US Politics May 2021: Joe Manchin's Choose-Your-Adventure Book

My own diagnosis of Lin Wood is 'utterly shameless power-hungry publicity-chaser' with a large dash of sociopathy to help it go down more easily.

i like how Trump endorsed the incumbent but it doesn't matter - Wood is banking on Trumpiness as a concept overriding Trump as a person.

he may be right! some (mostly old white) people just like the idea of an old white guy who maintains the status quo and sorts us into good and bad. like jesus. or santa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBAh6o4Ak9M

Zuri got so big!! lol <3

right?!?

Presidential fact-checker David Dale on the first hundred days of this administration:

"Biden is averaging about 1 false claim every 3.5 days.

In the last year I counted Trump before I had to quit the tally because it was too much to handle, Aug. 2019-July 2020, Trump averaged about 8 false claims every 1 day."

into this

The bottom 95% of earners will not see a tax increase under Biden's proposal. Almost all of the changes would affect the top .7% of earners. https://t.co/L4Gwgelgza

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) May 4, 2021

"caught"

Scoop from @kadiagoba: Kevin McCarthy caught on hot mic bad-mouthing Liz Cheney https://t.co/vpFxZ9qVX5

— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) May 4, 2021

Politicians don't say anything into a microphone they don't expect people to hear.

whom will this surprise, though? He's said that shit aloud.

I mean also, Liz Cheney is not our friend. Liz Cheney still sucks.

they rehabbed W I’m sure Luz will be a shoo in

Lulz

Lol Chaney was a monster too

Politicians don't say anything into a microphone they don't expect people to hear.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/that-awkward-moment-when-peter-dutton-realised-the-mic-was-on-29499733.html

Lol Chaney: Underrated Cure Member

Saw Lol Chaney Jr. walking with the queen.

Pretty much being a d1ck is a 'must have' when buying your own conservative politician world wide.

Trump’s new social media platform is just a feed on his website to approximate him tweeting.

I love the image of him ranting at Mar-a-Lago wedding guests about the 'verrry interesting' recount happening in AZ... magic memories for the happy couple

Trump’s new social media platform is just a feed on his website to approximate him tweeting.

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, May 4, 2021 4:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's incredible

gotta admire the commitment to shitposting

honestly good for him. every time I see an online “libertarian” or strict cOnStItuTiOnLisT whining about corporations like Twitter or FB finally kind of enforcing their TOS my first thought is why the fuck don’t you Pull Yourself Up by Your Own Bootstraps and make your own platform, dipshit. and by george this soup-brained asshole did it.

(obv Twitter & FB are terrible and deserve to be broken up at the very least, if not outright nationalized)

Trump’s new social media platform is just a feed on his website to approximate him tweeting.

― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, May 4, 2021 4:45 PM (one hour ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e5td7-Bpvc

Are you talking about the "news" section on 45office.com? Or something else? I kind of want to gaze in horror at whatever it is, at least for a minute.

this thing is amazing - it has permalinks that don't work, "hearts" that don't do anything, and "share" buttons that copy only the first 55 characters into a tweet for you, or on video posts, don't work.

rong thread though, unless this useless sack of fermented meat juice does anything to do with politics, let's keep him to his own C/D isothread

unperson: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk

christ what an asshole

nope not clicking

Paid for by Save America JFC

More like "Save America, KFC."

He's railing against Facebook and yet there's a little Facebook 'share' logo on the right of the post

CNN has been going on--on TV, and on their site--about Liz Cheney and Kevin McCarthy for 48 hours now, like the fate of the world hinges on this. (MSNBC too, I'd bet.)

I want to not care about this but it’s still disturbing, in that it’s further confirmation that the GOP platform is still Trump and nothing else. I like to think that this means the GOP is willingly allowing Trump to be an anchor tied around their necks, but time will tell.

Well, it definitely would not be a good thing if all the remaining normal assholes in the GOP were forced out and replaced with outright lunatics, esp. if the GOP got the house back. Which is not outside of the realm of possibility, either of those things

I don't care.

Spend the hour analyzing the infrastructure plan. Liz Cheney, a horrible human in other contexts, is irrelevant to me.

yea I found the booing of Mitt Romney in Utah to be kinda chilling

I get it -- the Beltway class loves this shit

If they want to hitch their wagon to Trump, have at it:
* the first incumbent seeking reelection to see his party lose the White House, Senate, and the House of Representatives since Herbert Hoover
* Per Gallup, he left office with the lowest average approval ratings in the history of the modern Presidency

Not exactly a political juggernaut, but they can't quit him

To be fair, it's not like any of their alternatives are looking any more promising.

yeah the GOP has kind of reached their logical endpoint, they've left themselves no other option but triple down

i really want to hope that by doing this their influence will just start to whither, but I live in the USA and know better

this will continue to be a problem until democrats take concrete action on any number of voting issues, which they have shown zero interest in doing so far

mass disenfranchisement opens the door to these GOP crazies

xp to Alfred- yeah I don’t give a shit about Liz Cheney, I’m more thinking about what this means for the GOP- again I kind of don’t give a shit, but I was hoping Trump’s loss would lead them to look beyond his particularly toxic brand of politics and move on. But if not… interesting, disturbing, maybe that’s a good thing if it backfires for them or if it proves out that he’s an anchor dragging the GOP out of power. But time will tell! Disturbing in that the GOP is bound to win some elections going forward no matter what, so if we’re looking at Trumpy candidates going forward instead of Romney/McCain type candidates for the GOP… I’m disturbed.

It's more the duration of the story than the story itself I was posting about. Report on it, yes. But two days later, it's basically the same headline--GOP fracture, "hot mic," Cheney will be voted out. Until there's something new to add, move on. Which I realize is a bigger complaint about the media in general.

epistantophus and clemenza both tom

otm too

Lol

I think I'd like to be Tom Seaver--epistantophus?

