Lady G Shook the Covid Tree - August 2021 US Politics Thread

for all the ways romney sucks, at least he already had enough attained enough personal wealth and political power to be temporarily able to make a very, VERY obvious stand against all of the bootlickers in his party. no one else did

Her valentines to Romney in 2011-2012 were the closest contemporary equivalent to George Will's gay-ass paeans to Ronnie Reagan.

Though apparently immediately after Romney lost she wrote a scathing article about all the aspects of his campaign that she had praised a few months earlier.

I just posted that tweet because of the survey result. I don’t endorse her or even think she’s particularly worth talking about.

Her Wikipedia page is clearly written by someone with understandable contempt for her.

" The boyfriend" looks nice and the girls seem to have eaten their spaghetti and meat balls!

— Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) April 19, 2020

the picture is grim, the tweet is weird af

lol

i never understand how people like this get a gig writing a prominent op-ed column in a national newspaper

yeah she was one of the loudest Cuomo-boosters.

these people are so profoundly silly it’s almost like we’re being punked

looooool harbl, that tweet. whaaaaa!?

xp is that right boring, MD? i've never had the "real" version of the washpost, only the digital subscription. it does make me curious, though, about the relevant numbers of physical vs digital readers. i'd assume at this point that it would be much more of a relegation to be banished to physical-only, rather than digital-only?

90-year old Senators don’t read the digital edition.

that tweet. whaaaaa!?

I'm thinking the pressure on professional journalistic 'pundits' to tweet incessantly eventually results in their babbling incoherent nonsense just to fill their daily tweet quota.

lol what’s your excuse

i think 90 year old senators just wake up every day and cackle and how fucking evil they are

"i'm 90! i think i'm the best suited person to be one of just two senate for my entire state! my power is immense, and i'm fucking 90 years old! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! oh hi jennifer, who is this spaghetti boyfriend i keep hearing about?"

could be. or maybe Cuomo is a legit vampire and JR is in his thrall?

"tiiiiiiiiiiime to go to a hearing on cryptocurrency! i don't even know what that means!! :P :P :P AND I'M RICH!!!"

hahaha, i'm in charge of an investigation now! i just hired this new researcher who is SEVENTY YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME! hope they know how to read these adobe PDFs

tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime for my 90-year-old ass to talk out loud about RACISM in the united states! i was born in the 1930s!!!! loooooooooool

for all the ways romney sucks, at least he already had enough attained enough personal wealth and political power to be temporarily able to make a very, VERY obvious stand against all of the bootlickers in his party. no one else did

― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Sunday, August 22, 2021 12:59 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Romney said his father, Michigan Governor George Romney, had told him, "Mitt, never get involved in politics if you have to win an election to pay a mortgage."

lol what’s your excuse

must amuse myself while coasting toward death

could be. or maybe Cuomo is a legit vampire and JR is in his thrall?

careful out there James

*from the direction of the u.s. supreme court, the soft sounds of blood and other liquids oozing out of ancient justice's bodies can be faintly heard dripping onto the hardwood floors. the floors are easier to clean this way. some of justices believe that the floors are kept hardwood for this reason - to make it easier to clean up their failing body, the liquids trying to escape from the host.*

"looooooooooool we're all fucking old too, except for the federalist society wing! loooooooool"

CNN reported this morning that Trump's audience at the Sat. Alabama rally "stopped in mid-cheer" when he spoke favorably about vaccination (guess when they first heard the word, thought he would go negatatory)--- subsequent mention of outright booing---

So then, in footage, he was like, "We all have the freedom to chose, that's great, but I'm just sayin'"--for how long? CNN also showed Hannity backing down, after previously having said, "I believe in the science behind it" etc. (CNN also pouncing on actual Fox corporate policy, and control room masked up while talking heads rant vs. masks and vax)

careful out there James

There is/has been a lot of digital content at the post that doesn't make it into the dead tree print edition, mostly commentary. That's why it confused me for a while to see that mustache prog guy (Weigl?) described as a Post writer, he's mever in the "paper" edition I read. (I like getting newsprint on my hands).

I don't think there's any Post content that is only in the dead tree but not online.

must amuse myself while coasting toward death

^^New Borad Description?

^seconded

.@TheProspect has learned that "several" of the nine conservative House Democrats who insisted to Nancy Pelosi that they would not vote for a budget resolution without a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure package first have flipped. There are no longer 9 Dem holdouts.

— David Dayen (@ddayen) August 22, 2021

.@BernieSanders just sent an extensive email to his list explaining why he’s hitting the road at the end of this coming week. pic.twitter.com/uusdmeE3Uj

— mike casca (@cascamike) August 22, 2021

good lord, i thought that said "hitting the end of the road" and my heart stopped for a second

It meant he's covering Boyz II Men cover band.

let's let bygones be begones and have FUN out on the campaign trail this year!!

Dear White House staff, please share the below polling to @POTUS. He said he had not seen it yet. https://t.co/dW09nTjQeX

— Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) August 22, 2021

These fucking dweebs

Am I right to be mildly concerned that this Elder fuck might actually take over California? Or are the Dems just finally getting out the message that they actually need people to not sit this one out?

I was thinking it would probably be the dumbest and therefore most likely result that he wins with 17% of the vote and then Feinstein remembers that she had been meaning to retire all year.

That would require Feinstein's memory to be operating.

everyone I know is alarmed that Elder might win. I don't believe California voters will allow that happen.

Feinstein is not going to retire in any case

Newsom will squeak it. Nobody in the california Democratic Party will learn anything from this waste of a year.

But yes you’re right to be concerned. It looks like it’s going to be close.

https://t.co/Tu1CgUP77K pic.twitter.com/UrT1Tckt3D

— Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) August 23, 2021

Senator Joe is mad that the House is playing by his rules.

from the same rally on saturday where a few people booed trump for advising people to get vaccinated, mo brooks also ran into trouble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9ZxQsggbM

“There are some people who are despondent about the voter fraud and election theft in 2020,” Brooks said. “Folks, put that behind you. Put that behind you.”

“Yes. Look forward. Look forward. Look forward,” Brooks said as the crowd declined to yield and boos continued to ring out. “Beat them in 2022. Beat them in 2024.”

Ultimately, Brooks was chastened, and he walked it back.

“All right, well, look back at it, but go forward and take advantage of it,” he said. But the crowd was still unhappy.

a little voice inside my head said /
well, look back at it but go forward and take advantage of it

but the crowd was still unhappy

by the end of the rally, mo brooks and trump led the cheering crowd backward in time, back to the stolen election, then back before coronavirus destroyed his presidency, then back to the other election he lost in 2016, then back to the golden years of birtherism, then straight back to antebellum south, back to where they were last happy

a new favorite for the GOP 2024 ticket has emerged

https://thesocietypages.org/thickculture/files/2010/02/6a00d8341c86cc53ef011571496b54970b-800wi.jpg

lol sorry hueg

oh shit, they're still going backward in time! now it's back before the mayflower, and they're eating raw onions while dying of the plague! go go go go!

oh shit, now it makes sense. they were wanting to go back to the crusades. well, fuck