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

Rekt

asked and answered apparently pic.twitter.com/9LcTVXZLHX

— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) July 7, 2022

I thought we had a centrist brainworms thread but alas

Brookings Institute flack shilling for COMPROMISE

Wow. This by @MichaelRWear is the single best piece I've read on what an abortion compromise could actually look like in practice. If you read only one thing today, make it this. Drop whatever you're doing and go. https://t.co/t9ZPWmYZtR

— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) July 6, 2022

The compromise in question:

A sustainable compromise would include the following elements: a federal ban on abortion post-viability with exceptions for the life of the mother, rape and incest (the ceiling); the legalization of abortion up to a certain early-stage in a pregnancy (somewhere, perhaps, between eight-fifteen weeks, depending on the makeup of the coalition to support such a bill; the floor); the codification of the Hyde Amendment; the codification of robust conscience clause protections; a prohibition of federal laws overriding state restrictions on abortion as proposed by the WHPA; and a mandate that states ensure reasonable access to a safe abortion provider.

Just a "moderate" national abortion ban that reactionaries wouldn't agree to anyway.

It's just Kabuki.

Always great to see argumentum ad temperantiam fallacies circulating by people who think they're serious thinkers

Especially after the argument's already been lost.

Lol I very rarely tweet but I felt compelled to respond to that idiocy:

"they would need to let go of their cultural goal to advance abortion as not just necessary, but a social good" This is a ridiculous statement, nobody has ever advanced abortion itself as "a social good." The "social good" is citizens having control over their own bodies.

— Jesse Mayshark (@jfmayshark) July 7, 2022

One GREAT way to advance that social good AND minimize abortion is comprehensive sex education and easy access to contraception. If anti-abortion folks ever embrace those 2 easy things, you'll know they're actually trying to reduce abortions. But they won't, because they're not.

— Jesse Mayshark (@jfmayshark) July 7, 2022

Booming posts

^^

❤️

absolutely right

North Carolina state legislators are demanding free gas pumps next to EV chargers, or the chargers will be destroyed. https://t.co/PGc9knrXMk

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 8, 2022

This politics-of-spite stuff is getting so old.

Bold action

Under the order, the Biden administration will take steps to protect patient privacy, including by "addressing the transfer and sales of sensitive health-related data, combatting digital surveillance related to reproductive health care services, and protecting people seeking reproductive health care from inaccurate information, fraudulent schemes, or deceptive practices," the release said. This includes enlisting the Federal Trade Commission to protect the privacy of people seeking information on abortion services, and additional steps by HHS to shield patients' health records from disclosure by doctors and insurers.

The order also authorizes the creation of an interagency task force to coordinate federal policymaking and programs, which will include the attorney general, who will "provide technical assistance to states affording legal protection to out-of-state patients as well as providers who offer legal reproductive health care," the White House said.

Sending up the Alfred signal! This email arrived in my inbox this morning — I guess they bought the mailing list of one of the Latin music publicists I get stuff from...

Note that the subject line is in English but the email itself is in Spanish.

Conservative radio star Lourdis Ubieta quits iconic Radio Mambi ahead of sale to liberal group

George Soros, socialista billonario internacional, está intentado apagar las voces conservadoras en español, con la compra de la conocida cadena Radio Mambí en Miami, entre otras estaciones.

¡Está financiando la compra de Radio Mambí y ahora quiere ocultar su participación!

¡Soros quiere detener el voto de los hispanoamericanos que votan republicano!

Esto es tan vergonzoso que Lourdes Ubieta, presentadora de Radio Mambí, renunció y se unió a Americano Media. LEA SU HISTORIA AQUÍ:

hxxps://www.foxnews.com/media/soros-takeover-conservative-radio-star-lourdes-ubieta-quits-miami-radio-mambi-ahead-sale-liberal-group.amp

Ayude a Americano Media a parar este hombre: Hacemos un llamado a la Comisión federal de Comunicaciones para frenar esta situación, por favor firmen esta petición aquí.

FIRME AQUÍ: https://americanomedia.com/fccpetition/

Dígale a los izquierdistas billonarios que no pueden comprar sus valores. ¡Soros no puede comprar su voto!

Descargue la aplicación de Americano Media AQUÍ: hxxps://blahblahbullshit y escuche gratis nuestra programación hispana original, sin la influencia económica de Soros.

It would be Soros lol

I want to be a socialista billonario internacional

Izquierdista billionario

Best on foreign policy in my lifetime

Every president invites Henry Kissinger to the White House — except Biden https://t.co/MzXu0OfTYN pic.twitter.com/JnEGBmYKOy

— New York Post (@nypost) July 9, 2022

lack of access keeps this freak up at night more than millions of dead childrens cries ever could. hit him where it hurts joe

If you’re going to go on Fox, this is how you do it.pic.twitter.com/1HpakCVmUH

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 10, 2022

lmao

Yeah cuz he's inside of the chef's hat helping him cook https://t.co/GS8QamFAaQ

— Jake Flores (@feraljokes) July 10, 2022

Buttigieg did well.

