Where Are We Runnin’? - American Politics Thread, May 2022

I’ve seen enough. Our next president.

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I don't like him at all, but straight guys who have male friends who are mostly gay have been big in my life

This is the accurate take and why I’m only partially joking about him being a better candidate now than DeSantis, at least:

The video seems very bad, but there’s a pretty stunning lack of knowledge in bro culture from progressives on here who never left the quiet dorm. That doesn’t mean Cawthorn isn’t a shit head — he is! But a lot of people on here have no ability to understand fratty bro culture.

— Tyler Dinucci!! (@TylerDinucci) May 4, 2022

I admit, I have made little effort to understand fratty bro culture.

in other words it’s clearly supposed to be a smear, a homophobic smear.

i hate Cawthorn but the logic driving this group’s campaign against him is equally fucking reprehensible

― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table),

tabes, I think you're missing the point. The leaks are not for you and me. The leaks are meant for donors and colleagues as evil as Cawthorn. Calling them homophobic is description, not criticism.

Fraternity culture is all about domination and submission, it makes perfect sense that certain homosexual acts happen in fraternities, whether consensual or not.

Sleeping in bed together naked? Exaggerated moaning and actual dicksucking? I mean come on, this kid is gay as the day is long and also a total fucking piece of shit! The problem isn’t the first part but the last part! Even some left types seem gleeful! It’s fucked!

in other words it’s clearly supposed to be a smear, a homophobic smear.

i hate Cawthorn but the logic driving this group’s campaign against him is equally fucking reprehensible

― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table),

tabes, I think you're missing the point. The leaks are not for you and me. The leaks are meant for donors and colleagues as evil as Cawthorn. Calling them homophobic is description, not criticism.

Republicans engaging in homophobia against their own?! Shock!

It's not clear from what you wrote, unless I misinterpreted it. That's why I couldn't stand when libs felt a need to posture on Twitter last week. "I hate Cawthorn BUT no one should attack him for wearing women's clothing," etc.

Read the room, ladies and gents. This is intraparty civil war.

This is North Carolina's atrocious GOP establishment attacking an atrocious man.

Whoever is leaking this is kind of fucking up bc the coke orgies story probably would’ve been forgotten in a week, people on the left probably assumed he just made it up and people on the right could easily convince themselves it was actually the Democrats, those sick fucks. Now everyone knows the story is true and if he loses re-election he’ll probably start naming names, unless they have more on him I suppose. Based on the story about his ex-wife it seems pretty clear the dude is really easy to manipulate if nothing else.

I know this is all reprehensible, but "sleeping in bed together naked" is a fantasy of mine

My favorite late-period Elton John tune.

Madison Cawthorn Says 'Blackmail Won't Win' After Nude Thrusting Video Leaks

Nude Thrusting Video

Ron Johnson Says 'Blackmail Won't Win' After Nude Thrusting Video Leaks

Ted Cruz Says 'Blackmail Won't Win' After Nude Thrusting Video Leaks

Tom Cotton Says 'Blackmail Won't Win' After Nude Thrusting Video Leaks

“Nude Thrusting Video Leaks”

Headline writer having a blast here

“Love will will, blackmail will lose”

Will WIN

Jeez

6-87: Senate rejected Sanders (I-VT) motion to instruct their negotiators with the House that semiconductor manufacturing companies receiving federal aid in the science and tech research funding bill don't block their employees from unionizing and outsource their jobs. pic.twitter.com/wPSf6M3s7F

— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) May 4, 2022

"Nude Thrusting Video Leaks" would have been a great thread title.

Thrusting but never busting

Let that please not be the title of the thread the month Roe v. Wade goes down

I mean come on, this kid is gay as the day is long and also a total fucking piece of shit! The problem isn’t the first part but the last part! Even some left types seem gleeful! It’s fucked!

the thing that really needs to be talked about is his handwriting

This was written by a sitting member of Congress pic.twitter.com/xXqxnTmj06

— Matty £. A. (@poloshot) May 5, 2022

idk, unless his penmanship has been like this since the 2nd grade, going after a person's handwriting after being in a car accident is weak.

Young people learn to type

i guess i didn't really consider that the accident may have affected it

PS: Key Bump Y/N?

xp unless that post was about misspelling "adversaries"

Things are totally normal here in Texas

Abbott said Wednesday that Texas would consider challenging a 1982 Supreme Court decision requiring states to offer free public education to all children, including those of undocumented immigrants. https://t.co/mkp3oMbw4g

— Austin Statesman (@statesman) May 5, 2022

Alfred, I understand what’s going on, the issue is that while the smears aren’t for you or me, we’re still exposed to them due to the nature of the media environment. It’s not shocking, of course, and perhaps I’ve gotten mushy or something, but I still find it upsetting.

Not really sure why you’re going so hard on quibbling with me about this, but to be jonest I truly don’t appreciate it.

And in fact, I don’t really understand what you’re saying. That because it’s intraparty civil war that it doesn’t matter? That because the homophobic quality of the attacks is mere description rather than criticism that they shouldn’t concern us? I find that line of argument appalling, to be frank.

I apologize. I'm thinking as a Floridian pummeled by what my state has done to us in the last six weeks. I have to choose what appalls me. As a writer once said, there's an awful lot of nadir out there. I'm done with the quixoticism of shaming Republicans. I know you didn't do this, but I want it on the record.

obv I can't tell you what you should be appalled about

Tampa is nice this time of year, sorry

Thanks, and obviously much empathy for you. Things are certainly more grim from your standpoint, so I get yr perspective— big ups to you

Susan Collins a NO on D bill to codify abortion rights. Says it’s too broad and “doesn’t protect the right of a Catholic hospitals to not perform abortions. That right has been enshrined in law for a long time.” She voted against similar bill in Feb. The bill will stall next week

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 5, 2022

starting to think she might not be very smart

i can't believe i owned susancollins2020.com for a year before the election and didn't do jack shit with it

although, i owned a fake donaldtrump website for a while and it got a total of 131 views, 128 of them from me

I think forcing to catholics to perform abortions, in full clerical garb on an altar, with incense & candles burning... was the whole point of Roe V., right?

So if the bill made exceptions for catholic hospitals, she'd sign?

I think we have better odds on changing the pope’s mind than her doing jack shit ever to help this, maybe even if he did.

i won't be satisfied until i get another incredibly boring and self righteous one hour speech from susan collins which leaves the actual decision just out of reach for the first forty minutes

hurt me susan

i want you to bore the living hell out of me

“In an interview with the San Antonio Report, Clyburn downplayed the significance of abortion among his party’s base.” #TX28 https://t.co/Syf2iakd9K

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) May 6, 2022