US Politics, March 2020 — There’s a very good chance you’re not going to die.

nothing that matters, he said some mean things about Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, the GOP clutched their pearls, Schumer offered a half-hearted "apology" - nobody outside the beltway will even hear about this, and those inside the beltway won't gaf in, oh 12 hours.

oh, and then he apologized, which makes sense but in 2020 is unforgivable

oh that! I read about it yesterday.

IIRC, he got a bit animated talking to abortion rights protestors on Monday. Something like:

Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh! Hark! Hark, Triton. Hark! Bellow, bid our father, the sea king, rise from the depths, full foul in his fury, black waves teeming with salt-foam, to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge, and brine, and can scream no more. Only when, he, crowned in cockle shells, with slithering tentacled tail, and steaming beard, takes up his fell, be-finnèd arm, his coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest, and plunges right through your gullet, bursting ye, a bulging bladder no more, but a blasted bloody film now, a nothing for the Harpies, and the souls of dead sailors to peck and claw and feed upon, only to be lapped up and swallowed by the infinite waters of the dread emperor himself. Forgotten to any man, to any time, forgotten to any god, or devil, forgotten even to the sea, for any stuff, or part of Winslow, even any scantling of your souls, is Gorsuch and Kavanaugh no more, but is now itself the sea.

Schumer apologizing now validates the idea that he was encouraging violence against justices, what a fuckin joke.

and I knew he was gonna do it but hoped that just maybe he'd just ignore it or at least say "come the fuck on, you know what I meant you disingenuous asshole" in nice words.

Schumer's an awful leader and worse politician

the silver lining is I didn't expect much from him on this so

yeah. fuck harry reid for passing the torch to him

I’m not sure who else he coulda given it to, unfortunately. He does tend to keep his caucus together at least

chuck schumer is the kind of guy who can make you pine for harry reid and folks that is fucked up

The “no cheers for mccain” thing at the obamacare vote was... something

Reid threw way more punches than schumer has

reid just cold making up that story about romney not paying taxes for decade and then refusing to apologize is the funniest shit ever

Lol yeah Reid was def funnier

reid was 10000000000000x better than schumer

Reid was a cold-eyed motherfucker who controlled Nevada. The last of the bosses.

http://www.iagreetosee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/senator-harry-reid-boxing.png

he was literally a boxer

Before Reid was Tom "I'm Deeply Saddened" Daschle.

Ugh christ dont remind me

wtf i'm a harry reid fan now thanks a fucking lot CHUCK

aoc should primary schumer when she turns 30

aoc should hit him in the head with the back of a skateboard

those two things are not mutually exclusive my friend!!!! walk and chew gum!

"Chuck, I am here to announce that I am here to surprise you by running against you in the primaries."

"...really? You think you have a chance against me?"

"Hey everybody! If I can have your attention. Please take one step forward if you have teeth. Not so fast, Chuck"

*wham*

guess someone wont be able to walk and chew gum anymore!!

its chuck schumer who wont because he has no teeth btw

keeps his caucus together = the new New Deal in Shakeyland

https://i.imgur.com/LBidpFC.jpg

Amazing shot

i bet pence and inslee did a quick shoulders only hug immediately after this

also: that facial expression!

TIL that you can get 2 years probation for dumping a glass of water on a (piece of shit) senator:

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2020/03/05/blake-gibbins-sentenced-throwing-water-steve-king/4931991002/

Worth it.

(sorry, congressman)

Still a piece of shit, you got the important part right.

I have just one message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke, if you want to take everyone’s AR-15s, why don’t you swing by my office in Washington, D.C. and start with this one?

Come and take it. #2A pic.twitter.com/jG2SiXetov

— Congressman Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) March 6, 2020

Never not be hilarious to me how gun nuts think shit like that makes them seem the epitome of a tough guy, when all I see is a scared paranoid wimp

ken buck, whose parents were both lawyers, grew up in the northern nyc suburbs and was an all-ivy league punter for the princeton football team

pretty badass

Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah plans to vote in favor of a subpoena as part of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s investigation into Burisma, a key decision that could advance the GOP investigation into the Ukrainian energy firm tied to Joe Biden’s son.

Romney had raised concerns that the investigation had the appearance of a political probe aimed at hurting Joe Biden, who has reemerged in the 2020 primary as the Democratic front-runner to take on President Donald Trump.

But Romney’s office said Friday that Johnson alleviated his concerns of a “public spectacle,” so he agreed to back the subpoena to a public affairs consultant who worked with Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm that hired Biden’s son Hunter.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/06/politics/mitt-romney-supports-ron-johnson-subpoena-burisma/index.html

Ha, what a pussy.

xpost That red white and blue machine gun is full "Idiocracy."

maybe the Bidens can change the subject to busing

https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-said-desegregation-would-create-a-racial-jungle-2019-7

Two confirmed coronavirus cases at AIPAC -

CNN: Six former wrestlers say Rep. Jim Jordan knew about abusive OSU doctor

surely jordan will have to resign in shame, right

oh you

mulvaney out?

Meadows?

FUCK

A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to turn over the unredacted Mueller report, accusing AG Barr of misrepresenting its findings, and saying Barr lacks both candor and credibility.

I'm sure he'll get right on that.

iow, a federal judge making the most of having a lifetime appointment, which is just what the founders hoped they'd do - when it comes to kowtowing to the prevailing political bosses. sadly, there are now more than a hundred federal judges able to thumb their noses at any jurisprudence established after 1850.

Its a world question rather than a US specific question as the same story is playing out in country after country, but how do you stop the right winning elections by posing as insurgents, outsiders, and somehow not in power - running against an 'establishment' that actually isn't in power. Thats how 2020 is shaping up to be. This cake-and-eat-it strategy has yet to fail anywhere in the world (I think?)