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

i watched a stump speech of hers and was like ah yes i can see why she beat that maga cia freak, shes got game

otm about desantis distinguishing himself by his performative cruelty. along the same lines, the pundits and screaming radio hosts are always talking about sending immigrants to the neighborhood of prominent democrats, but desantis was able to deliver on that promise by spending a couple million to hire a team of people to go to texas, lie to some immigrants who needed and help and fly them to cape cod and then just left them there. he's shown that he can up the ante and really bring immediate physical danger to people who deserved help. plus, as a sitting governor he actually has the political power to reach new levels of cruelty, especially the people who didn't vote for him. whereas trump's ability to bring physical danger to innocent people will hopefully be limited

she had a line something like "democrats have been so focused on being the smartest and most successful when really we should be trying to send actual working people to washington" where i was just like fuck yes xp self

Yeah that’s a winning line she’s gonna be in Congress for 80 years now

He was so desperate to claim the vaccines as his personal success but he quit after getting booed once. Brutal own by his fans.

yeah he did try lol

trump's ability to bring physical danger to innocent people will hopefully be limited

Not on the golf course it won't

yeah he definitely did try to take credit for the vaccine. "Operation Warp Speed" and all that crap. while it was in development a bunch of his talking heads kept saying it should be called the "Trump vaccine" cuz it would hopefully mean libs wouldn't get it

So is USA going to narrowly avoid a descent into fullblown fascist kleptocracy just 'cause folks get bored with it?

yeah maybe

called the "Trump vaccine" cuz it would hopefully mean libs wouldn't get it

very MAGA logic in play here, "covid is definitely very much not a real thing and I hope those libs don't get Trump's genius vaccine so they die from it"

My statement on the Respect for Marriage Act: pic.twitter.com/jaVL1k0wE5

— Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) November 16, 2022

I'll keep this moment in my heart the moment my marriage is destroyed by external forces some 2 to 3 years from now

I always wondered why he didn’t even try to make a big deal of the vaccine development.

i think the main problem he faced was that, on the other side of his mouth, he was saying covid wasn't a big deal and equated not wearing a mask with strength

Going great!

Herschel Walker at his rally just now: “23 and Me has screwed us all up”

— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) November 16, 2022

Dehydrated 10-year-old sent to hospital after arrival, as Governor Greg Abbott sends thousands of migrants to Democratic-led areas

Is there anyone we can send back in return? Thinking busloads of bedbugs, or japanese knotweeds

(not comparing migrants to pests!)

this guy is one is the alltime political freaks

This is a real video from Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s speech pic.twitter.com/AjVXrc0L14

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 16, 2022

I'd like to send Tommy Udo to Abbott.

xpost most coherent I've ever seen him

N-n-n-nice Work, Dan Ppppeterson!

Senators Herschel and Tommy would have a grand time together in them ol' carters of power.

Mitt Romney … loves me?

thats right

I would like to hear every politician's position on vampires, please. Cool? Not cool? Who would win in a fight, a vampire or a werewolf? Would you endorse a werewolf for office if they were great 95% of the time but terrible every time there is a full moon?

xp

and so does all of congress. yes, all of congress

I can't believe Bain Romney looks fuckign courageous in 2023 for endorsing a marriage bill -- and that a marriage bill means what it didn't in 1996.

otm about desantis distinguishing himself by his performative cruelty. along the same lines, the pundits and screaming radio hosts are always talking about sending immigrants to the neighborhood of prominent democrats, but desantis was able to deliver on that promise by spending a couple million to hire a team of people to go to texas, lie to some immigrants who needed and help and fly them to cape cod and then just left them there.

From what I saw last weekend this is the part his voters got most excited about. It was, "Yes, it's cruel, but, hee hee hee, he did it!"

The cruelty is the point, etc.

I'd like to hear Walker's views on Cronenbergian body horror, 80's slasher films, the folk horror revival, everything

I'd like to set him on fire and feed his bones to Trump.

feel like desantis cruelty is ultimately too blunt you need to mix in a lil razzle dazzle like ol donnie trump dress it up have some fun

^^^^

It's dubbed, right?

I don't think Romney is hypocritical or engages in performative cruelty. He is trying. He is not interested in show. (I am not trying to defend anything else. My apologies for any errors in judgment.)

I want to know why mainstream media is silent regarding his 7 fumbles in 1989

Mitt Romney very occasionally shows some of the backbone that his old man had.

Not dubbed, but out of sync.

feel like desantis cruelty is ultimately too blunt you need to mix in a lil razzle dazzle like ol donnie trump dress it up have some fun

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 16, 2022 4:29 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^^

― a (waterface)

yeah this is one reason why I think he's peaked. Besides Trump's existence, DeSantis is the anonymous Nazi soldier putting the bullet in you, not Goebbels.

exactly, he's not having enough fun being cruel, and it shows

Would you endorse a werewolf for office if they were great 95% of the time but terrible every time there is a full moon?

"How could I be an anti-semite? I had a werewolf bar mitzvah."

here's a thought, though: what if it's left to other parts of the party and the rightwing media to provide the "fun" to his cruelty?

mitt's statement signals what side the money is on and it makes sense from the pov of utah, the would-be leaders of r&d for lovewashing 'religious freedom' if only they weren't a cult of freaks everyone else laughs at.

SLC has or had a gay mayor, yeah? So Romney's gotta play it a little safe

squinty ron could never inspire boat parades where they go exactly the right speed to create a crazy wake that makes them sink, thats visionary shit, religious even

ron is like the villain in a bad teen comedy, trump is a schumacher batman kinda gangster villain. so campy and strange and with odd colored skin.

trump seems more reliant these days on the thing he does during speeches where he just rotates left and right and talks to people off to the side and puffs his chest out in a way that makes it look like he's trying to stay upright. major sniffing going on too.

yeah hes old and unhealthy who knows if hes got the juice for another run

ron is like the villain in a bad teen comedy, trump is a schumacher batman kinda gangster villain.

bad teen comedy villain is exactly right. for trump i always think of the 1989 batman parade in gotham where nicholson is actually not doing a very good job of acting, where he just kind of pumps his arms out over and over, like TA-DAAAAAA! as the money flies around. reminds me of trump when he "dances" and pumps his fists out a few times

DeSatis is the dickhead jock that always cans the nerdy hero, or Matt Dillon's character in My Bodyguard

Not dubbed, but out of sync.

Come on, that's not Walker's voice, it's a joke video