People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows -- US Politics September 2020

A tragedy for the Kennedy family

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, September 1, 2020 6:24 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Could be worse, knowing their luck.

what is a melt in a US political context?

At the moment, the Kennedy/Markey district map seems to indicate that the biggest predictor of Kennedy turnout is proximity to Rhode Island.

Something something corrupt old money something something

xpost To the limited extent that I understand the term, I'd wager it's any ostensibly left-leaning pol who bets against and/or undermines the efficacy of more progressive candidates?

I think it’s just been adopted from the ukpol threads where it is generally used as a pejorative for centrists

That’s what I meant by it, yes.

Basically this

Not a single patient should be forced to fight off medical bankruptcy in the midst of a global health pandemic without a lawyer by their side.

— Rep. Joe Kennedy III (@RepJoeKennedy) May 8, 2020

Like I’m not sure this claim is actually true, but this thought must cross a few incumbents minds over the next year or two

Ed Markey winning is amazing because it shows incumbents with imperfect records that if they just work with young left wing activists they can beat back the toughest possible primary challenge.

— Aaron (@BobbyBigWheel) September 2, 2020

Congratulations to noted ilx curmudgeon ed markey.

I see that Kennedy lost big time in my hometown Brookline aka the birthplace of JFK.

eat it pelosi

Haha fuck you mr kennedy

BREAKING: Senator Collins clarifies her position on President Trump. "Yes, I said that I wouldn't endorse him but that doesn't mean I don't fully support him." https://t.co/fcWokcwMHR

— PAULUS V (@PAULUSV3) September 1, 2020

Eat shit, horrible person

What would you even do if such a chicken-livered waste of space was your grandma

Probably dye your hair turquoise and start vaping but maybe that’s just me

it still kind of astounds me the total disregard for legacy these people have

like, you're OLD AMD RICH, why are you humiliating yourself like this?

AND

Very sorry for denigrating chickens’ livers in my above post, not my thing but iirc my grandma enjoyed them on the reg

The thing this really tells us about collins is that (as we know) she’s always been a pandering front-runner fair-weather bullshit peddler who believes in nothing (as we know) and isn’t about to change just because she’s losing (thank fucking god for that)

The entire population of republican senators are sharts in human form

You have to be some kind of loser to lose a race in Massachusetts with the last name Kennedy. Fuck that lightweight.

The gasbag Buttegieg fanboy on my Facebook friend list is very upset about Kennedy's loss

I'm restraining myself from going onto his page and making fun of him but it's very hard

The entire population of republican senators are sharts in human form

I dunno, sharts are short lived and usually only end up making a mess for the sharter.

Clearly you've never seen Shartnado.

or witnessed a middle schooler have to do the mile run after sharting on the way out to the track

Even a man who is pure in heart
And says his prayers by night
May let out a shart when the Poopbane blooms
And the autumn Moon is bright.

The Susan Collins article is a) from July and b) doesn't include the (made-up) quote in that tweet.

mold a new reality
closer to the shart

shart! shart!
let it all out!
these are the shorts I can do without
come on
i'll do the laundry with you
come on

(sorry)

(more of a shart-positive perspective)

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-boat-parade-trump-carlos-gavidia-1529086

Our big ‘boaters’ can’t stop themselves from committing felonies, they’re just too beautiful.

you might say they're gonna go down with the ship

The Commission on Presidential Debates on Wednesday announced the four moderators for this year’s presidential and vice-presidential debates.

“Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace will moderate the first debate, which is scheduled for Sept. 29 at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.

USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page will moderate the vice-presidential debate, which will take place at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Oct. 7.

The second presidential debate, which will take the form of a town hall meeting, will be moderated by CSPAN senior executive producer and political editor Steve Scully. The debate is scheduled for Oct. 15 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami.

The third and final presidential debate will be moderated by NBC News White House correspondent and “Weekend Today” co-anchor Kristen Welker. It is scheduled for Oct. 22 at Belmont University in Nashville.

i just realized that i have zero memory of the 2016 debate between tim kaine and pence. makes sense

it was the one where pence kept crinkling his face and shaking his head while smiling sadly at kaine's certain eternal perdition iirc

heheh, yeah that sounds about right.

harris v pence may be interesting, just because it will be an opportunity for harris to point out the trillions of terrible things the trump administration has done, without trump himself being there to interrupt and distract.

The only VP debate I remember is 2004 because John Edwards's sliminess oozed through the screen.

i remember joe biden vs paul ryan, 2012, because biden kicked his ass and it felt good

The only time Biden's rancid Insta-Guffaw worked spectacularly as a weapon.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbrbetWRy01rg2rf7o1_500.gif

That is, I don't doubt, the first time anyone had laughed at Mr. Serious Budget Guy, privately or public, in his life.

Never discount the likelihood of a sexual humiliation fetish.

I think was Bentsen-Quayle that put the veep debates on the map. Since then we've come to expect "I knew Jack Kennedy" zingers, though we rarely get them.

Cheney's "I'm the President of the Senate and I've never even met you before tonight" to Edwards was an attempt at that--a lie, but an attempt.

Don't forget the 1984 Veep debate though:

Geraldine A. Ferraro's campaign manager said today that off- color remarks by Vice President Bush and others in his campaign ''have gone beyond decency.'' The aide asked for an immediate apology.

The remarks by the campaign manager, John Sasso, were the sharpest reaction thus far from Mrs. Ferraro's campaign staff to the Vice President's use of a locker-room vulgarity in a private conversation with a longshoreman while campaigning Friday in Elizabeth, N.J.

Mr. Bush's remark, which was picked up by a television microphone, was that ''we tried to kick a little ass last night'' in the Vice-Presidential debate Thursday. Mr. Bush has sought to pass the comment off as an ''old Texas football'' expression.

1984. god, that quote reads like something out of the gilded age now.

a locker-room vulgarity in a private conversation with a longshoreman

Never discount the likelihood of a sexual humiliation fetish.

would be a good thread title honestly

Small President Humiliation

Lol at the idea of apologizing for that quote

whoa https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/biden-staggering-monthly-cash-haul-407712