the replies points out that it's probably a reference to a recent piece of conservative outrage fodder that falsely claimed that schools were putting litter boxes in bathrooms for students who identify as cats. But he's too immersed in the right-wing media ecosystem to realize that the reference doesn't land with people outside of it.

I was thinking it was someone in Kansas viewing NYC as somewhere where people go the bathroom everywhere but in the toilet.

That old chestnut...

in kansas they just stand like cattle, pooping and staring

in NYC they have a brand and shit straight into the toilet

I beg to differ. Kansas has a brand. It is just a tired, old, unattractive brand, like Pepto-Bismol or Ovaltine.

Their charade is the event of the season, iirc.

But he's too immersed in the right-wing media ecosystem to realize that the reference doesn't land with people outside of it.

It lands exactly where he wants his - his fellow travelers nod and chuckle "got 'em haha" and liberals correctly call him an idiot and his fellow travelers look on in adoration as he once again owned the libs.

where he wants it

in the toilet

where he goes