BURNPIT: U.S. Politics, August 2022

every time these fuckin yahoo republicans are like “antifa are violent and they are organizing rebellion!” i’m like fuckin a, that is correct my friend. sorry for party rockin.

We’ve reached the “45 million Americans are bad people” stage of the counter-argument. pic.twitter.com/TWMtElqXgn

— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) August 23, 2022

People demanding politicians do the things they want, absolutely vile stuff. You should eat your pile of shit and thank your betters for it.

There was a time when I thought Yglesias was just the kind of stupid, blinkered asshole Ivy League colleges churn out on an assembly line. It wasn't until I found out that the foundation he "works" for paid off $400,000 of his own student dept that I realized what a piece of shit he truly is.

this isn't a Senate campaign it's an episode of Its Always Sunny

― frogbs, Tuesday, August 23, 2022 2:47 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

"if you vote me, i'm hot"

i might be wrong but i *think* Niskanen (which should be nuked btw) got 400k in PPP loans which they don't have to pay back, not that they paid off 400k of this ambulatory scrotum's student loans

I have a neighbor with a Trump/Pence sign who for a year now has been using blue marker to blot out Pence's name. after fading for the 3rd time he finally decided to use blue tape to cover it. what a fuckin' weirdo

When I was in Maine a few weeks back, I saw a truck with a somewhat altered Trump bumper sticker— it looked like the bottom had been sliced off. I didn't think too much about it, but I am guessing this is a regular thing among these wahoos.

"Goddamn it honey, I can see that traitor's name again! Get me the tape."

Just think of the poor bastards who got "TRUMP/PENCE" tattoos.

a pence candidacy gives me something to look forward to i guess. huh.

you can modify the tattoo to "TRUMP / SPENCER"

I have one crypto-Trump supporter neighbor, the guy (still) with a Ben Carson sticker on his (plug-in hybrid) car. He at least used to have a whole bunch of conservative stickers on his front door, and I *think* I've seen him in a Trump cap, but maybe not. Anyway, he just hung up a big new flag front of Jesus embracing the US flag, kinda like this one:

https://i.etsystatic.com/28831706/r/il/d9b075/3591343434/il_570xN.3591343434_q5s8.jpg

The dude is friendly, works as a baseball tutor/coach, and all I can think of is why, in this very, almost cartoonishly liberal of communities, he would so brazenly dare people to take their business somewhere else. You'd think with such a scary flag out front he'd close more doors than he'd open.

You do not get conservatism at all, do you?

I have a neighbor with a Trump/Pence sign who for a year now has been using blue marker to blot out Pence's name. after fading for the 3rd time he finally decided to use blue tape to cover it. what a fuckin' weirdo

― frogbs

This was the reality in a neighborhood I walked through in January 2021 -- except the household had taken the trouble to cut out Pence's name with scissors.

In one of those delicious twists that makes life bearable, gay couple acquaintances moved into that same house in June lol

Jesus with a tattoo of his own crucifixion is some pretty badass reanimated-Jon-Snow shit tbh.

The hand is getting ready to stab Jesus in the heart with lifechanging Adrenalin-X, like that one scene in The Rock

Your mission: Jab Jesus

You do not get conservatism at all, do you?

No.

With more than 70 percent of votes in, Laura Loomer is currently less than 100 votes from a congressional seat. pic.twitter.com/SYYBHzCTP6

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 23, 2022

Phew

Looks like Laura Loomer isn't going to pull this off and has now fallen several thousand votes behind. Still, a remarkable run for a far-right troll against a well-established Republican incumbent. pic.twitter.com/WZRmO3199J

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 24, 2022

Florida is going to enjoy a pick of two Republicans for governor. the laboratory of democracy, innovation, i love it

I voted for Fried expecting a Crist victory.

When he addressed our local Dem group in May '21 clad in a long-sleeved white shirt and buckle shoes in a county park, I asked him, "Congressman, don't mistake my bluntness for rudeness, but what makes you think a two-time loser will beat DeSantis?"

He leaned forward and babbled sonorously about being a fighter, not being a quitter, etc.

Who knows? Whatever. At least Demings has a shot.

Murdered.

I had a stroke. I survived it. I'm truly so grateful to still be here today.

