Why is everyone so mean?? US Politics: September 2022

Pres. Trump will discover recycling.

Aw shit

Mike Franken was giving GOP incumbent Chuck Grassley a tough challenge. Then a conservative website published a police report filed by his former campaign manager.

No more Frankens. Or old white troops.

Denver Riggleman: another one for the "Government People with Pseudo-Pynchon Names" file.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, September 26, 2022 2:58 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

He's also the Bigfoot erotica guy

the dudes who run @OccupyDemocrats are under fire right now for allegedly pocketing PAC funds and i'm screaming at the owners (now deleted) response pic.twitter.com/dO7cah9whF

— shoe (@shoe0nhead) September 26, 2022

Aw, will no one think of the poor meme-makers?

Retweet if you think Occupy Democrats should be in JAIL!!

lol

I thought their entire shtick was that they rip off existing memes and slap their logo on
and, yup, a couple images on their twitter account were popular retweets elsewhere a week ago

You can’t tell me this isn’t straight from an episode of VEEP pic.twitter.com/c4QQWStqUJ

— Bob (@tweetsbybob_) September 26, 2022

we'll have to plan to plan on that one

Well, I hope he has plenty of gas. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/09/26/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-subpoena-abortion-lawsuit/

Can you be a state attorney general and not understand how process servers work? Apparently, yes

"feared for his family's safety" my ass

Can you be a state attorney general and not understand how process servers work?

you can be a Republican in a state where the entire court system is stacked with your cronies and ride your "I was never served! I wasn't there that day and you can't prove that!" all the way to victory though

I mean, the dude is guilty of several felonies and is still running around doing whatever the fuck he wants after seven years so

reminds me of being a kid and misunderstanding baseball rules, just running around first base and trying to dodge the first base player so they wouldn't touch you with the ball before you could sneak past them

LOL

Not to be all lookist but why do so many Republicans look like they've been curing in a vat of gravy for several decades

because they have

guessing a lifestyle of just always doing whatever you feel like while simultaneously getting angry all day long at others doing the same eventually takes a toll

Newt Gingrich in 2022, up to very important things.

Is Pennsylvania Democrat Fetterman’s tattoo “I will make you hurt” based on his ties to the crips gang as reported by the Free Beacon or a reference to the nine inch nails heroin song “Hurt”. Fetterman won’t answer questions.

— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) September 26, 2022

Newt's more of a Ministry man, IIRC.

gotta admit that is a very funny bit

Fetterman c-walking into the Senate chamber to be sworn in

both sound cool though

Love seeing all these ruffled feathers over a tattoo as if one of their faves isn't walking around with a tat of goddamn Nixon on his back.

I interpret that tattoo as getting fentanyl off the streets

Lol Fetterman’s ‘ties to the crips gang’ apparently consisted of spelling Braddock ‘Braddocc’.

“We go in the toilets”...? pic.twitter.com/eLO9imETa1

— Chris Sommerfeldt (@C_Sommerfeldt) September 27, 2022

"We go in the toilets" for October thread title.

Someone in the replies points out that it's probably a reference to a recent piece of conservative outrage fodder that falsely claimed that schools were putting litter boxes in bathrooms for students who identify as cats. But he's too immersed in the right-wing media ecosystem to realize that the reference doesn't land with people outside of it.

I was thinking it was someone in Kansas viewing NYC as somewhere where people go the bathroom everywhere but in the toilet.

That old chestnut...

in kansas they just stand like cattle, pooping and staring

in NYC they have a brand and shit straight into the toilet

I beg to differ. Kansas has a brand. It is just a tired, old, unattractive brand, like Pepto-Bismol or Ovaltine.

Their charade is the event of the season, iirc.

But he's too immersed in the right-wing media ecosystem to realize that the reference doesn't land with people outside of it.

It lands exactly where he wants his - his fellow travelers nod and chuckle "got 'em haha" and liberals correctly call him an idiot and his fellow travelers look on in adoration as he once again owned the libs.

where he wants it

in the toilet

where he goes

because Kansas

It is just a tired, old, unattractive brand, like Pepto-Bismol or Ovaltine.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, September 28, 2022 12:00 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ovaltine is good you take that back

Kansas has a brand.

All they are is dust in the wind

One thing about Kansas is that it has spawned many weirdos, some of whom leave and some of whom stay. Because of its overwhelmingly conservative body politic, it has also often been at the forefront of the culture wars, bringing attention to people and elements in society that would eventually become more widely accepted.

In other words, it is useful as a foil. the KC metro area and Lawrence are okay— otherwise, a pit.

table, are you perhaps saying that something is the matter with Kansas?

lol the "We go in the toilets" thing is likely a nod to the right wing conspiracy theory about cat-identifying students demanding litter boxes in schools.

"We believe murders are rare"?

OK, Kansas is 41st in the nation in murders per capita.

More murderers than victims, especially in the state legislators..

table, are you perhaps saying that something is the matter with Kansas?

More murderers than victims, especially in the state legislators.

More sociopaths than in gen pop, that's for sure.