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

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

dunno why they don't like FTX. they got a ton of money from it too https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-08/ftx-crypto-bros-clashing-politics-meet-cz-chaos-on-election-day

Goes much like you might think

Don Bolduc agreed to an interview with @IChotiner despite not knowing who he was calling back in the first place https://t.co/W882ihG9rF

— Jake Lahut (@JakeLahut) November 15, 2022

colorado running in the opposite direction from florida

Big Denver dump gets Bennet up to +14.3 and Polis up to +19.1.

— Ryan Brune (@BruneElections) November 15, 2022

Huge dump

wasn't Colorado red until 2004? Damn.

Maybe legal weed really is a liberal plot.

I dumped votes in Denver/and I just can't remember her name

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people.

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 15, 2022

ah doesnt seem great

can anyone make a punny reference to Biggs running for speaker and getting support from Bob Good? all i can do is

Biggs news regarding mccarthy's bid to be speaker, and its Bob Good

Oh shit

hmmm

Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of the very few GOP lawmakers who had planned to go down to Mar-a-Lago tonight for Trump’s announcement, says the weather is not looking good for his flight down from D.C. to Florida. But he will be there “in spirit.”

— Farnoush Amiri (@FarnoushAmiri) November 15, 2022

lol

I just scrapped a joke that might’ve been in poor taste

Anyway, since when has weather stopped authoritarianism

Mar-a-La-NOTgo, amirite?

xps... Karl, I assure you I am working on it, but am struggling. Words like "good" and "big" seem like they should be a slam-dunk, but they are so obvious and so vague that it impairs the required baseline precision level for a decent name pun. McCarthy at least has potential - REM references ought to help here but again, you run into the problem of excessive obviousness.

Is it weird that so many districts in CA and NY no longer seem to be liberal bastions? Is this a result of gerrymandering or in the popular vote and if the latter does anyone have an explanation? Or is the perception of change a misconception?

i think this was expected but i guess it's becoming official

NEWS: Sen. Rick Scott just announced a challenge to McConnell in closed-door GOP lunch https://t.co/EVs2IP0tQb

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) November 15, 2022

Mmm lunch

of all the senators to challenge mcconnell, rick scott is just cartoonishly ill-suited and i can't believe, even in the land of GOP politicians, takes him seriously

Rick Scott is the dumb guy, right?

oh yeah

i think his main claim to fame is resembling skeletor, though

https://thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/scottrick_mcconnellmitch_091322gn_w.jpg?strip=1

Is it weird that so many districts in CA and NY no longer seem to be liberal bastions?

Not so much in CA - there have always been GOP-leaning areas, but some (Shasta County) are turning into bonkers-extremist bastions

NEW: I asked Feinstein if she’ll seek to be third in line to the presidency.

She said she hasn’t thought about it.

An aide interjected, telling her she already issued a statement saying she won’t seek it.

“Okay, well then, I guess it's out,” she said.https://t.co/tBk1cPj52a

— bryan metzger (@metzgov) November 15, 2022

Strom Thurmond served in that role, may as well let Feinstein.

Hell, see if Frank Lautenberg wants to do it.