I know politics can be nasty, but even then, I could *never* imagine ridiculing someone for their health challenges. pic.twitter.com/0fJHESjt4l

— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) August 24, 2022

ridiculing people for their health problems comes very naturally to Doctor Oz

Kinda terrifying that Loomer got that close.

yup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVDH3MX4MYI

Yup. Loomer is refusing to concede and screaming fraud. Really looking forward to this being a part of the cycle every single time one of these dipshits loses an election.

But kinda funny to watch them eat each other with this bullshit now.

I could fix her

So this makes Loomer The Devil right

had she won you'd never hear the name "Marjorie Taylor-Greene" again

That Oz tweet, wtf are they even thinking. Who thinks it's a good idea for a guy whose only nominal claim to anything is that he's a famous doctor is literally making fun of someone who had a stroke?

Rebekah Jones, a former coronavirus data manager who clashed with Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, will challenge Rep. Matt Gaetz in November. https://t.co/SCwE7BcOnZ

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 24, 2022

that's idiotic. this is good though.

I've seen enough: Pat Ryan (D) defeats Marc Molinaro (R) in the #NY19 special election. This is a huge victory for Dems in a bellwether, Biden +1.5 district.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 24, 2022

So is this. 25 years old! Progressive! Afro-Cuban!

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/23/maxwell-frost-florida-gen-z-00052772

And:

⚡️ “Florida's Maxwell Frost is the first member of Gen Z to win a congressional primary” by @NPR https://t.co/EXkz8GiOQN

— NPR (@NPR) August 24, 2022

Rebekah Jones is annoying AF

Not as annoying at Matt Gaetz, tbf.

Given my druthers I'd vote for annoying over Trump-enabling sexual predator any day.

well yes obviously, Gaetz is a criminal asshole. But she doesn't strike me as very truthful and seemed addicted to getting attention on twitter.

have a feeling Gaetz is untouchable in his district, but I don't know. he should obviously be in jail.

i'm taking the ignorant way out, but i assume that districts that ever knowingly voted for people like MJT, Gaetz, Boebert (to a lesser extent, Gohmert) will never make any correct decision, on anything, political or otherwise, for the rest of their lives

MJT = magic the gathering = MTG

(since literally all other words would have better than that)

in other words, gaetz cannot be defeated until there is another candidate that is even _worse_, somehow. i won't speculate on how that's possible, but i believe in the capacity of this country to be the fucking worst in more extreme ways every year beyond all imagination. when that worse candidate finally arrives, the voters of FL district 1 will finally be permitted to make an even worse decision than they did before, Gaetz will finally lose and we will move onto the next stage of total collapse, good morning

just to pretend like that never happened, here is some news

White House officials are planning to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for recipients of Pell Grants as part of their broader announcement on Wednesday of student debt forgiveness, four people familiar with the matter said.

The extra debt forgiveness for Pell recipients would be in addition to the expected cancellation of up to $10,000 in student debt for most other borrowers. The White House’s plans are only expected to apply to Americans earning under $125,000 per year, or $250,000 per year for married couples who file taxes jointly, the people familiar said.

Roughly 43 million federal student loan borrowers would be eligible for some level of forgiveness, including 20 million who could have their debt completely canceled, according to internal documents shared with The Washington Post. The White House estimates that 90 percent of relief will go to people earning less than $75,000.

The president is also expected to announce that he will extend a pandemic-era pause on federal student loan payments that was first implemented under the Trump administration. That moratorium will now be extended until Dec. 31, or beyond the midterm elections, the people said.

this seems fair. I know people will continue to complain he could have cancelled more, and he could have, but doing 20k for those who had pell grants is a decent compromise as I assume those who had need that took larger loans probably were eligible for those grants. Even I had one of those grants and we were solidly middle class, so I think that a lot of people will get 20k of forgiveness. Maybe that's wrong.

ya that's what's scary about Loomer getting so close, because that would represent the next evolution of the GOP, where they just drop the pretense and openly say that racism & genocide are the only way to Make America Great Again. which I'm guessing their base would follow, just like they follow everything else these idiots say. and yes I know that deep down this is what they believe already but it would still be a very big deal to have someone like her in Congress. she was so racist that she got banned from Uber Eats for Christ's sake!!

Fuck, it scares me to realize there is a potential future where MTG and Gaetz represent the relatively saner end of the GOP.