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

they would just happily do a war and pretending they wouldnt is just plain old playing politics

Yes, I find it quite hard to believe that these very Right-wing Republicans are actually against war and imperialism.

I feel that they are actually keen on it and just saying otherwise when it suits.

Note that I put the “against” in quotes, the rest of what I wrote is undeniable

their words don't mean anything. they're definitely pro-violence, since violence is their only real underlying belief: do what I want or I'll hurt you. they aren't pro- or anti- anything else, except in the moment when such things align or do not align with their desires.

i think one of the problems gop had was they ran trump fans instead of trump imitators, lake as described here is to the right and to the insane of trump

.@VaughnHillyard: "Could I say something about Kari Lake, you guys?" pic.twitter.com/UvhwEtOkPD

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 15, 2022

desantis is more of a trump imitator he saw the lane trump opened up and made his way through

first time I heard of DeSantis was that gross ad he made where his kid is "building the wall" with foam blocks, iirc the whole ad was about how much he loves Donald Trump. having that guy run against him is probably gonna bother him more than anything any Democrat ever did

Hillyard's one of the few political reporters worth a damn.

I think DeSantis has peaked. Today's the worst day of his life.

i certainly wouldnt want donald trump talking shit about me all day if i were trying to become the gop pres nominee

and yeah he doesnt seem like he has it in him to live up to the hype anyway

Trump's shit talking won't be nearly as effective if the GOP and conservative media line up behind DeSantis, because they'll all stop amplifying Trump's bullshit and start attacking him.

Meanwhile I thought this was good insight. It's funny how a lot of politics still comes back to basics of campaigning.

Lots of talk about why the "red wave" hit NY and pretty much nowhere else except FL. Here's my take.

1st, the facts: Gov. @KathyHochul lost by 11 points in my senate district in Rockland, a district Biden carried by 3 points and Hillary won by 8). 🧵1/

— Elijah Reichlin-Melnick (@Elijah4Senate) November 15, 2022

Trump's shit talking won't be nearly as effective if the GOP and conservative media line up behind DeSantis, because they'll all stop amplifying Trump's bullshit and start attacking him.

― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, November 15, 2022 10:06 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if theres one thing the media absolutely cannot resist its amplifying donald trump

i mean the gop establishment lined up against him in 2016 and no one even noticed, the thing they have to hope for is that his heart just isnt in it hes too old and tired etc

I think what they have to hope for is: the guy literally can’t stop talking about the same handful of things and while not nearly enough people feel this way for me to personally feel comfortable I think a lot of people just find him pretty boring now

if theres one thing the media absolutely cannot resist its amplifying donald trump

― lag∞n

I got knots in my stomach watching local news hype TRUMP TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT LATER OH MY GOD as if it were 2016.

I think what they have to hope for is: the guy literally can’t stop talking about the same handful of things and while not nearly enough people feel this way for me to personally feel comfortable I think a lot of people just find him pretty boring now

― omar little, Tuesday, November 15, 2022 10:14 AM (twelve seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk hes good at playing to the crowd, using rallies as focus groups, im sure many people who were once on board are sick of him by now, but is it enough for him to lose the primaries, do the republicans even have anyone good enough to beat him

I think a lot of people just find him pretty boring now

Trump fatigue is a real thing and not only on the left. On the other hand, he's very good at sucking up all the oxygen, as we know.

do the republicans even have anyone good enough to beat him

I don't think they do?

so are we to assume the investigations for stealing confidential documents, the massive tax fraud, and all the 1/6 stuff are all just dead in the water now

as far as house committee investigations go, probably, but I don't know why any DOJ activity would stop now

yeah he has a lot of people on his ass

The grift abides

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/walker-calls-gop-deceptive-fundraising-georgia-race-rcna57136

The campaign said it first noticed the problem Saturday when former President Donald Trump’s Save America sent out an email that asked prospective donors to “contribute ANY AMOUNT IMMEDIATELY to the Official Georgia Runoff Fundraising Goal and increase your impact by 1200%”

But if donors didn’t see a link that said “click here for details or to edit allocation,” they wouldn’t have noticed that 90% of their contributions automatically went to Trump, with the remaining 10% going to Walker.

lol

lol lmao

i mean if I was Hershel Walker this would not endear me to the former President

Oh you can bet he's grumbling about it already.

phew. now that kari lake has officially lost, i can fully take in the hilarity of her calling mike lindell "one of the great patriots of our time"

"One of the great groypers, like Trump is a great groper."

the 90% for trump / 10% for walker thing is kind of a neat epochal update for the practice of tithing

Or share-cropping.

just a quick question which seems pertinent if the house margin is razor thin -- are there any GOP reps that wouldn't go along with a hunter biden impeachment, or whatever the new #benghazi is, etc?

there were 10 GOP reps who voted to impeach trump. liz cheney, meijer, beutler, and rice lost their primaries. kinzinger, upton, gonzalez, and katko all retired.

dan newhouse (washington) just won for a new term. valadao (CA-22) looks like he's won but it hasn't been called yet. so that's two GOP reps who were willing to do the bare minimum of impeaching trump when he very obviously and loudly attempted a coup.

are there any others? are there any newly elected GOP reps who seem to have a conscience?

my guess is they will not be *as* crazy with a small majority but who the hell knows

SCOOP: @RepMTG's worst fears could soon be coming true.

DON BACON (R-Neb.) tells @NBCNews he's willing to work with DEMS to elect a moderate Speaker if 218 Republicans can't agree on a candidate. @RepDonBacon

w/@KyleAlexStewart @jonallendc https://t.co/4HfSLEuW2X

— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) November 15, 2022

maybe this guy? are any of the new NY or CA reps halfway sane?

hell yeah DON BACON! thanks symsymsym, that gives me some hope

almost certainly just posturing in order to get some treats sent his way but still its good stuff let them suffer

avoiding the nu-benghazi shit would be very nice just in terms of quality of life, but the thing i dare not dream for is that there are enough gop reps that would also torpedo the reoccurring debt limit hostage situation as well

if you make a grammatical diagram of that sentence it resembles the subway map of tokyo

Look, I'm just happy Biden can keep nominating judges that the Senate can rubberstamp, especially if Warnock wins.

Ignore what the R elite are saying. Trump still polls among the base way higher than DeSantis.

DeSantis is a ghoul, he would never get Midwestern Non-College Whites to think they would win with him

This is fucked up man it’s like when people put Christmas sweaters on their Bassett hounds and they get all embarrassed let him be in his natural state https://t.co/3Rfw9iK1U8

— eve6 (@Eve6) November 15, 2022

senate should do like the nba with its coaches and let them wear officially sanctioned athleisure

Not sure I wanna see McConnell, Feinstein, and Grassley in headbands and knee socks tbh`

sir these are understated and tasteful wardrobes i can assure you

https://fanbuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2021/11/NBA-assistant-coach-salary1.png

i think this is a good message if needed

The difference between talking and delivering. pic.twitter.com/TC3X6H3nj0

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 15, 2022

xxp Bring me Lindsey Graham in a FUBU hoodie

i wasted over 90 seconds on this photoshop before realizing that conservatives don't like FTX

https://i.imgur.com/GGcAPKZ.png