We. Would. CRY.: US Politics, July 2022

I’d rather be shot in the face by dick chaney because at least when he does it it’s over in two seconds. when his daughter does it it goes on for months

— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 28, 2022

I’d rather be bitten by Lon Chaney

I saw Liz Cheney walkin with the queen

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/06/america-new-civil-war-crisis-industrial-complex

great piece by nikhil pal singh - should be the last word on "impending civil war" but won't be obviously.

fwiw I was recently talking to my sister, who knows (but does not like) Liz Cheney, and is pretty sure she's playing a longer game. Wyoming is not the world, after all.

Good encapsulation of the past 50 years by this dude:

1/ Dear Republicans: We Tried Your Way and It Does Not Work (a thread):

— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 3, 2022

will otm. The first election I voted in and of course my state fucked it up

(I voted Nader. Ugh.)

Yeah, 2000 was when it clicked for the GOP that bullying and arrogant postering was enough to get the Dems to fold. Conveniently more or less right between the Contract with America and the Tea Party.

i may have said this before and it’s incredibly embarrassing and indefensible, but I didn’t even vote in 2000. It was TN so it didn’t really matter (wild thing to say about a nominee’s home state feels like a v modern development. Clintons really changed the game). 2002 midterms was when I was like holy fuck we gotta do something! 20 full years later I’m like holy fuck we gotta do something!

home state, it feels like*

(Obv Bill won AR both times but it feels like that was the last time someone like him could win in a place like that, local boy be damned)

Most of this is paywalled, but starts:

Key Points
Former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Trump tried to steer the limo to the Capitol Jan. 6.

Secret Service official Tony Ornato disputed her claim that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel.

Former Trump aides Olivia Troye and Alyssa Farah Griffin say Ornato has a history of lying for Trump.

On the record, yeah.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/07/03/two-former-white-house-aides-say-top-secret-service-official-may-lying-protect-trump/7796127001/?gnt-cfr=1

Voted for Nader, would do it again in a heartbeat.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem avoided answering whether or not she would change the state's law to allow a 10-year-old rape victim to get an abortion.

"The Indianapolis Star" is reporting that a 10-year-old girl in Ohio who was six weeks and three days pregnant now has to travel across state lines to Indiana to receive an abortion," CNN's Dana Bash asked Noem on Sunday. "So I just -- because this is a trigger law that was passed before you became governor, I wanted you to be clear. Will the state of South Dakota going forward force a 10-year-old in that very same situation to have a baby?"

South Dakota bans abortions except in cases where the life of the mother is at risk. The trigger law went into effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Trump tried to steer the limo to the Capitol Jan. 6.

This badly distorts what Hutchinson really testified.

WATCH: Health and Human Services Sec. Xavier Becerra says there’s not a lot the Biden administration can do for abortion rights. @SecBecerra: “Unless we’re all going to say the word of the Supreme Court will no longer have value, we have to heed the word of the Supreme Court.” pic.twitter.com/yfbp6j7JIO

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) July 3, 2022

Yeah, imagine if we did that

Biden screwed Beshear by agreeing to a deal with McConnell to nominate an antiabortion federal judge in exchange for two temporary prosecutors.

So Beshear seems to have leaked that Biden originally scheduled the nomination for the day Roe was overturned. https://t.co/kAfIcLVAnG

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) July 3, 2022

Unless we’re all going to say the word of the Supreme Court will no longer have value

absolutely fine with this

Rising housing costs, combined with persistent inflation for basic necessities, have left more Americans newly homeless and millions more fearing they’ll soon lose their homes. (with @rachsieg) https://t.co/WFFw5P9xdK

— Abha Bhattarai (@abhabhattarai) July 3, 2022

Once there were Tent Cities, now there are SUV Suburbs.

Soon turned out
To be a pain in the ass

At least Blackrock and a bunch of other companies are ready to buy their homes at auction and turn them into rental housing for the new permanent underclass.

Threats of violence over politics has increased heavily in the last few years. But the darkness has reached new lows. My new interns made this compilation of recent calls they’ve received while serving in my DC office.

