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

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."

all the talk in this thread about hoyers in the backrooms getting it on, on their knees with the fierce urgency of now to accommodate hard-left democratic socialism is making me very horny

armond so far down in the hole he’s rhapsodizing about the moral political integrity of robert davi

xp take it to the republican cloak room.

Actor-turned-director Robert Davi uses this farce structure for nuanced behavior and moral fantasy. After Hunter snorts cocaine at a party, his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack. When bribed by China’s largest private oil company, his eyes turn into cartoon moneybags. But these comic effects are balanced by each performer’s expert raillery: Joe taunts, “Oh, come on, man! What kind of moron forgets to pick up his laptop?” and Hunter corrects, “Actually, it’s uh, two laptops.” Beltway vaudeville.

I click on Armond's comments once in a while and they're like, "What do you SEE in this movie? It sucks!"

After Hunter snorts cocaine at a party, his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack.

Yep, that's definitely how that works.

Why is right-wing filmmaking always so terrible? I guess because they're not in it for the craft.

They've just got to stick with violent fantasies that aren't topical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfAExhHTMM

I really kinda do wanna see that Hunter Biden movie

just wait til the Durham Report is release! Just wait!

(Does anyone remember the Nunes Memo?)

https://media.tenor.com/xF2JR9aH8IwAAAAC/does-anybody-remember-laughter-led-zeppelin.gif

sorry to be a downer, but the Christmas Story lamp was just a leg, not a body

I skipped through that movie

i skipped right to 42:00, and wow i did not expect a monologue about gaining power in ukraine while he was having sex

Your diligence to updating Loz Fox’s profile on Mr Skin is truly admirable

Living where I do, you sometimes run into Fox news even when you just go out for dinner. I was surprised to find out that Joe Biden is running a criminal empire out of the White House that kinda described him as a pimp and the Democrats found success at the ballot box by embracing being victims.

^^Life ain't nothin' but snitches and malarkey...

I don't mind taking shit for praising her, but it's thanks to Pelosi that the ACA passed. I have friends with diabetes and other pre-existing conditions alive -- I don't mind saying it -- thanks to her. She knew it would destroy the Dems' governing majority; she did it anyway. And I'd argue 2008-2010 was more politically fraught than 2018-2020 because she had to keep the Blue Dogs in line.

^^yes!

👍🏽

So here's something darkly humorous...the Respect for Marriage Act is being referred to as the "same-sex marriage bill" but it also has repercussions for interracial marriages. Which means Mitch McConnell voted against protections for interracial marriage...while being in one. If I though this would provoke even one minute's conversation in their house, I'd be laughing harder, but his wife knows the rules of the game as well as he does.

It's crazy to look at the debris of House GOP speakers from molester Hastert through Boehner and Ryan and now McCarthy and how badly they controlled their caucuses. Hastert may've been the best only because Bush gave the orders.

DeLay was the real power in the Hastert years

And fucking Schumer didn't do this in 2018 like Pelosi did.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/12/12/us/politics/12dc-nancy/12dc-nancy-superJumbo.jpg

And she ripped up a sitting president's speech in front of the camera for the world to see. I mean.

I don't love Pelosi but she was legit. Politics is hard, and she was good at it.

A dissenting opinion from Perry Bacon Jr.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/17/nancy-pelosi-speaker-era-failure/

thanks for the dm armond

Every time I forget myself and think something like, "oh well at least Armond isn't praising the works of Dinesh D'Souza," I remember ... oh yeah, it doesn't matter:

Sick of the Parkland Puppets yet? Why their ubiquitous presence on TV news shows? Who's their publicist? Obviously not just being picked up off the street, no 16-year-old has quick access to network news producers. Clearly, some PR exec is handling these Alt-Left kids. pic.twitter.com/wJEjcuKKgo

— Armond White (@3xchair) February 20, 2018

OK, stop.

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, a renowned conservative firebrand whose combative style helped define the new right, is likely headed to an automatic recount in her bid to fend off a surprisingly difficult challenge by a Democratic businessman from the ritzy ski town of Aspen.

The Associated Press has declared the election in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District too close to call. AP will await the results of a potential recount to call the race. With nearly all votes counted, the incumbent Boebert leads Democrat Adam Frisch by 0.16 percentage points, or 551 votes out of nearly 327,000 votes counted.

That’s so ridiculous close!

Good luck Frisch and USA

Eh, that was also the margin in Bush-Gore in Florida, right? And recounting the entire state didn't make up the difference. That's a lot of votes to flip in a recount.

Lol

Biggs is a no. Gaetz is a no. Good seems to be a no. At 221, he can lose three. Lots and lots of twists and turns expected between now and then. https://t.co/E22vXHb7jG

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 18, 2022

Biggs Wasserman has seen enough

Eh, that was also the margin in Bush-Gore in Florida, right? And recounting the entire state didn't make up the difference. That's a lot of votes to flip in a recount.

a full-state recount would have given Gore the win.

which Gore, master tactician, insisted wasn't necessary

and, it being Florida, 18 counties didn't conduct the recounts required by law.

Yes, right, but still — that was millions of votes, is my point. Changing a 500-vote margin in a House district race seems really unlikely.

I'm happy for Boebert to be made nervous. I just don't think she'll lose.

agree

she seems like the kind of person who might respond to a close win by not running next time tbh.

She'll eventually become western Colorado's answer to Sarah Palin.

which Colorado needed

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/18/house-dems-leadership-roles-pelosi-00069334