Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

The Buttigieg superfan I stopped talking to was also 100% in the tank for Joe Kennedy, decrying Markey as an out-of-touch fool who ignored most of the state of Massachusetts. I stopped talking to him shortly after Kennedy's campaign produced a list of MA cities Markey hadn't cited as locations of his accomplishments since he became senator as evidence that Markey only cared about Boston without noticing that three of them were underneath the Quabbin Reservoir and hadn't existed since the 1930s: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/27/metro/kennedy-hit-markey-ignoring-towns-dana-enfield-prescott-there-was-just-one-problem/

I showed him this link and his response was "so what if his campaign made a mistake, it's the candidate who counts" and I was like "... you know the candidate picks the people who put together the campaign and that Kennedy picked people who are dumb as shit?" and then hit "hide" on Facebook

the weirdest was my progressive gay friend who was obsessed with Tulsi Gabbard for a long time. her anti-LGBTQ+ remarks from the past weren't the deal-breaker, her voting against impeachment for Trump was

Thanks for the new screenname map.

This thread has become a case study in why the gay threads never get any posts anymore.

Good mourning!

I showed him this link and his response was "so what if his campaign made a mistake, it's the candidate who counts" and I was like "... you know the candidate picks the people who put together the campaign and that Kennedy picked people who are dumb as shit?" and then hit "hide" on Facebook

I seriously wonder if some people think candidates are *assigned* campaign officials

Every fan of Buttigieg (I refuse too call him by his first name) I know is Hispanic and hates dating their own ethnicity.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 22, 2021 5:43 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i also appreciated this devastating burn-by-association

xpost where's the lax(ative) returns?

No Babbality
I like the way you work it
No Babbality
I got to bag it up

This thread has become a case study in why the gay threads never get any posts anymore.

― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Friday, January 22, 2021 5:59 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

because of hyper-curated, incredibly frail senses of individual specialness that are injured when touched? yes, true.

tbf to you i think it's more to do with generational divides and the few queer people on here being 1) busy and 2) more different than they are the same.

More of a "none of the participants would be likely to share a drink together irl."

xp yeah that

yes, and sorry for the unnecessary insult, i almost always appreciate and am enlightened by your posts.

I've poured a few with ILX queers at NYC, and we never ordered Long Island Iced Teas at TGI Friday's.

how were the Long Island Iced Teas at Guy Fieri's restaurant, tho

Served with blue cheese, broccoli, and Jell-O floaters?

I would love to pour Alfred a nice shot of malort :D

and donkey sauce xp

xp all on a nice bed of sushi roll, sounds delicious

I drank malort in Chicago with ILXors and liked it

Insult entirely necessary. Admitting I’m much closer to a Pete Buttigieg than a Table is the Table gay isn’t an endorsement of self by any means.

eric, it's an objective fact you aren't nearly as craven as p.b., even if you might share some sensibilities. we all have pretty normal levels of craven here afaict.

xp

i would VERY MUCH love to order a round of malorts for chilxors, once we all get the vaccine

...and once it's safe to do so. you know what i mean

J3ss3 bought me the shot IIRC

I've had Malort! Several times. Tastes like Buttigieg

take it to ILTMI buddy

I would have drinks with all of you gays. I'm actually a pretty nice guy who only occasionally rambles and rants like a stoned, angry visual theory professor at a second rate arts college, and I don't do that when I'm drinking. Mostly I make jokes and talk about dick.

US Politics Jan 2021: Guys Who Like Guys Go Drinking

Malort has made it a bit easier, because now they make both bourbon and hand sanitizer, too, so there are options.

table I'm guessing that we have like 1 degree of separation in the West Coast trainhopping crusty anarcho dog-on-a-rope crowd, would drink w/u anytime

Okay, I had to google Malort, will have to try it.
I did buy something called Rock & Rye in Chicago and it was really awful.

Okay, I had to google Malort, will have to try it.

lol, so did i. though my drinking days are done, i would pop an edible, drink a lot of water and talk everyone's ears off.

I have like a third of a bottle left over from jjjusten's bachelor party

I was listening to a podcast this afternoon saying that some of teh pardons t issued were way too specific and this open to creating a lot of trouble for those he'd granted them to . Manafort having confessed to a few crimes he wasn't convicted of and him being pardoned for those crimes he was convicted of was one thing the presenter directly mentioned and something very similar with Stone.
Would be really great if it was that easy all around. Fingers crossed.

JUst really hoping that they are all just about to get a further comeuppance.
Any chance of that scandal from a couple of years ago concerning Chao and McConnell reappearing now that people are trying to make the idea of law mean something again.
& Kavanagh had a scandal I was hearing was likely to get investigated if the election went the right way I thgought.

anybody else about to face precarity over past lack of ethics.

Finally, he strikes me as the sort of person who would order the most expensive glass of pinot noir at a Cheesecake Factory.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 January 2021 17:49 (one hour ago) link

The heart wants what it wants. I don’t see a reason to shame him for this.

Hard to believe the US Politics thread went straight from high anxiety in the aftermath of an active insurrection to a mellow love-in. But it's nice to see, all the same.

I am very angry about the image of Buttigieg boning a glass of wine you put into my head

love knows no countries, no bourdeaux

Resisting temptation to post a certain Titus Andromedon video.

Tbh, I don't think PB would order Pinot Noir. He's more of a Sauvignon Blanc type of guy.

and sleeve, I bet you're right— we probably know some of the same people...

finally, Aimless, re: my comment above about going to serve, my point was exactly what you surmised and summarized— to volunteer for a demonstrably evil war when one already has an undergraduate degree from Harvard is clearly a resume-building move for a future political career. It's nauseating.

splin-ter! splint-ter! splin-ter!

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is staring down just over a majority of House Republicans who support toppling the No. 3 House Republican from leadership after she voted to impeach now-former President Trump for inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.

According to reporting from Politico, at least 107 House Republicans have communicated to the leaders of that effort that they would support removing Cheney from leadership on a secret ballot, while others have threatened boycotting future conference meetings if she remains in power.

The intensifying campaign against Cheney, who called her decision to impeach Trump a “vote of conscience,” signals that Trump’s ideological stronghold on the party continues to echo in the chamber since his departure from office on Wednesday.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-week-the-trump-supporters-disappeared

(given my dumb remarks yesterday, i feel i should clarify that i don't think either party is going to splinter any time in the next 4 years

I won't be surprised if they ditch Liz Cheney, it will play well with the base voters of every Republican in a safely gerrymandered district. I don't think it's a good move in a realpolitik sense, because I think the time for craven Trump pandering being a long-term good thing for the party ended Jan. 6, and a lot of the smarter Republican reps know it. But that's exactly what gerrymandering does, it fosters insular short-term thinking.

i assume some people here hate bruenig but, that notwithstanding, this is good

Some very big improvements in the design were made very quickly. I will of course keep pushing for perfection on this (why settle for less). But I'm glad to see the responsiveness to the critiques. https://t.co/aB0Gi9kWBQ

— Matt Bruenig (@MattBruenig) January 22, 2021

It’s an incredibly stupid, shortsighted and self-destructive idea which I support and encourage 100%.

The Cheney thing, not the Breunig thing