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

god I just remembered that DeSantis is the guy who literally broke down film of Trump speaking so he could imitate all his weird little mannerisms. hoo doggy it's gonna be a fun primary

whaaaa? that is really weird

I mean, who wouldn't?

So he’s to Trump as Buttigieg is to Obama

^ otm punditry

Anyway now it'll be time for another Congressional election uh wait hold on

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, November 16, 2022 8:05 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

(Or did she give up her seat already?)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, November 16, 2022 8:05 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is the moment when @KarenBassLA learned @AP_Politics declared she won the L.A. Mayor's race.

She was working at her L.A. congressional office. pic.twitter.com/WYEqMmF9DX

— Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) November 17, 2022

i can feel the monkey paw curling as a say this but trump v desantis straight up could get crazy, good chance trump will sabotage the situation if its not going his way, dont think theres really anything he wont stoop to

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 16, 2022 2:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

this is what makes me think desantis won't run, and trump will clear the field (except lol pence).

on the other hand

Remarkable. The 2022 election sent Trump's favorable rating from an already low 38% down to 33%.

Among Republicans, Trump's favorable rating went from 81% to 71%, the lowest it's been since before the 2016 election.https://t.co/Ac6Y912uuq pic.twitter.com/HTW4iV0d1A

— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) November 16, 2022

karen bass is probably going to suck as much as garcetti, but caruso is truly evil and it's good he set his own money on fire.

also good that the the LASD sherriff lost by 20 points (to someone who is just evil, rather than evil *and* a criminal).

and there are now three legit progressives on the city council of 14 (was two before this election, could have been four, but lol venice).

Case in point,.. I opened my set tonight with Herschel Walker’s vampire material. Mans got a future in comedy pic.twitter.com/oqkqGMInbD

— Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi (@roywoodjr) November 17, 2022

if you haven't heard the news yet, you might want to sit down.

it's about joe biden.

this morning, jim jordan announced that, as chair of the judiciary committee, he's going to be launching an investigation into hunter biden's activities. and not just hunter -- apparently this shit goes deep, all the way to the president of the united states. James Comer, who is an up and coming asshole on the national stage and incoming chair of the oversight committee, is also on board. “We are going to make it very clear that this is now an investigation of President Biden" he said last night during an interview with sean hannity, a wonderful journalist

Good morning!

i really should have put that within Hide tags. it might be a good practice to completely hide #huntergate inside tags for the duration of the breathtaking scandal

oh shit, Jim Jordan on the case.

When's that George Clooney produced Ohio State abuse scandal doc coming again?

If you think about it, Hunter Biden would never have been the son of the president had Joe Biden not become president. This goes all the way to the top. #offbrandon

Can only imagine they'll find a way to work his daughter's diary in there too. I'm sure this will be at least as productive as the Benghazi hearings.

anyone have any thoughts about pelosi/house democratic leadership? apparently she's supposed to announce it, any moment now

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/nancy-pelosi-future-plans-announcement-democrats-lose-house-rcna57573

The speaker’s plans are still unclear, but a source told NBC News that she took home two different versions of the speech she plans to deliver. She is expected to speak at 12:10 p.m. ET.

"We’re all waiting for white smoke from the Vatican," one senior Democratic lawmaker told NBC News.

the ole 'two different versions' trick, i love it!

The longer one is a Tom Moulton remix

has vibraphone and at the start she rips the fake one in half then commences

she's reading it now, and it just said "gave proof through the night that the flag was still there" and received very tepid applause

damn, i was hoping she'd go with the "now it's time to settle every single grievance, at length, you fuckers" version

two olds enter. no olds leave.

she's reading it now, and it just said "gave proof through the night that the flag was still there"

america is the most embarrassing country.

aaaaand she's stepping down

Helluva run. Best House Speaker since Rayburn and maybe even better than Rayburn.

Pramilaaaaaaaaaaa

The longer one expounds on her feelings re vampires vs werewolves.

i would just like to note at this point that hakeem jeffries is terrible, and will make a terrible dem house leader/speaker. is he running?

The real question is who among the Dems has her talent for iron control over the caucus?

xp she definitely had a good run during a very complicated time. i do wish she would have passed the torch in 2018, but alas. speaker decisions are difficult because it's not about who has the best ideas or the best vision for the future or whatever, it's about who can get all of the members to vote in the same direction

Whatever triumphs we've got -- there are a few -- it's thanks in large part to her vote counting.

xxp how's Clyburn's record as whip?

i don't know, but like pelosi, he's 82, and it would great if they could get some leadership that is within 20 years of most of their voters

quick googling but the median age of democratic voters appears to be about 35 years old. so fuck, if they can even get within 25 years of that, it would be a nice change of pace

Steny Hoyer is a spry young 83, call him in

Hunter is 52, just saying

The median age for representatives in the last congress was 60, but it's possible that's lower among just the Democratic delegation

I just... shut it all down. Just shut everything down.

Herschel Walker doesn't come across as the ideal US Senator, but the main reason he's called "stupid" seems to be because he speaks in a heavy regional dialect, with lots of colloquialisms. This alone does not make him "stupid" -- he sounds like countless Blacks in the Deep South

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 17, 2022

This man has somehow amassed more than 300,000 followers and they can't all be hate follows.

Clarence Thomas has a regional accent. He is stupid.

I just can't imagine even feigning that kind of incredulousness.

Hoyer and Clyburn both stepped down as well so there ya go.

Jeffries will earn some leadership position then.

At least one of our Dem reps from Minnesota has already named him by name, so the wheels are def turning

Hoyer seemed the most innocuous. I can't think of anything memorable he ever said. Or was his power in the back rooms?

Jeffries served as a clerk for Judge Harold Baer Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, then worked in the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison before becoming assistant litigator for Viacom and CBS, where he worked on litigation stemming from the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy.

TIL

Jeffries to me then: “I’m a Black progressive Democrat concerned with addressing racial and social and economic injustice with the fierce urgency of now. … There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism.”

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) November 17, 2022

cool, cool

"hard-left democratic socialism"

wha?

"never take the knee"

lol Fighting the real enemy-- Chapo

The political song satirist Mark Russell once rhymed "well... anyhoo" with "Steny who?"

And that has not left my mind.

I have no idea where my car keys are but I can remember verbatim lyrics to some stupid sub-"Capitol Steps"-level parody song from 20 years ago. This is 51, folks.

just hitting me now how bad jeffries is going to be. don't know what you've got til it's gone.

I would probably not put anyone soiled by SBF money in a leadership position but that’s just me.