U.S. Politics, November 2022: “I don’t know, you hear the same things I do”

xp Walker to Walker

I don't know that much about Gavin Newsom, but I watched the 60 Minutes clip, and while I agree with what he said about Democrats needing to be more aggressive with their messaging strategy, he just seems kind of smarmy. That's just an immediate surface-level reaction, but I'm having trouble seeing him as the party's savior.

Should there even be one

he just seems kind of smarmy

And this is why he'll never go national... Californians are pretty much used to our brie & quince liberals, but he doesn't have the folksiness to go big time - maybe labor secretary or something like that

I'll add that De Santis is probably too unlikable to go big time either, for different reasons

Too short, for one thing.

Gavin Newsom's early support for gay marriage meant a lot to me, and I would vote for him over almost anybody else, but I agree that he would not be the best candidate. Unless someone extremely charismatic and viable pops up soon, I think Biden is the only one who can win the presidency for Democrats in 2024

My friends are also saying that they think DeSantis is too unlikeable to go big, but I don't know

a military record used to mean something for presidential hopefuls, but nobody's won off of it in a long, long time

to be fair to walker, obama has never won the heisman trophy

I remember when he ran against Matt Gonzales and all the SF Lefties painted Newsom as just to the right of Pinochet lol

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, November 2, 2022 2:30 PM (one hour ago)

lol u talking about my friends tbh

to be fair to walker, obama has never won the heisman trophy

But he did teach at the University of Chicago, the first school to ever have a player win the Heisman, so ... close enough!

Unless someone extremely charismatic and viable pops up soon

Pete Buttigieg proved that someone youngish, smart and ambitious from the lower tiers of the party can rise rapidly in a presidential race, though probably not against an incumbent president. he's probably reached his zenith as a cabinet member.

possibly. he is a surprisingly good speaker though who at times reminds me of Obama. "Pete Buttigieg" is just a really bad name though

As a midwesterner with no stakes in either state Desantis and Newsome feel like unlikeable rival brothers separated at birth who grew up to be the Florida and California versions of each other.

lol

the right fucking loves Desantis here, like he's not a 'lesser of two evils for conservatives' guy, they drink the Kool-Aid here w/ him.

nevermind that when the next pandemic happens and he's sitting on top of a freezer full of dead bodies, he'll be saying it's actually full of ice cream

god I hate him. no chance to unseat him unless the world's biggest polling error in history happened, but I'm still taking this weekend to cast my symbolic middle finger.

the one I'm curious about is Ted Cruz. I am sure the right likes him because he is so damn hated on the left but he comes across so goddamn pathetic and inauthentic. like do conservatives really buy his rootin' tootin cowboy act??

Speaking of Ted...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX): “I wish Trump was spending some of his money … It would be nice if Trump would spend some of that $100 million to help some of these candidates who Mitch [McConnell] is abandoning because they're pro-Trump." pic.twitter.com/5VqrlDwel2

— The Recount (@therecount) November 2, 2022

"Pete Buttigieg" is just a really bad name though

Donald. Trump.

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Pete Buttigieg is awful, jesus we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel if a racist ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat is being talked about seriously as a dynamic individual. The idiot motherfucker joined the military after Harvard, in the midst of two of the most unjust imperial excursions this country has ever made. Fuck Pete, him being a homosexual makes me embarrassed to also be a homosexual.

“Oh let’s elect this big pile of confused and racist policies because he’s young and gay”

talk about the limits of identity politics

I refuse to believe Pete is a real person. He's like a powerpoint that became semi-sentient.

Maybe Walker’s resume has cartoon football stickers on it or something, pretty cool, you gotta admit

thanking tabes for the new screenname

I weep for two decades from now when Mayo Pete legit is the best choice because everything is awful and every election is like either whichever new generation of "ex-McKinsey wonk who looks like a human version of a rat " the Dems have pulled up or like MTG's even more batshit offspring.

Two decades from now there will be no elections

And if we're lucky a ex-pizza junkie who looks like a rat version of a human will be president

Fair point, I was idly daydreaming about the remote chance of a semi-functional democracy in two decades.

Decomposed Herman Cain 2040

Decomposed Herman Cain versus Animated Futurama Nixon Head in Jar for GOP primary 2040.

president richard nixon's head gets stuff done, dammit

gross

It’s almost like sustained Russian-backed propaganda fed to a captive audience works https://t.co/I8nqgh634v

— Cassandra (@ChrisWarcraft) November 3, 2022

Buttigieg is pretty much the only talking head Democrat on TV who knows how to answer a bullshit question effectively, and since cable news is 100% bullshit questions he's pretty much the #1 Democratic media personality

Some people like humans who look like rats, what can I say

I honestly would love for a Dem candidate to run on a platform of promising, if they win, mandatory drag queen story hour, critical race theory, woke nightmare horror shows.

GOP messaging is pretty clear: If Dems win, it’s going to be a Drag Queen story hour, critical race theory, woke nightmare horror show.

— Stephen Robinson (@SER1897) November 3, 2022

making politics be about liking people doesn't improve it.

why can't woke drag queens teach CRT at story hour?

in blank verse?

i attended a DQSH show, it was a good time!

To be completely fair the “he looks like a rat” thing was kind of the last hurrah of those extremely helpful reflexively anti-Dem left Twitter trends Table is kind of mindlessly repeating in a sad pathos sort of way.

mention pete and summon gabbneb

kinda lol mostly sad

To be completely fair the “he looks like a rat” thing was kind of the last hurrah of those extremely helpful reflexively anti-Dem left Twitter trends Table is kind of mindlessly repeating in a sad pathos sort of way.

Expand on this and record it over the instrumental of "The Gift"

Lol!

Milo, you know about white light white heat? God that’s awesome

To be completely fair the “he looks like a rat” thing was kind of the last hurrah of those extremely helpful reflexively anti-Dem left Twitter trends Table is kind of mindlessly repeating in a sad pathos sort of way.

Great news that stands no chance of hell of enforcement:

n Monday the Supreme Court left in place a ruling that allows the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to issue mask mandates on planes, trains and other forms of transport, as it had for more than a year during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Supreme Court denied a California attorney’s request to overturn a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in the D.C. Circuit from December, which found no merit in his claim and affirmed that the TSA does have the authority to maintain security and safety within the transportation system, including imposing the masking requirement.

California attorney Jonathan Corbett had claimed that the TSA did not have the authority to mandate masks on airlines and other types of transportation during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Court of Appeals had disagreed, ruling that the agency “plainly has the authority” to address transportation safety and security

Milo seems like the big music head around here. The “tunes” guy