BURNPIT: U.S. Politics, August 2022

I was going to say, Liz seems like the kind of person to have an "accidental" hot mic talking about how much bigger she is than Teddy.

Under the Inflation Reduction Act, Americans on Medicare – no matter how many prescriptions they have – will pay no more than $2,000 a year on their medication.

That makes a big difference for families.

— President Biden (@POTUS) August 14, 2022

this is an embarrassing thing to brag about

an exceedingly minor curb on the metastasizing extraction of capital from sick people is absolutely a big deal from the pov of the dem-brained, thank you joe for pointing that out

Party Time at The Boebert's

Here is the 911 call involving Jason Boebert, husband of @laurenboebert, and one of her sons.

It’s disheartening to know how unstable this family is. pic.twitter.com/gkGc38nVDU

— Ryan Shead (@RyanShead) August 13, 2022

what was the max out of pocket before? (ans by google- none but after catastrophic coverage hit at 6500-ish, generics were $4 and namebrand were $10). xp

I downloaded Truth Social just to see how crazy it was and these are just some of the ads I saw on it. pic.twitter.com/uVVKX3tJAw

— Keaton Patti (@KeatonPatti) August 14, 2022

I hope everyone here knows that this is satire. None of these things actually exist on TS or anywhere else. But go ahead and keep fanning the flames of the team sports political show dumpster fire. The RNC and DNC want you to post/share this stuff so we keep hating each other.

— harrison sapir 🧢🦉🐈‍⬛🐈 (@harrisonsapir) August 14, 2022

admittedly the MyPillow one almost got me but "made with 50% more plastic" lmao

xp was listening to some conservative radio station earlier today and the advertisements aren’t that insane but did make me wonder if I need to invent some scam patriotic product asap.

I hope everyone here knows that this is satire. None of these things actually exist on TS or anywhere else. But go ahead and keep fanning the flames of the team sports political show dumpster fire. The RNC and DNC want you to post/share this stuff so we keep hating each other.
— harrison sapir 🧢🦉🐈‍⬛🐈 (@harrisonsapir) August 14, 2022

Dunno why but I find this so condescending. This take. "None of these things actually exist" ok cool they don't seem that farfetched. I seriously doubt the DNC wants me to hate anyone, RNC I'm sure they're cool with hatred.

also the guy that wrote that is into crypto and drives a Tesla

^^new borad description?

feel bad for the Boeberts’ neighbors but “he’s running over my mailbox” really gave me “oh shit, here we go again” vibes

Who thought this was a good idea pic.twitter.com/dj5nz7vB1W

— umichvoter 🏳️‍🌈 (@umichvoter) August 15, 2022

Lol, very tell me you've never gone grocery shopping without telling me you've never gone grocery shopping.

he's going to lose, isn't he

Connecting with the everyday man via the universal language of CRUDITES, amirite?

I bet he doesn't even know what guacamole and salsa are made of.

For a guy who got famous from TV he sure is bad at it.

As far as authenticity goes, I'm reminded of Norm Macdonald as Dr. John Gray on "SNL": "we like to go into our garage and saw our 2x4's, and make a big...moosehead...before we watch our Monday Evening Football...that's what us men like to do!"

And I guess carrying a basket to put your items in is "sissy."

“We’ve got Joe Biden to thank for this!” is such a Tim Heidecker line

I bet he doesn't even know what guacamole and salsa are made of.

he knows they're somehow related to tequila

...which isn't even included with your salsa and guacamole purchase! Can you believe it?

Also I can buy a tub of salsa for half that price at my sorta pricey local grocery.

The Boeberts seem to be angling for the slot formerly occupied by the Palins.

Oz really can't do anything without looking like a fool at this point.

wait til he starts wearing ben davis shirts

raw asparagus in salsa… the food of the gods

Oil prices tumbled Monday after China’s central bank unexpectedly cut rates after data showed economic activity slowed broadly in July, including consumer spending and factory output, reigniting concerns of a global downturn.

Signs of further cooling in the world’s second-largest economy, already under strain from China’s zero-covid policy and a real estate crisis, alarmed energy markets. The prospect of lower demand sent oil prices sliding 3.2 percent — pushing West Texas Intermediate crude to $89 a barrel.

we've got joe biden to thank for this

Dr. Oz is such a remarkably awful candidate, I get those same vibes as when Trump first ran where you get the sense that it was a publicity stunt and he never really had a plan for what he would do should he actually win the nomination, but he doesn't have the pure venom to keep people interested nor does he really seem to want to go all-out for a statewide race. if he continues to poll this poorly I can see him just checking out entirely.

strong "dog chasing a car what happens if he catches it" vibes

Rudy has been informed he is a target of the Georgia investigation.