Tom Hagen

wouldn't happen til 2024 anyway

I know I know bold of me to assume we’re even allowed to vote in 40 years

I know I know bold of me to assume we’re even allowed to vote in 40 years

Bold of you to think this not scrimulation

We have the Senate, the House and the Presidency.

Stop negotiating with a losing insurrectionist party who are trying to sabotage our democracy, pass the infrastructure package through reconciliation and abolish the filibuster.

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) May 28, 2021

sorry that’s just not Who We Are

can you imagine being the dipshit on Manchin’s staff who has to type this garbage out. what’s your life look like bud

Choosing to put politics and political elections above the health of our Democracy is unconscionable. And the betrayal of the oath we each take is something they will have to live with. My statement on the January 6th Commission vote: pic.twitter.com/tlPme9LMIo

— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) May 28, 2021

Putting politics above the country, interesting

what exactly has he done for the health of the democracy?

he held the line! when push came to shove, he held the line!!

?!!? fuckin dipshit manchin, asshole senator

A new poll released by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core shows that these dangerous and conspiratorial beliefs are not confined to the country’s dank backwaters.

Fully 20 percent of more than 5,500 adults questioned in all 50 states — and 28 percent of Republicans among them — said they agreed with the statement that “there is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.”

Even more worrisome were the 15 percent overall — and, again, 28 percent of Republicans — who were of the opinion that because “things have gotten so off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”

28% of Republicans are ready for the civil war/apocalypse, whatever it ends up being called.

74 million votes for trump. 28% of that is 21 million people.

People will just say whatever on a phone survey

the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core

that is a interesting set of words to string together and may have some deeper meaning than what it appears to say.

28% SAY they're ready for civil warpocalypse. 72% say they can dunk on LeBron.

People will just say whatever on a phone survey

And I'd particularly since they saw the hammer come down on the 1/6 douchenozzles and realized that, oh shit, there might actually be unpleasant consequences that follow from behaving like a lawless knob.

I'd

i have to admit, that was on the response i expected from ilx

i've over here, postin, lookin

that was not, rather, heh

postin

That number and the 52% of Republicans don’t think Biden is President sound scary but I wonder how far out of the historical norm they are. The threat of reactionary political violence is more American than apple pie. Conservatives have considered every Democratic win since JFK stolen.

It doesn't cost a thing to talk tuff. Like my laptop isn't working right, say, and I just start bellowing YOU'D BETTER START WORKING RIGHT NOW OR I'M GONNA SMASH YOU INTO POWDER, LITTLE MAN! But I'm not gonna actually do that because I need a working laptop so I just swallow my frustration and impotently grumble. Even though there are way too many unhinged wingnuts, the majority of huff 'n' puff wannabe insurrectionists are just going to impotently grumble and then go watch a Last Man Standing marathon.

I'm on the scuzball GOP house guys mail list around here and I got pissed off when I got some email for Memorial day of him supposedly honoring all these vets service. I emailed him and told him that he definitely did not honor one vet - Brian Sicknick.

I don't know what the fuck happened to Mitch McConnell to so embitter him, but he is just a parasite Renfeld to some of the worst bloodsucking vampires on the face of humanity. The man's legacy is pretty much legalizing bribery. The man is a walking cancer. No point emailing him about anything. Only time my family ever emailed this choad was my dad's Medicare would not pay for him to go for a year to a dialysis at a new center about 2 miles from our house and he had to go to one 18 miles away, even though they were owned by the same fucking company. Of course that was the one winter we got 2 blizzards... "Not my job was his reply...no shit."

As for Rand Paul, there is not enough room in his mirror for anyone but himself and swindling these dolts is a family business.

I thought I heard that investigation into the turtle couple that had been quash3d last year had reappeared a couple of months back. Did it go anywhere?
I mean is there any use for optimism that he might get a more personal scandal wash him away.
Thought Chao had a few other things coming to light that were also being looked into
Turtle must have a powerful shell.
Would be so good to get him gone. If we all wished hard enough couldn't he get some majorly fitting ailment.

I don’t see this Gosar gem itt yet, so:

They took her life. They could not take her pride. #onemoreinthenameoflove https://t.co/i4u5HTNzSi

— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) May 28, 2021

#wednesdaybloodywednesday more like

Jesus

Where the Tweets Have No Shame

bitter lol

Proud of Texas House Dems.

They fought voter suppression with everything they had & kept the hope of free & fair elections alive for another day.

There will be a special session with another voter suppression bill. But they bought Texas some time.

Let’s make the most of it. https://t.co/nFbQ7LTCuL

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) May 31, 2021

are there any actual ways for them to stop this?

After it is passed, the US Supreme Court (lol, yeah right).

isn't having a revolution every 100 years or so healthy for electoral systems or something.
Probably even more frequently.
Gosh can't wait for a return to American leadership after the last fiasco, or not as the case may be.

Can everybody who has to deal with US interference point to the US and what a mess it is for the next while. & of course how its all their fault anyway.

Meanwhile if you're wondering what Rev. Moon Jr. is up to.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dp8j/gun-church-that-worships-with-ar-15s-bought-a-40-acre-compound-in-texas-for-its-patriots

Missed this from the weekend, but a buncha folks on Twitter had fun spamming Crenshaw & Cotton's "Whistleblow The Woke" snitch site.

Good evening Dan Crenshaw. My name is Brady Bulldozer (pseudonym) and I am in SEAL Team 6. Last night, when Biden ordered our unit to infiltrate and eliminate Kim Jong-un, he demanded that we first list our pronouns. That’s when I knew the wokes had won. https://t.co/iFQQSricbL

— Berny Belvedere (@bernybelvedere) May 29, 2021