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

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lol

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link

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

mh, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 03:12 (one year ago) link

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

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link

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

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 11:59 (one year ago) link

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

"feared for his family's safety" my ass

mh, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link

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

Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link

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

Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link

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

mh, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link

LOL

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link

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

Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link

because they have

sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link

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

frogbs, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link

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

frogbs, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link

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

papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link

both sound cool though

rob, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link

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.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link

I interpret that tattoo as getting fentanyl off the streets

Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:15 (one year ago) link

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

SincereLee 'Scratch' Perry (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 02:05 (one year ago) link

“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.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:25 (one year ago) link

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.

jaymc, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:42 (one year ago) link

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

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link

That old chestnut...

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link

in kansas they just stand like cattle, pooping and staring

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link

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

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link

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

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 04:00 (one year ago) link

Their charade is the event of the season, iirc.

a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 05:15 (one year ago) link

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.

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 05:29 (one year ago) link

where he wants it

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 05:29 (one year ago) link

in the toilet

politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 08:05 (one year ago) link

where he goes

politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 08:05 (one year ago) link

because Kansas

politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 08:05 (one year ago) link

It is just a tired, old, unattractive brand, like Pepto-Bismol or Ovaltine.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, September 28, 2022 12:00 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ovaltine is good you take that back

Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 11:52 (one year ago) link

Kansas has a brand.

All they are is dust in the wind

the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 12:04 (one year ago) link

One thing about Kansas is that it has spawned many weirdos, some of whom leave and some of whom stay. Because of its overwhelmingly conservative body politic, it has also often been at the forefront of the culture wars, bringing attention to people and elements in society that would eventually become more widely accepted.

In other words, it is useful as a foil. the KC metro area and Lawrence are okay— otherwise, a pit.

broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link

table, are you perhaps saying that something is the matter with Kansas?

the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link

lol the "We go in the toilets" thing is likely a nod to the right wing conspiracy theory about cat-identifying students demanding litter boxes in schools.

President Keyes, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link

"We believe murders are rare"?

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link

OK, Kansas is 41st in the nation in murders per capita.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link

More murderers than victims, especially in the state legislators..

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link

table, are you perhaps saying that something is the matter with Kansas?


I didn’t want to go there, but yes. It’s also the subject of one of the chapters of Dying of Whiteness— Kansas used to have some of the most robust, well-funded, and highest-ranked public education institutions in the country, from elementary on up. As Republicans and the white evangelical movement have taken hold and defunded public education in the state, life outcomes and educational attainment have dropped precipitously.

broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:20 (one year ago) link

More murderers than victims, especially in the state legislators.

More sociopaths than in gen pop, that's for sure.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link

toilets thing also re making sure no trans in wrong bathrooms?

dow, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link

At first I assumed he was talking about public urination

President Keyes, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link

Ovaltine is good you take that back

I agree it's good, but unless someone drank it a few decades ago they probably don't know it's good and would never bother finding out.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link

Too dark brandon reel it in https://t.co/0l3okZ6r7F

— eve6 (@Eve6) September 28, 2022

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link

not to put too fine a point on it, but Biden has a lot to occupy his attention just about every minute of every day and the accidental death of a House Representative might never have been brought to his attention and if it were it could be crowded out and forgotten pretty easily without any need for dementia to explain it.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link

Maybe a different Jackie? "Congresswoman Speier has been a longtime supporter of federal nutrition programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program..."

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link

glad to get my Breitbart misinfo on Ilx.

bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link


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