WARNING: this video contains foul & graphic language. pic.twitter.com/yQJvvAHBVV

— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) July 5, 2022

can’t help but wonder how many of those calls are from cops

Idk but that one guy is really into cocksucking.

Giuliani, Graham testimony sought in Trump election probe

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giuliani-graham-testimony-sought-in-trump-election-probe/ar-AAZe86E?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=71b777a68ee740f791a7befc3e887789

Not that I think this will come to much. The state legislators who have been subpoenaed are fighting the process tooth and nail.

I'm glad they are starting to look into this Rudy character.

The fuck?

Incredible stuff. pic.twitter.com/LbTp0iIUrN

— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) July 5, 2022

McLaughlin writes for the National Review, which is the Chip Diller of U.S. conservatism. He says egregious shit, couched in reasonable-sounding words, all the time.

"This is not a defense of Trump" LOL Yeah, fuck you.

I miss the NRO threads.

Right now, committee Democrats are following norms and recent practices, but this is simply not sufficient to fill every judicial vacancy—and indeed, sets a path that would leave more than 60 seats open

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/07/why-democrats-giving-mitch-mcconnell-judges.html

I feel (reading these threads and also seeing things friends say elsewhere) like the Democratic leadership really need to sit silently in a room and let democratic voters just calmly offer some suggestions. Not an onslaught of angry activists or anything, but the elected folks need to listen and take some things to heart.

(Not that I think this would ever happen, or that they would listen.)

I can’t remember whether any of us posted this here:

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2022/06/30/the-real-reason-washington-ignored-kavanaughs-would-be-killer-00043679

That op-ed is awful, placing non-violent protest of the left on the same scale as the literal violence imposed by the right on many people in this country on a daily basis. Fuck civility, these people want me and mine dead and I’m not going to be polite about it because they sure aren’t.

“Violence has been so normalized” excuse me but right-wingers and white supremacist conspiracy kooks started this shit, fobbing it off on leftists banging pots and pans or interrupting some sentient swastika’s dinner is intellectually lazy and dishonest

there is an “i voted” sticker competition in ulster county & i urge you to vote for this one pls https://t.co/ZYqw6ldl1W pic.twitter.com/I6XTCUdF69

— sammy maine (@sammymaine) July 5, 2022

That one's at 94% ...

Sometimes it’s an honor to have Jordan shatter a backboard on you, just to be witness to such greatness.

— (((Barak))) (@lawnerdbarak) July 6, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FW9dwi8XEAAYwqh?format=jpg&name=medium

Saw a post on reddit that has really stuck with me, paraphrasing here but essentially it said, "Joe Biden's legacy will be watching the death of American democracy without swinging a single punch to try and stop it".

C'mon man

Biden has never been a puncher.

Whatever you feel about Gavin Newsom, this op-ed piece claims he's developing a strategy that the Dem establishment could learn from:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/03/opinions/newsom-desantis-2024-campaign-ad-obeidallah/index.html

I mean, he IS the Dem establishment, but still

"Republican leaders are banning books, making it harder to vote, restricting speech in classrooms and even criminalizing women and doctors."

Fox News viewers: well yeah that's why we like them.

xxxpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-oHXE0ZhE0

This Biden-era Schoolhouse Rock reboot is very depressing pic.twitter.com/YzR07Z1g5o

— Scott Gairdner (@scottgairdner) July 1, 2022

The former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone is expected to testify to the House January 6 select committee on Friday after reaching an agreement over the scope of his cooperation with a subpoena compelling his testimony, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The testimony from Cipollone is expected to be a transcribed interview and recorded on camera, the source said, and the former top White House lawyer is expected to only answer questions on a narrow subset of topics and conversations with the former president.

Among the topics Cipollone could discuss include how he told Donald Trump that pressuring Mike Pence, the vice-president, to refuse to certify Joe Biden’s election win was unlawful, and Trump’s plot to coerce the justice department into falsely saying the 2020 election was corrupt.