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

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?

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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

Anecdotal story: I was at a dinner that included a bunch of Chamber of Commerce type conservatives. When the subject of R nominee for 2024 came up, they sheepishly rolled their eyes about the prospects for Trump. Other options were mentioned - DeSantis brought shrugs and one person who knew him from school was reacted poorly. They all got giddy when the ringleader brought up Nikky Haley - it was pretty sad and funny.

was

I was at a dinner that included a bunch of Chamber of Commerce type conservatives

folks... we've identified the ilxor NYT plant

the GOP have a fairly unique political problem in that they've conditioned their voters to straight up not give a shit about anything. they were so damn proud about stonewalling every single thing Obama wanted to do and holding open the Supreme Court vacancy and it directly led to the nomination of a dude with no political experience who based all his policy goals on what got the most applause. their entire platform for 2020 was a blank sheet of paper with "MAGA" scribbled on it. they're so nihilistic and cruel that they've driven record Dem turnout in 4 straight elections. maybe DeSantis can rally these folks but I kinda doubt it.

Haley/Gabbard 2024

Good news:

The Senate on Wednesday took a crucial step toward passing landmark legislation to provide federal protections for same-sex marriages, as 12 Republicans joined Democrats to advance the Respect for Marriage Act, putting it on track to become law in the twilight of the Democratic-held Congress.

The 62-37 vote, which came only days after the midterm elections in which Democrats retained control of the Senate but were on track to lose the House to Republicans, was a rare and notable last gasp of bipartisanship by a lame duck Congress as lawmakers looked toward an era of political gridlock in a divided Washington.

It also signaled a remarkable shift in American politics and culture, demonstrating how same-sex marriage, once a politically divisive issue, has been so widely accepted in society that a law to protect the rights of same-sex couples across the country could gain decisive, bipartisan majorities in both the Senate and the House. Last summer, 47 House Republicans joined Democrats to pass a version of the bill.

Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, said that passage of the legislation, now expected after Thanksgiving, would be “one of the true highlights of the year for this body” and “one of the more significant accomplishments of this Senate to date.”

Speaking on the Senate floor, Mr. Schumer noted that his daughter and her wife were expecting a baby in the spring and he wanted “them, and every one in a loving relationship, to live without the fear that their rights could one day be stripped away.”

Didn't know Schumer's daughter was gay.

Wow.

Current status of the Republican civil war: confused skirmishes over control of vital "overpriced DC steakhouse" territory pic.twitter.com/chQGZFddpb

— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) November 16, 2022

Morton's has a good burger iirc

compensates for the cocktail called the Mortini.