speaking of humiliation, can we discuss Outback again
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
gday alfred!
― j., Tuesday, 12 November 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
lol wtf is this. Obviously a running-scared reaction to recent electoral losses in the suburbs, timed to draw attention away from impeachment but ... what is this (probably totally useless) anti-gun violence initiative gonna consist of? I assume randomly arresting/shotting brown people...
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/470077-barr-to-launch-anti-gun-violence-initiative-during-public-impeachment
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
Just Say No To Drugs Guns
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
G.A.R.E. to keep kids off guns
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
T.R.U.M.P.E.A.C.H.
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link
This is your brain.
(brings double cheeseburger into frame)
This is your brain on guns.
(throws double cheeseburger at alarmed passerby)
Any questions?
(yes, several)
― Yul, Tied: A Celebration of Brynner in Bondage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
NAMGLA
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
trump steaks. ted cruz sr. killed jfk. tax cuts! judge recruits via the federalist society! A.L.E.C. paul manafort. roger stone. jared kushner. hunter biden. 666 5th ave. ivanka. burisma. rosneft. gop. nra
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
WHAT ELSE DOES QUALMSLEY HAVE TO SAY?????????
― j., Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
Where's The Tax Returns!?!
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:37 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VB6uE4ERoM&feature=youtu.be
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/2VB6uE4ERoM
that's p tight
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
idk how many people like this there are (not a lot, I would guess) but we're gonna need as many of them to either stay home and not vote, or vote Dem, as possible
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Warm up the police wagon!!!
—>Today, Rick Gates contradicted Trump’s written answers to Mueller’s questions. Trump said he did not "recall" any conversations with Roger Stone re WikiLeaks & he first learned about the hacked emails "at or shortly after the time it became the subject of media reporting." 1/— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 12, 2019
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:07 (four years ago) link
When the only thing your supporters are able to cling to is "but the economy is booming!" it's good to inflate those numbers by bajillions.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-ivanka-created-14-million-jobs-lie.html?fbclid=IwAR09z0AkC8OVBVrWUzeaW3YDsly0yN3MlMnj17GmXlXmj4p3-EFq24nDF_w#comments
― A breezy pop-rock feel fairly typical of the mid-'80s (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, November 12, 2019
or die of a Doritos-induced heartburn
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
"Dictators, it's okay, come on in, whatever's good for the United States."
Trump tells his story about how the first thing nearly every leader says to him is "congratulations on your economy." He says this includes prime ministers and presidents, kings and queens, dictators. "Dictators, it's okay, come on in, whatever's good for the United States."— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 12, 2019
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
nKentuckian of note Tarence Ray looks back on the Kentucky gubernatorial election
If the Trump strategy is going to work for a governor, then, he must set his sights on select internal enemies of his state. Bevin unwisely chose public sector workers as his target, and he paid the ultimate price for it: these people are mostly middle class, they have nuclear families and mortgages, and they vote. He insulted them, then implemented harsher austerity measures on them in a ham-fisted attempt to fix the pension crisis, and then insulted them some more for whining about it. It’s no coincidence that he didn’t perform well in the suburbs. Bevin forgot the first rule of neoliberal governing: never insult the people you’re putting the screws to. This is America. You have to convince them that the austerity is in their best interest. We like to believe we’re free and democratic in this country, that we’ve chosen our own fate, and Bevin was shattering that illusion.He was also fucking up the bag. A governor of an economically distressed state like Kentucky has one overriding task, which is to make the state attractive to investment. This includes things like handing out tax breaks to banks, and making workers maximally exploitable through union-busting laws. Bevin did both, but he alienated too many people in the process. Most voters remember that life was more or less the same under Bevin’s predecessor Steve Beshear, minus the circus politics, and so they voted for his cardboard cutout son.
He was also fucking up the bag. A governor of an economically distressed state like Kentucky has one overriding task, which is to make the state attractive to investment. This includes things like handing out tax breaks to banks, and making workers maximally exploitable through union-busting laws. Bevin did both, but he alienated too many people in the process. Most voters remember that life was more or less the same under Bevin’s predecessor Steve Beshear, minus the circus politics, and so they voted for his cardboard cutout son.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/nothing-to-learn-ray
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 November 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
i had to read all the way to the link to figure out which side was being cynical, well played. i'm sympathetic to the analysis tho
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:06 (four years ago) link
I mean, "national media misreads implications of Southern election" not exactly a huge stretch.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link
yup/sigh
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:11 (four years ago) link
So are the Republicans gonna do what they did in I forget which state, and hold a late-night lame-duck session to strip the governor's office of all its powers (to be reinstated the minute there's a Republican in there, of course)?
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
The only Democrat who filed to run against Sen. Tom Cotton dropped out of the race just hours after filing deadline - https://t.co/qRHEy7X0ln— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) November 12, 2019
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 November 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
that was Virginia and iirc it failed?
xp
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
it was Wisconsin and I'm still pissed about it
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
ah, right thx
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
and North Carolina
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
Genuinely thought that said John Mahoney
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
ah North Carolina must've been what I was thinking of, it was one of those "purple" southern states
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link
Speaking of NC, the terrible idiot 36 year old man-child who just got elected to head the state board of education a few years ago has now decided to run for lieutenant governor. In his announcement today he professed that working in state government has allowed him to witness “the deep state of state bureaucracy” up close.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
By which I guess he means me, reading Tom Scocca’s tweets and posting in this thread while at work.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 01:39 (four years ago) link
I want to use deep state as a boogie monster substitute to belittle right-wing political appointees who can’t get anything done. “Oh, did the deep state getcha? Awww.”
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
Impeachment scheduling alert: Senate Intel Chairman Richard Burr says trial will last for "6 to 8 weeks." It will run for 6 days a week, from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m., a big chunk of time for senators also running for president hoping to be in IA, NH or anywhere but DC in Dec/Jan/Feb.— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) November 12, 2019
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
V predictable
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
Who needs Disney+?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
HAIL SATAN
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 03:28 (four years ago) link
I m doronk
Me fore persidetn
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
Beto picked the wrong time to drop out.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 04:06 (four years ago) link
aren't IA and NH voters already armed with sufficient information to vote
― grebbmoolb (crüt), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 04:33 (four years ago) link
really hate Nikki Haley
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 04:44 (four years ago) link
i really hate her now, that's for sure.
― and i approve this message (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 04:49 (four years ago) link
sameNikki Haley and that eyepatch motherfucker and like Tom Cotton are going to be running the show within 8 years fml
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 04:50 (four years ago) link
Cotton has the charisma of tapioca, I’m not worried about him. Eyepatch seems especially fucking stupid but that’s hardly been an impediment to the party lately.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 05:22 (four years ago) link
I hope Cotton dies on the fuckin toilet and someone photographs it
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:35 (four years ago) link
agree that Tom Cotton seems so uncharismatic it's hard to see him as much of a threat
― Dan S, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 07:59 (four years ago) link
Good morning!
Well before Representative Peter King announced that he would retire next year, enough evidence existed that his prospects for re-election on Long Island as a Republican were narrowing.
Like so many suburban areas around the country, Long Island is undergoing a profound political shift, a transformation evident in the voter rolls, in the county seats, in recent election tallies and in census data.
Democrats now outnumber Republicans on Long Island, a once unthinkable development in a traditional conservative stronghold where voters backed every Republican presidential candidate, bar two, from 1900 to 1988.
Last year’s midterm elections saw Democrats capture six of the island’s nine State Senate seats, helping the party gain control of that legislative body for only the third time in the last 50 years.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
sub in that yale kid who beat McCaskill for Cotton
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link