Yeah, no shit.

I posted this on the Trump thread, but I guess at this point news of Sidney Powell and team getting hacked voting data in multiple states is NBD.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/08/15/sidney-powell-coffee-county-sullivan-strickler/

It’s the 50-state strategy. Try to cheat in every single state

The last two times Democrats suffered catastrophic midterm losses, an early warning of the coming earthquake came out of the Pacific Northwest.

This year, the indication from Washington state suggests something very different: a more middle-of-the-road outcome in the general election, instead of the red wave Republicans have been hoping to build.

Poor Democratic results in Washington’s August all-party primaries reflected the broader malaise that hit the party statewide and nationally in 2010 and 2014, and Republicans’ troubles in November 2018 were obvious in the August primary returns that year. Now, the 2022 primary vote out of Washington is the latest new data point — along with a number of promising Senate polls and a slight lead for Democrats in the average generic House ballot polling — suggesting Democrats’ performance in November may not be as catastrophic as previous midterm elections when their party held the White House.

This year, the aggregate Democratic vote across the state’s House primaries was more than 5 percentage points worse than Democrats’ performance in the 2018 “blue wave” year. But it was also more than 5 percentage points better than Democrats performed in either 2010 or 2014, two Republican wave years.

The party vote shares in Washington primaries have been a reliable indicator of general election outcomes there over the past decade — and while Washington leans more toward Democrats than the U.S. as a whole, swings in the states’ margins over the past decade have largely mirrored the rest of the country, according to a POLITICO analysis of the results.

“Nationally, we expected the low approval rating of Joe Biden to create a Republican wave,” said Alex Hays, a Washington-based Republican consultant. “In Washington state, the election results were closer to neutral.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/16/democrats-midterms-hopes-washington-00052049

Strikes me as whistling past the graveyard, as much as I hope it's not.

between the dismantling of Roe v Wade, Trump's many federal crimes, and the GOP's explicit promise to never let Dems win again once they regain control I'm thinking Biden's approval rating may not figure into the midterms too much

besides you do have gas prices declining and the Dems did, somehow, pass a massive climate bill, so it might start ticking up

My guess at this point is that they win the senate and lose the house, but with a very small gop majority and because the gop house caucus is ungovernable and insane the effectiveness with which they work is reduced. They’ll still impeach biden though.

This is an outlier so far but would be very nice

#NEW Florida Senate General Election Poll:

Demings (D) 48% (+4)
Rubio (R-inc) 44%

University of North Florida (8/8-8/12)

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) August 16, 2022

So is this: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/elections/2022/08/16/nikki-fried-up-against-charlie-crist-unf-poll-florida-governor-race-democratic-primary/10306971002/

more analysis of the washington primary results, a little less positive than the politico piece: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/08/16/what_washington_states_primaries_predict_for_the_midterms.html

neanderthal and alfred (and other floridians) what do you think about the senate race? i don't know anything at all about Demings, so my opinions are only about Rubio. he seems like a continuing national embarrassment to me, but does he actually still have a strong base of support in FL?

Didn’t he basically run his last re-election campaign promising to be a check on Trump?

I still think Rubio has a chance b/c Cuban conservatives will swallow their considerable contempt (and it's there -- they think he's a coward and a fool) to avoid voting for a Black woman socialist; but that outlier UNF poll shows Demings catching up.

She has thankfully stopped running this ad:

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

And how beatable is DeSantis? He barely won election in the first place, but all of his psychotic bullshit has made him genuinely popular, right?

With the Dems' Senate chances improving weekly, who knows? The usual midterm patterns may not manifest. xpost

And how beatable is DeSantis? He barely won election in the first place, but all of his psychotic bullshit has made him genuinely popular, right?

― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, August 16, 2022

idk -- Don't Say Gay's effects we're seeing this week already as kids return to school.

Did y'all know we professors have to send our syllabi to Tallahassee now?

Didn’t he basically run his last re-election campaign promising to be a check on Trump?

― Western® with Bacon Flavor

yeah, exactly! that's why i have no idea what he has going for him. i don't understand what accomplishments he's pointing to. he's had 12 years to do something!