It's not the first time he's done something like this either, is it? I seem to remember him steamrolling Fox News similarly a month or so ago. Impressive stuff.

Wonder if the FOX asshat cleaned his mouth out with Lysol after saying "husband" aloud.

Mayor Pete was doing this back when he was a presidential candidate too, wasn’t he?

I mean

Herschel on the climate/Green New Deal/air:

"Since we don't control the air our good air decided to float over to China's bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Then now we got we to clean that back up." pic.twitter.com/BsR4GVAbX7

— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) July 11, 2022

Series of Tubes Redux

well, at least he thinks we have to clean something up

Fucking hell. This guy stands a decent chance of being the next Senator from my poor state.

In a way I feel bad for him, I think he's being used. But also I don't feel bad for him because he shouldn't be running for Senate and he'll be very damaging if he wins.

One thing I feel like you could never make a white Republican understand is how deeply cynical and racist it is for the party put him forth as their response to Warnock. "He's Black, isn't he? How can that be racist?"

oh it's totally based on white Reoublicans' unshakeable belief that "black people always vote for the black person", so they think running Walker ("and they love the football too!") will peel votes away from Warnock. It's also the same idea that had the Republicans running Kanye in 2020.

Not surprisingly, it betrays a deep ignorance on the part of white Republicans as to the views of most of their black fellow Georgians. It also underestimates the esteem in which Walker is held, not only as a Senator but as the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist.

On the other hand, it's not totally off-base to run a star of Herschel's magnitude in SEC country, and especially this star in this state, even despite his many, many flaws. There are too many voters who are willing to overlook all the gigantic red flags around this guy because they think of him as the guy who won the national championship in 1980. The Trump endorsement probably helps on the margins, but only on the margins.

Sorry, the esteem in which Warnock is held, not Walker.

Mayor Pete has been consistently good in this respect. I don't think he's going to be the next president, he needs more experience, but compare his ability to talk with Harris' mealy mouthed weak shit.

Walker is brain damaged AND mentally ill, it's unfathomable to me that this person could hold any elected office. But I think he's polling significantly behind at this point, every week it's revealed he has another kid he has ignored.

There was one poll that showed Warnock up by 10, but that seems to have been an outlier. He's up by less than 5 in most.

Obama was probably the most impressive US politician I've ever seen in my life - not saying he was a particularly great president but he was such a good speaker and easy guy to rally around. I can see Pete getting to that level.

I'd have to give the nod to Bill Clinton for that. He has a "reality distortion field" like no other.

Walker is brain damaged AND mentally ill

I'd venture that 99% of Walker's voters aren't voting for Walker. They're voting against Warnock and for Republican ascendancy.

Republicans did run a candidate in 2018 who was so horrible that they lost a Senate seat in Alabama, so maybe it does matter

you can't go fully Jerry Lee Lewis

Meanwhile, the beating Bannon's legal team took today was something.

Steve Bannon's attorney David Schoen: "We have to make a decision... what's the point in going to trial here if there's no defenses?"

Judge Nichols: "Agreed."

— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) July 11, 2022

I would love to see Warnock win by a landslide (he should) but who knows what the future holds

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/us/politics/biden-approval-polling-2024.html

President Biden is facing an alarming level of doubt from inside his own party, with 64 percent of Democratic voters saying they would prefer a new standard-bearer in the 2024 presidential campaign, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll, as voters nationwide have soured on his leadership, giving him a meager 33 percent job-approval rating.

The backlash against Mr. Biden and desire to move in a new direction were particularly acute among younger voters. In the survey, 94 percent of Democrats under the age of 30 said they would prefer a different presidential nominee.

Recent poll I saw showed walker up by 2

94 percent of Democrats under the age of 30 said they would prefer a different presidential nominee.

And we'll probably get Hillary again.

Bernie Sanders punches through the top of straw boater campaign hat.

Hi, it me, #youthvote observer for 15+ years. Two truths:

1) @JoeBiden is unpopular with young people, and he should do more on climate, abortion, economy, debt to help fix.

2) @JoeBiden was just as unpopular in Feb 2020 w/ youth as he is today. NYT poll is not new info. https://t.co/shD4iRfiRt pic.twitter.com/FURU1FFswy

— Ben Wessel (@BenWessel) July 11, 2022

The 45% approval for the first six months when he was actually President might be a more useful reference point than when he was losing in Iowa, though.

eh, depends on whether you're going into an election or not.