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

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.

call your congressperson and tell them to support Pramila

I've been assuming for years she wants it

as a compromise, jeffries should at least do a tip of the hat and a nod in the direction of hard-left democratic socialism

He can't -- he's on his knees.

"There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism."

https://media.tenor.com/A6REms8pMPMAAAAC/gia-gunn.gif

Can't believe they're gonna replace a passionate socialist crusader like Nancy Pelosi with a sellout hack like Hakeem Jeffries.

There was a Politico article a couple of weeks ago that implied that the job is Jeffries' if he wants it:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/04/secret-meeting-hakeem-jeffries-pelosi-00065078

Clyburn: "I look forward to her continued service and doing whatever I can to assist our new generation of Democratic Leaders which I hope to be Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, and Pete Aguilar."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhyR1lAX0AInqCW.jpg

Jeffries sounds like a dud

From @WUTangKids — The next 2 years of Republicans running the house summed up in one quote:pic.twitter.com/dCVnMb63uU

— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) November 17, 2022

Play the hits

Hunter Biden's laptop is REAL.

— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) November 17, 2022

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

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), 17. november 2022 19:57 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Believe, believe. In the resolute urgency of now

Hunter hearings are going to be a bust with anyone who isn't already insane. Their smoking gun is going to be a text exchange of Biden telling Hunter he's got to stop fucking up but that he loves him anyway.

That House GOP tweet is already deleted.

Counterpoint: no it isn’t

Whoops, not sure how that happened.

Anyway, is there anyone outside of MAGA world who doesn't recognize the Hunter Biden laptop story as the ham-handed attempt at a frameup that it is?

xpost Hell, didn't they leave up their Kanye Elon Trump tweet?

Hakeem Jeffries is under 60, therefore, I approve

is he the guy who quotes Biggie all the time?

to answer my own question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HszPYsxadQY

I love it when you call me Big Haka.

I mean, Hunter's laptop IS apparently real, but if there's anything more to it than the weak sauce reported in the original NY Post story I haven't seen anyone bring it forth in the last two years. A Burisma guy thanks Hunter for introducing him to his dad, and there's the China email with a reference to "the big guy," and then there's the totally dishonest portrayal of the effort to oust the corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor. Plus they'll probably play the whole sex-and-drugs video just for fun. All just proving that Hunter is/was a dude with drug and money problems desperate to be a player somehow, which everyone already knows.

Meanwhile Jared Kushner's much more substantial quid pro quo with the Saudis just goes by the wayside of course.

Let me present as Exhibit A:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhwpVbiCY8

Seriously, they should just screen that live.

Is that ... the Christmas Story lamp in the background lol

I skipped through that movie and it looks like the whole thing was shot on like two sets. Why is right-wing filmmaking always so terrible? I guess because they're not in it for the craft.

But for the counterpoint, I give you Armond White: https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/10/sympathy-for-the-screwup-son/

"How do you turn a political argument into a work of art? My Son Hunter is the answer."